We’ve got this music sale going on right now (50% off these titles with the code MUSIC), so I thought it would be cool to randomly pull some records off my shelf and try to figure which comics they’d make a good soundtrack to.   It’s fun (and you should send in your own suggestions).

The next record I grabbed was Spacemen 3′s Sound of Confusion.  This band is a great match for comics for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that they originally wanted to call themselves the X-Men, a good 20 years before the idea of nerd chic meant anything to anyone.

Spacemen 3 combined elements of psychedelic music, garage punk, soul and gospel on their records, Sound of Confusion being the noisiest and most aggressive of the punch.  With pounding, driving, distortion and reverb laden tracks like O.D. Catastrophe, Rollercoaster and Losing Touch With My Mind sharing wax with more mournful, soulful tracks, Sound of Confusion is a perfect soundtrack to a comic that combines a lot of action with some serious, introspective character development.

Because of that, I’m thinking it would go great with the John Osrander/Luke McDonnell iteration of the Suicide Squad, from the 1980′s.  It’s a book with tons of action but an almost equal amount of character drama, and visually/conceptually it also has a little bit of a trippy edge (the squad’s trip to the Nightshade dimension, their alliance with Shade the Changing Man) that suits the Spacemen 3′s psychedelic side.

What do you think?  Can you groove on this one?  Hit up our ask box with your own music/comic pairings…