Iliad Song List
At this rate, I'm never going to get "The Hellbound Train" transferred from LP to CD in order to make my CD of Iliad songs, so I'm going to go ahead and post the song list, with brief descriptions. Enjoy.
Iliad Songs:
Book 1: “I Could Hurt You Now” (Aimee Mann): Agamemnon takes Achilles’s slave, Briseis, and Achilles, feeling angry and dishonored, retires to sulk in his tent.
[Book 2: Gathering of armies (no song)]
Book 3: “Knight Moves” (Suzanne Vega): Helen surveys the battle from atop the walls of Troy.
Book 4: “Chess” (Chess): The truce falls apart when Aphrodite refuses to let Paris fight Menelaus.
[Book 5: Diomedes’s heroic day of battle (no song)]
Book 6: “Hold On” (Sarah McLachlin): Andromache is afraid that Hector, her husband, is going to die in the war.
Book 7: “Sleep” (Savatage): Hector fights Ajax. At the end of the day, it’s a draw and they exchange gifts.
[Book 8: More fighting (no song)]
Book 9: “Santa Fe” (Rent): The Greeks beg Achilles to return to the battle, but he’d rather pack up all his junk and sail so far away.
Book 10: “Night Ride across the Caucasus” (Loreena McKennitt): Odysseus and Diomedes go on a nighttime spying mission.
Book 11: “Struggle” (Clannad): As the Greeks get their asses whipped, Nestor convinces Patroclus to ask Achilles to send him into battle in Achilles’s armor to save the Greeks.
Book 12: “Lay My Love” (Brian Eno): Hector is an unstoppable Greek-slaying machine.
Book 13: “Mars” (Planets, Holst): Things are looking bad for the Greeks.
[Book 14: The gods debate and discuss. (no song)]
Book 15: “The Hellbound Train” (Billy Faier): The Trojans are burning the Greeks’ ships. Things are looking even worse for the Greeks.
Book 16: “Headlong” (Queen): Disguised as Achilles, Patroclus saves the day but is killed by Hector. (In one version, he screams, “Let me out of this expensive B. [Pitt] movie.”)
Book 17: “Cursum Perficio” (Enya): The weary Greeks manage to get Patroclus’s body back to their camp.
[Book 18: The gods make Achilles new armor. (no song)]
Book 19: “Exit” (U2): Achilles is in agony over Patroclus’s death.
Book 20: “Disturbed” (Peter Gabriel): Achilles kills Trojans.
Book 21: “Pull Me Under” (Dream Theater): Achilles kills more Trojans, knowing that his glorious time in battle means he’ll die young.
Book 22: “The 9th Day” (Solitude Aeturnus): Achilles chases down and kills Hector.
Book 23: “The Show Must Go On” (Queen): Achilles puts on funeral games for Patroclus.
Book 24: “Today’s the Day” (Aimee Mann): Achilles gives Hector’s body back to Priam.
Iliad Songs:
Book 1: “I Could Hurt You Now” (Aimee Mann): Agamemnon takes Achilles’s slave, Briseis, and Achilles, feeling angry and dishonored, retires to sulk in his tent.
[Book 2: Gathering of armies (no song)]
Book 3: “Knight Moves” (Suzanne Vega): Helen surveys the battle from atop the walls of Troy.
Book 4: “Chess” (Chess): The truce falls apart when Aphrodite refuses to let Paris fight Menelaus.
[Book 5: Diomedes’s heroic day of battle (no song)]
Book 6: “Hold On” (Sarah McLachlin): Andromache is afraid that Hector, her husband, is going to die in the war.
Book 7: “Sleep” (Savatage): Hector fights Ajax. At the end of the day, it’s a draw and they exchange gifts.
[Book 8: More fighting (no song)]
Book 9: “Santa Fe” (Rent): The Greeks beg Achilles to return to the battle, but he’d rather pack up all his junk and sail so far away.
Book 10: “Night Ride across the Caucasus” (Loreena McKennitt): Odysseus and Diomedes go on a nighttime spying mission.
Book 11: “Struggle” (Clannad): As the Greeks get their asses whipped, Nestor convinces Patroclus to ask Achilles to send him into battle in Achilles’s armor to save the Greeks.
Book 12: “Lay My Love” (Brian Eno): Hector is an unstoppable Greek-slaying machine.
Book 13: “Mars” (Planets, Holst): Things are looking bad for the Greeks.
[Book 14: The gods debate and discuss. (no song)]
Book 15: “The Hellbound Train” (Billy Faier): The Trojans are burning the Greeks’ ships. Things are looking even worse for the Greeks.
Book 16: “Headlong” (Queen): Disguised as Achilles, Patroclus saves the day but is killed by Hector. (In one version, he screams, “Let me out of this expensive B. [Pitt] movie.”)
Book 17: “Cursum Perficio” (Enya): The weary Greeks manage to get Patroclus’s body back to their camp.
[Book 18: The gods make Achilles new armor. (no song)]
Book 19: “Exit” (U2): Achilles is in agony over Patroclus’s death.
Book 20: “Disturbed” (Peter Gabriel): Achilles kills Trojans.
Book 21: “Pull Me Under” (Dream Theater): Achilles kills more Trojans, knowing that his glorious time in battle means he’ll die young.
Book 22: “The 9th Day” (Solitude Aeturnus): Achilles chases down and kills Hector.
Book 23: “The Show Must Go On” (Queen): Achilles puts on funeral games for Patroclus.
Book 24: “Today’s the Day” (Aimee Mann): Achilles gives Hector’s body back to Priam.