Playlist: Posing and Postulating

Posted by Melissa Kaplan

For Marketplace Morning Report, Tuesday, July 13

Did the banks contort reality when they issued those mortgage-backed securities that heralded the downfall of the economy? Did Microsoft once turn your head when it commanded power? Is it right for yogis to impose patents on poses? We asked ourselves these questions today over a cosmic, tinkering musical din that seemed itself to bend reality — or at least make light of it.

• It’s a Crime I Never Told You About the Diamonds in Your Eyes — The Black Heart Procession Buy

• Why Must It Always Be This Way — Choir Of Young Believers Buy

• Far Away — Cut Copy Buy

• How’s Your Love Life — Wallspace Buy

• Headlines (Jay Clark remix) — Neon Blondes Buy