Weekly Playlist: Polanski Edition

As you may have heard, last week, Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland for having "unlawful sex" with a 13-year-old girl in Jack Nicholson's hot tub back in 1977. A fugitive–albeit, a public one–for the last 31 years, he now faces extradition to the US.

 

Filmmakers are standing behind their wayward French-Polish cousin. Presumably, so is the music community, which has a rich history of implicitly condoning this kind of behavior, both on and off stage. While you can research Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Page and R Kelly on your own time, this week's playlist features some odes to the forbidden fruit–some blatant, some a bit more subtle.

Though I should note that I don't find these tracks personally inspiring, my faves include Alex Chilton's "Hey Little Child," Milk N Cookies' "Just a Kid" and "Little Lost and Innocent," and the blasting, Ozzie-meets-Black Sabbath-and-Fat Albert's-junkyard-band jam "Trouble Maker" by Chrissy Zebby Tembo. When they're finished with Polanski, the LA DA may want to flip through the catalogues of Alex Chilton, KISS, and Milk N Cookies, all of whom wrote a lot about, uh, young love. Though we can probably cut Milk N Cookies some slack since, when they wrote the songs, they were probably minors themselves.

 

Hey Little Child Alex Chilton

Current Issue
February 2012


Little Young Lover Curtis Mayfield


Christine Sixteen KISS

 

Thirteen Big Star

 

Just a Kid Milk N Cookies

 

Little Lost and Innocent Milk and Cookies

 

Stray Cat Blues The Rolling Stones



Troublemaker Chrissy Zebby Tembo and Ngozi Family

 

Run-Hide Trouble Andrew

 

 

None Shall Escape the Judgement Johnny Clarke

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