Lots of booky content on the show this past week. I talked about reading Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We, an early example of dystopian fiction that was a big influcence on George Orwell's 1984. I also discussed Mikhail Bulgakov's science fiction work, The Fatal Eggs, which tells what happens when a mad scientist's discovery of a new "ray of life" falls into incompetent, bureaucratic hands. I then read the first chapter from Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, one of my favourite novels of all time. It tells the story of the devil's visit to Moscow one spring in the late 1920s--hence the set of 'devil music' that made it on to the show (songs 14,15 and 16 below).
- Dave Rawlings Machine--To Be Young (Is to be Sad, Is to be High)
- Redbone--Come and Get Your Love
- Pablo Cruise--Love Will Find a Way
- The O'Jays--Love Train
- Tim Buckley--Once I Was
- Sufjan Stevens--John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
- Talking Heads--Home (Naive Melody)
- Elbow--Running to Stand Still
- Jay Malinowski--There's a Light
- Justin Nozuka--Swan in the Water
- Arcade Fire--We Used to Wait
- Sea Wolf--You're a Wolf
- The Wooden Sky--Rant in Blue
- Rolling Stones--Sympathy for the Devil
- Iron & Wine--The Devil Never Sleeps
- Grateful Dead--Friend of the Devil
- Pat Benatar--Love is A Battlefield
- Journey--Any Way You Want It
- Peter Gabriel--Sledgehammer
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