Welcome
to the 2018 Musical Month of May, with new compilations for you each Monday and
Thursday—on the Super Blog and Spock’s Record Round-Up. First up is ...
MA-129 -
WATCHNOTES (79:08)
This comp
was inspired by my recent obsessive re-reading of the Watchmen comic-book
maxiseries. The ruminative fruit of that
survey may be found on the Super Blog, under the heading “WATCHMENUTIA.” I also
realized that several pieces of music that are referenced in the series (and
even the film) haven’t been bundled together, even in the various fan
soundtracks.
This comp’s
subtitle, of course, is from Groucho Marx, who in 1949 famously wrote, “I don’t
want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”
The art
which I manipulated came from Marvel’s Transformers #14, cover-dated March
1986. Of course, Marvel’s band is an
expy of Bruce Springsteen and his group.
The tracks:
01 - The Times They Are A-Changin' (film edit) - Bob
Dylan -
1964 (3:49)
02 - Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne - 1981 (6:15)
03 - Neighborhood Threat - Iggy Pop - 1977 (3:23)
04 - The Comedians - Elvis Costello - 1984 (2:30)
05 - The Black Freighter (live) - Steeleye
Span -
1978 (6:15)
06 - Heroes (album version) - David Bowie - 1977 (6:06)
07 - Walking on the Moon - The Police - 1979 (4:59)
08 - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day - Robert Johnson
- 1961 (2:35)
09 - Life on Mars - David Bowie - 1971 (3:51)
10 - We Will Become Silhouettes - The
Postal Service - 2005 (3:43)
11 - Outside of a Small Circle of Friends - Phil
Ochs - 1967 (3:41)
12 - Jocko Homo - Devo - 1977 (3:37)
13 - Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire - 1965 (3:33)
14 - Nightshift Watchman - David Wilcox - 1987 (3:15)
15 - Two - R D Laing, Alan Blakley, Ken Howard - 1978 (1:42)
16 - Requiem Aeternam - W A Mozart - 1791 (6:51)
17 - Santies - John Cale - 1982 (5:55)
18 - The Smiley Face Song - Charles Ball - 1998 (3:08)
19 - Def Con One - Pop Will Eat Itself - 1988 (4:01)
Also
included is a 12-page booklet which detail’s each song’s relation to the
storyline.
See you on
Thursday!
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