London Underground pop map

shykitten

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so, someone has had a go at mapping the history of pop music onto the London Underground map...

my first thought was "ooh that's pretty/clever/funny"... second, "hang on, where's so-and-so, etc.?", and then (once my critical firewall downloaded from Dissensus eventually kicked in) "why i say, this whole thing's shamelessly ideological!" the most glaring omission seems to be any punk/post-punk line, and (as the artist admits) the fact that the pop/circle line has to share all its stations with rock and hip hop eliminates a lot of acts perceived as pure pop, which is a bit of a drawback.
 
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shykitten

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shykitten said:
the pop/circle line has to share all its stations with rock and hip hop

sorry, make that rock and dance (damn genre colour-blindness...). oh, and the New Labour London-centric cultural tourism ickiness of it.
 

jenks

thread death
woebot approves :D

http://www.woebot.com/

saw it in the guardian and thought it funny, if nothing else.

i think it's important to take it in the context the designer describes in the piece that goes with it - can we place one map over another. how do these matrices match up?

the first thing i did was check out my favourite tube stations and see if the artist matched -some good jokes in there as well - oasis as that dead end and seldom visited olympia, for example.

i feel there is probably a companion piece in the great lost/disused tube stations being mapped for those lost bands/ artists - the strand and others, i'm thinking. probably fit in with the whole hauntology meme?? :confused:
 
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