Plainclothes Naked-The Soundtrack : "Jerry Stahl is the American hipster bard."

Artist Song
Pulp  This Is Hardcore 
Chaka Demus & Pliers  Murder She Wrote 
Ocean Colour Scene  Policemen & Pirates 
Sneaker Pimps  Post Modern Sleaze 
Placebo  Special K 
The Dandy Warhols  Crack Cocaine Rager 
Weezer  Photograph 
Death Cab For Cutie  President Of What 
Our Lady Peace  Everyone's A Junkie 
Tool  Hooker With A Penis 
Rockit Girl  Got A Gun 
Joseph Arthur  Chemical 
Bjork  Hidden Place 
Chocolate Genius  Bossman Piss (In My Lemonade) 
Si Se  Dolemite 
Self  9 Lives 
Tricky  Mission Accomplished 
David Garza  Slave 

Comment:

Jerry Stahl is one of my favorite writers and his new novel, Plainclothes Naked, was just begging to have a soundtrack created for it. Probably the best mix I have ever done. Here is an excerpt from the inside cover...
In a wildly careening plot that can only be described as crack noir, two pipe-heads accidentally steal a photo of George W. Bush's presidential package with a happy face tattooed on it and decide to blackmail the Republican Party, Before the crack-crazed thieves can follow through,however, a gorgeous, whip-smart young nurse absconds with the goods. But Nurse Tina's got her own problems- she's just offed her online "money swami" husband with a bowl of Drano-laced Lucky Charms. When Manny Rubert, a scarred ex-junkie turned codeine-popping detective, is called in to investigate the "foamer" hubby's untimely demise, love hits him like a wrench in the head. Soon Manny and Tina are making plans of their own for the presidential pic-and for their future together. But the meddling police chiefs and motel room sex-change surgeons of the world just won;t leave them alone. And then there are those killers crackheads, still out there and closing in...
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Feedback:

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James Russell
Date: 2/3/2002
I clearly need to read this book. Good-looking soundtrack selections, too.
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Peter Divito
Date: 2/3/2002
thanks. yeah it is a great book. better than perv.
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conor
Date: 2/3/2002
perv was redemptive, like "the doom generation," but a book... anyway, haven't picked this up yet, but barnes and noble is open 'til 11.
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Peter Divito
Date: 2/4/2002
yes i highly recommend it.
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Jakelicious Zartan
Date: 2/4/2002
That sounds like the craziest book ever written. I'll be checking it out. Nice mix, by the by.
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Peter Divito
Date: 2/4/2002
yeah he has a crazy style. thanks.