Music: The Musicening

I am not sure why I was asked to contribute to this, as I am mentally handicapped at music. I have been listening non-stop to Rob Zombie's Dragula for the past 8 years and have no plan to stop.

I have, however, just started sorting through all my music (for working with an iPod, I recommend Media Monkey) and have been compiling down the most listenable music to a single playlist. I will contribute from this list the songs best suited to this project.

My first recommendation is that in the playlist, you have Dragula by Rob Zombie, copied 100 times. As you drift through the forgotten backwoods of Europe (a.k.a. Eastern Europe, Europe's "Florida Panhandle", as it were) you constantly rock out to this song, sporting the death metal salute on both hands, quietly whispering the lyrics with complete and total enthusiasm. On the train, if anyone ever stares at you, meet their gaze, and continue rocking out to the song, never letting up, only growing in intensity.

If you do not like this first recommendation, I guess here are some songs to consider. I was independently working on this list before I got the invite here, so if any of these duplicate someone else's picks, consider them to be a second to their motion:

1) Second to their Motion - Peter Gabriel I just this moment made up this song
2) Anger Management - Lovage Here it is live at The House of Blues (the studio mix is much better)
3) Mysterons - Portishead
4) Woke up this Morning - Alabama 3 Some people may think the Sopranos ruined this song. I do not, since I never had HBO. You want the full, original version, not just the Sopranos opening mix.
5) Dress Sexy at My Funeral - Smog Micah this was on a mix you gave me. I am giving it back to you
6) Solitary Man - Johnny Cash This song will make you feel like a righteous drifter even though you are really scum
7) We Both go Down Together - The Decembrists
8) The Southside of the World - Will Oldham I would not be very sanguine either if I were named after Old Ham
9) Moon Dance - Van Morrison
10) Gonna Shoot You Right Down - Muddy Waters Micah I will never forgive you for killing Muddy Waters, never
10) Desperado Theme - Los Lobos I am unsure if this is the actual name
11) When it Hits my Blood - John Vanderslice I got hit by a car crossing the road last week, but luckily it only hit my blood
12) Downtown Train - Tom Waits

(now stuff I actually listen to)

13) Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) [REMIX] - Class of '99
14) Rock is Dead - Marilyn Manson
15) Map Of The Problematique - Muse
16) The Beginning is the End is the Beginning - Smashing Pumpkins Here it is on youtube, make sure to see the version in the Watchmen trailer.
17) Red Right Hand - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
18) Heresy - Nine Inch Nails
19) Dragula - Rob Zombie (Matrix Soundtrack mix)
20) Memories Can't Wait - Talking Heads

Bonus: Man with the Hex - The Atomic Fireballs
Bonus x2: Bails of Cocaine - Reverend Horton Heat

End Transmission
-Allen