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‘I find it sad and difficult to listen to the Smiths’: Ana Matronic’s honest playlist


The Scissor Sister has a complex relationship with the Smiths and gets parties started with Grace Jones, but who’s her (not so) guilty pleasure?

The song I do at karaoke Psycho Killer by Talking Heads, Should I Stay Or Should I Go by the Clash, or – in the right mood – Pulp’s Common People. But when my older sister brought home The Head on the Door by the Cure and I heard Inbetween Days, I went straight to the record store to talk to the guy behind the counter about my next purchase. The song that makes me cry My friend Amber Martin does an incredible show, where she recreates Bette Midler’s Bathhouse performances from the 1970s and you have to check your clothes and wear a towel, so it’s just like going to the Continental Baths in 1972.

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