Humble Playlist 2007
001 (Intro) Buddy Rich - Birdland (Weather Report)
002 Mac Davis – It’s Hard To Be Humble
003 Talking Heads - Artists Only
004 (Break 1) Bob Newhart Show Theme
005 Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
006 Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
007 Metallica - Enter Sandman
008 Sarah McLachlan - Possession
009 Aerosmith - Dream On
010 (Break 2) Bob Newhart Show Theme
011 Björk - Army Of Me
012 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
013 Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
014 The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
015 Death Cab For Cutie - A Movie Script Ending
016 Love And Rockets - Mirror People
017 R.E.M. - Feeling Gravitys Pull
018 The Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car)
019 Mike Ladd - 5000 Miles West Of The Future
020 Public Enemy - Fight The Power
021 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
022 Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
023 Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
024 Air - Run
025 Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye
026 The Black Eyed Peas – Let’s Get Retarded
027 Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
028 Remy Zero - Save Me
029 Beck - We Live Again
030 U2 - One Tree Hill
031 TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun
032 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
033 Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
034 Vanessa Carlton - Ordinary Day
035 Olivia Newton John & ELO - Magic
036 Zero 7 - Crosses
037 Queensrÿche - Silent Lucidity
038 (Break 3) Bob Newhart Show Theme
039 Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
040 Rush - Subdivisions
041 The Rapture - First Gear
042 Missing Persons - Words
043 (Break 4) Bob Newhart Show Theme
044 Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC²
045 Elton John – Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me
046 Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
047 The Doors - The End
048 George Harrison - Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
049 Tones on Tail - Movement Of Fear
050 Built To Spill - Randy Described Eternity
051 Modest Mouse - Perfect Desguise
052 The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
053 DJ Shadow - Changeling
054 Radiohead - Planet Telex
055 Wilco - ELT
056 The Like - What I Say And What I Mean
057 Linkin Park - 1Stp Klosr (Humble Bros remix w J Davis)
058 Eighteen Visions - You Broke Like Glass
059 Corona - Rhythm Of The Night
060 AFI - Midnight Sun
061 Webber & Rice - (Jesus Christ Superstar) Heaven on their minds
062 Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
063 Slipknot - Duality
064 Disturbed - Prayer
065 Guided By Voices - I Am A Tree
066 Heart - Crazy On You
067 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Permanent Mix)
068 Maddona - Like A Virgin
069 Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear The Reaper
070 Smashing Pumpkins - The Everlasting Gaze
071 The Cure - Disintegration (Live Version)
072 (Break 5) Bob Newhart Show Theme
073 El-P - Smithereens (Clean)
074 Pinback - Grey Machine
075 Stevie Wonder - Superstition
076 The Pretenders - Show Me
077 (Break 6) Bob Newhart Show Theme
078 Sting - Inside
079 Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower
080 Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
081 Sonic Youth - Mote
082 Subtle - Nomanisisland
083 Genesis - Land Of Confusion
084 The Doobie Brothers - Takin It To The Streets
085 Moby - Thats When I Reach For My Revolver (MoB)
086 The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
087 Spacehog - In The Meantime
088 Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now
089 The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
090 Badly Drawn Boy - Everybodys Stalking
091 Arrested Development - People Everyday
092 Bright Eyes - From A Balance Beam
093 Seal - Crazy
094 John Lennon - Watching The Wheels
095 Ana Voog - Ask The Dragon (Yoko Ono)
096 Big Wreck - The Oaf
097 Wings - Let Em In
098 (Break 7) Bob Newhart Show Theme
099 Rollins Band - Liar
100 Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Lie
101 Def Leppard - Photograph
102 Ringo Starr - Photograph
103 John Mayer - 3x5
104 XTC - Wake Up
105 Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
106 Simon And Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence
107 (Outro) Roy Clark - Malaguana (w/ Feliciano)
The Humble Playlist was arrogantly conceived of as a
post-modern opera lasting over seven hours. Various pop and sub-pop songs were appropriated, whose lyrics, like so many double
entendre's, were relevant, as deconstructed, to the quite
existential, "dark night of the soul" poem, "Humbled Beyond a
Word." The course of the opera parallels that poem, and
tells a sort of nightmare in a non-linear fashion. Beyond
being art about art, and poetry about poetry, "Humbled Beyond a
Word" is very much about consciousness (in dreams and lucidity),
about the individual ego's relation to the public, and about
visionary experience; and hence many of the songs reference
dreams, the social loner, and visions, as well as the
experiential limits of language that the poem's title also
points towards. One can imagine that quite a sum of
"paranoid payola" was involved to get so many famous artists on
board for the project over a span of decades. The key to
the poem being such a linguistic black hole may be in its
fundamental symbolic structures that relate to that which is
very common to most of us: clichés beyond clichés of a universal
soul.
