Playlist 21.03.11

Last week's playlist explored the connection between music and books. It was a chance to namecheck Emily Bronte, James Joyce and William Burroughs, JG Ballard and CS Lewis. Morrissey could have made it on the strength of his many Oscar Wilde references, but we chose 'Now My Heart Is Full' because of the chorus line that lists the characters from Graham Greene's Brighton Rock'. Meantime Blur were digging Sartre and 'La Nausée' while Bowie and Orwell were grooving to George Orwell. I'm such a fan of Villagers that I was obliged to read Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf recently. As an 18 year old, I would have dug it, but the older me got rather testy and intolerant and all that Weimar alienation and intellectual bunga bunga

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Mondays, ten - midnight

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (EMI)

Morrissey - Now My Heart Is Full (Parlophone)

Divine Comedy - Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Setanta)

David Bowie - 1984 (RCA)

Waterboys - The Church Not Made With Hands (Ensign)

Radiohead - Airbag (Parlophone)

Dexys Midnight Runners - Dance Stance (EMI)

10 000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac (Elektra)

Blur - For Tomorrow (Parlophone)

Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life (Sony)



The Beatles - I Am The Walrus (EMI)

A House - Endless Art (Setanta)

Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost Of Tom Joad (Columbia)

Villagers - Becoming a Jackal (Domino)

REM - Disturbance At The Heron House (IRS)

Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne (Universal)

U2 - Shadows And Tall Trees (Island)

World Party - Is It Like Today (Ensign)

Everything But The Girl - Little Hitler (WEA)

Van Morrison - Rave On John Donne (Polydor)

Kate Bush - The Sensual World (EMI)

Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (Decca)