The Big Sleep (1946)

THE MOOD

1. Tom Waits - 9th & Hennepin
The moon's teeth marks are on the sky
Like a tarp thrown all over this
And the broken umbrellas like dead birds
The steam comes out of the grill
Like the whole goddamn town's ready to blow

2. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Patra (Petra)

3. Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost

THE DETECTIVE

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

4. Aimee Mann - Guys Like Me
'Cause guys like me
We all vow to become
Clear and free of the fife and the drum
And block the circulation 'til we're all completely numb
Let's hear it for guys like me

5. Christian Kane - L.A. Song
Streets littered with diamonds
Everyone's glistening
This whole world shines so brightly
I can't see a thing

THE DAME

Scarlet Street (1945)

6. Marian Call - It Was Good for You Too
Oh, honey, did you really think you were special, dear, unique?
And did you really think I was so needy and so weak?
I robbed you blind, I left you cryin', I played you for a fool
But you're the one who let me
Admit it
It was good for you, too

7. Jill Tracy - The Fine Art of Poisoning
A pleasant parlor gathering
Quicksilver concealed in a ruby ring
Two lumps or three
I have always adored bergamot tea

THEIR INEVITABLE COLLISION

Double Indemnity (1944)

8. Tom Waits - Black Market Baby
I swang out wide with her
On hell's iron gate
Anything that you wanted
You could have
My eyes say their prayers to her
Sailors ring her bell
The way a moth mistakes a light bulb
For the moon and goes to hell

9. Stephen Jessep - Playing Fools
And I don't lie awake with you
Pretending that we could choose
It wasn't me that bruised your skull
It was another hand that dealt that blow
But, oh, beauty, I'd run away with you
But I can't move
And now we're playing fools again

10. Matthew Good Band - The Inescapable Us
The day we met up
It's hard to get up
And live it down
We are smaller maybe
Than what we can't get around
It makes me sick
It makes me laugh when I look at you
Clap while it's kicking us around

11. The Mountain Goats - Dilaudid
If we live to see the other side of this
I will remember your kiss
So do it with your mouth open
And take your foot off of the brake
For Christ's sake!

EXIT MUSIC (FOR A FILM)

12. The Emperors of Swing - The Shadow of Your Smile