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They found the lost scouts hanging head downward from the limbs of a fireblacked paloverde tree. They were skewered through the cords of their heels with sharpened shuttles of green wood and they hung gray and naked above the dead ashes of the coals where they’d been roasted until their heads had charred and the brains bubbled in the skulls and steam sang from their noseholes. Their tongues were drawn out and held with sharpened sticks thrust through them and they had been docked of their ears and their torsos were sliced open with flints until the entrails hung down on their chests. Some of the men pushed forward with their knives and cut the bodies down and they left them there in the ashes.

/Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian/

(intro: Ennio Morricone – Death Rides The Horse)
01 Bob Mould – Lost Zoloft
02 Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Ultraviolence Senseless Sex And Gratuitours Violence
03 Lou Reed – Video Violence
04 Steve Earle – Devil’s Right Hand
05 Pearl Jam – Jeremy
06 The Beatles – Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
07 Dixie Chicks – Goodbye Earl
08 The Velvet Underground – The Gift
09 Violent Femmes – Country Death Song
10 Nirvana – Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
11 Sonic Youth – Tom Violence
12 Siouxsie & The Banshees – Candyman
13 Pixies – Bone Machine
14 Calexico – Trigger
(intermezzo: U2 – Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk/Korova 1)
15 Chuck Prophet – Sonny Liston’s Blues
16 The Clean – Too Much Violence
17 Pearl Jam – Why Go
18 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – John Finn’s Wife
19 Billy Bragg – Levi Stubb’s Tears
20 Serge Gainsbourg – Bonnie & Clyde
21 The Clash – London’s Burning
22 Lou Reed – Caroline Says II
23 Pink Floyd – One Of My Turns
24 Green On Red – Baby Loves Her Gun
25 Steve Wynn – The Death Of Donnie B.
26 Tom Waits – Frank’s Wild Years
(outro: Ennio Morricone – The Slaughter)

J.G. Ballrad, “High-Rise”

Well Frank settled down in the Valley
and he hung his wild years
on a nail that he drove through
his wife’s forehead
he sold used office furniture
out there on San Fernando Road
and assumed a $30,000 loan
at 15 _ % and put a down payment
on a little two bedroom place
his wife was a spent piece of used jet trash
made good bloody marys
kept her mouth shut most of the time
had a little Chihuahua named Carlos
that had some kind of skin disease
and was totally blind. They had a thoroughly modern kitchen
self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)
Frank drove a little sedan
they were so happy

One night Frank was on his way home
from work, stopped at the liquor store,
picked up a couple Mickey’s Big Mouths
drank ’em in the car on his way
to the Shell station, he got a gallon of
gas in a can, drove home, doused
everything in the house, torched it,
parked across the street, laughing
watching it burn, all Halloween
orange and chimney red then
Frank put on a top forty station
got on the Hollywood Freeway
headed North

Never could stand that dog

/Tom Waits, Frank’s Wild Years/

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