This week, you're shuffling through a shopping mall, trying to find presents for people. All the stores are playing their own music - luckily, Christmas music is not mandatory at this mall. As you walk past each store, you hear a different song, and the song somehow fits the store.
Shuffle-up five songs: describe the stores.
- Death Cab For Cutie - We Looked Like Giants. This is coming from a trendy clothing store for high school kids. Most of the merchandise is t-shirts styled to look like they were possibly made in 1980: lots of goth and metal, horror movie stuff. It's retro, but updated just enough to be cool to kids who would be embarrassed to actually wear their parents' clothes.
- New Pornographers - Broken Breads. It's a GAP. Jeans, shirts, dresses for your whole family - if your whole family wants to dress like a 22 year old.
- Buddy Guy - It's A Jungle Out There. It's a Memphis-style BBQ restaurant, blues themed - "B.B. Q's" or some such. Lots of framed LPs on the walls, neon signs, pictures of happy pigs. Red vinyl booths. Smells good, but it's a little too loud.
- West Montgomery - West Coast Blues. A book store. They play classic jazz, for that sophisticated vibe. But they pick tunes that are just a little bit jumpy and fast-paced, played a bit too loudly, so as to discourage people from wanting to sit down and read. 'Buy it or leave', is their subliminal message.
- Cowboy Junkies - I Saw Your Shoes. The fastest song the Junkies ever played is coming from the back of a used sporting goods store. The store is actually a money laundering front, so the clerks getting high in the back room don't much care if the customers like the squealing rowdy song or not.
What's in your mall?