Artist	Song
Howe Gelb w/ Marie Frank	Blood Orange
Modest Mouse	Doin' the Cockroach [live]
Radiohead	The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
Grandaddy	Glassy Dust
Death Cab for Cutie	Gridlock Caravans
The Black Heart Procession	Once Said at the Fires
Giant Sand	Satellite
Amon Tobin	El Wraith
Talking Heads	Life During Wartime [live]
Guided By Voices	Do the Earth
Sparklehorse	Ghost in the Sky
The Mountain Goats	Tulsa Imperative [live]
Galaxie 500	Listen, the Snow is Falling
Future Sound of London	Everyone in the World Is...
Cat Power	In this Hole [The Covers Record version]
The Flaming Lips	After the Gold Rush [Neil Young cover]
Built to Spill	Randy Described Eternity

Comment:

This is the second volume of an epic three-disc homage to B-movie science fiction, from classic films like The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Time Machine, and Year Zero, to modern films such as Independence Day that would rate B-movie status if not for their mammoth budgets. It was made for a friend.

Disc Two Story Overview

The pair roam through devastated cities and countryside, surviving for awhile through force of wit and random chance. But predictably, they eventually let their guard down, and are spotted by an alien patrol craft in a farm field. The craft attacks them, killing the woman and seriously wounding the man. He finds enough strength to bury her as the first snows of the nuclear winter fall around him, and then collapses in the burnt out foundations of a farmhouse. A crazed, former astrophysicist finds him there and takes him to the hidden bunker he's maintaining, where he dresses the guy's wounds. When the guy awakens, the scientist explains how one of his deep space radio transmissions likely alerted the aliens to our civilization's presence.

Packaging

All three discs are packaged in a single custom-built gatefold jacket made of boxboard and wrapped in aluminium foil. The cover images were inkjetted onto transparencies, cut to a narrow width and wrapped vertically around each panel, leaving enough slack to allow the images to "float" above the foil. The effect is much like the old handheld lcd-display video games from Tiger, where the lcd screen was mounted above a fixed graphic backdrop, and if you held the game unit at a certain angle the lcd images would cast separate shadows onto the backdrop.

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