So I recently wrote an article on the 20th anniversary of the Sandman for Comic Foundry magazine. It will be in the next issue, so pick it up.
I made an excellent playlist to listen to while I was re-reading and staring at interview transcripts and writing, and though I can’t share my actual music with you, I thought I’d share my list, anyway. Isn’t there an option on iTunes somewhere that you can make a playlist and people can download things if they want them? Or is that just wishful thinking on my part?
Anyway, list below the fold. Because it’s really long. But I put in some pictures, too.
Bauhaus, “St. Vitus Dance”
Concrete Blonde, “Sky is a Poisonous Garden”
Feist, “My Moon My Man”
The Cure, “If Only Tonight We Could Sleep”
Prince, “When Doves Cry”
The White Stripes, “Blue Orchid”
David Bowie, “Changes”
Tori Amos, “She’s Your Cocaine”
U2, “Desire”
Johnny Cash, “Personal Jesus” (Depeche Mode cover)
Tori Amos, “Caught a Lite Sneeze”
Bruce Springsteen, “Something in the Night”
Depeche Mode, “Waiting for the Night”
David Bowie, “Panic In Detroit”
Concrete Blonde, “Caroline”
Joan Jett, “Rebel Rebel” (David Bowie cover)
Tori Amos, “In the Springtime of His Voodoo”
Fiona Apple, “Sleep to Dream”
Lucero “Nights Like These”
Tom Waits, “Tom Traubert’s Blues”
The Cure, “Fascination Street”
Nick Cave, “(Are You) The One I’ve Been Waiting For”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Ribbons”
PJ Harvey, “Shame”
T.Rex, “Children of the Revolution”
Rasputina, “Transylvanian Concubine”
Nick Cave, “There She Goes, My Beautiful World”
Lou Reed, “Satellite of Love.”
PJ Harvey, “Meet Ze Monsta”
Patti Smith, “Wicked Messenger”
Leonard Cohen, “Waiting for the Miracle”
Tori Amos, “A Sorta Fairytale”
The Arcade Fire, “Rebellion (Lies)”
David Bowie (Live) “Under Pressure”
Siouxsie & The Banshees, “Hong Kong Garden”
Tifah/The Autumn Film, “Safe & Sound”
Rufus Wainwright, “Rebel Prince”
T. Rex, “Bang a Gong (Get It On)”
Scarlett Johansson, “Falling Down”
Patti Smith, “Peaceable Kingdom”
David Bowie “Space Oddity”
Tom Waits, “Drunk on the Moon”
Chris Randall, “It’s All The Same in the Nighttime”
David Bowie, “Moonage Daydream”
The Creatures, “Prettiest Thing”
Tori Amos, “Cloud on my Tongue”
David Bowie, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide”
The Velvet Underground, “Venus in Furs”
Bush, “In A Lonely Place” (Joy Division cover)
Patsy Cline, “Sweet Dreams (Of You)”
Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Nick Cave, “Tupelo”
John Doe, “Hotel Ghost”
The Cure, “Just Like Heaven”
David Bowie (live) “Scary Monsters”
Lou Reed, “Coney Island Baby”
Tom Waits, “Wrong Side of the Road”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Date with the Night”
Cory Branan, “American Dream”
Kate Bush, “Running Up That Hill”
David Bowie, “Life on Mars”
T. Rex, “Telegram Sam”
Tori Amos, “Take to the Sky”
Garbage, “Supervixen”
Patti Smith, “Because the Night”
Siouxsie & the Banshees, “Tearing Apart”
Joy Division, “Day of the Lords”
Love & Rockets, “Mirror People ‘88”
Lou Reed, “Walk on the Wild Side”
Tori Amos, “Liquid Diamonds”
Charlotte Gainsbourg, “Night-time Transmission”
TV On The Radio, “Dreams”
Tom Waits, “Blue Valentines”
Tori Amos, “Sweet the Sting”
Depeche Mode, “Rush”
Neko Case, “Dreaming Man”
Tori Amos, “Glory of the 80s”
Joan Jett, “I Wanna Be Your Dog” (Iggy Pop cover)
Hole, “Reasons to be Beautiful”
Lou Reed, “Sweet Jane”
Sinead O’Connor, “Mandinka”
The Misfits, “Horror Hotel”
The Velvet Underground, “New Age”
New York Dolls, “Looking for a Kiss”
Hole, “Doll Parts”
T. Rex, “Jeepster”
Tori Amos “Blood Roses”
Keren Ann, “Where No Endings End”
The Velvet Underground, “Femme Fatale”
Johnny Cash, “I’m on Fire” (Bruce Springsteen cover)
Bjork, “Hunter”
U2, “One”
Tori Amos, “Honey”
Depeche Mode, “Dream On”
Portishead, “Glory Box”
Dusty Springfield, “Son of a Preacher Man”
Bright Eyes, “We Are Nowhere and it’s Now”
Nick Cave, “Loverman”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Mystery Girl”
Bruce Springsteen, “Devils & Dust”
PJ Harvey, “The Desperate Kingdom of Love”
Nick Cave, “Death Is Not The End”
Cyndi Lauper, “Change of Heart”
Bauhaus, “The Passenger,” (Iggy Pop cover)
Lucero, “Dream Come True”
Tom Waits, “Calliope”
Bauhaus, “Who Killed Mr. Moonlight?”
Nick Cave, “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”
Interpol, “Slow Hands”
‘Til Tuesday, “Voices Carry”
David Bowie, “Aladdin Sane”
The Arcade Fire, “Black Mirror”
Jewel, “Foolish Games”
Iggy Pop, “Sister Midnight”
Pixies, “Is She Weird”
Marianne Faithfull, “Gloomy Sunday”
The Cure, “Plainsong”
Nick Cave, “Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry”
Blondie, “Dreaming”
Guns ‘n’ Roses, “Don’t Cry”
Patti Smith, “Whirl Away”
Johnny Cash, ”Oh, What a Dream”
Bauhaus, “The Passion of Lovers”
Lucero, “It Gets the Worst at Night”
Tori Amos, “Flying Dutchman”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Modern Romance”
Bjork, “Hyper-ballad”
Joy Division, “Shadowplay”
David Bowie, “Sweet Thing”
X, “Real Child of Hell”
Fiona Apple, “Not About Love”
Tom Waits, “Alice”
X, “Under the Big Black Sun”
The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil”
Fiona Apple, “Love Ridden”
X, “True Love”
Lucero, “She Wakes When She Dreams”
Tom Waits, “Hang Down Your Head”
16 Horsepower, “Blessed Persistence”
Billie Holliday, “Summertime”
The Rolling Stones, “Gimme Shelter”
The Velvet Underground, “Beginning to See the Light”
Patti Smith, “Gloria”
The Horrors, “Horror’s Theme”
Peter Murphy, “Cuts You Up”
Matt Skiba, “Demons Away”
Tori Amos, “Father Lucifer”
The Like, “Bridge to Nowhere”
Johnny Thunders, “Personality Crisis”
David Bowie, “The Heart’s Filthy Lesson”
The Creatures, “Don’t Go To Sleep Without Me”
Tom Waits, “Innocent When You Dream”
Pearl Jam, “Black”
Nick Cave, “The Ship Song”
The Geraldine Fibbers, “A Song About Walls”
Pixies, “Wave of Mutilation”
Lydia Lunch, “Smoke in the Shadows”
The Stooges, “T.V. Eye”
Pixies, “No. 13 Baby”
Joy Division, “Komakino”
David Bowie, “The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as Beauty)”
Tori Amos, “Teenage Hustling”
Nick Cave, “The Lyre of Orpheus”
Tori Amos, “Beauty of Speed”
Pixies, “Monkey Gone to Heaven”
Joy Division, “Dead Souls”
Queen, “Under Pressure”
T. Rex “20th Century Boy”
Johnny Cash, “Bird on a Wire” (Leonard Cohen cover)
Tori Amos, “Tear in Your Hand”
(images from: Brief Lives art by Jill Thompson, Death by Chris Bachalo, Brief Lives art by Jill Thompson, Lucifer by Ryan Kelly, The Endless, Delirium by Joelle Jones, Desire also by Joelle Jones, and Death and Dream by Ryan Kelly)
im seeing some re-occurring artist obsessions here on this list.
Yeah but they’re good re-occuring artists! Lots of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets and Nick Cave - great stuff. I love the Sandman comics, and this has just put me in the mood to sit down and read them all again - thanks! x
That’s a great playlist for any number of occasions.
One of these days I am going have to write a post about my admiration for those into comics. I am not into comics myself, I am not a self-proclaimed ‘geek’ when it comes to comics, I was always a geek growing up with other things, I was a different kind of geek growing up, I was a music geek and I liked reading Joseph Mitchell stories.
Anyway, though I don’t love comics themselves, I love comic culture. I just read “The Ten Cent Plague.” Everyone I have ever met who is into comics has been unendingly interesting as a person. I love the history. I love the art. I love the use of comics as political speech. I love all of that and am fascinated by it. I just missed my opportunity to connect with them, and now it’s probably too late. The same thing happened with Martinis, but that’s for another post.
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David Bowie has some really eccentric personality but i like his style of music. he is a good actor too..;*