PSINK_MUSIC
A survey of psychiatry and anti-psychiatry in song
I wanted to do something fun (in contrast to the deadly serious preceding PSINK installments) that also experimented with representing audio visually and paid homage to my influences.
Top down, left to right: “BlackBoxWarrior” by Will Wood, “Your Mind is Not Your Friend” by The National, “Jesus on the Telephone” by Machinery of the Human Heart, “The Past is a Grotesque Animal” by of Montreal, “LIKED U BETTER” by Jeff Rosenstock, “Frontier Psychiatrist” by The Avalanches, “Beach Life-in-Death” by Car Seat Headrest.
A selection of installments from PSINK are currently on view in the Leu Center for the Visual Arts from March 7 through April 3. Come by and see it if you can.
Love this! Consider a boomer edition: Fire & Rain (James Taylor), 21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson), Trouble Child, Twisted (Joni Mitchell), Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel), Mother's Little Helper (Rolling Stones).
This is really pre-boomer:
Jolly Old Sigmund Freud by Anna Russell
I went to my psychiatrist
To be psychoanalyzed
To find out why I killed the cat
And blacked my husband's eyes.
He laid me on a downy couch
To see what he could find,
So this is what he dredge-ed up
From my subconscious mind:
Chorus:
Hey, libido,
Bats in the belfry,
Jolly Old Sigmund Freud.
When I was one, my mommy hid
My dolly in a trunk,
And so it follows naturally
That I am always drunk.
When I was two, I saw my father
Kiss the maid one day,
And that is why I suffer now
From kleptomania.
[Chorus]
At three, I had the feeling of
Ambivalence towards my brothers,
And so it follows naturally
I poisoned all my lovers.
But I am happy; now I've learned
The lesson this has taught;
That everything I do that's wrong -
Is someone else's fault.
[Chorus]