Sacred Bones Records has announced a new collection of music by the late cult artist Q Lazzarus. Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From the Motion Picture) is a 21-song compilation featuring a trove of unreleased tracks, all recorded between 1985 and 1995. The songs were retrieved from Q Lazzarus’ archive of digital tapes and cassettes, and will now be released as a 10-track vinyl album, with additional cuts on the digital and CD editions. Check out the tracklist below, along with a new-wave version of Q Lazzarus’ biggest hit, “Goodbye Horses.”
Q Lazzarus died, in 2022, following a short illness; she was 61. The singer had been working with filmmaker and friend Aridjis Fuentes on a documentary, also titled Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus, and the new collection of music is being released in conjunction with that project.
“Goodbye Horses” appeared in two Jonathan Demme films: 1988’s Married to the Mob, and, more famously, 1991’s The Silence of the Lamb’s, where it scored a memorable scene featuring the film’s principal villain, Buffalo Bill. Q Lazzarus met Demme by chance when she was driving a cab in the 1980s. She met Aridjis in a similar fashion, when she was serving as her New York driver in 2019.
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Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From the Motion Picture):
01 Goodbye Horses (New Wave Version)
02 Heaven
03 I See Your Eyes
04 A Fools Life
05 Summertime
06 My Mistake
07 Hellfire
08 Don’t Let Go
09 Bang Bang
10 Flesh for Sale
11 I Don’t Want to Love You Anymore
12 Fathers, Mothers, and Children Are Dying in the Street
13 Love Lust
14 Home
15 Momma Never Said
16 The Time Is Right (Dare)
17 Only You Can Light the Candle
18 Love Dance
19 Take the Time
20 Be Mine
21 It Don’t Mean Nothing