Artist	Song
Juantrip	Movies
Thunderclap Newman	Hollywood 1
Pete Atkin	Screen Freak
Neil Young	Motion Pictures
Family	It's Only A Movie
The Olympics	Western Movies
Jack Bruce	Theme From A Imaginary Western
T-Bone Burnett	Art Movies
St Etienne	Pale Movie
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound	There's A Little Picture Playhouse
Nirvana (UK)	Oh What a Performance!
The Beatles	Act Naturally
The Purple Gang	Granny Takes a Trip
Dionne Warwick	Do You Know The Way To San Jose
10CC	Somewhere In Hollywood
The Kinks	Celluloid Heroes
Steely Dan	Show Biz Kids
Public Enemy	Burn Hollywood Burn
Leftfield With John Lydon	Open Up
Radiohead	Motion Picture Soundtrack

Comment:

As it's the annual Hollywood self-congratulation / mutual back-slapping fest tomorrow, I thought this might be an appropriate time for a gander at the vinyl / celluloid interface.

After an instrumental prelude, it kicks off with a couple of tracks nostalgic for the early days of Hollywood. Screen Freak lyric (by Clive James himself a former film critic) consists almost entirely of actors & film titles -the most recent being "The Creature From The Black Lagoon".
Tk 4 is from "On The Beach", one of the greatest studies of 70's California's spiritual entropy; as Neil was married to actress Carrie Snodgrass at the time it was inevitable that his gaze would turn on tinseltown.
Tks 5-9- generally pop has little time for mainstram movies except as a source of cliches to mock or subvert (check out 10CC's "Film Of Our Love" on "Original Soundtrack)prefering to extend its enthusiasm to genre films (Westerns especially, but also noir, Kitchen-sink & even art-movies).
Tks 10 & 11- Movies as metaphors for relationships. The cuckholded narrator of "Oh What A Performance" "Won an Oscar for playing the fool".
Tks 12 & 13- Everybody wants to be a star even though every year Granny "always turns up but is always turned down".
Tk14- What lies in store for those who don't make it: a life of "parking cars & pumping gas"
Tks 15-17- Not that success is without pitfalls: the isolated Monroe-like figure of "Somewhere in Hollywood" existing somewhere in the disjunction between screen persona & personal reality of "Cellulloid Heroes" or the decadent Show Biz Kids "making movies of themselves / they don't give a fuck about anybody else".
Tks 18-19- the excluded fight back as Lydon joins forces with Chuck D.
Tk20- and fade to black.

Fin de Mix.

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