Cover of Exile in Guyville
- Pharoah's Dance. Miles Davis
- Music in Twelve Parts, Part 2. Philip Glass.
- Divorce Song. Liz Phair
- Spem in alium. Thomas Tallis
- Apparition, Elegiac Songs and Vocalises. George Crumb
Davis: I first heard the Bitches Brew LP in Indiana during the mid-seventies. This track still sounds as wild, dense, and futuristic now as it did then, electric pianos not withstanding.
Glass: I first heard the original Music in Twelve Parts CD in Palo Alto during the early nineties and had a major refresher last February in San Francisco.
Phair: I first heard the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street album in Montreal during the early seventies. I'd still like some stronger evidence that Phair patterned her album, Exile in Guyville, on that one.
Tallis: I first heard Spem in alium in England during the late 16th century and the sound was the most amazing thing I had ever heard. Of course, that was before the invention of recorded music (Hi Tom Edison!) and the resulting sense of being jaded.
Crumb: I first head Apparition on the Jan DeGaetini album in Menlo Park last year. I am no longer jaded, by the way...
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