Side A
Artist	Song
Richard Hartley & Richard O'Brien	Overture [instrumental] /
Richard Hartley & Richard O'Brien [Betsy Brantley, Manning Redwood, Darlene Johnson, Christopher Malcolm, Wendy Raeback, Jeremy Newson & Sinitta Renet]	Denton, U.S.A.
from Shock Treatment [O.S.T.] (1981)
Smashing Pumpkins	Geek U.S.A.
from Siamese Dream (1983)
Asia	Voice Of America
from Astra (1985)
David Bowie	Young Americans [single version]
from Young Americans (1975)
The Band	Long Distance Operator
from The Basement Tapes [w / Bob Dylan] [1975] (1967)
Iron Maiden	Chains Of Misery
from Fear Of The Dark (1992)
The Mantovani Orchestra	Colors Of My Life [instrumental]
from David Lynch's Inland Empire [O.S.T.: V/A] (2006)
Hedwig & The Angry Inch	In Your Arms Tonight
from Hedwig & The Angry Inch [O.S.T.] (2001)
Voivod	The Lost Machine
from The Outer Limits (1993)
Pink Floyd	Cymbaline
from More [O.S.T.] (1969)
ZZ Top	Velcro Fly
from Afterburner (1985)
AC/DC	Let's Get It Up
from For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) (1981)
Def Leppard	Another Hit And Run
from High 'N' Dry (1981)
Rolling Stones	Doncha Bother Me
from Aftermath (1966)
Slaughter	Up All Night
from Stick It To Ya (1990)
Jeff Beck	Nessun Dorma [Giacomo Puccini] [instrumental]
from Emotion & Commotion (2010)
Accept	The King
from I'm A Rebel (1980)
The Smiths	Meat Is Murder [live]
from The Sound Of The Smiths: Deluxe Edition [compilation] [1985] (2008)
Rollins Band	Next Time
from Life Time [bonus track] (1987)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
KISS	Heart Of Chrome
from Revenge (1992)
Kix	Scarlet Fever
from Midnite Dynamite (1985)
Helix	Young & Wreckless
from Walkin' The Razor's Edge (1984)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	The Gnome [Modest Mussorgsky] [instrumental] [live]
from Pictures At An Exhibition (1971)
Living Colour	Asshole
from The Chair In The Doorway [hidden track] (2009)
Slayer	Public Display Of Dismemberment
from World Painted Blood (2009)
Pantera	Use My Third Arm
from Far Beyond Driven (1994)
Fight [w / Rob Halford]	Kill It
from War Of Words (1993)
Rob Zombie	The Devil's Rejects
from Educated Horses (2006)
Thomas Newman	Mauve Antarctica [instrumental]
from Angels In America [O.S.T.] (2004)
Leonard Cohen	If It Be Your Will
from Various Positions (1984)
Sebastian Bach	You Don't Understand
from Angel Down (2007)
Queens Of The Stone Age [w / Dave Grohl]	Another Love Song
from Songs For The Deaf (2002)
Corrosion Of Conformity	Take What You Want
from America's Volume Dealer (2000)
Slash [+ Myles Kennedy]	Starlight
from Slash [R&FN'R] (2010)
Motley Crue	Time For Change
from Dr. Feelgood (1989)
The Beatles	It's All Too Much
from Yellow Submarine [O.S.T.] [1969] (1967)
Extreme	Seven Sundays
from III Sides To Every Story (1992)
Giacomo Puccini [Franco Patane conducting the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia; Giuseppe di Stefano, tenor]	Nessun Dorma! [from Turandot]
from Puccini: Opera Arias [compilation: V/A] [2003] (1959)
Richard Hartley & Richard O'Brien [Cliff De Young, Jessica Harper, Charles Gray & Ruby Wax]	Anyhow, Anyhow
from Shock Treatment [O.S.T.] (1981)

Comment:

This mix was originally submitted to Zen Running Order on May 25, 2010. The original notes and/or comments are as follows...

Darth Pazuzu (05-25-2010):
A couple of really cool movie stories today:

"Overture" < "Denton U.S.A." / "Anyhow, Anyhow" - Has anyone out there ever seen "Shock Treatment"? Well, it's a pseudo-sequel to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975), not directly relating to the events of the earlier film, but a sort of "continuing adventures of Brad and Janet"! Once again, it's written by Richard O'Brien (who collaborated on the musical numbers with Richard Hartley) and once again it's directed by Jim Sharman. This one has our much-beleaguered couple (now played by Cliff De Young and Jessica Harper instead of Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon) trapped in this crazy TV show in their hometown of Denton. Not only that, but the townsfolk make up the studio audience and they never seem to leave - almost as if nobody had any lives apart from the TV studio! Without realizing it, the film almost serves retroactively as a dead-on satire of the current reality TV craze. (And bear in mind, it was written and filmed in the period of 1980-81!) On this particular mix, I used the opening sequence and the final number as bookends.

"Nessun Dorma!" (X 2) - I must say that I totally fell head-over-heels in love with the melody of this particular operatic aria after recently seeing the 1987 film "Aria" on DVD. (Of course, I was always vaguely familiar with the melody, having heard it fleetingly on earlier occasions without knowing what it was...) "Aria" - as you may or not remember - was a kind of anthology film in which ten different directors (Nicolas Roeg, Charles Sturridge, Jean-Luc Godard, Julien Temple, Bruce Beresford, Robert Altman, Franc Roddam, Ken Russell, Derek Jarman and Bill Bryden) all take a crack at directing a short film based on a well-known operatic aria. I was watching the film for the first time, thinking it was kind of interesting but nothing really great (even if some individual parts are more interesting than others), and then I just got totally freaking BLINDSIDED by Ken Russell's segment, based on Puccini's "Nessun Dorma"! Honestly, I actually got totally choked up by it. But then I would expect nothing less from Russell, who's one of my all-time favorite filmmakers. It's this bizarre and surreal, yet emotionally overwhelming, piece about a beautiful woman who's gravely injured in a car crash, and dreams or fantasizes that she's a kind of artificial android who is the subject of some Egyptian ritual in which these multicolored gemstones are placed on her body at the sites of her injuries. As she wakes up, she sees that the faces of the doctors who've been operating on her are the same as the participants in the dream ritual. I was tempted to pick up a copy of the opera "Turandot," from which this aria comes, but as partial to classical music as I am, I'm not really all that big on opera in general. Thankfully, I found out that Jeff Beck did an instrumental version on his latest album, and was grateful to be spared the trouble. But then, when I went to get the Jeff Beck disc at Best Buy, I found a compilation of Puccini arias for $7.99 - what a bargain! (Although I was ever-so-SLIGHTLY let down by the fact that this version of "Nessun Dorma" WASN'T the Luciano Pavarotti version, although he does appear elsewhere in my mixology.) So here, I used both of them...

"Meat Is Murder" - I will say right now that I am NOT a vegetarian, nor can I foresee any time in the future when I will be. Nevertheless, one could say that at times it's necessary to be reminded of the harsh reality that living creatures are sacrificed in the name of setting food on our plates! And this title track from Morissey and the Smiths' 1985 album certainly provides that in spades.

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