The Dogtown Soundtrack

Some further insight into how I see the Dogtown concept, this time by way of music.

I've been compiling a virtual soundtrack, and it boiled down to the equivalent of 3 CDs worth of music that would be appropriate accompaniment to Dogtown, were this unfolding story a film or TV series. 3CDs because I love all of what I have included. 3CDs because I cannot cut down.

These are arranged as follows:

	Title	Artist
1	Misery's the River of the World	Tom Waits
2	Paranoid Android	Radiohead
3	Undenied	Portishead
4	Hallways of Allways	Ulver
5	Black Milk	Massive Attack
6	You Cut Her Hair	Tom McRae
7	This Mess We're In	PJ Harvey with Thom Yorke
8	Benzedrine	Thea Gilmore
9	Who Can You Trust?	Morcheeba
10	Tomorrow Never Knows	Ulver
11	Radian	Air
12	Code	Faithless
13	Lidocaine Baby	Thea Gilmore
14	Reeperbahn	Tom Waits
15	Western Eyes	Portishead
	Title	Artist
1	2+2=5 (The Lukewarm.)	Radiohead
2	Be Thankful for What You've Got	Massive Attack
3	She's My Baby	Faithless
4	Future Proof	Massive Attack
5	Raftopskodacarchase	Bentley Rhythm Ace
6	Spin Spin Sugar	Sneaker Pimps
7	Where I End and You Begin (The Sky is Falling In.)	Radiohead
8	Donny X	Faithless
9	Fatboy's Dust	Red Snapper
10	Packing For the Crash	Tom McRae
11	Half Day Closing	Portishead
12	Safe From Harm	Massive Attack
13	Risingson	Massive Attack
14	Bullet Proof	Morcheeba
15	The Future Sound of Music	Ulver
16	Nowhere/Catastrophe	Ulver
	Title	Artist
1	End of the World News (Dose Me Up)	Tom McRae
2	Howling	Mocheeba
3	Heat Miser	Massive Attack
4	You and Whose Army?	Radiohead
5	Group Four	Massive Attack
6	Lost In Moments	Ulver
7	A and B Song	Tom McRae
8	Johnny Too Bad	Horace Andy
9	Your Lucky Day in Hell	Eels
10	Melt	Leftfield
11	Mezzanine	Massive Attack
12	The National Anthem	Radiohead
13	Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses	Ulver
14	Low Place Like Home	Sneaker Pimps
15	Live With Me	Massive Attack with Terry Callier

Yeah, it borrows very heavily on certain artists, and does not at all accurately reflect the complete range of my musical influences. It does however maintain a pretty moody, gritty and atmospheric background. I had this entire playlist shuffled and running last time we played (Thurs 18th, Episode 6, yet to be posted); it lasted the entire session and a bit into the post-game wind down and helped me keep the mood. It may serve as background again when we go tabletop in Sweden this week, but equally it may not.

This is my personal list, drawn from my personal music library, and does not reflect the musical ideas or soundtracks of Dave or Thomas. Revision may come when I spend more time with those guys between the 25th and 30th, addition may substitute. Or it may stay as it is. Regardless, I had fun compiling this and that is ultimately all that matters.

Hopefully it gives a bit more idea of the vision I have in my mind for Dogtown.Two of the three tracklists have a central theme (cars/vehicles and drugs, since both feature prominently), but all contain music that is not in my mind linked to any one facet of the Dogtown narrative, but more the atmosphere as a whole. Some of it was just too much a favourite to leave out, even if it didn't necessarily nail the right mood head on, but most of it is very squarely of the right tone to my mind.