Caption: Grant Morrison and Eric J Lawrence
Grant Morrison and Eric J Lawrence 

Guest DJ Project: Grant Morrison

Series: KCRW's Guest DJ Project
From: KCRW
Length: 00:10:46

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Grantmorrison_small Grant Morrison is a renowned writer who explores the underbelly of pop culture and modern society through the prism of comic books. His music tastes are just as thoughtful, with a track that proves parodies can be as good as the original, some psychedelic hip-hop and a song he considers the theme to his cult favorite comic series The Invisibles. Grant’s most recent release is a book analyzing superheroes called Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero.
 
For more: http://grantmorrison.com/

Tracklist
1. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
2. Mogadishu - Baader Meinhof
3. The Heater - The Mutton Birds
4. Blue Flowers - Dr. Octagon
5. Joe Public - The Rutles

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Grant Morrison is a renowned writer who explores the underbelly of pop culture and modern society through the prism of comic books. His music tastes are just as thoughtful, with a track that proves parodies can be as good as the original, some psychedelic hip-hop and a song he considers the theme to his cult favorite comic series The Invisibles. Grant’s most recent release is a book analyzing superheroes called Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero.
 
For more: http://grantmorrison.com/

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1. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
2. Mogadishu - Baader Meinhof
3. The Heater - The Mutton Birds
4. Blue Flowers - Dr. Octagon
5. Joe Public - The Rutles

Transcript

Eric J. Lawrence: Hi! I'm Eric J. Lawrence, and I'm here with acclaimed comic book writer Grant Morrison, who's worked on such titles as Animal Man, Doom Patrol, the new X-Men and Batman & Robin, as well as authoring the non-fiction book “Super Gods: a Meditation on the History of Superheroes”. Today we're going to talk about songs that have inspired him over the years, as part of KCRW's Guest DJ Project. Grant, thank you for coming down!

Grant Morrison: Thank you!

EJL: What's the first song you've got for us?

GM: The first song I want to choose is from The Smiths, and it's “The Queen Is Dead”, the title track from the album. And I guess, I'd been a Smiths fan as a kid. You know, it was a real big deal for me, when this working-class kid came along and talked about the same kind of feelings that I felt growing up in Britain in the dark days of the 1970's, and the whole Thatcher regime...
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Host: Eric J Lawrence

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