#mentalsoundtrack — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mentalsoundtrack, aggregated by home.social.
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On my mental soundtrack on this Mother's Day: the queer chorus I sing with performed this song earlier this year, and it hit me right between the eyes emotionally. The pain of my parents emotionally distancing themselves from me as I became ever more assertive about being my true queer self still rankles almost 50 years later.
"I come from good people
I have journeyed far from them
My mother and I are two of a kind
And I wear my father's face
I have left them far behind
We will meet in another place" -
On my mental soundtrack today.
#CSN #FolkRock #1960sMusic
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On my mental soundtrack today -- because it's tradition! 💖
#EarthWindAndFire #Funk #1970sMusic
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On my mental soundtrack today: in honor of Turtles co-founder Mark "The Phlorescent Leech" Volman, RIP today age 78, I present one of my favorite of Frank Zappa's compositions, featuring Mark and his musical partner Howard Kaylen in their Flo and Eddy guise.
#MarkVolman #TheTurtles #FloAndEddy #FrankZappa #ArtRock #1970sMusic
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On my mental soundtrack this Labor Day is an old favorite of mine, one of the wittier takedowns of modern industrial culture that I've heard in recent years.
#DireStraits #rock #1980sMusic
#MentalSoundtrack #NowPlaying #LaborDay
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One of my favorite songs by one of my favorite musical smart-asses. Rest in peace, sir.
#TomLehrer #NoveltySong #1950sMusic
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Back to distracting myself with another hunk of early Roxy Music, live and as weird as they wanna be.
#RoxyMusic #LiveMusic #ArtRock #1970sMusic
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Most emphatically on my mental soundtrack this evening as I embark on a deep dive into early Roxy Music. This live performance is beautifully controlled chaos - and Bryan Ferry and the whole band are just fascinating to watch.
#RoxyMusic #BrianFerry #ArtRock #1970sMusic #LiveMusic
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So I'm again/still obsessing over drag king - the logistics of how I could pull it off as a disabled person (could I hold a crowd's attention while doing my entire act seated?) plus making my musical tastes fit into the drag scene. For example: I was checking out some Roxy Music videos and now I'm jazzed by the idea of performing to a medley of Do the Strand and Both Ends Burning (they're even in the same key and tempo!). Not sure if the world is ready for a non-skinny all-seated Bryan Ferry homage, but part of me is tempted by the idea of rolling onstage in a tailored suit and modish black hair wig, taking a seat onstage, and kicking into
"There's a new sensation
A fabulous creation
A danceable solution
To teenage revolution..."
I dunno ... what do you folks out in Mastodon-land think of this madness?#drag #DragKing #RoxyMusic #BryanFerry
#MentalSoundtrack
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On my mental soundtrack today: Randy Newman's brilliant skewering of his era's edition of US-style fascism - love how he calls them out in this live performance - and a painfully relevant song for these times.
#RandyNewman #PopMusic #1970sMusic
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In honor of Pride Month, here's the beginnings of a list of songs I'd love to sing in the Drag King karaoke bar of my dreams (in addition to the LGBTQ+ anthems I've posted recently):
--David Bowie, "Life on Mars?"
--Todd Rundgren, "Real Man"
--The Doors, "LA Woman"Please feel free to comment with other songs you would add to this list!
#PrideMonth #MentalSoundtrack #DragKing #nonbinary #genderfluid #trans #transmasc
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Today's entry in my mental soundtrack to celebrate Pride in spite of everything damn it. Pete Shelley's audacious call to revolutionary queer love, with its equally audacious video.
#PeteShelley #SynthPop #1980sMusic #Pride
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On my mental soundtrack for Pride Month: Jimmy Somerville's gorgeous falsetto ringing out in protest against queerphobia, set to a video that broadens the protest to call out 1980s Thatcherist economic oppression. Both of which messages, sadly, apply to current events in the US.
#BronskiBeat #JimmySomerville #synthpop #disco #1980sMusic #PrideMonth
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Celebrating Pride Month via my mental soundtrack of songs that never fail to make me feel mighty real. RIP Sylvester, gone but far from forgotten - here's a terrific live performance with a wonderful slow-burn finish.
#Sylvester #disco #HiNRG #1970sMusic
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On my mental soundtrack this US Memorial Day: a meditation on the price of war, recorded during the height of the Vietnam War.
#EricBurdon #PsychedelicRock #1960sMusic
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I don't usually mind my mental soundtrack doing its own thing, but Gaudeamus Igitur is not my idea of bedtime music.
#MentalSoundtrack
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On my mental soundtrack today - this was the version I first heard, back when I was a teen.
#MurrayHead #SymphonicRock #FunkRock #1970s
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A conversation with @handmade_ghost about "Waiting for Godot" reminded me of this brilliant music video for k.d. lang's stunning song "Constant Craving" - so that was more than enough excuse for that song to hop onto my mental soundtrack tonight. 💖
#KDLang #pop #QueerMusic #1990s
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And because Mr Swayze's banana inevitably resulted in a certain earworm wedging itself onto my mental soundtrack, I will pass that favor along to you all. You're welcome. 🤣
#raffi #ChildrensMusic #jazz #1990s
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Needed some musical mood mitigation on my mental soundtrack today, and the brain fetched up this old favorite chunk o punk-flavored gallows humor re the latest rapid accelerations in the decline and fall of "Western" civilization.
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On my mental soundtrack tonight: a foreboding old classic, and yet another song of my youth that feels especially relevant today. RIP George.
#GeorgeHarrison #beatles #rock #1970s
#MentalSoundTrack #NowPlaying
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Okay, now this song is in heavy rotation on my mental soundtrack. Turn up the volume, and if you can spare a thought or a buck in this crisis-filled time for David Johansen, please do so.
#DavidJohansen #PunkRock #1970s
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Meanwhile, my brain has decided my morale could stand to have a blast from The Clash on my mental soundtrack today.
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On my mental soundtrack the past couple of days: a grunge classic with a suitably apocalyptic music video for venting my existential dread re current national and world political events. Useless yet strangely satisfying to imagine, for example, the Felon and his stooges being similarly sucked into the void.
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Another ambivalent Christmas song from the holiday edition of my mental soundtrack ... which manages to find something meaningful amidst the ambivalence.
#TimMinchin #ComedyMusic #2000s #ChristmasMusic
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Few recordings include the abolitionist-spirited third verse of this beloved Christmas anthem, as freely translated into English by American Unitarian John Sullivan Dwight on the eve of the US Civil War:
"Truly He taught us to love one another;
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother;
And in His name all oppression shall cease..."Though that verse isn't in Mahalia Jackson's classic recording either, she totally embodied that message of liberation and social justice in her life.
#MahaliaJackson #gospel #1960s #ChristmasMusic
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Y'know, if that Dan Fogelberg song counts as a Christmas song, surely this song by my preferred Dan does too. Specifically for that poignant second verse. RIP Walter Becker.
#SteelyDan #WalterBecker #JazzRock #1990s #ChristmasMusic
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A favorite from my mental soundtrack of ambivalent Christmas songs.
#EmersonLakeandPalmer #GregLake #FolkRock #1970s #ChristmasMusic
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This song has been stuck in my head for several days now thanks to a photo of Exene Cervenka and John Doe taken by Chris Stein that he posted to his BlueSky account. So now I'm passing the favor along to you all. Sorry not sorry. 😄
#Xband #PunkRock #1980s #ExeneCervenka #JohnDoe
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On my mental soundtrack today: Frank Zappa RIP 31 years ago today. He would have had some appropriate snark for the current political crapfest. This little ditty is apropos.
#FrankZappa #Rock #Funk #1970s
#MentalSoundtrack #NowPlaying