Alice Fever

I can't wait to see Alice in Wonderland, I was trying to hold out for imax but it's sold out for a million years and anyway those stupid glasses hurt my face. I thought it would be fitting to create a homage to all things Alice as everyone is going mad as a hatter (ha) for anything remotely Wonderland-ful.

This remix did the rounds last year- it's FANTASTIC. They've taken sounds solely from the Disney Alice and made something beautiful. Well done.



The official soundtrack to the new film, 'Almost Alice', not only features Avril Lavigne and The All-American Rejects but also a cover of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit. Several things about that sentence disturb me.

Here's my go at an Alice-inspired playlist:

Jefferson Airplane- White Rabbit.
Why the hell they didn't use the original in the soundtrack is beyond me, Grace Slick's vocals on this track never fail to send shivers down my spine. What starts off with gentle, spanish-infused guitar builds to a now-famous crescendo (Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing tries to get him to chuck a toaster in the bath 'at the crescendo' because it's so beautiful. and because he's on lots of drugs.), it's just an awesome song really, you can practically smell the sweaty hippies dropping acid in a tie-dyed boudoir.

Little Dragon- Looking Glass. Nothing beats a bit of Swedish electronica now does it?

Tom Waits- Alice. What a lad. He actually wrote an entire album dedicated to Lewis Carroll's forbidden love with 11 year old Alice Liddell which supposedly inspired the Adventures in Wonderland.

Mad Hatter- The Stranglers. This song is kind of shit but it's very apt and it's the Stranglers!

Joe's Waltz- The Dodos. Pretty tenuous reference but the Dodo is an integral part to the story and I just like them so...

Mad World- Tears for Fears. I'm kind of struggling now, this isn't as easy as I'd thought.... I'm giving up now except I would also add that 'Alice- who the fuck is Alice?' song- I can't find it on Spotify, rage.

http://open.spotify.com/user/ronniemeade/playlist/1bZuxZHVETFTOxNGM4PQLo