Other Mixes By Holden Rex
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The Dark Knight Returns
Side A | ||
Artist | Song | |
Pink Floyd | In the Flesh? | |
Pink Floyd | Paranoid Eyes (edit) | |
Pink Floyd | The Thin Ice (edit) | |
U2 | Trip Through Your Wires | |
Pink Floyd | The Postwar Dream (edit) | |
Pink Floyd | Another Brick, Part 1 | |
Pink Floyd | One of My Turns | |
Pink Floyd | Run Like Hell | |
Pink Floyd | Waiting for the Worms (edit) | |
The Cure | Lovesong | |
Pink Floyd | Stop | |
The Clash | Guns of Brixton | |
The Clash | London Calling | |
The Clash | I'm Not Down | |
Side B | ||
Artist | Song | Buy |
The Cure | Last Dance | |
The Cure | Disintigration | |
The Cure | Pornography | |
Robbie Robertson | Sweet Fire of Love | |
Robbie Robertson | Showdown at Big Sky | |
The Clash | Red Angel Dragnet (edit) | |
Robbie Robertson | Fallen Angel | |
U2 | Bullet the Blue Sky | |
Pink Floyd | Outside the Wall | |
U2 | Exit | |
Comment:
This is a mix tape for a project I did about 10 years ago for an "Interartistic Comparison" class I took. The point of the course was to study and make comparisons between works of art in completely different media. For my final project, I assembled a soundtrack to Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns." The visual end was actually completed by purchasing a couple reissues of the comic and hacking them into a collage that, when combined with the "soundtrack," would still convey the essence of the story. I used the music of Pink Floyd (mostly from "The Wall") to illustrate the duality in both Batman/Bruce Wayne and his similarly divided foe, Two-Face. As Batman took the fight against the Mutants street gang, the music of The Clash seemed appropriate (they reappear near the end with "Red Angel Dragnet" as Batman raises his own vigilante army). Robert Smith has always seemed to have a bit of the Joker in him, so The Cure was used for the Joker's obsession/infatuation/twisted relationship with Batman. U2 and Robbie Robertson (more specifically, Daniel Lanois' "wall of sound") were used for the more mythic elements of the story, especially the final showdown between the two god-like figures of Batman and Superman. I've long since lost the cassette itself, so I'm guess where the break hits - also the songs marked "edit" were used only for a chorus or verse/chorus where appropriate.Feedback:
very interesting and quite cool!
My friend Jgourds just wrote a thesis-style paper on Batman, specifically The Dark Knight Returns. He descreibed Bruce Wayne's psycological maladies in a way that made me think of Pink in The Wall. Whenever I listen to The Wall, I always try to picture what the story I would create around Pink would be, if I hadn't been influenced by the movie's visulazation. Perhaps a Batman allegeory... that would be badass. Kudos.