Liner Notes

Soundscape #110: “If You Let Them Kill You, They Will” – Charles Bukowski

Humans are funny things. We all trudge along as best (or worse, depending on what you want) we can, all thinking that we are somehow truly unique in the world. If we look up at a flock of birds and struggle to differentiate one from another, isn’t the reverse true of us as well? Of course that is not a fair statement to make. After all, there are many things that distinguish us from animals.

Hughes Léglise-Bataille. Appréhension (2/3), 2007.

I want to say that we have an indomitable spirit but that’s not always the case either, is it? It all depends. For every “optimistic” saying, we are sure to have a direct opposite equivalent. Carpe Diem, they say but also “Let it be.” I wouldn’t blame a poor sod for being confused. When do we fight and when do we let go?

For me, I’d rather go down fighting than to surrender without a fight. One of the worst feelings ever is regret that you didn’t do enough. Now to repeat that to myself until it sticks…

Playlist:
1. (0:00) Pavement - No Life Singed Her (Slanted And Enchanted)
2. (2:07) Interpol - Not Even Jail (Antics)
3. (7:52) Bloc Party - Hunting For Witches (A Weekend In The City)
4. (11:22) Morrissey - First Of The Gang To Die (You Are The Quarry)
5. (15:03) The National - Abel (Alligator)
6. (18:41) The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life (Her Majesty)
7. (22:29) Beulah - A Good Man Is Easy To Kill (The Coast Is Never Clear)
8. (26:50) Death Cab For Cutie - Blacking Out The Friction (The Photo Album)
9. (30:22) Pixies - Debaser (Wave Of Mutilation)
10. (33:14) Radiohead - You And Whose Army? (Amnesiac)
11. (36:23) Portishead - It Could Be Sweet (Dummy)
12. (40:55) Nina Nastasia & Jim White - I Come After You (You Follow Me)