I know lots of you are more music literate than me and I'm looking for songs about shopping for a piece I'm writing. I can only think of Hey Big Spender, and The Clash, Lost in the Supermarket, and at a pinch, Pulp, Ordinary People but there must be more.
Many more if you think how much time we spend shopping!
And my writing prompt for today is ... He'd never let me take his photograph.
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Here you go ...
'S-h-o-p-p-i-n-g' - Pet Shop Boys
'Anyone Who Had A Heart' - Cilla Black
'Dumb Dumb Girl' - Talk Talk
'Happy Shopper' - 60 Foot Dolls
'Throwaway' - Mighty Mighty
'How much is that doggy in the window?' - Homer & Jethro
'Can't buy me love' - Beatles
'I don't go shopping' - Patti LaBelle
'Shopping' - The Jam
'Shopping for blood' - Franz Ferdinand
'Window Shopping' - Hank Williams
'Shopping' - Barenaked Ladies
'Window shopping for blinds' - The Beautiful South
You have some fun out there, y'hear?
Anthony & Fi
Money is the root of all evil (an old one)
Three coins in a Fountain
Love for Sale
Money, money, money (Abba)
... uh ...
Deborah (keeps thinking)
Neither are really about shopping, but the two that sprang straight to mind were -
'Shoplifters of the World Unite' - The Smiths
'Fake Plastic Trees' - Radiohead
Tom Lehrer's A Christmas Carol is essentially all about the merchandising of Christmas e.g:
Hark the Herald Tribune sings
Advertising wondrous things
God rest ye merry merchants
May you make the Yuletide pay
Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and buy
You are all totally brilliant. And you win the prize of ....... my thanks. Yay!
Been Caught Stealin' by Janes Addiction
Oooo that's good, Scott. Thank you.
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