Planet of the Wolves

Planet of the Wolves

1. Mastodon, "The Wolf is Loose"
2. Guitar Wolf, "Planet of the Wolves"
3. Ozzy Osbourne, "Bark at the Moon"
4. X, "Hungry Wolf"
5. The Cramps, "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"
6. High on Fire, "Speedwolf"
7. Motörhead featuring Michael Palin, "The Wolf"
8. Misery Index, "Fed to the Wolves"
9. Metallica, "Of Wolf and Man"
10. Converge, "Lonewolves"
11. The Dillinger Escape Plan, "Sunshine the Werewolf"
12. Hole, "Hungry Like the Wolf"
13. Ramones, "Howling At The Moon (Sha-La-La)"
14. Local H, "Wolf Like Me"
15. Amon Amarth, "Father of the Wolf"
16. Rancid, "The Wolf"
17. The Hu Band, "Wolf Totem"
18. Megadeth, "She-Wolf"
19.  Queens of the Stone Age, "Someone's in the Wolf"
20. Danzig, "Killer Wolf"

For KIP.

Müsic for Airpörts

Müsic for Airpörts

1. Pearl Jam, "Given to Fly"
2. Iron Maiden, "Aces High"
3. Ozzy Osbourne, "Flying High Again"
4. Blackalicious, "First in Flight"
5. Liz Phair, "Stratford-On-Guy"
6. Howlin' Wolf, "Mr. Airplane Man"
7. Eels, "Blinking Lights (For Me)"
8. Neutral Milk Hotel, "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
9. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, "Learning to Fly"
10. The Rolling Stones, "Connection"
11. Motörhead, "Bomber"
12. The Cramps, "Mystery Plane"
13. Beastie Boys & Biz Markie, "Bennie and the Jets"
14. Marvin Gaye, "Flying High (In the Friendly Sky)"
15. Heatmiser, "Low-Flying Jets"
16. Björk, "Aeroplane"
17. Joni Mitchell, "This Flight Tonight"
18. Neil Young, "Expecting to Fly"
19. Led Zeppelin, "Night Flight"
20. Queensrÿche, "Jet City Woman"
21. Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Aeroplane"
22. Hüsker Dü, "Private Plane"

For Olena, somewhere between New York and Iceland.

California Punk

Punk rock songs about California deserve their own box set. None of these are making it to my final mix CD, but that doesn't mean that they don't deserve your ears. More outtakes:

Dead Kennedys, "California Über Alles" and "Moon over Marin"

The two most accidentally melodic DK tracks are dedicated to the state's Jerry Brown Part I-era conditions. Jello Biafra's lyrics sound dated, even escapist in a post-Dick Cheney America, but the tunes rescue them.





Fear, "I Love Livin' in the City"

Mr. Boddy from Clue croons of his favorite city and all the debauchery that it encompasses. Eat your heart out, Randy Newman.



The Stooges, "L.A. Blues"

Call it noise-rock, if noise-rock ever got this good. "L.A. Blues" ruined music for everyone (except for maybe Thurston Moore and G.G. Allin.)



Sleater-Kinney, "Hollywood Ending"

Proof that Sleater-Kinney's deep cuts run deep. Outside of the Beastie Boys, no alt-rock vocalists played off each other as well as Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein.



Frank Black, "Los Angeles"

"I want to live in Los Angeles, not the one in Los Angeles." Of course not, Frank.



Rancid, "Journey to the End of the East Bay"

I spent a week laboring over this bassline, and even tried playing with three fingers, like Matt Freeman. Somehow, it never sounded quite like this.



The Misfits, "Hollywood Babylon"

Laugh at Glenn Danzig all you want. No one, not even the Cramps, ever captured the macabre psychobilly sound quite like he did with the Misfits.



Local H, "California Songs"

It kills me to not include this. I've seen Local H play this for eight years, and every year there's a new terrible hit about California for Scott Lucas to dedicate the song to. When Local H write about hating California as much as they hate the music it inspires, it'll go on a mix for my sister.