1.Chuck Berry – Havana Moon
Before I put together this compilation, I'd never listened to this song before, which is a shame because it's very good. Very minimalist, centered around a simple but charming motif and Berry's stripped down vocals. It tells a poignant story and fades out as abruptly as it started, leaving you with that warm and fuzzy feeling that all the rest of the music on this playlist will try to stamp out.
2.Dead Kennedys – Moon Over Marin
Only a band as versatile as the Dead Kennedys could write a punk song so simultaneously beautiful and dark. The lyrics deal with our fascist soldier protagonist in a nondescript dystopian future world enjoying his segment of the beach, despite oil spills and dead fish littering the sand. It's a powerful political statement delivered as unobtrusively as possible, and for those not interested in hearing it is backed by one of the most sentimental melodies ever written by a “hardcore” band.
3.Bauhaus – Honeymoon Croon
Bauhaus are bad-ass.
4.Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
I cannot listen to this song without flashing back to the scene of Donnie waking up dazed and confused, unaware of his location, and then dreamily riding his bike down the hill. Those images perfectly mirror the dreamy, intoxicated infatuation presented in “The Killing Moon.” The Bunnymen's spiraling take on new wave is half jangle, half pop, pure pop rock bliss.
5.Big Star – Blue Moon
Alex Chilton is a genius. This song should send shivers up your spine (if it doesn't, you might be spineless).
6.Nick Drake – Pink Moon
What does this song have in common with the last track? No, it's not the similarity in title, they're both two minutes and six seconds long. Weird, huh? That, and they're both two of the most beautiful folk songs ever written. There's not much to say about Nick Drake that hasn't been said before, all it takes to understand is to listen.
7.Bob Dylan – Moonshiner
This is one of those good Bob Dylan songs.
8.The Doors – Moonlight Drive
Good upbeat Doors song off Strange Days.
9.Can – Moonshake
This song sees Can locking into a great jazzy groove, bringing together a lot of disparaging elements (some sort of strange combination of Latin and musique concrete) and marrying them to some surprisingly conventional vocals that work like a charm.
10.Chrome – Blood on the Moon
Driven by a slow, hypnotic drumbeat and an oscillating undercurrent of feedback, this song comes off as a fusion of Neu and Black Sabbath. Not one of the most memorable songs, but a great mood piece nonetheless.
11.Brian Eno / David Byrne – Moonlight in Glory
From My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Brian Eno and David Byrne's amazing sample-based electronica album. This song in particular highlights the contrast between Byrne's driving, ethnic rhythms and Eno's oblique sound collages, and the incredible balance these artists managed to achieve.
12.My Bloody Valentine – Moon Song
A particularly well executed meandering tune featuring predominantly Kevin Shields' strained vocals. Absolutely hypnotic and dreamy, just what you'd expect from MBV.
13.His Name is Alive – Blue Moon
Turns Big Star's folk classic into a stunning dream pop masterpiece.
14.Cat Power – Moonshiner
Takes that good Bob Dylan song and turns it into a good Cat Power song.
15.Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – Concentration Moon
This song is ridiculous. And absurd. And brilliant. And stunning social satire, and- it's Frank Zappa, dude, what more do you really need? Also, any song that describes America as a “scab of a nation driven insane” must be worth at least one listen.
16.Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Moonlight in Vermont
Probably the most accessible song on Trout Mask Replica, which might be a bit startling if this is your first exposure to Captain Beefheart. That having been said, it's still a rape of most standards of rock n' roll with each instrument playing in its own time signature and Beefheart ranting absurd lyrics off like a determined madman. Especially unsettling is the effect of his vocals being disjointed from the rest of the music, supposedly caused by his singing along to the studio echos rather than wearing headphones, but more than likely intentional.
17.Television – Marquee Moon
This track is crystalline. It makes my head spin.
18.Explosions in the Sky – The Moon is Down
This is the song that hundreds of bands are trying desperately at this very instant to emulate.
19.The Kronos Quartet – Half Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight
Think if John Cale started a string quartet. Keeps your socks glued to your balls, that's for sure.
20.Tod Dockstader – Two Moons of Quartermass, First Moon
This is the most cold, alienating music imaginable, stripping the moon of any sentimental value and describing it instead as a distant revolving sphere.
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