KRLX mix #14 (5/11/2018)

Following up on “That’s Entertainment” (episode #6), this installment of Where The Action Was features plenty of up-tempo and anthemic songs about British class anxiety, including the mordant musings of Pulp’s “Common People” and the defiant, crunchy hopelessness of The Godfathers’ “Birth, School, Work, Death.” Traipsing through every U.K. musical movement from British Invasion to Britpop, this playlist shows that while the sun may indeed set on the British Empire these days, its musical denizens never stop scrutinizing their society — and fretting about their place in it.