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DPD: 056 - Blood Runs Red On The Highway |
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Date: September 6th, 2004 Darpino I've been wanting to do this theme for quite a long time now. Something about the idea really captured my imagination. The fact that one car accident can have so many victims (directly or indirectly) and that it can change the fates of all involved forever is a really heavy subject to think about. My life was changed forever by a car wreck when I was a kid and the subject of them has always intimidated and fascinated me. There are so many strangers out there in the world and the thought often occurs to me that so many of them meet only in death, when their cars collide. Anyway, I picked this theme because I knew there had to be some great songs written about this awe-inspiring subject. It just took us awhile to collect them. So enjoy and don't forget to buckle up.
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1: Dead Joe The Birthday Party - Junkyard |
Selection by: diamond |
More men than women die each year in motor vehicle crashes. Men typically drive more miles than women and engage more often in risky driving practices including not using a safety belt, driving while impaired by alcohol, and speeding.
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2: Nimrod's Son The Pixies - Come On Pilgrim |
Selection by: darpino |
I love this song and I almost forgot it until last night. Everybody always remembers the incest part and always forgets the motorcycle crash part. But Black Francis really paints the picture with a great economy of words in this one.
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The Normal - Warm Leatherette / T.V.O.D. |
Selection by: prokop |
This is the classic; really, I can’t say much more that hasn’t been said. Founder of MUTE records, Daniel Miller. JG Ballards Crash. Offbeat electrical pulses. c’mon... |
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The Faint - Blank Wave Arcade |
Selection by: diamond |
There's cause for concern when older people do drive because they have higher rates of fatal crashes than all but the youngest drivers per mile driven. This is largely due to their increased susceptibility to injury, particularly chest injuries and medical complications, rather than an increased tendency to get into crashes. Fragility begins to increase at ages 60-64. At age 75, older drivers do begin to be markedly overinvolved in crashes, but fragility is the predominant factor explaining the elevated deaths per mile among older drivers. |
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5: Understanding in a Car Crash Thursday - Full Collapse |
Selection by: darpino |
To occupy this 4 minutes and 24 seconds of his life that he will never get back, here's a recipe for Diamond to pass the time.
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The Clash - London Calling |
Selection by: prokop |
Poor, poor Montgomery Clift. Over night Hollywood star, lit up the screens for almost 10 years, then had his face smashed coming home from Elizabeth Taylors. The crash was highly publicized; he barely survived, as she had to rip some teeth from his mouth to stop him from choking to death. Had he actually died, he would have been immortalized forever, like James Dean. Instead, he led what has been called the longest Hollywood suicide. He lost his good looks, slipped further into drugs and alcohol, and a whole nation watched him waste away and die in New York. |
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The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses |
Selection by: diamond |
Only 2 percent of motor vehicle-related deaths are bicyclists. Among a majority of those killed, the most serious injuries are to the head, so it's important for bicyclists to wear helmets. Helmet use has been estimated in one study to reduce head injury risk by 85 percent. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have helmet laws applying to young bicyclists; none of these laws applies to all riders. Local ordinances in a few states do require some or all bicyclists to wear helmets. A nationwide phone survey estimated that state helmet use laws increase the probability that a rider will wear a helmet by 18 percent. Helmets are important for riders of all ages, especially because adult bicyclists represent more than three-quarters of bicycle deaths. |
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8: Last Kiss Pearl Jam - Last Kiss/Soldier of Love |
Selection by: darpino |
Pretty much the main time people listen to the radio these days is while driving. The idea of people driving around listening to songs about crashing and burning seems like a pretty odd thing for people to do. I'm sure any DJ who would stop to think about it would come to the same conclusion. So my theory on Car Crash songs that make it on the radio is that they must be pretty phenomenal to get so much air time. I know this one certainly is.
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Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell |
Selection by: prokop |
OK, first off, rock operas rule, let’s just get it straight. OK, maybe not Jesus Christ Superstar, but in general, the stories capture all the details of any angst ridden youth, wait this is car crash songs.
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Sonic Youth - EVOL |
Selection by: diamond |
Eighty-seven percent of teen motor vehicle deaths in 2002 were passenger vehicle occupants. The rest were pedestrians (6 percent), motorcyclists (3 percent), bicyclists (2 percent), and people in other kinds of vehicles (3 percent).
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11: Daddy's Speeding Suede - Dog Man Star |
Selection by: darpino |
My brother and I lost our father to a car wreck when we were just pups. That accident changed our lives forever. I wonder sometimes what the alternate reality would be like had our father lived and raised us. How would we have gotten along? What kind of life would I have today? Would I be anything like the man I've become? What kind of man was he? Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I'll never know.
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12: The Best Film He Ever Made Sad Lovers and Giants - Cowboys E.P. |
Selection by: prokop |
I just can’t believe how amazing this song is. |
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13: Killer Cars Radiohead - High and Dry/Planet Telex Pt. 2 |
Selection by: diamond |
There were an estimated 6,316,000 car accidents in the US in 2002. There were about 2.9 million injuries and 42,815 people were killed in auto accidents in 2002.
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Jawbox - Jackpot Plus |
Selection by: darpino |
"Forever in the business of tossing curve balls at their devoted fans, JAWBOX spent three and a half weeks in their ultra-secret subterranean bunker squeezing out the first twenty seconds of 'Motorist'. (How they got it to sound so inordinately crappy we will leave up to the listener's imagination, but let's just say it involved refrigerator magnets and several cups of cold coffee.)"-- from Southern Records' website
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Pink Floyd - The Final Cut |
Selection by: prokop |
The conclusion of The Final Cut, is probably the best song on the album. Pink Floyd is great at layering all the background noises that reinforce the details and emotions of the song. The passing trucks, memories of your child at the playground. Without knowing much, you can tell he’s leaving, headed down the highway, mind wandering, ready for it to all go wrong. It times like this people start making the analogy between the moment before you slam into an 18 wheeler, and the upcoming holocaust ready to destroy us all. It’s those precious few moments, before your tears evaporate, you realize there really is equality for all people, and it’s in death. |
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