Darth Pazuzu

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#238 - We Should Have Jumped Out Of That Airplane After All

Side A
Artist Song
Richard Strauss [Ernest Bour conducting the Sudwesfunk Orchestra]  Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) (Introduction) [instrumental] 
Jerry Goldsmith  Star Trek: The Motion Picture (End Title) [instrumental] 
Gene Roddenberry & Alexander Courage  Star Trek Theme [instrumental] 
Beastie Boys  Sabotage  
Extreme  Pornograffitti  
John Lennon  #9 Dream 
Genesis  Tonight, Tonight, Tonight [Edit] 
Oasis  Cast No Shadow  
The Guess Who  Heartbroken Bopper  
Wolfmother  In The Morning  
Ludwig Van Beethoven  Symphony No. 9 In D Minor: 2nd Movement (Abridged) [instrumental] 
David Johansen  Marquesa De Sade  
Hanoi Rocks  Menaced By Nightingales  
Talking Heads  Heaven  
Eurythmics  17 Again  
Gene Loves Jezebel  Josephina  
Slade  (And Now The Waltz) C'est La Vie  
Johann Strauss [Herbert Von Karajan conducting The Berlin Philharmonic]  The Blue Danube [instrumental] 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Jack Nitzsche / Krzysztof Penderecki  Iraq [instrumental] 
Jack Nitzsche [+ Merry Clayton]  Performance [instrumental] 
The Last Poets  Wake Up, Niggers  
Motley Crue  Five Years Dead 
Suzi Pinns  Jerusalem 
Cream  Pressed Rat And Warthog  
The Cramps  Surfin' Dead 
Rick Wakeman [Antonin Dvorak]  Eastern Shadows [instrumental] 
Pantera  Live In A Hole  
Wendy Carlos [Ludwig Van Beethoven]  Suicide Scherzo (Symphony No. 9 In D Minor: 2nd Movement, Abridged) [instrumental] 
The Who  I've Been Away  
Klaus Badelt  Gourmet Valse Tartare [instrumental] 
Leonard Cohen  Take This Waltz  
John Morris  John Merrick And Psalm [instrumental] 
Gamma [w / Ronnie Montrose]  Wish I Was 
Accept  Bound To Fail  
Eric Burdon & War  Nights In White Satin 
Simon Fisher Turner  I Love You More Than My Eyes [instrumental] 
The Smiths  Asleep  
Richard Strauss [Herbert Von Karajan conducting The Vienna Philharmonic]  Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) (Introduction) [instrumental] 

Comment:

This mix was originally submitted to Zen Running Order on May 15, 2010. The original notes and comments are as follows:

Darth Pazuzu (05-15-2010):
"Is there a problem, officer?" "Citizen, what is your name?" "My name is James Tiberius Kirk!"

I trust I don't really have to explain the...(*AHEM*)...logic behind the sequencing of Tracks 2-4 on DISC #1, do I? ;-)

Well, this has certainly been a long time in the making! It's my first all-new mix posting in...well, quite a while now! The primary reason for such an extended delay is that I had ordered a copy of the soundtrack CD for Derek Jarman's "Caravaggio" (1986), composed by Simon Fisher Turner, and for some reason it took an eternity to arrive. After finishing up with MIX #237, I had intended to use certain musical pieces from "Caravaggio" at key points in several later mixes, but because the CD was a long time coming I had to delay the finalizing of this particular mix and skip ahead to #239! But now that "Caravaggio" has finally arrived, the floodgates have opened and you can expect quite a few brand new mix postings in the future! Lucky you... ;-)

Well, as you can plainly see, this one's quite...how shall I say?...cinema-heavy! In fact, I'd say this has probably got to set some sort of all-time personal record for the number of soundtrack tunes I've used in a single mix! We've got tracks from "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick; 1968), "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (Robert Wise; 1979), "A Clockwork Orange" (Kubrick again; 1971), "The Exorcist" (William Friedkin; 1973), "Performance" (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg; 1970), "Jubilee" (Derek Jarman; 1978), "The Return Of The Living Dead" (Dan O'Bannon; 1985), "Crimes Of Passion" (Ken Russell; 1984), "Hannibal" (Ridley Scott; 2001), "The Elephant Man" (1980), and "Caravaggio" (Jarman again; 1986)! This probably gives you some sort of idea not only of my musical tastes, but of my cinematic ones as well. In the past, I've used quite a few soundtrack cuts from films directed or written by Quentin Tarantino as well!

Even though I hadn't really planned it as such, there is something of a "Heaven and Hell" motif going on between the two discs of this collection. You might say that DISC #1 is "Heaven" and DISC #2 could be "Hell". There are two different versions of the Scherzo from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - an abridged version of the orchestral on DISC #1 (the definition of heavenly bliss for "A Clockwork Orange" protagonist Alex) and Wendy Carlos' electronic version of the same on DISC #2 (signifying its horrific transformation into a form of torture for Alex). Also, we have Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" closing out the first disc, while on DISC #2 we have Klaus Badelt's "Gourmet Valse Tartare" from the "Hannibal" soundtrack (which we hear playing when Hannibal Lecter is brought captive before the hideously disfigured Mason Verger). The latter piece, of course, is meant to sound like the Strauss waltz gone horribly, horribly wrong! (Ha, ha, ha!)

"(And Now The Waltz) C'est La Vie)" / "I've Been Away" / "Take This Waltz" - And speaking of waltzes...! ;-) Well, I simply thought that these would tie in with the whole "Blue Danube" motif rather nicely. The Who's "I've Been Away," by the way, is a '66 B-side written and sung by their late bassist John Entwistle. It's a charming, humorous little ditty (in waltz time) about some poor schmuck who gets framed by his brother Bill for stealing money from the till and is sent to prison for it. ("It was no use, they put my brother on the jury / He bribed the others 'cause he owns the local brewery!")

"Heaven" < "17 Again" - Although it wasn't intended as such, you could say there's a bit of a "Clockwork Orange" joke in the sequencing of these two titles! (Ha, ha, ha...)

To be continued in the Feedback section (due to lack of space)... :-(

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Darth Pazuzu
Date: 10/20/2012
Continuing on... "I Love You More Than My Eyes" - This beautiful, heartrendingly elegiac piece of music plays during the end credits of Derek Jarman's "Caravaggio." And this, of course, is the primary reason why I had waited so long to post my mix, because in my mind it became quite integral to the fabric of the whole and I couldn't finalize it until I finally got the "Caravaggio 1610" soundtrack disc. Doowad (05-14-2010): Hey, I'll give you the thumb's up for Gene Roddenberryand 12, 14 & 15 Mr. Mirage (05-15-2010): Heaven is one of my favorite TH cuts. That mania started with the live version... Most people miss the joke when it comes to Extreme... Nice job.