Stav’s tenuous playlists #1
A sense of place is important in all the arts. Would Picasso’s “Guernica” portray the horrors of wartime air-raids if it was entitled “Monochrome wierd shit… woah! Is that a fucking cow, dude”? Get Carter needs it’s bleak early 70’s Tyneside just as much as McQueen and San Francisco’s hills in Bullitt. Would The Wire be so damn good if it was based in Llanelli? How about Woody Allen’s soliloquy over Gershwin’s famous clarinet trill as the camera pans up to display exploding fireworks over the skyline of… Peterborough?
This is basically my longwinded way of embedding some cool tunes with cities in the titles.
The Decemberists - O Valencia!
The Rakes - Strasbourg
Beirut - Nantes
Mogwai - Glasgow Mega-Snake
LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
You know the drill. Like asking Frankenstein to create the bastard child of Alan Whicker and Jools Holland, I want you to leave some linkage below for a youtubulous armchair tour of the fucking globe, man.
