SOUND HOLE VOL. 1: RED SCARE
Excerpt from 1950s The American Adventure propaganda video entitled “Responsibilities of American Citizenship” with former president of Harding University, Clifton L Ganus Jr., speaking.
Excerpt from Armed Forces Information Video (A.F.I.F. No. 5) “He May Be A Communist”
Excerpt from John Foster Dulles call to new president Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29th, 1963
Excerpt from interview with Allen Dulles in 1965
Excerpt from American propaganda newsreel film on the 1954 US government and CIA-backed coup in Guatemala that deposed democratically-elected President Jacobo Árbenz
Peter Thomas Orchestra - Bolero on the Moon
Scott Walker - The Old Man’s Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)
Excerpt from “Seven Days to Remember” documentary on the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia ordered by Leonid Brezhnev
Einstürzende Neubauten - 12305(te Nacht)
Excerpt from television interview with John Foster Dulles in 1952
Excerpt from Salvador Allende’s final speech, broadcast live on Chilean radio in the moments before his death during the American-backed coup of Chile (masterminded by Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon) on the 11th of September, 1973
Victor Jara - El Derecho de Vivir en Paz
Excerpt from Augusto Pinochet’s speech during the military junta’s address to the Chilean people in the immediate aftermath of the 1973 military coup
Im Namen des Volkes - Ich War Da, Leergebrannt
Martin Dupont - Doron Doron
Excerpt from ITN coverage of the funeral of Leonid Brezhnev on November 15th, 1982
The Wake - O Pamela
Excerpt from Barry Goldwater’s “Extremism-versus-Moderation” speech in acceptance of the Republican nomination for President of the USA in 1964.
Excerpt from President Harry S. Truman’s announcement of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in August 1945.
Excerpt from John Donne’s poem “Batter my Heart, Three-Person'd God”
The Magnetic Fields - Tokyo A-Go-Go
Excerpt from Barry Goldwater Presidential Campaign Ad in 1964
Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection
Excerpt from José Toribio Merino’s speech during the military junta’s address to the Chilean people in the immediate aftermath of the 1973 military coup
Excerpt from ITN report on Margaret Thatcher’s sympathetic face-to-face meeting with Gen. Augusto Pinochet while he was under house-arrest in London, in March 1999
Sparks - Falling in Love with Myself Again
The Neon Judgement - Miss Brown
Iron Curtain - The Condos
Excerpt from “Crusade for Freedom” newsreel presented by Ronald Reagan concerning Radio Free Europe
Berlin Express - Die Russen Kommen
D.A.F. - Was Ziehst du an Heute Nacht
Excerpt from information film This is Radio Free Europe (1964)
Add N to (X) - Fyuz
Vogelbat - [=] CASHMERE EXCLUSIVE UNRELEASED TRACK*
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Mark Stewart - The Resistance of the Cell
Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO
Excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s State of the Union address to the 100th congress
Excerpt from Ronald Reagan speech in support of the Contras of Nicaragua
Excerpt from Bill Moyers commentary on the creation of the Contras by the CIA and others
Excerpt from Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say ‘No’” campaign featuring Clint Eastwood
Jeff & Jane Hudson - PCP
Portishead - We Carry On
Excerpts from 60 Minutes’ 1972 interviews with Lyndon B. Johnson and J. William Fulbright
Scott Walker - Cossacks Are
Excerpt from Malcolm X speech on American and European Imperialism
Excerpt 1 from Vietnam War veterans’ testimonies in 1971 during the investigation of "Winter Soldier"
Fall of Saigon - She Leaves me All Alone
Excerpt from Richard Nixon’s call to Lyndon B. Johnson, assuring the President that he had not personally intervened in the Paris Peace Talks of 1968 between the US and Vietnam. It was much later made public that Nixon had struck a private, treasonous deal with the Vietnamese which he later reneged on, thereby prolonging the war by seven years
Torn Hawk - Blindsided
Excerpt from interview with Rudi Dutschke responding to Franz-Josef Strauss of the CSU/CDU
Excerpt from Universal Newsreel on the protests of June 2, 1967 in Berlin against the Shah of Iran
Baader Meinhof - Meet Me at the Airport
Devo - Booji Boy’s Funeral
Tindersticks - Low Life
Jason Molina - It Costs You Nothing
Excerpt from Tom Brokaw’s report on the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 11th, 1989
The Walker Brothers - Make it Easy on Yourself
Excerpts from various news reports about the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, which started on the 21st of September and lasted until the 4th of October, nearly sending Russia into civil war.
Scott Walker - The Farmer in the City
Excerpts from NBC Nightly News broadcast on the December 17th, 2014 regarding the potential normalisation of US-Cuban relations
Excerpt from interview with former White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger regarding JFK’s purchase of 1,200 Cuban cigars in the days before enacting the US trade embargo against Cuba
Kenny Graham and His Satellites - Lullaby
Excerpt from interview with Noam Chomsky where he discusses the real and perceived motives for US normalisation of its relations with Cuba
Das Ding - Makimono
Excerpt from William Prochnau’s essay “The Military and the Media” (2005) concerning the US government’s banning of news media from Grenada during the US-led invasion of 1983
Excerpt of John Negroponte (US Ambassador to Honduras) talking about his learning of the invasion of Grenada
Excerpt from Gen. Alexander Haig (US Secretary of State under Reagan) on March 22nd 1981, speaking about the supposed Soviet “hit list” of states in taking over Latin America
John Roberts - Chalkdust
Excerpt from Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy to Ronald Reagan
Excerpt from Donald Trump’s speech in October 2015 wherein he calls Democratic Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, a “Commie,” “Maniac” and a “Socialist-slash-Communist”
Nick Nicely - Headwindaheadwind
Excerpt from a 2012 interview with Joseph Stiglitz about income inequality in the USA
Excerpt from a 2011 address to Republican leaders by John Boehner on the topic of taxes on the wealthy
Joan Baez - Oh, Freedom
Excerpt from Donald Trump’s response to a question regarding his donations to politicians asked during the August 6th 2015 Republican Presidential Debate on Fox News.
John Cooper Clarke - Evidently Chickentown
Grischa Lichtenberger - 0111_05_z Red
Excerpt from interview with Noam Chomsky on the subject of Neoliberalism
Excerpt from CBS News report on Martin Shkreli’s reneging on the promise of lowering the price of his life-saving AIDS and cancer medication which had been raised from $13.50 to $750 per pill.
Excerpt from Richard V. Secord’s testimony to the Iran-Contra hearing committee followed by commentary from journalist Bill Moyers
Moomin - She Said She Won’t Be That Long Away
Excerpt from Charles Krauthammer’s 1990 essay “The Unipolar Moment” which argued for unilateral American international action in a post-Cold War world
Excerpt from 1991 CSPAN interview with Christopher Hitchens on the subject of the First Gulf War and its origins and potential legacy
Yuya Uchida & The Flowers - Summertime
Excerpt 2 from Vietnam War veterans’ testimonies in 1971 during the investigation of "Winter Soldier"
Moondog - All is Loneliness
Excerpt of Noam Chomsky on the subject of American identity and ‘fear’
Kim Jung Mi - Haenim
Excerpt from George W. Bush’s speech announcing the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003
Joe Meek - I Hear a New World