#Dexi Jet

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Dexter Dias-Sherwood

Introduction

Full name: Demétrio Dias-Sherwood Nickname(s): Dexter, Dex, Dexy, Dexterino, Sexy Dexy, Sherly Gender: Male (he/they) Nationality: Brazilian Place of birth: Rocinha, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Age: Mid to late twenties Callsign: Spots Sexuality: Pansexual Occupation: Fighter aircraft Squadron: VMFA-211 "Wake Island Avengers"

General Information

Personality: Dexter is a very upbeat and excitable individual, desperate to be the centre of attention and the life of the party at all times. Wild, flamboyant, rebellious and a huge flirt, he can be a little brash at times, though he generally doesn't mean any harm by it. But for his outgoing nature, Dexter surprisingly isn't much of a natural improvisor and will become quite flustered if someone does something he doesn't expect. He's known to be a persistent troublemaker, though this has gradually lessened as he has matured. Hobbies/Interests: Soccer, yoga. Likes: Partying, dancing, causing mischief, attention, chocolate and other sweets, Lance's cooking. Dislikes: Swimming, people pointing out his height, being ignored, large bodies of water where he cannot see the ground: oceans, lakes, etc. Voice: Dexter's voice has changed quite a lot over the years, though voice cracks have always been an issue whenever he raises his voice a little too high. He also has a strong accent.

Physical Characteristics

Species: Fighter jet Model: Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II Eye Colour: Amber Shape/Size: Dex is certainly on the smaller side compared to most other F-35s. No one is sure exactly why his growth was stunted so significantly. Notable Features: Vitiligo on his nose and underside, becoming more solid the further back it goes. Interesting Facts: • He is bilingual, able to speak fluently in both English and Brazilian Portuguese. • He has got quite the foul mouth and generally isn't someone to think before he speaks. • Likes the colour pink, especially since it goes well with his grey livery. • Has a huge sweet tooth. He'll be your best friend if you buy him something with chocolate in it. • He is quite ticklish, particularly on his chest and stomach. • Favourite sleeping position is on his back with all three landing gear splayed out in different directions. • He is incredibly flexible compared to most other aircraft, hence why he took up yoga as a hobby.

Mental Characteristics

Strengths: Bold, enthusiastic, entertaining, friendly. Weaknesses: Sensitive, easily bored, unfocused, poor long-term planner. Fears: Dex has thalassophobia due to past traumatic events. He struggles greatly with feeling like he's worth something to someone, craving validation that he's good enough. MBTI: ESFP "Entertainer"

Relationships

Parents: • Daniel Sherwood (F-35A) • Juliana Dias (AV-8B) Siblings: None Children: • Jesse Griffiths (F/A-18C x F-35B) Friends: • Mônica Reis Relationships: • Thiago Carris - former • Emeline Ravenhall - former • Lance Griffiths - current

[jet-the-hedgehog-real]

How did u came up with the names of your characters and designs?

I like your art :^)

Ahhh! Thank you!!

Drew just came up on the spot, as there's someone I'm close to named Andrew, although the character themself came from Drazegerzo... A YEAR AGO????? God, I already feel old...

Dexter/Dex/Someone called him "Dexie" was just a new name I gave him since Drewtwo felt redundant and bland, especially with other Mewtwos having cool names. He's also from Draze heh

William is me

and Jet's just a meme character based off of some shit I cooked in the second grade lmao

Read through again before posting, didn't notice you even said "And Designs" and somehow I subconsciously answered those as well

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tagged by the lovely @tenderheart444 to list 10 of my favorite songs with names in the title <3 ty for tagging me love u

Valerie - amy winehouse

Bette Davis eyes - kim carnes

For Emma - bon iver

Sarah - Alex g

Juliet - cavetown

Jessie’s girl - rick springfield

Come on Eileen - dexys midnight runners

Bennie and the jets - elton john

Ivy - taylor

Rhiannon - fleetwood mac

tagging @metindreams @damonsalvatoregf I’m so bad at tagging people omg anyone can do this 😭

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Eel Pie Island

South London

Eel Pie Island is an island on the River Thames, near Twickenham, South London. Named after, ‘eel pies’, served in the inn in the nineteenth century however, it was in the ‘60’s when the Island gained a hedonistic reputation which then led to one of the 2000’s most unique bands, the Mystery Jets, who helped create the ‘Thamesbeat scene’. 

In the ‘50’s and ‘60’s the Eel Pie Island Hotel ballroom had the likes of The Who, David Bowie, Hawkwind, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, Black Sabbath, Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones (The Rolling Stones played there every Wednesday for 5 months in 1963) played there before becoming the biggest hippie commune in the UK in 1970. The hotel went into disrepair after neglect and fires but the Island, accessible on a footbridge has continued to breed creativity as there was over 20 art studios there.  

Henry Harrison, father of Mystery Jets frontman Blaine (as well as an occasional band member) bought part of the Island which became rehearsal space for the band and the place where the iconic Eel Pie Island parties took place. 

Mystery Jets 

Originally called The Misery Jets, after a headline in a local paper about the Heathrow airport fly path above them. The South London kids changed to Mystery Jets when drummer at the time, Blaine misspelled the name when painting it on a drum skin and never looked back (or up). 

Blaine Harrison “For obvious reasons (Blaine has spina bifida which affects his leg muscles) I wasn’t a sporty child but I think my dad recognised the effect music had on me as a kid very early on and educated me with a steady diet of records to listen to, books and magazines to read and films to watch. I’d say it was Alan Parkers’ film ‘The Wall’ that had the biggest effect on me at that age. I remember hiding behind the sofa with Will when my dad put it on and just thinking ‘what is this fucked up shit!!?!?’ 

There was just something about the way Pink Floyd brought the sound and visuals together into something so terrifying that even a child could be impacted by it so strongly. I think it must have been seeing the way we reacted that made Henry think ‘maybe I should help these kids form a band of their own… 

I met our founding guitarist Will at nursery school. When I moved to France to go to primary school, we started the band as a way of keeping our friendship. We played our first gig as Mystery Jets on my 10th birthday (1995). Our first album ‘Making Dens’ came out exactly 10 years later (to the month) and I’d say was a stylistic culmination of all the music we had been influenced by in the interim. Mainly my dad Henry’s record collection: King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Yes, The Beatles, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel… but also bands we got into at art school; Dexys, The Smiths, The Cure, The Stone Roses, The Cure, The Coral…. 

I think we might only have had a week leading up to our first gig on my 10th birthday so I’m pretty sure the gig mainly consisted of covers; Light My Fire by The Doors, Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd and Wild Thing by the Troggs. But we also played in the village bar later that summer and had a couple of originals by then, Rastamadeus and Moonlight Satellite. Both showed up on our first EP a few years later. 

Our first song was ‘Moonlight Satellite’. I’d say it was a group endeavour, with Will singing the verses and all of us singing on the chorus. It had one giant drum fill in the middle which usually lasted somewhere between 8 bars and 16 bars depending on how much Sunny Delight we’d drank that afternoon. 

We were pretty quick to adapt to the internet as a tool of mass self-promotion. We’d post the Eel Pie Party flyers on our Myspace and also spam the message boards of all our rival bands too. .org was always a good one because there was such a die-hard indie community there, and we knew Pete and Carl would sometimes post on there too so maybe they’d see it. 

Once every couple of months we’d post a new track on our Myspace and then anxiously wait and watch for the play count to start clocking up. Sometimes we’d make the tracks downloadable, but even if we didn’t, it usually wouldn’t take long for someone to rip them and start sharing the files around on Limewire. I’d say that was the beauty of it, it was incredibly democratic, but also like the wild west. If what you were making was good or exciting or had something different about it, it would find a fan base very quickly. 

My dad runs a boatyard on Eel Pie Island, on the Thames in Twickenham and there used to a famous blues club there which everyone from The Stones to Hendrix played at back in the day. It burned down in the ‘70’s, so we thought we’d bring some of that spirit back to the birthplace of British Blues and that’s when things really began for us. 

We were at an Art School nearby so would print out our own handmade flyers, and copy and paste a text message to everyone in our phonebooks a day or two before, “BYOB and invite everyone you know.” We’d book anywhere between 5 to 10 other bands a night, playing 20-minute sets and didn’t charge anything at the door. No sound checks, no payment, no backstage and no security. It was complete chaos. 

We’d put on a party every couple of months, over a period of about a year and a half. They went from 20 people sat cross-legged on the floor to people eventually showing up in their hundreds. Word spread so quickly. We’d have people falling in the river, swinging from the light fittings, smoking cigarettes indoors, and the room was covered floor to ceiling in Moroccan carpets so it was a huge fire hazard. On 2 occasions people left in ambulances. 

The last party was kind of legendary. We had all our friends' bands at that time playing one after another; Larrikin Love, Jamie T, The Noisettes, Good Shoes, Dustins Bar Mitzvah and a few others I can’t recall. 700 people squeezed into our rehearsal room and we estimated a good third of them were music industry scouts, managers and booking agents, who ended up signing most of the bands on the bill. And then the authorities showed up and served us a £20,000 noise abatement order if we tried to do it again. So it ended there, but that was the right time to kill it. I still meet strangers on the street who tell me they had some of the wildest nights of their lives at those parties.” 

After hosting parties at Eel Pie Island they started getting attention from labels. The Eel Pie Island EP was released via Liquid Sky Music in 2003 however, it was 2 years until their next release, a limited edition 7” single, Zoo Time on Transgressive Records which led to the band signing with 679 Records. The rest of the year saw the band release more singles. 

Blaine “The Monday morning after our final Eel Pie party, we received a phone call from our manager to tell us that 3 labels had put in offers, 1 major and 2 indies. I wouldn’t say it was a bidding war but it felt good to know that we had caught the attention of the industry on our own terms and on our own turf. We went with 679; the label with the most interesting roster, and put out our first 2 albums with them. Ironically, in the intervening years we’ve ended up being on both the others at one time or another too. 

Rather than decamp to a pro studio and make a record in an unfamiliar environment, we took our first advance and invested in recording gear to track ‘Making Dens’ in our rehearsal room on Eel Pie, the same room we held the parties in. It felt like the most likely way we’d be able to capturing some of that frenetic energy from the gigs onto tape. 

For the following couple of albums we worked in commercial recording studios, because we needed a change of environment, but ultimately we ended up having our own studios again from ‘Curve of The Earth’ onwards because it enables us to work at our own pace, and have a space to collaborate with other artists too. 

A lot of the press we got around ‘Making Dens’ focused on the father/son relationship, my disability and Eel Pie Island. At the time we felt that was partly responsible for the album not connecting as well as it should have, no one was talking about the music. For ‘Twenty One’ we went back to the drawing board and asked our favourite DJ, Erol Alkan (from Trash) to step onboard. It was quite a freeing feeling to get our debut album out the way and having paid homage to so many of the influences of our youth, now we could make a record inspired by what was new and going on around us. Remix culture, French house music, synths and electronics were starting to influence guitar music and we decided that’s the direction we were most excited about moving in. And we tried to learn how to write choruses. 

I think any band would agree that the early days are the most exciting, because everything is happening for the first time. The first time you sell out a gig, the first time you hear your song on the radio, the first time you get stopped in the street by a fan, your first Reading or your first Glastonbury. In a way, past that point it’s all about sustaining the excitement and maintaining forward motion. Touring isn’t for everyone, but for me, the more crazy our touring schedules became the more I loved it. Around Serotonin/Radlands we were touring so much that we all had to have two passports. I dread to think what our carbon emissions were like but regrettably, that awareness just wasn’t really part of the public consciousness back then. We’d finish a tour in the States and shoot straight over to tour around Australia and Japan. After a few days back at home to do our washing and demo some new songs it would be straight back over to Mexico and Argentina for more festivals. We’d literally follow the sun. During pandemic times it was hard to believe that’s what life used to be like but there you go. 

The bands we had the most memorable tours with are mostly the bands we’re still friends with today. We toured all around Europe and the UK with The Kooks in 2008 which was wild. We toured Europe supporting the Arctic Monkeys on their first album and again when they released ‘Humbug’. We supported Mumford Sons on a huge Arena tour across America and Europe which lasted the best part of a year. One of the most crazy ones was opening for Klaxons during the height of the nu rave craze. The band were on fire and the audiences were nuts. I remember us all going to Disneyland together on a day off and Simon from Klaxons getting recognised on Space Mountain and thinking how perfect it was. It doesn’t get better than that. Job done.” 

2 months before the release of 7th album, A Billion Heartbeats in April 2020 William left the band. The release timing was unfortunate as it came at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, pausing all of the promotional campaigns, leading to the album reaching no.85.  

Blaine “I could easily moan about how the entire campaign of ‘A Billion Heartbeats’ was plagued with obstacles, but so many of them were just completely outside of our control. 2 weeks before the album was meant to be released I went into hospital with a critically inflamed leg injury, pushing the campaign back 6 months to allow for my recovery. Then a month before the re-release the world went into lockdown and all the vinyl plants closed down.  

Suddenly the streets were empty and no one was riding the tubes so we had no choice but to pull all our adverts and billboards. We also couldn’t tour around the record stores which just flatlined the sales, so yeah, the album never got the send off it deserved. But I still feel incredibly proud of it. It was the first time we addressed big social questions and themes in such a head-on way” 

Whilst Mystery Jets were on the rise out of Eel Pie Island there were a bunch of young South and West London groups joining them, building a vibrant community. These included scene favourites Good Shoes and Larrikin Love as well as indie heavyweights The Maccabees and Jamie T. 

Good Shoes

Good Shoes were on the horizon in Kingston and they would become Eel Pie Island party regulars.  

School mates, Rhys Jones and Steve Leach had been playing music as a hobby in 2003 with Rhys on vocals and Steve on guitar. The pair had their first gig in January 2004 at a charity event at The Peel in Kingston where they called themselves Good Shoes. After a few months, the hobby transformed into a band when Rhys’ brother Tom and fellow Raynes Park High School mate Joel Cox got on board.  

As a 4-piece they played their first gig at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University on the 1st February 2005. This was followed up with a gig at an Eel Pie Island Island party before playing as many London shows as possible. 

Think Before You Speak, the bands' debut album was released in March 2007 and they built up a following as they went on tour with several bands including The Rakes, Franz Ferdinand, The Pigeon Detectives and Maximo Park. 

Although the band showed promise, they split up after releasing their second album, ironically called No Hope, No Future. 

The Rumble Strips

The Rumble Strips, headed by Charlie Waller were a band that briefly exploded into the world however their history dates back to when they were at school in Devon. 

Charlie “I loved Shakin’ Stevens as a young kid. My first gig was Vanilla Ice at Cornwall Coliseum when I was 19 or 11. Both pretty cool! My uncle bought me a guitar when I was 8 and would teach me chords and simple blues songs.  

I guess I properly got into music in a big way like a lot of people my age with Nirvana and all the early ‘90’s grunge stuff. I stopped playing sport and started smoking with the skinny scruffy boys. I remember my dad had a guy he worked with who knew I liked music. He decided I should be educated and would make me tapes of blues and doo-wop. I really loved The Coasters from that. I loved the humour and all the range of voices.  

I started going to a sort of music youth club when I was 12 with my friend Sam who became the bass player in The Rumble Strips. It was run by Henry's dad who taught us Captain Beef Heart and Frank Zappa songs. That became a band called The Mother Eating Blackberries. That then split into different bands when were around 14. I was in one called Harry and The Hormones and Tom and Henry from The Rumble Strips had a great Talking Heads kind of ska band called Scarper.  

I don’t know if it was because we were in the countryside, or that it was just that time in general, but we would listen to all sorts of old music. It felt very untethered by what was fashionable. Though I did love Gorky's Zygotic Mynci from that time. That was a band that always seemed to link us when we were older. 

I would buy a lot of old records. I loved The Kinks and Bonzo Dog Doo Bah Band. When I discovered Adam and The Ants I got pretty obsessed with them and collected most of that. I still think Kings of the Wild Frontier is a masterpiece. 

I moved to London to go to art college. The band I was playing in moved to London as well. We broke up around about the time I finished college. I started meeting up with Tom who was also without a band. We would get stoned and write boy band pop songs to make ourselves laugh. Some of them were quite good so we started writing songs that we would actually like to play. 

The first Rumble Strips was me, Tom and Harry on keyboards, who went on to make our early videos. He’s now a YouTube star going around the UK in a tiny speedboat. 

Eventually, we got Matt to play drums who was in The Hormones/Action Heroes with me, and Henry moved to London and played keyboards and trumpet. Then Sam joined us on bass. 

I met Mark (Vincent Vincent) at Chelsea College of Art. I remember talking to him quite early on about music. He really liked Bob Dylan who I like now, but at the time thought was a bit moany groany. We both liked the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band though, and early rock n roll. 

We shared a studio in college at some point and got a lot closer, then we lived together with some other guys in our last year. We also lived together after college. We were very close and did a lot together.  

I remember driving in his car listening to Dion and the Belmont’s. We thought that it would be cool if there was a band like that now. With all the harmonies and stuff. Then we thought well we could just do one. It felt like an exciting thought. 

We had a duo for a while called the Heartbreak Snakes. We played every week in The Ten Bells pub in Spitalfields. We would write a new song for each gig I think. It was a lot of fun.” 

The Rumble Strips weren’t getting anywhere. Mark invited him to join Vincent Vincent & The Villains and it was great until EMI was offering them a record deal and Chrysalis came along with a publishing deal but both of them wanted Charlie to focus on Vincent Vincent & The Villains, not The Rumble Strips which put Charlie in a difficult situation, he loved being a frontman and his Rumble Strips mates who he’d grown up with. Without Charlie, there wasn’t no Rumble Strips whereas in Vincent Vincent & The Villains he was sharing frontman duties with his best friend.  

He chose The Rumble Strips and moved out of the flat, the pair didn’t speak for a while, they made up and both blame themselves for being egotistical lads.  

 “I was probably a bit egotistical or something and didn’t quite have Mark’s confidence, so I think I could be a bit quiet and grumpy. I do regret that now. It’s a shame we didn’t record one album. There were some great songs that just got lost. It probably spurred us both on to get signed when we went our separate ways, but I think it maybe took some of the fun out of it.  

I was quite driven, but maybe not always happy. I remember my girlfriend telling me I was a cliche, which I probably was a bit. 

The Rumble Strips did a couple of singles with Transgressive Records, then signed a deal with Island in 2006. Getting a record deal had just seemed like such a big drive for so long. It did make a lot of things easier, but ultimately it has to be the band that still drives it. 

I didn’t feel like we were part of a scene, but maybe everyone feels that way a bit. I never really thought of us as an indie band. I think I wanted to be more funny than cool. We did hang out and play with a lot of bands though. I liked them as well. We probably weren’t that different.”

The Rumble Strips were featured on the Sound Of 2007 list, headlined an NME tour and their biggest single, Girls and Boys got played on ads. The debut album was recorded in America while Mark Ronson produced the second album. 

Charlie “I remember jamming in a studio one time. I was on one keyboard, Mark was on one keyboard, Dave from the Zutons was on bass and Sean Lennon was on drums.  

I had no idea how to work the thing I was playing and I was quite high. I remember thinking to myself at one point that this is really bizarre and something that I would always remember. Also that it sounded pretty terrible. 

We got dropped by Island and my marriage broke up so I went on a long holiday to Cuba. I was 30 and it was the first time since I was about 14 that I wasn't obsessed with being in a band. I got back and met up with everyone and said that it’s quite nice not being in a band. They kind of agreed so we just stopped. It was pretty chilled I think. 

We got together and did some more recordings around 2016. I like the thought that we could maybe do that every 10 years. I really love them all.” 

So, what about Vincent Vincent & the Villians…?

Mark Ogus, or Vincent Vincent as he became known as was introduced to ‘50’s rock ‘n’ roll after discovering his dad's record collection in his late teens. Mark was creative and went to art school where a lot of his work had a connection to music. While studying he met Charlie who he was in awe of, he used to watch his band Action Heroes and his on-stage persona made him want to do the same. 

In 2003 Mark formed The Vincents, he wanted to be something more than “Mark” so he created a persona where he became Vincent Vincent and the band was Vincent Vincent & The Villains. Mark got creative on all aspects, everything was thought out, their live show was a performance, they had a ‘look’ and Mark was hands-on with artwork too while the sound was influenced by his love of ‘50’s rock ‘n’ roll. The band gained interest from labels and management early on. 

Smoking Gun released the first single in March 2004, XFM’s John Kennedy picked up a copy from Rough Trade, he played it regularly on XFM. Both Radio 1 and the NME started to support them before signing to EMI in 2006. 

With tension between Charlie and his two bands building Mark was inspired to write Johnny Two Bands about the situation, the song became Vincent Vincent & The Villains biggest song and Mark had to have an awkward chat about the song as they had become friends again by the time the song was released. 

EMI made them rerecord Johnny Two Bands with Stephen Street which wasn’t an enjoyable experience as the producer ripped out the fun of the process while Mark was already hating the song anyway. That resentment towards the song continued when they had to perform it (mime) on Top Of The Pops and it was the start of the end for the band.  

Instead of releasing new material, EMI made the band rerelease the early singles.  In 2008 the band released the long-awaited debut album, but they were already seeing a decline as the crowds at gigs were getting smaller, they were skint and lost in their 20’s watching their mates moving on with their life and they were going backward. There was no future for the band who faded away. 

Les Incompetents

When it comes to the 2000’s indie, it’s impossible to overlook Fred MacPherson who was a fan as much as a musician. Once the Londoner discovered bands, he wanted to be in one, before even hearing The Strokes he was obsessed, they oozed cool and, like Alex Turner (and many boys in this era), he just wanted to be one of them.  

While at school he formed Les Incompetents (2004), a band with 8 members, 2 of which (including Fred) were lead singers. They liked the idea of being in a band more than doing the work required to be in a band. Fred and Chris would turn up to house parties and whip out the acoustic guitar and play some covers. Hotel Yorba was the first song they learned, its simplicity inspired them to write their own.  

After telling everyone they were in a band to sound cool, despite not having any songs they got a gig at The Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel but they needed a demo. They put a song together, recorded it on a 4-track and badgered the venue. They ended up supporting Martha Wainwright for their first-ever gig.  

They started playing around London, they’d be on stage more than rehearsing, it was mostly chaotic but each gig was an opportunity to meet people. After being introduced to the Mystery Jets, Les Incompetents played the Eel Pie Island parties where they discovered a scene that was bubbling underneath with the likes of Larrikin Love and Jamie T. Fred appears on Zoo Time from the Mystery Jets debut album while Jamie T’s songwriting changed the way Fred structured songs.  

Way Out West gigs were the first time they felt like they had a crowd who was into them. The band was still at school when they released their first double A-side single Much Too Much/Reunion (2005) on White Heat Records having played White Heat club night a handful of times. Matty who ran the club and label was into the band early on. The boys had been regulars at the central London indie disco since 15 (it was pretty easy to get fake ID back then). 

Fred had a proactive personality, building relationships online as well as IRL. Fanboying Test Icicles on MySpace and connecting on the forums. He did work experience at Drowned In Sound and despite being involved in the party scene from an early age he was sober until he was 23. 

They’d study all the bands, how they dressed, where they went out and how they wrote songs, taking influences from across the scene, How It All Went Wrong, their most recognised song was written after listening to Razorlight. 

The bandmates stopped getting along with each other by 2006 and they realised they didn’t have enough songs for an album or plans for progression. There were so many bands out there, Les Incompetents weren’t signable. In June, as the band was about to put an end to it, Billy Leeson, the bands' other singer was attacked after an argument on the night bus and went into a coma for 3 weeks, during this time How It All Went Wrong started to get attention.  

On the 1st September Les Incompetents announced on MySpace that they were to split up and they would be playing one final gig at the 100 Club in November, which sold out. They ended up playing Way Out West at Acton Town Hall a few days later with Late Of The Pier, Fear Of Flying, Jamie T and Kid Harpoon (who has gone to be Harry Styles songwriter).  

Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man 

One month after Les Incompetents split Fred, Sean and Tommy formed Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, a very different band to Les Incompetents on many levels. Where the former played live and rarely rehearsed, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man was the opposite, where Les Incompetents were a bit messy and fun, the latter was dark, intense and self-indulgent.  

They were heavily influenced by prog rock, Nick Cave and Doom Metal, the sound was gloomy but it was a dark time for the lads too who were in their early 20’s. Having put the groundwork in with Les Incompetents it didn’t take long for them to get a record deal with Transgressive. After just over 3 years the band split up but they never had the legacy of Les Incompetents.  

Before Fred’s next big move, he had a few projects for fun including a comedy rap group with Charlie from Noah & The Whale and King Charles during the short-living ‘grindie’ scene. There are no recordings but they did support JME. There was Captain Kick and the Cowboy Ramblers, another line-up including Charlie of Noah & The Whale as well as some of Mumford & Sons. 

He’d seen friends like Jamie T, Mystery Jets, Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons breakthrough and get jealous of their success. On MTV2 he’d interview the likes of Kings Of Leon and Interpol at festivals which would inspire him to have another shot at it, form his next band who we’ll come on to later.

Test Icicles

Over the years Fred, like many (including Harry Styles and Beyonce) has collaborated with Dev Hynes who arrived with the explosive trio, Test Icicles who were only around for 2 years and released 1 album but Circle. Square. Triangle. is a generation-defining song.

Lightspeed Champion

After the noise and neon with Test Icicles, nobody would have predicted Dev Hynes next move, Lightspeed Champion. After leaving his East London life behind him in 2007, moved to New York and wrote songs that shared country/folk influences which turned into the solo project. His touring band included Florence Welch while Alex Turner, Faris Badwan, Fred MacPherson, Jack Penate and Keith Murray made appearances on stage. 

Blood Orange

Lightspeed Champion lasted 2 albums then Dev reinvented himself once again with another very different solo project, Blood Orange. He went into “producer” mode with Blood Orange which is beat-driven, soulful and smooth with r ‘n’ b vibes that has taken Dev into A-lister territory. 

Jamie T

South London-born Jamie Alexander Treays launched himself onto the music scene with his half sing/half rap acoustic songs on London’s pub circuit under the stage name, Jamie T. His demos started to make their way through the online forums and on MySpace then in 2006 his songs started to get radio play. 

In July 2006 Jamie’s breakthrough came with Shelia, a huge hit that sounded nothing like anything out there. It was followed by If You've Got The Money then Calm Down Dearest. 

His debut album, Panic Prevention documents his struggles with panic attacks as a kid and it became a cult classic, while follow-up, Kings & Queens reached a broader audience with breakout single, Sticks ‘n’ Stones. 

“Where is Jamie T?” campaigns floated online after he’d gone quiet for some time but finally, after a 5-year wait he returned with Carry On The Grudge and Zombie, another defining song that showed punk influences and he can continue to disappear for years but he will be missed. 

The Maccabees

As schools go, ​​Alleyn's School in Dulwich is one to have bred some talent in such a short about of time as Florence and the Machine’s Florence Welch, Jessie Ware, Jack Penate and Felix White of The Maccabees all attended.  

Jack was already a keen guitarist and Felix was obsessed with Oasis. After months of persuading, Felix got Jack to form a band together, they called themselves Jack’s Basement, as that’s where they practiced. The pair played a handful of gigs together, sharing the stage with The Maccabees who had already been going.  

In 2004 when school was over Jack went solo and encouraged Felix to join his brother who was in The Maccabees. Frontman Orlando Weeks was heading to Brighton for uni so the rest of the band found jobs in bars and joined him on the south coast.  

The band wrote a bunch of songs, played some gigs, wrote another bunch of songs, played more gigs. Each bunch of songs showed improvements and after the fourth time of trying everything clicked into place and they wrote X-Ray. Inspired by Interpol and The Strokes togetherness but with The Maccabees twist (play as fast as they can) it became their first single, receiving support from XFM and Radio 1 and released on 7”.  

Fiction Records picked the band up and debut album Colour It In stood strong against what other bands were releasing at the time, however, the label weren’t completely comfortable with it until they heard a slight twist in creativity with the acoustic love song, Toothpaste Kisses, which took the band into the mainstream. 

The band returned to Brighton to follow up the debut album, writing and recording for Wall Of Arms was a very different process. For 6 months the band would go into the rehearsal rooms for 8 hours a day to write the album. Some days they would come up with nothing, other times they’d spend hours working on a singular guitar part but when creativity came, all of them would jump on it. They’d end each day going home and getting stoned. 

A breakthrough moment for the band was when their manager played them The Teardrop Explodes albums, it inspired them to use instruments differently, specifically brass. The new outlook on sounds is what shapes the layers on the record which Colour It In lacked. They headed to Paris for 4 months to record the album with producer Markus Dravs who had recently worked on Arcade Fires album, another complex sounding record in terms of instrumental arrangements.  

The label had allowed the band time to discover themselves, focus on who The Maccabees were and develop. Patience paid off as Wall Of Arms (May 2009) set a new bar, not only for themselves but for other bands, it was no longer acceptable to lazily piece together something basic. 

Another very different approach came for their third record compared to how they worked on their previous releases. Following the success of Wall Of Arms The Maccabees were full of confidence and the label gave them creative freedom. Given To The Wild was self-produced, at their home in Brighton where, after years of being a live band, playing as fast as they physically could, they focussed on becoming a studio band where detail mattered. 

The bands’ fourth album, Marks To Prove It was an intense period for The Maccabees who were reaching their late 20’s. They returned to London where they discovered The Jesus and Mary Chain’s former recording studio, The Drug Store in Elephant & Castle which had been left derelict. It took them 4 years to create the album as they struggled to find structure but it was finally released in July 2015. 

After the 4 tough years making Marks To Prove It and 2 years of touring, the lads who had now grown into men decided to split up. They ended it on a high with some epic shows at Alexandra Palace where they were joined on stage by mates including Jamie T, Marcus Mumford and Mystery Jets. It was an end of an era. 

The Maccabees story wasn’t over as, in October 2024 they announced they would be back in the next summer…

Fear Of Flying

Fear Of Flying was a school band that grew through MySpace but months before going to university they reinvented themselves as White Lies, a band that went on to have a chart-topping album. 

The first roots of the band go back to 2001, after practicing at home they started playing at parties.  Things started to get a bit more serious when they gave themselves a name, Fear Of Flying. Frontman Charles knew Fred Macpherson from school, they would go to gigs together. Fear Of Flying started supporting Les Incompetents, getting gigs through Fred’s connections and building up a fanbase on MySpace. The 3-piece played Frog, Nambucca and the Pleasure Unit early on as well as Way Out West and Young & Lost Club while being in sixth form. 

They managed to get Stephen Street to produce their first single as they were good friends with his son. The band was contacted by managers via MySpace who got them on a support tour with Jamie T. They’d jump on the National Express with their instruments after school around the country, soundcheck, play the gig then get a coach home and get up for school the next morning. Issues with the manager started to come up, they sacked him the day before supporting The Maccabees on tour, he didn’t take the news well and ended up stealing their equipment. They explained the situation to The Maccabees and they let them borrow their equipment and stay on the tour bus after gigs. 

Still in their late teens, on a gap year, they were reluctantly going to university in September as things with the band were starting to get a bit stale, the radio and press weren’t really supporting them and they had stopped playing live. 

In July 2007 Charles started messing about on a piano, within minutes they had Unfinished Business, a song that sounded completely different to anything they’d released as Fear Of Flying. 

They recorded a demo and had a complete rebrand with a new name, White Lies, and created a new MySpace page with no photos of the band members. With just one song on there they sent a link to Keith from Way Out West, he loved it, as did his industry colleagues. From then on they were inundated with messages from labels, managers and agents.  

The band knew they needed to build on this new sound, taking influence from the ‘80’s they wrote Death which got an even better reaction, then the third song, Farewell to the Fairground. These three songs have lasted throughout the bands' career to date, featuring on the setlist for every gig. 

NEXT CHAPTER

[maximuswolf]

chat what do you think about my music taste?

chat what do you think about my music taste? Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen [80's Pop]Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World [80's Pop]KISS - I Was Made For Lovin' You [70's Rock]Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love [60's Rock]Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid [90's Rock]Neon Trees - Everybody Talks [Pop Rock]Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit [90's Rock]Billy Joel - Uptown Girl [80's Pop]Weezer - Buddy Holly [Alt Rock]Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls [80's Rock]The Strokes - Reptilia [Indie Rock]Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl [Garage Rock]Hollywood Undead - Riot [Rock]Alice Cooper - Poison [80's Shock Rock]Prince - Let's Go Crazy [R&B/Pop Rock]Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name [80's Rock]Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen [70's Rock] Submitted June 27, 2024 at 12:29PM by satanblowme https://ift.tt/h7oDuiX via /r/Music

[saturnisthebestahah]

Hey here's my favorite songs in no particular order

1. The tale of dusty and pistol pete - smashing pumpkins

2 bruno is orange - hop along

3 real adult - mccafferty

4 witch image - ghost

5 Is your shirt inside out - mccafferty

6 heroes - David bowie

7 come on eileen - dexys midnight runners

8 radio ga ga - queen

9 tiny dancer - elton john

10 trees - mccafferty

11 I wanna be your girlfriend - girl in red

12 work song - hozier

13 bodies - smashing pumpkins

14 hummer - smashing pumpkins

15 blackbird - the beatles

16 she likes a boy - nxdia

17 such small hands - la dispute

18 black sheep from Scott pilgrim

19 asleep - the smiths

20 alright (alright) dancebeats - mccafferty

21 the boy - smashing pumpkins

22 knights of Malta- smashing pumpkins

23 the everlasting gaze - smashing pumpkins

24 rotting in vain -korn

25 daddy - korn

26 the aeroplane flies high, turns left, looks right - smashing pumpkins

27 she's only 18 - red hot chili peppers

28 perfect - smashing pumpkins

29 daydream - smashing pumpkins

28 pearly-dewdrops-drops - cocteau twin

29 bennie and the jets - elton john

30 girl anachronism - dresden dolls

31 tommy - claud

32 stadium arcadium - red hot chili peppers

33 Dai the flu - deftones

34 mein - deftones

35 bored - deftones

There's probably more but that's it for now

[greenreticule]

Star Wars

gave me the

one goddamn romantic relationship

that i would eat right fucking up

the one goddamn romance this romance-repulsed aromantic

would go absolutely feral for

and Star Wars is just

leaving it

She Calls Him “Dexi Jet”

They’re a Pair of Old Scoundrels

They Wrote Fucking Letters To Each Other

On Paper

In Star Wars

Star Wars

WHY DID YOU UNEARTH THIS FUCKING GOLD

AND THEN JUST SLEEP ON IT

[remoony-lupin]

songs that remind me of marlene mckinnon

- teenage dirtbag - wheatus

- space girl - frances forever

- are you satisfied? - marina

- waterloo - abba

- i wanna be your girlfriend - girl in red

- brutal - olivia rodrigo

- hot love - t.rex.

- girls - girl in red

- killer queen - queen

- cherry bomb - the runaways

- bad idea! - girl in red

- i wanna be your slave - maneskin

- sex on fire - kings of leon

- just a girl - no doubt

- are you gonna be my girl - jet

- champange supernova - oasis

- suffragette city - david bowie

- crazy little thing called love - queen

- hopelessly devoted to you - olivia newton-john

- town called malice - the jam

- come on eileen - dexys midnight runners

- jeepster - t.rex.

- she shook me cold - david bowie

- sweet child o' mine - guns 'n' roses

- this night has opened my eyes - the smiths

[masterjedilenawrites]

Clones: What Songs Are On Their Playlist?

Cody: Not a full-on country music fan, but enjoys relaxing acoustics...

Jolene (Dolly Parton)

Island In The Sun (Weezer)

Eyes (Rogue Wave)

Rex: Anything old school or romantic...

Home (Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros)

Golden Years (David Bowie)

Come On Eileen (Dexy's Midnight Runners)

Wolffe: "Easy listening," but with an undercurrent of sass...

Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing (Chris Isaak)

Somebody That I Used To Know (Gotye)

You Need To Calm Down (Taylor Swift)

Fox: Exclusively songs with his name in the title...

Fox on the Run (Sweet)

Foxey Lady (Jimi Hendrix)

What Does the Fox Say? (Ylvis)

Fives: All the pop hits, all the corny relationship songs...

Stupid Love (Lady Gaga)

High Hopes (Panic! At the Disco)

Are You Gonna Be My Girl (Jet)

Jesse: Club music, good beats and suggestive lyrics...

Yeah! (Usher)

Turn Up the Music (Chris Brown)

Give My Everything (Pitbull)

Kix: Gentle songs to just have on in the background...

Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)

1979 (The Smashing Pumpkins)

Otra Noche Sin Ti (J Balvin, Khalid)

Echo: Indie or lesser-known artists, a bit of funk and rock 'n' roll...

Born This Way (Thousand Foot Krutch)

Spread Your Love (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)

Boomerang (Relient K)

Hunter: Cool, slightly edgy songs he can play while working out or strutting about town...

Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand)

Sabotage (Beastie Boys)

Icky Thump (The White Stripes)

Wrecker: Energetic, slightly dramatic songs he got off the Megamind soundtrack...

Welcome To The Jungle (Guns N Roses)

Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood & The Destroyers)

Back In Black (AC/DC)

Crosshair: Self-indulgent songs that make him feel like a badass...

Confident (Demi Lovato)

Straight Cold Player (Lenny Kravitz)

Boss Bitch (Doja Cat)

Tech: Really quirky stuff, hard to pinpoint specifics because his taste is all over the place...

New Face (PSY)

Istanbul Not Constantinople (They Might Be Giants)

Til the Light Goes Out (Lindsey Stirling)

[al-longbottom]

Harry Potter Characters as Songs on My Playlist

Warning: This is very fanon and based solely on vibes. Also this is only songs from my playlist so I'm working with what I got, guys

~~

Adrian: Teeth by 5SOS

Alicia: Seashore by the Regrettes

Angelina: Left Hand Free by alt-J

Astoria: Tennis Court by Lord

Bill: Money by the Drums

Blaise: Trouble by Cage the Elephant

Cedric: Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners

Charlie: Could Have Been Me by the Struts

Cho: cliche by mxmtoon

Dean: make you feel pretty by lovelytheband

Draco: Cringe by Matt Maeson

Fleur: Pierre by Ryn Weaver

Fred: Are You Gonna Be my Girl by Jet

George: Scrawny by Wallows

Ginny: Just a Girl by No Doubt

Harry: Little Lion Man by Mumford & Sons

Hermione: Frankenstein Wannabe by Frances Forever

Katie: Candy by Robbie Williams

Lavender: Fallin' For Ya by Gace Phipps

Lee: Puppy Princess by Hot Freaks

Luna: space girl by Frances Forever

Neville: Black Licorice by Peach Pit

Oliver: Gives You Hell by All-American Rejects

Percy: Are You Satisfied by MARINA

Padma: Marceline by WILLOW

Pansy: Maneater by Nelly Furtado

Parvati: Someone to You by BANNERS

Seamus: I've Been Waiting by Briston Maroney

Tonks: i wanna be your girlfriend by girl in red

[kaminobiwan]

brain freeze

pairing: captain rex x reader (ohoHOHOH)

summary: I ate ice cream and I wanted to write Rex eating ice cream too. that’s literally all this is

a/n: VERY THROWN TOGETHER these were just thoughts in my head I had while eating some good ass choc ice cream man. I left it ambiguous as to whether there’s an established relationship goin on here….up to you to take this as my characteristic yearning™ or dating domesticity heheh

also I’d just like to dedicate this to/publicly blame @highlycommendable​​ for being the biggest reason I fell in love w/ Rex like come ON I dare you to read In the Battlefield and not do the same. do it. DO ITASDFDK

“I don’t believe you.”

Your arms are crossed across your old tee, and your tone is serious. Rex has never been good at reading a poker face — almost as bad as he is at lying — but doesn’t think he’s seen this look on your face before.

“Why would I lie about this?”

“I don’t know, but I still don’t believe you.”

He doesn’t know how you even got to this topic. One minute you had struck up a chat with him about…actually, Rex doesn’t even know what you’d been talking about. Sometimes, in the tiredness that claimed him at the end of the day, he just liked to listen to your voice as you carried on the conversation, and usually you’d grant him that silence.

But today, somehow, you’ve reached the subject of ice cream, and when Rex had informed you that he’d never had it, not once, you had gawked. Cue the pouty accusation.

“It’s not like it’ll make you seem less manly, Rex. I’ve heard you singing in the shower.” At your words, Rex feels his face redden indignantly. It was one time…

“I’ve just never had the chance! Is that really so hard to accept?” He’s kind of annoyed, now, and confused as to why you’re pressing this. “They weren’t exactly giving us dessert and tucking us in with bedtime stories on Kamino, you know.”

The amused disbelief immediately drops from your face, quickly morphing into remorse. Rex can tell you hadn’t meant to make him feel bad. But what he’d said was true — he’d been bred to be a soldier, not a human being.

“Rex, I’m sorry.” You wring your hands, and he shakes his head in dismissal. “I was just surprised. I realize it was stupid.”

“S’fine. Really, not a big deal.”

“It is!” You insist, and he just wishes you’d drop the whole thing. Who cared what he ate, as long as it got him through the day and kept him alive? Food was just a way of sustaining his strength. “I know exactly how to make it up to you, though. Be ready in five minutes — and lose the armor.”

———

“A diner? Kinda thought you’d take me to 79’s, buy me a drink or something.”

“Or something,” you snort, leading him through the entrance. “I’ll have you know that this is vital information, Captain. Consider this an informational excursion.” Your eyes glint with purpose, and Rex had learned long ago that it was just wiser to go along with whatever you wanted when you were set on something.

And, that smile of yours could command him to do things almost as well as an order from General Skywalker could. Not that Rex would ever say that out loud.

A throaty call of your name draws his attention to the counter, where a Besalisk is grinning behind stained chef’s attire. “Welcome back!”

“Dexi Jet,” you drawl happily, as you slap one of the chef’s four arms when he reaches the two of you. “It’s good to see you.”

“Never got time to see your old friend anymore, eh? This who’s got all your attention now?” Rex balks when he’s pointed to, and you snicker at his expression.

“You could say that,” you answer, and place your other hand up on Rex’s shoulder. “Rex, meet Dex. Dex, this is Captain Rex of the 501st. Should be easy enough to remember, right?” If you ask Rex, you seem a little too pleased at the similarity between their names, but he holds his tongue.

“Should be. Any friend of my most loyal customer is a friend of mine,” Dex agrees, and stretches his lips into a friendly simper, and Rex gives an awkward attempt at a smile in reply. “Take a seat, you two. You want your usual order?”

“Actually, something else this time, Dex,” you call as he retreats back to the kitchen. “Trying to sweeten up the Captain here.”

Rex can’t help but roll his eyes.

———

Minutes later, he’s holding an ice cream cone in his hand, delivered promptly by the droid waitress you had referred to as “FLO”. Rex supposed it fit the vibe of the diner, along with her tinny accented voice and the way she called everyone “honey”.

Any droid that wasn’t trying to kill him would always be a shock at first. You had smirked at the way he’d stumbled over a “thank you”.

“The upper levels are weird,” he grunted, angling the cone so that a milky drip of chocolate didn’t fall on his fingers. He’d never felt comfortable amidst all the people in the capital that went about their lives — as if they weren’t in the middle of a war. Ones that had never seen the front lines save for a holo on the news. Here, “shiny” was a compliment.

“Careful,” you chide lightheartedly, already halfway finished with your dessert. “These are my old stomping grounds. I used to eat here all the time during my university days.” You look expectantly at him, then to the cone in his hand.

Rex sighs internally. Best to just get it over with.

He goes to bite the ice cream, but you almost jab him in they eye with the way your hand shoots out to stop him. “Not like that! You’ll regret it, trust me. It makes your teeth hurt if you bite into it. You lick it, like this.” You demonstrate accordingly, and it takes a lot of strength for Rex to keep certain thoughts out of his head. Another time.

He frowns at his cone, then tentatively pokes out his tongue to lick it as you’d done. The cold pricks his senses, but the ice cream is soft, much softer than he’d expected. He licks it again, less reluctant this time.

“Well?”

“It’s—” Rex lets the flavor melt over his taste buds, savoring the sensation. “It’s good.”

You laugh out in delight, and his head shoots over to make sure you’re not recording him to show his brothers later. Thankfully, you’re watching him excitedly, finishing off your own ice cream. “I told you! Isn’t it great?”

“I’ve had chocolate before, but this is…really good.”

“It’s delicious,” you correct him, and he quirks a smile at the way you almost sound offended. “Dex uses Trammistan chocolate, from Trammis III. Total game changer. And less than two credits!”

That jolts him out of his sweet relishing. He hadn’t thought to bring money before the pair of you had left. You notice the way he pauses, though, and nudge him in the arm. “Rex, did you not hear me? It’s not even two credits. Anyways, this is my treat.”

Rex shrugs, albeit stubbornly.

He’s still not used to the way you always want to take care of him, be kind to him. Almost every good thing someone had done for him had been transactional — until he’d met you.

You beam at him, drinking in his enjoyment, and begin to crunch on the Cerean cone. “Don’t eat it too fast, though. It’ll hurt your brain, too.”

“Seems like a lot of ways to hurt yourself by just eating it.”

“Hey, high risk, high reward.” You counter, as if you’d just pointed out a flaw in one of his battle plans. “Now, let’s get the Neuvian sundae! I want you to try the Denta bean flavor.”

———

Three weeks later, when the 501st is on leave once again, you bring the boys some takeout and relay a message to Rex from the diner: Dex is thrilled at the influx of new customers, but he really has to warn his brothers about brain freeze — the clones seem to be easily incapacitated by ice cream, and it’s starting to worry Dex about the vulnerability of the soldiers fighting the war. The last part is a joke, you reassure him.

Rex can only shake his head to hide his uneven smile.

[levi-inthesun]

Kay’s Decade of Music Writing Challenge

Hey guys! I just recently hit 300 followers (which, uh... thank you???!!!) and figured I’d jump on the bandwagon. Basically, I chose 5 songs that came out each year of the last decade (besides 2020, those are just like, extras) for you guys to use as either inspiration for a fic/art/moodboard/etc, or you can take lyrics from it.. just whatever yall want. 

This will be for my fav fandoms- Marvel Universe and Stranger Things.

RULES

1. You don’t have to follow me, but like, that would be cool. 2. NO PEDOPHILIA. PERIOD.  3. Please include warnings! I will not read dub-con/non-con, so none of that for this challenge. Smut is fine SO IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 DO NOT ENTER/READ 4. Please send me an ask with the song title and character (Please specify if you are writing for Steve Rogers or Steve Harrington if you want a Steve!). You may do more than one (esp since I doubt many ppl are gonna hop on this? which is fine) Just, please write/create whatever you claim :) 5. One-shots, drabbles, series, social media aus, etc all welcome! PLEASE use a read more break if over 500 words.

Deadline is September 1st! Nothing special I just want to space it out from all the writing challenges with deadlines in the first half of the year. Please tag me @distractedgemini and use the tag #Kay’s Decade of Music Challenge

*****EDIT: Mobile is eating my asks so if I don’t respond to you in 24 hrs, please send me a message!*******

Song Prompts are under the break :)

Songs

(playlist here)

2010-

1. Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars

2.Animal - Neon Trees

3. Happily Ever After- He is We

4.Harold’s Song - Ke$ha @buckysmischief​ w/ Steve Rogers

5.Firework - Katy Perry

2011- 

1. Just a Kiss - Lady Antebellum @firefly-in-darkness​ w/

2. You and I - Lady Gaga

3. Someone Like You - Adele @nekoannie-chan​ w/ Steve Rogers

4. Gotta Be You - One Direction

5. Memories - Panic! at the Disco

2012-

1. We Are Young - FUN

2. Ho Hey - Lumineers

3. Madness - Muse

4. Woodland - Paper Kites

5. I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons

2013-

1. Still Into You - Paramore

2. Falling - HAIM

3. Royals - Lorde

4. Brave - Sara Bareilles

5. Alone Together - Fall Out Boy

2014-

1. Josie’s Song - William Fitzsimmons

2. Scarecrow - Alex & Sierra

3. Mother & Father - Broods

4. Clean - Taylor Swift

5. Boom Clap - Charli XCX (OR Lennon & Maisy cover)

2015-

1. Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding

2. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - Florence and the Machine @deboryanne​ w/ Frank Castle

3. Stressed Out - Twenty One Pilots

4. You’ve Haunted Me All My Life - Death Cab For Cutie

5. Unsteady - X Ambassadors

6. Special shout out to the millions of times listened to: Come On Eileen - Dexy’s Midnight Runners

2016-

1. All of Your Glory - Broods

2. Hallelujah- Panic! at the Disco

3. Somebody Else - 1975

4. Welcome To Your Life - Grouplove

5. Just Another Day - Lady Gaga

2017-

1. Delicate - Taylor Swift 

2. Rose-Colored Boy - Paramore

3. Hymn - Kesha

4. Slow Hands - Nial Horan

5. Something Just Like This - The Chainsmokers (feat Coldplay) @blueberrythor​ w/ Thor

2018-

1. Pynk - Janelle Monae

2. Gelatin Mode - Post Animal

3. Girls - Rita Ora, Bebe Rexha, Charli XCX, Cardi B

4. She Gives Her Love To Me - She & Him

5. Cigarettes - Tash Sultana

2019-

1. Icarus - Mindy Gledhill

2. Head Alone - Julia Jacklin

3. Don’t Throw It Away - Jonas Brothers

4. Chateau (Feel Alright)- Djo

5. Peach - Broods

2020- (Aka Honorable mentions)

1. Fitness - Post Animal

2. Million Reason - Lady Gaga

3. Big Jet Plane - Angus & Julia Stone

4. Growing Pains - Birdy

5. Leave A Trace - CHVRCHES

[itsmarygibbs]

PUTASK03 - Mary Gibbs PLAYLIST

edith piaf- la vie en rose

mary loved this song growing up. she always found it super soothing and the romantic element of it always was held dear to her heart

fleetwood mac - dreams

mary loves fleetwood mac, they’re one of her favourite bands. dreams was the first song she heard of them and since then she was a fan. she vibes with the feel of the music for dreams and if you visit her home, it’s probably one of the songs echoing throughout the place

nina nesbitt - the sun will come up, the seasons will change

this song signifies when mary was younger and in the orphanage, she was never picked. she kept the mindset of things get better and that carried on throughout life with that motto. 

elton john - bennie & the jets

mary’s drunk karaoke song. many night have been spent with mary and her friends drunkenly singing bennie & the jets. every time she hears this song it brings back fond memories.

earth, wind & fire - september

the 21st of september is mary’s birthday. this song literally opens with that. it haunts her every year but she loves it. again, this song holds nothing but amazing memories of her friends and her celebrating her birthday.

dexy’s midnight runners - come on eileen

everyone has that one 80′s song they’re obsessed with for no reason what so ever, come on eileen is marys. it’s happy and full of fun

new order - blue monday

it’s a tune. no justification needed. 

[ithinkofnealcassady]

maroon & ruby? also sending love and good vibes your way!!! tomorrow will be a better day!!!! ♥♥♥

maroon has been answered!

ruby: favorite pre-2000 song?

almost all of my music taste is pre-2000s but goodness if i have to choose some favorite songs i’ll hit you with

manic monday - the bangles

goodbye yellow brick road - elton john

rhiannon - fleetwood mac

you are the best thing - ray lamontagne

this charming man - the smiths

come on eileen - dexys midnight runners

while my lady sleeps - the chet baker version

jet - wings

you’ve got to hide your love away, come together, helter skelter- the beatles