On a visit to New York in 2016, I filled my days by wandering the streets in search of hitherto mythical locations, referenced in the songs I’d grown up listening to. A kind of alternative travel guide, a form of music Flâneurism…
Nothing more than that.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0j7b1dl2qi0K5C2mNI8nQ8?si=vE0VH_UXQWG70ZuCsKCDig
https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/nyc-antenna-up/pl.u-LdbqqjruxeD2pM
"Antenna up and out into New York
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
And oh, my giddy aunt, New York can talk
It's the modern Rome where folk are nice to Yoko"
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ADh6olpF5MakJbj1l75Ki?si=e9f0ec437fd64a56
"To the belly of the beast, by waterside"
https://open.spotify.com/track/3kL0BXmjRCvrEMYzj9PUkx?si=9e3ffda56d0546e3
"What year you born in?"
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Q4apI1afNqKP5Ibw6VyKo?si=7d2d6f8ac01e4690
"New York is Cold, but I like where I'm living, there's music on Clinton Street all through the evening"
https://open.spotify.com/track/77K5TB5KZmDZCoJCdd1NvE?si=b0167f8f80974f97
Autumn in New York
Is often mingled with pain
Lovers that bless the dark
On benches in Central Park
https://open.spotify.com/track/6o5RbQYhmF4yRRw7ZArxGL?si=63c608b39f6245d5
I'm waiting for my man
26 dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, one, two, five
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
https://open.spotify.com/track/7hrJgdNzMHlKxEorMLrPcD?si=ab7031d7a6284a48
"I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, you were famous, your heart was a legend. You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception."
https://open.spotify.com/track/4krhCfJg0znykZoyjeMXRe?si=220c048f899e4236
"He went to the bottom, put his soul on fire
New Jersey Turnpike riding on a wet night"
https://open.spotify.com/track/642RyF22YroWoi1rpSd2wg?si=fce4cc9031cd4fe5
"There was a guy
An underwater guy who controlled the sea
Got killed by ten million pounds of sludge from New York and New Jersey"
https://open.spotify.com/track/6BT7qiDY4A5tOyklohjQuW?si=882432a259304d77
"The world is my expense
The cost of my desire
Jesus blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire"
"New York, you're perfect, oh, please don't change a thing
Your mild billionaire mayor's now convinced he's a king
And so the boring collect, I mean all disrespect"
https://open.spotify.com/track/5rAff9XfcWx7rguN3t0fkW?si=3fb11d5e077b4506
