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Kapow! Fan Mixes

Why, yes! I am one of those people who listens to music and often relates songs to a character from any one of my various fandoms. OMG, you are too?!

BUT SERIOUSLY NOW.

This is where we can post fan mixes for comic characters, series, events, relationships- to even artists and writers, whatever you want! You can use MegaUpload or just link to songs in YouTube - however you'd like to share! Just be sure to explain who/what you picked the songs for and why.

Share your picks and mixes please! whee

Iron Man

All About the Benjamins by Puff Daddy and the Family I think out of all the playboys that superhero comics have produced, Tony is the one who indulges himself the most and with the least postmodern ironic distance. I could have gone for Cover of the Rolling Stone by Doctor Hook for that one, but I like this one for the fact that it was from when gangster rap as pop was at it's zenith and yet still held some of it's novelty. Other than "bling, bling" I think the title phrase has to be the biggest transmission of rap slang into the mainstream on record.

Iron Man by Black Sabbath Obligatory.

Paint a Vulgar Picture by The Smiths This one is pitch black cynicism about the rise to stardom in the music industry, but I think that the lure of power and fame added to the swirling cesspool of syncophancy paints a good picture of post Civil War Tony, as hideously bittersweet as it is.

My Way by Frank Sinatra Self explanatory, it'd make a great montage.

Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson featuring The Sneaker Pimps
Yeah, yeah it's from the Spawn movie soundtrack. Doesn't make it any less of a great redemption song.

Handlebars by The Flobots This one kind of charts the course that goes from youthful curiosity and exploration into near megalomania. To me, where this song hits it's zenith would be around where Tony gets hit by a landmine and ends up in a cave. Or Civil War, really.

Hurt by Nine Inch Nails Addiction, shame, self loathing. Demon in a Bottle era stuff here.

Come Undone by Robbie Williams All of Tony's vices and weaknesses in one big giftwrapped package. It's the only Robbie Williams song I can stand.

Spider Jerusalem

Calm Like a Bomb by Rage Against the Machine
The Hand That Feeds by Nine Inch Nails
Rising Down by The Roots
Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who
Royally ******** by Mindless Self Indulgence
Transmetropolitan by The Pogues
Go Ask Alice by Jefferson Airplane
Rock and Roll N***** by Marilyn Manson (Patti Smith cover)

I'll think of more later.

Wow, thanks for sharing guys! People responded pretty quick. I think I'm not the only one that think about songs and characters often. heart

Mitchell Hundred: The Great Machine

Atlas
By Battles

I think of this song as a kind of 'prologue' to Mitchell gaining his powers. The music in of its self is very mechanic both in sound and in its actual creation. Combined with the lyrics being so hard to understand through filtering I feel it fits Mitchell's destined "language" well. The conspicuous little device under the Brooklyn Bridge is waiting, and soon Mitch will be hearing a whole new city.

"People won't be people when they hear this sound,
That's been glowing in the dark at the edge of town"

Dollars and Cents
By Radiohead

Government turns out to be what Mitchell expected, and a whole lot more of what he didn't – not unlike his leap into vigilante crime fighting. Ideologies and reality converge in the already loud space that is his head.

"Oh, why don't you quiet down?
Oh, why don't you quiet down?
(Maybe I want peace and honesty)
Why don't you quiet down?
(Maybe I want to live in the children's land-
And you know maybe, maybe I)
Why don't you quiet down?"


The Pot
By Tool

I wouldn't say our lovable Mayor is a hypocrite but he certainly has a c***k or two in his moral armor.

"Rob the grave to snow the cradle
Then burn the evidence down
Soapbox house of cards and glass so
Don't go tossin' your stones around

You must have been high."

Welcome to the Machine
By Pink Floyd

Because this song has very obvious meaning to it (the music industry as a entity that sucks all creativity) I debated putting this up. Originally I applied the lyric "Welcome to the Machine" to Mitchell because, frankly, it sounded cool and worked well on a surface level. Then I really started to think about the song; how "the machine" metaphor is applicable to any formal "institution". From the music industry to politics - to even the basic structure of superhero comics- tradition, control, and expectations prevail. And in Mitchell's case there are a multitude of "machines" working on forming him.

"Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream?
It's alright we told you what to dream."

And yes, I think I'll have more to come later.

Mitchell Updatedness.