[fst] you get the ankles and I'll get the wrists :: a fargo fst
Songs on this mix seem to keep coming back to three thematic elements: walls, wolves, and water.
you get the ankles and I'll get the wrists: a fargo fst
Please note two things: One, this mix won't always be available for download, but it'll be up at 8tracks in perpetuity; and two, this has been done with as few spoilers as possible, so pardon the occasional vagueness in the writeup.
Simon & Garfunkel - My Little Town
I thought it'd be good to get started with that sort of retro sound, especially one that sours like this.
Tom Waits - God's Away On Business
This track represents my earlier urge, which was to make this entire mix with nothing but Tom Waits songs. This'll do for Lorne's theme, though.
The Magnetic Fields - Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
relvetica told me she had a song about killing your wife. She was not kidding.
Drew Bunting - Easy
A couple of elements from the first few episodes get muddled in here, especially the deer. It makes a nice metaphor for losing control in general, though.
John Mayer - Kid A
This is a Radiohead cover, in case you don't recognize it -- the first of two on the mix, in fact. Because why not? C'mon, kids.
Soul Coughing - Down to This
There is nothing in the world I could do that could fully replicate the awesomeness that is Mr. Wrench and Mr. Numbers' theme. However, I'd say this hits with about 99% accuracy.
Paula Cole - Me
I do feel bad that Molly's songs are a little dinkier and about self-confidence, while everything else is about, you know, RAWR RAWR I AM AN EVIL MURDER MAN and being a badass and all that. But dammit, I love this song.
They Might Be Giants - Climbing the Walls
I love it when I get to use a TMBG song as a serious call. Lester is not having a good time.
The Builders and The Butchers - The Night Pt. 2
The John Byrne Band - It's a Gas That Makes You Laugh Before it Kills You
When drmoonpants and I were discussing the Coen Brothers' understanding of the moral order of the universe, I remarked that they really do have an understanding of the existence of a sharp, real underworld. She agreed, and added that the real distinguishing feature of this underworld is that it doesn't suffer day-trippers. It's an all or nothing proposition. People who merely dabble with the darkness get hurt.
Ha Ha Tonka - Problem Solver
Gus only barely gets two songs on this mix, and I think it's appropriate that one of them is just him going on and on about how awesome Molly is.
The Mountain Goats - Night Light
I'd say 'poor Lester', but this is pretty much the point in the story where your last remaining bit of sympathy for him should have dried up and blown away in the wind.
Erin McKeown - Aspera
I adore this song and am happy to give it to Molly as a perseverence song. She's the bravest little toaster of them all!
Psalmships - Wolves
There were two songs that made me fall in love with Psalmships the first time I heard them, opening for O'Death, and this was one of them. Discussions I saw comparing Wrench and Numbers in the blizzard to hunting wolves just makes this more appropriate.
Florence + the Machine - Hospital Beds
Another relvetica recommendation, appropriately for the point where there sure are a lot of characters actually in the hospital.
O'Death - Vacant Moan
Is this my favorite O'Death song ever? Quite probably. Does it make excellent soundtracking for taking out a bunch of bad guys? Hell yeah. Go to, Lorne.
The Buried Beds - Overture
A little interim number to acknowledge the missing year.
Aimee Mann - Jacob Marley's Chain
This song isn't meant to be depressing so much as ... just tired. A year's a long time for a lot of folks to keep up hope, especially in the face of overwhelming odds, like incompetent bosses and file rooms.
Matthew Good - Black Helicopter
A drmoonpants suggestion, and one that sets up Lorne and Lester's return to one another's radar.
The Feverfew - The Woods
For a predatory climax. While every other song by a female artist on this mix has been for Molly, the Feverfew is Andrew, who's male-identified. So that's interesting, you know, narratively.
Murder By Death - The Big Sleep
The Builders and The Butchers - Bottom of the Lake
These two songs together make up the 'sure, Lester is sorry, but it's too fucking late' portion of our program.
Regina Spektor - No Surprises
And the second Radiohead cover, making a sweet, creepy little coda.
Do you like a .zip? Get your .zip here!
And if you like this stuff, consider both reading my Fargo fic and throwing some bucks in the direction of the smaller artists on this list:
The Builders and the Butchers
Drew Bunting
Buried Beds
The Feverfew
Ha Ha Tonka
The John Byrne Band
Murder By Death
O'Death
Psalmships
you get the ankles and I'll get the wrists: a fargo fst
Please note two things: One, this mix won't always be available for download, but it'll be up at 8tracks in perpetuity; and two, this has been done with as few spoilers as possible, so pardon the occasional vagueness in the writeup.
Simon & Garfunkel - My Little Town
I thought it'd be good to get started with that sort of retro sound, especially one that sours like this.
Tom Waits - God's Away On Business
This track represents my earlier urge, which was to make this entire mix with nothing but Tom Waits songs. This'll do for Lorne's theme, though.
The Magnetic Fields - Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
relvetica told me she had a song about killing your wife. She was not kidding.
Drew Bunting - Easy
A couple of elements from the first few episodes get muddled in here, especially the deer. It makes a nice metaphor for losing control in general, though.
John Mayer - Kid A
This is a Radiohead cover, in case you don't recognize it -- the first of two on the mix, in fact. Because why not? C'mon, kids.
Soul Coughing - Down to This
There is nothing in the world I could do that could fully replicate the awesomeness that is Mr. Wrench and Mr. Numbers' theme. However, I'd say this hits with about 99% accuracy.
Paula Cole - Me
I do feel bad that Molly's songs are a little dinkier and about self-confidence, while everything else is about, you know, RAWR RAWR I AM AN EVIL MURDER MAN and being a badass and all that. But dammit, I love this song.
They Might Be Giants - Climbing the Walls
I love it when I get to use a TMBG song as a serious call. Lester is not having a good time.
The Builders and The Butchers - The Night Pt. 2
The John Byrne Band - It's a Gas That Makes You Laugh Before it Kills You
When drmoonpants and I were discussing the Coen Brothers' understanding of the moral order of the universe, I remarked that they really do have an understanding of the existence of a sharp, real underworld. She agreed, and added that the real distinguishing feature of this underworld is that it doesn't suffer day-trippers. It's an all or nothing proposition. People who merely dabble with the darkness get hurt.
Ha Ha Tonka - Problem Solver
Gus only barely gets two songs on this mix, and I think it's appropriate that one of them is just him going on and on about how awesome Molly is.
The Mountain Goats - Night Light
I'd say 'poor Lester', but this is pretty much the point in the story where your last remaining bit of sympathy for him should have dried up and blown away in the wind.
Erin McKeown - Aspera
I adore this song and am happy to give it to Molly as a perseverence song. She's the bravest little toaster of them all!
Psalmships - Wolves
There were two songs that made me fall in love with Psalmships the first time I heard them, opening for O'Death, and this was one of them. Discussions I saw comparing Wrench and Numbers in the blizzard to hunting wolves just makes this more appropriate.
Florence + the Machine - Hospital Beds
Another relvetica recommendation, appropriately for the point where there sure are a lot of characters actually in the hospital.
O'Death - Vacant Moan
Is this my favorite O'Death song ever? Quite probably. Does it make excellent soundtracking for taking out a bunch of bad guys? Hell yeah. Go to, Lorne.
The Buried Beds - Overture
A little interim number to acknowledge the missing year.
Aimee Mann - Jacob Marley's Chain
This song isn't meant to be depressing so much as ... just tired. A year's a long time for a lot of folks to keep up hope, especially in the face of overwhelming odds, like incompetent bosses and file rooms.
Matthew Good - Black Helicopter
A drmoonpants suggestion, and one that sets up Lorne and Lester's return to one another's radar.
The Feverfew - The Woods
For a predatory climax. While every other song by a female artist on this mix has been for Molly, the Feverfew is Andrew, who's male-identified. So that's interesting, you know, narratively.
Murder By Death - The Big Sleep
The Builders and The Butchers - Bottom of the Lake
These two songs together make up the 'sure, Lester is sorry, but it's too fucking late' portion of our program.
Regina Spektor - No Surprises
And the second Radiohead cover, making a sweet, creepy little coda.
Do you like a .zip? Get your .zip here!
And if you like this stuff, consider both reading my Fargo fic and throwing some bucks in the direction of the smaller artists on this list:
The Builders and the Butchers
Drew Bunting
Buried Beds
The Feverfew
Ha Ha Tonka
The John Byrne Band
Murder By Death
O'Death
Psalmships