{"id":557,"date":"2009-05-02T19:31:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T02:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2009-05-02T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T02:39:11","slug":"jonathan-lethems-fortress-of-solitude-mix-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/jonathan-lethems-fortress-of-solitude-mix-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Lethem&#8217;s Fortress of Solitude mix CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Jonathan Lethem handed out CDs containing his own personal soundtrack to <em>The Fortress of Solitude<\/em> after the novel came out back in 2003. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2009\/04\/musical-exercise-creating-literary.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Millions<\/a> was able to unearth the track listings on the Internet Archive, but the Archive&#8217;s page is now down. So, I&#8217;m posting the track listings here in the hope of preserving them a while longer.<\/p>\n<ul>Disc One<\/p>\n<p>1. David Ruffin &#8212; No Matter Where<br \/>\n2. Four Tops &#8212; Ain&#8217;t No Woman<br \/>\n3. Bill Withers &#8212; World Keeps Goin Round (live)<br \/>\n4. Randy Newman &#8212; Short People<br \/>\n5. Syl Johnson &#8212; Anyone But You<br \/>\n6. The Spinners &#8212; One of a Kind Love Affair<br \/>\n7. Marvin Gaye &#8212; I&#8217;m Goin&#8217; Home<br \/>\n8. The Prisonaires &#8212; Just Walkin&#8217; in the Rain<br \/>\n9. Hot Chocolate &#8212; Brother Louie<br \/>\n10. Manhattans &#8212; Shining Star<br \/>\n11. Gillian Welch &#8212; My First Lover<br \/>\n12. Marvin Gaye &#8212; Time to Get it Together<br \/>\n13. Phil Ochs &#8212; City Boy<br \/>\n14. Billy Paul &#8212; Let Em In<br \/>\n15. Howard Tate &#8212; Get it While You Can<br \/>\n16. The Spinners &#8212; Sadie<br \/>\n17. Pete Wingfield &#8212; 18 With A Bullet<br \/>\n18. Marvin Gaye &#8212; You The Man<br \/>\n19. The Last Poets &#8212; Two Little Boys<br \/>\n20. Maxine Nightingale &#8212; Right Back Where We Started From<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDisc Two<\/p>\n<p>1. The Spinners &#8212; Games People Play<br \/>\n2. Syl Johnson &#8212; The Love Chimes<br \/>\n3. Marvin Gaye &#8212; Anger<br \/>\n4. Slick Rick &#8212; Children&#8217;s Story<br \/>\n5. Langley School Music Project &#8212; Desperado<br \/>\n6. The Main Ingredient &#8212; Work to Do<br \/>\n7. David Ruffin &#8212; Walk Away<br \/>\n8. Timmy Thomas &#8212; Why Can&#8217;t We Live Together?<br \/>\n9. The O&#8217;Jays &#8212; Use Ta Be My Girl<br \/>\n10. Syl Johnson &#8212; Is It Because I&#8217;m Black?<br \/>\n11. The Marigolds &#8212; Rolling Stone<br \/>\n12. The Originals &#8212; Baby, I&#8217;m For Real<br \/>\n13. War &#8212; Why Can&#8217;t We Be Friends?<br \/>\n14. Bill Withers &#8212; Better Off Dead (live)<br \/>\n15. The Manhattans &#8212; Kiss and Say Goodbye<br \/>\n16. Sly Stone &#8212; Remember Who You Are<br \/>\n17. Arthur Alexander &#8212; Anna (live)<br \/>\n18. Brian Eno &#8212; Golden Hours<br \/>\n19. Marvin Gaye &#8212; Got to Give it Up<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Jonathan Lethem handed out CDs containing his own personal soundtrack to The Fortress of Solitude after the novel came out back in 2003. The Millions was able to unearth the track listings on the Internet Archive, but the Archive&#8217;s page is now down. So, I&#8217;m posting the track listings here in the hope of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,3],"tags":[43,46,42,44,240,45],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}