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mogwai-movie-house · 5 months

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The Best Album Per Year for Sixty Years

No-one asked for it, of course, but I do like making lists, so here's me pondering what have been the best Long Players in the album artform the past 60 years. I originally tried to keep it to just one per year, but many years that proved impossible: when listing multiple albums I have tried ranking them with the one I feel narrowly edges out the others first, and I use lower case to indicate an album that is not at the same level as others on the list but was the best I've heard from that time.

Feel free to have fun with the list and make up your own.

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1962 Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan 1963 The Freewheelin' - Bob Dylan 1964 another side of - bob dylan 1965 Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan 1966 Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys / Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan / Revolver - The Beatles 1967 Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles / The Velvet Underground & Nico / Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel / Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart 1968 Astral Weeks - Van Morrison / The White Album - The Beatles / Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel / We're Only In It For The Money/Lumpy Gravy - Frank Zappa 1969 Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones / Abbey Road - The Beatles / In A Silent Way - Miles Davis 1970 Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel / Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon 1971 Imagine - John Lennon / Blue - Joni Mitchell / What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye/ 2 - Moondog 1972 Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones / Discover America - Van Dyke Parks / Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart / Ege Bam Yasi - Can 1973 Raw Power - Iggy And The Stooges 1974 Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan 1975 Horses - Patti Smith / Discreet Music - Brian Eno / Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd / Velvet Donkey - Ivor Cutler 1976 The Ramones - The Ramones 1977 Low - David Bowie / New Boots & Panties - Ian Dury / Marquee Moon - Television / 77 - Talking Heads 1978 Music For Airports - Brian Eno / This Year's Model - Elvis Costello / Third (Sister Lovers) - Big Star / More Songs About Music & Food - Talking Heads 1979 Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division/ Fear of Music - Talking Heads / Into The Music - Van Morrison / Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa / Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young 1980 Remain In Light - Talking Heads / Closer - Joy Division / One Trick Pony - Paul Simon / Common One - Van Morrison 1981 Faith - The Cure 1982 Thriller - Michael Jackson / 1999 - Prince / 4 - Peter Gabriel / Too Rye Ay - Dexys Midnight Runners / Big Science - Laurie Anderson / Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen 1983 Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits / Murmur - R.E.M. / Hearts & Bones - Paul Simon / Off The Bone - The Cramps 1984 Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution / Hatful Of Hollow - The Smiths / Various Positions - Leonard Cohen / Reckoning - R.E.M. / The Unforgettable Fire - U2 1985 Don't Stand Me Down - Dexys Midnight Runners / Rain Dogs - Tom Waits / Around The World In A Day - Prince & The Revolution / Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega / Hounds of Love - Kate Bush / Hunting High & Low - A-ha 1986 Parade - Prince & The Revolution / So - Peter Gabriel / The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths / Graceland - Paul Simon / Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout / Blood & Chocolate/King of America - Elvis Costello 1987 Sign O The Times - Prince / Strangeways Here We Come - The Smiths / The Joshua Tree - U2 / Actually - Pet Shop Boys / Tango In The Night - Fleetwood Mac 1988 Irish Heartbeat - Van Morrison & The Chieftains / Green - R.E.M. / Viva Hate - Morrissey / The Serpent's Egg - Dead Can Dance / Surfer Rosa - Pixies / Naked - Talking Heads / Introspective - Pet Shop Boys / I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen / Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins 1989 Disintegration - The Cure / Technique - New Order / Doolittle - The Pixies / Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan / Avalon Sunset - Van Morrison / Rei Momo - David Byrne / Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys / Candleland - Ian McCulloch 1990 Extricate - The Fall / The Good Son - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Songs For Drella - Lou Reed & John Cale / Jonathan Goes Country - Jonathan Richman 1991 Screamadelica - Primal Scream / Achtung Baby - U2 / The Bootleg Boxset - Bob Dylan/ Having a Party with - Jonathan Richman 1992 It's A Shame About Ray - The Lemonheads / Henry's Dream - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Automatic For The People - R.E.M. / Good As I Been To You - Bob Dylan / The Future - Leonard Cohen 1993 Debut - Bjork / Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld / Neroli - Brian Eno / Exile In Guyville - Liz Phair / Come On Feel - The Lemonheads / Zooropa - U2 / Vena Cava - Diamanda Galas

1994 Selected Ambient Works Vol. II - Aphex Twin / Toward The Within - Dead Can Dance / Let Love In - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Dummy - Portishead / Autogeddon - Julian Cope / Vauxhall & I - Morrissey 1995 Anthology - The Beatles / The Ugly One With The Jewels - Laurie Anderson 1996 Boys For Pele - Tori Amos / Gone Again - Patti Smith 1997 Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized / The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan / Vanishing Point - Primal Scream 1998 Up - R.E.M. / I'm So Confused - Jonathan Richman 1999 Play - Moby / I See A Darkness - Bonnie Prince Billy 2000 XTRMNTR - Primal Scream / All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2 / The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem / Kid A - Radiohead / KY - Lemon Jelly 2001 Vespertine - Bjork / Love & Theft - Bob Dylan / No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2002 The Eminem Show - Eminem 2003 Room On Fire - The Strokes / The Man Comes Around/Unearthed - Johnny Cash / The Wind - Warren Zevon 2004 Has Been - William Shatner / How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb - U2 / You Are The Quarry - Morrissey / The Milk-Eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom / Smile - Brian Wilson 2005 Another Day On Earth - Brian Eno / Le Fil - Camille 2006 Modern Times - Bob Dylan / Surprise - Paul Simon / Love - The Beatles 2007 for emma, forever ago - bon iver 2008 vampire weekend - vampire weekend 2009 No Line On The Horizon - U2 / The XX - The XX 2010 show me the face - michelle gurevich 2011 Angles - The Strokes / So Beautiful or So What - Paul Simon 2012 Life Is People - Bill Fay / Old Ideas - Leonard Cohen 2013 Comedown Machine - The Strokes / Crimson Red - Prefab Sprout 2014 Ghost Stories - Coldplay / 1989 - Taylor Swift 2015 ★ - David Bowie 2016 Lover, Beloved - Suzanne Vega / Stranger To Stranger - Paul Simon 2017 American Dream - LCD Soundsystem / antisocialites - alvvays 2018 music for installations - Brian Eno 2019 weezer (teal album) - weezer 2020 rough & rowdy ways - bob dylan 2021 happier than ever - billie eilish / lindsey buckingham - lindsay buckingham 2022 dragon new warm mountain i believe in you - big thief

#music #pop #rock n roll

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girlreviews · 1 month

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Review #172: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel have always been hilarious to me. They are such massive goobers. Goobers with huge egos that dated/married/divorced beautiful women. Both insufferable in their individual specific ways. But also they make the most precious and beautiful music together. They know how good they are but lack self-awareness about literally anything else (like that they’re goobers). Everyone likes it though. You want to not like it because your Mom likes it, but you cannot deny its pull. You like it. It’s good. Have you met anyone that hates Simon & Garfunkel? I haven’t.

It really is good. It opens with the title track, which is a big, gorgeous vocal performance that keeps getting bigger. The accompanying music gets bigger too, without drowning out the vocals. The sentiment of the song is just so lovely too: I’m here for you, you’re my friend. It’s nice not to have an entire album of love songs.

Cecilia could be a love song, I suppose, but it’s really about a man who is desperate to reconcile with a cheating partner who sounds pretty toxic. I’d love to hear Cecilia’s side of the story. I really would. I think about this all the time. Especially because they are both such GOOBERS. It’s a really fun song though. When they do upbeat, they really go for it. See also: Keep The Customer Satisfied, Baby Driver (it has a sax solo, c’mon!).

These Goobers know how to put together a damn fine arrangement that makes some of their songs feel deeper: El Condor Pasa has a really Spanish feel to it with the guitar (duh) and some flutes. It’s a whole vibe, that matches the lyrics. Would I rather be a sparrow or a snail? A forest or a street? A hammer or a nail? These are the big unanswered questions in life, right? No, but it feels like it in this song because it’s mysterious and philosophical. This whole vibe thing is also successful in The Only Living Boy in New York. It sounds like what it’s about, and it’s so beautiful. But totally different to Bridge Over Troubled Water and El Condor Pasa. The slower more ballad-y songs on this album sound like a damn Bob Ross painting.

The Boxer is maybe (???) the most well-known song on this album, but that’s based in absolutely no fact whatsoever on my part. I have no idea. It just seems like most people know that one. Like it got more radio play or something. I like it a lot, but there’s low registering repetitive sound running through it that has always just sort of bugged me. Possibly because I just cannot identify what the instrument is? What is that sound? It could be a cello/double-bass, or some kind of horn, or honestly even a percussion type thing. But I don’t know what it is. Honestly it kind of sounds like a duck to me. I’ve even wondered if it’s a kazoo. I haven’t looked it up, but I could. But will I? I’ll just forget about it until the next time I hear it: Sometimes (often) the duck kazoo is all I can focus on instead of the rest of the song which is pretty fucking pretty.

For a really soft, folky, gentle record made by two goobers, I would also definitively state that it’s somehow full of straight bangers. I could elaborate further on that but I’d suggest you listen to it yourself and you’ll see what I mean.

ETA: it’s a damn BASS HARMONICA. I honestly wasn’t that far off with the kazoo. Also, The Boxer took over 100 hours to record. This blew my mind.

#album review #music #music review #rolling stone top 500 #simon and garfunkel #bridge over troubled water #paul simon #art garfunkel

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justconstantly · 2 months

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MY TOP 9 ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

tagged by @belladonnafey

couldn't sleep, saw ur tag zoph (<3), and here we are. I'm a big album listener so this was a struggle for me, but I tried to avoid all my short term obsessions and only pick my absolute favs, ones I could listen to no skips at any time (order here isn't a ranking or anything, solely was aesthetic for the collage)

lungs (deluxe) - Florence+the machine

fav songs: I'm not calling you a liar, bird song, kiss with a fist

every spare moment for the entire summer of 2014 my brother and I played Minecraft on a LAN server together and I listened exclusively to a YouTube playlist of this album on repeat and that's definitely part of why I am the way I am

heretic pride - the mountain goats

fav songs: autoclave, lovecraft in brooklyn

funnily enough, not one of the three goats albums I have on vinyl, the others are better for living room activities that my record player is good for (lounging, plant watering, etc) but this one is still my all time fav

wasteland baby - hozier

fav songs: almost (sweet music), wasteland baby

RIP my college roommates in spring 2019 because I listened to only this album for approximately 2.5 months and I think they hated me for it (blasting it out loud, singing badly, etc)

Grace - Jeff buckley

fav songs: lover you should've come over, dream brother

this album is so so cool, I mean even discounting Jeff buckleys angelic voice, the haunting guitar? the early modern English hymn?? lilac wine AND hallelujah??? makes me feel incredible

sound and color - alabama shakes

fav songs: this feeling, shoegaze

this whole album makes me just dance/sway around my apartment feeling like I'm the most soulful and tender person alive

post-war - M. ward

fav songs: Chinese translation, right in the head, rollercoaster, magic trick

makes me so indescribably nostalgic for a life I've never lived. when I heard Chinese translation for the first time I was like hmm I'm different now

collapsed in sunbeams - Arlo parks

fav songs: too good, eugene

got the vinyl from my library on a whim to listen to while me and my roomie did a puzzle and spent the next 2 weeks of the hold just glued to the record player, haven't bought my own copy yet but it's on my wishlist FOR SURE just perfect lazy living room vibes for me

crawler - IDLES

fav songs: the beachland ballroom, meds, car crash

massive thank you @azertykeys for recommending me idles bc this album is a go to for me when I'm coding and/or also just in my feelings

bridge over troubled water - Simon & Garfunkel

fav songs: keep the customer satisfied, the boxer, the only living boy in New York, why don't you write me

my parents listened to quite a bit of Simon and Garfunkel when I was a kid and I didn't realize I knew them until I was like 20 and my friend was playing their greatest hits and I knew every word to every song. she was like why do you know so much Simon and Garfunkel and I was like oh is that who this is? anyway love this album, my vinyl is a treasured posession

only reason mitski isn't on this list is because I can't choose between any of her albums

other honorable mentions:

<COPINGMECHANISM> by willow

hospice by antlers

woman on the internet by Orla gartland

case/lang/veirs by case/lang/veirs

transgender dysphoria blues by against me

fetch the bolt cutters by Fiona apple

she won't make sense by the harmleighs

this was long so absolutely no pressure, but tagging @azertykeys @heart-to-hearts @bromaine-lettuce @junewild @unnonexistence @navigatorwrongway and anyone who sees this and wants to give it a go

#this was funnnn #i love music and making lists SO much #mutuals pspspspspsp

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pleasuresoftheharbor · 4 months

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tagged by @antiquesintheattic to post my top ten favorite albums YAY. going to try and do favorites of all time but it's going to be very difficult... these are in no specific order 😁

rehearsals for retirement - phil ochs

dust bowl ballads - woody guthrie

basement on the hill - elliott smith

bridge over troubled water - simon & garfunkel

townes van zandt (self titled)

romance is boring - los campesinos!

new skin for the old ceremony - leonard cohen

diamonds and rust - joan baez

transformer - lou reed

nebraska - bruce springsteen

i'm probably forgetting something essential but what everr it's all good i still really love all of these. tagging @cowboyinthesand @fortheturnstiles and @thehappysmiler but nooo pressure of course yay yayy

#speaking

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startrekivthevoyagehome · 1 year

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Simon and Garfunkel Showdown Masterpost

Preliminary Round (ENDED at 9PM EST on 2/09) Since none of the albums would fit on a single poll I split each one into two polls. This round basically serves to narrow each album down to 10 songs.

Wednesday Morning, 3AM (part 1) Wednesday Morning, 3AM (part 2) eliminated songs: you can tell the world, benedictus

Sounds of Silence (part 1) Sounds of Silence (part 2) eliminated songs: anji

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (part 1) Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (part 2) eliminated songs: cloudy, the big bright green pleasure machine

Bookends (part 1) Bookends (part 2) eliminated songs: bookends theme, voices of old people

Bridge Over Troubled Water (part 1) Bridge Over Troubled Water (part 2) eliminated songs: bye bye love

Semifinals Round (ENDED at 9PM EST on 2/10) The songs with the least number of votes between the two polls have been eliminated. The top 10 songs from each album will now face off against each other!

Wednesday Morning, 3AM winner: the sound of silence (acoustic version)

Sounds of Silence winner: the sound of silence (electric version)

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme winner: scarborough fair/canticle

Bookends winner: america

Bridge Over Troubled Water winner: the boxer

Final Round (ENDED 11PM EST on 2/11) SHOWDOWN of the winning song from each album!

Vote here winner: the boxer

(bonus runners up round) winner: the only living boy in new york

#simon and garfunkel showdown

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jeannyanswers · 4 months

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Hello :)

I would love to see an example of a school playlist! (Doesn’t have to be lofi)

Hey there Anon!

So in this post I talked about ways to romanticize school and one of them is to create different playlists for different vibes. I’m just going to give you a few songs per playlists so that this post doesn’t become too long, but I hope you’ll enjoy them ♥️

Getting ready in the morning (still trying to wake yourself up)

Suddenly I See ~ KT Tunstall

Someone New ~ Kakkmaddafakka

Feather ~ Sabrina Carpenter

love is embarrassing ~ Olivia Rodrigo

Ein bisschen mehr Liebe ~ RAUM27

Umazane Misli ~ Joker Out

Lunchtime ~ Spacey Jane

Daylight ~ Harry Styles

Juice ~ Blæst

SUPERMODEL ~ Måneskin

Oft gesagt ~ RAUM27

3005 ~ Childish Gambino

Dice ~ Leoniden

Restless ~ Kakkmaddafakka

Walking/driving to school (main character vibes)

Brazil ~ Declan McKenna

Bad Moon Rising ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival

I Walk This Earth All By Myself ~ EKKSTACY

Retro (Rough) ~ Childish Gambino

End of Beginning ~ Djo

Think About Things ~ Daði Freyr

Plattenbaum ~ RAUM27

Morirò da re ~ Måneskin

pretty isn’t pretty ~ Olivia Rodrigo

Crazy Little Thing Called Love ~ Queen

Obvious Guy ~ Alfie Templeman

betty ~ Taylor Swift

Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa ~ FINNEAS

For Elise ~ Saint Motel

Day ‘n’ Nite ~ Kid Cudi

Studying during your free period (mysteriously sitting in a corner)

Killer Queen ~ Queen

I Want To Hold Your Hand ~ The Beatles

Fortunate Son ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival

Shattered Dreams ~ Johnny Hates Jazz

I Wanna Be Sedated ~ Rockaway Bitch

Sympathy For The Devil ~ The Rolling Stones

Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy ~ Queen

Harness you Hopes (B-side) ~ Pavement

The Joker ~ Steve Miller Band

She Drives Me Crazy ~ Fine Young Cannibals

(Don’t Fear) The Reaper ~ Blue Öyster Cult

Walk This Way ~ Aerosmith

Another One Bites The Dust ~ Queen

Go Your Own Way ~ Fleetwood Mac

You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet ~ Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Glass Onion ~ The Beatles

Coming home after school (letting out the frustration)

Brutal ~ Olivia Rodrigo

KOOL KIDS ~ Måneskin

Bad Reputation ~ Joan Jett

Celebrity Skin ~ Hole

Vermiss dich ~ RAUM27

Just a Girl ~ No Doubt

Dark Side ~ Blind Channel

Funeral ~ Leoniden

LA FINE ~ Måneskin

All American Bitch ~ Olivia Rodrigo

For a dark academia vibe

Waltz No.2 ~ Cihat Askin

Time Will Come ~ Tol-Puddle Martyrs

Dance of the Knights ~ Sergei Prokofjew

Lacrimosa ~ (performed by) Vienna Mozart Orchestra

Danse Macabre, Op. 40 ~ Camille Saint-Saëns

Honestly anything by Aija Alsiņa she’s amazing

Or anything by Igor Levit, he’s great too

Calming down in the evening

Booster Seat ~ Spacey Jane

Kill Bill ~ SZA

Twilight Time ~ The Platters

War With Heaven ~ keshi

Bring It On Home To Me ~ Elvin Bishop

Galapagos ~ Kakkmaddafakka

0471 ~ RAUM27

Glitch ~ Taylor Swift

lacy ~ Olivia Rodrigo

Little Sad Eyes ~ The Castells

My favourite Albums to study too

SOUR ~ Olivia Rodrigo

emails i can’t send ~ Sabrina Carpenter

Because the Internet ~ Childish Gambino

Kauai ~ Childish Gambino

Bridge Over Troubled Water ~ Simon & Garfunkel

Hozier ~ Hozier

Stick Season (Forever) ~ Noah Kahan

folklore ~ Taylor Swift

evermore ~ Taylor Swift

Harry’s House ~ Harry Styles

To Feel Something At All ~ KYTES

Happiness in Liquid Form - EP ~ Alfie Templeman

Anfangen Anzufangen ~ RAUM27

AM ~ Arctic Monkeys

Rumours ~ Fleetwood Mac

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reflections-in-a-critical-eye · 4 months

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i don't know if anyone has ever asked you this but, could you recommend some songs that you find interesting musically or lyrically?? not necessarily because the song is very complex, but because there is just something that catches your attention every time you listen to it.

idk if i am explaining myself right, but for example lady grinning soul by david bowie is one of those songs for me.

Hm, I did make a list. I'm not sure this is what you were thinking of, but it made me go down the memory lane. It seems I like the songs that tell a story. There's a lot not on that list, but this is all that came to mind now.

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel

Piano Man - Billy Joel

Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan (and almost everything from his 60s and 70s albums in terms of storytelling)

Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee (because it comes the closest to how I see life)

Have A Cigar - Pink Floyd (this one is for the lyrics, but musically I'd pick the entire discography)

Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters - there's plenty of known Elton John songs out there, but I find this quintessential, like a signature

Henry Lee - Nick Cave with P.J. Harvey (for the lyrics again)

Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen (always for the lyrics, there's few in his league)

Modern Love - David Bowie (I could have chosen any Bowie song, but this one is so visual, perhaps because I associate it with Leos Carax's Mauvais Sang)

Purple Rain - Prince (I have this on vinyl and it's an experience, especially the guitar solo)

Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac (the drama, the feelings, an entire affair in one song)

#m thoughts #music preferences

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http-paprika · 10 days

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MEET THE OC! a tedtalk by paprika that no one asked for

after writing GOLD RUSH and spending some time toying around with the little character of Beau, I decided I'd take a chance and share her with you! If you have any further questions and want to know more about her or her story, please reach out in the comments or my inbox!

GENERAL INFORMATION Government Name: Beaumont Khalil Summerlin Preferred Name: Beau

Date of Birth: June 23, 1991 Star Sign: Cancer

Hometown: Yuma, Arizona

Native Languages: English and Arabic Learned Languages: Spanish and a Bit of Russian

CAREER Occupation: Linguistics and Intel Officer; Special Field Agent Branch of Government: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Supervisor: Kate Laswell Former Occupation: Translation and Negotiations with the US Marines under Captain Yoko S. Tanaka

RELATIVES and ASSOCIATES Father: James H. Summerlin, Sr. -- Retired US Marine Mother: Sana E. Summerlin -- Arabic and Anthology Professor

Brothers: James H. Summerlin, Jr. -- Enlisted Military Police in the Army; Asher G. Summerlin -- Enlisted Air Force Linguist Sister: Mona R. Summerlin -- Student at the University of Texas

Best Friend: Jolene H. Maxfield-Graves -- Intel Officer Partner: Alex Keller -- CIA-SAD Officer

APPEARANCE Height: 5'11 Build: Athletic

Complexion: Tanned Noticeable Markings: Scar from Bullet Wound on Left Shoulder, Barbed Wire Tattoo on Lower Back

Hair: Light Brown, Wavy Texture Eyes: Dark Green, Almond Shaped

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Favorite Book: Jack Reacher; Running Blind by Lee Child Favorite TV Show: The X-Files Favorite Album: Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel

Choice of Cuisine: Vietnamese Favorite Dish: Duck Pho

MBTI Personality Type: ENTP Ennagram Type: 8 - The Active Controller Love Language: Words of Affirmation

HER PAST In 1982, when James Sr. was stationed in Lebanon during a peacekeeping tour with the US Marines, he met his wife Sana who was a local working as a translator for the Marines. The two often worked together and quickly fell in love, and when his deployment came to an end, he promised to return to Lebanon for her so they could be married. In 1984, he returns to Lebanon and much to the displeasure of her religious parents, Sana leaves with James and they elope. Bringing her back to the states, he is stationed in Jacksonville, North Carolina where Sana persues further education and later gives birth to their firstborn son, James. Jr. in 1888. In 1990, after being restationed in Yuma, Arizona they have their second child and first daughter, Beaumont.

Beau spent her first years of life moving from one place to another and was often withdrawn as a child. Prefering to be alone than playing with her brother and younger siblings. From an early age her parents noted that she had a greater interest in knowledge and reading, being more idept in Arabic than the rest of her siblings. In her teen years, with newer gained confidence, she sought higher education with hopes to attend university in Hawaii where her family was stationed at the time, receiving a handsome scholarship from the school of her choice. But an old colleague of her father, Scott Hardy, encouraged her to join the Marines and follow in her mother's footsteps as a trained translator, later becoming a negotiations specialist who was known for being level-headed and quick witted.

Feeling unfilled with her career choice, Beau left the Marines at the age of 22 to return to academics. But received attention from Kate Laswell after narrowly saving a whole Marine Corp Squard from bombing with her quick ability to process intel. Laswell, determined to recruit Beau under her, offers her a position that'll allow Beau to attend university in Washington, DC while working for the CIA as a linguistic and intel analyst.

After a few years of office works and receiving her degree through excelurated work, Beau accepts a field assignment to work in her mother's homeland of Lebanon. Stationed there, she spends time reconnecting with her heritage whilst helping filter through intel for all of the middle east. During her time in Lebanon is when Beau first meets Alex Keller during his time in SAD. And though there is an instant spark, the two are off and on, never having the avaliabity and emotional energy to commit to a full-term relationship.

Beau is referred by Laswell to a new field assignment to work alongside the US Marines and International Corp in Urzikstan as tense begins to arise between forces. (Where MWII starts up) During her time in Urzikstan, her relationship with Keller becomes more serious in the threat of terror and her specialty and skills catch the eye of Captain John Price who tries to recruit her as a support member of TF141. Hoping it'll give her a chance to return and finish her work in Urzikstan along with letting her be with Keller, Beau accepts the position and begins working alongside TF141.

#meet the oc #oc #original female character #call of duty oc #cod original character #character introduction #original character: beau summerlin #call of duty #call of duty mw #alex keller x original character #alex keller

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coyotebrained · 9 months

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GASP. TAILWAG. YIPPING. YOU LIKE SIMON AND GARFUNKEL?

YEA :D I’ve been listening to them since I was a pup!!! Bridge over troubled waters and bookends r like required albums in my life I love them SM!!!

#I would love 2 know some of yr favorite songs by them if u wanna share :33 #ask #music

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nornsfate · 2 months

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NO-SKIP ALBUMS tag game

i wasn’t formally tagged in this- i saw @crumb ’s post and i really wanted to do it! i had an extremely hard time picking albums so i picked the ones that i feel like had a big impact on me/were prominent at some point in my life. i’m tagging @faggotfungus @allmoshnobrain @blowfishinthisup because ya’ll are my main music mutuals but no pressure! only do it if you want to!!

rules: share the albums that you can listen to nonstop. those lightning in a bottle-albums that scratch ur brain just right. every single track, an absolute banger. u could not skip one if u tried. no notes. stunning, show-stopping, immaculate. ur no-skip albums.

bonus & optional rules: 1) add a track rec for us to listen to! AND 2) share ur favorite line(s) from that track!

albums and track recs:

SWAGGER - FLOGGING MOLLY

selfish man: i don’t eat i just devour / been running every hour / all is me is all i need and that’s all that i care

ROMCOM - JAKEY

drive off a bridge: tell my lover that i’m sorry for these days i couldn’t save / know i love you from the morning to the night i drive away

NO CONTROL - BAD RELIGION

no control: there’s no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end / when we all disintegrate, it will all happen again / if you came to conquer you’ll be king for a day / but you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away

STARCRAWLER - STARCRAWLER

chicken woman: you think she’s mine / so maybe she is / but she ain’t got time for your foolish little tricks

THE MEANEST OF TIMES - DROPKICK MURPHYS

shattered: shattered, when people aren’t always what they seem / shattered, when the ones that we rely on break their word

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER - SIMON AND GARFUNKEL

keep the customer satisfied: i get slandered / libel / i hear words i never heard in the bible /and i’m one step ahead of the shoe shine / two steps away from the county line / just trying to keep the customer satisfied

ROCKISDEAD - DOROTHY

medicine man: hey, you, medicine man / set me free and change my ways / hey, you, give me a holler / give me a holler, what do you say?

MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL - OF MONSTERS & MEN

from finner: and the waves that hit his face, marked the past / and the farrows of his skin, oh how time goes fast / and we are far, far from home / but we’re so happy

VENEMOUS RAT REGENERATION VENDOR - ROB ZOMBIE

the girl who loved the monsters: i am a child in need / watch me bleed / how can i live if i cannot feed? / i am an animal / no one knows / i limp around on broken toes

ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS

president gas: don’t cry, don’t do anything / no lies, back in my government / no tears, party time is here again / president gas is up for president

VILLIANS - EMMA BLACKERY

villians part one: i am a maverick / built to create / designed to destroy / and i am the quiver in your bones when you get annoyed

TOXICITY - SYSTEM OF A DOWN

ATWA: hey you, see me, pictures crazy / all the world i’ve seen before me, passing by / you don’t care about how i feel / i don’t feel there anymore

JOY AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE- IDLES

samaritans: the mask of masculinity / is a mask, a mask that’s wearing me

ALL HOPE IS GONE - SLIPKNOW

sulfur: but the longest hours you’ll have in your life / are the ones you sit through to know if you’re right

METALLICA (THE BLACK ALBUM) - METALLICA

the god that failed: pride you took, pride you feel / pride that you felt when you’d kneel / not the word, not the love / not what you thought from above

#my music taste is truly all over the place and i have no clue what these choices say about me #danilenko.jpg #tag post

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A rundown of my TWTaS writing playlist because I cannot be stopped

this will no doubt be the longest post I've ever made about this fic so strap in:

general atmosphere/plot songs:

El Tango De Los Assassinos (yes, from Mr&Mrs Smith)

This was my mood setting for Jyn and Cassian in the early chapters, especially the rooftop scene in chapter 9.

Runaway by The National

This is a sad and gentle backdrop that I pictured being played in Baze's diner in the first half of the fic a lot.

The Boys of Summer (live) by The Hooters

This is here largely because I have been trash for this song since I was thirteen and it has a lot of Yearning in it. Let's say it could also be playing in the diner, that would make sense to me.

Starlight by Muse

this was maybe the first song I ever saw on a rebelcaptain edit (it was this one by @proinsiascassidy) and it has sparked my ongoing obsession with them and starlight - the word, the concept, stargazing, everything. Therefore, it had to be on here, even though I feel like it's an outlier musically.

St Jude by Florence + The Machine

This has EXACTLY the peaceful, suspenseful, sorrowful, hopeful vibes this ship needs especially in this setting, and it is addressed to "St Jude, the patron saint of the lost causes" so. yeah.

Never Let Me Go by Florence + The Machine

This is a big Depression song, and this fic is Depressed, so it works for both of them equally. The water/ocean theme and the chorus of "never let me go" feels much more Jyn than Cassian to me, but the Overt Christian Overtones make a lot of sense for Cassian and "the crushes of heaven for a sinner like me" is. come on.

Lithium Sunset by Sting

Listen this song is literally about antidepressants what do you want me to tell you.

Between Two Lungs

This is as triumphant and cheesy as the playlist gets, folks. They're in love! And they want to live, goddamnit!

Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2

Somehow several songs about the Irish Troubles ended up in this fic that is 100 percent not about that (although I picture Lyra's father as someone who was Involved in the Troubles, but this doesn't factor into the story enough to explain it and I think I came up with it because of the playlist).

Character and relationship themes:

Shallow by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

Look I wish I could roll my eyes at this song but unfortunately the lyrics are perfect for this fic in every way and I gotta respect that. The singers should be reversed for this fic but. Yeah sorry the lyrics are really good.

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Johnny Cash

To counteract the unhealthy vibes of most of the other songs on here, here's a sweet, peaceful song about selfless devotion and helping and comforting each other, because that is also a part of how I see this ship. It's also another song I definitely think was playing at the diner. Actually I think I actively hinted at it once. (Edit: I sure did! Chapter 26)

The Only Hope For Me Is You by My Chemical Romance

Listen. Desert vibes. Starts with echoes of "remember me". It's comparatively aggressive and very heavy on the war metaphors (that may not be metaphors). It's kind of perfect.

Summertime by My Chemical Romance

from the same album, same vibes. Very apocalyptic but in a hopeful way? They're throwing bricks and promising to run away together. This is a no-brainer.

Song for Someone by U2

This may be THE rebelcaptain song. It's devastating and so full of baggage but it's so tender and so hopeful and I will champion this song as their anthem until I die.

Work Song by Hozier

Is this a song about deep, deeply unhealthy, heartfelt devotion? Does it contain the Classically Rebelcaptain lines "When my time comes around, lay me gently in the cold dark earth/ no grave can hold my body down, I'll crawl home to her"? I rest my case.

I'm Not the One by 3OH!3

This works so so well for both Jyn and Cassian, it's like a conversation between their younger selves, and also I really drew on this for all those moments where they see themselves and their screwed-up childhoods in each other.

Man in Black by Johnny Cash

This is Draven. Straight up in my head Draven is always wearing black and this song is why.

Firefly Theme by Sonny Rhodes

This is clearly Bodhi, and it's perfect.

Brothers In Arms by Dire Straights

This plays in Bodhi's backstory for me. Because it's a War Trauma song I guess, but also because it has this heavy, heavy sense of loss of friends, of innocence, of self. It's so heartbreaking, and it's so gentle and quiet and deceptively peaceful.

Solsbury Hill (live) by Peter Gabriel

Culturally this makes NO sense but this is my go-to-Chirrut song. It's spiritual and uplifting and it is just so deeply comforting to me.

Fields of Gold by Sting

So this makes even less sense both culturally and lyrics-wise, but it feels like Baze to me. I cannot explain this.

River Lea by Adele

I could quote this entire thing this is TWTaS Jyn in a nutshell

Raised By Wolves by U2

This is a very Jyn song to me. It is bleak but it's defiant and I think it makes a lot of sense as her starting point.

21 Guns by Green Day

God I love this song. It's perfect for them in every way my god. This fandom should be full of Green Day songs. This song works so well for Cassian especially early on in the fic, and I think it really gets the vibe so right.

Golden by Fall Out Boy

This is so so Cassian and his horrible self-esteem and his self-imposed isolation for the sake of others.

You Found Me by The Fray

Since this is, once again, Overtly Complicatedly Religious, it feels very Cassian. This song is so so bitter and I feel like that makes a lot of sense for Cassian re: faith and life and everything.

The Unforgiven by Metallica

This is the Very Bleak Backdrop for young Cassian's disillusionment arc/downward spiral, so like mid-teens to his undercover op. It also works for Draven, which is neat and very sad.

All Eyes On Me by Bo Burnham (yes)

This song is so bleak and so trance-like in the absolute worst most viscerally depression-like way. This is a song for someone who is SO close to just giving up, with the faintest of cries for help left ("hands down, pray for me"). This is for Cassian at nineteen or twenty, alone and spiralling and vaguely dissociating. It's bad and this song is so good and so upsetting to me.

Zombie by The Cranberries

More Troubles music. A very good song, deeply heartbreaking.

Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day

This song straight up is why everything bad that ever happened to Cassian happened in September. There is no way to convince me this song is not perfect for this character in every way.

Any Other World by MIKA

Welcome to more bitterness and self-effacing nonsense, because again, I can't be stopped.

Der Weg by Herbert Grönemeyer

The last third of this song makes SOB. It's a song all about the horrible grief that comes with losing someone way too soon, and about learning to live with it. It's so fucking sad on its own merit, and it does work scarily well for Cassian and the memories of his family. Hell, you can split those lines up for each of them perfectly, and it ends with one of the saddest loveliest lines in the world, this song is A Lot: "Habe dich sicher in meiner Seele/ Ich trag' dich bei mir bis der Vorhang fällt" (I keep you safely within my soul/ I'll carry you with me until the courtain falls)

What A Catch, Donnie by Fall Out Boy

This is for Cassian ("I got troubled thoughts and the self esteem to match", "they say the captain goes down with the ship/so when the world ends, will god go down with it?" and all that), but mostly for Cassian and his father, for these lines: "I will never end up like him/ behind my back I already am"

Leningrad by Billy Joel

This makes absolutely zero sense for this fic and emphatically should not be on here but the first stanza is giving me inexplicable Cassian-and-his-dad vibes.

24 Frames by Jason Isbell

Due to the lyrics, this is obv very much Cassian and his mother and brother, but really his whole family. Also a whole lot of bitterness against God, see above. (It's also a holdover from the glorious Cassian playlist that Disney has since retconned so there's that)

It's Time by Imagine Dragons

I don't know how I landed on this but it actually works So Well for baby Cassian who is already disillusioned but also still very very naive about how much change and revenge he can affect. And it illustrates the rift between him and Gael so nicely. It catches the whole unhealthy song and dance of "you might change and you should get out of here but I never will and so I have to stay and let this place kill me". I feel insane for reading this sentiment into this song but I truly think it's there?

Stay by Hurts

This song is super fucking cheesy and very on the nose but it's here for a single line that fucking breaks me re: Cassian and Gael every time: "And I wonder if you know/ how it feels to let you go"

Hurt by Johnny Cash

I'm making this whole list partially so I get to scream about how much real estate this undefined relationship has taken up in my head, and yes, that includes Hurt playing on a loop whenever I think about them. This is fully Cassian anywhere between becoming a cop and meeting Jyn (and starting therapy lol) to Gael, I mean, it has it all. It's A Lot, but it's so on brand.

How to Save a Life by The Fray

Yes, it's The Song From Every TV Drama! Once again, is it overplayed and cheesy by proxy? Kinda! Is it perfect for this fic? Yes! This is Gael for most of his adult life re: Cassian, probably. Like, the man did what he could and he got out when he had to but knowing the person that once meant most to you in the world is killing themselves by a thousand cuts somewhere and does not want you to save them is just about the worst feeling I can imagine and this song is as close as I got to that.

Objects In The Rearview Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are by Meat Loaf

Again, very very specific and pretty on the nose, but the first stanzas of this song are so very accurate to what I had in my head that I feel I couldn't write Gael grieving for Cassian much better. With the flashback to little boys getting into hijinks and running around and such hope for the future and then "I can still recall the sting of all, the tears when he was gone/ they said he crashed and burned/ I know I'll never learn/ why any boy should die so young"?? and also "There are times I think I see him peeling out of the dark/ I think he's right behind me now and he's gaining ground" GOD.

Whatsername by Green Day

I needed to know what Gael's headspace was so I could write him in not-a-flashback-time and it's. It's Whatsername. It's all stages of grief and it's a bit of a breakup song and also the first lines feel so real to me, anything that mentions thinking you saw someone you know but then it wasn't them is giving me OC feels now, as seen above. And Whatsername has the absolute perfect balance between "this killed me but I've put it behind me" and "this person will haunt me until the day I die". I love this song.

Not on the playlist but there in spirit:

Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA

Because this OC lives rent-free in my head, I have a song for him and his oldest daughter that makes me cry. I'm assuming this is normal.

Not in Nottingham by Mumford & Sons

This would 100 000 % be on here if it were on Spotify. To my continued horror, it isn't. It would round out this collection of sad, hopeless songs nicely and it is also near and dear to my heart due to being from maybe The most formative movie of my childhood.

The Scientist by Coldplay

This is the be-all-end-all Galen and Jyn song and I will never budge from this. It doesn't really factor into this fic but again, it's here in spirit.

#i don't know who i'm making this post for but maybe it will interest someone?#the world through a scope #music

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