Theme Mix Saturday – The Unsound
December 10th, 2011
The idea for this playlist was kicking around in my head for a long time but I guess I’ve been feeling a little crazier-than-usual as of late, so let’s dive right in to it…
| • | Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Merry Go Round Broke Down | Eddie Duchin Orchestra | |
| 2 | Mad World | Gary Jules | Donnie Darko Soundtrack |
| 3 | Crazy | Patsy Cline | |
| 4 | Brain Damage | Pink Floyd | Dark Side of the Moon |
| 5 | Memory Lane | Elliott Smith | From a Basement on a Hill |
| 6 | You Might Think I’m Crazy | The Cars | The Cars |
| 7 | Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Chris Isaak | |
| 8 | Brain Damage | Eminem | The Slim Shady LP |
| 9 | Psycho | The Sonics | Here Are The Sonics!!! |
| 10 | Insane in the Brain | Cypress Hill | Black Sunday |
| 11 | Crazy | Gnarls Barkley | St. Elsewhere |
| 12 | I’m Deranged | David Bowie | Outside |
| 13 | Everyone is Totally Insane | Dandy Warhols | Odditorium of Warlords of Mars |
| 14 | Flowers on the Wall | The Statler Brothers | |
| 15 | Psycho Killer | Talking Heads | |
| 16 | Young and Insane | The Magnetic Fields | The House of Tomorrow |
| 17 | We’re All Mad Here | Tom Waits | Alice |
| 18 | Still Crazy After All These Years | Paul Simon | Negotiations and Love Songs 1971-1986 |
18 songs, 56 minutes, two songs called “Brain Damage”, two songs called “Crazy”, and we’ve got everything from Patsy Cline to Tom Waits to Eminem. It’s a fittingly eccentric list. For all of its insanity, it is largely a mellow playlist. “The Merry Go Round Broke Down” is best known as the theme from the old “Looney Tunes” cartoons. I’ve opted for an early version here from 1937.
I went with a couple of covers as well, to keep things interesting; Chris Isaak does a great job with Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and, although perhaps overexposed due to Donnie Darko and commercials for Gears of War, Gary Jules’ version of the Tears for Fears song is a lot creepier.
Elliott Smith’s “Memory Lane” is about the time friends of his– using the term dubiously and loosely– had him committed to an asylum. He wasn’t incredibly happy about it.
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1. Emily Minty | December 30th, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Great list! This is my favorite Brain Damage, written by Ben Lee, sung by Juliana Hatfield and Evan Dando:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jvTCF3N6ao
2. tk. | January 6th, 2012 at 8:18 am
Nice, I dig it!
Randomly: Ben Lee seemed to have fallen off the radar (or mine, anyway) for a few years but that’s like the third reference to the man that I’ve seen in 2012. It must be his year.
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