The Executioner’s Rite Of Spring

No.163, aired March 21, 2012, the annual “Rite Of Spring” Episode, where an innocent audiobook is sacrificed to the punishing rhythms of Stravinsky’s violent modernist ballet. This year’s sacrificial victim “The Four Disciplines Of Execution,” a corporate manifesto by Steven R. Covey and Chris McChesney, was rudely interruped with songs by The Subhumans, Capleton, and some tracks from Voivod’s recently uncovered early masterpiece, To The Death ’84.

Part 1

1. Stop And Go – Emetics
2. Young Girl’s Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
3. Bursting Out – Voivod
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Mock Abduction – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Danger Zone – Capleton
7. Round Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Death To The Sickoids – Subhumans
9. Games Of Rival Tribes / Wise Elder’s Procession – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Live For Violence – Voivod
11. Dance Of The Earth – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2

1. Dance Of The Earth / Mystic Circles – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Apt Urbane – Emetics
3. The More Them Try – Capleton
4. Glorification / Summoning The Ancients – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
5. No Productivity – Subhumans
6. Ancients’ Ritual – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
7. Condemned To The Gallows – Voivod
8. Sacrificial Dance – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
9. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason - Subhumans

Disciplines of Execution

This episode is named after The Four Disciplines of Execution by Stephen R. Covey and Chris McChesney, and featured selections from the book-on-cd of that work mixed in with various musical tracks, as well as some live-in-the-studio readings from A Concise History of Capital Punishment in Canada by Frank W. Anderson mixed with the Jack in the Box suite by Erik Satie. Erred November 26, 2008

Part 1:

1. Intro -- Jack in the Box 1 - Erik Satie / CBC National Orchestra
2. Naval Aviation in Audio – Frank Zappa
3. War Ensemble – Slayer
4. Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie - Nomeansno
5. Games of Rival Tribes - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Raining Blood - Slayer
7. Mock Abduction - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Angel of Death – Slayer
9. Young Girl's Dances - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2:

1. I Can't Stop Talking – Nomeansno
2. Jack in the Box 1 - Erik Satie / CBC National Orchestra
3. Disappear – Nomeansno
4. Jack in the Box 2 - Erik Satie / CBC National Orchestra
5. Blimey – Gwar
6. Jack in the Box 3 - Erik Satie / CBC National Orchestra
7. Altar of Sacrifice – Slayer
8. Sacrificial Dance - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra