A Muso's Top 10: Aaron North

As well as procuring the usual track list for a desert island mix-tape, this month we asked former Icarus Line and Nine Inch Nails axe man Aaron North to envisage a post-apocalyptic future where he chooses the opponents and selects the conditions for celebrity fights in a Thunderdome-styled death match arena:

“I’d like to see Bobby Gillespie really, really high on speed and Amy Winehouse really, really high on crack. Bobby would be so high on speed that the rules of hitting a woman are out the window – it’s no holds barred. Winehouse has got those really long nails, and of course Bobby can barely see because he’s got those sunglasses on. The consequences there could be disastrous.”

“Anyway, this is what I’ve been listening to over the last couple of days:

1. The Las – I Can’t Sleep
2. Bob Dylan – Gates of Eden
3. Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
4. The Birthday Party – Deep in the Woods
5. Neil Young – L.A. (I like his version better than some shitty band who butchered it!)
6. The Who – Amazing Journey / Sparks
7. The Doors – Celebration of the Lizard (in its entirety!)
8. Nick Drake – Horn
9. Beethoven – Symphony No. 7 (again, in its entirety!)
10. Guns ‘n’ Roses – Estranged

“By the way, I will stand up and defend Guns n’ Roses for as long as Izzy Stradlin was in the band. Izzy’s one of the most underrated songwriters, the dude wrote 75% of the music and a lot of the words too. Mr. Brownstone? That was him.”