#10th album

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... evening music ...

[swiftontumblin310]

One. Year. Ago. Today (8/28/22).

Taylor surprised us with her announcement of her 10th studio album—which we later know & love now as, Midnights! After sweeping the VMA’s that night in her iconic bejeweled look, Taylor made us stay up until midnight forevermore. What a night!!✨

@taylorswift @taylornation

[atlantis-area]

#HappyTAEMINday 6v6 🥳🐥🌱

[sagehaleyofficial]

On this day 10 years ago, My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way released his debut solo album Hesitant Alien. 👽

It received generally positive reviews from critics and was a departure from his previous band's sound, topping the Ten Essential Albums of 2014 list by Alternative Press. Rock Sound also called the songs on its track list, which included two singles, "some of the best Way has written to date."

Happy 10th anniversary! What's your favorite song off of this important album?

[picopubbydawg]

here’s divinity and spitfire! based on worlds and well,, the spitfire ep respectively! they are in love :) also wish and fang’s parents

[pealeii]

you know when you zone out during bring him home and you come back and he’s still holding that high note

[magiccath]

Here are just the pictures!

[changewingwentz]

“Then I’d trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday”

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[androids-insides]

[anambermusicbox]

“Having an audience and not having an audience are really two completely different stages. When the audience is especially enthusiastic... you feel like, wow—this is the best concert in the world."

[seaofreverie]

Today I want to share the joy that Reading A Newspaper has brought me recently (yesterday).

Because you see, it's not very often that I can read a several pages long good quality feature on a band that I'm something of a fan of, considering that until last year at best, all and any musical favourites I had were next to unheard of in the, let's call it, professional music business. And said feature also gave a few mentions to the one and only fav band of all time which I'm also still not used to being able to read about in my language (because it only happened like 5 times in total so far anyway, but still). And I can buy the newspaper in my local store in this minuscule town and find Sparks inside, like wow, it really is My Sparks, in this real life physical newspaper that I just got. This was like a belated but very epic christmas gift for me and I'm not kidding.

But well yeah getting to the point now, Franz Ferdinand are starting their tour soon promoting their upcoming new album and they're stopping in Poland too, so there was this whole 14-pages long overview of their whole career, and while I was obviously interested in the whole thing I was most hyped about the fact that there would have to be something about FFS and Sparks there and this brings me to my delighful observation that wow, all of this is so, connected in a way. Like how there are these connections in inspiration and collaborations between many of my favourites that I didn't even think about probably being a thing before, but when I think about it it just makes so much sense. Like how in this interview with Alex Kapranos, the interviewer brings up Talking Heads and specifically Fear of Music, because the new Franz Ferdinand album also has this sort of overarching theme of fear. And it's funny because that's the first Talking Heads album I've ever listened to and still my favourite from them to this day and overall one of my all-time favourite albums. And I guess it shouldn't be that shocking that it'd come up here because Talking Heads were super influential and inspired thousands, but also until now I didn't think about how both these bands share the general direction of creating dance-able type of rock with lyrics that are often on the more reflective and "intellectual" side. And also that album has been recommended to me as the most TMBG-like of theirs so. Wow I wonder why I like it.

Ok there were also all these other things that I want to mention too, so, other miscellaneous points of interest:

In the debut album review, the reviewer said that during Tell Her Tonight Alex sings a lot like Russell Mael, who likes to sing in falsetto. And well I know there's also the Sparks connection in the form of FFS to come later but still, this was such a great SPARKS MENTION!!!! moment for me anyway. But also they got one thing wrong, because it's not that Russell likes singing in falsetto, Ron forced him to sing in falsetto by writing all of his songs in this crazy uper range of notes, and that's a very important detail !!!!!!

And ok I had no idea that Piss Off already existed in some form as far back as 2004!! Or I knew about this and then I forgor. Either way, fascinating piece of information

I need to know more about how these star-based ranking systems work because why would you call FFS an "excellent album" and then rate it 4 stars. Instead of, I don't know, 4 and a half or 5 maybe?? Especially since it apparently has only 2 "weak songs". And I have some major objections when it comes to this too, because we're calling Things I Won't Get a weak track now?? It's just underrated as heck, and that's a hill that I will die on

Also I could never be a music reviewer because these people can fit their whole commentary on one song within one sentence and I feel like I would have to write at least 3 paragraphs on even the least exceptional of songs on a given album before I can feel like I did it justice. I mean, this whole post itself shows how much of a problem this is for me, lol

Also guys were we all aware that FFS turns 10 next yeah. Oh god. Well I need to remember to keep my tradition and preapre a cool piece of fanart for that occasion then. Maybe they should give us FFS 2 to celebrate, I'm pretty sure there'd be lots of interest among the fandom in something like that. Anyway

Well also this wasn't the only article in this whole thing of course and CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, there was a little bit on the Harrison & Belew Remain In Light Tour, which I will also be attending!!! Lots of great stuff is cooking for the first half of 2025 for me musically I can't lie

And also CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, that a year and a half since it was supposed to be released "worldwide" and long after I already lost hope that I'd ever see it in a cinema, they're releasing Stop Making Sense in cinemas over here too. Fucking finally!!! By gods and heavens, that rare moment when you learn about something crucial through a goddamn instagram ad of all places. And then they also reminded me about this in an actual article so well wow. Can you believe this. I can't. So stocked for next saturday when i'm seeing this movie the way it was always supposed to be seen hehehe

Ok I think that's it. Thank you for reading and maybe I should really make that personal website for my rambles in the new year. I'd definitely put that thing to use.

[urmingirl]

Dearest Namjoon we are so ready for this album! 💜

[katadastical]

me @ them

Song: Mr blue sky by electric light orchestra

[sagehaleyofficial]

On this day 10 years ago, Weezer released their ninth album Everything Will Be Alright in the End. 🌲

It's their only album released by Republic Records and their final album produced by late frontman for The Cars, Ric Ocasek, who previously produced two other albums for the band. The album received positive reviews and became their most acclaimed album since 1996.

Happy 10th anniversary! What's your favorite song off of this quintessential album?

[picopubbydawg]

hollowheart 【=◈︿◈=】