#Mars: 2002 Remixes

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20th Anniversary

Ayumi Hamasaki: No way to say (2003.11.06)

Japanese pop music is rich in seasonal songs: when spring rolls around, artists clamor to release their best new-beginnings tracks, like, say, Perfume's "ONE ROOM DISCO," a song about kids moving all their junk into tiny dorm rooms when the new school year starts. In the summer, everyone jumps into swimsuits and drops their best upbeat, high-energy, beach-weather jams, like Kumi Koda's "LALALALALA." And when the temperature drops, bringing cooler, crisp air, and the snow begins to fall, the inevitable deluge of ballads begins.

As the reigning J-pop queen of her time, Ayumi Hamasaki is no stranger to the practice, and released several of her own seasonal-appropriate hits, including a number of ballads and slower-tempo tracks in the wintertime, like "M," "Voyage," "CAROLS," "HEAVEN," and one of the first to be so obviously geared to the season, 2003's "No way to say." The single was composed by BOUNCEBACK, one of the songwriting teams Ayu had newly enlisted for many of the tracks off of the eventual Memorial address EP, and features soft acoustic guitars that crescendo into a nice, classic Ayu synth-ballad, similar to many of her slower songs released around the same time period, like those off of 2004's MY STORY. It's a really pretty song and has remained very likable despite its PV that features a creepy Santa Claus head.

The rest of the tracks, in keeping with the winter-ballad theme, feature acoustic, or "acoustic orchestra" versions of songs, except for one. Notably, we get one for the title track, and ones for the ballads "SEASONS," "Dearest," and "Voyage." Unfortunately, for one of the few times in Ayu's career, we get re-released tracks that had appeared previously on other albums, with the acoustic version of "SEASONS" being from 2001's ayu-mi-x III Acoustic Orchestra Version, and "Dearest" from 2002's ayu-mi-x 4 + selection Acoustic Orchestra. I can't imagine if you weren't already a huge fan of Ayu's acoustic orchestra line (or huge fan in general) that you wouldn't already own those albums, so re-hashing them is a definite missed opportunity that opts for empty filler. I can't remember if the "Voyage" one is also a re-hash, though I know it was later worked into a different acoustic version that can be found on 2013's A CLASSICAL, along with new versions of the other two. Finally, there is a rather forgettable house remix of "No way to say" to close things out. Ballads are notoriously rough territory for club remixes, and this one doesn't fare any better than the rest. Overall, this an A+ title track that's marred with some rather forgettable coupling tracks, and suffers from one of the cheapest tricks in the book by including old material.

Still, one thing to note is how great Ayu's voice still sounds at this stage. It doesn't surprise me that we don't get too much in the way of these stripped down, acoustic compilations as much anymore, since Ayu's voice doesn't sound as good as it once did, with her clean timbre and more restrained delivery. Finally, this includes the instrumental version of "No way to say," which is predictably terrific.

This is a very sweet, very classic Ayu ballad, one that she has performed dozens of times live for a good reason, usually in a cosmically large ballgown, and it does a good job of representing this period of her career. Ayu has released many winter, or winter-adjacent, ballads over the course of her legendary career, and this one still stands as one of the most well-known and beloved.

Catalog Number: AVCD-30542

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Pop/indie

- [x] Ciao Adios- Anne-Marie

- [x] 2002- Anne-Marie

- [x] Sing- Ed Sheeran

- [x] Back To you- Selena Gomez

- [x] Dont- Ed Sheeran

- [x] Mad Love- Sean Paul

- [x] No Lie- Sean Paul and Dua Lipa

- [x] Summer- Calvin Harris

- [x] My Love- Route 94

- [x] Cool Kids-Echosmiths

- [x] Red Lights- Tieso

- [x] Ain’t my fault- Zara Larson

- [x] Wasted-Tieso

- [x] Blood// Water- Grandson

- [x] A sky full of Stars- Coldplay

- [x] Wake me up- Avicii

- [x] Stay the night- Zedd, Hayley Williams

- [x] Rolling in the deep- Adele

- [x] Ugly Heart- GRL

- [x] Beating Heart- Ellie Goulding

- [x] All Falls Down- Alan Walker

- [x] IDGAF-Dua Lipa

- [x] Budapest- George Ezra

- [x] Runaway (U & I)- Galanatis

- [x] Hello- Martin sölevge

- [x] M’en Aller- Canardo, Tal

- [x] Solo Dance- Martin Jesen

- [x] Nightmare- Halsey

- [x] Somebody to you- Vamps

- [x] Colours- Halsey

- [x] Ready to Start-Arcade Fire

- [x] Kiss me more- Dojo Cat, SZA

- [x] Save your tears- Weekend, Ariana Grande

- [x] Be Kind- Marshmallow, Halsey

- [x] I love it- Icona Pop

- [x] Slow down- Why don’t we

- [x] Bad guy- Bill Elilsh

- [x] Wild Heart- The Vamps

- [x] Eat them Apples- Suzi Wu

- [x] 911-Lady Gaga

- [x] East side- Benny Blanco

- [x] Hair too long- The Vamps

- [x] Send my Love (To you new lover)- Adlele

- [x] Juicy- Doja Cat

- [x] Stunning- Harm Franklin

- [x] Electric Love- Borns

- [x] Banquet- Bloc Party

- [x] You my Everything- Ellie Goulding

- [x] Hymn for the weekend- Coldplay

- [x] Style- Taylor Swift

- [x] I like it- Cardi B

- [x] Oh Cecila(Breaking my Heart)- The Vamps

- [x] Can’t you out of my head- Kylie Minogue

- [x] A-Punk- Vampire Weekend

- [x] What you Know- Two door Cinema Club

- [x] Can we Dance- The Vamps

- [x] Rose-SAINt JHN

- [x] Don’t give up girl- Clare Grogen

- [x] Wildflower- 5 Second of summer

- [x] We can’t stop- Miley Cyrus

- [x] The Passenger- Jolly boys

- [x] Portion for Foxes Rilo Kiley

- [x] Watermelon Suger- Harry Styles

- [x] Easier- 5 Second of Summer

- [x] Animal Neon Tree

- [x] Get off- The Dandy Warlos

- [x] 212- Azealia Bank

- [x] She look so perfect- 5sos

- [x] Polarize- Twenty one Pilots

- [x] Chelesea Dagger- The Fratellis

- [x] Time to Pretend- MGMT

- [x] I can’t get enough- Benny Blanco

- [x] Jingle Bell rock- The Vamps

- [x] Gecko(Overdue)- Oliver Heldens

- [x] Royals- Lordes

- [x] Confident- Demi Levato

- [x] 34+35 remix-Ariana Grande

- [x] I Got U- duke Dunmont

- [x] Driver License- Olivia Rodrigo

- [x] Last nite- The Stokes

- [x] Sexyback- Justin Timberlake

- [x] Talk- Why don’t we

- [x] Adventure of a lifetime- Coldplay

- [x] Pony- Ginuwine

- [x] Diamond- Rihanna

- [x] R U Mine- Arctic Monkeys

- [x] blow me-pink

- [x] Gimme More- Britney Spear

- [x] On the floor- Jennifer Lopez

- [x] Migraine- Twenty one pilots

- [x] Undercover Martyrs- Two door cinema club

- [x] Me- Taylor Swift

- [x] Just Dance- Lady Gaga

- [x] Cake by the Ocean- Dnce

- [x] Elastic Heart- Sia

- [x] Viva La Vida- Coldplay

- [x] Move you feet- Junior Senior

- [x] Sunflower- Post malone

- [x] Yellow- Coldplay

- [x] Fluresontce adleonces- Artic Monkeys

- [x] Daddy Issue -The neighbourhood

- [x] Umbrella- Rihanna

- [x] Candy- Robbie Willard

- [x] This is what you came for- Calvin Harris

- [x] Still don’t you know- Labrith

- [x] Someday- the strokes

- [x] Reptile- The stokes

- [x] You only live once- The stokes

- [x] Mr Brightside-The killers

- [x] Outside- Calvin Harris

- [x] Snap out of it- Atric Monkeys

- [x] Why do you only call me when ur high- Aricti Monkeys

- [x] Video Games- Lana del Ray

- [x] National anthems- Lana del Ray

- [x] Lolita- Lana del ray

- [x] Stay high- Tove Lo

- [x] Endtapes - They joy Formidable

- [x] Boss Bitch Doja Cat

- [x] Midnight city- M83

- [x] Somewhere only we know- Keane

- [x] Sweater Weather- The neighbourhood

- [x] Kids- MGTM

- [x] Little talks-Monsters of men

- [x] Girl from mars- Ash

- [x] Uprising- Muse

- [x] All for us- Labrith

- [x] Anything could happen- Ellie Goulding

- [x] Maniac- Conan Gray

- [x] Good for u- Olive Rodrigo

- [x] Lost Cause- Bille Elish

- [x] Trojans- Atlas Genius

- [x] Are you bored yet- Wallos

- [x] Girl like me- Black eye peas

- [x] Rare- Selena Gomez

- [x] A little bit Dangerous- Crmml

- [x] Give yourself a try- 1975

- [x] Satellite News- Feeders

- [x] Gimme Sympathy- Meric

- [x] Lloyd I’m ready to be heartbroken- Camera Obscura

- [x] Greek Tragedy- Wommbats

- [x] Under cover the darkness- The stokes

- [x] Tonuge tied- Group Love

- [x] Postition- Ariana Grande

- [x] If I ever leave this world alive- Flagging Molly

- [x] Instant Crush- Daft Punk

- [x] One more time- Daft Punk

- [x] Holding on to you- Twenty one Pilots

- [x] Semi Automatic- Twenty one pilots

- [x] The run and go- Twenty one pilots

- [x] You right- Doja Cats

- [x] Welcome to New York- Taylor swifts

- [x] Can I call you tonight- dayglow

- [x] Chinese new year- Sales

- [x] Sign of the time- Harry Styles

- [x] Welcome home- Radical face

- [x] Tear in my heart- 21 Pilots

- [x] Summertime sadness- Lana Del ray

- [x] Meet me at out spot- the anxiety

- [x] Campus- Vampire Weekend

- [x] Deadhead-The Montreal’s

- [x] Honeypie- Jawny

- [x] Paradise- Coldplay

- [x] Commè ca- south of France

- [x] Oops-( oh my) (feat tweet)

- [x] Deja Vu- Olivia Rodrigo

- [x] Are you satisfied?- Marina and the diamonds

- [x] Delicate- Damian Rice

- [x] 1234-Feist

- [x] Touch the sky-Julie The Sky

- [x] Young Folks- Peter Born and John

- [x] Middle- DJ Snake

- [x] Therapy- Andrew Garfield

- [x] These days- Jess Gylane and Macklemore

- [x] Waiting all night- Ella Frye

- [x] Dark Red- Steve Lacy

- [x] Freaks- Surf Curse

- [x] Goth Babe- Surf Curse

- [x] I’m not making out with you- Surf Curse

- [x] Young- Vacation

- [x] Jealous-Eye Dress

- [x] New Flesh- Current Joy

- [x] Kids- Current Joy

- [x] Fear- Current Joy

- [x] Television-Current Joy

- [x] Always forever- Cults

- [x] I can’t handle change- Roar

- [x] My kind of woman- Mac Demacoro

- [x] Disco- Surf Curse

- [x] Money- The drum

- [x] Fake plastic Trees- RadioHead

- [x] Weekend friend- Goth Babe

- [x] In till my head is dead- Surfe Curse

- [x] Paradise- George Ezra

- [x] Fake you out- twenty one pilots

- [x] Dog days are over- Flonce and the machine

- [x] Running up that hill- Kate Bush

- [x] Don’t you forget about me-Simple Minds

- [x] Come on Elieen- Dexy midnight runners

- [x] Whip it- Devo

- [x] Should I stay or should I go?- The Clash

- [x] Funky town- Lipp inc

- [x] I’m gonna be (500 miles)- the proclaim

- [x] Hero’s- David Bowie

- [x] Crown on the ground- Sleigh Bells

- [x] Born to die- Lana Del Ray

- [x] Me myself and I- G-Eazy

- [x] La Devotee- panic in the disco

- [x] Decode- Paramore

- [x] What the hell- Arvil Lavigne

- [x] Wake up- The Vamps

- [x] Arabella- The Arctic monkeys

- [x] The best damn thing- Arvil Lavigne

- [x] Don’t stop- 5sos

- [x] Mr Blue- Cathrine Feeny

- [x] Hey Beautiful- The Soilds

- [x] Oh Heart- Tanks and The bang as

- [x] Heartbreak girl- 5sos

- [x] 7 rings-Ariana Grande

- [x] With a little help from my friends- joe Anderson

- [x] Wish you were mine- Philip George

- [x] Misery Business-Paramore

- [x] Lone Digg- Cavan Palace

- [x] Teddy picker- The arctic Monkeys

- [x] Back to you- Louis Tomlinson

- [x] Last night- The vamps

- [x] How to be a heartbreaker- Marina and the diamonds

- [x] Seven nation army- The White Stripes

- [x] Everything shine- The push stars

- [x] Still into you- Paramore

- [x] House of Gold- twenty one pilot

- [x] 3 nights- Dominic Fike

- [x] I’m not a Robot- Marina and the Diamonds

- [x] Knees Sock- Arctic Monkeys

- [x] Chinatown-Wild nothings

- [x] Dancing- Krono- Remix

- [x] Prayer In C- Lilly Wood

- [x] Secret- One republic

- [x] Not Fair-Lilly Allen

- [x] The Violet Hour- Sea Wolf

- [x] Alright- Supergrass

- [x] Tropic Love- Diviners

- [x] Mardy Bum- Arctic Monkeys

- [x] Vindicated- Dashboard Confession

- [x] Heaven- Walkman

- [x] Black Sheep- Brie Larson

- [x] Hard time- Paramore

- [x] Ode to the Bouncer- Killer Studio

- [x] Soul meet body- Death cab for cutie

- [x] Feel good inc- Gorillaz

- [x] At least it was here-The 88

- [x] Him and I-G-Eazy, Halsey

- [x] Reflecting light- Sam Philips

- [x] Forever- Chvrches

- [x] Ong Ong- Blur

- [x] Oh no- Marina and the diamonds

- [x] Threshold Sex- OMB

- [x] Lights- Ellie Goulding

- [x] Brick by Boring brick- Paramore

- [x] Lolita- Lana del Ray

- [x] Ava- Famy

- [x] Bitch- Plasticines

- [x] Foundation- Kate Nash

- [x] Pink and white - Frank Ocean

- [x] Hey girl- Zoey Dechanel

- [x] Summertime Sad (non remix)- Lana Del ray

- [x] Rare- Selena Gomez

- [x] She’s a rainbow- Rolling stone

- [x] Do I wanna know- Artic Monkeys

- [x] Blue Jeans- Lana del Ray

- [x] Take me home- Bebe Rehxa

- [x] Rhinestone eye- Gorillaz

- [x] On melancholy hill- Gorillaz

- [x] Waves- Robin Schulz

- [x] No surprises- Radiohead

- [x] Karma police- Radiohead

- [x] Paranoid Androids- Radiohead

- [x] It aint me- Selena Gomez

- [x] 30/90-Andrew Garfield

- [x] Jealous- Nick Jona

- [x] Team- Lorde

- [x] Suddenly I see- Kt turnsell

- [x] ET- Kate Perry AND KANYE WEST

- [x] Boom clap- Charlie xcx

- [x] Blitzkrieg bop- Ramone

- [x] Can’t remember to forget you- Sharkia

- [x] Hot N Cold- Katy Parry

- [x] Good time- Owl City

- [x] Alone- Alan Walker

- [x] What else can I do- Encanto

- [x] The Family Madrigal- Encanto

- [x] All of you- Encanto

- [x] We don’t talk about Bruno- Encanto

- [x] Surface pressure- Encanto

- [x] Concanio Sunday- Eyedress

- [x] Woman- Doja Cat

- [x] Hollywood- Marina and the diamonds

- [x] Baby- Marina and the diamonds

- [x] Wait a minute- Willow

- [x] Reflection- Lea Salonga

- [x] Ain’t it fun- Paramore

- [x] Prom Queen- Beach bunny

- [x] How far ill go - Mona

- [x] When will my life begin- Mandy Moore

- [x] That how you know- Amy Adams

- [x] Hawaiian roller coster ride- lilo and stitch

- [x] Friend like me- Will Smith

- [x] Stranger like me- Phil Colin

- [x] Son of man- Phil Colin

- [x] You to a friend in me- Randy Newman

- [x] Love is a open door- Kristen Bell

- [x] Colour of the wind- Judy Kuhn

- [x] Where you are- Mona

- [x] Married life- Up

- [x] Dig a little deeper- Princess and the frog

- [x] I won’t say I’m in love- Hercules

- [x] A spoon of Sugar- Mary Poppins

- [x] Supercailfraglitic- Mary poppin

- [x] The incedit- Michel Giacchino

- [x] You’re Welcome- mona

- [x] Sing me to sing- Alan Walker

- [x] Empire ants- Gorillaz

- [x] Ignoreance- Paramore

- [x] XO- Beyoncé

- [x] Whistle while you work- Snow White

- [x] Bella Ciao-Manu Pilas

- [x] Johnny boy - Twenty one pilot

- [x] RollerCoster- Bean

- [x] Love runs out- One republic

- [x] Le festin- Camille

- [x] East of Eden-Zella Day

- [x] El Mañna- Gorillaz

- [x] The only exception- Paramore

- [x] Vertigo- Anya Marina

- [x] Something that I want- Grace Potter

- [x] Cold Cold man- Saint Motel

- [x] Stick and stone- Jonsi

- [x] The clapping song- Shirley Eiles

- [x] Goodbye Horse- Q lazzarus

- [x] He Mele no lilo- Lilo and stitch

- [x] Smells like teenage spirit- Nirvana

- [x] Song 2- Blur

- [x] Take me out- Franz Fredinand

- [x] American Idiot- Green day

- [x] Teenagers- my chemical romance

- [x] Holiday- Green day

- [x] Girls and boys- Blur

- [x] Basket case- Green day

- [x] Welcome to the black parade- my chemical romance

- [x] Dirty Harry- Gorillaz

- [x] Dare- Gorillaz

- [x] Doncamatic- Gorillaz

Humility- Gorillaz

- [x] Little Wonder- Rob Thomas

- [x] Something good can work- Two door Cinema Club

- [x] Pump up kids- Foster the people

- [x] Ode to sleep- twenty one poilets

- [x] Lnd Lily Allen

- [x] Boulevard of broken dream- Green day

- [x] Ready for the floor

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Bio EN

Mikael Reis started his vinyl collection at the age of 16, discovering his true passion for electronic music. The mystery surrounding DJs and electric music aroused his interest to pursue this path.

At the age of 18, he started behind the decks at a bar near his home, and his talent quickly became apparent. At the age of 21, he had already played all over Portugal. Its great particularity is to offer mixes entirely played with his own vinyl collection.

In March 2002, he was invited by Radio 100 to become a resident DJ with a weekly show. This show define his musical style, which encompasses various genres of house music, including Deep House, Minimal, Tech house.

He also played on "Planeta E", at Antenna 3 show hosted by DJ The Fox.

Since 2020, he has been a resident DJ of Radio RES FM with a weekly show called "33 Rotações" every Saturdays.

Mikael Reis already played in the best Portuguese clubs including Alcântara-Mar in Lisbon, Stereo Club (StressLess) in Praia do Pedrogão, Horta da Fonte in Cartaxo, Ultimatum in Guimarães, Imperio Romano in Marinha Grande, Subsolo and Fenix in Aveiro, Karma in Rio Maior, among others. In France, he played at the Strapontin in Tours, and Cargo in Paris. He has shared the stage with big names on the national and international scene such as DJ Vibe, Ceballos, Frank Roger, Miss Sheila, Jiggy, Frank Maurel, Nuno Clam, Carlos Manaça, The Fox, António Cunha, Luís Leite, Mário Roque , and many others.

He has already released several EPs, including the track "Getting On" on Meridua, Carlos Fauvrelle's label, which found some success on national and international dance floors. Another EP was also released on New York's PG Recordings label, featuring remixes by Anthony Devito, Frank Knight and Mario Calegari. “Latex EP” (Dahaus aka Mikael Reis & Gabriel Feitor) was released by Material Series with support from Steve Lawler, Luciano, Villalobos, DJ Vibe, and more.

Currently he continues to produce new tracks and remixes.

[thebonesofhoudini]

Boo Williams - Mars (Demarkus Lewis Remix)(2002)

[howaminotinthestrokesyet]

When It Started: Fab Moretti

Fabrizio Moretti or Fab was born on June 2, 1980 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. His father worked as a nuclear engineer originally from Italy, while his mother hailed from Brazil. At the age of three, his family moved to New York City only planning to stay for three years, but ended up living there for 17. The future Strokes drummer admitted that it was a struggle growing up. “I didn't feel like a Brazilian, I didn't feel like an Italian, and I certainly didn't feel like an American. So I was walking around trying to find my identity through New York City." He began drumming at the age of five utilizing a soundproof closet in his family's Manhattan apartment. Fab would go on to attend The Anglo American international School, which would merge with the Dwight School leading to him meeting future Strokes Nick Valensi and Julian Casablancas. After graduation, he would study sculpture at SUNY New Paltz for a short time until dropping out to focus on music.

He began drumming in high school for an informal band with Valensi and Casablancas, which continued even after the latter two had left the Dwight School. In 1998, the Strokes were formed after Albert Hammond Jr. joined the group. Moretti has said in the past that he has always tried to keep his drumming style very simple, including a four piece drum kit with a symbol and a hi hat. Early on, Fab would sometimes drum so hard that he broke his sticks trying to embrace the band’s early punk sound. In 2007, he would join up with Rodrigo Amarante and Binky Shapiro to form the group Little Joy while on hiatus with the Strokes. The idea for the group came about when Amarante and Fab met at a music festival in Lisbon in 2006. They would release their debut album in 2008 with Rough Trade Records. In 2018, he helped to cofound the synthpop band and artist collective Machinegum. Members also include Ian Devaney (Nation of Language), Delicate Steve, Chris Egan, Martin Bonventre, and Erin Victoria Axtel. The group performs and records music, as well as doing installations at art galleries. In December 2019, the group released its first album on Frenchkiss Records entitled Conduit. Over the years, he has contributed on other albums. In 2008, he played drums on a track for the Neon Neon release Stainless Style. In 2012, he played drums on the Ke$ha track “Only Wanna Dance With You, which also included vocals from Julian Casablancas. In 2013, he co wrote a track entitled “Prisoner” for Har Mar Superstar’s album Bye Bye 17 with Amarante and Devandra Banhart. Moretti and Amarante also contributed as Banhart’s backing band for her 2013 tour. He remixed the 2014 Spoon track “Inside Out” on an EP for the band. In 2016, he joined with Beck and Nick Valensi to contribute a track for the nonprofit Play It Forward campaign covering the Eagles of Death Metal after the 2015 Paris attacks. He has even sat in as a drummer for the 8G Band on Late Night with Seth Meyers. One of his biggest hobbies when not playing music comes as a visual artist and sculptor. In 2013, he contributed to an art project called Rag + Bone, which eventually showcased his work in New York City. Throughout the 2010’s, he has collaborated with French cartoonist Luz on a variety of art projects. They even shared a studio in Paris for a short time. In 2019, he collaborated with Italian art dealer Fabrizio Moretti (Yes the same name) called Fabrizio Moretti x Fabrizio Moretti In Passing at Sotheby's in New York.

The drummer is actually not a United States citizen, despite living here for most of his life. He holds Italian citizenship, but not American or Brazilian. Over the years, he has dated a number of celebrities, but never married including Drew Barrymore from 2002 until 2007, Kirsten Dunst in 2007, and Kristen Wiig from 2011 to 2013. He would later have a relationship with his Little Joy bandmate Binky Shapiro for four years. He currently lives by himself in an apartment in Brooklyn as of spring 2020.

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A Ranking of NIN Songs

Back in the day, I used to have a page on my blog which showed my favourite top 5 NIN tracks from each album. I decided to resurrect things because why not.

I’ll be just doing the main studio albums with a dedicated section at the bottom for remixes/b-sides/rare tracks/the works. So enough bullshit, let’s dive in

Also, yes I’m kinda of stealing the idea of the anon who sent a few NIN blogs a “Best of Trent” playlist ask so consider this my contribution

Pretty Hate Machine (1989)

5- Kinda I Want To

4- Down in It

3- Sanctified

2- Ringfinger

1- Sin

Broken (1992)

5- Help Me I Am In Hell

4- Happiness In Slavery

3- Suck

2- Physical (You’re So)

1- Gave Up

The Downward Spiral (1994)

5- Reptile

4- Ruiner

3- Eraser

2- A Warm Place

1- The Becoming

The Fragile (1999)

5- The Big Comedown

4- Somewhat Damaged

3- Underneath It All

2- Into The Void

1- The Great Below

Still (2002)

5- Gone, Still

4- Adrift and At Peace

3- The Persistence of Loss

2- Leaving Hope

1- And All That Could Have Been

With Teeth (2005)

5- The Collector

4- The Line Begins To Blur

3- Home

2- Right Where It Belongs

1- Sunspots

Year Zero (2007)

5- The Good Soldier

4- My Violent Heart

3- God Given

2- The Great Destroyer

1- In This Twilight

The Slip (2008)

5- Echoplex

4- 1,000,000

3- Lights In The Sky

2- Head Down

1- Discipline

Ghosts I-IV (2008)

5-8 Ghosts I

4- 28 Ghosts IV 

3- 15 Ghosts II

2- 31 Ghosts IV

1- 37 Ghosts

Hesitation Marks (2013)

5 - Everything

4-  Running

3- All Time Low

2- In Two

1- While I’m Still Here/Black Noise

Not The Actual Events (2016)

5- Dear World

4-  She’s Gone Away

3- Burning Bright (Field on Fire)

2- Branches/Bones

1- The Idea of You

Add Violence (2017)

5- Not Anymore

4- The Lovers

3- Less Than

2- The Background World

1- This Isn’t The Place

Bad Witch (2018)

5- Over and Out

4- Shit Mirror

3- God Break Down The Door

2- I’m Not From This World

1- Ahead of Ourselves

Ghosts V - Together (2020)

5- Letting Go While Still Holding On

3- Apart

4- With Faith

2- Still Right Here

1- Hope We Can Again

2- Another Crashed Car

Ghosts VI - Locusts (2020)

5- When It Happens (Don’t Mind Me)

4 - Run Like Hell

3- The Worriment Waltz

1- Almost Dawn

Honourable Mentions (B-sides/Side Projects/Scores and Others)

Fashion

Burn

Theme to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Screaming Slave

Hand Covers Bruise

Slipping Away

The Great Collapse

The Art of Self Destruction Part One

Closer to God

Memorabilia

Deep

Atmosphere

The Space In Between

Fur Lined

Strings and Attractors

Ice Age

The Loop Closes

A Minute to Breathe

What If We Could?

Immigrant Song (Ft. Karen O)

Supernaut (with 1000 Homo DJs)

Babysitter (With Tobacco)

Past The Mission (with Tori Amos)

John Carpenter’s Halloween

Non-Entity

Metal

I’m Afraid of Americans

Stone Cold Crazy (Trent Reznor Remix)

Symphony of Destruction (Gristle Mix)

The Way It Used To Be

Nun With a Motherfucking Gun

Life on Mars?

Lincoln Tunnel

Quake Theme

Driver Down

The Perfect Drug

Technically, Missing

Aphelion

Oraculum

Escape

Lapdance (Remix)

[vimesbootstheory]

I was craving the illusion of productivity so I went through an arbitrary list of popular songs for each year I have been alive, to see when exactly I completely lost touch with popular music

here are my findings, including a couple fave songs from each year 1990-2019

1990 -- 40% awareness of this year's popular music 3 faves: black velvet by alannah myles, tom's diner by suzanne vega & dna, vogue by madonna

1991 -- 40% awareness 3 faves: crazy by seal, smells like teen spirit by nirvana, i've been thinking about you by londonbeat

1992 -- 33% awareness 3 faves: finally by cece peniston, rhythm is a dancer by snap!, jump around by house of pain

1993 -- 41% awareness 3 faves: two princes by spin doctors, i'm gonna be (500 miles) by the proclaimers, what is love by haddaway

1994 -- 56% awareness 3 faves: all I wanna do by sheryl crow, you gotta be by des'ree, the rhythm of the night by corona

1995 -- 42% awareness 3 faves: beautiful life by ace of base, breakfast at tiffany's by deep blue something, gangsta's paradise by coolio

1996 -- 43% awareness 3 faves: head over feet by alanis morissette, i love you always forever by donna lewis, no diggity by blackstreet

1997 -- 46% awareness 3 faves: tubthumping by chumbawamba, everybody (backstreet's back) by backstreet boys, i want you by savage garden

1998 -- 47% awareness 3 faves: the rockafeller skank by fatboy slim, the boy is mine by brandy & monica, doo-wop (that thing) by lauryn hill

1999 -- 61% awareness 3 faves: i try by macy gray, every morning by sugar ray, no scrubs by tlc

2000 -- 49% awareness 3 faves: around the world by atc, it's gonna be me by nsync, independent women by destiny's child

2001 -- 74% awareness 3 faves: hit em up style (oops!) by blu cantrell, let me blow ya mind by eve & gwen stefani, clint eastwood by gorillaz

this year, at the age of 10-11, my awareness of popular music peaks

2002 -- 66% awareness 3 faves: a thousand miles by vanessa carlton, work it by missy elliott, objection (tango) by shakira

2003 -- 68% awareness 3 faves: seven nation army by the white stripes, never leave you (uh oooh uh oooh) by lumidee & busta rhymes & fabolous, trouble by p!nk

2004 -- 72% awareness 3 faves: 1 2 step by ciara, mr brightside by the killers, this love by maroon 5

2005 -- 65% awareness 3 faves: pon de replay by rihanna, feel good inc by gorillaz, gold digger by kanye west

2006 -- 64% awareness 3 faves: sexyback by justin timberlake & timbaland, crazy by gnarls barkley, say it right by nelly furtado

2007 -- 71% awareness 3 faves: stronger by kanye west, you know i'm no good by amy winehouse, thnks fr the mmrs by fall out boy

2008 -- 64% awareness 3 faves: disturbia by rihanna, paper planes by m.i.a., sex on fire by kings of leon

2009 -- 58% awareness 3 faves: all the right moves by onerepublic, tik tok by kesha, run this town by rihanna & jay-z

2010 -- 62% awareness 3 faves: raise your glass by p!nk, telephone by lady gaga & beyonce, take it off by kesha

2011 -- 46% awareness 3 faves: blow by kesha, countdown by beyonce, rolling in the deep by adele

ten years post-peak, my awareness starts to decline

2012 -- 38% awareness 3 faves: some nights by fun., primadonna by marina and the diamonds, i love it by icona pop

2013 -- 47% awareness 3 favess: my songs know what you did in the dark by fall out boy, counting stars by onerepublic, papaoutai by stromae

2014 -- 24% awareness 3 faves: bang bang by jessie j & ariana grande & nicki minaj, take me to church by hozier, rather be by clean bandit & jess glynne

I have no idea what happened in 2014 but here’s where my awareness plummets

2015 -- 28% awareness 3 faves: elastic heart by sia, sorry by justin bieber, uptown funk by bruno mars & mark ronson

2016 -- 19% awareness 3 faves: the greatest by sia & kendrick lamar, human by rag'n'bone man, formation by beyonce

2017 -- 25% awareness 3 faves: new rules by dua lipa, despacito by luis fonsi & daddy yankee, praying by kesha

2018 -- 17% awareness 3 faves: idgaf by dua lipa, finesse (remix) by bruno mars & cardi b, without me by halsey

2019 -- 16% awareness 3 faves: bury a friend by billie eilish, sucker by jonas brothers, you need to calm down by taylor swift

aaand by the time we get to the present day, the 3 faves are labeled as such by default, because I basically don’t know any other songs. sorry ‘you need to calm down’ but you wouldn’t have been top 3 in any other year.

[dearly]

music docs for the industry curious

avicii: true stories [netflix] (2017) profiles the rise of avicii up to and including his decision to stop performing. captures the coercive and damaging part of the industry well.

30 seconds to mars: artifact (2013) covers the band’s struggle with virgin/emi, the doc with the most concise explanation of how the industry/labels work/’own’ the artists. 

metallica: some kind of monster [netflix] (2004) many insights on band dynamics. when setting out to record XX metallica hired a therapist to work through their issues. many insights on band dynamics, including dave mustaine who returns to confront them years after leaving the band.

robyn: don’t fucking tell me what to do (2011) discusses the difficulties of growing up in the spotlight; getting dropped and held back and getting back into the swing of things.

backstreet boys: show 'em what you're made of (2012) the rise and struggles of a boyband including all the dirty tricks they were subjected to, and some of the legal battles they fought to remain together as well as the band’s internal frictions are covered.

the boyband con [youtube] (2019) lou pearlman’s methods and deeds exposed by his former clients.

no room for rockstars (2012) warped tour 2010 behind the scenes, chronicling the rise and stalling of various artists. 

kate nash: underestimate the girl (2019) starting after kate nash was dropped from her label, nash attempted to regain ground on her own in the US. unfortunately her manager seemed more intent on stealing money from her.

vh1 behind the music: boy george/culture club  insight into the friction of having a closeted couple in the band, and the repercussions that followed from drugs and interpersonal issues.

chasing happiness (2019) documents the jonas brothers career up to their reunion. mostly about them personally but features some interesting tidbits about career dynamics, expectations and radio leveraging airplay.

the punk singer (2013) this film is about kathleen hanna, the front woman of bikini kill and le tigre but it covers the whole riot grrrl movement pretty well, with a dash of courtney love drama and all that. good for history.

take that for the record (2005) & take that look back don’t stare (2012) lots of ups and downs; interpersonal dynamics including members leaving and intense feuds that are overcome, overbearing managers, regaining controls of their careers.

dixie chicks: shut up and sing (2006) covers the fallout from the onstage comments they made about president bush. lots of industry politics.

rip!: a remix manifesto (2008) - on the history of file sharing and the laws surrounding copyright and remixes.

wilco: i am trying to break your heart (2002) profiles the recording of ‘tango foxtrot hotel’ and the band being dropped from their label after submitting their album.

the decline of western civilization part ii: the metal years (1988) an incisive look at the boom of the metal years. wannabes, fans and stars feature heavily. 

whitney (2018) closeting, pr stunts, greed and drugs. an incisive and heartbreaking look at how everyone around whitney houston let her down or wanted something from her.

[grimelords]

My August playlist is finished and while it does unfortunately begin with Tool it also has two of Elvis’ gospel songs on it so please believe me when I say it takes a turn! Everything you could ever want over three hours of music from 70s christian hippie cult music to a funky remix of Also Sprach Zarathustra to Ante Up.

If you’re interested in getting these emailed to you instead of having them mysteriously appear and clog up your dash, I’ve started a tinyletter you can subscrine to at tinyletter.com/grimelords

but in the meantime,

listen here

Lateralus - Tool: Tool is on streaming now and they've got a new album out and so it's a very nice time to reinterrogate a band that meant a lot to teenaged me that i have almost completely exorcised from my life since. What's interesting firstly is how much better it is to consume their music digitally than it ever was in any physical format. They apparently resisted making it available for so long for nebulous reasons of artistic control and intention, wanting a say in how their music is listened to - they design these long and overwrought albums to be experienced as a whole. My contention is that as a whole album, start-to-finish, is one of the worst ways to listen to this band. Tool have maybe 12 great songs across four albums and every single album is around 70-80 minutes, pushing the limit of the CD. Which means for every great song there's at least two ambient interludes, Bill Hicks samples, 90s alt comedy bits (Die Eir Von Satan is just menacing music and a menacing voice reading out a weed cookie recipe in german, now that's what I call comedy) that really add nothing to the experience of the album on a casual listen. Being actually able to listen to these songs on their own, and playlist them and pull them apart from the mire is so refreshing and makes experiencing this extremely exhausting band actually pleasant for once. That's not to say ambient interludes and sketches and whatever aren't worth it, I absolutely love that shit and a lot of my favourite albums are absolutely chock full of that sort of thing - just like, don't make me do it every time. Their new album seems to reflect this at least a little bit, with the more overarching themes and arcs of the previous albums replaced by more singular and self-contained long songs interspersed with dedicated 2 minute interlude tracks. The runtime blows out to an hour and a half unrestrained by physical limits but it seems to contain more actual music and less funny than any other Tool album which is a welcome change. I'm still lukewarm on the album itself, it seems to just be a complete rehashing of the ideas on 10,000 Days (to the point of almost note-for-note repetition of some old riffs and themes) which is a bit disappointing considering how long they've apparently been working on it. I'll give it more time because Tool albums always unfold over multiple listens but for now they kind of just sound like the dad-rock version of a once extremely edgy 90s band - which I guess they are now so that makes sense. As for Lateralus, I think it's their best song. The perfect combination of Joe Rogan spirit science woo-woo sacred geometry fibonacci sequence 'open your mind' bullshit and good old fashioned riffs, it's the best of both halves of Tool and great starting point if you've never listened to this band and are interested in becoming insufferable.

Mars For The Rich - King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard: This album is so good and it's finally converted me to being a full time King Gizz guy so look out for a lot more of that in the future. It's a thrash metal concept album about ecological collapse forcing the rich to flee to mars and the poor to flee to venus where they lose their minds and fly into the fire. I spent a little while the other day obsessing over the insane vocal leap in this absolutely incredible song when he jumps down an 11th on 'mars for the riiiiiiich' somehow effortlessly.

Pattern Walks - Cloud Nothings: The interplay between Cloud Nothings second and third albums is something I think about a lot. Attack On Memory is a visceral experience of depression and living in your own head where Here And Nowhere Else is about being able to finally move past it, and living with it. There's a good quote from the singer on the Genius page for this song where he says "It was almost a response to “Wasted Days” on the last record. It ends with “I thought I would be more than this” over and over and this one ends with “I thought” over a beautiful bit of music which is an easy way to explain the way I was thinking when I was writing this record. I wasn’t as depressed as I was when I was making the last album. Before, I felt like nobody liked the band and I was doing it for three years. I was not in a good place. Now, I had more time to think about why I felt that way. It’s a positive song."

M.E. - Metz: Metz put out a B-sides and rarities album a couple of weeks ago and then they put out this Gary Numan cover on it's own for some reason. It's very very good! I love just putting a generally harder edge on it without taking anything away from the spirit of the original. I also, somehow, didn't realise that Where's Your Head At by Basement Jaxx was a Gary Numan sample until I heard this cover so we're all learning every day.

The Ocean And The  Sun - The Sound Of Animals Fighting: Here's what's good: having the last third of your song just be a monotone voice reading from a CrimethInc anarchist zine over swirling guitar ambience. The drums are so good in this, Chris Tsagakis makes me want to muscle through the ska and listen to RX Bandits more, he’s just that good. The extremely crunchy part in the chorus especially, it switches through like three different distortions and sounds absolutely great. I’m a big fan of anyone that can make a very straightforward groove like the main one here really work just by absolutely leaning into it.

Uzbekistan - The Sound Of Animals Fighting: Uzbekistan is the most out-there and wild song on this album which was sort of mostly a way back into post-hardcore for TSOAF after Lover, The Lord Has Left Us.. which was perhaps a little too-out there for most. (seven minute closing track of a guy singing John Cage's Experimental Music essay over formless tabla and mandolin). The drums alone in this are worth it. The way they transition in and out of the super distorted electronic parts is so good. This song fortunately also has a section where someone recites poetry over electronic noise and a second voice whispers 'who holds your strings? wake up..." over the top near the end. I will love and defend dum-dum pretentious music until the day I die.

Gangsta - Tune-Yards: I love Tune-Yards and I'm incredibly interested in the way she interrogates whiteness. It's a complicated thing to get into in this playlist post but when she first turned up, a lot of people assumed she was african american just by the sound of her voice and music - it reaches and pulls from a lot of african music in a very postmodern sort of way and when people found out she was white, straight, cis and from New England it kind of felt like a betrayal for some people. On her 2018 album I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life she digs into it a lot in a way that becomes almost uncomfortable for what is ostensibly a pop album. An NPR article about it at the time said "Ever the student, the Smith-educated Garbus, who writes most of Tune-Yards' lyrics, designed an anti-racist curriculum for herself. She attended a six-month anti-racist workshop at the East Bay Meditation Center. She read the work of noted anti-racist educator Tim Wise and explored the activism of Standing Up for Racial Justice, a nationwide, progressive activism network dedicated to "moving white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority.". That's a lot. This song, Gangsta, from her 2011 album when all the hype was fresh feels like a pretty early look into the mindset she'd later fully fledge out of interrogating white identity and cultural appropriation while also participating in it. The lyrics are simple but they get to a simple point, "What's a boy to do if he'll never be a rasta?" is basically making the same point as Ras Trent by The Lonely Island except it's asking where else does Ras Trent fit? Can a white guy participate in anything like that in a way that's not cultural appropriation, and how can a culture like that participate in the larger world without being appropriated? It's 2013 tumblr discourse but it's still churning for a reason I suppose.

Ante Up (feat. Busta Rhymes, Teflon & Remi Martin) - M.O.P: An all time great Violence Song, in the same genre as Knuck If Ya Buck and X Gon Give It To Ya. Opening with "'this shit feel like a whole entire world collapsed" is such an insane way to open a song but the absolute whirlwind of threats that follows makes it feel warranted. "Fuck hip-hop, rip pockets, snatch jewels" is sooo good. I don't even care about this song I am just straight up robbing you. The absolute power in the rhythm of the overlapping getemGETEMgetem hitemHITEMhitem part is just so, so strong. It's like a VR experience of being fucking robbed.

Awake (feat. JPEGMAFIA) - Tkay Maidza: It seems like Tkay is finally nailing down her sound and she’s absolutely killing it. She’s been through a few different styles since she started out and now she’s really hit on something that’s very distinctly her with this and her other new song Flexin and I cannot wait for the album.

Big Head - Ms. Jade: Ms Jade had one album in 2002 and then basically disappeared which is a shame because she's got a very interesting approach. The star of the show is as usual, Timbaland. The man is a singular voice somehow making the tabla and a wikiwiki noise his signature sound. I love the drone of the raps interspersed with the vocal spikes and I love the chorus as the gospel vocals surge up from underneath. This whole song is just completely bizzare in its construction in a way that works perfectly and feels strangely.

Titanium 2 Step - Battles: Battles are finally back and I’m fucking bouncing off the walls. They’re a two piece now and it does not seem to have slowed them down at all which is very exciting. I can’t think of any band that has ever continued with only half of their original members and also moved forward radically every time. Everything about this song is great: the super strength drums, the hypercolour guitar and the vocals that are just screaming absolutely whatever you like whenever you like. It feels closest to Ice Cream, and Gloss Drop in general more than La Di Da Di but i’m so excited to see how the new album sounds - and how they adapt their old material live now that there’s only two of them.

Dancing Is The Best Revenge - !!!: I’ve never actively listened to !!! for no good reason, but plenty of times in my life I’ve heard a song playing and been like damn what the FUCK is THIS?! and it always turns out to be !!!. This is yet another example.

Skitzo Dancer (Justice Remix) - Scenario Rock: The first clap in this is one of the best sounds ever. Right after 'so you think you've seen and heard it all' everything drops out of the mix for this one very comedy clap and it makes me smile every time. The rhythm of the Disco!... Disco! Disco! part near the end is one of those things that's just always playing in the back of my mind, which as far as constant reminders go it's not the worst. I've also over the last week or so been a big fan of this 11 year old youtube video I found of some guy covering the bass on this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0DLAUaV3f8

16:56 - Danger: Danger had a new album this year that I don't think I gave enough attention to because I relistened and it's very good. He spends the majority of it refining his original sound but it's such a distinct and original niche that it works out great. The songs are so densely layered and frankly just sound so beautiful! Which is a strange thing to say about 80s inspired electro but it just does. The strings and timpani in this about halfway through are just a gift as well, I love it.

Also Sprach Zarathustra - Deodato: As part of my ‘thinking about Elvis’ I was looking up a live album of his called Aloha From Hawaii Via Sattelite which has a very good cover which doubles as an illustration of how my proposed international peacekeeping satellite will function, projecting an immense Elvis themed blanket of darkness over ‘troublemaker’ regions to immerse them in an eternal freezing night until they’ve settled down. Anyway his entrance music for this this concert in Hawaii is Also Sprach Zarathustra, which is a very very funny thing to do and I think gives an appropriate measure of his status at the time. When I told my girlfriend about this she directed me to this bonkers jazz funk version of it by Deodato which deservingly won a grammy in 1974 for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

Hollywood Forever Cemetary Sings - Father John Misty: I’ve resisted listening to Father John Misty for a long time because he just seems like a real asshole. A big brain man genius that saw what Lana Del Rey was doing and thought “what if.. me?”. But I can’t deny this song, it’s absolutely magical and as far as songs about fucking in a cemetery go it’s definitely one of the most singable.

Remember / Medicine Man - Yma Sumac: In reading about the Hollywood Forever Cemetery and who was buried there, I learned about Yma Sumac. Yma Sumac was a Peruvian soprano with one of the most incredible voices I've ever heard who was an absolutely huge deal in the 50s when Americans were clamouring for the exotic, real or imagined. She made extremely good mambo music and claimed to be descended from the last Incan emperor. Her popularity faded after the 50s and then for an unknown reson in 1971, ten years since her last album, she made this rock album. It is insane. It's the best example of 'voice as an instrument' that I've ever heard. She is making every kind of sound possible with a human voice and her range seems completely limitless. She's just as comfortable in a piercingly high whistle register as she is in deep guttural growls. About 2 minutes into Remember she just straight up jumps four octaves in a row just to flex. She also sings in a way in the second verse of Medicine Man that I've never heard before that sounds like she's blowing out her cheeks and then singing with her mouth almost closed. It's absolutey bizzare and I love it so much.

This Thing - King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard: Listening to the other album that King Gizzard put out this year is really making me appreciate how much of 180 Infest The Rats Nest was for them. This album is basically a Black Keys album of groovy fun songs about fishing for fishies with fantastic harmonica work and it makes it look even more like they just snapped when they did the next one.

The Warrior (feat. Patty Smyth) - Scandal: I've been very passively watching GLOW since the second half of season 2 and now I'm very passively watching season 3 and this song was the opening credits theme for the first episode. It fucking rocks I don't know why they don't just make it the theme song all the time. This sort of 80s hard-rock pop is very good when it's good and extremely bad when it's bad and I wonder if we'll ever see any sort of revival of it once 80s nostalgia nostalgia takes hold in 2030. Being a singer named Patty Smyth is very funny also. She's billed as a feature even though she was in the band because she left to try a solo career as soon as it was released, possibly even before. She is also John McEnroe's wife I just found out. What a life.

A Girl Called Johnny - The Waterboys: I found this song because I was googling to see if it's possibly to get a random album from spotify and instead foumd a guy on rateyourmusic who was generating random rym album pages and then listening to whatever came up if it was on spotify - which seems just as good. This was one of the albums he talked about and he seemed to like it so I listened and I did as well. Sometimes the best way to find new music is throw dice on the internet and see what comes up.

New Year's Eve - City Calm Down: The new City Calm Down is one hundred percent great and I have such admiration for them for making a complete left turn with their sound and sounding like a completely different band since their last album but being equally as great in both forms. It's very inspiring and it's also the second song of the month I've heard for the first time while walking around Richmond that's mentioned Richmond. Very spooky.

Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift: It's fucked up how good Lover is when ME! and You Need To Calm Down were so bad. It feels like they changed direction at the last minute and changed the tracklist dramatically because those two songs seem sort of wildly out of place, along with London Boy. It's so uneven it's basically two albums in one but when it's good it's extremely good. This song is fucking powerful. The way she straight up screams "he looks so pretty like a devil"? Amazing. What a crazy thing to shout. If you're interested I also resequenced Lover and took London Boy off it and it's a far better album in my opinion https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3LN1uAhp8BS8Ms4bgmHiVP

Kelly - Van She: I have no idea why but this is in the opening paragraph of Van She's wiki page: "Their label introduced them as a "new band from Sydney fresh on ideas, fresher than Flavor Flav, fresh like coriander, fresher than the Fresh Prince, fresher than fresh eggs."[2] Despite these claims, the band began with a sound very much rooted in the 1980s, heavy on synthesizer." which really makes me laugh. Van She had a very specific mid-2000s indietronica thing going that was really good as this song proves but they also did a bunch of remixes under the name Van She Tech that are very out there and completely different to the main band. Their remix of UFO by Sneaky Sound System I'm sure I've yelled about in these posts before, it's absolutely phenomenal. Anyway I guess what I'm saying is get you a band that can do both.

Shadow - Wild Nothing: Somehow I missed Wild Nothing back when they were a big thing and only listened to them this month. I listened to this whole album while I was doing housework and when it finished I though 'that was nice' and could not remember a single thing about it. That's the beauty of shoegaze! I had to listen to it about five more times for it to stick and now I'm getting more and more out of it every time, I love it.

Heaven's On Fire - The Radio Dept.: Years ago when I was having a major 'depressive episode' for about a fucking year I listened to this album Constantly and as a result for a very long time I couldn't listen to it without inviting megawatts of bad vibes back into my brain. Thankfully through hard work and time passing it appears I've fully healed my assosciations with this album which is fantastic news because it is delightful start to finish and worth getting obsessed with again.

Crystalised - The xx: It's nice to see news articles posted almost every day about which albums are turning ten years old. It makes me feel one million years old and viewing the world from a television in my hermit's cave. It feels hard to overstate just how much quiet influence the xx have had over the music landscape since 2009. Without The xx we don't have Royals and without Royals we don't have You Need To Calm Down, so. Something beautiful of theirs that I think is sad hasn't caught on in the intervening years is the idea of writing romantic duets when duets had been out of fashion for so long. They wrote a whole album of them and continue to! There's a beautiful contextual depth to it, in that it's two queer people singing not exactly to each other but with each other. In an interview they've called it 'singing past each other' which is a very nice way to put it.

Aspirin - Tropical Fuck Storm: I really appreciate the continual development of the guitars in Tropical Fuck Storm where they sound so pencil-necked and reedy in these angular little melodies and then sometimes explode into thick cacophanous howls, but what's especially good is in songs like this when they don't explode and instead just sort of sprout tendrils and crawl around each other. They're really drilling down on a very singular and very unsettling sound and I really love it. It is also a very interesting feeling to be walking around Richmond listening to this album for the first time and having him mention Richmond. Spooky even.

Pasta - Angie McMahon: "My bedroom is a disaster / my dog has got kidney failure" is an all-time great opening lyric for me. I love the way this song kicks up from the doldrums, like forcing yourself to do something just so you've done something today. Angie McMahon is so great and I'm getting more and more out of her album every time.

If I Had A Hammer - Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash: The way this song is performed here is so fucking cool. The guitar tone, June's voice and the general energy of it is just absolutely electric. It feels like Highway 61 Bob Dylan where it's still folk but it's got this massive power in it. The solo fucking rips in that very old fashioned way and when it finishes and that riff comes back in by itself it's just great.

Elvis Presley Blues - Gillian Welch: I was thinking about this song because I too was thinking about Elvis. I thought for a long time that the lyrics to this were ‘didn’t he die?’ and not ‘day that he died’ and I think I prefer mine more. Idly thinking about Elvis like “whatever happened to that guy? Must be old now. Wait, didn't he die? No way to know I suppose.”

Everything Is Free - Sylvan Esso: Rolling Stone had a very good article and interview about how this song about napster has had a resurgence and remained relevant through the streaming era which is a very good read. I love the original and really this version is very similar except for the one key difference where they really dig into the anger and frustration at the heart of it in the 'fucking sing it yourself' line.  https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/gillian-welch-everything-is-free-courtney-barnett-father-john-misty-725135/

It's Nice To Have A Friend - Taylor Swift: This is the strangest song on Lover and one of the best, I absolutely love it. It's a very old fashioned kind of Taylor Swift Love Story type song but it also has a a fucking trumpet reveille in the middle, so that really spices it up a bit. I also keep accidentally listening to this backwards - there's a few phrases like when she sings 'it's nice to have a friend' where the 'friend' lands on the offbeat but is accented like it should be ON the beat and because of the way the music is in this where it's just the steady pulse it's hard to tell whether the chime is supposed to be on the beat or on the offbeat. It feels like it sort of slides back and forth throughout the song depending on what everything else is doing around it. I don't know if that's intentional or not but it's a very interesting effect. This song is also, in my estimation, about a woman and is detailing a fantasy Taylor Swift is having where she can come out to the world with no fuss and enjoy a simple fairytale love story as a gay woman.

Psalm 42 / Chant For Pentecost - The Trees Community: I have a mental list of albums I google every few months to see if they've been added to streaming and by the grace of god one of them finally has been. Years ago I used to listen to this almost every night to fall asleep and I think it brainwashed me slightly in a delightful way, and now I finally have it back again! This is proper hippie music: a bunch of long haired new york christians who drove around the country in the early 70s in a school bus playing their elaborate and beautiful music for anyone who wanted to hear it. The multilayered, multi-movement construction of these songs is completely entrancing to me. It's not a hollow beauty, but one that brings new meaning to old words in the way they stretch and snap and waver throughout the song, moving past each other and through each other as it moves forward. I absolutey love it. Chant For Pentecost is a good illustration of the other side of them, a short song that starts sweet and turns almost maniacal. There's a wild-eyed feeling to the harmonies and the way this melody sits on a single tone for such long stretches before the frankly scary conclusion.

In My Father's House / Working On The Building - Elvis Presley: The backing vocals in these, and especially the bass vocals are so incredible. The way they work in the second verse of Working On The Building is so great, Elvis is the lead vocal but the middle harmony and somehow it just works perfectly. The harmonies is In My Father's House are amazing. The bass solo is mind blowing and the part about halfway through where Elvis swallows the mic and says "jesus died upon the cross [VRRMER] sorrow" is very funny. It's got it all.

The Greatest - Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell is an absolute masterpiece and this is the best song on it. Lana has always had a knack for this apocalyptic feeling but this is a whole other level.  https://www.stereogum.com/2056565/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-review/franchises/premature-evaluation/ The Stereogum writeup for this album was really great, and really nailed my opinion of her whole character thing as well, but he described this song as her version of that video that Ted Turner commissioned for CNN to play at the end of the world and it's really a perfect description. The part at the end where she says 'Kanye West is blonde and gone' is so chilling to me. Like Kanye losing the plot makes sense because he's only a few months ahead of the rest of us. He’s been a thought and culture leader for so long and it only makes sense that he’s spun off into space in these last days before it all wraps up.

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[pendulum-archive]

Booklet advertising Pendulum’s Australia/NZ tour in December 2006.

Below is a transcription of the 2nd and 3rd pictures to make them easier to read:

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“Pendulum formed in their home-town of Perth (Western Australia) in 2002. When producers Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen teamed up with acclaimed local DJ Paul “ElHornet” Harding, while their individual formative roots ranged from producing drum & bass, breakbeat and hardcore, to playing in metal and punk bands, their comparable talents proved an unstoppable force when they manned to single-handedly conquer the world of drum & bass in their first 12 months together.

After selling more than 100,000 units of their debut artist album “Hold Your Colour”, remixing for such respected artists as The Prodigy, being play-listed and featuring regularly on BBC Radio 1, all whilst continuing to tour the world over as DJs…Pendulum decided that it was finally time to take things to the next level: performing live.

The last 12 months have seen Pendulum retreat to the depths of the underground to work on their second album, and to hone and perfect their sound for the live arena, finding that using purely electronic sounds left something to be desired, they fetched their guitars and worked on perfecting the ultimate sound - and electronic Led Zeppelin, and crunked up Soundgarden Tool meets Volta, and, combined with the synthetic aggression and sonic purity of the original Pendulum sound.

So apart from that, what the hell are Pendulum all about? In the words of the boys themselves…”

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“We want our music to be an escape. While technology continues to constantly advance production techniques and (arguably) sound quality, something has been lost in the process - that original sense of self-escape. The idea of leaving yourself open to experience something you don’t necessarily find in every-day life. That was the energy we picked up on and liked about electronic music when we first got into it. It felt like the same energy found with bands like Led Zeppelin and even The Beatles, and still occasionally today with bands like Tool, The Mars Volta, Queens of the Stone Age and others.

To us, it mad perfect sense to combine the best of both worlds, but it had to be done in a way that didn’t make it sound obvious. In the last 10 years you’ve had all these bands that tried to cross the bridge by recruiting a turntablist / using a synthesizer on their new single, or electronic artist who just threw and obvious guitar sample into a tune…but eventually it just came across as a gimmick or a bit cheesy. We thought we’d try and do it properly, because to us it still hasn’t been done right and there’s a lot of room for exploration.

If you turn on the radio today you’ll hear 20 tracks in a row about someone breaking up with their girlfriend, or how some guy at a club is “bringing sexy back” - the production is usually great but when you look deeper, there’s nothing behind it…it doesn’t offer you anything past its face value. We want to hear something different and exciting, but the material we want to hear isn’t getting made. That’s why we spend every waking moment trying to create music that takes you out of this universe - for ourselves and anyone else who wants to listen.”

[mateushonrado]

Best selling songs per year since 1980

Status Post #8175: According to Media Traffic.

- 1980: "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd (Harvest/Columbia)

- 1981: "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes (EMI)

- 1982: "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor (EMI/Scotti)

- 1983: "Flashdance... What a Feeling" by Irene Cara (Polygram/Casablanca)

- 1984: "I Just Called to Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder (Motown)

- 1985: "We Are the World" by USA for Africa (Columbia)

- 1986: "Papa Don't Preach" by Madonna (Sire/Warner Bros.)

- 1987: "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" by Whitney Houston (Arista)

- 1988: "A Groovy Kind of Love" by Phil Collins (Virgin/Atlantic/WEA)

- 1989: "Like a Prayer" by Madonna (Sire/Warner Bros.)

- 1990: "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor (Chrysalis)

- 1991: "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams (A&M)

- 1992: "Rhythm is a Dancer" by Snap (Arista)

- 1993: "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston (Arista)

- 1994: "I Swear" by All-4-One (Atlantic)

- 1995: "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio featuring L.V. (Tommy Boy)

- 1996: "Macarena" by Los Del Rio (RCA)

- 1997: "Candle in the Wind 1997" by Elton John (Rocket/A&M)

- 1998: "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion (Columbia/Epic)

- 1999: "Believe" by Cher (Warner Bros.)

- 2000: "Music" by Madonna (Maverick/Warner Bros.)

- 2001: "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy featuring Rikrok (MCA)

- 2002: "Whenever Wherever" by Shakira (Epic)

- 2003: "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence featuring Paul McCoy (Wind-up)

- 2004: "This Love" by Maroon 5 (Octone)

- 2005: "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day (Reprise/Warner Bros.)

- 2006: "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean (Epic/Sony)

- 2007: "Umbrella" by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z (Def Jam)

- 2008: "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis (Syco/J)

- 2009: "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga (Interscope/KonLive/Cherrytree)

- 2010: "California Gurls" by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg (Capitol)

- 2011: "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele (XL/Columbia)

- 2012: "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra (Eleven)

- 2013: "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell Williams and T.I. (Star Trak/Interscope)

- 2014: "Happy" by Pharrell Williams (i Am Other/Columbia)

- 2015: "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars (Columbia/Sony/RCA)

- 2016: "Can't Stop the Feeling" by Justin Timberlake (RCA)

- 2017: "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran (Asylum/Atlantic)

- 2018: "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran; includes "Perfect Duet" with Beyoncé and "Perfect Symphony" with Andrea Bocelli (Asylum/Atlantic)

- 2019 (so far): "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X; includes Remix featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, other remixes includes one featuring Cyrus and Diplo, one featuring Cyrus, Young Thug and Mason Ramsey, one featuring RM of BTS (Columbia)

[callmearcturus]

Old Vid Recs (2002-2012)

(This post is also on Pillowfort! If you want to comment, that’s prob the best place to have a conversation about this. Otherwise, feel free to like/reblog.)

This is not going to be comprehensive. Just be aware of that. This is going to be pulls from the shoddy memory of a nearly-30something fanperson, and will be a mess. But I really desperately love all the vids I'm gonna talk about below and I highly suggest checking them out.

EVERYTHING ABSOLUTEDESTINY EVER DID. This person started in AMVs and then transitioned to Live Action vids and was a fucking powerhouse of both. Probably the most straight up ingenious vidder with concept and execution. A lot of my favorites are more of a comedic slant, but goddamn he did everything. AbDest has all his shit on a fabulous website, and you can save videos with a right-click it looks like! Here, see!

"Too Much Light In This Bar" - Life On Mars - 2006. Incredible thematic summary of set to a fucking weirdass "song" that using some phenomenal editing to make beautiful hilarity. I can still see perfectly in my mind's eye the amazing bit at "Dicko Sauve walks-- NO WAIT-- swaggers into the room like a gunfighter with too many bullets" and it's stupefying and brilliant. It is so strongly ingrained in my mind, I can recite the entire song and often mutter snippets of it to myself. (NOTE: Video has brief nudity and a lot of suggestive stuff, NSFW!)

"Gold Digger" - Gone With the Wind - 2007  (YouTube) I have a complicated relationship with this song (I mean it's Kanye so of course) and this is similarly a sort of complicated vid that does not make any absolute (lol) statements about Scarlett, but definitely hands you some interesting ideas. Also this remix of the song is a fucking banger and this is one of the finest character focus vids ever. Fucking amazing.

"Shameless Rock Video" - FLCL - 2002  (YouTube) I often wonder if Ian Roberts is tired of being known for this video, because I feel like any mention of his work demands a reference to SRV. But. See...... It's a classic? It's amazing? It's transcendent. It's perfect.

Charmax. My mother's favorite vidder. A very wide range but always thoughtful and devious in execution. A few faves:

"Seven Nation Army" - Multifandom - 2009. "Rainbow Coalition vs the fascist robots." There are some edits in this that I will never dislodge from my head, they are so ingrained in me. This fucking vid is like writ in my DNA.

"I'm Your Man" - Multifandom - 2008. The Femslash Cliche Vid. God this hit me at such a formative time in my life and helped contextualize my own feelings about women, and I'll always be grateful for it. It's a celebration, and I love it.

"Protege Moi" - Supernatural - 2006.  GOD THIS IS ANCIENT BUT I STILL LOVE IT. It's slightly Wincesty which I was a DeanCas person for the ten seconds I was in SPN but WHO CARES this video is so dense with style and some honest to fucking god Baroque-looking moments, it's still amazing. Only a touch over a minute long, entire in black and white and red, the way shadow and light move together is to this day incredible.

Luminosity. They created Scooby Road, one of the greatest pieces of transformative work. It's the fucking Detective Pony of vidding.

"Scooby Road" - Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 2005. Guys. This is the entirety of the Beatles Abbey Road album set to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Or, yanno, vice versa. I don't know how to express the monumental work this is. I don't. To me, this is a pinnacle. I have never watched Buffy myself, so that's gonna sound extra weird, but this is just formative. Please watch it. Then, honest to god, go fucking read some of the commentary linked in the Fanlore article about it. It's mandatory. Fuck. I would do some dark shit to get ahold of the DVD, ngl. boy, you're gonna carry that weight, carry that weight a long time

obsessive24. I don't know how justified the idea is, but there are times I've thought about O24's stuff like fucking............. Arthouse Fanvids, because they are often so fucking brave and devious and against the grain. Also their use of continuous motion in so of their vids gets me uh really revved up? Yeah.

"OMG!" - Torchwood/Doctor Who - 2004. THAT SAID I'M GONNA REC A COMEDY ONE FIRST. God, so this is a cut of a then-newly-dropped Lily Allen song that appeared on the radio. So the DJ randomly "talks over this to prevent bootleggers." And O24 reframes this as fuckign Torchwood interjecting into mainline Doctor Who and it's ingenious. I love it. I love this medium. I think my favorite part is that before the interjections start, it's already a great vid, and then the stupidity starts and it's just elevated. It will be a hot show. BYE I'M DYING. I'M GONE.

"Cells" - Fight Club - 2006. I think this was the first vid of O24's I saw and I remember watching it about ten times in a row just trying to absorb it fully. It's one of those moments of tremendous unity in song and source and editing. Astounding and hypnotic work. (NSFW for violence and nudity, obvs)

... a lot of others but you'd be best looking at their site and judging for yourself what you wanna tackle. INCREDIBLE SHIT. VERY INTENSE. /ahem

Laura Shapiro. I was gonna just link one vid in the next section, the stand alone vids, but looking at her site it seems she's made uh MANY of my all time faves! Okay! You'll need this link to her site, as many of her vids aren't available anywhere else. They are worth the download.

"Mothership" - Doctor Who - ?. My mother's favorite fanvid. It's pure incandescent joy and has weirdly one of my all time favorite transitions/edits, at "it's more like a big ball of vibration and frequency." Something about it is........ jubilant and perfect. Watching this vid is like treating yourself.

"Goody Two Shoes" - due South - ?. Ah yes. The Fraser Vid. This is not just the character set to music. It's like having a lens tightened into place that finally makes Fraser come into focus. I would hazard to say this vid is why I watched due South (it was before my time, I had to buy the DVDs for RayV then pirate RayK, those were the days). It's sweet and clever and it's got layers in itself, and the tongue is so firmly in cheek. Like rewatching this.... this video feels like really intense innuendo, and an exercise in sexual frustration, between the Rays and Fraser, but also between the citizens of Chicago and Fraser. How the fuck don't they strangle him? Oh right. He's gorgeous. I mean, obviously

Astolat. If there was anyone who "needs no introduction," it's fucking Astolat, who kicked off Vividcon and started Yuletide and who named the AO3. Like. Jesus christ. Their fanfic was goddamn influential in my life as a fanperson. Anyway. They did a lot of vidding too. Holy shit.

"Zebra" - due South - 2005. Okay. I can definitively say I got into dS in 2005 because I got into it because of this video. I'm thirty seconds into a rewatch and I think I'm gonna have to go rewatch dS before the end of the year. Jesus fucking christ. Ray Kowalski was my Type before I knew I had a character type. But romantic tricksters with a tenuous grip on their own identity who will do anything for the Greater Good up to and including immoral acts-- that's this character, that's this vid, and it's brilliant. This is a vid that clearly and coherently explains Ray Kowalski and sells you on an idea. It's like a vid going "hey your first hit is free, now go buy all these fucking DVDs of this oldass show because you need more." Yeah, it's like that.

"Pon de Replay" - Entourage - 2007. I have never seen Entourage. I can only assume these two dude get it on on the reg in that show. It's the only acceptable reality. This is fun. This is a treat for yourself. And you should always treat yourself.

"Bohemian Like You" - Stargate: Atlantis - 2006. This is a must-watch for two reasons: 1. It looks so fuckign dated in a very particular way. The footage with the SciFi channel logo in the corner, the rapid slideshot intro/outro, a few odd moments. This video feels like a piece of an era that a lot of y'all do not know, and I want you to see it. 2. It's still a fucking great vid with a lot of funny moments. There are so many cute and clever moments. I think my fave is the "no I haven't heard your band but you guys are pretty new" and all the moments of Shepard being kind of a clumsy fuck? I love it. It's endearing. Go try it.

Some loose single-vid recs

"Welcome To The Jungle" - Hot Fuzz - Danegen, 2007. I cannot fucking believe the mediafire link still works, holy fucking shit. There are times I think this might be my favorite vid. It's perfection. It encapsulates everything Hot Fuzz is about and goes hard as hell and is a delight to watch every time. Just. /chef's kiss

"Tonight I'm Fucking You" - XMen First Class - kuwdora, 2011. Look I'm not sure this is a pinnacle of any vidding artform but it's deliriously fun and cheeky and it's been SEVEN YEARS and I remember it, that has to mean something doesn't it? God it's so well-done, I adore it. That year after XMFC came out was a rodeo. (Also that soulful little moment at "baby you'd be the truth" i fucking DIE LAUGHING EVERY TIME. A THE LUDACRIS GUEST VERSE. Fffffuck. Actually I take it back, maybe this i the pinnacle of something. <3)

"Machine" - Mass Effect - beccatoria, 2012. THIS VID IS A MARVEL. Taking the disjointed confused themes and narrative of the Mass Effect Trilogy and drawing out such a remarkable cohesion is a miracle in of itself, but the depth of storytelling here boggles my fucking mind. Shepard set up as a reluctant transhumanist messiah and the direct parallel in scope and power to the Reapers is a more fascinating narrative than Bioware ever imagined telling. This is a STORY. Watch it.

"Time To Begin" - Community - atsp88, 2012. Hey look it's everything wonderful and heartfelt and optimistic and loving about Community in a single video. Brisk and cathartic and lovely, a true ensemble piece that to me feels like a pitch to embrace compassion.

""White" & Nerdy" - Psych - talitha78, 2009. Equal parts commentary and ballin' fun, I fucking adore this vid. When i think about how meta has largely moved to written essay form and away from vidform (not that it was the only form of meta obvsly) this is the kind of thing I miss. Insightful and colorful and loving. A+++ There is something about this style of interacting with the canon that I like. It's a critique. It's interesting to see a combination of constructive and deconstructive meshed together.

"Working Class Hero" - Firefly/Serenity - bradcpu, 2007. Imagine being 17 and coming into adulthood and seeing this shit. Formative. In a way I feel like this is a sort of inversion of a fanvid. It's less applying music to the source and more applying the source to the music, if that even remotely makes sense. The message of the song is lifted and heightened by the careful application of familiar imagery.

"Handlebars" - Doctor Who - Flummery, 2008. I cannot make someone understand the atomic explosion of this vid. You have to understand, this came WELL before we knew the conclusion of Ten's arc, and it called all of it. It's best explained by the Fanlore article on it. I could literally go shot by shot on the brilliance of this video and it's terrifying dark apotheosis of Ten. The split second nervous sideeye of Madame du Pompadour. Rose silently calling out to Ten outside his vision. The fucking long drop zoom shot of "my cause is noble, my power is pure," the repeated application of ramped up Messianic imagery, the moment when Ten just fuckign slams the camera and it goes black for a half-beat, and the way is comes back with "it feels so good to be alive and on top" and Ten's fucking face. And the terrifying recontextualization of Ten snapping his finger to open the TARDIS, from happy ending to harbinger of doom. Absolute. Fucking. Masterpiece.

"Pavlov's Bell" - due South - butterfly, 2006. Uh. I don't know how to talk about this video. i don't even know if it belongs in this post, honestly. But I feel like I've been haunted by this vid for at this point a large chunk of my life. I'm honestly just astounded and relieved it's still available for download. Formative. Yeah. Really intensely bedrock formative. /coughs and wipes eyes. Man, dusty in here huh.

That's all. Happy viewing. Reblogs are fine. Please feel free to hit me up to discuss this shit. I am fuckdeep in nostalgia.

[p1325]

So here’s my last video for this year so Happy 2019

SONG LIST: 5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood Alan Walker - Darkside Alessia Cara - Growing Pains Anne-Marie - 2002 Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry Ariana Grande - The Light Is Coming (ft. Nicki Minaj) Ariana Grande - God is a woman Ariana Grande - Raindrops Ariana Grande - Breathin' Ariana Grande - Thank you, next Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water Bad Bunny, Drake - MIA Bazzi - Mine Bazzi - Beautiful (ft. Camila Cabello) Bebe Rexha - Meant To Be (ft. Florida Georgia Line) Bebe Rexha - I'm A Mess Becky G, Natti Natasha - Sin Pijama Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid - Eastside BLACKPINK - Ddu-Du Ddu-Du BlocBoy JB - Look Alive (ft. Drake) Bruno Mars - Finesse (ft. Cardi B) BTS - Fake Love BTS - Idol (ft. Nicki Minaj) Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa - One Kiss Calvin Harris, Sam Smith - Promises Camila Cabello - Never Be The Same Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin - I Like It Celine Dion - Ashes Charli XCX, Troye Sivan - 1999 Charlie Puth - Done For Me (ft. Kehlani) Charlie Puth - The Way I Am Cheat Codes, Little Mix - Only You Childish Gambino - This Is America Childish Gambino - Feels Like Summer Christina Aguilera - Accelerate (ft. Ty Dolla $ign, 2 Chainz) CHVRCHES - Miracle Ciara - Level Up Clean Bandit - Solo (ft. Demi Lovato) Clean Bandit - Baby (ft. Marina, Luis Fonsi) David Guetta, Sia - Flames David Guetta, Bebe Rexha & J Balvin - Say My Name David Guetta, Anne-Marie - Don’t Leave Me Alone Demi Lovato - Sober Dinah Jane - Bottled Up (ft. Ty Dolla $ign & Marc E. Bassy) DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber, Chance The Rapper, Quavo - No Brainer DJ Snake - Taki Taki (ft. Selena Gomez, Cardi B, Ozuna) Drake - God's Plan Drake - Nice For What Drake - I’m Upset Drake - Nonstop Drake - In My Feelings Dua Lipa - IDGAF Dua Lipa, BLACKPINK - Kiss and Make Up Dynoro, Gigi D'Agostino - In My Mind Ella Mai - Boo’d Up Ellie Goulding, Diplo, Swae Lee - Close To Me Eminem - Lucky You (ft. Joyner Lucas) G-Eazy - No Limit REMIX (ft. A$AP Rocky, Cardi B, French Montana, Juicy J, Belly) G-Eazy & Halsey - Him & I Gryffin, Elley Duhé - Tie Me Down Halsey - Strangers (ft. Lauren Jauregui) Halsey - Without Me Iggy Azalea - Savior (ft. Quavo) Imagine Dragons - Natural J. Cole - ATM Jess Glynne - I'll Be There Jonas Blue - Rise (ft. Jack & Jack) Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams Justin Timberlake - Say Something (ft. Chris Stapleton) K/DA - POP/STARS Katy Perry - Hey Hey Hey Kanye West - I Love It Keala Settle, The Greatest Showman Cast - This Is Me Kendrick Lamar, SZA - All The Stars Khalid - Better Khalid, Normani - Love Lies Kygo, Imagine Dragons - Born To Be Yours Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper - Shallow Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper - I’ll Never Love Again Lady Gaga - Always Remember Us This Way Lauv - I Like Me Better Lil Dicky - Freaky Friday (ft. Chris Brown) Lil Peep, XXXTentacion - Falling Down Lil Wayne - Mona Lisa (ft. Kendrick Lamar) Little Mix - Woman Like Me (ft. Nicki Minaj) Loren Allred - Never Enough LSD - Genius (ft. Sia, Diplo, Labrinth) LSD - Audio (ft. Sia, Diplo, Labrinth) LSD - Thunderclouds (ft. Sia, Diplo, Labrinth) Lukas Graham - Love Someone Maroon 5 - Girls Like You (ft. Cardi B) Marshmello, Anne-Marie - FRIENDS Marshmello, Bastille - Happier Martin Garrix - Ocean (ft. Khalid) Martin Garrix, Justin Mylo - Burn Out (ft. Dewain Whitmore) Martin Garrix, David Guetta - So Far Away (ft. Jamie Scott & Romy Dya) Meghan Trainor - Let You Be Right Migos - Walk It Talk It (ft. Drake) N.E.R.D & Rihanna - Lemon Nicki Minaj - Chun-Li Nicki Minaj - Bed (ft. Ariana Grande) Nicki Minaj - Barbie Dreams Nicki Minaj, Labrinth, Eminem - Majesty Nicki Minaj - Ganja Burn Panic! At the Disco - Say Amen (Saturday Night) Panic! At the Disco - High Hopes Panic! At the Disco - The Greatest Show Post Malone - Psycho Post Malone - Better Now Post Malone, Swae Lee - Sunflower Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody Rita Ora, Liam Payne - For You Rita Ora - Anywhere Rita Ora - Girls Rita Ora - Let You Love Me Rudimental - These Days (ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen) Selena Gomez - Back To You Shawn Mendes - In My Blood Shawn Mendes - Lost In Japan (ft. Zedd) Silk City, Dua Lipa - Electricity Steve Aoki, BTS - Waste It On Me Taylor Swift - End Game (ft. Ed Sheeran, Future) Taylor Swift - Delicate The Carters - APESHIT The Chainsmokers - Sick Boy The Chainsmokers - This Feeling (feat. Kelsea Ballerini) The Greatest Showman Cast - The Greatest Show The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar - Pray For Me Thomas - Marry Me Travis Scott - SICKO MODE Troye Sivan - My My My! Troye Sivan - Bloom Troye Sivan - Dance To This (ft. Ariana Grande) Tyga - Taste (ft. Offset) Tyga - Dip (ft. Nicki Minaj) twenty one pilot - Jumpsuit Weezer - Africa Why Don't We - Hooked Why Don’t We - 8 Letters XXXTENTACION - SAD! Zara Larsson - Ruin My Life Zedd, Maren Morris, Grey - The Middle Zedd, Elley Duhé - Happy Now

Here's the list of the movies I used : Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Creed II Black Panther The Greatest Showman A Star Is Born Wreck-It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks The Internet The Incredibles 2 Widows BLACKkKLANSMAN God's Own Country The Girl In Spider's Web Love, Simon Jurassic World: Fallen Ready Player One Eighth Grade Blockers The Nutcracker The Grinch Suspiria Mamma Mia The Predator Solo: A Star Wars Story Sorry To Bother You The Meg Ant-Man Mary Poppins To All The Boys I've Loved Before FirstMan Halloween Spiderman:Into the Spiderman Crazy Rich Asians The Princess Switch Bohemian Rapsody Aquaman Venom Mission Impossible Avengers:Infinity War And here's the list of the TV Shows I used : Insatiable American Horror Story: Apocalypse The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina Queer Eye Super Drags Lost Song B: The Beginning Doctor Who The Seven Deadly Sins Steins Gate 0 Disenchantment Pose The House on Haunted Hill 

[thewolfisawake]

Two Kids with a MP3 (8tracks / Spotify)

Rooftop // Zara Larsson

Ready or Not // Bridget Mendler

Bottle of Jack (Achtabahn Remix) // Mikey Wax

Trouble // Never Shout Never

Perfect Two // Auburn

Olive You // Dave Days feat. Kimmi Smiles

Shut Up and Dance // Walk the Moon

Into You // Ariana Grande

Rise // Jonas Blue feat Jack & Jack

Tennis Court // Lorde

2002 // Anne-Marie

Favorite Record // Fall Out Boy

White Houses // Vanessa Carlton

Ocean Avenue // Yellowcard

Talking to the Moon // Bruno Mars

Photograph // Ed Sheeran

[seeksstaronmewni]

12 WAYS THAT WALT DISNEY AND HIS EMPIRE COMPANY BECAME A PART OF MY WORLD

Happy 117th Birthday, Walt Disney! (Tweet about this here)

I grew up mostly on @cartoonnetwork, but a lot of CN Studios’ creatives became a part of Disney Television Animation (including @crackmccraigen and Paul Rudish), and Lucasfilm Ltd., including Skywalker Sound and @starwars were absorbed.

First, I began with Winnie the Pooh: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Masterpiece Collection VHS), The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (ABC Saturday Mornings in the 2000s, Tigger-ific Tales VHS), Pooh whistles, giant stuffed Pooh head, Pooh toys (like Tigger’s treehouse), and so on.

@disneypixar‘s Toy Story is a film whose dialogue is almost perfectly integrated into my mind. Definitely the finest of Tom Hanks, and the sound design by Gary Rydstrom (and his assistant, Tom Myers) of Skywalker Sound is equally memorable.

When a relative gave me the 1997 Masterpiece Collection of Bambi, I was introduced to one of Lucasfilm’s finest divisions, THX Ltd. (now owned by Razer). Just a blue outline, geeky jargon text reading “Digitally mastered for optimal video and audio performance”, a loud (and creepy, but eventually I found to be awesome) whirring sound, and some shiny bars reading “THX” *shine* ... I loved it but went through “THXPhobia” until Disney Channel’s final airing of their 4x3 print of Monsters, Inc. on the morning of October 13th, 2008, A.D. I somewhat recall playing the THX logo repetitively, however, listening to the Deep Note played 2 pitches higher than the original, on my VHS of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Now THX Ltd. is over 35 years old!

Relative to Lucasfilm’s quality control division is Star Wars, and I grew up a lot on that... mostly merchandise, VHS tapes and DVDs in THX. I have little memory of when Genndy Tartakovsky’s Star Wars: Clone Wars came out, but I did watch Dave Filoni’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars on CN. The sound design of Return of the Jedi is some of the coolest ever done, including that of Ben Burtt and Skywalker Sound, but The Force Awakens is the ultimate Star Wars movie (my favorite, and with like 6 or 7 sound designers), and The Phantom Menace & Attack of the Clones are the ultimate in quality, featuring THX Digital Mastering, Dolby Digital Surround EX, TAP Quality Assurance Services, and THX in select theatres. Star Wars: Clone Wars, which I got on DVD in late Spring 2010 from a local Movie Gallery closing, features amazing talent by Cartoon Network Studios and Skywalker Sound... in THX!

I also grew up on Disney’s Sing-Along Songs VHS tapes, at least of The Lion King and Mulan. Very memorable Disney moments. It was foolish of me to tape over one of them in Summer 2009, but I think that I lacked record VHS tapes in the moment.

Also part of ABC’s Saturday Mornings was House of Mouse, namely the Mickey Mouse Works segments within. Warner Bros. Sound’s division, Audio Circus, did very good sound design for it.

For Christmas of 2002, we got Monsters Inc. on DVD and were opened to the amazing world of “bonus features” (that is supplemental material)... including outtakes and a sound effects only track!

For Christmas of 2009, I decided to get the platinum edition DVD of Bambi, of course in THX, and it was then that I began to understand the emotional value of the film, of life and death and of romance. It became a very big inspiration (as was revisiting All Dogs Go to Heaven on Atlanta’s CW69 in 2011, created by a former Disney creative, Don Bluth), and it felt more new to me as I remembered little of the film from the 1997 VHS... which I eventually destroyed due to THXphobia (but replaced in Summer 2013). For my sake, though, the dramatic parts, like the “Bambi eyes” scene and Bambi’s fight, were blanked out; I doubt that those would bother me then, and put the blame on the 2+ pitched Deep Note.

I was familiar with the works of Ben Burtt on Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and I enjoyed the sounds of Toy Story, Monsters Inc. and Terminator 2: Judgement Day, but January 2010 brought my revelation of appreciating sound design... of not cartoon sound but the action-y stuff (explosions, electricity, gunfire, crashes... that stuff) -- and that was specifically with another fine division of Lucasfilm Ltd., Skywalker Sound. The sound of Volcano, Titan A.E., Mars Attacks!, Forrest Gump and The Terminator (which I found was remixed from mono to 5.1 Dolby EX with sound effects by Skywalker Sound) were some titles that featured amazing sounds, by Christopher Boyes, Matthew Wood, Chris Scarabosio, Randy Thom, Gary Rydstrom, Steve Boeddeker and more. In 2011, I researched a lot more about Skywalker Sound and made lists of their lesser projects and their staff (In 2017 I began my extensive IMDb list of their 500+ staff). I recognized so many individual sounds and sound effects clusters (or combos) that I could pinpoint, and some guys on the Sound Effects Wiki are pointing some out (along with myself). Eventually, this led me to appreciate lots of sound designers, mostly those of cartoons, like Joel Valentine and Jeffrey Hutchins, who also worked on Disney shows.

Paul Rudish’s envision of Mickey Mouse is amazing and hilarious, and it brought a lot of Cartoon Network Studios creatives into Disney Television Animation. I know not why Advantage Audio (whose creatives usually seem to have a sound design style that sounds... “limiting”) worked on it as compared to Audio Circus or Hacienda Post, but Robert Poole II did expand his sound design palate for this series.

Of course, @crackmccraigen‘s finest cartoon yet, Wander Over Yonder, introduced us to a cartoon that excelled at not only humor--both slapstack and, well, “modern”--but also heart, including some very important life lessons.

A creative on Craig’s team for the aforementioned show, @daronnefcy, created one of the cutest dolls ever, Star Butterfly of Star vs. the Forces of Evil! From excelling at cartoon physics on the visual medium (that is catchlights, heart-shaped pupils, etc.) to such a great act of love at the risk--if not cost--of life, Star is in heart the perfect woman for me. The amazing talents of @cheyennecurtisart and Mercury Filmworks (of Wander Over Yonder, The Powerpuff Girls Movie and Mickey Mouse), plus Mercury’s @littledigits, @brettvaron and @brianwithanh made amazing contributions to Disney’s finest franchise yet! I wish that Joel Valentine and other sound creatives (among visual creatives) would contribute to SvTFOE, though.

These shows, cartoons, companies, studios, and assembled creatives are a part of what is arguably the empire of studios and cartoons, the studios of Walt Disney. For your inspiration and contributions, may God bless all of you for all of your days!

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Greatest Hits of 2018 | Top Music Hits 2018 | Mix Hits 2018 [2010s Hits]

Greatest Hits of 2018 | Top Music Hits 2018 | Mix Hits 2018 [2010s Hits] Greatest Hits of 2018 including: 5 Seconds of Summer - Want You Back, Anne-Marie – 2002, Ariana Grande - No tears left to cry, Ariana Grande - thank u, next, Bad Wolves – Zombie, Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B - Finesse (Remix), Calvin Harris, Sam Smith – Promises, Camila Cabello - Never Be the Same, Charlie Puth ft. Kehlani - Done For Me, Childish Gambino - This Is America and many more! Related Searches: Greatest Hits of 2018, Best Jukebox 2018 Playlist, Late 2018 Non Stop , Top 2018 Non Stop, Mix 2018 Compilation, Best 2018 List, Late 2018 UK, Best 2018 Playlist, Best 2018 Non Stop, Best 2018 Video, Greatest 2018 Non Stop, Mix 2018 Playlist, Best Jukebox 2018 List, List of 2018 Mix, Top 2018 USA, Best Songs of 2018, Top Music 2018, Hits of 2018 Related Channels: K-Music, Ultra Lists, Younger days, Music Hits, DJ Crayfish, Redlist, Music Express, Some Random Guy, Francis Pelletier, MarioMex International Mixes, Top Culture, Related Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6cDP3VeMhg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLQd-YH9EsA 1. 5 Seconds of Summer - Want You Back 2. Aitana, Ana Guerra - Lo Malo 3. AJR - Burn The House Down 4. Álvaro Soler - La Cintura 5. Anne-Marie - 2002 6. Ariana Grande - God is a woman 7. Ariana Grande - No tears left to cry 8. Ariana Grande - thank u, next 9. Baby K - Da zero a cento 10. Bad Wolves - Zombie 11. Benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid – Eastside 12. Black Veil Brides - Wake Up 13. Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B - Finesse (Remix) 14. Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa - One Kiss 15. Calvin Harris, Sam Smith - Promises 16. Camila Cabello - Never Be the Same 17. Cecilia Krull - My Life Is Going On 18. Charlie Puth ft. Kehlani - Done For Me 19. Childish Gambino - This Is America 20. Clean Bandit ft. Demi Lovato - Solo 21. Dan + Shay - Tequila 22. dArtagnan - Was wollen wir trinken 23. David Guetta & Sia - Flames 24. Dean Lewis - Be Alright 25. Disturbed - A Reason To Fight 26. DJ Snake ft. Selena Gomez, Ozuna, Cardi B - Taki Taki 27. Drake - God's Plan 28. Dua Lipa - IDGAF 29. Eleni Foureira - Fuego 30. Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran - River 31. Escape The Fate - Broken Heart 32. Faun - Feuer 33. Florence + The Machine - Hunger 34. Florida Georgia Line - Simple 35. George Ezra - Paradise 36. George Ezra - Shotgun 37. Ghost - Dance Macabre 38. GIMS ft. Vianney - La Même 39. Gorillaz - Humility 40. Gusttavo Lima - Apelido Carinhoso 41. Imagine Dragons - Natural 42. Imagine Dragons - Next To Me 43. Imagine Dragons - Zero 44. Irama - Nera 45. J-AX & Fedez - Italiana 46. Jain - Alright 47. Jax Jones ft. Ina Wroldsen - Breathe 48. Judas Priest - No Surrender 49. Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams 50. Justin Timberlake ft. Chris Stapleton - Say Something 51. Kane Brown - Homesick 52. Kenny Chesney - Get Along 53. Kevinho e MC Kekel - O Bebê 54. Khalid & Normani - Love Lies 55. Kygo, Imagine Dragons - Born To Be Yours 56. Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper - Shallow (from A Star Is Born) 57. Liam Payne, Rita Ora - For You (Fifty Shades Freed) 58. Lil Dicky ft. Chris Brown - Freaky Friday 59. Lost Frequencies & Zonderling - Crazy 60. Louane - Si t’étais là 61. Loud Luxury ft. Brando - Body 62. LSD ft. Sia, Diplo, Labrinth - Thunderclouds 63. Måneskin - Torna a casa 64. Maroon 5 - Wait 65. Maroon 5 ft. Cardi B - Girls Like You 66. Marshmello & Anne-Marie - Friends 67. Marshmello ft. Bastille - Happier 68. Morat - Cuando Nadie Ve 69. Morat, Juanes - Besos En Guerra 70. Mumford & Sons - Guiding Light 71. MUSE - Pressure 72. Namika ft. Black M - Je ne parle pas français 73. Netta - Toy 74. OneRepublic - Connection 75. P!NK - Beautiful Trauma 76. Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It 77. Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes 78. Post Malone ft. Ty Dolla $ign - Psycho 79. POWERWOLF - Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend 80. Rudimental ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen - These Days 81. Santiano - Mädchen von Haithabu 82. Selena Gomez - Back To You 83. Shawn Mendes - In My Blood 84. Shinedown - Get Up 85. Slimane - Viens on saime 86. Sofia Reyes ft. Jason Derulo & De La Ghetto - 1, 2, 3 87. Takagi & Ketra ft. Giusy Ferreri, Sean Kingston - Amore e Capoeira 88. Taylor Swift - Delicate 89. The Interrupters - She's Kerosene 90. The Score - Stronger 91. The Struts ft. Kesha - Body Talks 92. The Weeknd - Call Out My Name 93. Thomas Rhett - Marry Me 94. Three Days Grace - The Mountain 95. Tom Walker - Leave a Light On 96. Trois Cafés Gourmands - À nos souvenirs 97. twenty one pilots - Jumpsuit 98. ZAYN - Let Me 99. Zé Neto e Cristiano - Status Que Eu Não Queria 100. Zedd, Maren Morris, Grey - The Middle Relate Hashtags: #listof2018mix #hits2018 #bestsongs2018 #classic2018playlist #greatest2018nonstop #best2018list #best2018video #top2018mix #greatest2018video #mix2018playlist #top2018nonstop #mix2018compilation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Kc_qGf7FA