A Sense of Doubt blog post #3849 - National Anthem Mix - Everyone is So Near - We're in this Together - Music Monday for September FIRST, 2025

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3849 - National Anthem Mix - Everyone is So Near - We're in this Together - Music Monday for September FIRST, 2025

An episode of the final season of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale featured the song "The National Anthem" by Radiohead from the 2000 album Kid A.

The horns in the song were influenced by Charlie Mingus.

The repeating bass line is urgent and a stern warning of the horrors to come, not fully envisioned in the year 2000 or were they?

Critics were of mixed opinion about the song, some savage in their criticism, but its warning, its clarion call bass line and the cacophony of horns that follow is even more relevant in 2025 than it was twenty-five years ago.

This song provided the focal point, even a fulcrum, for this music mix.

I have curated it for a couple of months trying to get a good sequence. I did a pretty good job with the mix, though I still feel that I could link the sounds a bit better.

In terms of the content of the songs, though not every song speaks to this theme, the general theme is terror, horror, abject disbelief, and more about what I call the STATE OF THE HATE NATION, which is its own category on the blog.

The mix moves from loud to quiet and shifts tone several times with some artists heavily featured, such as Radiohead and assorted solo projects, Peter Gabriel, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, and a few more. The mix is framed by "The Spoils" by Massive Attack, which is the last track, and though it cannot be the first track, because of the Radiohead, it is the fifth, so early in the mix.

Originally, it was the third track, but when I really fell in love with the sound of the Fever Ray song 

"Keep The Streets Empty For Me," I had to get that song early in the mix. Radiohead's "The Pyramid Song" had to go with it as those flow well. Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" felt right after Radiohead's "The National Anthem," so when adding the other two songs, "The Spoils" shifts down to the five spot.

Lyrically, "The Spoils" seems to intersect with Radiohead's "The National Anthem," at least in my head.

Peter Gabriel's "The Court" musically feels right in following "the Spoils." And lyrically it feels like a culmination of all the songs before it in the mix.

And then a big shift to a signature anthem song for me as I shared last week:

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A Sense of Doubt blog post #3842 - "Brand New Start" - Paul Weller - Music Monday for 2508.25

I also included one of Paul Weller new songs from this year's album, a cover version of the Guerillas song from 1969. I almost took out that song because I didn't think it fit, but the more I listened, the more I think it does fit.

Cabaret Voltaire, Lorde, and Nick Cave have to be in here, too.

I removed a half dozen or more songs and replaced them with tunes that fit much better like "Strangers" by the Kinks, "Farewell Transmission" by Ohia, "Bete Noire" by Bryan Ferry, and "Untitled" (2012 Remaster) by Interpol.

"Anguish, Fear, Lamenting" as the 10,000 Maniacs sang in the song about dropping the first atomic bomb on Japan: "Grey Victory."

I also have some great sequences in terms of how songs link in sound and content, like this one:

[18] Carriers "Every Time I Feel Afraid" official lyric video

[19] Doechii - Anxiety (Visualizer)

[20] Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Spitting Off The Edge of the World ft. Perfume Genius (Live in KC)

[21] Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong

[22] Cabaret Voltaire : Do Right

Feeling afraid, anxiety, spit off the edge of the world, though hedge (might be wrong), but then DO RIGHT.

The mix has good diversity though not the widest scope of diversity. But a variety of men, women, groups, people of color, and time periods.

This mix of great music is helping me; I hope it helps you, too.

PUSH THE SKY AWAY!

35 songs in this mix for 1935, the year my father was born.

Here's just the main song, a live version.

"National Anthem" - Radiohead - LIVE

Here's the mix:

National Anthem Mix - Everyone is So Near - We're in this Together - Music Monday for September FIRST, 2025




TRACK LIST

[1] The National Anthem - Radiohead

[2] Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush 

[3] Fever Ray 'Keep The Streets Empty For Me'

[4] Radiohead - Pyramid Song

[5] The Spoils by Massive Attack | AI Music Video

[6] Peter Gabriel - The Court (Dark-Side Mix) (Oranguerillatan Official Video)

[7] Paul Weller Brand New Start Acoustic

[8] Nine Inch Nails - We're In This Together

[9] Rage Against The Machine - Know Your Enemy (Audio)

[10] Björk - Army Of Me (feat. Skunk Anansie) Stereo HD

[11] The Kinks - Strangers (Official Audio)

[12] Biko | Peter Gabriel | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

[13] Brian Eno, Beatie Wolfe - Play On

[14] Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Gangsters (Official Video)

[15] Cabaret Voltaire - Soul Vine (70 Billion People)

[16] Lorde - Man Of The Year

[17] Paul Weller - Lawdy Rolla (Official Music Video)

[18] Carriers "Every Time I Feel Afraid" official lyric video

[19] Doechii - Anxiety (Visualizer)

[20] Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Spitting Off The Edge of the World ft. Perfume Genius (Live in KC)

[21] Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong

[22] Cabaret Voltaire : Do Right

[23] Lorde - Team

[24] She Keeps Bees - Owl

[25] Untitled (2012 Remaster) - Interpol

[26] Rage Against The Machine - Sleep Now in the Fire (Official HD Video)

[27] Burial - Ghost Hardware

[28] Cabaret Voltaire - Deep Time

[29] Radiohead - No Surprises

[30] Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me To Be (Official Lyric Video)

[31] Rage Against The Machine - Testify (Official HD Video)

[32] Bryan Ferry - Bete Noire

[33] Farewell Transmission - Ohia 

[34] Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - "Push the Sky Away" | Live at Sydney Opera House

[35] Massive Attack - The Spoils ft. Hope Sandoval

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2509.01 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3714 days ago & DAD = 367 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.