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PAZUZU MIX #64:
I Scream The Music Of The Pleistocene Just Because It's Got A Good Beat
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| Jocelyn Pook | Masked Ball (from Eyes Wide Shut) (1999) | |
| Van Der Graaf Generator | Darkness (11/11) (1970) | |
| Bob Dylan | Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965) | |
| Hanoi Rocks | Love's An Injection (1982) | |
| The Rolling Stones | (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965) | |
| MC5 | Call Me Animal (1970) | |
| The Clash | Should I Stay Or Should I Go (1982) | |
| Sweet | California Nights (1978) | |
| King Crimson | Frame By Frame (1981) | |
| Twisted Sister | Under The Blade (1982) | |
| Mott The Hoople | Hymn For The Dudes (1973) | |
| Queen | Jealousy (1978) | |
| Van Halen | Dr-op Dead Legs (1984) | |
| Led Zeppelin | Down By The Seaside (1975) | |
| Yes | The Remembering - High The Memory (1973) | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| Jack Nitzsche | The Last Race (Death Proof Main Titles) (1963?) | |
| Grim Reaper | See You In Hell (1984) | |
| Audioslave | Cochise (2002) | |
| The Moody Blues | Question (1970) | |
| Marcus Carl Franklin (a.k.a. "Woody"!) | When The Ship Comes In (from I'm Not There) (2007) | |
| The Amboy Dukes (w / Ted Nugent) | Journey To The Center Of The Mind (1968) | |
| Pearl Jam | Evacuation (2000) | |
| Accept | Russian Roulette (1986) | |
| Kix | Layin' Rubber (1985) | |
| The Beatles | I'm Looking Through You (1965) | |
| Suede | Together (1995) | |
| Extreme | Play With Me (from Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure) (1989) | |
| X | Devil Doll (1983) | |
| Nirvana | Stay Away (1991) | |
| The Doors | Back Door Man (1967) | |
| Black Sabbath | Born Again (1983) | |
| The Ramones | You Should Never Have O-pened That Door (1977) | |
| Fabio Frizzi | Voci Dal Nulla II (from The Beyond) (1981) | |
| Loudness | So Lonely (1987) | |
| Thin Lizzy | A Song For While I'm Away (1973) | |
Comment:
"Will you still need me / Will you still feed me" / ...When I reach MIX #64?? [*wink*]You know, I came awfully close to using The Beatles' When I'm Sixty-Four to commemorate this occasion, but to be honest I've never really been all that crazy about that song, so I decided to use I'm Looking Through You (another McCartney tune) instead!
Well, if there's anyone out there who thinks that Disc #2 is a really weird and whacked-out mix of songs, I would not be all that inclined to disagree. I mean, Grim Reaper, The Moody Blues, X, Accept, Suede, Pearl Jam, Nugent's Amboy Dukes, Extreme and Jack Nitzsche all in one package?! This guy's got to have a few screws lose, right?! But the scary part is that it actually makes a kind of crazy sense in my head. And what's even scarier is that I had pretty much pre-planned and mapped out the tracklisting ahead of time, as opposed to just making it up as I went along! Yup, that's right folks. You're getting a pretty good, accurate glimpse at just exactly how the neurons (mis)fire within the synaptic pathways of my brain. You may be-gin trembling in mortal fear at any time...!
Anyway, you may have noticed that there's quite a heaping helping of '80s metal this time around! (Hanoi Rocks, Twisted Sister, Grim Reaper, Accept, Kix, Extreme, Loudness) I mean, there always has been, to one extent to another, but it's rather particularly pronounced this time around. Yeah, I know that there are some souls out there who probably think themselves too cool (or "authentic") to indulge and would frankly rather eat razor blades or gargle broken glass than partake in such decadent pleasures, but hey! It's all a part of me, y'know? I (mis)spent quite a bit of my mid-to-late'80s high-school youth leafing through magazines like Hit Parader and Circus. (And I'll betcha dollars to donuts there are more than a few of you out in AOTM-land who share the same common cultural experience!) And anyway, what would a Pazuzu Pizza Pie be without a little extra cheese?? [*wink*]
If you've seen Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure, you may well remember Extreme's Play With Me blasting on the soundtrack while Socrates, Beethoven, Joan of Arc, Napoleon, Billy the Kid, Genghis Khan, etc., are going on their mad shopping spree in the mall! Anyway, the song's a speedy, frenetic rocker with axe wizard Nuno Bettencourt throwing in lickety-split phrases from Mozart's Rondo A La Turk and even "shave and a haircut, two bits!" (Ha, ha!)
There's actually quite a bit of soundtrack material this time around. You may be quite familiar with those tracks if you're a fan of Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino and/or Lucio Fulci! Anyway, I have something of a tradition of occasionally using horror-movie instrumental pieces as an intro to certain mixes. Those horror movies whose music I have used include Exorcist II: The Heretic, Suspiria, Inferno, The Beyond, and Planet Terror. Well, Eyes Wide Shut may not exactly be a horror movie, but if you've seen the film you'll understand why Masked Ball fits quite comfortably within that noble tradition! [*wink*]
Also, Evacuation is one of the first Pearl Jam songs written by drummer Matt Cameron, the former Soundgarden sticksman who joined in '98. It's a rather strange, off-kilter rocker with some cool, dissonant Police/Sting-style vocal harmonies from Eddie Vedder on the chorus. And if you know any of Cameron's songwriting (or rather co-writing) work from Soundgarden (He Didn't, Birth Ritual, Limo Wreck, Applebite), you'll know that the man does the strange, dissonant, and off-kilter quite well!
Feedback:
Once again, I didn't have quite enough room for all the comments I wanted to put in! Anyway, here are the remainder of my comments:
And if you've seen the recent biopic I'm Not There, in which seven people play Bob Dylan, you'll definitely remember Marcus Carl Franklin, the young black boy who plays "Woody Guthrie," the incarnation of the younger Dylan. And in the movie, he sings and plays an absolutely fantastic version of When The Ship Comes In! I mean, this kid seriously rocks! You know, I think I actually like Franklin's version of that song a little bit better than Dylan's original! Man oh man, I just can't wait for that movie to come out on DVD...
And if you've seen the recent biopic I'm Not There, in which seven people play Bob Dylan, you'll definitely remember Marcus Carl Franklin, the young black boy who plays "Woody Guthrie," the incarnation of the younger Dylan. And in the movie, he sings and plays an absolutely fantastic version of When The Ship Comes In! I mean, this kid seriously rocks! You know, I think I actually like Franklin's version of that song a little bit better than Dylan's original! Man oh man, I just can't wait for that movie to come out on DVD...
Once again, I didn't have quite enough room for all the comments I wanted to put in! Anyway, here are the remainder of my comments (Part II!):
I've always loved the title track from Accept's Russian Roulette album from '86. You may be remember (or not) that Accept were the '80s German metal maestros whose most famous song has got to be the earth-shaking Balls To The Wall (from the '84 album of the same name)!
Anyway, Russian Roulette is a sinister and scary Balls To The Wall-style anti-war broadside. Its lyrics are a scornful damnation of the masters of war from the point of view of a dead soldier. And my favorite line has got to be the downright Dylanesque observation "For you it is so easy to erase my name / You might have a celebration for the ones who died / Charity in general is tax-deductible as well..."
I've always loved the title track from Accept's Russian Roulette album from '86. You may be remember (or not) that Accept were the '80s German metal maestros whose most famous song has got to be the earth-shaking Balls To The Wall (from the '84 album of the same name)!
Anyway, Russian Roulette is a sinister and scary Balls To The Wall-style anti-war broadside. Its lyrics are a scornful damnation of the masters of war from the point of view of a dead soldier. And my favorite line has got to be the downright Dylanesque observation "For you it is so easy to erase my name / You might have a celebration for the ones who died / Charity in general is tax-deductible as well..."
Once again, I didn't have quite enough room for all the comments I wanted to put in! Anyway, here are the remainder of my comments (Part III!!):
Speaking of Bob Dylan, is there anyone else out there who can't hear Subterranean Homesick Blues in their head without picturing Dylan flipping through the cue cards in the film clip which serves as the introduction to the '67 movie Don't Look Back (ha, ha)?
Speaking of Bob Dylan, is there anyone else out there who can't hear Subterranean Homesick Blues in their head without picturing Dylan flipping through the cue cards in the film clip which serves as the introduction to the '67 movie Don't Look Back (ha, ha)?
Just one last final, pointless and irrelevant observation:
Man, that 4000-character rule really sucks, doesn't it? :-(
Oh well, I guess not everyone on AOTM is quite as obnoxiously chatty as I am...
Man, that 4000-character rule really sucks, doesn't it? :-(
Oh well, I guess not everyone on AOTM is quite as obnoxiously chatty as I am...
Love the Devil Doll, Stay Away, Backdoor Man trio. It's one of those song sets that you really do well. Everything else rocks as well. I still have some Circus and Hit Parader magazines!