Artist	Song
Monkees	Pleasant Valley Sunday
Janis Joplin	Mercedes Benz
Tom Waits	Step Right Up
The Clash	Lost in the Supermarket
Fountains of Wayne	Valley of Malls
Warren Zevon	Down in the Mall
Fugazi	Merchandise
Tracy Chapman	Mountains o' Things
Chumbawamba	Sewing up Crap
The International Noise Conspiracy	Capitalism Stole My Virginity
Pink Floyd	Money
Steely Dan	The Last Mall

Comment:

Updated 1/10/04 to include the suggestions that I could get my hands on! Thanks guys- any other suggestions are eagerly sought- wu


No transitions yet and not quite right. trying to capture the true american way of consumerism/materialism.

Suggestions for tracks?

Pleasant Valley Sunday- underneath the all-American suburban dream lies the soul numbing mundanity of maintaining status.


Mercedes Benz- Not only do we want it but we think we deserve it and waste prayers on the quest for material goods.

Step Right up

Lost in the Supermarket: "buying in" to "buying in"- we are guaranteed even a personality if we buy the right stuff and we feel a little good doing it.

Valley of Malls: Always makes me think of long stretches of desert highway along which Mall of America and its clones are the only scenery. Think Egypt, Pyramids, Valley of Kings.

Down in the Mall: WE'll go shopping baby, cause its what we can stand.


Merchandise: Merchandise keeps us in line (but in america most of us ARE what we own-- like it or not, wrong as it may be)


Mountains o' Things:. . . make the world all good and good people are just stepping stones.


Sewing up Crap: About those people we exploit to get the stuff that tracy sang about.


Capitalism Stole. . . : 'nough said

Money: 'nough said


The Last Mall: Even in "the end" we still shop

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