January 17, 2008
Tænk hvis det var sådan kulturkanonen var lavet

Absolut killer bog+CD serie: 50 års popmusik fra 1955 til 2004. Hver highlight-CD har 20 numre, så det er et diskotek på 1000 numre i alt - og udvalget er helt igennem respektabelt og alsidigt. Her er f.eks. playlisten fra 1979 udgaven:

"Marianne Faithfull - Broken English"
"Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star"
"The Clash - Spanish Bombs"
"The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight"
"Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You"
"The Roches - We"
"Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E.'s In Love"
"Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown Goes Down"
"Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric?"
"The Flying Lizards - Money"
"The Human League - Zero As A Limit"
"Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?"
"Serge Gainsbourg - Daisy Temple"
"Godley & Creme - An Englishman In New York"
"The Ruts - Babylon's Burning"
"Fehlfarben - Abenteuer & Freiheit"
"The Specials - A Message To You Rudy"
"XTC - Making Plans For Nigel"
"Bobby Womack - How Could You Break My Heart"
"Randy Newman - The Girls In My Life, Pt.1"

Noget for enhver smag bestemt - men lige præcis ikke en navlebeskuende liste stablet sammen af en enkelt enøjet spade (som den Torben Bille-plagede danske rytmekanon er det). Tænk at den ærværdige Süddeutsche Zeitung har givet sig i kast med en så grundig popsamling.

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