Artist	Song
Morphine	You Look Like Rain
Faithless	Bring My Family Back
Friends of Dean Martinez	Ugly Beauty
Ernest Bloch/Portland String Quartet	Quartet No. II: Moderato
Sly and the Family Stone	Time
John Coltrane	Serenity
Ice Cube	It Was A Good Day
Naked City	Notre Dame de L'Oubli
Rita Takashina	Ito Okashi
Paul Motian Trio	Blue Midnight
Alban Berg/London Symphony	Praeludium
Jeff Beal	Improvisation - Love
Chappaquiddick Skyline	Kidney-Shaped Pool
Jack Owens and Bud Spires	Devil Blues

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I'll accept the challenge from the AOTM forum entry and write something: I edited, expanded and ultimately darkened a mix I posted here a few months ago. It's been raining non-stop in Southern California for days now. I needed something eerie and creepy to play in the car while I cruised the wet streets and gazed into the faces of my fellow depressed travelers. I cut across a few different genres for this -- pop, R&B, classical, jazz, rap and blues. Some have words, some don't. The rule was they had to be frightening but musical and they had to string together well when placed end-to-end. The tunes: Morphine track is very snaky and haunting. The Faithless song is half-sung, half-rapped with extremely depressing lyrics. FODM warbles slowly in a minor key with no words. Bloch's classical piece is airy, focused and painful. Sly's tune is like a drunken dirge. Coltrane is introspective but naked. Ice Cube is just depressing (especially the end when it turns out the whole song is for naught). Naked City is just weird chords hung up on the wall to dry. The Takashina track is from "Passengers" and is intoned in Japanese. Paul Motian used to play drums with pianist Bill Evans, but this spacey tune woulda scared Bill. Alban Berg piece is classical with wide and suddenly shifting dynamics. Jeff Beal is a jazz trumpeter who locked himself off in the woods for 11 days and wrote some edgy piano music. "Kidney-Shaped Pool" is a soft Subpop tune and raw. The final cut is an authentic Southern blues number by two guys who swear the fearsome wails off in the distance in the final seconds weren't provided by any musicians and "just showed up" in the playback of the recording. I'm gonna drive around later and scare the s*** out of myself.

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