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Black Clock 15 OST

Black Clock contributor Howard Hampton (issues 4 and 15) has compiled a soundtrack for the sweeping epic (during which no one will be seated!) that is our latest issue. Fire up your Maxwellian demon or tune into your imagination and viddy what scenes may come.

Black Clock 15
The soundtrack album that never was!

Compiled by Howard Hampton*

 

1. “Waiting for My Man,” The Yardbirds [from the film Kaleidoscope]

2. “Hankuri,” Mad Man Jaga [from the film A Clockwork Orange]

3. “America (She Can’t Say No),” Throwing Muses [from the film The Crying of Lot 49]

4. “Indifference,” Robert Plant [from the film The Monkey Wrench Gang]

5. “The Shadow World,” Sun Ra [from the film Elvis vs. Cthulhu]

6. “Stranger in My Home Town,” Elvis Presley [from the film Elvis vs. Cthulhu]

7. “Katrina,” James Blood Ulmer [from the film Katrina, Academy Award winner Best Picture, Song, and Director, Charles Burnett, 2009]

8. “Mother,” Lou Reed [from the film Baz Luhrmann’s Intolerance]

9. “Who Killed Marilyn?” The Misfits [from the film Hollywood Babylon]

10. “Stagger Lee,” Joan Baez [from the film Shaft in Space]

11. “Darktown Strutter’s Ball” / ”I’ve Got a Feeling,” Maria McKee [from the film A Confederacy of Dunces]

12. “A Cottage for Sale,” James Brown [from the film The Honeymoon Killers]

13. “War with My Soul,” Raven [from the film Ronnie Rocket]

14. “A Minute and Two Seconds,” John Cage [from the film Uncanny X-Men]

15. “See No Evil,” Wild Flag [from the film Angel Archer]

16. “Dead Flowers,” Ronnie Lane’s Slim Chance [from the film Maximum Dogbreath]

17. “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad,” The Carolina Chocolate Drops [from the film The Life of the Party]

18. “Pale Blue Eyes,” Laurie Anderson with Lou Reed [from the film The Lovely Bones]

19. “Tea for Two,” The Comedian Harmonists [from the film Kill Bill vol. 1]

20. “Face Place,” The Slits [from the film Who Killed Bambi]

21. “Let’s Submerge,” X-Ray Spex [from the film The Invisibles: Entropy in the UK]

22. “Year One,” X [from the film Footloose]

23. “I’m a Robot,” Miles Davis [from the film Tron]

*Almost all songs are from concert bootlegs or out-of-print albums that can be found on the internet by anyone with a modicum of ingenuity, a search engine, and a bit-torrent client.