You may all be thinking... Ooo too soon... too soon... but when it comes to the greatest hits for a natural disaster, it's never too soon. Think Sound Relief and Live Aid. All these huge events have been held to support those who have been in problematic situations to raise money and get them back on their feet. Supported by the likes of Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, Status Quo, Queen, David Bowie, Elton John, Madonna (and the list goes on); the gigs have become internationally renown and embedded in everyones memory as remarkable moments in history when the world united.
Tracks will include such great hits as...
Three Days Grace - Riot!
Starting on a rather heavy note, this song truely gets to the core of it all. Refusing to back down? Let's seriously not beat around the bush... let's start a riot.
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Guys seriously - this is more an inspiration track for the aspiring looters. You could have seriously had it all. Instead you all chose to specifically target only trainers and televisions. Listen to Adele's remorse yet you still didn't learn. tsk tsk.
Jessica Mauboy - Burn
This love is over so baby just let it burn. Seriously... if we're all hating we should definitely build a nice fire and burn everything down. Most logical thing to do no? Thankyou Mauboy for your wise wise words. Beneficial to all rioters.
Tom Jones - Burning Down the House
Perhaps a little in poor taste however incredibly appropriate to aid the visual descriptions the world was shown throughout the few days the riots took place. Burning down such places as The Party Shop on Lavender Hill.
which naturally leads into the next track...
Nelly - Hot In Here
So take off all your clothes? You guys must have been sweltering in the heat yet were too cowardly to take off those hoodies. Don't know how you did it with the heat from fires blazing all around you.
Jessie J - Price Tag feat. BoB
It's not about the money... they don't need your money. Why would they when they can easily drop by, break, enter and collect? Definitely pass GO. Definitely collect $200...worth of electrical equipment)
Hard-Fi - Tied Up Too Tight
Surely this is exactly the rush the rioters were feeling. Just to give you normal folk out there an idea of what the sensation would have been for them:
Straight out of West London
Just like a loaded gun
The cognoscenti don't like us
Don't like us!
We'll hit the strip tonight
Your eyes are burning so bright
Can't you feel the blood rush, baby
Tied up too tight!
...If anything, that 11 year old rioter wasn't tight up tight enough.
The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So
Do what I want cause I can and if I don't because I wanna be ignored by the stiff and the bored because I'm gonna... do I really need to explain why this song made it into the list? The words, the grammar... basically being quoted on the streets by the youth that were rioting.
Kanye West - Gold Digger
Let's not beat around the bush here... what WAS the actual statement looters were trying to make? All that was ringing through my ears the entire experience was Gold Diggers!!! What an easy way to score some great stuff. But they've surely been influenced by some wise words of Madonna...
Madonna - Material Girl
Yea mate. We definitely are living in a material world. Why else would they be getting away with stealing mostly from JD Sports and Footlocker? At least they are looking the part. Stereotyped to the Nth Degree.These looters were brought to you by Addidas.Oh but no no no... it doesn't end there. So materialistic, there's been reports of a lovely yong woman, aged 19 who does not fit the stereotypical mould. The only thing she seems to match is her greed and want with no consequences.
Bluejuice - Knife Fight
To finish off the summer there was Nottinghill Carnival. All worries and chaos caused by the London Riots thought to be over, one ratbag decided to really stir things up disappointing an entire country by stabbing a 20 year old male during the festivities. So much for ending on a high.
Happy Autumn England.
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