#Chris Walla

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Chris Walla, I Believe in the Night I Tape Loops, 2015

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Meet me on the Equinox Meet me halfway When the sun is perched at its highest peek In the middle of the day

Let me give my love to you Let me take your hand And as we walk in the dimming light Oh, darling, understand

That everything, everything ends That everything, everything ends

Meet me on your best behavior Meet me at your worst For there will be no stone unturned Or bubble left to burst

Let me lay beside you, darling Let me be your man And let our bodies intertwine But always understand

That everything, everything ends That everything, everything ends That everything, everything, everything ends

A window An opened tomb The sun crawls across your bedroom A halo A waiting room Your last breaths moving through you

As everything, everything ends As everything, everything ends As everything, everything, everything Everything, everything, everything ends

Meet me on the Equinox Meet me halfway When the sun is perched at its highest peek In the middle of the day

Let me give my love to you Let me take your hand And as we walk in the dimming light Oh, darling, understand

That everything, everything ends

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Chris Walla gives Ben Gibbard a beverage

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You tied a wish to a balloon Watched it fly into the blue But you will find someday soon That it will fall Yes, it will fall They all do

Blue Bloods, Death Cab For Cutie

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This One Song… Ratboys on Black Earth, WI

Tell you what – we love hearing from artists when things go right. We equally love hearing from artists when things go dreadfully wrong. A song that was a piece of piss, written in 20 minutes? Or years in the making and a bastard to write? Whether it’s a song that came together through great duress or one that was smashed out in a short amount of time, we’re getting the lowdown from some of our…

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Lyric Video: Jenn Champion Shares Meditative "Famous"

Lyric Video: Jenn Champion Shares Meditative "Famous" @jenntchampion @terrorbirdmedia @andi_______

Born Jennifer Hays, the Tucson, AZ-born, Seattle, WA-based multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and producer Jenn Champion can trace the origins of her music career to when she met her then-future Carissa’s Wierd bandmates Ben Bridwell and Mat Brooke at the local pizza shop, where they all worked at the time. In 1997, the trio moved to Olympia, WA for about a year, before settling in Seattle,…

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I’ll admit I never remember who the third individual in the postal service is. I’m strictly a Jenny and Ben fan. I also forget that Dave Depper is now in dcfc…. Sorry to that man.

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anyway. update on new death cab for cutie album: wheat like waves is a sleeper

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Reminder: Vote based on the song, not the artist or specific recording! The tracks referenced are the original artist, aside from a few rare cases where a cover is the most widely known.

Lyrics, videos, info, and notable covers under the cut. (Spotify playlist available in pinned post)

Demolition Lovers

Written By: Matt Pelissier, Mikey Way, Ray Toro & Gerard Way

Artist: My Chemical Romance

Released: 2002

The Demolition Lovers are the couple seen on the cover for MCR’s next album, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge. This song, along with much of the album, is a prequel to the story of Three Cheers… in which a man makes a deal with the devil to get his dead lover back by killing 1,000 evil men and giving the devil their souls in exchange for her. This song is most likely where the lover dies. The two “Demolition Lovers” are featured on the cover of the album.

[Verse 1] Hand in mine, into your icy blues And then I'd say to you, "We could take to the highway With this trunk of ammunition, too" I'd end my days with you, in a hail of bullets [Chorus] I'm trying, I'm trying To let you know just how much you mean to me And after all the things We put each other through and [Verse 2] I would drive on to the end with you A liquor store or two keeps the gas tank full And I feel like there's nothing left to do But prove myself to you, and we'll keep it running [Chorus] But this time, I mean it I'll let you know just how much you mean to me As snow falls on desert sky Until the end of everything I'm trying, I'm trying To let you know how much you mean As days fade and nights grow And we grow cold [Post-Chorus] Until the end, until this pool of blood Until this, I mean this, I mean this, until the end of [Chorus] I'm trying, I'm trying To let you know how much you mean As days fade and nights grow And we grow cold But this time, we'll show them We'll show them all how much we mean As snow falls on desert sky Until the end of every… [Interlude] All we are, all we are is bullets, I mean this All we are, all we are is bullets, I mean this All we are, all we are is bullets, I mean this All we are, all we are is bullets, I mean this [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] As lead rains will pass on through Our phantoms forever, forever Like scarecrows that fuel this flame We're burning forever and ever Know how much I want to show you You're the only one Like a bed of roses There's a dozen reasons in this gun [Outro] And as we're falling down, and in this pool of blood And as we're touching hands, and as we're falling down And in this pool of blood, and as we're falling down I'll see your eyes, and in this pool of blood I'll meet your eyes, I mean this forever!

I Will Follow You into the Dark

Written By: Benjamin Gibbard

Artist: Death Cab for Cutie

Released: 2006

Even on a concept album whose main theme is death, “I’ll Follow You Into The Dark” is a standout moving song about the transcendental power of love, even when that boundary is death. This song was recorded unexpectedly while the band was having technical difficulties in studio. Chris Walla, Death Cab for Cutie’s lead guitarist and producer, said the following. “We were going to track the vocal for another song and there was something screwy happening with the headphone mix. We were having problems, so I said, “Ben, this is gonna be a few minutes. Take a break.” Ben’s version of taking a break while we addressed the headphone problem was to pick up this Stella guitar that he loves and start playing this song we were planning on recording sometime later during the sessions. He was still coming through the vocal mic as he was playing this, and it was sounding really cool to me, so I went up and said, “Let’s track this real quick,” and we did and that’s what’s on the record. It was a mono recording with no effects. Nothing. I added a little compression and de-essed it a bit. It’s really weird. It’s totally there and it’s happening.”

[Verse 1] Love of mine, someday you will die But I'll be close behind, I'll follow you into the dark No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white Just our hands clasped so tight, waiting for the hint of a spark [Chorus] If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied Illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark [Verse 2] In Catholic school, as vicious as Roman rule I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black And I held my tongue as she told me, "Son Fear is the heart of love," so I never went back [Chorus] If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied Illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark [Verse 3] You and me have seen everything to see From Bangkok to Calgary and the soles of your shoes Are all worn down, the time for sleep is now But it's nothing to cry about 'cause we'll hold each other soon In the blackest of rooms [Chorus] And if Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied And illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark [Outro] Then I'll follow you into the dark

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can you do a chris fic abt putting a honey packet in his drink and seeing how he reacts plzzz

IMMEDIATELY YES! NO ONE ELSE DO THIS OR IMMA CRAWL IN YOUR WALLA AND MAKE YOU THINK YOURE TWEAKING TF OUT🔫🔫🔫

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Doodlebug, Butterfly, Ishtar, Ladybug Mecca, walla y0!

Aye men! Whoa men! Yessssssssa!

Yo. So.

I have yes. Been contemplating the chapter in the beautiful endless Quran. So please yes! I ain't. I ain't at all! Actually NOT an expert, what what!? WHAT. SO. EVER! AND EVER! ANYWHO.

YES. I AM. NOT. AN. EXPERT....OKAY.

anyways, I've been thinking of and pn habibi on the meaning and application of the ants in the Quran. I follow Jesus Christ okay. And Buddha is always welcome in my house yolo yadda yaye yah. Hooah. Word up.

So anyways I don't not remember any functional information received from. GOOGLE on this subject. Sky above and waters below? Nahhhhhhhh aye. Whatever. Waters above and sky below? A wise man called Mr. Mohammed in my young years growing up in Palestine okay? Guess what! Nahhh! Guess who u00000....aye. Mr. MO was a marketing ExPERt! Yo. Word around the block was that Mr. Mo made it bug. Mare a bigger. Scare a swig. Nah fr, yo all my friends tried never smiling because Mr. Mo was a marketing teacher who read his script as a toddler toddler I mean he pretended to Know Nothing. So yah.

Ao me and my friends being privy to humble pie okay? Yahmman....my granny being not of my whatever blood type as they say. And my best friend at the time being great with a gun emoji you know before emoji beco e hieroglyphics of Today. Word to Bug Man King Kazam and in my old country we spelt AND by using BIG I. Yes Lord!!!

So yah on my granny's Cadillac which was actually NOT borrowed. Pops drive a 78 CUTLASS also NOT borrowed YOLO. Anyhow. That was the old country okay. Always two poles. Never straight lines. At all. AL. Kk?

Yalla walla bang bang so in the old country. No borrow weed. Only finer things, roots of cold growing up in the COLD. No borrowed cars either. Walla yah and Mr. Mohammad was 12 feet tall reading his script as a 3 foot midget yall.

Okay so the ants in the golden age of Islam I think we'll shit! My thinking is shut and shut the door on my water pipes and icey chains. No longer a shave to the channel thin chin. Change channels and Mr. Mohammad 12 feet tall reading his poems as a 3 feet tall <<< and rising of jfc kfceeeee see me?>>> midget, yah. Mr. Mo our classes market testing teacher in the Old country with Golden Roots and Cold truth. Bŕrrrrrrrrrrr! YEEEEEEE! ALL MY COUSINS WORE WHITE TEE SHIRTS AND JUMPED CAUSE CHRISTILOPHER WAS YELLING FRLM TOP OF HIS LUNGS BEYOND US. TALL AS YTHE NILE RIVER. CHRIS OF THE KROSS ALSO ALA AKA SHOUTED HIS POEMS SO WE JUMPED AND ALL THAT CAUSE CHRISTOPHER OF THE KROSS ALSO READ HIS POEMS AS A MIDGET.

SO I BEEN THINKING ON THE ANTS SINCE I LEFT THE OLD COUNTRY WITH ONE. WITH ONE RIGHT TURN DOWN I MEAN UP WHATEVAAH. one turn on to 8th Avenue and you knowbwhat? I ain't been back downtown since the wheel first made it on the scene. Since the Siene had no under pants, pulled down by the gang of Clowns refusing smiles for 12,909 miles. Ha ha.

Yo so you know know what.

Listening to Blowout Comb reminded I and I of the ants in the Quran. Ok. From yesterday. Tomorrow the old country may be different. And yah for now kn the old country we say and spell OUT our AND with THEE FIRST GLYPH of The English (kinda angry is if us asking me?) Word for IN Ala withIN. Yahhhjhhh.

Ok so the ants in the Quran. Mr. MO was mine and my cousins marketing teacher and he played a fool most of the time, only every. Now...and sometimes then he would also drop an atomic sidewinder ascended burial kick drum right on the chin of the entire entire tired class ! Yah. I only remember one of Mr. Mo's wise dome kick drums okay cause walla whoa most times again he read his poems really small like okay?

Yah so the ants. I think the ants in the Quran are important. Because my cousins' marketting teacher in the Old Country where we spelled our ANDS by I and I! So it could look here:

IiIIIIIIIiIIiiiiiiIiiii

Andandandandand walla!

Ok so thee one ONE ONE I MEAN thee ONLY kick drum wise dome of Mr. Mo my family's marketing teacher in the Old Country which I remember is he size up the entire planet here:

Casimir, please consider that you cannot Believe everything you read on the internet. I mean ok ok Mr. MO you For Certainty no warranty DO NOT need MY permission but please carry on with yer BAD self my burden is now light in your presence! Yaaaah I say this to myself (in MY mind okay!) So Mr. Mo looks into my eyes staring deeply into my flashlight in my oceanic stomach okay it's rocky shores here for 3 centuries on the second hand of a grandfather clock invisible on Mr. Mo's desk. Yadda. So my friend I was strange after! Mr. Moe with 700 lighthouses in each eye (1 light house upstairs word)

Mr. Mo reply to my Wonder with this: Casimir, please consider that you cannot believe everything you read on the internet . What if one day the internet told you the clouds are made of string cheese?

What! I was on the run ever since yolo okay?

So yah. I ain't found f anything good about the ants in the Quran via Google ever since I been kn the run considering, what if the clouds were made of string cheese. Thank you Mr. Mo!!!!!!

Now I realize in this New House, that ants are lively and much such Beloved in the sight of God because they appear small right? And i remember all my teachers I ever remember, men and women. Men and whoaman! They all read their poems from a very very very tiny I wonder miniscule? Try it I will. Read my poems from tiny quiet small miniature point of view.

Because the voice booms. FROM HERE. TO HERE. ALL WAYS.

I am considering these actual delusions momentarily flight patterns. Maybe maybe not. Right or wrong it makes no difference to me. I do not care. I am loved. If you find a question or not, are you loved? Am I loved? Yes habibi. Yes. Love. Word. Up.

Further reading re Digable Planets' Blowout Comb...via The Source [2021]

Peace to Sha Be Allah

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people asking ben about chris walla makes me think so much about that post that was like "imagine you're an accountant and people keep asking you to get back with your old coworker for one last audit"

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Snarls

This past weekend, I was able to schedule an in-person interview with Snarls before their show at DC9 in Washington, D.C. The tour stop was during the band’s first headlining tour of their young career, and was in support of their critically acclaimed sophomore record, With Love. In this interview, I asked the band about key moments during the writing/recording process of their new album, the songs that are translating best to the live setting, and much more. So thank you so much for your time this evening. I believe this is your first headlining tour?  It is! That’s awesome. So what decisions or goals were made by your band before you embarked on these dates?  We want to play the best show possible, which isn’t always possible every night. I mean, it’s always hard to keep the highest spirits every single night. But I know that I just, even on my bad nights, I try to just keep my smiling, performing face on, because I want to put on a good show for people. That’s a personal thing that I’m really working on this tour. With people coming out to see us, headlining a big focus for me was definitely engaging with our fans a lot on this tour. Making time to say hi to everyone after shows and get all the pictures we possibly can. Definitely looked forward to connecting with them.  Awesome! So With Love, has garnered great, well-deserved praise from several different media outlets, including us. What were your ranges of emotions when you first saw that Rolling Stone feature?  It doesn’t get old, is all I’m going to say. Yeah, it’s really cool. I completely agree. I have a very personal connection to Rolling Stone. I subscribed to the magazine as a kid, read every copy I possibly could, cut out pictures, and hung them on my wall and stuff. Yeah, I mean, they’re huge. It’s just a huge accomplishment for us. I’m super happy about that. It’s always wild to see that, to have that kind of recognition from that kind of name. It really doesn’t get old. It’s always surreal. You can never shake that.  Were there any other gut check reactions when the album was starting to be announced that you guys were kind of amazed by the reaction from the fans?  I had a really fun time at midnight when the album dropped. There were a bunch of fans at a listening party. Yeah, it was like, I thought that was super, super cute. We’ve never had something like that before. I mean, just from the second it came out, it was positive energy. I think it’s very common amongst musicians, because everyone is just living their life, right? I always just feel like Snarls is this hobby, this thing that I do, and it starts to feel kind of small sometimes. And then, yeah. But not in a bad way. It’s just a thing I do. It’s just one of my everyday things. But then when Rolling Stone talks about it, it’s like, wow, we’re really getting some pretty serious recognition. So it’s just really cool. And I’m glad the album’s getting some good traction for you guys too, because you guys have been at this for a while. So speaking of the new record, which songs were the most challenging to create, and put to tape with Chris Walla? And I think it was recorded in Norway too, right?  Yes! “Ur song,” I’m just thinking of the miracle challenges. I feel like we had a time with “Star Power.” We had a time with “Moon Tides” too. We did? I think at times. Lyrically, yeah. Yeah, like all of the instruments and like the forms of the songs came together really well. It’s just our biggest hunks were with lyrics and like finishing all the lyrics out. That’s what I feel. I think with the instrumentation being a little more interesting on this record, we were just kind of struggling with syllables. And I was like, oh, I want to say this, but it’s like two syllables too long. It’s very nitpicky stuff. Especially when I referenced “Moon Tides.” It’s like the concept was there. We had a lot of words we wanted to use. It’s just, as Chlo said, fitting them in exactly, perfectly . Locking in, as they say. But yeah, as… https://chorus.fm/features/interviews/snarls-2/

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The Decemberists' Epic Return with ‘As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again’ + New Single!

The Decemberists' new album, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, is set to release on June 14th via YABB Records (Thirty Tigers). Marking their 9th studio album after a six-year hiatus, this remarkable double album is produced by lead singer Colin Meloy and Tucker Martine and features guest appearances from The Shins’ James Mercer and REM’s Mike Mills. Pre-orders are available today. As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again is not only the longest Decemberists album to date but also their first intentional, proper double-LP, split into four thematic sides. The 13 songs serve as semaphores of mutual recognition for our fraught times and faint hopes. Tracks like "The Reapers" explore existential slog and capitalist vexation, "America Made Me" delves into opiated delusion and jumbled jingoism, while "All I Want Is You" offers guileless tenderness and absolute surrender. This album is a redemptive testament of a band finding new communal hymns by revisiting several old modes at once. Meloy proudly declares it the best Decemberists album yet, perhaps the ultimate realization of 22 years of work. The album resonates with the urgency and ardor of the present more than ever before. The band first teased the new album with the single “Burial Ground.” Flood Magazine declared, “The Decemberists are so back,” and Paste Magazine noted, “‘Burial Ground’ revives the band’s warm, familiar folk-rock sound.” The track features buoyant vocals by Meloy over twinkling instrumentation, with loose guitar and flourishes of horns adding a Beach Boys-style vibrancy. They followed up with a 19-minute prog rock epic titled “Joan In The Garden,” and a potent love song called “All I Want Is You.” The Decemberists are currently on an expansive North American tour with both spring and summer legs. Highlights include The Salt Shed in Chicago on May 21st and the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on May 24th, concluding on August 3rd at McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, OR. All tickets are on sale now, with a full list of tour dates available. For 20 years, The Decemberists have been one of the most original, daring, and thrilling American rock bands. Founded in 2000 when singer, songwriter, and guitarist Colin Meloy moved from Montana to Portland, Oregon and met bassist Nate Query, keyboardist Jenny Conlee, and guitarist Chris Funk, The Decemberists' distinctive brand of hyperliterate folk-rock set them apart from the start with their debut EP 5 Songs in 2001. After making their full-length debut with Castaways and Cutouts in 2002, the band signed with Kill Rock Stars for the release of acclaimed albums Her Majesty the Decemberists (2003) and Picaresque (2005), produced by Chris Walla. The 2004 EP The Tain – an 18-minute single-track epic – showcased the band’s grand creative ambitions. Read the full article