I've read The Joke and it's great--just like this mix.

Is it better than The Unbearable Lightness of Being? also, we need to discuss bands like The Minutment, mostly in regards to what I should listen to.

superb, and I must chase that book down. Love the charlie/miles pick especially.

great book; looks like a great mix as well.

one suggestion: "The Joke," by the Fall, which I suspect was inspired by the book, esp. since the lyrics mention someone spending "5 years in a PC camp."

Cool. You got Wipers and even 4 songs about years. Putting this into RRA with the other literary elite.

When I make the more literal "The Joke" mix then that is definitely gonna be on it. My friends wrote a song called "Same Bastards" which is completely about the book in every way.

Lucie, my Lucie, you're the only one I know who wouldn't have raised your hand to see me in the gallows. The Party can evict me from the university; those stuffed-shirt Lenin youth could never take a joke, anyway. But you, my Lucie, watching Court of Honor: how I hate that film; but it was worth it just to sit next to you. I've been working in the mines for months at a time just to see you on a saturday. But it's always the same bastards across party lines, you can change their colors but you can never change their minds. Oh, my Lucie, you don't believe in me. And I, Ludvik Jahn, will have my revenge. I will have my revenge.