Remorseful Remix

My remix.

The theme was "remorse." As I was looking through my mp3 files (of which I have many), I picked up Jenny by Cross Canadian Ragweed, American Dream by Better than Ezra, Sixteen Tons by Johnny Cash (because I don't have the Tennessee Ernie Ford version, which is better). While I was doing a search to find Amy Winehouse, I saw Frank McCourt's Teacher Man, so I pulled in the first two tracks of that. (I never did find that Amy Winehouse, and did not feel like ripping it). Oh, and Arlo Guthrie's City of New Orleans.

I pulled some of the Irish music from the intro to Teacher man-- but it was only a few seconds, so I looped it, varying the volume and the fade. I cut up the McCourt file and picked out some bits. I juxtaposed that with American Dream to begin. To me, it seems that American Dream, about failed dreams, seemed to go with McCourt's "miserable childhood." I added Sixteen Tons, which is about working class failure to achieve. I liked the "Good morning, America" from City of New Orleans, because it provided a contrast to the other music. I ended up dropping Jenny, though.

Maybe I was naive, when I was younger, but I did buy into the idea that hard work and talent would get a person places. So for me, my remix represents my disappointment and remorse about a world that probably never existed.