#Fiery Furnaces

[dog-uncrushed]

A transcription of minutes 1:24 to 3:08 of ‘Chris Michaels’ by the Fiery Furnaces:

My baby's got a stick stuck out her beak.

My baby takes a drink out of the leak.

My baby's got a blue-green sweater

And a nest down by the creek

——-Plume, bloom, bloom, baby bloom

Cheep, cheep, beep, bee-bee beep——-

Where did you for lunchtime go?

Did Kevin and Jenny show?

Do you want to go out tonight?

(…)

No.

——-Plume, bloom, bloom, baby bloom

Cheep, cheep, beep, bee-bee beep——-

,,,,,,

Remember that girl down the end?

She was my friend.

But just now she's angry;

came up ~~~~~~~~~~

And said, "You're so so

stup... Let’s all disrup... You’re

blah, blah, this, this, that,

so now sh'up; …

You messed it up"

,,,,,,

Remember that girlfriend of Al's?

We'll we were pals.

Today she was angry

came up ~~~~~~~~~~

And said, "You're so so

stup... Let’s all disrup... You’re

blah, blah, this, this, that,

so now sh'up; …

You messed me up"

Words by

Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger

[foxingpeculiar]

Does Tumblr know about this record (Rehearing My Choir [2005] by The Fiery Furnaces)? Cos I feel like it’d do numbers on here.

The band is a pair of siblings. For this album, they recruited their grandmother, a long-time choir director in Chicago, to tell a musical, fantastical autobiography about growing up in the city as an immigrant in the mid 20th century, with Eleanor (the usual singer) as her younger self and she herself narrating from the present.

This song involves tracking down the ingredients for a folk curse to put on her husband’s lover. It’s like 10 minutes long. It’s amazing.

It’s one of my favorite pieces of art, honestly, and I should own it on vinyl.

[thomaswaynewolf]

[guessimdumb]

The Fiery Furnaces - Duplexes of the Dead (2007)

The Fiery Furnaces can sometimes be a challenging listen, but there are some great tunes (and lyrics) to be found. I especially love that mellotron part on this song.

I went grumpy sitting in the sun by the umbrella stand Making every single unreasonable demand

[zeros-on-a-critical-lie]

thoughts about pineapple on pizza?

I think we'd all be a lot better off if the... "confused"... "people"... who came up with that "idea"... had visited the Fiery Furnace of Affliction instead of me.

[rpfofficial]

everyone reply with the rawest bruce springsteen lyrics ie his lyrics that most make you think "holyyyyy shiiiitttttt"

[zing-zing-2012]

Fire Insurance?

Your Memories

[rabbitcruiser]

The Arches National Park was originally named a national monument on April 12, 1929.

[incinerator-deluxe]

imagine making a song as beautiful and true and heartrending as Man Is Like a Spring Flower by Lingua Ignota … i cant

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

wall painting of the Three Youths in the Fiery Furnace from Faras cathedral

[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick: The Fiery Furnaces Blueberry Boat

Twenty years after its release, the Friedberger siblings' magnum opus remains a bewildering delight, filled with ambling stories, cryptic wordplay, and dazzling sonic twists delivered with equal parts majesty and mischief.

- Heather Phares

[artandthebible]

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego

Artist: Simeon Solomon (British, 1840-1905)

Date: 1863

Medium: Watercolour Heightened With White And Gum Arabic

Who Were Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?

The first time we read about these young men, we meet King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon who besieged Jerusalem. He immediately started to take notice of the people living in his new territory: “Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king’s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace” (Daniel 1:3–4). Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, along with Daniel, were selected as meeting that criteria.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were eventually appointed “administrators over the province of Babylon, while Daniel himself remained at the royal court” (Daniel 2:49). It didn’t take long for these young men to be tested. King Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden idol and commanded everyone to bow down to it (Daniel 3:1–5). The dire consequences of not obeying this command were that the violator would “immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace” (Daniel 3:6). The time had come for these three young men to choose whom they were going to obey: King Nebuchadnezzar or the One True God.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow to the golden image. When questioned as to why they had failed to comply with the king’s order, they replied, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up” (Daniel 3:16–18). The die had been cast. A furious Nebuchadnezzar immediately ordered the three young men to be thrown into the fiery furnace and, as an added measure of wrath, for it to be heated “seven times hotter than usual” (Daniel 3:20). The king wanted to make a public example of how disobedience would be dealt with under his reign.

When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown into the furnace, the king expected to see a quick and painful death for these young men. But he was stunned to see them walking around in the furnace, unharmed—and someone else was in the furnace with them: “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods” (Daniel 3:25). The king, although antagonistic toward the God of Israel, immediately recognized the supernatural nature of miracle before him. Nebuchadnezzar called the three Hebrew men out of the furnace, praised their God, and honored them, declaring, “No other god can save in this way” (Daniel 3:29).

[thomaswaynewolf]

[thesafewaystobereckless]

Listening to Bitter Tea with my ex-boyfriend

Back in December of 2019 I was sitting in my bedroom (technically living room since I was in a studio apartment) and he really wanted to listen to what I was listening to. So, I played him the accessibly inaccessible 2006 album from the Fiery Furnaces, Bitter Tea, and the first track I picked was "Borneo" which catalogs the events of a gambler turned silversmith.

In it, frantic synths accompany the manic iambic ramblings of a person who steals debit cards and deeds to houses to fund their gambling habit, till after a brief respite working to mend silver, they finally meet a debt they can't escape in Borneo.

But it's definitely not a track to listen to while anxious, which my boyfriend at the time always was. And it's also certainly not a track to listen to when you intend to drive at the speed limit. It's the kind of track to listen to when you need to go from 90 to 55 when you see a state trouper on the Expressway.

It looks towards the future, but through under-slept, bloodshot eyes, desperate for relief.

Needless to say, he did not like Borneo, nor many of the other tracks on Bitter Tea. Though, the remainder tracks came down to taste rather than provoking anxiety.

Of course the fan-favorite (and pop masterpiece) "Benton Harbor Blues (Again)" went over well. That alone has to be one of the top songs of the 2000's.

Can you believe 2006 was 18 years ago?

[zeros-on-a-critical-lie]

was the "burning questions" pun intended. Eva.

...I was waiting for somebody to notice.

Who says I can't have a sense of humor about it?