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comradekatara · 4 days
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what genres of music do you think the gaang would listen to? what about some of their favorite artists? i think katara would be a big olivia rodrigo fan and that aang would listen to a lot of taylor swift lol
aw come on now be nice to aang. he would have better taste than THAT. i think he would listen to a lot of disco, like donna summer. he would like upbeat funky music that you can dance to. and he’d have a pretty eclectic and varied music taste. like i see him also loving joanna newsom (and not just because divers is about his life). and maaayyybe he’d listen to taylor swift, like one or two songs perhaps, but his ass would NOT be a swiftie.
that said, katara would feel very passionately about her, although whether positively or negatively i do not know. but there is no way she is simply swift-neutral. she would care way too much about pop culture as a phenomenon. i think that even if she really did love taylor swift she’d always preface her name with “famous climate criminal…”
and look, i respect olivia rodrigo, i think she’s a talented performer and makes great songs for amvs (ty lee all american bitch kendall roy brutal nanami vampire, to name a few highlights), but if anything, katara would listen to actual 90s riot grrrl and female singer songwriters, because olivia is simply not as good as her inspirations.
katara would also listen to any music that has a subversive political message or is sung by a woman with eminently powerful vocals. so a combination of punk, folk, some gospel, some heavy metal, and a lot of r&b. also i think she’d listen to very specific shwotunes and defend those musicals with her life.
sokka doesn’t have a music “taste” he has one song that he plays on repeat for weeks until he gets sick of it. sometimes that song is a symphony by beethoven, and sometimes that song is “fireworks” by mitski (okay, it’s often “firework” by mitski). but his one constant is kate bush. he’s fucking obsessed with kate bush.
toph grew up a piano prodigy so she has a lot of opinions on classical music and that’s most of what she listens to for the first decade or so of her life. then she gets introduced to like, tracy chapman and fiona apple through katara and sokka, and realizes that classifying all music with lyrics as “trash” may have been a bit reductive. and when she gets a bit older she gets really into indie rock and begs sokka to take her to concerts. and he doesn’t even really care for the concerts. he just takes her because he knows how much she loves it.
zuko is a mitskigirl thru and thru. i know that ppl say he’d be emo and listen to mcr but that music is too coarse and unpolished for his sensitive ears. he likes music with a beautiful melancholy quality that makes him feel sad yet gorgeous. he also listens to jbrekkie and jay som and other musical equivalents to ocean vuong. he’s literally gaysian what do u want from him.
suki is by far the most into music of anyone in their friendgroup. music is one of her favorite things in the entire world, and if she couldn’t play and listen to music she wouldn’t even want to exist. she’s in an indie folk rock band with her friends called the kyoshi warriors, and they have a lot of followers on bandcamp. she has an incredibly varied and extensive music taste, which is why she’s basically always designated the aux cord. sometimes she’s playing the cranberries and sometimes she’s playing googoosh and sometimes she’s playing otyken. and her taste never misses.
ty lee is one of those freaks who doesn’t really listen to music by choice. instead, she listens to: true crime podcasts, audiobooks (eg, of lacanian psychoanalysis), or sometimes simply has her earbuds in with nothing actually playing so as to seem as if she isn’t eavesdropping on the conversations taking place in her vicinity. but when people ask her what kind of music she likes she just says, “oh, you know…. pop.”
mai is also a mitskigirl she’s even more of a mitskigirl than zuko is (so she claims, although zuko would contest this). she’s very active on spotify because she loves making various playlists for different moods, different vibes, different blorbos from her shows. she likes all different genres, and takes suki’s recommendations very seriously above all.
azula’s two favorite artists are, unfortunately, rachmaninoff and kanye, and that’s all you really need to know about her.
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allamericansbitch · 2 years
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based on this thread, here is a list of famous people who have supported johnny depp and/or made fun of amber heard. fuck all of them:
Aly & AJ
Alissa Violet (Influencer)
Anitta
Ann Coulter
Ashley Benson
Ashley Park (actress from Emily in Paris)
Auli'i Cravalho (actress from Moana)
Bailey Muñoz
Bella Hadid
Ben Shapiro
Booboo Stewart
Chase Hudson (Lil Huddy)
Chase Stokes (actor from Outer Banks)
China McClaine
Chris Rock
Cierra Ramirez (actress from The Fosters/Good Trouble)
Cody Simpson
Connor Swindells (adam groff on sex education)
Cazzie David
Critical Role
Dakota Fanning
Dakota Johnson
Daniel Ricciardo
Diana Silvers
Dillion Francis (DJ)
Dominic Fike
Dove Cameron
Elle King
Emma Roberts
Florence Pugh
Gabby Douglas
Gemma Chan
Halle Bailey
Henry Golding
Ian Somerhalder
Jaime King
Jamie Campbell Bower
Javier Bardem
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Coolidge
Jeremy Renner
Jessie J
JK Rowling
Joe Perry (Aerosmith)
JoJo Siwa
Jordan Fisher
Julian Kostov (actor from Shadow & Bone)
Justin Long
Kali Uchis
Kat Von D
Kelly Osbourne
Kelsea Ballerini
Kyle Rittenhouse
LaKeith Stanfield
Lance Bass
Lennon Stella
Lewis Tan
Lucy Hale
Madelyn Cline (actress from Outer Banks)
Maren Morris
Matthias Schoenaerts
Michael Clifford (of 5 Seconds of Summer)
Molly Shanon
Nicholas Braun
Norman Reedus
Nyane (popular instagram model)
Olivia Jade
Paige (from WWE)
Paris Hilton
Patti Smith
Paul Bettany
Paul McCartney
Penelope Cruz
Perrie Edwards
Phillip Barantini (director of Boiling Point)
Pokimane (Twitch Streamer)
Reeve Carney
Robert Downey Jr
Rian Dawson (Drummer of All Time Low)
Riley Keough
Rita Ora
Ryan Adams
Sam Claflin
Samantha Hanratty (actress from Yellowjackets)
Samuel Larsen
Seth Savoy (Director)
Shannen Doherty
Sharon Stone
Sia
SNL cast and writers
Sofia Boutella
Sophie Turner
Stella Maxwell
Tammin Sursok
Taika Waititi
Tony Lopez
Upsahl
Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Morgan
Vanessa Paradis
Vincent Gallo
Yungblud
Zachary Levi
Zedd
Zoe Saldana
Zoey Deutch
People who publicly support Amber:
Aiysha Hart 
Alex Winter
Alexa Nikolas (actress from Zoey 101)
Amanda Seyfried
Amy Schumer
Anna Sophia Robb
Bianca Butti (Amber's ex)
Busy Philipps
Chace Crawford
Chloe Morello
Christina Ricci
Constance Wu
Contrapoints/Natalie Wynn
Corey Rae
Dana Schwartz (journalist and writer)
David Krumholtz
Dolph Lundgren
Edward Norton
Elizabeth Lail (actress who played Beck from you)
Elizabeth McGovern
Elizaberh Reaser (Esmé in Twilight)
Ellen Barkin
Emeraude Toubia (actress from Shadowhunters and With Love)
Emily Ratajkowski
Evan Rachel Wood
Finneas
Howard Stern
Ira Madison III
Jamelle Bouie (NYT columnist)
Jessica Taylor, Dr
Jon Lovett (podcaster & former White House speech writer & fiance of Ronan Farrow)
John Legend
Julia Fox
Julia Stiles
Julianne Moore
Kate Nash (singer, actress from Glow)
Kathy Griffin
Kristen Bell
Lauren Jauregui
Lena Headey
Lindsay Ellis (YouTuber)
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsey Gort
Mia Farrow
Michele Dauber (Stanford law professor)
Millie Brady (actress in The Last Kingdom)
Mel B
Melanie Lynskey
Melissa Benoist
Monica Lewinsky
Nathalie Emmanuel (actress on Game of Thrones)
Neil Gaiman (writer of Caroline, American Gods, Good Omens, etc.)
Nikki Glaser (comedian)
Patricia Arquette
Rachel Riley
Raphael Bob-Waksberg (creator of Bojack Horseman)
Robin Lord Taylor
Rian Johnson (director of Knives Out)
Ryn Weaver (singer)
Samantha Bee (comedian)
Sarah Paulson
Sarah Steele
Selma Blair 
Sophia Bush
Uzo Aduba
Willa Fitzgerald
Zach Kornfeld (from the Try Guys)
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mr-styles · 1 year
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Harry Styles tops year-end Spotify Wrapped rundown with most streamed song of 2022
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Spotify has unveiled its 2022 Wrapped campaign and personalised user experience.
The year-end data reveals the top artists, songs, albums and podcasts for its 456 million listeners around the world. Starting today, eligible users can also access their personalised 2022 Wrapped experience.
It follows similar rundowns from Apple Music, Deezer and YouTube Music.
Harry Styles’ As It Was was the most streamed song globally with 1.6 billion streams, followed by fellow UK act Glass Animals’ Heat Waves (1.1bn). Ed Sheeran was the top UK artist globally (at No.6), followed by Harry Styles at No.7.
While catalogue makes its presence felt, as on the Deezer round-up, Spotify is able to engage listeners with new releases too. The Top 5 albums in the UK are all current releases, with Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour the only one over 18 months old.
Following the release of her latest album Midnights last month, Taylor Swift is the most listened to artist this year for Spotify users in the UK. Although only released in October, the album has 805m streams in the UK. The album release was accompanied by a global campaign which saw Spotify billboards appear around the world, teasing new lyrics from the album in the days leading up to release.
Swift is joined in the Top 10 artists listened to by UK Spotify users (see below) by five British acts: Ed Sheeran (No.3), Harry Styles (No.4), Dave (No.7), Arctic Monkeys (No.9) and D-Block Europe (No.10).
As well as his global victory, Harry Styles takes this year’s top song for UK fans, with As It Was reaching close to 97m streams on Spotify in the UK in 2022. Styles is joined in the Top by Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) on over 63m streams in the UK, following its appearance in Stranger Things.
For the third year in a row, Bad Bunny took the No.1 spot for most-streamed artist globally, with more than 18 billion streams this year.
via musicweek.com
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accidentalautomaton · 10 months
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you know what. fuck it. tma music hcs.
jon- mostly classical, movie scores. he likes violin and piano and sometimes catches himself tapping out the melody. i’d also say a little bit of jazz, billie holliday sort of stuff. he doesn’t like lyrics because he can’t focus when he’s working but he’s got a few records he keeps lying around his flat
martin- also classical, but more relaxing guitar/piano stuff. big lofi fan; he’ll put the video on and spend 10 minutes watching it on loop. i think he’d also be a kate bush/fiona applefan, that kind of music he sings while cooking or cleaning etc. he’s a big fan of traditional music. he WILL sing an obscure polish folksong and you WILL listen and be amazed how decent he is at singing
tim- 80’s dad music. yacht rock. margaritaville. he doesn’t really pay attention/listen to music a lot so he likes what he did as a kid for the most part. he will also listen to depeche mode on occasion, and enjoys a small amount of rap- mostly just listens to whatever’s playing at the moment and says he enjoys it. will make fun of everyone else’s taste, though
sasha- she’s really into japanese pop at the moment and fleetwood mac. she likes listening to podcasts more than music but is known to enjoy a weyes blood song in her time. likes music she can airdrum with. i feel like she would be a jazz fan as well, but likes music with more lyrics and stories. she’s cried at don mclean songs multiple times but will never admit it.
melanie- COME ON. you know she listens to punk rock music. she likes stuff that’s bass-heavy and is known to stim by pretending to play the guitar. she likes stuff like tv girl and the crane wives, and listens to almost exclusively female musicians. but she will make an exception for tame impala, which is nothing like what else she listens to but she likes the vibes.
georgie- carol king, fleetwood mac, that sort of music. she likes stuff you can kind of tune out of when you’re working, but also will listen to of montreal sometimes. she wears those big headphones and has them covered in stickers and keeps them in the case. she also likes to listen to waltzes and songs u can dance to because her and melanie dance together a lot. her music taste comes a lot from her mom.
gerry- 80s-90s goth. (i already said this) but he usually turns his music up really loud because its understimulating so his hearing is kind of shit at this point. he taught himself spanish for fun as a kid and he WILL dramatically sing cien años alone. i think he would also be a nine inch nails/ insane clown posse kind of guy and occasionally listen to death metal but it’s a little too consistent for him. has those shitty little earbuds that completely destroy the sound and that’s exactly how he likes it
daisy- riot grrl music and angry folksongs. she will be the person blasting music beside you at the red light and she Will make it your problem
basira- is more a podcast/silence person (she’s really into history podcasts) and enjoys audiobooks but if listening to music she’ll put on whatever’s on the radio. has a soft spot for kpop but won’t listen to it often
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Joseph Quinn ~ List of Works and Where to Watch
This was all originally posted by @hawkins-high but I can’t seem to find the post anywhere now so I’m reposting it for everyone else’s benifit. I probably won’t be keeping this updated but if anyone else wants to, please do.
Oops I lied I already have something to add to the list lol.
...and a couple more.
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TV
 Stranger Things - Netflix
Strike: Lethal White - US: DirecTV, UK: Sky, Other: Primewire
Catherine the Great - US: HBO Max, UK: Sky Go, Australia: Binge, Other: Primewire
Les Miserables - US: PBS, UK: Virgin TV, Other: Primewire
Howard’s End - US: Prime Video, UK: Starz, Other: Primewire
Timewasters - US: Prime Video, UK: Prime Video, Other: Primewire
Dickensian - US: Britbox, Other: Primewire
Postcode - YouTube
Small Axe: Mangrove - Australia: ABC iView, Other: Primewire
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Movies
 Make Up - Primewire
Overlord - Prime Video, Primewire
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Short films
 Kin - Vimeo
The Hoist - Vimeo
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Theatre
 Mosquitoes - National Theatre at Home
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Podcasts/Radio
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
The Movie Podcast
Middlemarch
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Netflix Content
 Watch ‘Stranger Things’ Star Joe Quinn Jam with Metallica at Lollapalooza
Jamie Campbell Bower e Joseph Quinn reagem às teorias (malucas) dos fãs | Netflix Brasil
Tweets br alugam um triplex na cabeça de Jamie Campbell Bower e Joseph Quinn | Netflix Brasil
El cast de STRANGER THINGS juega a las IMITACIONES | Netflix España
Joseph Quinn Breaks Down Eddie’s Journey in Stranger Things 4 | Netflix
Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2: Unlocked | FULL SPOILERS Official After Show | Netflix Geeked
Netflix Geeked Podcast
A Stranger Things Dungeons & Dragons Adventure: The Hellfire Club | Netflix Geeked Week
Stranger Things 4 Vol. 1: Unlocked | FULL SPOILERS Official After Show | Netflix Geeked Week
Three’s ‘Strange’ Company: Inside ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4’s Budding Bromance
Joe Keery, Gaten Matarazzo, and Joseph Quinn Answer To a Nosy Cookie Jar
Joseph Quinn | Stranger Things 4 | World Premiere | Netflix
Joe Quinn on his ‘badass’ Metallica Solo in the ‘Stranger Things’ Finale
Joe Quinn on ‘Stranger Things’ Fan Favorite Eddie Munson’s Heroic Journey
Stranger Things’ Joe Quinn Plays Dungeons & Dragons for the First Time
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Interviews 
 Video
With Jamie
Vivo Fibra e @EsseMenino mostram a INTERNET.COM.BR para Jamie Campbell Bower e Joseph Quinn
‘Stranger Things’ Jamie Campbell Bower & Joseph Quinn Guessing Cast Quotes | Who Said That? | ELLE
Jamie Campbell Bower e Joseph Quinn falam de personagens em Stranger Things
ALÉM DE KATE BUSH: A INCRÍVEL TRILHA DE STRANGER THINGS | Entrevista
Stranger Things Brasil entrevista Jamie Campbell Bower e Joseph Quinn
STRANGER THINGS 4: EDDIE VAI VOLTAR? JOSEPH QUINN E JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER | IGN Entrevista
Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn and Jamie Campbell Bower On 80s Fashion & Fads | In or Out | Esquire
STRANGER THINGS: EDDIE PODE VOLTAR? COMO VECNA VAI AO BANHEIRO? | Entrevista Jamie e Joseph
ENTREVISTA STRANGER THINGS 4: BASTIDORES DE VECNA E EDDIE | Foquinha
“Stranger Things”: entrevista com Jamie Campbell Bower e Joseph Quinn
Hugo Gloss entrevista Jamie Campbell Bower e Joseph Quinn, de Stranger Things
Vigor interview Joseph Quinn & Jamie Campbell Bower
With the cast
Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Maya Hawke & Joseph Quinn STRANGER THINGS Interview
'Stranger Things’ Fan Theories with Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Maya Hawke & Joseph Quinn | Vanity Fair
Stranger Things Season 4: Natalia Dyer, Maya Hawke, Joe Keery & Joseph Quinn Fun Interview
The Cast of 'Stranger Things’ Talks Season 4 and What’s to Come
Stranger Things Cast vs. 'The Most Impossible Stranger Things Quiz’ | PopBuzz Meets
Stranger Things Brasil entrevista Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Natalia Dyer e Joseph Quinn
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Joseph Quinn at the Stranger Things Experience
Joseph Quinn Visits ‘Stranger Things: The Experience’ & Gushes Over Show
Joseph Quinn Reacts To Rumours of Eddie Munson’s Return For ‘Stranger Things 5’
Joseph Quinn Reads Thirst Tweets From ‘Stranger Things’ Fans
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Joseph Quinn talks BTS of ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4
Talking about Gaten - Cinemablend’s TikTok
Q&A at London Film and Comic Con
Joseph Quinn REVEALS His Stranger Things Highlight (Exclusive)
Joseph Quinn on the Heroic Moments from 'Stranger Things 4’ Volume 2 | MTV News
STRANGER THINGS 4 SPOILER Interview - Joseph Quinn On That Final Eddie/Dustin Scene!
'Stranger Things 4’ Star Joseph Quinn On Eddie Munson’s Big Finale
Stranger Things: Joseph Quinn REACTS to Season 4 Finale (Exclusive)
Stranger Things Star Joseph Quinn Wants A Justice For Eddie Campaign
Stranger Things: Eddie Munson Actor on His Big Scene and Dustin Friendship
'Stranger Things’ Star Joseph Quinn’s Favorite Thing About Playing Eddie
JOSEPH QUINN STRANGER THINGS 4 (SPOILER!) INTERVIEW: reaction to Volume 2 & biggest lesson learned
Stranger Things Star Joseph Quinn Discusses Eddie Munson’s Fate | E! Red Carpet & Award Shows
Stranger Things | Joseph Quinn on Eddie’s Arc, Dustin Friendship and…Chrissy Love Connection??
STRANGER THINGS Interview with Joseph Quinn - Finding Eddie Munson, Stranger Things 4, and Vengaboys
Stranger Things 4: Joseph Quinn on Eddie’s Fate and Learning to Play Metallica
Joseph Quinn Would Love to Play Robert Downey Jr. in a Biopic - Stranger Things 4 Interview
Stranger Things: Joseph Quinn Talks Vecna and Dungeons & Dragons
Joseph Quinn Interview Catherine The Great Premiere
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Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn names his guitar heroes, reveals the bands he listened to for Eddie Munson role
Interview with 1883 Magazine
Joseph Quinn Talks Similarities to Eddie Munson on Stranger Things
Joseph Quinn did a shot of tequila and cried his eyes out after Stranger Things 4 shoot
‘Stranger Things’ Star Joseph Quinn Discusses That Heartbreaking Scene and Actually Shredding Some Metallica for Those Hell Bats
Joseph Quinn Reflects on Heroic ‘Stranger Things’ Arc, That Metallica Solo and Eddie’s Ending
Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn talks Eddie’s season 4 journey: “I’m delighted”
How Joseph Quinn Became The (Dungeon) Master Of 'Stranger Things’
'Stranger Things’ Star Joseph Quinn On Eddie Munson’s 'Guitar God’ Scene & His Grand Finale 
INTERVIEW: Joseph Quinn Knows All About the “Chrissy Wake Up” Song From ‘Stranger Things 4’
Joseph Quinn is Ready For His Encore
Joseph Quinn Profile For Contents
Joseph Quinn of Stranger Things: ‘My wig is objectively ridiculous’
Joseph Quinn Knows His Stranger Things Wig Was the Real Star of the Season
SPOTLIGHT: Mr Joseph Quinn
Glass meets Joseph Quinn, the British actor on the rise
Joseph Quinn on Catherine the Great, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and more
Stars of Tomorrow 2018: Joseph Quinn (actor)
Joseph Quinn for Nuit Magazine
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lumism · 2 years
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in the podcast robin says that she likes listening to the music her friends enjoy and that a song can be special when the right person likes it. this is making my brain spin like ok what happens when steve's favourite song is also robin's favourite song because he's her best friend and he made it special. do i just go insane. and also we already know that robin knows what nancy listens to, so how about a ronance scene to parallel lucas saying he's a kate bush fan because of max. i am very normal about this information
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blueskybuzz77 · 6 months
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Nick Grimshaw, the former face of mid-00s “yoof” culture, is absorbing the decor of our interview location, a meeting room on the fourth floor of the BBC offices in central London. He eyes up the floor-to-ceiling black drapes and the bright orange, weirdly impractical coat stand nestled in the corner. “This is quite chic,” he says brightly, looking over to friend and fellow former Radio 1 DJ Annie Macmanus, AKA Annie Mac. The pair are here to talk about their new music-themed BBC Sounds podcast, Sidetracked, but Grimshaw’s already been distracted. “Look at the lights,” he continues, “a bit of personality. It’s just strip lights on the eighth floor.” It was on that less-aesthetically desirable floor where Grimshaw and Macmanus spent most of their 20s and 30s, the former working his way up to being host of the flagship Radio 1 breakfast show and the latter eventually taking over from Zane Lowe as the station’s chief tastemaker.
Both left in 2021 and have since added books (Macmanus, 45, is working on her third novel, while Grimshaw released his memoir last year), lifestyle podcasts and more TV work to their already bulging CVs. Grimshaw recently presented an interiors show for Channel 4, hence his love of our locale’s plush aubergine chairs. On the brink of turning 40, and with all this middle-aged furniture chat on his mind, he asks his friend of 20 years a pressing question: “Am I still fun?” They look at each other.
“You’re really fun,” Macmanus replies reassuringly.
“Different fun now?” he asks, more rhetorically this time. “Lamps fun.”
That F-word is at the heart of Sidetracked, a weekly podcast inspired by the WhatsApp messages they’d send each other in a group chat called The Goss, where the pair would chat about the biggest stories in music. The title is a reflection of the show’s lack of structure, with no regular segments and no set themes. “It’s going to be the week in music but through a lens of our friendship and our take on it,” says Grimshaw. Macmanus compares it to the “very loose” 10-minute handovers the pair used to do when their radio shows aired next to each other. “I loved that moment of radio because it felt genuinely free and representative of our friendship. I would like to think the tone is a little bit like that.”
Grimshaw nods furiously: “That was always my favourite bit of the show, no offence to the guests.”
For both it’s a way of stepping back into radio without any of the usual restrictions. “Music has been work for such a long time so I like the idea of this being from the perspective of a fan,” says Macmanus. “All of the things I didn’t miss about having a radio show – being part of someone else’s agenda, the time involved, and all of the things that started feeling a bit too much – this is the opposite of that. It’s not attached to any network or any radio station specifically. We will talk about, say, Kate Bush. It’s not just youth music.”
“Hey, come on now,” laughs Grimshaw, “we’ve heard of Ice Spice!”
What would they talk about if they had to record an episode today? “It’s the Mercurys this week,” says Macmanus, “so something on that. But it could be anything: from Adele going off at a security guard at her gig, to Beyoncé becoming a mayor of Santa Clara, to Grimmy going to the Proms and having a re-evaluation of his whole life.”
Grimshaw is less specific: “All that stuff that my dad was like ‘it’s a waste of time’, that’s all I want to talk about. Just stuff.”
I witness how an episode could quickly spiral as Grimshaw suddenly remembers getting stuck in the BBC building’s revolving doors with soul newcomer Berwyn. This then leads to a whole section on getting stuck in places with musicians (Macmanus got stuck in a car park in Austria for two hours with Brazilian drum’n’bass legend DJ Marky), before winding up at A$AP Rocky. “He refused to go through the revolving doors and I love the phrase he used,” teases Grimshaw. “He said: ‘I don’t want to go through them because they’re corny.’ Isn’t that fab?” They start thinking about what other mundane things A$AP Rocky might not do. “This is what we’d investigate [in the podcast],” laughs Grimshaw.
“Really important stuff,” adds Macmanus.
The pair are chatty in the way long-term friends are, often finishing each other’s sentences, and while they refer to Sidetracked as indulgent, they’re also aware of the pitfalls of famous-people podcasts and how boring they can become when people just agree and think everything is amazing. “‘Oh, St Barts, eh, remember?’” Grimshaw says in a mock luvvie voice. “I think Annie is always honest, especially about music. Quite a lot of the time we don’t always have the same view. I’ll say: ‘I love this, don’t you?’ And Annie will be like: ‘Not really.’ That makes a good chat.”
“On Radio 1 we haven’t been allowed to … ” starts Macmanus, before remembering that they had a playlist to stick to and so positivity was key, but Grimshaw interrupts.
“I would do a flushing toilet sound over a song if I didn’t like it,” he says.
Macmanus adds: “What I hope will make people interested in the podcast is the transparency and the honesty. If you think something’s terrible you have to be able to say it, in a respectful way.”
That rebellious spirit is almost expected of them given how they started out at the BBC via its youth strand Switch in 2007, which involved a Sunday night radio show of the same name. “We were allowed to be completely ourselves and it would be hysterical and delirious and hungover and we’d laugh so much that we’d piss ourselves,” says Macmanus. Literally? “Sometimes,” she laughs.
Grimshaw looks aghast: “I never pissed myself, just to be clear.”
The pair first met at Glastonbury when Grimshaw was a plugger and Macmanus had just started her first Radio 1 show on Thursday nights. They met again later at indie mecca the Hawley Arms in Camden Town, north London. “Grimmy was telling me he wanted to be on the radio, and I’d just launched Switch and they were looking for someone to come in on a weekly basis and contribute,” Macmanus says.
For Grimshaw it was life changing. “Working at Radio 1 was my childhood dream. I was obsessed with it and always listened from morning to night. It was all I ever wanted.” He remembers walking across Battersea Bridge after recording his first show and crying with happiness.
“Oh babe, I didn’t know that, that’s gorgeous,” says Macmanus sweetly.
There’s an endearing younger brother, older sister energy between the pair that Grimshaw tries to sum up. “You’re bossy but in a really non-bossy way,” he says, turning to face Macmanus. “You’re calmly in control … You’re like a paramedic!” They both cackle. “You’re in charge and I trust you with my life,” he adds. Macmanus says she felt protective of Grimshaw when he landed the breakfast show gig in 2012, especially when he was caught up in Radio 1’s desire to lower the age of its listeners. “I remember getting the breakfast show and feeling really excited and then after it had been announced Radio 1 had this message, or it came from the media, like: ‘We don’t want anyone over 30 to listen,’” says Grimshaw. “I remember being like: ‘Oh no, all them people are going to hate me.’”
“That coupled with coming after Chris Moyles, and a legion of heterosexual males who are going to go, ‘No fuck you because I’m over 30 and you’re not Chris Moyles,’” adds Macmanus.
ge is something Grimshaw has been thinking about a lot recently. “When I started working in music I was only 19, and people were shocked by that,” he says. “When I started [presenting] T4 that was the youth thing, then Switch was the youth thing, then when I did breakfast it was ‘the young breakfast show’. Then all of a sudden I’m not young.”
Macmanus seems to have more of a handle on it all: “I’ve got more control over my life than I’ve ever had and the possibilities of what can be done. I love the idea of changing things all the time.”
Somewhere in the middle of all this existentialism sits Sidetracked, a vehicle for two former DJs, now caught between Radio 1 and Radio 2, to recapture a tiny bit of that Switch-era anarchy. Macmanus, however, looks worried. “I don’t feel like we’ve told you what this podcast is,” she says. “We’ve done a lot of talking. Is the elevator pitch clear?” Sort of. But it’s the talking that people will care about.
Sidetracked with Annie and Nick begins Thursday on BBC Sounds.
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Five Best Music Podcasts Of 2022
Why are so many terrific music podcasts available to tickle the inner ear of listeners? A major reason is that each music genre is the master of its own domain. Hip-hop, jazz, pop, country, easy listening and more all construct their own universe around the music. Clothes, culture, language, and morality spring forth from the notes on sheet music. Therefore, each genre can offer listeners its curated music and interviews with artists in that genre via a podcast.
For example, hosted by Elliott Wilson and Brian ‘B.Dot’ Miller, Rap Radar is the home of some of hip-hop’s most revealing interviews. Both Wilson and Miller are true journalists who do an immense amount of research, know how to listen, and are driven to get the answers to the questions hip-hop fans want to know.
Therefore, this list of only five of the best music podcasts leaves out many deserving music podcasts. However, year-end lists are a time-honored tradition and certainly a surefire way to incite anger in readers whose favorite music podcast is not on the list.
So apologies up front, and here goes: (If this was on YouTube, you’d see that my fingers are crossed and I’m wearing kevlar.)
Sing For Science
My first choice is a science podcast with music. I know, but hear me out. Sing For Science is a science and music podcast produced with Talkhouse where musicians talk to scientists about science as it connects to their most famous songs. Created and hosted by New York musician Matt Whyte, the podcast’s goal is to increase science literacy for as many people as possible by reaching a variety of different musicians’ fan bases.
Listeners come to the show through their love of music and leave with a new piece of knowledge about science and the scientific process. Science literacy and respect for expertise are perhaps more vital now, more than ever before. The show’s chief tenet is that a more science and scientific process literate society can only contribute towards greater support for more fair, evidence-based policy in government.
In the most recent episode entitled “Dead Bodies Everywhere: Postmortem Biology and The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,” Sing For Science host, creator and musician Matt Whyte puts legendary metalhead and Korn frontman Jonathan Davis in conversation with best-selling pop science writer Mary Roach (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers), to discuss mortuary science and demystify the macabre.
Think of it as Beyonce meets Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Switched On Pop
Switched on Pop launched in 2014, quickly growing a devoted audience before joining Vox in 2019, where it moved from a biweekly to a weekly schedule and more than tripled its downloads.
Switched On Pop is hosted by musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding.
Harding is a music journalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He is the executive producer and co-host of Switched on Pop and the co-author of Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works and Why it Matters, published by Oxford University Press in 2019, and nominated for a 2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities by the Association of American Publishers.
Nate Sloan is an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, and the co-author of Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works and Why it Matters, published by Oxford University Press in 2019, and nominated for a 2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities by the Association of American Publishers.
Beside the strong chemistry between Harding and Sloan — sometimes funny, sometimes saracastic, and other times competitive — the podcast is an “under the hood” look at the music world. “Must-listen” episodes this year include:
-Kate Bush’s “Running Up The Hill” from Netflix’s Stranger Things, a 36-year old hit that was resurrected.
-Why do new Christmas songs fail? Why do they?
-The long legacy of the song “Hound Dog” via Big Mama Thornton, Elvis, and DojaCat. How such a famous cover song is interpretedso differently by well-known artists.
My favorite episode this year is “Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers” — Why do so many chart-topping songs sound the same? Amen, brother.
Harding and Sloan travel far and wide to analyze music. My favorite of all-time is their four-part series in September 2020 on Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Just a masterpiece of music history and interpretation.
Slate’s Hit Parade
Who has the most number one songs of all time on the Billboard 100 chart? The Beatles, of course, with 20. What is the best performing song of all time on the charts? The Twist by Chubby Checker in 1961. And the song that spent the most weeks at number one on the Billboard chart? Well, it’s tie — Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee with Justin Bieber on Depacito in 2017 and Mariah Carey and Boys II Men on One Sweet Day in 1995 into 1996. Both songs spent an amazing 16 weeks at number one.
Now, if any of this knowledge of popular songs and artists holds any interest for you then Slate’s Hit Parade podcast should be number one on your playlist. The podcast is hosted by Chris Molanphy, a chart analyst and pop critic, who writes about the intersection of culture and commerce in popular music.
Besides hosting the podcast for Slate, Molanphy writes its “Why Is This Song №1?” series. His writing has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Vulture, NPR Music’s The Record, and Billboard. Molanphy is also a frequent guest on National Public Radio.
Molanphy is the perfect deejay — if you will — for the podcast. His “made for audio” voice is crisp, authoritative, passionate and brewing with the aural magic of a master storyteller. And he can weave some stories. For example, in episode 21, Molanphy explains how Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) were a group of California boys who ironically found success with a Louisiana bayou sound. During the late 60s and early 70s, CCR compiled a record of both considerable and dubious achievement — the artist with the most number two hits without a number one single.
Hit Parade isn’t just a musical walk down memory lane for baby boomers who are still convinced that Paul McCartney is indeed dead. Molanphy’s deep dive into the song charts includes an episode on the growth of hip-hop and rap music and how it has morphed over the years.
Molanphy and Hit Parade don’t just spit out pearls of music trivia. The show covers trends, directional switchbacks, and the shifting tides of the audience, who truly determine the direction of popular music.
For example, in episode 11, Molanphy discusses the rise of Brittany Spears and the powerhouse Swedish song factory represented by Max Martin. Instead of just focusing on Spears’ rise to celebrity via Star Search and the Mickey Mouse Club, Molanphy takes the listener back to ABBA in the 70s, the Swedish supergroup whose complex melodies were the genesis of U.S. teen pop at the turn of the century.
In fascinating detail, Molanphy explains the connective tissue between ABBA successors, Roxette (Frida from ABBA) and Ace of Base who worked with Swedish songwriter and uber-producer Denniz Pop, who spawned Max Martin (AKA Martin Sandberg). Martin wrote massive hits for Spears (Baby, One More Time) The Backstreet Boys (I want it that way) and NSYNC (It’s gonna be me).
This year, Molanphy tackled the complicated legacy of Billy Joel — copycat supreme or cool water that flows freely between music genres. A recent episode, Give Up The Funk, will force you to tap your feet or play air drums as you listen to the genesis of today’s hip-hop and yesterday’s disco. Artists such as George Clinton, Curtis Mayfield, Earth Wind and Fire, and Kool & The Gang built the groove that still underscores music today.
Hit Parade, which only began in the Spring of 2017, is a podcast cleverly built for several audiences. For pop music nerds who can tell you that Shania Twain’s 1997 album Come On Over is the fourth highest selling album of all time. For people who attend trivia nights for more than the $2 beers, it’s the challenge of answering music trivia questions. For casual music listeners, it’s the storytelling prowess of Chris Molanphy, the host. And for popular culture observers, it’s the linkage between politics, economics, race and popular music preferences that makes the podcast a terrific listen.
A History Of Rock in 500 Songs
Andrew Hickey presents a history of rock music from 1938 to 1999, looking at five hundred songs that shaped the genre.
Creator and host, Brit Andrew Hickey is in familiar territory here. He is the author of several books about popular music, including ones on the Beach Boys, the California music scene in the 60s and 70s, and The Monkees.
Hickey recently released White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane as song # 158, so he has a long way to go. If you want a thumbnail sketch of popular music, its iconic songs and influential artists, this podcast is not for you. Hickey immerses you in each song and the artist that recorded the tune. Episodes can run for longer than two hours. Hivkey doesn’t skim, he dives deep, and it shows.
For example, in song # 144 by The Monkees, Hickey discusses the origin of the group, the biography of the four members, and their impact on popular music. Hickey fascinates us with small details. On the night of The Beatles first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show — February 9, 1964, Monkees band member Davy Jones played The Artful Dodger from the Broadway cast of Oliver on the same show as the Beatles’s first U.S. appearance.
Hickey dives into the subtle anti-war message in the song, “Last Train To Clarksville” and details the melodic similarity of the song to the classic country song, Night Train To Memphis” by Roy Acuff.
Did you know that Buffalo Springfield were once called Buffalo Fish? Or Pink Floyd was called The Tea Set?
Hickey isn’t just a nugget full of music trivia, he’s a incisive analyst of music, its melodic DNA, and its cultural relevance.
My favorite episodes this year include: Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys, Respect by Aretha Franklin, For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield, and I Was made To Love Her by Stevie Wonder.
Hickey, with his throaty, monochromatic voice, is a master storyteller, who weaves multiple story lines into a larger tale of how music affects society and how social upheaval affects music.
Noble Champions
In podcasting, Philadelphia’s own Santigold (aka Santi White), is now hosting a podcast from Talkhouse called Noble Champions. Even though the podcast is new, consider it the “rookie of the year” winner.
Santigold once described her music as, “spanning punk rock, hip-hop, and dance music,” and her genre bending talent may be a major reason why she’s been a force in the music business for more than14 years.
In the second episode of Noble Champions, Santigold was joined by longtime friends Questlove, Angela Yee and Tunde Adebimpe to try to tackle the question, “What exactly is Black Music?” They discuss what happens when Black artists step out of the genre box, as well as the bigger impact of caging in music and those who make it. They also geek out on Bad Brains, Fela Kuti, Nina Simone, The Last Poets and more.
The podcast’s title is inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, who was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Kandinsky once said that periods during which art has no noble champions are ones of retrogression. Santigold and “fellow champions” try to make sense out of our world, and push culture forward.
In a recent episode of Noble Champions, out via Talkhouse, Santigold welcomed friends and fellow artists Olivia Wilde and Rebecca Walker to the podcast. Together they shared their experiences as mothers who are creatives, discussing the challenges and constant balancing of the two roles, how to tend to the needs of your children while also making space for yourself, as well as the concept of working mothers “having it all,” as they ask the big question of whether they can thrive in their art, careers and mothering to the extent they all aspire to.
It’s a revelatory and captivating conversation that spans 45 minutes, with Wilde reflecting on the effects of the pandemic and the ways in which women may unknowingly participate in perpetuating parts of the patriarchy, while Walker talks about being the child of another creative mother — author Alice Walker (The Color Purple) — and much more.
If you haven’t heard it yet, each weekly installment of Noble Champions has been related to a song from Santigold’s new album Spirituals. Today’s inspiration comes from “My Horror,” and follows previous episodes with Questlove, Angela Yee & Tunde Adebimpe on Black Music, plus Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) & Sanford Biggers on the relationship between art and spirit.
The rest of this first season will include artists, activists and progressive thinkers like Idris Elba and many more, in an effort to “expand your mind, feed your soul and push culture forward.”
Noble Champions is music entwined with culture, spirituality, and race.
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Thats why i don’t follow TikTok, not my jam- no point trying to keep up with it. I had the I am woman song on my workout playlist it was good to workout to- did not realize either it was a tiktok fav. Btw you know you are getting old when you have to explain song origins to younger generations that had no clue. My husband had to explain to his physiotherapist the year Kate Bush’s “Running up that hill” was released lol.
HAHA!
I have no idea what is current anymore. I pretty much stopped downloading any new music a couple years ago.
I pretty much listen to classic rock on Amazon Music. So my son is a huge fan of ACDC and Motely Crue!
The intro to Meghan's podcast that was posted online has a hook that I know is from a song, I just an figure out which one.
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“The first time in my life,I keep the lights on to ease my soul”
[cisgender female, she/her]Welcome to Aurora Bay, [KALINA SLATER- HORNE]! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [TAYLOR RUSSELL] You must be the [TWENTY-FIVE ] year old [TRUE CRIME PODCASTER /HORROR HOST ]. Word is you’re [ENTHUSIASTIC ] but can also be a bit [SHY] and your favorite song is [HAMMER HORROR BY KATE BUSH ]. I also heard you’ll be staying in [OCEAN CREST APRTMENTS]. I’m sure you’ll love it!
(Tw: Bullying, murder, mental health, Eating Disorder )
FAMILY
Mother: Lenora Slater (né Horne) (deceased)
Father: Michael Slater
Step-Mother:
Step-Sister: Roxy Del Rosario
WANTED CONNECTIONS
Ex Girlfriend
Ex crush
Friends
Former bully
People she works with
BIO
Born in San Francisco as the only child of Lenora and Michael Slater, Kalina’s life started out like everyone else’s but would grow to be a little scary at times. From a very young age, Kalina loved to be scared. Her mother had been an artist and photographer who had instilled a love of the strange and unusual with her daughter which the young future horror fan gravitated to. She remembers getting her first book of poems by Edgar Allen Poe, the first time she peaked behind the blankets watching a slasher, or the first time she saw her first ever crush Elvira mix humor and horror to great effect. All of these were things that had inspired her greatly.
While she had been shy in school Kalina was able to turn into a far more introverted and outspoken person when it came to horror. It was that one niche that she knew everything about and could out do anyone knowledge wise about the genre. She knew she wanted to follow her mothers footsteps and do something creative that was also a little bit scary too. In many ways horror became a security blanket when others were cruel. It was hard at times to want to hang out with others who saw you as the weird girl; especially when they began pick on her because she didn’t seem to fit in with other kids in her grade. The more people we’re cruel to her the more she tried to ignore them. Her hobbies were a security blanket that only grew to protect her further once her mother died.
With her mother gone, Kalina started to lean into a more realistic horror; true crime . Her father was trying to protect Kalina and had tried to keep the reason her mother had died from her, but Kalina was a very inquisitive young woman and discovered her mother had been murdered and no one knew who had done it. San Francisco was a large city and one that seemed to have more and more people pass through daily. It was the fact that things had been a mystery that sent Kalina down a rabbit hole that followed her into adulthood.
She began to fixate on unsolved mysteries and murders and just wanted to find answers that she never got from her own mothers death. But as the longer time went on the more she began to alienate herself from other people. She started to not even notice the way people would bully her in school or the fact that her own father was dating someone again. She just wanted to focus on her hobbies because it kept her safe from dealing with the reality that she wasn’t coping with her mothers loss well. The more she’d research the less she’d sleep or eat or really do anything other than try to solve what happened to her mom. Eventually, her father had to step in and seek out help in order for Kalina to get better. On some level her fathers involvement helped more than anything because it revealed how much he had also been hurting from the death of her mother. They were able to be more open and bond again and soon Kalina was able to accept her new step mom and step brother as well as the move to Aurora Bay.
While things were looking up for Kalina, one thing remained. Her love of the macabre. Horror and true crime were deep within her bones and as she reached college age and began to figure out what she wanted to do in life, a life in horror was the only option. The scary and spooky never strayed too far from her heart. It was something that still tied her to her mother and as she matured and reached her twenties Kalina knew exactly what she wanted in life. She wanted to help bring a light to the unsolved crimes of the world. She wanted to see if anyone else could help her solve her mother’s murder. Not one to be stuck with only one goal in life, Kalina is starting her own horror show on Youtube where she reviews horror films as her alter ego Scream Queen Slater. She knows it’s not much yet, but it’s the first step in her other life long goal of being a modern Elvira. While still incredibly shy in her day to day life, Kalinas star shines bright when others watch her as the scream queen and talk about unsolved mysteries. A confidence and self assured woman is slowly starting to emerge from the ashes of her personal tragedy.
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Australia news live: Anthony Albanese reveals wording of referendum question on Indigenous voice; July Covid deaths surpass January total
Albanese is the first prime minister to attend the Garma festival in north-east Arnhem Land since 2017 * Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast Kate Bush fans celebrate Happy Wuthering Heights day to those who celebrate! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, today is the day that Kate Bush fans will gather to dance in a field to her song Wuthering Heights. It’s happening at Sydney Park in St Peters in Sydney’s inner west from midday, with participants in the flash mob dance event dressed in red from head to toe. Bush is back in music charts around the world thanks to the appearance of her No 1 hit Running Up That Hill in the latest season of Stranger Things. Some 1,600 people recently gathered to sing it together at a communal amateur pub choir in Brisbane. You can watch a video of that performance here: Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2022/jul/30/australia-news-live-anthony-albanese-indigenous-voice-garma-festival-covid-cases-deaths-hospitals-surge?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr
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hello everyone!
I hope you’re all doing well. I wanted to share my recent obsession with the kate bush fan podcast online. I’ve spent the last week listening to this constantly.
I’ve learned so much about kate and have just felt so connected to this. It’s definitely keeping me sane through covid related isolation and I recommend having a listen if you want to geek out over kate’s music with some hardcore fans.
they talk about everything from the hidden KT symbols on each album to a 3-part before the dawn special where they document the show (with sound clips!) and describe what it was like to see kate on opening night.
you’re able to check it out at katebushnews.com or on soundcloud by searching kate bush fan podcast.
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takeaways:
my summer playlist defined my ‘top songs’ bc I listened to it on repeat walking to and from work. and they’re good songs so idc
I am still #1 kate bush fan no one can touch me
not pictured my top (and only) podcast was sleep meditation for women LMAO
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The right place, the right time, and the right amount of exclamation marks
The history of Vancouver via Abbotsford British Columbia’s You Say Party is a storied one. Imagine this: trapped in a never ending nightmare of suburban dystopian hell, you form a band. With the simple adjective of having fun, spreading a message, making people dance - you leave the confines of a religiously stifling community. Within a few years you’re playing the world’s top festivals, winning awards, and wooing critics.
But now I find myself piecing foggy bits of memory fragments together with duct tape and hairspray. Like stickers on a dive bar bathroom stall, I know I was there. But why and for how long? I feel like I’m sifting through a shoebox of handbills and press clippings like some True Crime podcaster placing myself at the scene.
I’m not sure where I first heard the name You Say Party! We Say Die! but it caught my eye. It was an era of exuberant band names. !!!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shout Out Out Out Out, Hot Hot Heat, Fake Shark- Real Zombie! And my own band GoGoStop! It was also a time when bands out Vancouver’s sleepy conservative suburbs were starting to break out: Witness Protection Program, The Hand, Fun100.
It was exciting. There was a sense of community. Of people just wanting to have fun. Perhaps we were shaking off the anxieties of a post 9/11 world, or shrugging off the self seriousness that was emo and hardcore. We still made mix tapes and zines- scoured Terminal City and The Straight for new bands. There was this new social networking craze called MySpace that had yet to be a ubiquitous omnipresent corporate behemoth that dominated every corner of our lives. We were called Scenesters not Hipsters. Everyone was in an art collective.
Adorned with white belts and one-inch pins; asymmetrical hair cuts and red velvet blazers we set out to prove Vancouver wasn’t No Fun City at now long shuttered venues like the Marine Club, the Pic Pub, and Mesa Luna. I didn’t drink at the time so dancing, and by extension dance punk, had become my saviour- bands like The Rapture, Les Say Fav, Pretty Girls Make Graves to name a few. When Mp3 blogs became a thing, I immediately downloaded The Gap from their 2005 debut Hit The Floor! and loaded it on my 100 song iPod shuffle. I like so many others, became an instant fan.
I moved into what could only be described as a punk rock compound- 3 houses that were owned by a former Christian sect that we dubbed Triple Threat. Members of Bend Sinister, No Dice, Witness Protection Program, and Devon Clifford from You Say Party and Cadeaux (and Whiteloaf) all lived there. He drove an orange 1981 Camaro Berlinetta to match his bright red hair and big personality. We would walk to the greasy spoon Bon’s Off Broadway to get terrible but cheap breakfast and to watch The coffee Sheriff pour undrinkable refills of sludge. It was like living in the movie Withnail and I, but funner. We all wore pins that said Do You Party? on them.
It felt like Vancouver was blowing up and You Say Party was the hand-clapping drum majorette leading the pack. Ladyhawk, Black Mountain, Radio Berlin, New Pornographers, Destroyer, S.T.R.E.E.T.S., The Doers, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? And The Organ highlighted just how tight-knit and diverse our scene was. Relentless touring and glowing reviews for You Say Party’s sophomore Lose All Time ensured they were head of the class, despite being unable to tour the US due to a previous border snafu.
Lose All Time sat on top of the Earshot charts for what seemed like forever. Famous for their frenetic live shows, and aided by stunning videos, their sophomore effort was a clear progression from Hit The Floor! It still harnessed the visceral rawness of their origins, but hinted at a confidence and maturity that was to come. The title of Lose All Time was a reference to the discombobulation of constant touring and it too was a hint of what was to come.
The touring would take its toll. Fuelled by Chinese Red Bull; a well document public dustup between band members at a bar in Germany would throw everything into uncertainty. But it was that turbulence that would set the stage for XXXX and after a restorative tour to China, the stage was set for the penultimate You Say Party record. 
Flash forward to 2009 and the city was on edge. Everything was about to change. Vancouver was preparing to host the world amidst the unfolding Great Recession. Anti-Olympic protests ramped up. A gang war raged in the streets and made international headlines, tucked behind Swine Flu hysteria and the ongoing imperialist war on Iraq.
It seemed like all the venues started closing and all our friends were moving to Berlin or Montreal. We starting looking in. Is this the city we want? Was it just growing pains? This kind of introspection is clearly reflected in XXXX. If Lose All Time was a record the band wanted to make, XXXX was a record for the people; a record for the city of Vancouver; a record for 2009.
"I finally feel like a singer, rather than a dancer who loves being in a band" said Becky Ninkovic at the time. It’s a perfect quote. One that succinctly captures the maturity and focus of the record. After a breakdown for Ninkovic, a year of rest and vocal lessons, Exclaim! announced XXXX to be a career resuscitation.
And it was. Going back now and rediscovering the record is such a magical thing. Opening for You Say Party with my band Taxes in 2008, I was impressed with the new material even if was a little jaded (I mean I was almost 30). But now with time and space I can see the songs they were working on were truly timeless. Laura Palmer’s Prom could so easily slot in with the latest 80s synthwave revival along alongside bands like Lust for Youth, Lower Dens, and Chromatics.
Overall, XXXX sounds like an exhale. A moment of stillness when you know you’ve made something extraordinary. When you know all those moments combined; moments of sheer terror, adrenalin, elation, boredom, and longing- culminate in a piece of art that once you let go of it- you just know in your gut that it’s right. It draws you in, wrestles with a brooding tension, then sends you into a churning whirlwind of tight drums and buzzing synths. It’s a remarkable achievement.
There’s plenty of vintage YSP sass throughout. “She’s Spoken For”, “Make XXXX”, and “Cosmic Wanship Avengers” are all classic synth punk gems, but the it’s in the subdued that the album really grips. “Dark Days”, “There is XXXX (Within My Heart)” and the sprawling Kate Bush like ballad “Heart of Gold” are the hallmark of a band that is comfortable exploring the limits of their genre. While lyrically quite positive, the melodies are daunting. Indeed, as Pitchfork put it, “the slower pace and more sentimental outlook of XXXX gives listeners the necessary space and encouragement to surrender to the band's emotional message”.
And it was a message they would finally return to the US with in 2009. The band was poised for mainstream breakout success. They were long listed for the Polaris and they won a Western Canadian Music Award for Best Rock Album of the year. Much has been written about what would happen next. I don’t want this article to be about the tragic onstage death of drummer and friend Devon Clifford, but it’s inexorably linked to the band’s story.
And I can only really tell it from my point of view. I wasn’t sure I would go to the funeral but a mutual friend told me that Devon would want me to go. Portland Hotel Society, a local housing provider which Devon had thrown the weight of his passion behind, rented a bus to drive out to Abbotsford. I held up pretty well until my friend Al Boyle got up to play. Then some yelled “Spagett”. Then Krista and Becky sang “Cloudbusting” and I lost it.
The band would try to carry on. Krista would leave the band and Bobby Siadat and Robert Andow of the band Gang Violence would fill in for touring.  When that didn’t go as planned Al Boyle who had been in the punk band Hard Feelings with Devon would replace Bobby. They officially went on hiatus in 2011 only to reunite a year later with Krista back on keys and a drum machine in place of Devon.
And while the band’s self titled 2016 release would be their moment of closure, the reissue of XXXX is one of celebration. Celebration of what they made with Devon. Celebration of a near perfect moment in time. A capsule of a entire city at it’s peak. The band has changed. The scene has changed. And I’ve changed. But there will always be XXXX within in our hearts.
'Cause every time it rains
You're here in my head
Like the sun coming out
Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen
And I don't know when
But just saying it could even make it happen
Sean Orr Vancouver, BC January 2020
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We are so excited to reissue a limited run of XXXX on clear vinyl through Paper Bag Records Vintage for Record Store Day on August 29th! Support your local stores & grab this album on vinyl for the first time in 10 years! https://recordstoredaycanada.ca  #yousayparty #YSPWSD
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About Sean Orr Sean Orr is a writer, musician, artist, activist, and dishwasher living and working in the unceded Coast Salish territories of Vancouver, B.C. Besides his twice weekly news column in Scout Magazine he writes for Beatroute and has written for Vice Magazine and Montecristo among others in the past. He’s the frontman in the punk band Needs and also has a pickle company called Brine Adams. Twitter | NEEDS | Tea & Two Slices | Flickr
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(Literary License Podcast) The Shining by Stanley Kubrick is considered one of the greatest psychological horror films of our time.  Combining isolation with madness, Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall give outstanding performances.   Stephen King was excited at the prospect of Kubrick adapting his work but once the film came out, the excitement was very short lived. In 2005, Stephen King thought he would adapt his own book into a miniseries for television.  The film does stick to the book and includes many of the elements that made the book a hit but fans of Kubrick’s  film were less than enthralled wild King purist to the source material are huge fans. We are joined by Matthew Brockmeyer, Novelist of the excellent Kind Nepenthe, out now from all good bookstores. Opening Credits; Introduction (2.02); It’s A True Original (29.55); The Shining (1980) Trailer (31.50); Let’s Start At The Beginning (33.17); Final Take (1:41.52); Let’s Do A Remake (1:52.35); The Shining (1997) Trailer (1:54.31); Let’s Give It Another Go (1:56.49); Did We Need Two? (2:55.20); End Credits (3:27.51); Closing Credits (3:29.15) Opening Credits– Used with permission by Epidermic Sounds Closing Credits – Get Out Of My House by Kate Bush. Taken from the album The Dreaming.  Copyright 1981 EMI International. Used by kind permission. All rights reserved. All songs available through Amazon. 
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Things I Liked in 2018
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The flowers that make Chanel No 5
I pulled a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake ("People on the internet are saying I am the queen of Sweden. I wouldn’t mind being queen for a day, but when I grow up I want to be a vet. Or an actor in Paris.")
FILMS: Phantom Thread was 2018's lushest costume drama, swooniest romance, most giffable comedy, most twisted psychological thriller, and best film. Other very good films this year, in approximate order: Lady Bird ("It's the titular role!"), Beast, Cold War, First Reformed, A Fantastic Woman, Faces Places, Shoplifters | The best thing about moving to Leeds so far was the Leeds Internation Film Festival; my favourites there were Birds of Passage (like if The Godfather was set among the Wayuu people of north Colombia), Shoplifters again, Colette | The two best films I saw this year were the re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey (if we rank films purely on what cinema can do that other art forms can't, this is perhaps the greatest film of all time) and the re-release of Vertigo (this was about my fourth or fifth time seeing it – first on the big screen – and I think I finally got it). Plus I saw at the Watershed in Bristol (which I miss) Do the Right Thing and The Battle of Algiers, which are both excellent | I went to the cinema 89 times this year, which is roughly 1000% more times than I went last year. General endorsements: Go to the cinema more often. Sit one row closer to the screen than you think you want to. | It's not exactly a film, but I saw about four and a half hours of The Clock (Wikipedia, The New Yorker) at the Tate Modern, and it's completely riveting in an unusual way | The most nail-biting short film of 2018 was this:
Today as I was walking home after my run I saw a large lemon rolling down the hill. It kept rolling for about a quarter mile. And now you can see it, too. pic.twitter.com/dQoHi4RrXS
— Mike Sakasegawa (@sakeriver) July 11, 2018
On printer jams and the people who try to solve them
Conflict theory vs. mistake theory | Grifters vs. grafters
TV: My two favourite series were deliciously good fun on the outside and, in different ways, kind of clever and important on the inside: Killing Eve and A Very English Scandal | I would recommend Stephen, the terrific and harrowing documentary about Stephen Lawrence, his murder, and what came after, but I don't know any way to watch it legally | I know you thought Collateral was bad because it was preachy and obvious, and I don't really have a good counterargument, but I just liked it (although it's no State of Play) | Last Week Tonight
The White Darkness – David Grann writes about Henry Worsley's solo track across the Antarctic
Check out the big brain on Brett pic.twitter.com/3nH4hxENzI
— oscarboyson (@ohboyson) September 28, 2018
Lauren Collins on the royal family has more delightful sentences than anything else I read this year
In memoriam: Helen Rosner remembers Anthony Bourdain | Zadie Smith remembers Philip Roth
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MUSIC: Best album: Chris by Christine and the Queens, with 2012–2017 by Against All Logic and so sad so sexy by Lykke Li as runners-up | Best singles: Nobody by Mitski and Noid by Yves Tumor | Best video/song which I feel bad about recommending because it's actually an advert: Spike Jonze x FKA twigs x Anderson .Paak [above] | Best film soundtracks: Phantom Thread by Jonny Greenwood, A Fantastic Woman by Matthew Herbert, You Were Never Really Here by Jonny Greenwood again, edited highlights from Suspiria by Thom Yorke | My favourite music writing: Rob Sheffield on Radiohead live in New York | a playlist
"I will admit that I am not well. That writing this, right now, I am not well. This will colour the writing. But it is part of why I want to write, because another part of the problem is that we write about it when we are out the other side, better. And I understand: it’s ugly up close; you can see right into the burst vessels of the thing. (Also, on a practical level, it is difficult to write when one is unwell.) But then what we end up with has the substance of secondary sources."
Taffy on Goop
I cried on the train reading this essay by Junot Diaz, but I also believe the people quoted in this story | Asia Argento's speech at Cannes was just one minute long and took my breath away, but there's also this story
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PODCASTS: Slate's Culture Gabfest – for example, on the dad joke [36:15] | Adam Buxton interviewing Paul Thomas Anderson is very good because no one else would dare open with "The reason I liked There Will Be Blood so much is that Daniel Day Lewis used a funny voice" | This American Life: Five Women, on libraries | Unpopped on Come Dine With Me | The New Yorker Radio Hour: an hour on Phillip Roth, 15 minutes weeding with Parker Posey | The BBC's radio adaptation of Lucy Prebble's play The Effect, although I can't find it online anywhere | Reply All: Negative Mount Pleasant | You don't need me to tell you whether you want to listen to Stephen Fry on No Such Thing as a Fish or would rather gnaw your own arm off
Six Glimpses of the Past by Janet Malcolm (although perhaps you have to be a pre-existing Malcolm fan for this one)
Cat Power is my favorite musical artist named after two kinds of nap.
— Lauren O'Neal (@laureneoneal) April 5, 2018
SPORT: I took the day off work to watch Stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia, which turned out to be a good decision | It seems like another lifetime, but apparently England v Colombia in the World Cup was only six months ago
I have no idea if it's fair, but this pan of Jill Soloway's book by Andrea Long Chu is a dark delight
OLD THINGS I CAME ACROSS THIS YEAR: Kate Bush's The Dreaming is so good that it's definitely in the top four Kate Bush albums | Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion, which I preferred to her more famous nonfiction | Consider the Weasel is, sadly, not the title of this Annie Dillard essay | The original pre-release version of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (Alex Ross, Spotify)
Fact-checking with Daniel Ratcliffe
Previously: Things I liked in 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
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