Side A
Artist	Song
Hunter S. Thompson	interview clip
the Doors	Break on Through (to the Other Side)
Mothers of Invention	Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
Bob Dylan	The Times They Are A-Changin'
the Zombies	The Time of the Season
the Byrds	Turn, Turn, Turn
Mothers of Invention	Absolutely Free
Donovan	Atlantis
Jefferson Airplane	White Rabbit
Canned Heat	Going Up the Country
Crosby Stills Nash & Young	Woodstock
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas soundtrack	"Timothy Leary"
Mothers of Invention	Who Needs the Peace Corps?
Scott McKenzie	San Francisco
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas soundtrack	"Did they hear me?"
the Beatles	Helter Skelter
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas soundtrack	A Drug Score Part 3 "the possibility of mental collapse..."
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Steppenwolf	Magic Carpet Ride
Buffalo Springfield	For What It's Worth
Mothers of Invention	Hungry Freaks, Daddy
Moby Grape	Hey Grandma
the Youngbloods	Get Together
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas soundtrack	"San Francisco in the Sixties..."
Mothers of Invention	Trouble Every Day
the Animals	Sky Pilot
Buffalo Springfield	Expecting to Fly
Phil Ochs	Love Me, I'm a Liberal (live)
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention	Dickie's Such an Asshole (live at the Roxy, Dec.12th 1973)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas soundtrack	Final quote "there was only one road back to LA..."

Comment:

I've been reading HST's "The Great Shark Hunt" and just picked up the Criterion DVD of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," with all the great supplementary material- including a 30 minute reading by the real Dr. Gonzo, Oscar Zeta Acosta. The HST quote about how the wave of the 60's broke and rolled back, and how with the right kind of eyes, you could see the watermark, has always resonated with me, so I wanted to make a mix tape about it.
I had also recently read the disturbing "Will" by G. Gordon Liddy, and Stephen King's 60's reminisce-fest, "Hearts in Atlantis" (the movie is just one small part of the book). I definitely wanted to end with "Dickie's Such an Asshole" because of all I'd read about Nixon's paranoid ways.
I started out with an interview clip about the book, and late 60's songs that typify the feel of the times. I sprinkled in songs from the Mothers of Invention's early albums because I like them, and I needed some counterpoint to the happy hippie all is well attitude the songs have. Slowly the songs lose their idealism and get more disturbing, until side one ends with Helter Skelter, the beginning of the end, when idealism began darkening into rage.
A few songs are from the book, not the movie, notably the Moby Grape track. "Trouble Every Day" symbolizes the civil rights battles, "Sky Pilot" is the one song about the Vietnam war; I didn't want to linger on many specific things because there are so many.
Phil Ochs "Love me, I'm a Liberal" is included because of the milquetoast McGovern attitude that eventually went flaccid in the face of Nixon. Ochs committed suicide in '76; Jerry Rubin became a stock broker. I was originally going to end with Zappa's "We're Turning Again," his 80's-era mockery of hippie nostalgia, but I wanted to keep everything in the period- the only anachronisms are the movie clips and the interview clip by Hunter S Thompson.
Stuff I wish I'd had more space for:
Ritchie Havens performing "Freedom" at Woodstock;
"The Seeker," by The Who, a song from '71 goofing on people looking for answers with Bob Dylan and Timothy Leary;
"Five to One," by The Doors. I don't like that song enough to include it, but he captures the rage of the era in it.
I should probably call this "Frank and Loathing in Atlantis" because there's so much Zappa on it, but I don't go for puns.

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