Musical Thoughts

Music, urban discourse, movie talk. Just some thoughts

[Musical Thoughts @athoughtfulnote]

@Liamjsm I would count Ziggy Stardust in this category as well; sort of a self conscious journey through different varieties of meat and potatoes. Not much of a prog album aside from the space theme and stage presentation

[Musical Thoughts @athoughtfulnote]

@Liamjsm The magic trick on the Stones albums is that while they are convincingly rootsy they are also vaguely high concept pastiche a la Dylan or Zeppelin; nearly every song on each of those albums has a different style/aesthetic in a manner that wouldn’t be found in the source material

[Musical Thoughts @athoughtfulnote]

@Liamjsm How many trad albums that end with a gospel choir start out with sympathy for the devil though? I feel like Some Girls is the real “back to tradition” classic Stones album but even that is littered with self aware plays on disco, punk etc

[Solve SF @solve_sf]

This is an interesting one. 15th and South Van Ness.

[peter lane @peterlanee]

True oldhead youtube comment. You don’t see them like this anymore

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Whoever said ‘out of sight, out of mind’ never had a spider disappear inside their tent.

[Sun Ra Arkestra @SunRaUniverse]

I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.
(Sun Ra)

[Musical Thoughts @athoughtfulnote]

@vintagemapstore Just wait til you see the interetate that runs through Oregon

[Bill Pourquoimec @BillPourquoimec]

Velvet Underground playing for the American Society of Clinical Psychiatrists [1966]

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

Broome Street between Mott and Mulberry Streets, Manhattan, 1980, by Robert Herman

[Musical Thoughts @athoughtfulnote]

@Driftwould2 @evan7257 Yep. If you’ve heard of it, the hipsters weren’t listening. Duh! 🙄

[Musical Thoughts @athoughtfulnote]

@buccocapital Car guy is essential regardless of income level, really only falls short of health guys in overall importance imo

[Mark D. Levine @MarkLevineNYC]

Just a massive change in NYC's power grid this week. Getting almost no attention.

A 350-mile transmission line bringing hydro-electric power from Canada to NYC is now live.

Will provide enough electricity to power 1 million homes, bringing us to 40% renewable energy sources for the five boroughs. At last making up for the loss of Indian Point nuclear power plant, which used to provide 20% of our power.

The Champlain Hudson Power Express took more than 12 years to build. It was a tough political fight. Now we need to win many more fights like this.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

A grasshopper, hand-carved with Haematite between 1800 and 1700 BCE in ancient Babylonia

[Richard Campanella @nolacampanella]

Lulu King Saxon's "Uptown Street" (1890, at the Ogden Museum) gives an idea of what much of uptown New Orleans looked like after the plantation subdivisions of the 1810s-1850s, but before the full urbanization of the 1890s-1910s.

[Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci]

This week I came across the obituary of a photographer named David Plowden. I was unfamiliar with his work, but decided to browse his website after reading that he specialized in photos of trains and industry.

I’m not much of an art guy, but these photos are astonishing. (1/4)

[Variety @Variety]

Keith David gets emotional and says he’s “living his dream” while accepting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“I started out as a singer, then I wanted to be a preacher, and I wanted to be a lawyer and a bank president. Then I discovered I could be an actor and be all those things.”

https://t.co/3ZYYSgVgW6

[Musical Thoughts @athoughtfulnote]

@conorsen @TheStalwart I loathe waiting in line for food etc but as a fan of brick and mortar record + bookstores, online shopping could never replace the rush of finding something you have long been looking for, even if it isn’t that rare

[ArtDontSleep @ArtDontSleep]

The Staple Singers performing in Drew, Mississippi. An early Mavis Staples, performing on the soil that raised Pops and gave birth to their sound.

[Luke Reagan @lukecaverns]

Hang this on your wall — all 17 known Olmec heads🗿