Friday, January 11, 2008

Help please!

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.

7 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:08 am

    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

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  2. 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)

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  3. 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

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  4. 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

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  5. You are all totally brilliant. And you win the prize of ....... my thanks. Yay!

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  6. Anonymous7:53 pm

    Been Caught Stealin' by Janes Addiction

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  7. Oooo that's good, Scott. Thank you.

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