Pandora’s Radio

The team that brought you Pindr is pleased to announce Pandora’s Radio, a playlist of the top ten mythical hits of the decade, from the 1970s to the present. Scroll through, and listen here!

1. Aloadae: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (Diana Ross)

2. Hippolytus: “No Woman, No Cry” (Bob Marley)

3. Phaedra: “Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)” (Robert Palmer)

4. Iphigenia: “Oh Daddy” (Fleetwood Mac)

5. Typhon: “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” (Bob Dylan)

6. Pasiphaë: “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” (Helen Reddy)

7. Orpheus: “Don’t Look Back” (Boston)

8. Penthesilea: “Killer Queen” (Queen)

9. Zeus: “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” (Paul Simon)

10. Deucalion: “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” (B. J. Thomas)

1. Dido: “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” (Wham!)

2. Creusa: “Don’t You Forget About Me” (Simple Minds)

3. Cyclopes: “We Built This City” (Starship)

4. Tantalus: “Just Can’t Get Enough” (Depeche Mode)

5. Minotaur: “Maneater” (Hall & Oates)

6. Helen: “Pretty Girls Make Graves” (The Smiths)

7. Procrustes: “Tight Fit” (Chaka Khan)

8. Odysseus: “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” (U2)

9. Ixion: “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” (Dead or Alive)

10. Oedipus: “Tainted Love” (Soft Cell)

1. Capaneus: “Climbing Up the Walls” (Radiohead)

2. Priam: “Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg” (TLC)

3. Tiresias: “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” (Shania Twain)

4. Cassandra:“Policy of Truth” (Depeche Mode)

5. Narcissus: “I’m Too Sexy” (Right Said Fred)

6. Phaethon: “Joyride” (Roxette)

7. Icarus: “Higher” (Creed)

8. Hera: “Always the Last to Know” (Del Amitri)

9. Hector: “I Break Horses” (Smog)

10. Aeneas: “The Last of the Famous International Playboys” (Morissey)

1. Lamiae: “We Suck Young Blood” (Radiohead)

2. Amazons: “Single Ladies” (Beyoncé)

3. Penelope: “Since U Been Gone” (Kelly Clarkson)

4. Aphrodite: “Drops of Jupiter” (Train)

5. Medusa: “If Looks Could Kill” (Camera Obscura)

6. Sirens: “Come On Over Baby (All I Want is You)” (Christina Aguilera)

7. Atlas: “Weight of the World” (Evanescence)

8. Danaë: “Trapped in the Closet” (R. Kelly)

9. Titans: “At the Bottom of Everything” (Bright Eyes)

10. Tithonus: “Careful What You Wish For” (Eminem)

1. Myrrah: “Daddy Issues” (Demi Lovato)

2. Circe: “Trap Queen” (Fetty Wap)

3. Pandora: “Only Girl (In The World)” (Rihanna)

4. Sisyphus: “Started From the Bottom” (Drake)

5. Charybdis: “Swalla” (Jason Derulo ft. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign)

6. Hercules: “A Real Hero” (College ft. Electric Youth)

7. Pyramus & Thisbe: “Bad Romance” (Lady Gaga)

8. Pentheus: “Torn to Pieces” (Pop Evil)

9. Medea: “Dangerous Woman” (Ariana Grande)

10. Argus Panoptes: “All Eyes On You” (Meek Mill ft. Chris Brown & Nicki Minaj)

This article is part of the Diacritical Remarks column.

Bill Beck is a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, completing his dissertation on the depiction and distribution of space and time in the Iliad. He is currently in residence at the Fondation Hardt, where he is revising his translation of the first two books of the ancient scholia to the Iliad. You can find more of his writing here.