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Getting some writing done today and I am so happy about it, all courtesy of Weezer's Blue Album. Seriously, how have I never listened to this brilliant little album before?
unknown pleasures by joy division
May. 5th, 2020 04:58 pmThis could quite possibly be the greatest album I have ever heard and might ever hear.
I'm so happy I decided to get into post punk/new wave; I feel like this is the start of a beautiful new chapter in music appreciation.
I'm so happy I decided to get into post punk/new wave; I feel like this is the start of a beautiful new chapter in music appreciation.
john waite's figure in a landscape
May. 5th, 2020 02:35 pmSo excited someone finally decided to upload these songs so I could put them in a playlist. John Waite is so freaking talented and has one of the best voices in rock. I stumbled upon Masterpiece of Loneliness and continue to be impressed.
katatonia's city burials
May. 3rd, 2020 01:49 pmJust purchased this today and I am sooo thrilled.
This was so reasonably priced for the limited mediabook edition – and on amazon too! I only had to pay $2 more than the regular digipack cd for the 2 bonus tracks and hardbound deluxe edition, and only $4.50 more for a physical collector’s copy than a digital copy – and amazon gives me the digital copy included as well. What a steal for $13.99! I never get to buy deluxe editions of CDs because the shipping on record label websites is usually just a bit too steep for me, so this was a real treat.
And of course, what a fantastic album. It took me a bit to get into Katatonia’s more recent rock albums, since I really love their metal albums from Discouraged Ones through Night is the New Day, but they’re straying a bit into progressive metal with this and it’s great.
Favorite track: Neon Epitaph
This was so reasonably priced for the limited mediabook edition – and on amazon too! I only had to pay $2 more than the regular digipack cd for the 2 bonus tracks and hardbound deluxe edition, and only $4.50 more for a physical collector’s copy than a digital copy – and amazon gives me the digital copy included as well. What a steal for $13.99! I never get to buy deluxe editions of CDs because the shipping on record label websites is usually just a bit too steep for me, so this was a real treat.
And of course, what a fantastic album. It took me a bit to get into Katatonia’s more recent rock albums, since I really love their metal albums from Discouraged Ones through Night is the New Day, but they’re straying a bit into progressive metal with this and it’s great.
Favorite track: Neon Epitaph
I absolutely cannot stop listening to this masterpiece. The way it slowly builds and builds and then soars... crescendos up to magnificence at the 1.21 mark has me speechless and breathless and so emotional I can't... My god, you can actually hear the Arctic ice creaking and cracking in the background and practically feel the ominous quality of the landscape. And yet... it's like hope has been found, a raging light piercing through the darkness, revealing the way home, revealing an end to all the madness.
This was created for a particularly poignant scene from the 2018 series The Terror where Blanky, resigned to his death, accidentally finds the Northwest Passage, culminating in the completion of the expedition, or at least for a mere one of its crew. Oh hell, I'll just post it below because it's one of the most moving scenes I've ever seen and it's certainly one of the best uses of music I've ever seen in a scene. The music and the story & character arcs had me in tears and I'm still thinking about it weeks afterward. God, what a series, in every way imaginable it was all just such brilliance.
some good ol' monkees bday post #2
Apr. 1st, 2020 08:49 pmJust a mishmash of some great Monkees stuff.
So here are a few of my favorite Monkees songs because they're my favorite band and tomorrow is my birthday, after all.
world's catchiest song
Mar. 31st, 2020 08:36 pmI can NEVER get this song out of my head and nor do I want to. I just want to put it on a loop and dance 'till I drop.
And I'm sneaking in Guitar Man as most underrated, symphonic masterpiece or whatever, because there is seriously no Bread without mentioning Guitar Man.
I cannot believe how good this version sounds and how great Mike looks in the video. Every single person is coming across so crystal clear audio-wise (Circe and Coco are awesome) and I am squeeing because this is one of my favorite Monkees songs and it's such a new, refreshing, respectful of the original live version.
It's so gratifying to become a Monkees fan so late in the game and yet be gifted new albums, new live versions of their amazing songs and new video footage of their live performances. I have never before clicked the preorder button on amazon so fast and with such confidence. Funny enough, I asked for a live cd of their tour last year for my birthday this year and the universe delivered :D
And the original from my favorite Monkees album.
OMG, this sounds sooooo Bush and yet, they've finally FINALLY gone hard rock. This song is just mindblowingly good and the video is just as perfect; Gavin has so much energy and it just makes me pumped too watching him dance around. And Gavin's voice is so perfectly suited to hard rock like this and he's honestly the best he's ever sounded to me. This is probably the best damn single since The Chemicals Between Us. So pumped for their new album after hearing this and Bullet Holes.
The good old Bush is coming back and it feels so thrilling.
She covered me in loneliness, like flowers on a grave
Holiday Post
Dec. 25th, 2019 09:06 amMerry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas!
Here are some Christmas tunes:
(On a personal note, I'm going to stuff as many virtual stockings as I can, play some board games and hopefully squeeze in Groundhog Day later...)
Here are some Christmas tunes:
(On a personal note, I'm going to stuff as many virtual stockings as I can, play some board games and hopefully squeeze in Groundhog Day later...)
