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PAZUZU MIX #83:
And Now, As Tears Subside, I Find It All So Amusing
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| Ten Years After | One Of These Days (1971) | |
| Jeff Beck (w / Rod Stewart) | Shapes Of Things (1968) | |
| Led Zeppelin | Custard Pie (1975) | |
| Queen | I'm Going Slightly Mad (1991) | |
| The Byrds | Eight Miles High (1966) | |
| Audioslave | Hypnotize (2002) | |
| David Essex | Rock On (1973) | |
| The Mojo Men | She's My Baby (1966) | |
| Thin Lizzy | Little Darling (1974) | |
| The Dead Boys | Caught With The Meat In Your Mouth (1977) | |
| Peter Hammill | Sitting Targets (1981) | |
| Mindfunk | Woke Up This Morning (1991) | |
| Pantera | Drag The Waters (1996) | |
| Nirvana | Oh The Guilt (1992) | |
| Black Sabbath | Megalomania (1975) | |
| Angelo Badalamenti & Jimmy Scott | Sycamore Trees (from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me) (1992) | |
| Nazareth | Please Don't Judas Me (1975) | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| Paul Giovanni & Magnet (w / Lesley Mackie & Thomas The Rhymer) | O-pening Music (The Highland Widow's Lament) / Loving Couples / The Ruined Church (from The Wicker Man) (1973) | |
| Ennio Morricone | Dark Revelation (instrumental) (from Exorcist II: The Heretic) (1977) | |
| Aerosmith | Prelude To Joanie (1982) | |
| Aerosmith | Joanie's Butterfly (1982) | |
| Pearl Jam | Spin The Black Circle (1994) | |
| Soundgarden | Ty Cobb (1996) | |
| Manic Street Preachers | Sculpture Of Man (1994) | |
| Van Der Graaf Generator | Crux (instrumental) (2005) | |
| The Who | Trick Of The Light (1978) | |
| Motley Crue | City Boy Blues (1985) | |
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Bitches Crystal (1971) | |
| The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello) | Battle Hymns (2007) | |
| Bob Dylan | Obviously 5 Believers (1966) | |
| The Sex Pistols (Sid Vicious) | My Way (from The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle) (1979) | |
| Patti Smith | Ravens (1996) | |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd | Tuesday's Gone (1973) | |
| Mike Oldfield (w / Maddy Prior & Sally Oldfield) | Ode To Cynthia (from Incantations: Part IV) (1978) | |
| Yes | Lift Me Up (1991) | |
| Joe Cocker | With A Little Help From My Frien-ds (1968) | |
Comment:
Have no fear, folks! My upcoming "rock opera" about the rise and fall of rock 'n' roll rebel Johnny is almost completed. But there's one final piece that needs to be put into place: I ordered a copy of the soundtrack to the 2002 David Cronenberg film Spider (starring Ralph Fiennes), written by Howard Shore. I'm still waiting to receive my copy, which is an extremely rare French import that I'm paying a pretty penny for (and unless you want to pick your jaws up off the floor, you don't want an exact figure - trust me!). Anyway, stay tuned for further details: It'll either be MIX #84 or #85!I've decided to modify my policy of not repeating a song once it's already been put on a mix. For example, just because I've already put the Yardbirds' original version of Shapes Of Things on an earlier mix, that doesn't mean that I can't put the Jeff Beck/Rod Stewart version from Truth on a later mix, right? And just because I've already used the Beatles' original With A Little Help From My Frien-ds, that should by no means invalidate the prospect of including Joe Cocker's (in my opinion superior) cover version! (And I'll definitely be including a few covers of previously included songs on my upcoming "Johnny saga.")
For quite a long time, I've been wanting to put Angelo Badalamenti's eerie, jazzy Sycamore Trees (from the very last episode of the Twin Peaks TV series as well as the later film Fire Walk With Me) back to back with Nazareth's sinister yet stately Please Don't Judas Me as a closing duo for one of my discs. Now I've done it, and guess what? It works even better than I thought it would - one of my best closers ever, if I may be so bold! (Lyrically, they kind of fit together in a weird way, as well - sort of like the Garden of Gethsemane was underneath the sycamore trees or something!) In addition, that Pearl Jam < Soundgarden < Manics sequence on Disc Two is something that's been in the back of my mind for a long time as well! (If you know all three songs, you'll understand why I thought it would be perfect.)
You may notice that I've also included a little-known gem from Aerosmith called Joanie's Butterfly (with prelude), from the short-lived Jimmy Crespo/Rick Dufay period in the early '80s (when Joe Perry and Brad Whitford had left the band).
And I've made two more "eliminations" recently! On MIX #80, I used up all the songs from Van Der Graaf Generator's H To He, Who Am The Only One (1970), and this time around I think I've used up all the songs from Soundgarden's A-Sides (1997)! (Granted, the latter may not really count, given that it's a best-of compilation and not a proper album. Oh well, anyway...)
Feedback:
I always thought the defacto rock opera protagonist name was Jimmy (Quadrophenia, American Idiot).
Cool mix, as always
Cool mix, as always
Well, Johnny's also a pretty quintessential rock 'n' roller name as well, you know.
In fact, Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott has written so many songs with characters by the name of Johnny that guitarist Scott Gorham once joked that Phil ought to be the guy's press agent, since he turns up so often! :-)
In fact, Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott has written so many songs with characters by the name of Johnny that guitarist Scott Gorham once joked that Phil ought to be the guy's press agent, since he turns up so often! :-)
Really, you've never used the same song on more than one mix before? That sounds so... irrevocable! How ever do you manage??On the other side, I've been waiting with bated breath to "eliminate" even one album probably for years now... I think the first one I'm going to eliminate is In the Court of the Crimson King, although the mix "Moonchild" is on probably isn't gonna actually be made for a while yet.... I'm almost done with Street-Legal, also, I've used 7 of 9 songs with "Baby Stop Crying" in the queue, but so far I've got no plans to use "Is Your Love In Vain"... just, y'know, letting you know.
Well, it sort of helps if you've got a CD collection that's so big that you can't even begin to give an approximate number to how many you have (or even how many artists there are)!
It sort of occurred to me after the fact that my previous post (in answer to abangaku) may have sounded like bragging. Trust me, I wasn't. I mean, my collection is big, but I'm not trying to compete with anybody else, and I certainly don't mean any offense!
Speaking of King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King, the only song I haven't used from that is I Talk To The Wind. (Although I must say that I used an edit of Moonchild which deletes that whole improv section!)
Speaking of King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King, the only song I haven't used from that is I Talk To The Wind. (Although I must say that I used an edit of Moonchild which deletes that whole improv section!)
Yeah... no worries, at least from this end. I'm sort of vaguely planning a mix called "Crimprovisations" that's going to use the album version of "Moonchild". I think I've also got an enormous number of CDs but i don't tend to use nearly that many in mixing because there are plenty (mostly non-rock/pop) where i don't pay attention to the individual tracks. i wonder if that's just because rock music is more up-front, or because it's only possible to pay attention to so many pieces at once...?
Another winner, D.P. How do you keep track of what you have and haven't yet used?
ooo, nice.
actually, and i didn't even notice this before, i find that it sure is nice to see a piece called "Loving Couples (The Highland Widow's Lament)" (by a band that supposedly "didn't really exist", too) on a mix by a self-proclaimed (do i have that right?) rockist. what say?
I always enjoy the Jeff Beck Group. No collection envy here.
abangaku:
Actually, Paul Giovanni was the composer of the music for the original 1973 film The Wicker Man (with Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee - see it!), and Magnet was the name of the ensemble who performed most of Giovanni's songs.
The weird thing about the original Wicker Man is that it's almost as much of a musical as it is a horror/drama! There are quite a few musical numbers here, and I've used quite a few numbers from the soundtrack disc on past mixes.
Actually, it's not Loving Couples, but the Opening Music (played over the titles) that is The Highland Widow's Lament, a lovely old Scottish folk ballad sung by one Leslie Mackie. (And the reason there are three musical cues put together on Track #1 on Disc #2 is that they were all grouped together that way on the soundtrack disc.)
And believe me, most of the people involved with the soundtrack I had never even heard of before purchasing the movie on DVD. So it's quite a cool little discovery on my part. (Paul Giovanni is, alas, no longer with is, having died in New York in 1990 due to complications from AIDS.)
Actually, Paul Giovanni was the composer of the music for the original 1973 film The Wicker Man (with Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee - see it!), and Magnet was the name of the ensemble who performed most of Giovanni's songs.
The weird thing about the original Wicker Man is that it's almost as much of a musical as it is a horror/drama! There are quite a few musical numbers here, and I've used quite a few numbers from the soundtrack disc on past mixes.
Actually, it's not Loving Couples, but the Opening Music (played over the titles) that is The Highland Widow's Lament, a lovely old Scottish folk ballad sung by one Leslie Mackie. (And the reason there are three musical cues put together on Track #1 on Disc #2 is that they were all grouped together that way on the soundtrack disc.)
And believe me, most of the people involved with the soundtrack I had never even heard of before purchasing the movie on DVD. So it's quite a cool little discovery on my part. (Paul Giovanni is, alas, no longer with is, having died in New York in 1990 due to complications from AIDS.)
SNEAK PREVIEW ALERT:
Another Paul Giovanni number from the Wicker Man soundtrack, the lilting Gently Johnny, is going to be part of my upcoming "rock opera" (about a rock 'n' roll rebel named Johnny!). :-)
Another Paul Giovanni number from the Wicker Man soundtrack, the lilting Gently Johnny, is going to be part of my upcoming "rock opera" (about a rock 'n' roll rebel named Johnny!). :-)
Nod for the Van Der Graaf Generator
Rules are made to be broken, so they say, and that's a good thing. Otherwise, we'd be too bound up to move. You really should give us a link from time to time so we can sample some of your back-to-back segues.
Ten Years After...thirty years too late, but I like the Byrds, Pistols and Nirvana.