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YouTube links for KMB003 (Sex Drugs Rock N Roll) lecture, semester 1 2013, week 1

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I promised the students in my unit this semester that I’d shove up the links to the YouTube clips I show during class each week. So here goes. If someone wants to create a Spotify or YouTube playlist, that would be lush.

Week 1: Defining Critical Moments in Popular Music

The first three were to help set the mood and pace, as I gathered breath after another truncated night’s sleep.

Kid Koala – Basin Street Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItYp6ctPGI8

Kraftwerk – The Robots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

Devo – Satisfaction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadvt7CbH1o

The next one was where I launched the lecture proper: pop music is never just about music.

Iceage – Ecstasy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtIbGik0Sys

The next one was my planned original start: one of my favourite songs of the past decade – with the additional fillip of the recent sexism shown towards the lady in certain sections of the media.

Beyoncé – Crazy In Love (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JptwkEhdNfY

Lecture, part one.

The Clash – London Calling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-WX2pa8c

Lady Gaga and Christopher Walken – Poker Face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGH5ygIKyT0

Dexys Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc-P8oDuS0Q

Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0

Lecture, part two.

Lana Del Rey – Video Games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE6wxDqdOV0

PS22 – Price Tag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CgmIJmeEW8&feature=player_embedded

Thanks to Scott Creney, Brigette Adair Herron, Lisa Carver and Steve Dillon, whose words I quoted.

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