Music has always come hand-in-hand with putting together each issue of the National Pasquinade, inspiring the content and creation. Hell, “muse” is even part of the word!
What follows here are some tunes to inspire myself and the other writers and artists during the creation of the upcoming Anniversary #. Maybe they’ll also inspire you to create and submit your own comic masterpiece. Submissions can be emailed to us at submissions@nationalpasquinade.com. This is a special issue and a special theme with some rules (nothing too difficult, I assure you), so please read through our Submissions page, and devour a recent issue or two, before submitting, so that you have some idea of what we’re looking for.
If you’d like to listen on Spotify, I’ve created a playlist just for you (note that all of the songs listed below may not be available on Spotify).
- “Yearbook” (Splitsville)
- “1999” (Prince)
- “Anniversary” (The Cure)
- “Birthday” (The Beatles)
- “Once I Was” (Mike Viola and the Candy Butchers)
- “Anniversary Song” (Django Reinhardt)
- “Champagne Corolla” (Justin Townes Earle)
- “Anniversary” (The Pogues)
- “Mickey’s Son and Daughter” (Bonzo Dog Band)
- “Celebration of the Lizard” (The Doors)
- “Anniversary Song” (Cowboy Junkies)
- “Celebration” (Kool and the Gang)
- “Anniversary” (Tony! Toni! Tone!)
- “Champagne Supernova (Oasis)
Additionally, Wayne Tuttle submitted a Muselist for this issue before realizing that it was supposed to follow the issue theme. No worries, though. I wanted to include it here anyway, since this issue is kind of a mixed bag of “former” themes. Here’s a link to the Spotify playlist for this one.
- “The Intro and the Outro” (Bonzo Dog Band)
- “Cleetus Awreetus-Awrightus” (Frank Zappa)
- “Ali Baba’s Camel” (Bonzo Dog Band)
- “Chateau Lafitte ’59 Boogie” (Foghat)
- “Will Not Be Your Fool” (David Bromberg)
- “Blind Eye” (Wishbone Ash)
- “Tell Mama” (Savoy Brown)
- “Walkin’ One and Only” (Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks)
- “She’s Not Yours She’s His” (The Mod-est Lads)
- “Happy Cake Monkey Bread” (Nick Safari and His Swingin’ Menagerie)
- “Sputnik Spy From Outer Space” (The Mod-est Lads)
- “Black Dog” (Dread Zeppelin)*
- “It’s Only Love” (Blodwyn Pig)
- “Soul Fixin’ Man” (Luther Allison)
- “Hot Rod Lincoln” (Bill Kirchen)
*Not available on Spotify
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