From the album "Bartok: Sonato for Solo Violin/44 Duos for Two Violins" with
violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer.
The tape starts out on a classical note, but hopefully it isn't too boring.
From the album "Bright Red". I apologize in advance to the easily-offended for the owl's non-to-subtle song from the third verse.
From the Kronos Quartet album "Pieces of Africa".
From the album "The Juliet Letters".
From the album "Sunny border blue".
From the album "Sky Motel"
I love the phrase "stung like a cutthroat troat"
From the album "in a doghouse".
It blows me away that this song was put together by people under 18 years old.
From the album "Last Splash".
From the album "Pure".
From the album "Dummy".
From the album "Stars".
Watch out for the pillow verse. It sort of snuck up on me the first time I heard the song.
From the Kronos Quartet album "Early Music"
From the album "Works by George Crumb".
I wasn't planning on including this on the tape, but after I finished taping
I found I had extra two minutes or so on the tape, so I scrounged around a little
and found this.
A second piece from the Drucker/Setzer album listed on Side A.
From the album "Dog in the Sand".
This is the first song I've ever heard about an engineering disaster, and it really
struck a cord with me. Getting washed away in a 25 foot tall wave must have been a
terribile way to die.
From the album "Relish".
From the album "At the Deer Head Inn".
This is the longest track on the tape, and I'm afraid the first half of it will
be pretty boring if you're not a jazz fan. But stick with it, and the second
half should blow you away.
From the album "Weird Nightmare".
This is the only good track on the album. The rest is a pretty blatant
explotation of the death of Charles Mingus. Tiper Gore would probably like
it if the youngsters skipped over this track.
From the album "Dispepsi".
So I threw in a little anti-commercial. It's for your own good.
From the album "Uncle Meat".
"What can you do that's fantastic ?"
From the album "Klezmer Festival 1998"
Some trippy klezmer to round out the tape. The text is from Kafka's diary.
"What meaning do yesterday's conclusions have today ?"
Another track from the "Klezmer Festival 1998" album
This is another short song I tried to fit on the tape when I found an extra two minutes.
Unfortunately this piece doesn't fit as well on the tape as the Crumb piece. Actually,
this piece is much, much better on Pharoah's Daughter's self-titled album. Unfortunately
it's also twice as long.