Vatican Assassin Mix From An Old Notebook

Found an old red notebook, open to a page titled “Mix Tape for the Vatican Assassin“, and decided to put this Spotify mix together based on what was laid out on that page. Made these notes many years ago. If I remember right, this wasn't exactly a soundtrack, but instead, music to read the book by - "for Chapters One through Twenty" anyway, according to the note at the bottom - have no idea why it stops there.

A few things I had to change or modify. Spotify didn’t have The Tea Party covering “Paint It, Black”, so I opted for The Band of Susans' version. Nor did Spotify have Spock‘s Beard doing “Beware of Darkness” - as the SB version really owes a lot to his take on the song, I went with Leon Russell's interpretation. Not sure why I wanted The Days of the New covering "The End" - went with The Doors original, instead. It's not quite the version of "Joytown" by the late, great Kevin Gilbert that I wanted, but it works. And I couldn’t break up the versions of Holst’s “Mars” the way the notebook suggests, either. So, given limitations, this, then, is the modern approximation of the notebook's mix tape! 

With issue four of four of Vatican Assassin - The Graphic Novel on the way a week from Wednesday, on January 17th, the time might be right to listen to this mix while you catch up with the first three issues of the Graphic Novel! Get 'em at comiXology and DriveThruComics.