Artist	Song
The Kinks	I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Laurie Anderson	Transitory Life
Neutral Milk Hotel	Two Headed Boy
The Zombies	The Way I Feel Inside
The Morning Benders	Excuses
Etta James	Out of the Rain
The Magnetic Fields	I Don't Believe in the Sun
Pixies	La La Love You
Comedian Harmonists	Wenn Ich Vergnugt Bin
Roky Erickson	Night of the Vampire
Godzilla Film Score	Japanese Army March
Buddy Holly	I'm Gonna Love You Too
The Mountain Goats	Woke Up New
MGMT	Electric Feel
Dead Man's Bones	My Body's a Zombie For You
The Mills Brothers	Moaning For You
M. Ward	Blake's View
Townes Van Zandt	None But the Rain
LCD Soundsystem	Home
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes	Brother
The Kinks	I'm Free

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Freak Show Sonnet by Randy Schaub


Saliva pools, evoked by corndog stink.
But how can one find appetite when faced
with Alligator-man, his skin striped pink
with pitted scars? Or armless Belle, her lace
skirts rising when her foot lifts cigarette
to aging lips. We see the lot of them--
obese, hirsute,tattooed, and jaundiced--yet
we need not weep for these, whose flesh condemns
them more than stares and screams. Without the low
and outcast underneath our feet, we all
would stand on lower ground. Besides, we know
they can't, beyond their glass and canvas walls,
perceive the murmurs of disgust, and thus
bear no ill will to normal folks like us.


-Note from Bingsy: This is for Randy13's birthday. I started it wanting it to be a theme. Randy always struggled to find a place to belong. The picture - which I shall post as soon as I can access a scanner - that I affixed to the liner notes, is Randy at age 3 wearing a scary mask. He always loved monsters and things most children fear. He sympathized with them. The thing is that once I started compiling, it became difficult to shut out the songs of love and loss and hope. I still included the handful of original songs that inspired the title (taken from a poem read at Randy's service, written by him), but the mix became its own thing. I felt, as I gave it out, that I needed to almost apologize for the maudlin tone at times, but it is what it is.

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