Other Mixes By Darth Pazuzu
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PAZUZU MIX #75:
Don't Turn Around, This Is For Real
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| Keith Emerson | Inferno (Main Title) (1980) | |
| Yes | Sound Chaser (1974) | |
| The Mars Volta | Aberinkula (2008) | |
| David Bowie | I'm Deranged (1995) | |
| The Beatles | Love You To (1966) | |
| Queen | Another One Bites The Dust (1980) | |
| Bob Dylan | I Want You (1966) | |
| ZZ Top | Ko Ko Blue (1972) | |
| Coverdale/Page | Take Me For A Little While (1993) | |
| Manic Street Preachers | Glasnost (2004) | |
| Seven-dust | Denial (1999) | |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Eye (from Lost Highway) (1997) | |
| Nirvana | Milk It (1993) | |
| Down (w / Phil Anselmo) | Jail (1995) | |
| Joy Division | Decades (1980) | |
| Lou Reed | Rock Minuet (2000) | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| The Cult | Horse Nation (1984) | |
| Soundgarden | Flower (1988) | |
| Megadeth | I'll Get Even (1997) | |
| Stone Temple Pilots | Vasoline (1994) | |
| At The Drive-In | Initiation (2000) | |
| Van Halen | Black And Blue (1988) | |
| Alice In Chains | Brother (1992) | |
| Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter (Stephen Sondheim) | My Frien-ds (from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street) (2007) | |
| Peter Gabriel | Digging In The Dirt (1992) | |
| The Who | My Generation (1965) | |
| Motorhead | Louie Louie (1978) | |
| Pearl Jam | Present Tense (1996) | |
| Peter Hammill | Lost And Found (1977) | |
| Howard Shore (w / Marc Ribot & Larry Saltzman) | The Departed Tango (instrumental) (2006) | |
| Led Zeppelin | Since I've Been Loving You (1970) | |
| Dead Can Dance (w / Mark Isham) | The Host Of Seraphim (special film version from The Mist) (1988/2007) | |
| This Mortal Coil | Song To The Siren (1984) | |
Comment:
SPECIAL NOTE: Starting with this mix, I'm going to put all my song titles in boldface. Why, you ask? Because I want to put extra emphasis on the songs, as opposed to the bands. The reason for this is simply that when some people look at the band roster from mix to mix, all my mixes start to look the same after a while. Yeah, I'll admit that I'm perhaps overly consistent with the constant inclusion of my favorite "regulars," but believe me when I say that I've never repeated a single song throughout all 75 of the mixes I've concocted so far!This time around, however, I've thrown in quite a few newfangled (for me, anyway) curves! I've got quite a few soundtrack items here (including no less than three songs included in the soundtrack for David Lynch's '97 Lost Highway). Remember when I once referred to David Bowie's Outside as "The Movie Album" on account of several of its songs featuring prominently in quite a few '90s movie soundtracks? Well, by the same token, you could very well say that MIX #75 is "The Pazuzu Movie Mix"!
Recently, I was at home watching a movie marathon which included the recently released DVDs for Frank Darabont's Stephen King adaptation The Mist from last year, as well as David Lynch's Lost Highway. It then occurred to me which two songs I could use as my closing sequence for a future mix! Dead Can Dance's The Host Of Seraphim was of course used to magnificent and devastating effect in the final scenes of the former, and This Mortal Coil's cover of Tim Buckley's Song To The Siren had a similarly important role in the latter. (Although oddly enough, it wasn't on the Lost Highway soundtrack album!)
And this mix also marks a first: The first movie musical se-lection for a Pazuzu Mix! Namely, Stephen Sondheim's menacing yet moving My Frien-ds, from the soundtrack of Tim Burton's film version of Sweeney Todd (sung beautifully by stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter - who'da thunk they'd never sung professionally before?!) I was also quite careful in se-lecting the songs which would bracket that number, so as not to make it stick out like a sore thumb among the hard rockers. I think it fits quite comfortably between the AIC and Peter Gabriel numbers!
Elsewhere...a very dark Oedipal tale from Lou Reed...one of Beatle George's Indian-flavored numbers...some unrepentant, unreconstructed old-school rawk swagger from "Van Hagar"...the most famously iconic of the Who's early anthems...and much more!
Feedback:
I like that 4 out of 5 run (not my favorite Queen tune) on side 1, but variety is the spice of life, Darth, and it would great to see you really mix it up more.
*SIGH* Y'know, doowad, if this were any other mix, I would be inclined to let your comment pass with a shrug. But on Disc #2, I deliberately tried to do something a little different on Disc #2 (even if only slightly)! I've certainly never included any Stephen Sondheim musical numbers before, or anything from Dead Can Dance!
I make no apologies whatsoever for my (admittedly) obstinate and stubborn consistency, in terms of repeatedly using so many of my favorite artists time and again. But every now and then I do branch out a little, and throw in a few curves here and there!
You know, I like to think of myself as being capable of taking any criticism, constructive or otherwise. But when such criticisms are being made at the very moment when I think I've made some impressive strides outside my comfort zone, I must admit that it really kind of burns! :-(
For those who share doowad's point of view regarding my work, I suggest you take another deeper and harder look at the tracklisting above (especially Disc #2). For this is as "outside the box" as you're ever liable to see me get!
(Oh, and you might want to take another gander at the first of my own comments above - y'know, specifically that part about my never repeating any song that I've used in a previous mix!)
Mind you, I don't want you to think that I'm taking this too personally, and I'm sorry to come across as so damned touchy about it, but I feel like my own words are falling on deaf ears (figuratively speaking) and that my (tentative, admittedly) efforts at trying something different are going unnoticed... :-(
I make no apologies whatsoever for my (admittedly) obstinate and stubborn consistency, in terms of repeatedly using so many of my favorite artists time and again. But every now and then I do branch out a little, and throw in a few curves here and there!
You know, I like to think of myself as being capable of taking any criticism, constructive or otherwise. But when such criticisms are being made at the very moment when I think I've made some impressive strides outside my comfort zone, I must admit that it really kind of burns! :-(
For those who share doowad's point of view regarding my work, I suggest you take another deeper and harder look at the tracklisting above (especially Disc #2). For this is as "outside the box" as you're ever liable to see me get!
(Oh, and you might want to take another gander at the first of my own comments above - y'know, specifically that part about my never repeating any song that I've used in a previous mix!)
Mind you, I don't want you to think that I'm taking this too personally, and I'm sorry to come across as so damned touchy about it, but I feel like my own words are falling on deaf ears (figuratively speaking) and that my (tentative, admittedly) efforts at trying something different are going unnoticed... :-(
P.S. I also freely and fully admit that I have nowhere near as extensive the musical knowledge that many other posters on this site have. I look at the song listings of so many other people who post here and see so many names that I've never heard of before, and I can't help but be impressed. There will always be so much more in this world that I don't know than I do know, and the same can be said of everyone else - even those who do know so much of what I don't know. :-)
However...having said that, I also like to think that there is no one better at making the kind of mixes that I do. At the risk of sounding brazenly immodest, my mixes are, for better or for worse, extremely individual and are very much reflective of who I am and my own background.
I am who I am and I can never be other than who I am. But we also live and learn, y'know...? ;-)
However...having said that, I also like to think that there is no one better at making the kind of mixes that I do. At the risk of sounding brazenly immodest, my mixes are, for better or for worse, extremely individual and are very much reflective of who I am and my own background.
I am who I am and I can never be other than who I am. But we also live and learn, y'know...? ;-)
Well, This Mortal Coil are a lot quieter than your usual guitar-blitz noise.
Thing is your musical taste is not too varied but it is your taste, not everybody is going to like it.
You don't have to like country, soul, americana, pop, reggae, dance, hip hop, indie, ska, calypso etc. to post on AOTM. And it's no good pretending you do. I think some AOTMers would like you to explore any of the above genres just to see if you like any of it. Hard to argue you don't offer the best classic hard rock mixes with a little Beatles/Stones and prog thrown in but there's other stuff out there. If anything else doesn't appeal then just keep doing what you do best and roll on to Pazuzu Mix 100.
Thing is your musical taste is not too varied but it is your taste, not everybody is going to like it.
You don't have to like country, soul, americana, pop, reggae, dance, hip hop, indie, ska, calypso etc. to post on AOTM. And it's no good pretending you do. I think some AOTMers would like you to explore any of the above genres just to see if you like any of it. Hard to argue you don't offer the best classic hard rock mixes with a little Beatles/Stones and prog thrown in but there's other stuff out there. If anything else doesn't appeal then just keep doing what you do best and roll on to Pazuzu Mix 100.
Darth, this may be my favorite mix of yours so far. Especially like disc two...favorites being the Cult, the Who, that Peter Gabriel tune - and the closing three are great.