#9 albums you listen to

[soapkaars]

I was tagged by @faustiandevil for this one. 9 albums I've been listening to recently. I have a terribly random music taste, so it's a bit of a weird eclectic mix, but this seems like a good cross section of all the ones I've been listening to. I think there's something of a common element... I think? I suppose I like originality, and I definitely like to listen to music that's fast and angry/energetic.

In no particular order:

Demon Days, by Gorillaz

Barbarella, the movie soundtrack, by Bob Crew and The Glitterhouse

American Idiot, by Green Day

Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century, by the World Inferno Friendship Society (this seems like such an obvious choice if you know me lol)

Azel, by Bombino

Danger, by the Lijabu Sisters

Right Thoughts Right Words Right Action, by Franz Ferdinand

Ultraviolence, by Lana del Rey (thanks @faustiandevil for helping me pass my gay civics exam)

Mokum, by Amsterdam Klezmer Band

For the ones who want to join in, but no pressure if you don't, I'm tagging @annaglover , @juicedsumo , @peterlorres21stcentury , @peterlorrefanpage (I forgot what your personal blog was, sorry!) @rustbeltjessie , @stillwaitin76

[peterlorrefanpage]

I was tagged by @soapkaars and glad of it!

9 albums I've been listening to recently. I'll admit up front it's largely more certain songs from said albums than entire albums. :)

In order of the random order I piled these in:

Hunting High and Low, by a-ha. I hone in on: "The Blue Sky," "Living a Boy's Adventure Tale," "The Sun Always Shines on TV," and "Take On Me." Morten Harket and his ethereal voice. ❤️

Rock a Little, by Stevie Nicks. The whole damn album. "Some Become Strangers" is my current earworm. "Part of me used to love you / part of me still does."

Demos, Vol 1, by Oracle Sisters. I listen to "Asc. Scorpio" just about every day.

Radio Retaliation, by Thievery Corporation. "The Forgotten People" is a bountiful get-up-off-your-arse gorgeous mix of sounds.

Don't Say No, by Billy Squier. Lotta songs here, but "In the Dark" is my especial favorite. I mean, my god: "You never listen to the voices inside / They fill your ears as you run to a place to hide / You're never sure if the illusion is real / You pinch yourself but the memories are all you feel..."

Let The Festivities Begin! by Los Bitchos. "Pista (Fresh Start)" is another get the hell up and dance song. Instrumental psychedelic sunshine cumbia.

The World Within, by Moderator (Vinyl Edition 2017). For this beauty: Words Remain.

I, Robot, by The Alan Parsons Project. Concept album. "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" and "Breakdown" are on a continual rotation. The existential despair at the end of the latter is superb.

Prelude to Ecstasy, by The Last Dinner Party. Because "Nothing Matters" gets in my head and the video is sublime.

Tagging @peterlorrelove, @peter-lorre-stan, @faith-alhazred @aaronshattuck, no pressure, absolutely none!

[faith-alhazred]

@peterlorrefanpage enlisted me for '9 albums you listen to' and it's kinda challenging, as i am not actually album person, more 'listen this dozen song for the next two years' person 😂 but i will try my best.

1. 'Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century' by The World/Inferno Friendship Society.

Must have of every Peter Lorre fan, i guess. Speaks to my soul.

2. 'Devil's Dozen' by Fiddler's Green. As well as 'Heyday' and '25 Barney Roses'.

Music, that charges me with energy. 'Perfect Gang' is the song that i use to explain to my players which vibe there would be in Dead But games (Dead But is my own PbtA TRPG about living dead who leave their graves to go to the party or club).

3. 'Wolfrider's Reflection' by Julia Ecklar

As well as a few records of Julia, that wasn't included to that album. I grew up on ElfQuest comics and i feel deeply bounded to this universe. 'Going Back' gives me goosebumps every single time.

4. 'Pirate for the Rum' by Stormfrun. I found this album a few years ago, during one of the most stressful periods in my work life, and it really was like that 'and the new man was chosen to lead our raging crew - but this man is a woman, i'm telling you it's true'. Yeah, it's me. I am the woman.

5. 'Father of Invention' by Professor Elemental. It's time for a confession - i really like rap. I love rhythm, i love when a performer not just sings, but talks to you, buuuut. I am absolutely not into american 'money, bitches, drugs' rap, so when i encountered chap-hop, where on the place where you'd expect 'f*** off, b****' goes 'I am terribly sorry for the inconvenience, sir' - it was immediately sold to me.

6. 'The Vampyre at the Harpsichord' by Verne Langdon. Oh my, this guy is brilliant. His music has the right vibe of a vintage horror movie. Also I use one of his tracks as my basic rington.

7. 'Ooky Spooky' by Aurelio Volraire. Another guy with a great sense of humor, this particular song is hilarious.

8. 'Boo York', Monster High motion picture soundtrack. Another fandom i am into, catchy energetic songs that speak to me a lot.

9. 'Komik' by Komik Mashrabov. That's very local thing. When i was working in a hotel there was a courier guy, tajik, very modest and polite. But after I told him i quit in two weeks, he got much more friendly, and it turned out he not just a courier, he is also a rapper and stand-up comedian. His 'modest guy' social mask was broken, he was always a fountain of improvisation, jokes and awkward flirt. I still excited how dramatically his personality changed in such short time. So, he gave me couple of his tracks, and still i listen to them time by time, trying to improve my tajik listening (still can't get anything but couple of words, honestly). Also he has really good voice and know how to use it.

Well, that's all, folks 😁

I have only couple of mutuals here, and two of them have already joined the flashmob, so i can tag only @ilovemesomevincentprice - absolutely no pressure, though 🌿

[earthfromadistance]

The chokehold Unreal Unearth has on me is insaneee. Like I have Andrew Hozier Byrne disease and I fear it’s terminal

[da-janela-lateral]

Unstoppable force meets immovable object, more known as "absurdly long and complex music liker" meets "won't listen to any music".

[lonewolf638]

i think dean would jerk his dick raw while driving w this song playing in the background

[bsaka7]

tagged to post my 9 favourite album with commentary by @mathewbaldzal !!!! we r two peas in a pod i think with having a lot to say about some tunes...

in no particular order...

different class (1995) - pulp. this is not my no1 album of all time because i don't have a favorite album of all time, but this album is in part representative of "getting into music" to me. i love 90s britpop, whatever that means for a random american and this is my fav of em all (though i do actually quite rate this is hardcore in pulp's discography). "common people" is one of the songs of ALL TIME. god jarvis's little sing-song sleazyness gets me. really, really, really great classic performance of it at glasto 1995...for some reason "pencil skirt" also always really hits.

home video (2021) - lucy dacus. the newest album on this list by a long shot, but it's had songs in my top5 year end lists since it came out. i've also seen lucy live <3. this album rises above some of the others in similar company (punisher - phoebe bridgers, the boygenius ep, etc) because i never get tired of it. "first time" "hot & heavy" "brando" and "triple dog dare" are nearly always standbys in my listening history. probably gonna be an album-i-listened-to-in-college classic forever...

songs of love and hate (1971) - leonard cohen. maybe none of my favorite leonard cohen songs are on this album, but as a single work, this album stuns me. possibly the most transfixing 44:21 i've ever heard. his lyricism in particular is -- i can't even describe it. the mix with his voice, the sparseness of the instrumentation at time, the harmonies. i'm not a big stories guy but in this, yeah, the songwriting, the stories. i don't think there's another album like this one out there, really.

if you're feeling sinister (1998) - belle & sebastian. the first time i heard this album, i thought i had never heard an album so perfect. i love songs off of it but i nearly always listen to it whole. i love, love, love b&s's early sound (twee, if you will), and stuart murdoch's lyrics really, really shine. this is one of my favorite albums to listen to when i have a headache because it's lovely to just, focus on but not grating at all. i really love "judy and the dream of horses" and "get me away from here i'm dying". really, a beautiful work

rumours (1977) - fleetwood mac. i was sort of scrolling through some of my playlists trying to decide what to put on this list (it's a bit weighted towards stuff that's in rotation now) and i couldn't leave off fleetwood mac (in part to represent the huge part of my music taste that is like. classics 1965-1980). stevie nicks was one of my earlier music obsessions (the OG was the beatles). so many wonderful songs and riffs. i know this was left off the original 12-inch but "silver springs" is one of my favorite songs forever and ever and ever...

nebraska (1982) - bruce springsteen. when it comes down to it, this is my favorite springsteen album. i do think his 1975-1987 run of albums is pretty much perfect but nebraska is a masterpiece in a way that i find hard to express in words. there's a sense of sparseness and distance in this work (in part bc of how it was recorded) that i find so utterly compelling i can't even describe. "nebraska" - especially this 1984 live version - is a perfect song to me. perfect. i also like a lot of the stuff that went into inspiring this album (notably flannery o'connor) and well. where it fits into springsteen's narritivization of his own life (dude was in the dumps).

all killer, no filler (2001) - sum41. this pick is a little bit representative of the era of my life where i basically exclusively listened to pop punk but if songs of love and hate is an album that's perfectly drawn out, this is an album that's perfectly compressed. like, the title is correct. this album is fucking TIGHT. i used to listen to it at a job i hated to make the 30-min intervals go by. and it's got such classics...."fat lip"..."motivation..." of course, "in too deep." SO good.

what did you expect from the vaccines? (2011) - the vaccines. maybe this pick is a tiny bit cheesy but it is a perfect encapsulation of the era of alt rock it came from. which i love. i really like the vaccines, i think they're super fun and i did see them in concert finally and they totally lived up to that. "wetsuit" is again...one of my favorite songs of all time. "if you wanna" is a perpetual banger.

age of consent (1983) - new order. again, an album that deserves to be listened to whole, despite how good "age of consent" hits alone ever single time. sometimes i think i like another new order album more than this, but i don't. sumner's voice just out-of-tune ringing out over that sound, that new order sound, the bass, that post-punk club vibe. they're a band that don't sound like anyone else, and this is the album most indicative of that. wow, every time.

a few narrow misses

boxer (2007) - the national. i didn't get the national until one day i did. "slow show." my god. hello.

very (1993) - pet shop boys. it's too simple to say this is an album about gay love because it's so embedded in it's context but. this is an album with so much love. psb are brilliant.

the execution of all things (2002) - rilo kiley. jenny lewis CALL ME. also like. you know "a better son/daughter". there's more.

a thousand suns (2010) - linkin park. i used to listen to this at 6th grade cross-country practice. first band i ever got into on my own. idk.

this is not only my favorite albums but a pretty decent summation of the broad strokes my overall taste. thank you again for the tag!! i enjoyed doing this a lot :). idk who has done this/on what blogs so if u have PLEASEEEEE send it to me i want to see!! i tag @lfcrobbo @upthebrackets @girlfriendline @odegoob @amandaleveille @thelittlebirdthatkeptsomanywarm @kritischetheologie @bright-and-burning @a-corn-field if any of u want to but no presh!!!

[kimchokejin]

✨Stuck at the airport tag game frenzy brought to you by spirit airlines✨

I already got here an extra hour early and now my flight is delayed an hour so I've got some time to kill lol

Game #1: your color + your bias

I was tagged by @jiminsproof and @blueside-hobi to play this. Thanks guys, your posts looked beautiful ❤️

Ummm I know these colors don't match at all but in my defense I was identified as beige. You really can't expect me to have an eye for color or layout or anything really 🤷 also that is not even beige? Wtf is analogue? I hate this

Game #2: on repeat

I was tagged by @blueside-hobi to play this 💕

Sorry for the repeats I didn't feel like typing everything out lol

Game #3: Receiptify

Tagged by @blueside-hobi and @hopeinthebox to play this!

Umm I will tag @chocolatnoir @joon-rkive @cheekyquokka @courtthisdisaster @senor-hoberto if any of these games appeal to you! And anyone reading this who wants to share!

[vulcandyke]

attention new country artists online: you cannot say you're bringing back "that good old country sound" if you're exclusively posting blake shelton and toby keith covers. good lord

[catty-words]

i miss pop punk josh :/

[gayemoji]

okay listen im aware of what year it is (i swears) and ive managed to avoid caring about taylor swift but i (finally) listened to red (taylors version) and when i finally got to "its supposed to be fun turning 21" .

the seething rage i have. im going to kill every man. ever. holy fuck.

[magentagalaxies]

i have been editing for hours on end bc one of my finals is due tonight and it's nowhere near done and it's gotten to a point where i needed to take a break from focusing on the editing timeline and just do something silly and stupid so time to listen to the kidz bop cover of nickelback's "photograph" aka the most bizarre kidz bop cover i have ever heard

sharing it so more people can access this cursed gem

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: December 12

"The Long Goodbye" by Brooks & Dunn

[bmpmp3]

i dont use spotify but i did end up doing a new install of poweramp almost exactly a year ago because i switched phones so here's what's the top of the "most played" category. i wanna be involved too LOL

[lavender---sunshine]

in all seriousness i 90% sure im going to quit my job tomorrow and for a while i will have just enough money to live on and will have to spruce up my resume and job hunt and stress but MY GOD i need to do something else because this is making me suicidal