Eleanor Henderson had punk rock legends like Misfits and Minor Threat wailing throughout her debut novel, Ten Thousand Saints. GalleyCat reader Tim Frederick built a punk rock soundtrack for the book on Spotify.
Here’s an excerpt from the novel: “Jude was the one in Converse high-tops, the stars Magic Markered into pentagrams, and he wore his red hair in a devil lock–short in the back and long in the front, in a fin that sliced between his eyes to his chin. Unless you’d heard of the Misfits, not the Marilyn Monroe movie but the horror-rock/glam-punk band, and if you were living in Lintonburg, Vermont, in 1987, you probably hadn’t, you’d never seen anything like it.”
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Eleanor Henderson’s Punk Rock Playlist
Minor Threat – Straight Edge
Misfits – Where Eagles Dare
Bad Brains – Sailin’ On
Black Flag – Jealous Again
Paul Simon – 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
Prince – When Doves Cry
No For An Answer – Just Say No
Minor Threat – Betray
Minor Threat – It Follows
Minor Threat – Think Again
Minor Threat – Look, Back & Laugh
Minor Threat – Sob Story
Minor Threat – No Reason
Minor Threat – Little Friend
Minor Threat – Out of Step
Minor Threat – Cashing In
Teen Idles – Teen Idles
Youth Of Today – Flame Still Burns
Gorilla Biscuits – High Hopes
Side By Side – Backfire
Project X – Straight Edge Revenge
Wide Awake – Last Straw
Warzone – The Sound Of Revolution
The Germs – Communist Eyes
X – Los Angeles
7 Seconds – Young ‘Til I Die
Agnostic Front – Friend or Foe