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#The whole ''Day And Age'' album is fucking great
strawberryspence · 1 year
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happy birthday, @stevesbipanic! i am glad you were born, you amazing human being. I hope you get to drink the coldest, most delicious, bougiest milo you can have. ILY broccoli! 💛
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Steve has never had a birthday cake. He doesn't count the first six cakes his parents had for him, because he's pretty sure it was only for appearances.
He remembers his seventh birthday. How badly he wanted to have a Flintstones themed birthday party, and how his parents called it tacky. Instead, Steve had a lavish tea party with all of their investor friends. He remembers hating it.
After that, there's— nothing. There were Nannies or Babysitters that tried to make him feel better by bringing him to Benny's and he's thankful for that. But there's always that heart wrenching rip in his system when he sees a child. Surrounded by family, singing happy birthday as they wait to blow on a cake.
And the thing is if Steve never gets to have that, it’s okay. It’s really, really, really, okay. That also means he’ll do his best to give all the kids the best birthdays they can have, so they can never feel what he felt. If El wants a day just full of craft making? Sure. Dustin wants to visit this damn planetarium in Indianapolis? Okay. Mike wants to dress him like him for an entire day? Alright.
Steve is happy that way, until Eddie Munson comes crashing into his life with a broken bottle. And okay, maybe it’s not a great idea to lie in the biggest and probably the most important relationship he has right now, but he’s not going to tell Eddie his little sad secret.
What he forgot to account for is the fact that his boyfriend is the biggest snoop to ever exist.
“Wha— What’s this?” Steve stammers as he enters his house. It’s almost always dark when he comes home, the house dull and empty.
Tonight, it’s different. After having his birthday dinner with Robin, Steve drives them back to his house so they can have movie night. Supposedly.
Instead, Eddie’s standing behind the long wooden dining table that never gets used, with 20 different cupcakes, all lit with a candle. There’s food and banners and balloons with streamers.
Robin pushes him forward with a smile, “So…” Eddie walks towards him, “I found some of your childhood pictures.”
“Oh.” Steve breathes out.
“Look, maybe I am wrong. Maybe I got it all wrong. Maybe your parents just weren’t the kind of people that liked taking pictures and having to develop them. Maybe someday, you’ll tell me why you only have one childhood photo album or why there’s no pictures of your birthday parties past the age of six.”
Eddie says, hands nervously twisting around his hair, “But, on the off chance that I am right,” He shakes his head in disbelief, “On the off chance that you haven’t had a birthday cake or a birthday wish in 14 years, I got you 20 birthday cupcakes.”
Steve can barely hold himself anymore, tears threatening to spill from his eyes, “Why 20?”
Eddie smiles at him, and his eyes sparkle at Steve like he hung the damn moon and stars, like he fucking created the whole universe, “One for every year my favorite person has been alive.”
Steve chokes down a half sob, half whine as he slaps a hand on his mouth.
“Oh, sweetheart.” Eddie whispers as he wraps Steve in a comforting hug. They stay like that for a minute before Eddie says, “I am so happy you were born. There’s a few more people that are happy, they’re all hiding in the kitchen right now.”
“What?” Steve pulls back, hastily wiping his tears.
“The kids are all here. Nance, Jonathan, and Argyle.” Eddie tenderly wipes a stray tear off his cheek, “Even Wayne, Hop, Joyce, and Mrs. Henderson is here.”
Steve’s not sure if he wants to know, but he still asks, “Why?”
Eddie visibly softens, but before he can answer Robin answers for him, “Because we all love you, Dingus.”
“So, here’s what’s going to happen. You’re going to sit behind the cupcakes and they’re going to come out from where they’ve been eavesdropping.” Steve laughs when Eddie emphasizes the word, and there’s a clatter in the kitchen followed by whispering, “They’re going to act normal. And we’re going to sing you a song. Okay?”
Steve smiles, nodding, “Okay.”
“Okay.” Eddie says as he runs to the kitchen and as Robin ushers him to sit in front of the cupcakes. She forces a birthday hat on his hair, and he doesn’t even argue.
They all come out from the kitchen, all smiling and wearing ridiculous birthday hats. Even Hop and Wayne are wearing them and it might actually be the funniest thing he’s ever seen. The kids have blow horns that fill the silent house with joyous sounds.
They sing him a birthday song. It’s loud and it doesn’t exactly sound good. Dustin’s trying a new other pitch and Lucas has never been a good singer. Max is drumming on the table and El has a small tambourine. Mike and Will are trying to do some kind of duet in their own little bubble. But it’s the most beautiful, harmonious sound to Steve.
And as they all urged him to make a wish, Steve is struck with awe and disbelief, a feeling of realization sparking in his veins. Steve’s got everything he’s ever wanted right in front of him. He just wants all of them to be safe and sound.
He smiles at his family, as he lets his eyelid flutter shut.
And for the first time, Steve makes a birthday wish.
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Steve smiles, happy and content, as everyone chitchats around him.
"Hey, Eds?" Steve calls out for his boyfriend who's busy stuffing his face with bread rolls.
"Yeam?" Eddie replies, still chewing on the bread.
"Can I have a Flintstone themed birthday next year?"
Eddie swallows his bread with water, before turning to Steve with a smile so bright it could blind him. He moves closer to give his temple a light kiss.
"You got it, sweetheart. I'll be Fred, you'll be Wilma. It will be perfect."
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Frankenstein (The Mechanisms)
How could I have a soul when you gave me no name!
"Ok so. Abt 10 mins long song, completely standalone with no relation to any other albums. Based on frankenstein. AND IT FUCKS. Retelling of frankenstein where the monster is an ai created by victoria frankenstein and it basically destroys a whole planet bc victoria wouldn't let it create others of its kind, leaving it lonely and refusing to acknowledge its existence as more than just her crowning achievement, something that brings her glory but should never be seen as anything close to a human being. But the ai keeps victoria alive, killing and reviving her over and over again in hopes that one day she'll agree to let it create more of itself, even though she keeps refusing every time. The song itself shows one iteration of that cycle, with victoria waking up, recalling her ai's actions, refusing its demands and dying only to be revived again at the end of the song, with the cycle continuing on. Its very much a 'first lines of the song are the same as the last lines' scenario and its great. Im submitting it over other mechs songs bc you don't really need any previous context to understand it and its severly underrated and i love it."
Drift Away (Steven Universe)
You keep on turning pages/For people who don’t care/People who don’t care about you/And still it takes you ages/To see that no one’s there/See that no one’s there/Everyone’s gone on without you
"Being stuck in one place while people, well, drift away and leave you behind. Realizing that relationships don’t always last forever. But waiting and hoping that, eventually, you’ll come back to each other, before realizing that’s not gonna happen."
Drift Away submitted by @angelicdevil
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seokoilua · 3 months
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further bojan thoughts because it is what it is
anything anyone said in the notes of the last one. thank you
how he sometimes loves to hold a friend's head when he hugs them. you know what i mean. his hand is always in their hair. and he's so gentle about it. and it makes his hugs look like he's about to kiss but he's just the softest person ever. the earliest example i have is him hugging martin when they won špil liga so he's been doing it. no one seems to acknowledge it except for käärijä who mocked him for it on stage by exaggeratingly stroking bojan's cheek. you know. that moment. and woah this got long but this is one of the biggest bojan things i think about this daily and take a moment to process it each time.
he does have other brands of hugs too of course but this one is somewhat unique to him, i don't know anyone else who does this consistently
smell thing. like how he's so into smelling someone else which sounds a bit weird maybe but he's so fucking real for it. my best example is astp/ntjp lyrics of course. but didn't he say something about telling people they smell good to make them feel great? idk.
this is so much funnier considering käärijä's infamous laundry saga. but as a full-time bojan girlie which unfortunately includes part-time bojan defenderism i'm obliged to say the fact that the laundry was likely lying around somewhere for a WEEK without much air and then käärijä who is not particularly famous for owning many shirts goes and washes it. yeah perhaps that is not the natural stage of bojan's scent. even if that guy is sweaty as hell
looking around to see the reactions whenever he makes a joke
tapping his heart!! or where his heart probably is!! which looks like slapping his tit but he means his heart and he does it all the time on stage rraaahhhh
the lol ur not matt healy shirt (shout out to my best friend who likes the 1975)
the yellow submarine shirt (shout out to my brother who also has a streak of white hair at the ripe age of 14 and a yellow submarine shirt he's worn everywhere)
all the beatles merch in general actually. we get it
his ass
ok sorry
the way he drew that lipstick "heart" on martin in the kot srce music video behind the scenes like. uh. do i need to witness this
that gif of him laughing in ema fresh that i see every single time i open my profile (on mobile)
when they were once asked in an interview what makes them blush and it made him seriously think
oversharing in instagram stories (the whole "when you go from 200k to 199k followers" but also sharing his exact location in real time. never forget)
how good his hair looks recently washed
having to say he is not non-platonically involved with käärijä like how the fuck did we even end up here? young heart-throb singer from slovenia and a former-nobody 30-year-old rapper from finland? to me personally it's even funnier because i've been battling the slovenian-finnish dating rumours myself back in the day. can't gals across europe just be pals in peace. also stop asking him about it
consistently sounding better live on stage than in the studio
how žare pak's fucked up perception of time and work messed badly with bojan back when they were recording gola
speaking of žare pak and gola, the way he changed completely the way he sings when recording that. you must start umazane misli album from omamljeno telo to get the full impact
saying "aww" or "haha" or just nothing whenever kris confesses his undying love (not an exaggeration from me please roll with it) for him
speaking five words of finnish, three of them wrong, yet having the confidence to correct others and then correcting them wrong. god i love him (longino no no it's longero)
his instagram captions like "she said i gotta be patient. am i doing it right" under a pic of him in the hospital
breaking eye contact with the audience (me) to focus on finding the right notes on the guitar yes go off musician
his specific brand of handsome
expanding on that okay so i've only seen him live once so don't listen to me but bojan looked like someone who belongs in an old, probably black-and-white film (mark pirc seems to get this). or, even more so, like he's jumped out of a history book. he's just handsome in such a classical way? like definitely an old picture of someone's grandfather. except for his hair
(until he smiles)
barve oceana. yes i mentioned this one last time but i genuinely think about this every day
his "supernatural experiences" (serbian black magic that nace likes to mention)
the shape of his beard? just the chin? i'm not roasting just questioning. but he looks great either way
his moustache good lord i fucking love moustaches
him without facial hair! or whenever he has it particularly short! it's an immediate trip back in time. jesus christ i kinda forget how young this person is
having practiced judo for like ten years! i remember a good while ago seeing a post in here about how his body looks the way it does specifically because of this and i would be lying if i said i don't think about it weekly
how he's in one of the video clips in that one mrfy music video with a theme of like a collection of memories or something. i remember thinking maybe i'll take a pause from joker out and try some other slovenian music for science and yeah no bojan "why is this man everywhere" cvjetićanin is just thrown on my face
his belly button. which we don't get to see often but when we do i lose all my functions for three to five business days
saying he'd get a tramp stamp tattoo if they won eurovision . bojan, hi, did you know you can take that without eurovision too btw. like if you weren't aware. just a completely neutral and altruistic piece of advice for you, Bojan, who were considering a lower-back tattoo. Hi
recording vocals at ass o'clock on the night before christmas eve
having almost no formal training in singing. what is he even doing recording albums and touring europe (killing it, evidently)
being so good at imitating the other band members and käärijä. and probably other people as well but i wouldn't know. probably something to do with his general talent in language
switching between like four different accents in a couple sentences when speaking in english
saying "i love you too" with zero hesitation to käärijä who was just fucking around. that live stream after the turku gig you know
finishing his little speech to the band with "i love you" before a concert. from the vlog. yeah
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bonesandthebees · 15 days
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Hi again Bee.
Thank you for lending an ear to listen even if I just kinda showed up. I really appreciate it. I've actually been reading through some of your other stories and they're very good (I adore the fae works!).
When it comes to Wilbur, I'm just. Very disappointed and upset. Of course I support Shubble and am glad she spoke out, it's very important and I'm glad that it's encouraged others to come forward with their own stories of abuse at the hands of large creators. At the same time though part of me wishes she hadn't said anything, so I could have continued as I was, in blissful ignorance, even if I feel really guilty for thinking like that.
It just saddens me that someone I looked up to so much ended up being this horrible person. It makes me worried that I too am bad, that somehow he has imprinted his awfulness unto me. I used to be horrible too. I like to think I've grown as a person, I was only a kid, but have I? Or was being drawn to Wilbur a sign? Like attracting like?
Y'know, I used to say that my hair style goals were how Wilbur's hair is, and recently I got a haircut. When I took a shower earlier it ended up floofing up in a similar way to his. I don't know how to feel about that. Maybe I should style it differently, even though I like the floof. I don't want to be even a little reminiscent of an abuser.
I am reminiscent of him though, in ways I can't change. I used to feel so seen by him, we're both song writers, and hypochondriacs, and I wanted to be him so badly I would cry. I would cry because he was everything I desperately craved to be as an insecure transmasc, an attractive guy with a beautiful voice and an amazing life. And now he's horrible, and probably always has been, and all of my memories of him are tainted.
I hate that I can't listen to Lovejoy anymore. It feels unfair to the other band members. It isn't their fault Wilbur is awful, and yet I'm taking away a source of their income. I know I'm taking away from Wilbur too, but he's only one person out of the group. Maybe that's just me giving an excuse so that I won't have to stop enjoying their music. It doesn't matter, I can't stomach listening to them anymore anyways.
I keep getting songs from YCGMA stuck in my head. It's like now that I can't listen to it anymore my brain has decided to fuck with me by making me listen to it anyways. I can't even justify listening to that album, that's just Wilbur's music. I was going to cover a song from that album for fun. Now I can't.
Is it bad I still find comfort in Wilbur as a character? C!Tommy is my favorite, but C!Wilbur is almost always a huge part of any C!Tommy story and I love C!Wilbur stories too. I know C! ≠ CC! but I just. It's complicated.
Idek why I'm this upset. I haven't been an avid watcher of anyone in the DSMP in at least over a year. If anything this whole thing has brought me back into the fandom more than I have been in ages. I feel bad about that, but also this situation has introduced me to people like Aimsey, whose content I'm seeing more of and I find myself enjoying.
I've also found more great DSMP fics lately in my quest to binge read them before the mass deletions start. Is it bad to find good things in a bad situation?
I'm sorry for the lack of put togetherness and the length of this ask. I promise I'm usually more coherent and to the point.
-Tech (just call me Tech like a name, "tech anon" feels weird heh)
hey tech, sorry for a bit of a late reply I've been busy the past few days
(sorry about the 'tech anon' thing, it's just a habit since that's how I refer to most of my anons. I'm going to still tag your ask as tech anon though just for my tagging system if that's okay)
I'm so glad you like the fae stories!! I'm still so proud of both of those looking back on them
anyway, yeah, I get that. I get the guilty wish that none of this had ever come out so you could just continue to go on in blissful ignorance. when someone learns something very upsetting, it's only natural to feel like you wish you never learned that. you don't need to feel guilty for that. you're not a bad person for your emotional reactions to things. your actions are what matters.
also, you are in no way a bad person because you were drawn to wilbur's content. the persona wilbur put on for the internet was not representative of who he actually was. you were drawn to the facade. an illusion of the person wilbur could've been, if he actually practiced the things he preached. you said you used to be a bad person, but you've changed. the fact that you are worried at all that you might still be bad shows a level of self-awareness and concern that wilbur apparently did not have. because wilbur was aware he was a bad person and treated the people around him terribly, but he didn't care to try and be better. as long as you're trying to be better, you're already leagues ahead of him.
also, regarding the hair, the floofy fringe is an incredibly common haircut. that is not exclusive to wilbur soot. you do not look like him if your hair does the floof similarly to his, it just makes you look like thousands of other dudes with fluffy fringe.
the day after shelby first streamed I had an MSR song stuck in my head and I hated it so much. it really sucks. you just have to try and drown it out with other music
it's not hypocritical at all to still find comfort in c!wilbur. I know it's complicated, and there's so much discussion I could get into as to why it's so complicated, but we can all separate the guy and the character in our heads. there's no reason to feel guilty about that. and there's also nothing bad about finding good in this situation. I think it's really sweet that you've found so many great fics in this time and I'm so glad you've been getting comfort from them. you're appreciating the authors hard work and that's a good thing! you don't need to feel bad about that
I hope you're doing okay tech
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Wait for your love.
Content Warnings (for throughout the story not much this chapter tho): Mentions of alcohol and drugs, mental health issues, parental issues, age-gap, billy dunne being toxic but we love him🫶🏼
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New Girl; 1976
In the spring of ‘76, a new face emerged on the music scene. With a unique, angelic voice, it didn’t take long for her song “supernatural” to blow up. And now, freshly off a plane from New York to L.A, she was ready to take a chance at stardom.
Karen: “Oh yea, we had all heard of her. She has a great voice, a great look, personality, she’s just a really good person.”
Eddie: “Hm? Oh, her…yea she was great. Talented singer, yea…”
Graham: “Warren said he had known her as a kid, no one believed him of course.”
Warren: “I’ve known her since forever. Our moms used to be really good friends. Met in college I think. But yea, really talented girl.”
Daisy: “Fucking amazing. Super talented, and just such a beautiful person to be around.”
Billy: “She’s great, talented, pretty. There really isn’t enough words to describe her. But she is…something.”
Graham: “We were working on the new album, and with Daisy as the new edition, things were going…semi-smoothly. Til the label said we should add a feature. Billy of course didn’t think we needed another edition, but everyone else as always went against what he thought. And Warren said he knew someone that would be perfect. After one phone call, he said we had our feature, and that she would be arriving in a few days…That next afternoon she walked into the studio…and I’m not going to lie…I thought Priscilla fucking Presley had walked into our studio.”
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It was a warm spring day. The skies were clear and the sun shined brightly. You stood outside of the studio, your future in the industry relied on this feature. At least that’s what you told yourself.
Taking a deep breath, smoothing out your dress, you walked in. Looking around for a second you took in the new environment. Then you saw the band. Daisy Jones and The Six. Shaking off your nerves you walked over to them. Right as you were about to say something. The guitarist looked at you. “You lost sweetheart?” he said as he put his guitar down.
“I don’t think I am. This is the Six’s studio right?” you say looking around again. “I’m (y/n), Warren called me for-“
“(y/n)!” Warren called out, walking over to you and giving you a hug. “I didn’t think you’d be here so soon.” laughing as he ruffles your hair. “Well when you called it sounded urgent so I hopped on the first flight out.” you say, nudging his arm away.
Warren rolls his eyes and laughs. “Well let me introduce you to everybody, this is Graham, that’s Karen, Eddie, Daisy’s over there, and Billy…is somewhere around here.” You smile at everyone. “It’s so nice to meet you all, I can’t wait to work with you guys.”
It all felt right to you. This feature is what was going to bring you to fame.
“You’re the girl that wrote ‘supernatural’, right?” you hear Karen say. “Yes, yes I did” you say proudly. “It’s a great song, you’ve got a great voice” she says with a smile.
You felt happy. This. This is what you’ve wanted your whole life. To be known for your music. And right as you were about to thank her, a man in an all denim outfit walked into the room. It was clear he was hungover or something.
“Look who finally decided to show up.” you hear Eddie mumble under his breath. “Fuck you say Roundtree?” the man says as he glares at Eddie. Eddie scoffs and rolls his eyes, clearly not wanting to argue. “That’s what I thought.” the man says. Finally, he acknowledges your presence. He looks at you up and down, going from your white gogo boots to your eyes. You felt a weird feeling in your stomach. You couldn’t tell if it was butterflies or if it was something else, you felt drawn to him. But some little voice in your head was screaming that this was bound to go wrong.
“(y/n), this is Billy Dunne, Graham’s brother. Billy, this is (y/n)(l/n), our new feature.” Warren says as he lights a cigarette.
Billy looks you up and down again. “This is our new feature?” he says, skepticism filling his voice. “We’re writing a rock album, not pop.” He walks closer to you, the smell of alcohol, cigarettes, and cologne radiating off of him. Warren takes a drag of his cigarette. “Give her a chance, she has a great voice.”
Billy looked irritated, he already had to add Daisy as an official member, and now here you were. He rolls his eyes. “Fine whatever” he mutters under his breath.
Just like that, you were officially going to be a feature for their album. And now you were a part of the life of Billy fucking Dunne.
Finally the first chapter is up!! I hope u guys liked it, (ik it’s not the best but i’m going to get better trust🙏) took me a while to get it up because I just kept trying to figure out how to like set the stage but I figured this would be the best way. Anyways apologies for it being so short and for taking so long to upload it but next chapter should be a tad bit longer since you guys will get to see the interviews from reader :) but yea hope u guys enjoyed 🫶🏼
btw does anyone have any idea at what kinda nickname to give reader? i cannot think of anything😭 if u guys have any ideas send me them through my asks! (i think it’s open)
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jackharlou · 2 years
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Happier than ever
Word count: 2k.
Part II
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Going through a breakup is hard, but going through one while having the whole world reminding you of your ex, of the nice moments you lived together and making you listen to his voice and see his face over and over again makes it so much harder. And tonight wasn't the exception.
As soon as you entered the red carpet, the media went crazy. Asking for poses, for looks, throwing questions you weren't going to answer, including "did you already saw Jack?". No, you didn't see him yet, and you really didn't want to.
You did media as fast as you could. You even had your assistant tell the interviewers that you wouldn't be answering questions about your failed relationship. Thankfully they respected that.
The ceremony started great, a bunch of your best friends won, you won a few of the categories too, but you still had a long night ahead.
"You want to go to the bathroom while he's performing or...?" - your best friend, Alyssa, your date for the night, leaned in towards you to ask.
"I don't think I should. Nassie is performing, and I wanna see him. Besides, people would talk so much shit if I leave for it" - you answered.
"Don't give a fuck at what they can say. If it'll hurt and make you feel uncomfortable, you don't have to force yourself to go through it. I know Nas would understand"
"I know, but I know the drama after that would hurt even more, so, let's just stay here, have our drinks and enjoy the rest of the show" - she held her drink up high and you did the same, then both took a long (and very much needed) sip of them.
When Lil Nas X hit the stage you got on your feet and started singing out loud. You were so excited for him because you knew how hard he has worked to be where he is.
When Jack appeared and started his part of the song, you tried to stick to the same energy you had seconds prior to it, you truly didn't want people talking shit. Oh, you knew they were going to talk, but you tried to not make them talk badly about the whole situation.
Luckily, Jack's part wasn't too long, so he left the stage shortly after and Nas continued on his own. Your energy switched back to your happy self. And people did commented that the following days.
"I'm going to get ready" - you announced to your friend, about 5 minutes after their performance was over, the one who gave you a tight hug and whispered on your ear words of encouragement.
Walking towards the backstage you encountered Nas' seat, so you quickly stopped to talk and congratulate him for the show and the award he won earlier. You didn't have much time to spare so you said goodbye and when you turned back, you bumped into someone's chest. You looked up and there was the face you didn't want to see and unfortunately found even in your soup.
"Hey" - he said softly - "Congrats, it has been a hell of a night for you"
"Yeah, hell can be a way to describe it" - you said ironically - "I have to go. Congratulations on the performance, keep having a good night" - you walked around him and kept walking towards the backstage. When you got into your little private space where you were going to get ready for the following ten minutes, you let go the air you were holding on to and closed your eyes, leaning against the closed door.
"You ok, hun?" - your stylist asked with her concern showing on her face.
"I am not, but let's hope that makes the performance better" - you got undressed and started getting ready.
"The next performer is the last performer of the night. She has given us love, happiness and sadness through her last album. She's so full of emotion and passion for her work and it's impossible not to notice. At such a young age she has won multiple awards, and we need to add to that list the 5 Grammys she's taking home tonight. With the song that's being listened over and over again in the whole wide world, "Happier than ever"; Y/n!" - Olivia Rodrigo presented you, and when she finished the lights were turned off and all the looks were placed on you.
You had a house build in the middle of the stage, and while sitting on a couch, you started pouring your heart into your own lyrics.
By the end of the performance there was fake rain pouring inside your little house, flooding the room you were in. Due to the water coming down no one could see the amount of tears running down your face. You thought you could hold it in and make it without crying, but Jack was sitting right in front of you.
He was leaning forward with his elbows placed on his legs and his hands holding his chin. Besides him there was Neelam, with her hand on his shoulder and a sad look.
If anyone paid attention to both of your faces, they would have felt uncomfortable, feeling like that was a private moment only for you two. It was like you were singing to him and he was the only one listening.
The song was over, the water was turned off and everyone stood to clap and scream for you. The following days people only talked about you and your performance.
You went back to your private room and bursted into tears, with your team holding you.
"Hun, that was the most incredible performance of your entire career, and I know it hurts now, but look! All this pain and sadness shaped you and your art. If there's something you have to thank him and this whole situation, is that" - your hairdresser said while quickly fixing your wet hair, while your makeup artist was trying to do something with your makeup but it wasn't easy with how bad you were sobbing.
"Don't kill me but he was looking at you like if he wanted to run and hold you" - your drummer mentioned. You hated to hear it but you saw it too.
"I saw it, and I don't fucking understand his sad puppy look when he was the one who broke us"
"People usually realize what they have when they lose it".
You were ready with a whole new outfit, a very sexy one and got out again, walking in front of Jack and Lil Nas, the one who grabbed your hand and pulled you towards him, giving you a tight hug.
"Bestie, that was insane. I've never seen you perform like that and I can't explain how proud I am"
"Thank you, Nassie, really. We worked so hard to get here and I'm so happy I get to share all of this with you" - you said holding his hands and squeezing them.
Besides him, Jack wanted to steal you from his hold and just have you in his arms, at least for one last time. You looked at him, you couldn't avoid it, so he took his chance to talk to you again - "Congrat..." - you looked at Nas again and kept walking towards your seat, where your friend was waiting with the biggest smile on her face.
"Girl, you did that!" - she said a little bit too loud while hugging you.
A few minutes later you were going to the stage again, to receive your "Record of the Year" award.
"Wow, thank you so much. There's so many people I want to thank, not just for this song, but for the whole album. You only see my face but there's so many crazy talented people behind this record, behind this song. Thanks to my team, my family, my friends and thanks to life for throwing me in situations where I get inspired. I may have left completely shattered from that place in my life, but that's the thing about art; it allows you to use your emotions and turn them into the most amazing things. So, if you feel like you're drowning right now, just think that situation you're going through is the fuel for the amazing road you have ahead and the incredible things you'll do. Again, thank you so much. Have a good night!" - everyone started clapping and you walked to the back again, where you met your friend and team.
You took pictures with some friends and when you were getting ready to walk out the building, you found Jack, again.
"Can I talk to you for a sec?" - he asked. You hated it but his low voice still affected you.
You thought about it for a second, you wanted to say no but you also wanted to hear what he was going to say, so you nodded.
You walked a few steps, to get out of the people's way.
"First I want to say how proud I am. You really killed that, and the album and that song are insanely good" - you just gave him a little smile, in a "thank you" kind of way - "And, I want to apologize. I'm sorry for being a kid, for not being the man you deserve. I..." - he took a deep breath and rushed his hand through his hair - "I love you, and I hate myself for understanding it when you were already gone. I don't understand why was it so hard for me to understand it and finally admit it but I see it now. You're the most amazing person I've ever met and I hate myself for letting you think you weren't loved"
You just stood there, looking at his watery eyes. You could feel yours matched his, and that in any moment tears could roll down. You wanted to hold him, kiss all over his face, and walk out of there holding his hand and showing the world you belonged to each other, but you couldn't.
"What do you expect me to say? You want me to jump in your arms and let you fuck me here? I don't understand and I don't even want to try to do it, so I'll do what you taught me best" - you turned on your heels and walked away from him. You were looking down and walking as fast as you could, and when you entered the car that was already waiting for you, you started crying like a little baby.
You thought you were over him but seeing him again make you realize you weren't, and thinking that there was a possibility of him being honest and really in love with you just made it worse.
"There you go, girl, you need it" - Alyssa handed you a bottle of vodka and you sipped on it like if it was water - "Did you see that thing they did with the microphones?" - she asked, making you cover your face and fake cry. You saw it, you couldn't stop seeing it in your head, actually.
"He told me he loved me" - you bursted out, making everyone in the car gasp.
"Of course he does, the way he looked at you while you were performing showed it, but damn it took him a long time"
You just took more sips of the bottle and focused on your phone. As soon as you opened Twitter you saw a video of the backstage side, unfortunately they got a little sight of the conversation you two had before leaving.
After you left he looked at the floor for a few seconds and Neelam came up to him, rubbing his back. He looked at her and she cleaned his tears with her free hand. He fell into her hold, not paying attention to the people around. You could see his body shake and Neelam trying to calm him down.
You handed your phone to Alyssa and she looked at you when the video was over - "Baby, that guy does love you"
Apparently he did, and since you wanted to run and hold him so he didn't cry anymore, you knew you still loved him.
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polyamorouspunk · 2 days
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So I (24, nonbinary) have been casually seeing this guy (38) that I've know for quite some time; I lost my virginity to him and it was fun and easy and honestly things had been great.
And then I was a little bit too high and confessed that I love him and he was super sweet in the moment and just held me and told me he's not comfortable saying the same because he's not sure
That was a couple weeks ago, the last time I spent the weekend. A few days ago I asked if he wanted to hang out again soon, but he didn't respond until today. He had a lot going on and also had to put his thoughts in coherent order, which I can respect. But reading his texts this morning has fucked up my whole day.
He's been really gentle in trying to let me down easy, I know he's still fucked up over his last relationship, and he's got two kids (both under 16) to think about; not to mention that I know he's worried about the age gap (he mentioned that I have so many possibilities ahead of me and I wanted to throw my phone).
I've got issues so I'm taking it really hard. Like this is definitely something I expected and yet I'm still super hurt. I don't really have anyone I'm comfortable talking about this with, and I'm sorry for dumping it all on you but I saw your little sleepover post and I could honestly use a hug and some positive vibes right now.
Okay okay okay so I know you know this is a LOT to unpack.
Mkay so I am 24 also (hi) some form of not cis (hi) and do have a crush on someone a fair bit older than me (33, not 38 though).
I love the idea of being with older men. The last guy I was seeing was 2 years older than me so like 26 now. Loved it. Love when older guys are interested in me. He was also going through a divorce and his son had just been born. It was a lot. I liveblogged the whole thing on here.
Dating older men comes with issues like that. And I have bpd so as soon as I FP someone yeah I’m instantly in love with them.
Dating older men can be hard when they say things about your future and shit like that- and I GET it, like it IS good advice even if you don’t want to hear it. I mean, when WE were under 16 how many people gave US good advice we didn’t want to hear at the time.
It sucks when you fuck up a good thing you had by confessing that you’re in love with someone who is not mutually in love with you. It reeeeally fucking sucks. Because either you hold that inside of you and you push it down and push it down and push it down, or you finally release it, let it go, and it fucks everything up.
There is no reason for you not to be hurt/upset about it even if you did expect it. Grieve. Let yourself grieve. Come into my inbox and dump all of this on me. Let people around you help you heal. Let me send you some love. I am holding your hand. I am telling you to some degree I have been there. To some degree I am there. And I know it gets better. Some day you’ll be like me, and you’ll be driving to work, and you’ll put on a new Fall Out Boy album that just came out, and you’ll cry, and you’ll realize through all the bad things, through all the shit and the hurt, this is why you stayed alive. You lived to be 23 so that you can hear Fall Out Boy put out new music.
And then you’ll be 24 and you’ll meet someone and they’ll change your world. And you think about how amazing it is that someone like this touched your life in some way, and that you can touch yours back. And you’ll meet up with old friends and make new ones.
And we’re so young, we’re SO young. It’s fucking wild to imagine this year (or next year) we’ll be half way to 50. That’s batshit insane. But like oh my god. The healing process that I’m going through is beautiful. Sure, there is a lot of stress. I’m failing the last class I need to graduate. My job stress is through the roof. I’m chronically ill. But outside of that I truly am continuing to live my best life every day.
I don’t know if you plan to try and keep on seeing him casually or if this really is the end for you. Either way this is just a bump in the road. 38 is so young too. We’re going to be okay. It’s a bad day. It’s gonna be a bad week. It might even be a bad month. Hell it might even be a bad year. But goddamn it if they don’t mean it when they say it’s not a bad life. It’s supposed to be almost 70 later today. I’m going to go work outside in the sun. My heartbreaks can’t stop me from creating art that I love. I saw a butterfly yesterday. Life is beautiful. Love is beautiful. Emotions are messy. They are disgusting. I hate them. But they’re poetic too.
Hell maybe this is all some Kumbaya bullshit I’m spouting. Idk. But I believe it. I really do. It takes work to believe in this shit. But it feels so much better when you do. Probably why cults work so well. Anyway!
It’s amazing that you got a chance to be with someone who is 38! I hope you look back on it fondly in a few years. And if you don’t then you’ll look back on yourself with kind eyes and think that at least in that moment you were happy and felt like it was what was best for you.
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hiya! how would you describe someone based on their favourite bugs album?
Hello my darling, sorry this took ages. But, here we go:
Please Please Me: Hipster who thinks they are the only one to truly understand The Beatles. Or you just think Ringo singing so joyously about Boys is worthy of the top spot. Maybe you're right
With The Beatles: You think the whole Lennon/McCartney thing is overrated and they were just a neat little rock group. So, in other words, an independent thinker. But not necessarily in a good way
A Hard Day's Night: Perhaps you were irrevocably fucked up from watching the film on repeat with your childhood best friend where you'd pretend to be married to Paul and John (don't look at the author). Or, you're a happy-go-lucky good time boy/girl and I think we should be friends
Beatles for Sale: Depressed and here for a pity party
Help!: Depressed but better at hiding it
Rubber Soul: Deep, but in a fun, approachable way
Revolver: Deep, but in a sort of off-putting yet compelling way
Sgt Pepper: Just straight up fun but not that deep
Magical Mystery Tour: Another flavour of hipster, but one that wants to explain the dream they just had to me in great detail.
White Album: A freak that cannot be satisfied by staying in one lane. I like you
Yellow Submarine: A George Martin stan that thinks he should have been able to have his own album, as a treat
Abbey Road: You like pain, but in a suffering is beautiful sort of way. Like a renaissance painting come to life
Let It Be: You like pain, but in a horny way. We should be best friends
Okay, how did I do?
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Okey but like I forgot Melanie Martinez makes music still and did that (really bad cover) of "It's my Party" by Lesley Gore...(I haven't listened to her since her dollhouse/pre-k song days...)
Lesley Gore my beloved~ (I love her I'd kill for her so bad LET ME KILL FOR HER PLEASE I LOVE HER!!!)
PLEASE SO LISTEN TO ME I LOVE HER SO MUCH AND SHES AN ICON I FUCKING LOVE LESLEY!!!!!!
She was only like 16 or 17 when she sang, "It's my Party" and that whole album was based off a very real (very shitty and messy) high-school love and birthday party she was at and did, and oh poor girl, what a mood...doing teenage heartbreak.
WE LOVE A LESBIAN THO! She was sooo orinted in LGBTQ+ things before, and stirght up called the music industry, "Really homophobic-" and was known from the age of 20- on to fancy and like women AND THATS SUCH A MOVE LIKE OF COURCE FUCK YEAH BABBYYY!!!!
I love her to death your honor ID DIE FOR HER!!
"She made her music known to all the trendy girls, with the self pitty crying session, to then turned fierce anger towrds all boyfriends alike-" YEAH BABBYYY!!
Sorry I love her she's an icon to me, and her music is great. I can see why Nancy loves her album and music so much and took so much inspiration from "It's my Party" ....💕💕💕💕
God she sounds like such a Queen. 🩷
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Do you like classical music? What are your favorite pieces?
Decently; I was a Band Kid back in the day lol so instrumental stuff has been a decent chunk of my life. I don't really listen to any of the classical greats or anything niche because I'm teeeerrible about finding new music in general much less like that; unfortunately, I've heard a lot of really good classical and jazz, but it's pretty hard to identify and retain songs (not to mention the difference of live vs recording), so all I've got is pretty well known recommendations haha. That said, they're still enjoyable and I recommend them both to people with classical and jazz exposure and people without.
Holst's suite The Planets is something I imagine everyone sort of interested in classical style music (feels weird to say. Not classical period but You Know What I Mean) already knows but they're damn good and I recommend anyone who hasn't listened to them, do so. They're essentially the blueprint for movie scores, to the point that *cough* some people just blatantly copy them *cough starwars cough*. Among those, beyond crowd favorites of Mars and Jupiter, I'm really partial to Saturn but suuuper picky about which recording I listen to for it. This is the one I like (though I recommend listening to other tracks I've linked here before this one because it's just. a lot of investment):
It's a little more uptempo than I prefer for the piece but the ending is fucking exquisite, man. A lot of recordings will have one or two musicians slide just slightly out of tune or a bit of a hard tongue and on a piece like this it's super noticable to me (in other times not at all lmao, this makes me sound like a snob), but this one is CLEAN. I'd kill to experience this in person
Otherwise, I generally prefer another album. I made myself a playlist with that album but the Saturn track is swapped with the one above, which I'll link here:
Dvorak's New World Symphony's 4th movement is fun too. I'd say it also falls into the genre of 'movie soundtracks got based off this so it feels more modern than it is'. It's also one of those songs that definitely is better live I can feel it in my bones where I should be feeling the low brass yk:
Beyond older stuff, I also like this piece:
And a favorite album of mine is:
Though obviously that's getting into jazzier territory. I'm kind of a sucker for more bigband type stuff. In particular I really like some latter sections in The Curtain, but really the whole album is fantastic.
Along similar lines:
I also enjoy some classic jazz standards like Take Five and In the Mood but who doesn't lmao there's a reason they're still insanely popular. Idk this shit rocks:
The upside of my instrumental music taste being very generic and friendly means if you haven't really listened to much, you should actually find something you like, here, though! If you're real in on it you can judge me for my answers but I will not listen to anything but recs.
I actually do want to explore more, especially with jazz honestly. Which I know you technically said classical music and those aren't always close things in people's heads but uhhhhhhhhhhhhh I did music theory for a bit and jazz is nuts man. If you think you don't like jazz there is 100% a genre of it that you'd be into it's so varied and cool as hell
I also want to go to (classical and jazz) concerts more. I miss live music. It really hits like nothing else. I really recommend anyone to look up local university bands and see if they have free concerts; they probably do. You don't have to really dress up or anything. I recommend going to full range ensembles over instrument specific stuff but that's just because I overwhelmingly prefer a more varied music texture and range. So stuff like jazz bands, wind ensembles, string orchestras I will technically count. Yea
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BELATED NEW YEARS LIST OF COOL ALBUMS I DISCOVERED IN 2023 OH BOY THIS POST IS GONNA BE LONG
2023 was without a doubt the year ive listened to the most music in all of my life, so there's quite a hefty bit of albums to list, and i'll try to put them in a loose order of when i listened to them, but no promises!
I will limit it to one album per band, while noting the other ones i could have listened to within the text
Sadly, i didn't get around to hearing The Beggar by SWANS yet, so it won't make this list. that said heres the first one lol
SPIDERLAND
(By Slint)
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Also known as the "how the fuck did a bunch of dudes in their early 20s make something this fucking great" album
I first listened to this one at a friend's house since he had it on vinyl, and halfway through the album i was losing my shit and repeatedly exclaiming loudly how fucking amazing the album was
It's very hard to put into words just how fucking good this album is, it's definitely one of the albums that put me onto Post Rock as a whole, and changed the way i view guitar playing pretty significantly
Every song feels immaculately constructed (the weakest one being the short instrumental that comes right before my personal favorite, Good Morning, Captain, the final song of the album that's linked above) and the raw emotional output won me over pretty early into my first listen. It is now my second favorite album of all time, good shit, i urge anyone reading who hasn't listened yet to give it a shot
Give their first album a listen too!
THE POD
(By Ween)
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Not much i can say about this album i haven't said before i think, so here are the notes i took about it while listening to it for the first time (on a plane ride)
"Listened to this album during the plane ride Might be one of Ween's best It's so noisy and shitty and gross Only enchanced by the plane ride nausea and the very low energy feel the altitude gives It's Like if the Best album of all time got recorded on the shittiest hardware ever i'm Gonna listen to it a lot I can tell The noisiest part of the [referring to the last song here] song started on the most turbulent part of the ride And I was all for it"
I was already a Ween fan by this point, but hadn't listened to their earlier stuff, especially The Pod since every attempt at listening to it made me genuinely nauseous for some reason, but damn did braving through the album pay off. it's one of my favorite Ween albums and every time i get a fever i put it on to at least find some comfort in the wooziness. big recommendation
OCTAHEDRON
(By The Mars Volta)
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I've been a Mars Volta fan since very early 2022, but i didn't get around to exploring their full catalogue until after the release of their comeback album later that same year, with Octahedron being the last of them (the rest i gave first listens to in 2022)
It's a decently strong change from their previous album (The Bedlam in Goliath), which was probably their most intense and chaotic album, although it definitely fell flat in a few aspects (Weirdly produced, some filler that could have been cut out that makes some stuff sound samey, something that wasn't much of an issue with Volta albums up until that TBiG)
It feels like it sort of harkens back to their earlier albums such as Frances the Mute and Tremulant while also going forward in a direction that makes sense considering 2012's Noctourniquet.
It's still not something as well constructed as their earlier albums, but it's a seriously good effort and worth listening to at least once, some seriously catchy and memorable songs in here
IN TIMES NEW ROMAN...
(By Queens Of The Stone Age)
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I've been a fan of Queens Of The Stone Age for basically as long as i can remember, which only intensified in the pandemic as i would spend my days listening to Era Vulgaris on loop for hours and hours
There was not a single album from them that i didn't love, something about their entire style is extremely appealing to my ears, and when i heard they would release a new album i damn near shat myself and eagerly awaited for news
Then Emotion Sickness came out, with it's Era Vulgaris-reminiscent sound, ESPECIALLY the chorus and i couldn't be happier, there was absolutely no end to my hype
And thankfully, once the album came out, i realized these motherfuckers STILL have it in them to make a really fucking solid rock album, it seems they shed the slightly more polished sound of Villains and went back to that good old rougher sound they used to have, while not ditching some of the bells and whistles that made their reunion records work
Seriously solid album and i'd recommend it to anyone that enjoys this style of rock. good stuff
Church goes here
CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT
(By Duster)
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Shed away all of those memes about Sisyphus featuring a song off this album and underneath you will find a really emotional slowcore album with such an immaculate vibe i can't help but just. sink into it as i listen, if that makes sense
Before listening to this album i was a big fan of that Experimental Dust bootleg, but had never listened to their other stuff until i did
Almost every song is just oozing with this unmistakably Duster sound that is so perfectly melancholic you cant help but just be right there with them, it's some seriously great stuff, lovely album.
I also listened to Stratosphere, but i didn't listen to it much so i don't feel like it fits in this post, but rest assured it's a damn good time as well. Great album, very sad, should probably only listen to it in a good headspace but you do you
WISH YOU WERE HERE
(By Pink Floyd)
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Enough said. its peak
same applies to Animals
A FUCK TON OF ALBUMS
(By SWANS)
No, really, just in 2023 i gave first listens to:
To Be Kind
The Seer
White Light From The Mouth of Infinity
Love of Life
Greed
The Great Annihilator
The Burning World
It's too much to talk about, but SWANS is one of my favorite bands, and honestly, if you're really curious, just shoot me a DM for thoughts on any of these albums haha, i'm always overjoyed to talk about music with people, especially SWANS.
loveless
(By my bloody valentine)
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One of my biggest regrets is not listening to this album in full earlier than i did. It's seriously such a fucking incredible experience from start to finish that i can't even find much to say about it that hasn't been said before, just give it a listen
MT EERIE
(By The Microphones)
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Sorry kids i havent listened to the glow pt 2 yet cant talk about it
I randomly discovered The Microphones on my youtube recommendations one day while listening to completely unrelated music, but clicked due to the artwork catching my interest and was completely enthralled by their melancholic acoustic sound followed by real intense percussion in some songs, and the flirting with experimentation that goes on throughout the entire album, it's seriously great and it touched me in a way not much music has. Big recommendation
IN RAINBOWS
(By Radiohead)
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It's hard to say something about this album that hasn't been said already, so i won't.
Give it a listen, even if you're not a fan of their usual stuff, this album still stands out as a pretty interesting project and i enjoy it quite a lot
Also listened to from them this year: OK Computer and Kid A, heavily enjoyed both but In Rainbows remains my favorite
DOOLITTLE
(By Pixies)
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Now for my most listened album of the year, spawned from the same night that got me into Spiderland (my 2nd most listened to album...go figure)
Having listened to Where Is My Mind? upon watching Fight Club, that was sadly the only Pixies song i stuck to for a while, but once i heard this album i kept on digging and digging through it to finally get what it is that made me enjoy this band's sound
It actually took me quite a fucking while to fully "get" this album, but the album slowly earned my full appreciation and became something i'd spend days listening to on loop, enjoying the ride from start to finish, it's a seriously good album, and if you wanna hear where some of that 90s rock dynamic came from, this and Surfer Rosa are considered some of the most notable precursors to it, so there you have it. give it a listen!
CLUBE DA ESQUINA
(By Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges)
LINK TO "Tudo O Que Você Podia Ser" FROM THE ALBUM (10 VIDEOS PER POST LIMIT LOL)
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I struggle to choose a singular song to link, because every part of this album is crafted with such intricate musicianship and mix matching of Brazilian tradition with a foreign, beatles-esque flavor which is so smoothly and lovingly woven into the entire record. It's an absolute must for anyone interested in the music of Brazil, and one of my absolute favorite albums of all time. i recommend this one to every person i discuss music with, it's a seriously outstanding achievement of an album. give it a listen.
CENTER OF ATTENTION
(By InI)
LINK TO "No More Words" FROM THE ALBUM
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I am a HUGE fan of the Jazz Rap style developed in the east coast during the 90s, and InI's shelved debut is one of those crowning examples i now look to when introducing people to the style. Right from the start the album sets you in it's laid back vibe, with it's nice groovy beats that tastefully sample old jazz records in a way that really adds to the album's whole atmosphere. Great album, give it a try.
DUMMY
(By Portishead)
LINK TO "Sour Times" FROM THE ALBUM
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While regrettably not having listened to the rest of their output, this album still manages to blow me away every single time i listen to a song off it. There's something so lovable about the gloomy atmosphere paired with those spy movie ass guitars and absolutely breathtaking vocals. every member plays such a strong part in the album's atmosphere to the point you can pay attention to just one component and still be interested the whole way through. this album is so fucking good. give it a listen
SPEAKERBOXXX / THE LOVE BELOW
(By OutKast)
LINK TO "Church" FROM THE FIRST SIDE OF THE ALBUM
LINK TO "Love Hater" FROM THE SECOND SIDE OF THE ALBUM
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Outkast has always been one of my favorites in rap, but i never took the time to listen to their biggest project, the double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, which is kind of two solo albums from Big Boi and Andre 3000 (in that order) packaged as an Outkast album, but god damn, they made it work really well.
EVERY single song in this album is a fucking banger (GhettoMusick being one of my favorites), the only thing holding it down are some skits that, while some of them are pretty funny, still leave you just wanting to get to the next track, but anyone who's listened to enough rap albums already knows how this stuff goes (first wu-tang album, anyone?)
One of my favorite rap albums, give it a shot, i guarantee at least 3 songs from it will be stuck in your head after.
PAUL'S BOUTIQUE
(By Beastie Boys)
LINK TO "The Sounds of Science" FROM THE ALBUM
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Another one of such cases where every song is a banger, the songs are all so fucking awesomely creative i can't help but have a wide smile on my face every time i listen, the crazy amount of samples in this album really makes it quite a unique listen, especially as a Beatles fan which means The Sounds Of Science is enough whiplash to give J.K. Simmons a run for his money
Really fun album, give it a shot
MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS
(By The Smashing Pumpkins)
LINK TO "Tales Of A Scorched Earth" FROM THE ALBUM
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I've been a moderate Smashing Pumpkins fan since i was a kid, with Siamese Dream being a favorite, and Drown being one of my favorite songs of all time at that point, but i never took the time to listen to the album that followed it, partly due to it being so massive, but once i took the plunge i spent the next 2 hours sitting in my chair absolutely floored by every song that came my way. This is a seriously impressive album from start to finish and it's one i'll cherish for years to come, every song feels like it's earned it's place, with both the soft and hard songs being equally interesting and ear catching.
Outstanding album, give it a listen.
THE FAT OF THE LAND
(By The Prodigy)
LINK TO "Breathe" FROM THE ALBUM
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I'm usually not much of an electronic music guy, but this album really caught my attention after watching Dario Casali's playthrough of Half-Life of all things, where he said he would frequently listen to The Prodigy during development, so i decided to give it a shot, having heard some of their music (Particularly in the film Kick-Ass) and i spent the next week or so religiously listening to this album on loop, it's so endlessly replayable and just fun to listen to that i instantly became hooked. Aside from that, there's not much to say, it's a very fun, energetic album, give it a shot.
THE ENTIRE FUCKING SYSTEM OF A DOWN DISCOGRAPHY
(By...yeah)
LINK TO "Soil" FROM "System Of A Down"
LINK TO "Prison Song" FROM "Toxicity"
LINK TO "Fuck the System" FROM "Steal This Album!"
LINK TO "Radio / Video" FROM "Mezmerize"
LINK TO "Vicinity Of Obscenity" FROM "Hypnotize" (not sure why people dislike this one?)
Same deal as SWANS, too much to talk about, shoot me a dm about it if you're really that curious, i don't mind.
ALL OF IT IS FUCKING GREAT. GIVE THEM A LISTEN. ENOUGH SAID
F♯ A♯ ∞
(By Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
LINK TO "East Hastings" FROM THE ALBUM
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It's hard for me to put into words what listening to this album for the first time did for me. It's one of the most atmospheric, wonderful things i've ever had the pleasure of listening to, all 3 songs in this masterpiece keep me entranced until the very last second, including the very unnecessarily long silence at the end of Providence for the hidden song. I have yet to listen to their next album, which i've been told by a mutual is even better, so i'm very excited for that. Give this one a listen.
MARQUEE MOON
(By Television)
LINK TO "See No Evil" FROM THE ALBUM
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god i am not a fan of this album cover
that being said, this album is a pretty nice, post punkish record which reminds me a lot of 80s Talking Heads, but i don't have much to say about it. it's simply a good album, and i recommend it heavily. give it a shot
THE UNNATURAL WORLD
(By Have A Nice Life)
LINK TO "Guggenheim Wax Museum" FROM THE ALBUM
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I fucking love Deathconsciousness, but stayed at that album for a while, until, for whatever reason, during my initial playthrough of Dark Souls 1 (great game, by the way, enjoyed it lots) i decided to give it a spin and wound up listening to it for basically the rest of the game. It has this gloomy vibe HANL is known for, but it feels like its played a lot more straight than Deathcon, it feels darker, i dunno.
Very good follow-up, even if i think the previous album is overall stronger, this one is still a great listen
LEAVES TURN INSIDE YOU
(By Unwound)
LINK TO "Radio Gra" FROM THE ALBUM
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I regrettably struggle to find much to say about this album, which is a shame because i really do love it a lot.
It has this sound that is at times reminiscent of Slint, which made me immediately fall in love, while still standing out as it's own thing, it's a very good fucking album from start to finish, but that's all i can say about it really, i need to listen to it more, and Unwound's other stuff.
Big recommendation right here
FRANKENCHRIST
(By Dead Kennedys)
LINK TO "MTV - Get Off The Air" FROM THE ALBUM
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Dead Kennedys is one of my favorite bands (Old Testament DK anyways, Dead Kennedys without Jello is kinda wack, sorry!), and their previous album, Plastic Surgery Disasters remains one of my favorite punk rock records to date, but i had not yet listened to the latter half of their discography, something i now regret, since it's equally as good.
Frankenchrist is a bit of detour from PSD's VERY harsh sound, sounding a little more rounded, less noisy if that makes sense, but Jello Biafra's biting social commentary and witty writing remains intact through it all and makes for an album as entertaining and awesome as the rest of their work. Seriously great, listen to it.
MAGGOT BRAIN
(By Funkadelic)
LINK TO "Maggot Brain" FROM THE ALBUM
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Having started my musical ambitions as an aspiring Funk guitarist (part of why my right hand strums so loosely haha), Funkadelic was always on my radar, with their debut album being one of the albums i listened to the most and looked for inspiration in during the pandemic, but for some reason, i never opted to listen to Maggot Brain until this year, which, as is per usual for albums i dont listen to, was a big fucking mistake, since this album is filled with bangers from start to finish. I love it to death.
An absolute must-listen to any funk rock fans
AT ACTION PARK
(By Shellac)
LINK TO "Crow" FROM THE ALBUM
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Being a fan of Steve Albini's work both in production and with Big Black, listening to Shellac eventually was a no-brainer, but i procrastinated on it until a particularly lengthy hospital visit where i had enough time to kill and listened to this album, being taken in by that noisy goodness until the album finished. I struggle to find something to say, but the song structures in this album are so weird and they don't hesitate to stay longer than usual and linger on some chords which gives songs this really punchy vibe i can't describe. Great album.
AND FINALLY....
UNDERTOW
(By TOOL)
LINK TO "Prison Sex" FROM THE ALBUM
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I'm a huge fan of TOOL, but never listened to their debut until i saw it on a mutual's top albums list, which convinced me i should give it a shot, and so i did!
...On the fucking last hour of 2023
I shit you not, the album ended in the last fuckign MINUTE of the year. 23:59. Finished listening and immediately got up to await the countdown.
That aside, you can really see how they went from this to Ænima, as it has a lot of the harder parts of that album, with less...esoteric(?) peculiarities inbetween, while still being a really good fucking album and enjoyable from start to finish, there wasn't a single song that had me bored. A worthy album to finish the year with...and this list!
FINALLY finished writing this absolute behemoth of a post, and i hope it at least gets one person to check these albums out.
Here's to a great 2024 for all! Thanks for reading!
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femme--de--lettres · 3 months
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Music Monday with Andie
(or, it’s been a long time, and I miss these)
So.
I have this thing where I intentionally put off listening to albums that I’ll likely enjoy if something about the release feels off to me (e.g. the vibes of the album seem wrong despite it being from a favorite artist, or something equally as ridiculous that my brain tries to convince me is a legitimate reason to withhold something enjoyable from myself).
It’s happened with a couple of albums this year (the day I bring myself to listen to the renée rapp album!!! i assume!!! it will be over for me!!!), but the one I’d been most disappointed about—and that I’d kept the furthest distance from was The Secret to Life, by FIZZ.
Objectively, the band is comprised of three of my favorite songwriters/musicians, so like. I should not have been as apprehensive of this album as I was, but I’m honestly going to chalk this up to me (1) not really vibing with the visuals of the thing and (2) not liking the first single they released (having now listened to the whole album, I’d say it was my least favorite song, so…at least i’m consistent lol).
Anyway.
What better way to kick off a new year than trying new things (can you tell i hate new year’s, or??), so when I woke up at the tender hour of 4am, I decided to give it a listen, after figuring that since dodie/Orla Gartland/Greta Isaac have given me some of my favorite lyrics in the past, this album couldn’t be THAT bad.
I was right! And I’m quite happy about that! Because God I missed each of them and this band had been a pretty big project focus for them in 2023!
Going to toss a handful of songs below that I really enjoyed, but overall I thought that the album had a really neat collaboratively playful sound that I haven’t heard on a modern record in ages, with notes of like…late 70s rock that I had not been expecting.
The Songs:
I hide my shit in the closet//I've got some space if you want it//It's cool, it isn't a problem now You always to seem to want to tell me what to do//How would you like it if I held a mirror back at you?//This is harrowing, it's embarassing.
Aside from how fun sounding this song is (the jaunty little bass lines and almost accidental-sounding piano at the start!! obsessed!!), and what a great musical opener it is (the first track is sort of a spoken word infomercial introduction? Idk how else to describe it lol), I think the lyrics on this one are just like...fun and honest simultaneously, and the way the musicians are all in on this one (vs. some of the others where one of them is clearly the standout soloist vocally) feels like a great choice.
Careful, don't come any closer//You should go home or stay on the sofa//Fuck it, let's go dancing‚ fall asleep in my room//This can't happen, guess I'll just see you soon That was a close one//We were really going through it, guess we dodged another bullet//We know that we're happier
First and foremost, this song feels like...it being 2014 and hearing strange desire (bleachers' first album) for the first time to me lol. It's got the right vibes for it.
Second, The opening groove of it is feels almost like an interpolation of Tears for Fears' Everybody Wants to Rule the World (which, many thanks to my brain for needing 234 years to remember the song before going oh shit it's an 80s one), and my babe Orla Garland coming in with the lead vocals made me VERY happy. Personal opinion has me ranking this one in my top two, if not my favorite song from the whole album.
I remember when I lost my mind//It was a pretty chilly Tuesday night 25 going on 45 going on 99 going on dead//Blink twice, you'll miss the highlight//God it's a hell of a ride, going on dead Looks like the sun's coming out again and I see my friends//they're over the moon to see me, what a surprise//god I'm glad I'm alive
I wasn't as familiar with the fourth member of the band, Martin Luke Brown, but this is the first song that he's the frontman for, and !!! There's a really neat funky sort of guitar bit at the opener that sets the tone for the verses in a fun way, and of the four of them, I really do think he's the one that pleasantly surprised me the most (if only b/c I didn't know what to expect lol). The choruses of these are bigger swells where the three others join in and swap the melody and these crunchy harmonies that I love. Also, the bridge break with Orla Gartland singing about being glad she's alive is reminiscent of one of my favorites from her solo album, Bloodline/Difficult Things (specifically, the "I don't want to run away//but you, you don't get me//I, I keep it all in//'Cause we never talk about difficult things" line delivery).
Also, this is the other song in contention for that No. 1/No. 2 spot w/Close One lol. I'm fond.
Tongue out, oh, I know you like that//How's that for you? Any feedback?//I should be so lucky, if you'd only fuck me//is this as good as it gets? You told me I was one in a million//I send you songs and you don't even listen//Said this time I'd be different//Is this as good as it gets?
Musically, this one opened and I was like...The Middle by Jimmy Eat World is that you??? Beyond that, I love Greta Isaac's voice. It's so goddamn smooth and I love the way her vowels and consonants sound (look i know that's a weird-ass thing to say, but you know how some people sing in cursive? greta doesn't, she sings in like...cursive print, where you can still easily make out of all the letters but occasionally it's a bit joined and occasionally it's all capital letters and...this analogy is running away from me).
Also, I love the little shouty screaming from her. I came to love her for her version of Emmanuel that she released a few years ago (still in my top 10 spooky hymnals of all time, in case you were wondering), so when she released her PESSIMIST LP, I was a bit surprised to discover that she'd leaned a little more rock than I'd expected. This feels like a nice return to that, in a way, in that parts of the song (often harmonies) sound like Imagine Dragons' Every Night or Selene and other parts sound just like Power of hers (notable similarity to the "you're so beautiful so delicate i feel sick//i will buy a golden frame and put you in it" delivery at the end of the song).
This is so comfortable it hurts//Oh but I guess it could be worse//So much worse If it was what it was//It is what it is//It won't ever be what I want it to be
If there's one thing that dodie knows how to do, it's make beautiful chromatic chords with her/others' voice(s), so I wasn't surprised to get some of those in this song, and the sound of each of their four distinct voices being stacked up was really nice.
Lyrically, the 'if it was what it was...' line really did something for me, but beyond that, this one was just a sort of...quiet song, which was a bit of a departure from some of the others in a nice way.
A door opens, another closes//The curtain falls, the credits roll//We're taking down the decorations//but I don't really want to go I didn't even take a picture//I never do but never mind//You don't always get a rerun//So let's do it one last time Don't cry because it's over//It isn't over 'til you cry//We can start a revolution//We can fly Let's lie out in the garden//Come on and look up at the sky//Don't wanna think about the future//Just wanna do it one last time
The intro of this song has like. Early Genesis vibes. And we all know how I feel about Genesis (we do, right? We know how i feel about them???). Anyway. The piano underpinning this is great and really feels like it contributes to a more retro (if that's what we're calling the 70s/80s now lol) sound, which I thought was fun. They also get a nice little clarinet break (everyone say thank you dodie) in the middle as they shift the sound over, which is a fucking riot. Then there's a bit near the end that has...almost...Hey Jude vibes (in the everyone is making music and having fun with it and not being super precise about it way, i suppose) was thrown off by that at first, but I like it, I think.
I also really enjoyed that this song had a verse for each of the band members, as well as nods back to earlier songs—I thought it was was cute. And a nice way to close out the album, you know?
Tagging folks (if they want) to share an album they underestimated this year but were pleasantly surprised by: @mblematic @squintclover @spindrifters @maybebabyplease @greyeyedmonster-18 @lunapwrites (and anyone else who’d like to join 💕)
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MANDY, INDIANA - "PINKING SHEARS"
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Ian brings us some British-French post-punk with no Indiana involvement...
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Ian Mathers: I don't remember what the song was, but I still remember the feeling the first time I encountered music that didn't immediately make sense to me. This isn't quite the same thing as music I find disappointing or lacklustre at first but grow to love -- a category that contains an awful lot of my favourite music, and is an endlessly renewable resource. But up until that point everything I had run into was something I immediately either liked or disliked (yr boy was a big fan of "Never Gonna Give You Up" when it was originally a hit, if that helps date me), and to hear something that was somehow neither was profoundly disturbing. As I got older and more into music, finding something that truly doesn't make sense at first has become rarer and rarer. More things get adopted into your repertoire, you have more context, and often you realize that stuff that bent your brain in your own history had plenty of antecedents that make them less singular. And that feeling... that little shock of non-recognition when you're used to recognizing so much, that little moment of "why or how did someone come up with this?" that sparks across your brain... it's like hearing about a new country when you thought you knew all of them. It's a reminder that life never settles into a comfortable box. None of the elements that Mandy, Indiana use to make their music are particularly confusing to me (hell, I even took French all through high school). But the first time I played i've seen a way, I had that feeling. These didn't feel like songs. They had elements of songs. Some like "Pinking Shears" even had choruses, relatable sentiments (who isn't tired?). They had sounds and structures I was broadly familiar with. But something about the way each track, and the album as a whole, was put together made me feel like my brain was degaussed. I spent maybe my first four listens in a rapturous quasi-panic, for the first time in years not being able to respond to a piece of music in the ways I was used to responding. I'm sure when that happens to anyone, it's not 100% inherent to the music itself. There may have been other bands who could have done this to me if the phase of the moon or my choice of lunch that day had been just right. But it felt rare and precious when I got that experience from Mandy, Indiana. And then, a second miracle: as I kept listening, "Pinking Shears" and the rest of i've seen a way resolved in my ears into just songs, the way these things always do (since it's hard to repeatedly experience the shock of the new from the same thing). And it turned out those songs were really really great. [10]
Vikram Joseph: This is so strange and addictive - a righteous French diatribe about racist border policies over a rhythmic racket and stomach-churning synths that sound like a cow in distress. From Brooklyn Vegan's English translation: "Those we bombard are told to fuck off / and then we elect bankers / and posh assholes and rentiers / and we are surprised to get fucked." I mean, yeah. Imagine how fatigué we are. Imagine how fatigué we are of it. [8]
Tim de Reuse: What's it take to go industrial in an age of digital purity? Chase the feeling of a grimy, misanthropic without actually getting any dirt under your fingernails. Meticulously ugly, to distract you from how it's actually neat and tidy. Check out the perfect knife's edge of that snare drum; check out the huge, reflective metallic object that passes for a bassline; check out the clean, papery reverb. I'd criticize it for being inauthentic if it wasn't so much more fun than the things it's ripping off. [8]
Joshua Minsoo Kim: Nestling its way into a sound between Filth-era Swans and the EBM of the same decade (Severed Heads, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb), "Pinking Shears" aims for a raw, cavernous sound that's more hollow than all-consuming. The playful French vocals provide an amusing contrast to all the whirring, but that's sort of it. Big synth bass, big crunch, big yawn. [5]
Micha Cavaseno: Vaguely answering a question nobody asked, which is "What if Liars were signed to Amphetamine Reptile or Skin Graft?". It's got one point, and it delivers it in perhaps the most cast-off gag and splutter of a way, before hurrying along with its day and avoiding trying to remember what color and texture of its release it was, but never quite getting rid of the taste for the next couple days. Love the clutter of the percussion sounding like a rude joke at a dance's expense, pushed aside by a belch of bullying rock. How rude. [7]
Taylor Alatorre: I always sorta felt that the world needed a Kidz Bop version of Einstürzende Neubauten. [7]
Hannah Jocelyn: I'm sorry, that percussion riff sounds like "Crack a Bottle," the vocals sound like The Google Translate Song, I can't take this seriously. That said, [6]
Oliver Maier: This is my "just say you hate fun". [8]
Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Genuinely a bad and unpleasant time in the way that most latter-generation "post punk" can only feint at. Feels much longer than 2.5 minutes, but not tediously so -- each moment of this drags you down into itself, each metallic hi-hat snap and guitar scratch a barb into exposed skin. [8]
Nortey Dowuona: Simon Catling's humming bassline shows up halfway through the song over Isaac Jones' drums, with jagged shards of guitar by Scott Fair slunk in at each interval at the end of Valentina Caulfield's chorus, punctuating them with a phlegmy shriek. Caulfield's vocals at first feel like a representation of politesse but gain an edge of menace over the crashing of the percussion. The bass presses the guitar into the margins allowing Caulfield to fill up the middle of the mix, repeating the refrain. [6]
Michael Hong: I like when that beefy fart of a bassline arrives, a really nice rejoinder for the rattling voices in your head. [6]
Brad Shoup: I love when post-punkers stomp, when they strip it down to a megalithic groove. All kinds of stuff on the ground can stick to it. The first half feels like a (bear with me) minimal, metallic go-go take on Cop Shoot Cop's "$10 Bill". To reach the more trad second half, they catapult in some streaks of noise. (This transitional part, and I take far more pleasure in hearing than saying this, sounds like "Come With Me" from the 1998 Godzilla soundtrack.) But that recedes, and Valentine Caulfield reveals the song's final form: protest rap. A [7] for the journey. [7]
Wayne Weizhen Zhang: You don't need to be francophone in order to understand Mandy, Indiana's vitriol and rage. But the lyrics are worth dissecting: "Nothing makes me want to continue in the filth of our society/I don't have have any desire to wake up when we let humans die in the Mediterranean." This is a tirade about how we treat refugees, and the existential exhaustion that comes from living in a world where this feels normal. [7]
Katherine St Asaph: For months I assumed based on the name that Mandy, Indiana was an emo band. If I had known they would instead be spoken-word French over a harsh but oddly unchaotic post-punk dervish, I might have listened to the album earlier than Q4. Assumptions foil me again! [9]
Aaron Bergstrom: I did not expect the revolution to be this much fun. Embrace the chaos. Build a new world from the ashes of the old. Dance on the barricades. [9]
Claire Biddles: My face is just gasping_pikachu.jpeg the whole way through this -- yes!!! [9]
Michelle Myers: Mandy, Indiana's music makes me feel like I'm wearing a perfectly worn-in leather jacket and red lipstick that never smears, waiting in line to get into a club that I already know I'm not cool enough to get into. [6]
Kat Stevens: I'm glad there'll always be people making music that sitcom teenagers can slam their bedroom doors and stick on at high volume, to the despair of their parents. "Where did we go wrong, Adam?" "I don't know Helen, our sweet girl... it's like I don't even know her anymore. Were we too indulgent? Too strict?" "Well Adam, in retrospect maybe constantly playing The Downward Spiral to get her off to sleep while she was a baby wasn't the best idea." [7]
Alfred Soto: To play loudly and indiscriminately when holiday twaddle begins to choke you. [7]
Anna Katrina Lockwood: I am so tired, yet I cannot sleep. [8]
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numetalpuppygirl · 9 months
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what i'm listening to 7/6/2023 (song notes under cut)
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Laura Les - Haunted: haunted. by laura les.
Radiohead - Hunting Bears: have you guys noticed that i like amnesiac. links to this post. this is one of the best album interludes of all time
Tallah - No One Should Read This: HRHGGHRHGHHH. fucking crunchyyyy this is one of my favorite albums ever. it's corny as fuck but also really dark and heavy and just ahhhh i love it and this is such a good opener. despite any of the band's faults i will always be a shill for this album. i was talking to violet (hi violet heheh oops i dropped this) about the album a little bit and i decided i simply had to include this bc well frankly i'm jamming to it as i type this :3
Cypress Hill - I Ain't Goin' Out Like That: there's a lot of 90sishness going on in this list. lovvve cypress hill and this whole album. the hook is super catchy but also kind of ridiculous, and there's so many good lines. if you dig harder rap stuff definitely give black sunday a spin, i think it might have been one of the first rap albums i ever bought a physical copy of
Polaris - The Remedy: okay i've been going through my whole giant playlist on account of this business, so it's only fitting that i feature the song that's at the very tippity top of the thang. polaris is a damn solid progressive metalcore type band, and i remember when they broke out in 2017/18 with this album everybody in the scene was talking about them as rising stars. they didn't disappoint, imo, bc the album that came after that was pretty solid too. they did get a lot of comparisons to architects, who are much more seasoned in the scene, and i definitely hear it: the pitchy false chord screams, the djenty riffs, big but not poppy choruses. BUT i think two things worked out for them in that regard. one was that architects were white hot around that time because they put out holy hell, which was very well-regarded (because it good), so it wasn't too bad a thing to be compared to them. the other was that after holy hell dropped, wage war put out a single (low) that had basically the same riff as the architects' big single (doomsday). so they kinda caught all the shit on that one lol. ah the old days (<does not miss this time period)
Girls Rituals - Babe of the Abyss: ummmm.hi 😳
Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch: stupid dumb dumb dummy dumb stupid ass blppppt dumbass fuckin song. it's kinda awesome though. a large part of my interest in this one is to do with its pertinence to rap rock, or rather, its lack of pertinence. in my obsession with the timeline of rap rock, i like to be able to sort as much as possible into neat little categories. east coast hip hop, funk metal, nu metal, emo rap, etc. but what's also interesting is when something comes along that doesn't fit any trend at all. it's a total anomaly, a hit only on its own merits, whether those merits are musical strength or just being weird as fuck. in this case, it's definitely a bit of both. the bad touch isn't even really much of a rock song, it sounds more like dance beats, but the bloodhound gang are a rock band, and regardless you can tell just by listening to it which side of the music sphere they originate from. ughhh fascinating fascinating fascinating. and gross, if you listen to it. but mostly fascinating. 1999 babey. and that's the other thing - this was the age of nu metal. this isn't a nu metal song, but one has to wonder how much it was helped by the normalization of crossovers between rock and rap that nu metal was creating. okay moving on
Snoop Dogg - Gin and Juice: more 90s! but in this case? idk what you want me to say. it's fuckin gin and juice. no-one is immune to the d-o-double-g
Epic Rap Battles of History - Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible: come onnnn you knew i was gonna put some erb on here i feel like i've been mentioning them all month. this is a real good battle, very catchy. the first two verses from pete and zach, respectively, are definitely my favorites, and indeed alexander the great might be my favorite zach sherwin performance on erb. but the flute on the beat for frederick the great's part is a lot of fun, and catherine the great's verse is catchy as well. just overall solid and easy to rewatch. please save me from epic rap battle hell i am trapped here and they won't let me out until i recite every erb bar in chronological order
Vylet Pony - Constellation Cradle: vylet pony good. reallll good. this was one of those songs that i had heard however many times and been like yeah cool song :) and then at some point recently heard again and for some reason it just like. hit right. it had the right crunch. i was feeling it. i was loving it. i was chewing on it. vylet pony good
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Is This Love: another simple case of "heard it on the radio, got stuck in my head." at the same time, it's representative of the fact that i want to know more about reggae, considering my current knowledge of it is effectively 0. so what better place to start than the name that most people outside the reggae sphere most associate with the genre? so many good hits from bob marley, as we likely all know
Pearl Jam - Even Flow: pearl jam good idc. not my favorite of their songs but probably the catchiest. moving swiftly onward
Twenty One Pilots - Implicit Demand For Proof: i was inspired to revisit some of my favorite tracks from a formerly beloved band to me. despite the many issues one could take with their first album, that's the one i would feel most confident in standing up for. and, since i'm an opening track kinda girl, this one hit for me the most. iiii knowwww you're not a liar, and i knowwww you could set fire this dayyyyy. idk. definitely a christian song but like, not in the sense that we all kind of agree is shit. like it's a christian song but it's still actually a SONG, that's. ABOUT THINGS. just give it a shot maybe, if you like kinda indie rock. or don't. i can't tell you what to do i'm just a bunch of text on a screen
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic: did you guys notice that i like the beastie boys. like with even flow, this isn't my favorite beasties song but it's the one that's stuck in my head this month. and it is a damn good hit! some classic lines in here. look at this post
Zombie Girl - Creepy Crawler: i don't know shit about this song or artist!! this was an everynoise.com find on uhhh industrial metal i think. it sounds good :)
Steve Miller Band - Take The Money And Run: i'm so obsessed with that trainwreckords episode on run-d.m.c. i literally have just absorbed every song that todd even mentions in the video. i won't put that episode in the youtube playlist like i did last week but if you haven't watched it you should still do that
Epic Rap Battles of History - Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton: i know. i know. i know. stop looking at me like that. i know. i know, okay? i do. i'm sorry. but it's true. there's a lot of good lines and (more importantly) very catchy parts in this one too and i find myself bopping my head to them while i'm in the shower or whatever. if you don't like it, you should have saved me from the pit when you had the chance
Vanilla Ice - Rollin' In My 5.0: the ice-man just dropped a live video for this a little while ago so it's been on my mind. it's mostly interesting for two reasons. number 1 is that it's our only real insight into what vanilla ice album two might have been like if not for the rapid shift of popular trends. number 2 is that it has been deemed significant enough to be counted in the handful of songs that keep vanilla's music alive, despite being unknown to most people. i'm initerested in the idea of like a vanilla ice canon of Songs That Matter, and it contains like, ice ice baby (obviously), play that funky music, ninja rap, i love you, cool as ice, and so on. but there are just some more odd additions to that, and 5.0 is one of those
rawr - If Peppa Pig was a RAPPER: can i ask you guys for a favor. like, i realize that this list has 19 songs on it one way or another, bc that's the number of songs i use for every WILT. but can we all agree that this time, there's only 18 songs that are *formally* in the WILT, and this youtube-exclusive is like. a bonus track? great thanks. love you. anyways, have you noticed how these days youtube seems to recommend random 10-view videos that have just been uploaded? idk what's up with that, but that's how i found rawr, and frankly i've been having a blast with their videos. weird, silly little songs about wanting to marry various cartoon fathers or popular characters as rappers. this one is the latter, but honestly all of the ones i've listened to have overcome me with a feverish humor. it's not very tumblr humor imo but ultimately idek if my enjoyment of these could be described as comparable to finding them "funny." i just think it's beautiful that a channel with very little attention on it is uploading these ridiculous songs just for fun. just something to do. we could all take a lesson from this. or maybe not idk. i need to post this now good god
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afemalesebastian · 1 year
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So my current musical fixation are the Kinks. Past couple of weeks, I've been going through and listening to basically their entire oeuvre. Here, in no particular order, are my recommended tracks (that AREN'T "Lola", "You Really Got Me", "Waterloo Sunset", etc)
"Village Green Preservation Society" - God save Donald Duck, indeed. I wholeheartedly endorse the Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium and the Skyscraper Condemnation Affiliate.
"State of Confusion" - Honestly, this whole album is a banger (gotta love "Young Conservatives", a 'get-off-my-lawn' song about young Thatcherites). 'I don't know whether I'm coming or going / Can't cover up 'cause it's obviously showing... Am I overdrawn, am I going in debt? / It gets worse, the older that you get.' Rock and roll is such a young person's genre, there are a paucity of good songs about the problems of middle age. The music video for this is also great - Ray Davies' facial expressions are delightful.
"The Way Love Used to Be" - UGH SO BEAUTIFUL
"Have a Cuppa Tea" - 'Whatever the situation, whatever the race or creed, / Tea knows no segregation, no class nor pedigree / It knows no motivations, no sect or organisation, / It knows no one religion, / Nor political belief.'
"Shangri-La" - probably the saddest song I've ever heard about upward mobility.
"Lavender Lane" - best song about gentrification EVER. So good. Especially like the musical quotes from "Waterloo Sunset". ("Demolition" off Preservation Act I is also excellent on this topic.)
"Alcohol" - sounds almost like it was influenced by Cab Calloway, very speakeasy. "Holiday" is also good for this.
"This Time Tomorrow" - 'On a spaceship somewhere sailing across an empty sea...' Just beautiful - perfectly combines 'life-on-the-road' loss with 'the-old-ways-are-vanishing' loss.
"Autumn Almanac" - COTTAGECORE ANTHEM
"Celluloid Heroes" - a million times better than Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" any fucking day of the week.
"Some Mother's Son" - heartbreaking anti-war song - the words should be engraved on a memorial.
"Sweet Lady Genevieve" - I understand why Preservation is so polarizing amongst Kinks fans, but I probably fall more on the love than hate side. This song reminds me a little of Stan Rogers' "Witch of the Westmoreland", although much more overproduced.
"Dedicated Follower of Fashion" - I know this is very top 10, but how could I not include a song that starts with a quote from Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel, and includes the phrase "Carnabetian Army"??
"Better Things" - 'Hoping all the verses rhyme / And the very best of choruses, too.' This is one of my go-to cheer-up songs. It's really good to see you rocking out and having fun!
Anyway, I should probably stop while I still can (Honestly, I could effuse about Kinks songs for days. And have. My poor husband.). But I have really been loving the Kinks lately.
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I don't know if I've ever mentioned anything about this, but here it goes.
2 years and almost 2 months ago, a dear friend from my high school days passed away at 29. He was the pianist in my first ever legit piano trio in the conservatory. He was in uni while the other two of us were still in high school. We were the weirdest ever group. He was older, so he had a car and went to concerts, and he could play a great Beethoven and then a mainstream pop song. I was getting out there after my grandmother passed away and my mum (who's not a musician) encouraged me to listen to pop music kids my age enjoyed, and even arranged for me to go to meet the boyband I got into. I had modern interests like Eurovision with very specific people, one of them being the pianist in our group. The violinist had a very strict teacher, and strict parents, so she was less into mainstream and focused on classical music, but she inevitably got carried away by the two of us. Pair that with a teacher who just enjoyed that we were creative and proactive, and had very good chemistry, and we had a blast for a good year.
In 2018, our pianist called us to play at his aunt's wedding. One of the songs we played was Taylor Swift, because he was a massive fan. By that time, I liked Taylor, I knew all of her most famous songs, and I'd just spent months singing "Look what you made me do" (I had my reasons that aren't relevant here). He picked me up at home, and we spent the full ride talking about how talented she is, and what our favourite songs of hers were.
The only thing I can remember playing at the funeral is "august". And the only reason I remember it, is because someone in his family (cannot remember who) said that he loved Taylor so much (as if I didn't know that before) and that he adored that song, and that it would fit in a service. I also remember because I've been unable to listen to it for 2 years, because I start crying as my mind takes me back there.
Since then, all of the major release dates have been bittersweet for me. I think that, with the re-recordings, I figured he was just missing the new versions, and a couple of songs that matched the vibe. I really struggled the week Midnights was released, though, and I still think how fucking unfair it is that there's a whole album he'll never hear. But for some reason, 1989 hurt just as much. I'm not sure if it was because I was very obsessed with Wildest Dreams when we had that fangirling moment, but the moment it started playing, I lost it. And since I was already losing it, when the From the Vault songs started, there was no going back anymore.
As corny as it sounds, this is one of the cases where I really really hope there's a heaven where they can see and hear us, because it destroys my soul to think that the guy who made a "Love Story" arrangement to play because he knew the song so well that he found every single mistake in any online version, is missing all of this.
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