Status Update: 08.25

Season 2 Episode 4: The Tower of Babel is no place for lovers, but it’s perfect for adverts about botched patricide and habitual freeloaders. Birds of prey descend on easily duped gumshoes and defiant homesteaders who are high on fumes. They embark on a series of one-night stands with great self-assurance, which leaves them faithless but grateful. The next day they dance to jacked-up ragas with folks they picked up on the subway, leading them to ruination which they’re trained to survive.

Tracklist:

Eric Idle - Gibberish

The Muffs - Beat Your Heart Out

The Scaffold - Commercial Break

Jim Steinman - Love and Death and an American Guitar

Meat Loaf - Los Angeloser

The Mountain Goats - Slow West Vultures

Rupert Holmes - Brass Knuckles

Bo Diddley - The Great Grandfather

McGruff the Crime Dog - Inhalents

Billy Idol - It's So Cruel

Linda Smith - Confidence

Aimee Mann - It's Not Safe

The Como Mamas - Count Your Blessings

Academy of Fine Popular Music - The Morning After

Klaus Doldinger - Sitar Beat

Mari Wilson - Would You Dance With a Stranger

Crazy Horse - Downhill

Edgar Froese - Stuntman