Riding the Human Highway
In which Reverend Andrew [First Church of the Atlantic (De-Hydrated) Eternal Pope of the Western Lands] and I finally spring a plan we’ve been hatching for a long time: a tribute to Neil Young and Devo’s 1982 apocalyptic-art-comedy film Human Highway. Starring Mark Mothersbaugh (who never takes off his rubber mask), Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper and Neil himself as bumbling gas jockey. Needless to say, this is one of the odder films I’ve seen, and we made no effort to build a less-odd musical sequence around it. We just plugged a vcr into the board, popped in a VHS tape, and let it go. Then played a bunch of related music over top of that, since just listening to movie dialog is mostly pretty boring.
If that sounds like something you’d like to experience, experience it now:
And here’s the rough list of songs we played:
- humanhighway09oct2008.mp3
| Playtime | Title | Artist | Album | Label |
| 10:36 AM | human highway (movie) | Neil Young | ||
| 10:37 AM | video killed the radio star | buggles | the age of plastic | warner |
| 10:37 AM | After the Goldrush | The Flaming Lips | ||
| 10:49 AM | love without anger | the aquabats | we are not devo | |
| 10:53 AM | this note’s for you | Neil Young | ||
| 10:54 AM | time out for fun | voodoo glow skuls | we are not devo | |
| 11:00 AM | last trip to tulsa | Neil Young | ||
| 11:06 AM | el mongoloido | possum dixon | we are not devo | |
| 11:25 AM | blockhead | ridel high | we are not devo | |
| 11:32 AM | the day my baby gave me a surprise | the vandals | we are not devo | |
| 11:38 AM | Devo | whip it | Greatest Hits | |
| 11:39 AM | computer cowboy | Neil Young | Trans |
Here’s an automatically generated Spotify playlist with the best search matches (if any) for these tracks.