A HISTORY OF MUSIC TELEVISION – VOLUME ONE – 1950s

Buddy Holly – Everyday
Richie Valens – Come On Let’s Go
The Big Bopper – Chantilly Lace
News Report – Buddy Holly Plane Crash
Everly Brothers – Bye Bye Love
Budweiser TV Commercial
Camels TV Commercial
Newsreel – The Fifth Wheel
Chuck Berry – Maybelline
Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel
The Wild One Trailer
Wanted Criminal Alert
Howdy Doody Time
Rocky Fellers – Little Darling
Dion & the Belmonts – Teenager In Love
The Stroll – February 1958
Boys Beware – Homosexual Alert
Dion – The Wanderer
Jackie Wilson – Lonely Teardrops
Marilyn Monroe Coke Commercial
Some Like It Hot Trailer/ I Wanna Be Just Like You
Sweater Girls – 1952
Le Notti Di Cabria Trailer
Sam Cooke – You Send Me
Johnny Mathis – Someone
R.C.M.P. TV Promo
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Commercial
Duck and Cover Commercial
Platters – Smoke Get In Your Eyes
The Five Satins – In the Still of the Night
News Magazine of the Scene – Atomic Energy
Cab Calloway – Minnie Moocher
Charlie Parker feat. Dizzy Gillespie – Hot House
Louis Armstrong – Mack the Knife (Live London, 1956)
Sarah Vaughan – These Things I Offer You
Billie Holiday Interview – Sweden 1954
Billie Holiday – I Only Have Eyes For You
Frank Sinatra – I Get a Kick Out of You
Jack Kerouac on the Steve Allen Show

A HISTORY OF MUSIC TELEVISION – VOLUME TWO – 1960s

The Beatles – First Appearance on Ed Sullivan
The Kinks – You Really Got Me
Sexist Commercial Break
The Rolling Stones – Get Off of My Cloud (Live 1967)
The Hollies – Bus Stop
Movie Trailer – Teenage Gang Debs
Movie Trailer – Blow Up
BBC News Insert – The Mod Generation
The Who – I Can’t Explain
The Ronettes – Be My Baby
Question Mark and the Mysterions – 96 Tears
Booker T and the MGs – Green Onions
News Bulletin – Announcement of JFK Assassination
The Four Tops – Reach Out (I’ll Be There)
The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
CBS News Break – Reporting Murder of Sharon Tate
Procol Harem – Whiter Shade of Pale
Radio Report w Photographs – Woodstock Festival
Canned Heat – Goin’ Up To Country w Woodstock Footage
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit – Live at Woodstock
Janis Joplin – Work Me, Lord – Live at Woodstock
Medley of Vietnam Footage
James Brown – It’s a Man’s World
Sam and Dave – When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
Dave Brubeck – Take Five – Live on Jazz Casual
Woody Allen – CBC News Feature
News Report – Martin Luther King Assassination
News Report – Stanley Kubrick at Premiere of 2001
News Footage – Neil Armstrong Lands on the Moon
The Beatles – Marlboro Commercial
The Beatles – Don’t Let Me Down – Live Rooftop Performance

A HISTORY OF MUSIC TELEVISION – VOLUME THREE – 1970s

K-Tel Record Selector Commercial
Soul Train Line
Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady (Live on Soul Train)
James Brown – The Payback (Live in Zaire)
Foxy Brown Trailer
Funkadelic – Dr. Funkenstien Trailer
Giorgio Moroder TV Promo
Donna Summer – I Feel Love (Live)
Cerrone – Je Suis Music
Saturday Night Fever Trailer
Southwest Airlines Commercial
David Bowie Interview
Iggy Pop & The Stooges – The Passenger
The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Pop
The Clash – Armageddon Time (Live)
Sex Pistols – Anarchy In the UK
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
KISS Album Commercial
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Interview – New York 1970
Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love (Live at Royal Albert Hall)
The Rolling Stones – Hip Shake
Tab TV Commercial
Kraftwerk – The Hall of Mirrors
Grace Jones – Libertango
Woody Allen Banana’s Trailer
Dodge Charger Commercial
Richard Nixon Resignation
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
Al Green – People Get Ready (Live)
Billy Joel – Just The Way You Are
ABBA – The Winner Takes It All

A HISTORY OF MUSIC TELEVISION – VOLUME FOUR – 1980s

MTV Launch – August 1, 1981 12:01am
David Lee Roth – Just a Gigolo
Talking Heads – And She Was
Weird Science Trailer
The Waitresses – I Know What Boys Like
The Cure – Close to Me
Fast Times at Ridgemont High Trailer
The Smiths – This Charming Man
Prince – Sign of the Times
The Smiths – This Charming Man
Twisted Sister – I Wanna Rock
Wendy’s Where’s the Beef Commercial
Maxell Cassettes Commercial
Pet Shop Boys – What Have I Done To Deserve This
Godley and Creme – Cry
Downtown 80 Trailer
20/20 Report – Introducing: Rap Music
Public Enemy – Night of the Living Baseheads
NWA – Straight Outta Compton
LL Cool J on Hip Hop Slang
Alfonso Riberio – Breakin’ and Poppin Commercial
Michael Jackson – Pepsi Generation Commercial
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean (Live Motown 25th Anniversary)
Prince Talks About Michael Jackson
Prince – Sign of the Times
Ronald Regan “The Bear” Commercial
Paul Hardcastle – 19
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F-11
The Terminator Trailer
CBS Premiere Week Promo, Magnum PI
The Cosby Show – Stevie Wonder Guest Appearance
Lionel Richie – Hello

A HISTORY OF MUSIC TELEVISION – VOLUME FIVE – 1990s

Pulp – This Is Hardcore
Siouxsie & the Banshees – Kiss Them For Me
Blur – Parklife
Mr. Oizo – Flat Beat
Daft Punk – Around the World
News Report – Chicago Rave Scene
Massive Attack – Protection
Nightmares on Wax – Les Nuits
DJ Shadow – Midnight in a Perfect World
DJ Roc Raida – DMC Championship
Juice – Movie Trailer
Digable Planets – 9th Wonder (Blackitolism)
In Living Colour – Main Titles
Twin Peaks – Georgia Coffee Commercial
Julee Cruise – Falling (Twin Peaks Video)
Air – All I Need
Bjork – It’s Oh So Quiet
Kids – Movie Trailer
Spiritualized – Let It Flow
UNKLE feat. Thom Yorke – Rabbit In Your Headlights
News Report – Kurt Cobain Dies
Sonic Youth – Teenage Riot
The Stone Roses – Spike Island 1990
The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
The Verve – On Your Own
The Sundays – Here’s Where the Story Ends

A HISTORY OF MUSIC TELEVISION – VOLUME SIX – 2000s

Fischerspooner – Sweetness
Playgroup – Number One
Basement Jaxx – Romeo
Avalanches – Since I Left You
Armando Iannucci – Ibiza Uncovered
The Maury Povich Show – Not My Baby
Snoop Dogg – Sensual Seduction
Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler
Miss Teen USA – Miss South Carolina
Frankie Valin – Beggin (Pilooski Re-Edit)
Feist – I Feel It All
Kylie Minogue – Come Into My World
Flight of the Conchords – Flight of the Conchords
M83 – Kim and Jesse
Bat For Lashes – What’s a Girl to Do
Fever Ray – If I Had a Heart
Battles – Atlas
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – Maps
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Doubt/ Hope (Live)
Sigur Ros – Untitled
Gary Jules – Mad World
Tim and Eric – The Universe Pt. 1
Carl Sagan feat. Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science) – A Glorious Dawn
Tim and Eric – The Universe Pt. 2
Air – Surfing on a Rocket
R Kelly – Trapped in the Closet
Jermaine Jackson Announces Michael Jackson’s Death
Michael Jackson – Rock My World

With my musical tastes in flux, it seems to have taken me the better part of a year to assemble a mix of new dance music, which makes this mix something of a year-end selection of my favorite tracks; aimed just as much as those who dance as is towards those who only dream about it.

Daft Punk, TRS-80 & Ariel Pink – Sky Sailor (Float Away)
Nicholas Jaar – Don’t Break My Love
M83 – Midnight City (Trentemoller Remix)
Benoit & Sergio – Around The World
Matthew Dear – Headcage
Aquarius Heaven – Can’t By Love
Lonely C & Baby Prince – I Remember Those Days
Murk Intruder – Amame feat. Jei (Long Ass Mix)
Mongolian Jetset – Moon Jocks & Prog Rocks (Montezuma Remix)
Maceo Plex – Ain’t That Love
DJ T feat. James Teej – Sense (Tale of Us Remix)
Hamid & Arnaud LeTexier – The Price of Beans
Coma – Fiction
The Field – Is This Power
Luomo – Medley Through
Andrea Martin feat. Switch – I Still Love You
GusGus – Over (Life and Death)
Virgo Four – It’s a Crime (Caribou Mix)
Terranova feat Khan – Boogie For the Dollar
The Brandt Brauer Frick – Pretend
Walls – Into Our Midst
Co-Op – For Real Good
No Ceremony – Hurtlove
Active Child feat. How To Dress Well
Pallers – Another Heaven
The Weeknd – Gone
Kollektiv Turmstrasse – Goldmarie
Elite Gymnastic – Here In in Heaven (How to Dress Well)
James Blake & Bon Iver – Fall Creek Boys Choir
Altered Zones – Altered Zones (Excerpt)

Electric Adolescence – For Those Who Forgot How They Used To Love Dancing
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Click Here to download the mix with individual files for each track.

While researching a forthcoming audio dissertation of music from the eighties, I came across a handful of new wave, synth pop, and krautrock rarities that warranted a renewed exposure, with content that in places is so forward thinking that it could be released next year and would still sound ahead of its time.

Age of Mirrors – The Day the Earth Stands Still
A Popular History of – Guernica
Robert Gorl – Mit Dir (Extended)
Play – You Don’t Look the Same (De-Mix)
Platinum Blonde – All Fall Down
Resistance – Die Out
Royal Family and They – Art On 455
Thick Pigeon – Pope
Logic System – Automatic Collect Automatic
23 Skidoo – Version (In the Palace)
Deekay Jones – New York, New York
Boulevard Circulaire – Boulevard Circulaire
Philipe Laurent – Systeme Clair
Personal Effects – This Is It
Duet Emmo – First Person
The Passage – Armour
Silent Types – Surveillance By Car
Electric Circus – Kamarac
Yachtclub Buchteln – Age Geige
Shock Headed Peters – The Kissing of Gods
Mikael Diser – Min Vaen Porlinhunden Vaen
A.T.R.O.X. – New York Race
Etienne Daho – Sunday Morning
Yello – Thrill Wave
Duetsher Wald – Deutshe Wertarbeit

Electric Adolescence – Secrets They Tried To Keep From You 60 mins

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For those who find themselves pining for more, follow this link to hear my underappreciated mix of underappreciated music from the eighties.

While we mostly crave some force of personality from our music, from the soul song that councils you through heartbreak the way bartenders only do in the movies, to the dance song that gets the party started like the reckless friend who makes the night magical, but is best avoided during the day, sometimes the requirement of sound is simply to fill in blank spaces, and to cancel out the din of this unnatural world.

Machinefabriek – Maris
Velvet Cacoon – A St. Michaels Midnight Under the Saltwater Moon
Brian Eno – Imagine New Times
Pjusk – Skumring
Olan Mill – Spare Smoke Template
Nest – Koretz’s Meteor
Spectra Ciera – A New Name
Mark Harris – A Place of Safety, All Things Will Change
Supersilent – 8.4
Alva Noto – Villa Aurora
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno –Wind on Wind
Electric Adolescene – A New Life
Emanuele Errante – Made To Give
Olan Mill – Spare Smoke Template
Future Sound of London – Ill Flower
Boards of Canada – Wildlife Analysis
The KLF – 3am Somewhere Out of Beaumont
Jane Weaver, Demdike Stare – Europium Alluminate
Trent Reznor & Atticus Rose – Hand Covers Bruise
Imps (Minilogue & Decoy) – Jonty’s Way
DJ Sprinkles – Grand Central Pt. 2
D_rradio – Rain On the Rocks
How To Dress Well – Suicide Dream (Solar Bears Remix)
Empyrean – Empty Space
Greg Haines – Industry v. Inferiority
Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer – Recurrence
Date Palms – Psalm 7
Bill Wells, Annie Whitehead – Brown Recluse
Herbie Hancock –The Kiss
Robin and Harold Budd – A Silhouette Approaches
Brian Eno – Bottomliners

Electric Adolescence – For Those Who Forgot How They Used to Love Silence
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Despite its light and accessible tone, the formative years of TV’s Soul Train was a subtle revolution by and for a people whose scars from the racially charged sixties were starting to heal. With a mandate to focus on black exceptionalism, the show’s host and creator Don Cornelius not only presented the best in music, fashion, and dance, but unlike the Motown executives from the previous decade, he refused to dilute the content to attract a white audience. This freedom was codifed by the show’s sponsors, Ultra Sheen hair care products, who promoted “the beautiful natural” afro as a means of self-expression.

While Soul Train is widely regarded as a time capsule of seventies culture, having aired from 1971 to 2006, the show also remains the longest running syndicated program in television history, if not the most underrated. The following is a 60 minute mix of what I consider to be the best of the series. And you can bet your last money it’s gonna be a stone gas, honey.

Soul Train Opening Theme
The Pointer Sisters – Yes You Can
Dance Contest: Dennis Coffey – Scorpio
Jean Knight – Mr. Big Stuff
The Staple Singers – Respect Yourself
Spinners – I’ll Be Around
Graham Central Station – Release Yourself
Billy Preston – Nothing For Nothing
Aretha Franklin & Smokey Robinson – Ooh, Baby baby
Gladys Knight & the Pips – Neither One of Us
Al Green – For the Good Times
Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On
Soul Train Basketball: Marvin Gaye v. Don Cornelius. Ref Smokey Robinson
War – Ballero
Soul Train Closing Theme

One in the few things in this hyperbolical world that actually lives up to its hype, the music of Can is like a great Russian novel in that it is intimidating upon first approach, but soon becomes all-consuming. While appropriately credited as one of the founding fathers of Germany’s current electronic sound, the band was also in many ways its antithesis, with an emphasis on improvisation and human interaction, and an apparent disdain for genre and formula.

Comprised of members with drastically different tastes and musical backgrounds, these Krautrock pioneers were never afforded the luxury of a comfort zone. This forced them to reinvent themselves with every new album or band arrangement, which in turn reinvented the sonic palate from which so many future genres would eventually be defined.

VIVA II Special – I Want More – Top Tin Intro
I Want More
Vitamin C
I’m So Green
Krautrock: Rebirth of Germany Documentary (Excerpt)
Dizzy Dizzy
Sing Swan Song
Halleluwah
Don’t Turn The Light On, Leave Me Alone
You Do Right
Come, Sta La Luna
Moonshake
Mother Sky
One More Night
Spoon
All Gates Open
Shikaku Maru Ten
Hunters and Collectors
Fizz (Live)
Man Named Joe (Bootleg)
Father Cannot Yell
…….and more
Rite Time Documentary (Excerpt)
Soup – Improvisation (Edinburgh, Scotland 8-73)

Electric Adolescence – Top Tin – Best of Can 60 mins/ 320 kbps/

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Fans of the genre are encouraged to visit my previous Krautrock post, which features both audio and video mixes highlighting Germany’s avant-garde scene, including documentary footage and live performances by Can.

She likes to dance, but not just anywhere. She reacts to flat screen televisions the way vampires do to sunlight, and to digital music the way trees do to chainsaws. The venue must be at least as old as she is, and equally ashamed of the modern age. From cracks in the architecture to storied stains on dated upholstery, she reads wear and tear like a novel, wishing her own flaws would say so much.

The Royal Family and the Poor – Motherland
Zapp and Roger – Ja Ready to Rock
Grace Jones – Art Groupie
OMD – Talking Loud and Clear (Alternate Version)
Roxy Music – The Main Thing
Zodiac – Pacific
Escape From New York – Save Our Love
Material – Ciquri
Van Halen – Push Comes to Shove
Liquid Liquid – Lock Groove
Wang Chung – Dance Hall Days (Extended Version)
Project Future – Arcade Lover
Malcolm McLaren – El San Juanera
The Eurythmics – Somebody Told Me
He Said – Pump
Red Lion – Living Together
Telex – Drama, Drama
Double – Captain of Her Heart
Art of Noise – Opus For Four
Kate Bush – Watching You Without Me
Talk Talk – The Rainbow
Malcolm McLaren – It Was a New York Phenomenon
The Time – Gigolos Get Lonely Too

Electric Adolescence – Unsung in the Eighties 60 mins/ 320 kbps/

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Poet, songwriter, and activist Gill Scott-Heron died yesterday at the age of 62. Having recently broken retirement with a solo album, his body of work spans four decades, a career bookended by the death of Martin Luther King Jr and the election of the first black president.

While descriptions of his legacy in early media reports of his death seem to be highlighting his activism, too much emphasis on that important factor betrays his prowess as a songwriter and his diversity as an artist; Scott’s political funk and pre-slam poetry was tempered by plaintive ballads wrought with an emotional vulnerability that even the most audacious emcees of today remain too substantially under confident to bare. All are highlighted in this 45 minute retrospective of his work.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gun
Hello Sunday, Hello Road
Johannesburg
Lady Day and John Coltrane
Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
We Almost Lost Detroit
Give Her a Call
Did You Hear What They Said?
Pardon Our Analysis (We Beg Your Pardon)
Song For Bobby Smith
Your Daddy Loves You
The Other Side, Part I
Peace Go With You, Brother

Electric Adolescence – For Gil Scott-Heron 45 mins/ 320 kbps/

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Dating back to the silent era when music was the only audio component to the cinema experience, save the din of depression era gossip, music has remained as important an attribute of film as butter has to popcorn. The following is what I consider to be among the best uses of music in film.

Prince – Let’s Go Crazy – Film Edit (Purple Rain)
The Time – Jungle Love (Purple Rain)
Appolonia 6 – Sex Shooter – Rehearsal (Purple Rain)
Big Fun – Teenage Suicide (Heathers)
Gleaming Spires – Are You Ready For the Sex Girls? (Revenge of the Nerds)
Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me (Breakfast Club)
Echo and the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon (Donnie Darko)
Mick Smiley – Magic (Ghostbusters)
Ice T – Colors (Colors)
Fat Boys – Fat Boys (Krush Groove)
Public Enemy – Fight the Power (Do the Right Thing)
Marvin Gaye – Trouble Man (Trouble Man)
Willie Hutch – Brother’s Gonna Work It Out (The Mack)
Holger Czukay – Fragrance (Morvern Callar)
Unknown Artist – She’s Got To Have It (Deep Throat)
Mello – Take Me Higher (CQ)
The Beatles – You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (Help!)
The Kinks – Nothing In This World (Rushmore)
High Numbers – I’m the Face (Quadrophenia)
Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy (Goodfellas)
Jimi Hendrix Experience – If Six Were Nine (Easy Rider)
Ry Cooder feat. Mick Jagger – Memo From Turner (Performance)
John Hiatt – Spy Boy (Cruisin’)
Tangerine Dream – Guido the Killer Pimp (Risky Business)
Neil Young feat Bill Murray – Ode to Wild Bill (Where the Buffalo Roam)
America, Fuck Yeah – Bummer Mix (Team America)
The Kalikak Family – Top Gun
Berlin – Take My Breath Away (Top Gun)
John Carpenter – He’s Still Alive (Escape From New York)
Daft Punk – The Grid (Tron Legacy)
Mark Mothersbaugh – Ping Island (Royal Tennenbaums)
J Spaceman feat. Diego Luna – Michael’s Opening (Mister Lonely)
Kermit the Frog – Rainbow Connection (The Muppet Movie)
Sigur Ros – Staralfur (Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
Max Richter – On the Nature of Daylight (Stranger than Fiction)
Jon Brion –He Really Needs Me (Punch Drunk Love)
Dooley Wilson – As Time Goes By (Casablanca)
Gene Kelly – Singing in the Rain (Singing in the Rain)
George Gershwin – He Love and She Loves (Manhattan)
The Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love (Saturday Night Fever)
Spandau Ballet – True (Sixteen Candles)
Elton John – Tiny Dancer (Almost Famous)
David Foster – Love Theme From St. Elmo’s Fire (St. Elmo’s Fire)
The Flamingos – I Only Have Eyes For You (American Graffiti)
Cool Change – Streets of the Bronx (A Bronx Tale)
Air – Playground Love (Virgin Suicides)
Sebastian Tellier – Universe (Daft Punk’s Electroma)
Bernard Herman – Main Title (Taxi Driver)
Brad Fiedel – Terminator Love Theme (Terminator)
Vangelis – Deckard and Rachel (Blade Runner)
Giorgio Moroder & David Bowie – The Myth (Cat People)
Giorgio Moroder – Tony’s Theme (Scarface)
Pearl’s Song – Dirty Reissue (Night of the Hunter)
Trent Reznor & Atticus Rose – Hand Covers Bruise (The Social Network)
Jocelyn Pook – Masked Ball (Eyes Wide Shut)
Gyorgy Ligeti – Musica Ricercata II (Eyes Wide Shut)
Gyorgy Ligeti – Lux Aeterna (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Maria Callas – La Mamma Morta (Philadelphia)
Sonic Youth – Slambient Desire (Demonlover)
Neil Young – Why Does Thou Hide Thyself, Clouds (Dead Man)
Gabriel Yared & Underworld – Not Talking (Breaking and Entering)
Ry Cooder feat Harry Dean Stanton – Cancion Mixteca (Paris, Texas)
The Ink Spots – I Understand (Trees Lounge)
Percy Sledge – The Dark End of the Street (This is England)
Bette Midler – The Rose (The Rose)
Pinocchio – When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio)
Vera Lynn – We’ll Meet Again (Dr. Strangelove)

Electric Adolescence – Music In Film – Audio Mix 120 mins/ 320 kbps/

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The Best of Music In Film – The Video Mixes

Chapter One: The Sixties and Seventies

George Gershwin – Rhapsody In Blue (Manhattan)
Machine – There But For the Grace of God (Summer of Sam)
Bee Gees – Night Fever (Saturday Night Fever)
Rolling Stones – Jumping Jack Flash (Mean Streets)
Mick Jagger – Memo From Turner (Performance)
Jimmy Hendrix – Voodoo Child (Withnail & I)
Love – Red Telephone (Taking Woodstock)
The Doors – This Is The End (Apocalypse Now)
Simon & Garfunkel – Sounds of Silence/ April Comes (The Graduate)

Chapter Two – Youth Angst

Zapp and Roger – More Bounce (La Haine)
Curtis Mayfield – Billy Jack (Electroma)
Tears For Fears – Head Over Heals (Donnie Darko)
The Creation – Making Time (Rushmore)
Arnold McCuller – Nowhere To Run (The Warriors)
Sharon Green, Lisa Counts & Debbie D – Us Girls (Beat Street)
LL Cool J – Radio (Krush Groove)
Karla DeVito – We Are Not Alone (The Breakfast Club)
Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes (Say Anything)
Prince – Computer Blue/ Darling Nicki (Purple Rain)
Irene Cara – What a Feeling (Flashdance)

Chapter Three – Love and Happiness

Flight of the Bumblebee – (Clockwork Orange)
Nicolas Cage – Love Me (Wild at Heart)
Sylvia & Mickey – Love is Strange (Badlands)
Guitar Break – (Eagle and Shark)
Instrumental Excerpt – (All the Real Girls)
Ray Charles – Mess Around (Planes Trains and Automobiles)
Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters – Tonight You Belong To Me (The Jerk)
Cole Porter/ Christopher Walken – Let’s Misbehave (Pennies From Heaven)
Shelly Duvall – He Needs Me (Popeye)
Shelly Duvall – He Needs Me (Punch Drunk Love)
Goldie Hawn & Woody Allen – I’m Thru With Love (Everybody Says I Love You)
Marilyn Monroe – Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

Chapter Four – Loneliness and Despair

Kim Jong Il – I’m So Lonely (Team America)
Elliot Smith – Needle In the Hay (Royal Tennenbaums)
Aimee Mann – Wise Up (Magnolia)
The Mamas and the Papas – Dedicated to the One I Love (Morvern Callier)
Roy Orbison – In Dreams (Blue Velvet)
Taral Hicks – Sax, Cantor, Riff (Subway Stories)
Terrance Blanchard & Brandford Marsalis – Mo Better Blues (Mo Better Blues)
Dooley Wilson – As Time Goes By (Casablanca)
Pearl’s Song (Night of the Hunter)
Pete Seeger – Guantanamera (Last Night)
Vera Lynn – We’ll Meet Again (Dr. Strangelove)
Judy Garland – Somewhere Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)

Bonus Material: David Lynch fans might be interested in this earlier post, which features soundtrack selections from his films and from the Twin Peaks series, with a particular appreciation for the compositions of Angelo Badalamenti.

Germany’s avant-guarde scene in the sixties and seventies established a relationship with modern music similar to the one “Citizen Kane” eventually forged with film, in that basically everybody working today is either directly influenced by it or they’re influenced by someone who was. Welcome to this distillation of a scene than has received an abundance of credit, but still seems underrated. Meine damen und herren, dies ist krautrock.

Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution Documentary (Excerpt)
Kraftwerk – Neonlicht (Single Edit)
Eloy – Horizons
Phew – Closed
Can – Moonshake
Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution Documentary (Excerpt)
Moebius, Dueka, Konrad Plank, Neuemeier – Recall
Holgar Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Leibzeit – How Much Are They?
Jaki Leibezeit, Pantom Band – This Is the Rule
Can – Mushroom
Amon Duul II – I Can’t Wait (Electric Adolescence Edit)
Guru Guru – Immer Lustig
Neu! – Leb Wohl
Hubert Bognermayr & Harald Zuschrader – Selig Die Barmherzigen
Phantomband – Nervous Breakdown
Agitation Free – Khan El Khalili
Damenbart – Message to the Hippies (Excerpt)
The Durutti Column – Sketch for Winter
Terre Thaemitz – D.C.D.O.A.
Harmonia – Gollum
Kraftwerk – Europe Endless
Roedelius – Wenn Der Sudwind Weht
Cluster – Marzipan
Ash Ra Tempel – Nightdust
Ash Ra Tempel – Interview
Paul Lansky – 6 Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion
Holger Czukay & U She – Trum
Holger Czukay & U She – Sunday Morning (Live)
Kraftwerk – Endless Endless
Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution Documentary (Excerpt)
La Düsseldorf – Time

Electric Adolescence – Dies Ist Krautrock 90 mins/ 320 kbps/

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Electric Adolescence – Dies ist Krautrock – The Video Mix

Electric Adolescence – Dies Ist Krautrock from Scott Eastlick on Vimeo.

Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany Documentary (Excerpt)
German Oak – The Third Reich
Liliental Adel – Adel
Cluster – Hollywood
Manuel Gottsching – Echo Waves
Kraftwerk – Austrian TV Documentary Part One
Kraftwerk – The Telephone Call
Kraftwerk – Music Non Stop
Kraftwerk – Austrian TV Documentary Part Two
Notwher Trailer feat Guru Guru
Guru Guru – Der LSD Marsch
Can – Documentary (Excerpt)
Can – Mother Sky
Can – I Want More, TV Appearances
Can – Documentary (Excerpt)
Can – Vitamin C (Live)
Faust – 1971 Documentary Footage
Neu! – Documentary (Excerpt)
Neu! – Hero (Live)
Aera – Mechewind
Tangerine Dream – Klaus Schulze
Tangerine Dream – Ossiach Lake
Popol Vuh – Improvisation