Saturday, November 15, 2008
Everyday is Like Sunday, Except for Blue Monday and Ruby Tuesday, and...Well, Friday I'm in Love: Weekly Mix #43
What constitutes celebrity? I suppose fame is the main element because there are plenty of famous people who didn't do anything noteworthy or particularly unique, but still managed to enter the world's consciousness. It seems that as long as lots of other people have an interest in what you do or wear on a daily basis, you're a celebrity.
I had always been aware of those celebrity tabloid magazines like Star, US, etc. because my mom bought them occasionally, and then I saw them all the time when I started working at a bookstore. It got to the point where I was physically revolted by them and hated the piles of them accumulating in the staff room. I haven't looked at one, let alone opened one, for several years because I'm just completely uninterested and I can't possibly treat it as harmless junk food for the mind anymore. The same goes for entertainment news shows - 99% of the stories they report are NOT news. I have a limited capacity for brain space, so I don't intend to fill it with scraps of useless information about vapid people that have overstayed their fifteen minutes by several years. That goes for all those horrible shows which, predicated on schadenfreude, bring back celebrities that everybody forgot about a long time ago.
Rant over. This mix features celebrities of several types: musicians, politicians, artists, actors/actresses, television presenters, photographers, and even one magician. My favourite track of them all is the tongue-in-cheek Andrew Ridgeley by Black Box Recorder, an ode to the ill-fated half of Wham who is pretty much famous for not being famous. The fact Andrew Ridgeley is then connected to the collapse of the Tories is a rather brilliant layer to the song. Also, just to clarify, I'm including The Smiths' William, It Was Really Nothing on the basis that one rumour dictates it may have been about Billy Mackenzie of The Associates. (TRIVIA: The Cure's Cut Here is about Mackenzie's suicide.) This mix is called Andy Warhol Grossly Underestimated.
Buddy Holly - Weezer
Paul Simon - The Russian Futurists
Bowie Eyes - The Very Sexuals
Prince Harry - Soho Dolls
Down With Prince - Hot Chip
Michael Douglas - Neon Neon
Richard Nixon Died Today - Negativland
Johnny Cash - Sons & Daughters
Elvis - These New Puritans
Man Ray - The Futureheads
When Tom Cruise Cries - The Rakes
Lighten Up, Morrissey - Sparks
Kevin Carter - Manic Street Preachers
Andrew Ridgeley - Black Box Recorder
Molly Ringwald - Strawberry Story
William, It Was Really Nothing - The Smiths
Where's Bill Grundy Now? - Television Personalities
Whatever Happened to Corey Haim? - The Thrills
Andy Warhol - David Bowie
Levi Stubbs' Tears - Billy Bragg
Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
Dietrich/Fondyke (A Brief History of Movie Music) - Jobriath
Houdini - Kate Bush
2HB - Roxy Music
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2 comments:
Billy Bragg = amazing.
If you like him, listen to the rest of the Anti- artists on their sampler. It's great.
You can download it OR stream it: http://www.antilabelblog.com/
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