May 2007: Loosely inspired by Pulp Fiction, The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, Snatch, The Black Donnellys, Scarface, Boondock Saints, Reservoir Dogs et al.  01. alexander, our older brother, set out for a great adventure. 02. Oh, Mr. Blonde. [Reservoir Dogs] 03. Pulp Fiction. 04. Bobie Doll and Big Jim Picato, always there with their free advice. they've got pearl handled... [+]

May 2007: Loosely inspired by Pulp Fiction, The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, Snatch, The Black Donnellys, Scarface, Boondock Saints, Reservoir Dogs et al.

01. alexander, our older brother, set out for a great adventure.
02. Oh, Mr. Blonde. [Reservoir Dogs]
03. Pulp Fiction.
04. Bobie Doll and Big Jim Picato, always there with their free advice. they've got pearl handled pistols underneath their vests. Just another day - the nonchalance and "glamour".
05. Gangsters and drugs. The hard stuff comes later.
06-08. I'm really fond of this sequence. It doesn't exactly come off in the listening, but I still think it's pretty cool. Dylan's creepy and haunting observations of what could be the Devil or Death; scary motherfucker SLJ wreaking vengeance; "Days Of Wrath" - describes the day of judgment, the last trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God, where the saved will be delivered and the unsaved cast into eternal flames. (from Wikipedia, because I'm rubbish at explaining things.)
10. Used in the final scenes of the first episode of "The Black Donnellys".
11. one... take control of me? yer messing with the enemy. High energy, the-chase-is-on I'll-fuck-you-up music.
12. whiskey-plied voices cried fraticide. Bands of brothers. That line was the inspiration for this mix.
13. they say compassion is a virtue, but i don't have the time.
14-15. Run-ins with the law.
16. well, what's wrong with a little destruction?
17. but your arrogance perplexes me.
18. Okay, so it's actually called "When The Sun Goes Down", but this version -slightly different and better sounding than the album version- is from when they kept changing the name. can see it in his eyes that he's got a nasty plan.
19. Used in Snatch. BEST.
20-21. The tenuous position of mob bosses/godfather etc. But lightly put. And then Nick Cave's lovely cover of "Let It Be". Catholicism and the search for forgiveness.

That's life, that's what all the people say.
You're riding high in April,
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune,
When I'm back on top, back on top in June.

22. I knew for certain I wanted to end with this, another piece of Christian (Catholic?) liturgy. Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy; Lord have mercy.
23. Bonus track. For the lulz. [-]