It’s Monday so that means another pile of albums to listen to should you so desire. Can’t think why I haven’t posted the links on a Monday before when I clearly am more fussed about linking people to music than trying to describe it.
SO on our collective musical To Do List to try before we buy we have:
The Black Keys – El Camino (on Grooveshark cos it’s not on Spotify yet)
Amy Winehouse – Lioness: Hidden Treasures
There’s also a post-humous Winehouse single, ‘Our Day Will Come’ out today. For me it feels too soon after her death to be rinsing what scraps of unreleased material she left behind but when is a tasteful time to scavenge through an artist’s work that is no longer here to say whether they want it used or not? She’s not the first artist to have this treatment and undoubtedly not the last, her pedestal is has only been raised it’s first few levels for now – over the years you can guarantee she’ll be cranked up a few more feet each time as the tragic heroine icon: the re-issues of albums and singles, a remix album, a covers album, tribute concerts on her birthday and the anniversary of her death, virals made from home video/mobile phone footage, it will go on and on… Let’s not even go there with what money-making plots bloody Blake’s got up his sleeve, My Blake the Movie? It’s only a matter of a time before some tw*t thinks putting out a 27 Club compilation is a great idea. let’s face it.
I’m not sure I believe in an afterlife but if there is one, I hope Winehouse is haunting the f*ck out all the vultures and the fakers that seem incapable of paying tribute to her with any sort of grace and having a right laugh doing it.
