”God Save the Queen!” A notable sentiment when expressed in red spray paint on asphalt in Utica, Michigan.
    What motivation could lead the painter of this message to scribe thusly? A further fifty yards down the street I found a discarded CDR, with no label. I thought that perhaps the content of the disk was related to the Anglophilic roadway notation. I took it home and upon inserting it in my wife’s iBook was notified that I’d discovered someone’s copy of the soundtrack for the movie “Armageddon”.
    The Movie’s title closely matched the CD’s content, which heavily favors Steven Tyler and Steven Tyler derivatives. Note from the list below that the single nod to modernity contained therein was the overplayed and craptastic song Starseed, by Our Lady Peace.

    Neither the movie nor its soundtrack are British, but the shedding of the soundtrack might have been one of the steps the anonymous scrawler took on the road to psuedo-Brittanianism.

    “England, I cast aside Steven Tyler and turn to YOU! Love in my heart, and God Save the Queen!”

    Armageddon: the Original Motion Picture
    Track list:

• I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing – Aerosmith
• Remember Me – Journey
• What Kind Of Love Are You On – Aerosmith
• La Grange – ZZ Top
• Roll Me Away – Bob Seger
• When The Rainbow Comes – Shawn Colvin
• Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith
• Mister Big Time – Jon Bon Jovi
• Come Together – Aerosmith
• Wish I Were You – Patty Smyth
• Starseed – Our Lady Peace
• Leaving On A Jet Plane – Chantal Kreviazuk*
• Theme From Armageddon – Trevor Rabin
• Animal Crackers – Steven Tyler

* Kreviazuk is such an interesting name. This track was not. Lazy alt-folk-rock crap with nary an intriguing accent. Kind of Natalie Imbruglia-esque. Wierd, that was an interesting name, too….