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It is a particularly modern way of thinking but one that is nonetheless welcome as a distraction, as a way of encompassing art into both the daily life and music into the realms of everything that you, a memory aid for the busy lifestyles of the 21st Century of where you were at certain junctures of your time on Earth, the soundtrack to your life.
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Some album names just give off the aura of invincibility, of the passion of the place or city they are emulating or trying to evoke. American cities pretty much have the upper hand in this compared much of Europe in terms of 20th and 21st Century Western culture. Scarborough in England certainly captures a state of mind with a certain generation and various places in London can tickle the imagination but American cities jump down the throat of the listener and New York City perhaps arguably jumps further and lands harder than any other city on Earth.
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When a musician from New York makes a statement it usually pays to shut up, listen intently to what follows and then take in the enormity of what they have said or sang about. Just like Liverpool, New York, the cities on each side of the Atlantic are perhaps the closest comparable ones in the world. Never mind the size and scale of the two respective places; it is the beating heart, the artistic underbelly that drives the two seemingly polar opposites together.