#soul music

[legendarytragedynacho]

Diana Ross poses for a portrait session on April 13, 1974 in Los Angeles. California

📷 by Harry Langdon/Getty Images

#diana ross #the supremes #music #musician #musica #singer #actress #pop music #rythm & blues #soul music #harry langdon #getty images

[notesfromtheidiotbox]

The best They Might Be Giants joke ever is in Terry Pratchett's "Soul Music," which features a band called We're Certainly Dwarfs.

#discworld #terry pratchett #soul music #they might be giants

[eonsandeternity]

“Soul Connections” 🖤🖤

#black love #black literature #black art #black tumblr #soulful #r&b #r&b/soul #love #poetry #relationship #i love you #one love #god is love #zodiac #zodic signs #soulmates #soul connection #twin flame #soul music #positivity #motivation #black women #black men

[pratchettquotes]

"This doesn't sound like Music With Rocks In," said the Bursar.

"Shut up," said the Dean. He blew his nose.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could but you were still alive.

Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

#imp y celyn #the bursar #the dean #soul music #discworld #terry pratchett #music with rocks in #music #sad music #the universe #hopeful #battle flag #you're still alive

[possible-streetwear]

AMY WINEHOUSE

#Amy Winehouse #soul singer #neo soul #neo-soul #Soul #soul music #r&b #rnb #rnb soul #rnb singer #r & b #noir et blanc #2000s #2000s nostalgia #2000s aesthetic #2000s music #Singer #r&b music #r&b aesthetic

[chroniclesofnadia111]

#chaka khan #whitney houston #sweet thing #somg cover #snl live #Music #soul music #classic soul #r&b/soul #Rufus & Chaka khan #blackgirlmagic #blacktumblr #black tumblr

[undergroundrockpress]

Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - Fillmore West in San Francisco (1971). Photo by Jim Marshall.

#Aretha Franklin #Ray Charles #soul music #Jim Marshall #1971 #Fillmore West

[p4nishers]

mobius m mobius and loki laufeyson in loki // expert from soul music by terry pratchett.

#back on my 'mobius loves like discworld death' bullshit again #look i know this probably only makes sense to me and tj but. let me have this ok. #mobius m mobius #lokius #loki season 2 #loki #loki series #web weaving #poetry #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #discworld #discworld death #soul music

[jodielandons]

MAXWELL | ...Til The Cops Come Knockin’ (1996)

#maxwell #gerald maxwell rivera #neosoul #blogmusicdaily #dailymusicedit #dailymenedit #userbbelcher #mancandykings #pocedit #pochollywood #black music #90s #r&b #90s rnb #rnb #soul #soul music #black culture #mygifs

[sithbelle]

Yep, Soul Music is still my favorite in the series. So many fantastic puns, and the way Pratchett personifies music is so true to real life. After all, music is fun, but it's a world of hertz.

Beyond that, seeing Death grieving hits a lot harder this time around, especially since I know who he's grieving for (I read this arc backwards last time too because Soul Music caught my attention before the others).

I remember Susan was a great character for teenage me, because she was a special person who wasn't like her peers, and she had powers and powerful lineage, which really appealed to a strange girl trying to figure out who she was.

(also, I know it comes up later, but is this the first instance of seeing GNU when relating to death? The Dean has "Live Fats and Die Yo Gnu" studded on his robe. Is this a coincidence, or inspiration for later works?)

Up next, moving on to Interesting Times!

#gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #discworld #soul music

[legendarytragedynacho]

Sade photographed by Albert Watson, 2000

#sade #albert watson #music #musician #musica #singer #beauty #jazz pop #soft rock #jazz #soul music #rythm & blues #over k #5k

[milikkashad]

Chaka Khan, Live in New York City. 1979.

#Chaka Khan #Aretha Franklin #Music Photography #Legend #Diva #NYC #Vintage NYC #Funk Music #Soul Music #Fashion #70s fashion

[mimi-0007]

Chaka Khan .. beautiful and talented. 🖤🖤🖤

#chaka khan #black tumblr #black literature #black excellence #black community #black girl magic #black archives #black beauty #soulful music #soul music #soul #rhythm and blues #black culture #beautiful black women #black women are beautiful #american singer

[unseenwizzard]

Reading soul music and night watch for the first time, back to back, was a mistake and I'm not ok rn

Everyone is doomed by the narrative the whole time and you know that the whole time but you still get caught up in the story and the characters are so driven and so you think maybe. maybe it will be different. maybe they can fix this

But throughout the books there are those moments when it hits you and them again that they aren't getting everyone out. that some things can't be changed

That most of them are going to die.

Both Sue and Vimes are taken out of time and are told they can't change things and you still hope that they'll be the exception. that they'll be allowed to fix something. and they do. in a way. but it's not enough and it doesn't last and almost everyone but them dies anyway and there's no one they can truly share their experiences and pain with and you're told the ending right from the start and it still hurts

It's something about both of them knowing deep down that there wasn't really anything they could do to stop the unstoppable forces of death and time but trying anyways regardless of the consequences because it's the right thing to do and they can't stop themselves from caring, even through all the anger

Anyways. Those were great books and I'm emotionally devastated.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #night watch #soul music #still crying over this #getting attached to characters in a death book and a book that practically starts in a graveyard was a bad idea #sam vimes #susan sto helit #poor buddy poor coates poor me #the library gifted me hogfather next. im sure ill be super normal about it. #og

[chroniclesofnadia111]

“Like the wind without her whisperings

And the colours wept from all her tapestries

Would be left nothing but sullen imagery

The uncertainty of forgotten things.” ❤️ 🎵

#me #blacktumblr #blackgirlmagic #black tumblr #caribbean #melanin #beauty #tumblrgirl #tattoos #inked women #tattooed beauty #music #hiatus kaiyote #fingerprints #soul music #r&b/soul #selfies #SoundCloud

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In Terry Pratchett's Soul Music, a literal band of misfits accidentally introduces rock and roll to the Discworld. They call it "music with rocks in" because the drummer is a troll who bangs rocks together. The lead guitarist is a curly-haired bard named Imp y Celyn, a fantasy name in a gibberish language Terry Pratchett invented called Welsh, which roughly translates to "Bud of the Holly." He quickly adopts the stage name Buddy.

(I'm only 250 pages in, but the narrator has already mentioned "the day the music died," so Buddy might want to avoid airplanes (if such things exist on the Discworld))

The band that plays the music with rocks in, appropriately named the Band With Rocks In, has such hits as

Don't Tread On My New Blue Boots (Blue Suede Shoes, 1955)

Good Gracious, Miss Polly (Good Golly, Miss Molly, 1958)

Sto Helit Lace (Chantilly Lace, 1958)

They're clearly supposed to represent the early days of rock music, but they have the aesthetic and fans of 1970s punk rock mixed with 1980s glam rock; lots of sequins and glitter and leather and mohawks, and the philosphy that louder is better. The celibate wizards of Unseen University turned red in the face when they heard that some of the lady fans had started throwing their unmentionables onto the stage, which is a considerable feat when you remember the average fantasy costume has like 10 layers.

I'm interested to see where this goes.

#discworld #terry pratchett #soul music #rock and roll #rock music #the band with rocks in #music with rocks in #imp y celyn #buddy holly #the day the music died #bye bye miss american pie #that comes later