#Oysterband

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Song Lyric Sunday: Open Road And A Hungry Heart

For SLS this week Jim has invited us to play something by our favourite band, as he tells us in his post Interest In Music. What to choose? I have been listening to music for well over sixty years so I have accumulated a great many favourites in that time. There are the obvious ones, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, the Moody Blues etc, but also many others that may be less well known,…

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Oysterband Extend 'A Long Long Goodbye' Tour With Autumn Headline Shows

OYSTERBAND have announced they have extended their “A Long Long Goodbye” tour with the announcement of a further series of headlining dates this November. While recognised as one of the UK’s foremost folk-rock bands and an unparalleled live proposition, the band confirm the decision they made recently to call time on their touring career.  Speaking about their upcoming shows Oysterband…

[martyred-underneath-a-microscope]

from 'Granite Years' by Oysterband

[pendraegon]

if you can't be good be lucky........

[armillaryspheres]

I was tagged by @szappan (Thank you!!)

Rules: Put your playlist on shuffle, list the first five songs that come up and let people vote on which song they like the most.

Tagging @boycannibal @lucreziaborgiagf @siobhanromee and @lovehorror !!

[ephemeriee]

when i saw steeleye span live i got a greenman tshirt and when i saw green lung live i got a greenman tshirt so i have to somehow convince my mum that the all around my hat people are on the same level as the let the devil in people

[cardinalvalentino]

i was tagged by jess @lucreziaborgiagf thank youuuu

rules: put your playlist on shuffle, list the first six songs that come up and let people vote on which song they like the most.

this time im gonna shuffle my on repeat so we can get our finger on the pulse of what ive been listening to...

tagging whoever i didnt tag last time and wants to do it sorry im lazy. just say ive tagged you i do mean it ♡

[thoughtsformtheuniverse]

tagged by @booksandchainmail to shuffle my general listening music and post the first 10 songs. I chose my 'music' playlist rather just my full library to avoid the two (2) podcast episodes and random audiobook chapters in there.

1. Songs for Lonely Giants by The Mountain Goats ⁃ I mean. it’s The Mountain Goats. it’s slow, it’s sad, it’s pretty weird. I found this one on a character playlist for Jack from E. Jade Lomax’s Beanstalk series (read it for free here!) it’s very good!

2. Moving On by Oysterband ⁃ not blue oyster cult, but a much weirder band that mostly sings songs about working man’s politics in England in during the last century. this song has both the lines "we asked the man for justice, well he handed us a stone" and "the way to hell is straight and sure/the way to heaven is long/the way to your heart is never-ending/so I just keep moving on" and I adore it

3. Four Hours by The Longest Johns ⁃ I found The Longest Johns late in college (and felt deeply smug when their Wellerman was a hit a year later. I found them first), but I do just listen to a lot of sea shanties. This one is a big ass mood for getting off a ship again and trying to adjust to Land and Not a Watch Schedule. Also, like most sea shanties, great to do chores and lab work too

4. Theseus by The Oh Hellos ⁃ god but I always love The Oh Hellos; this is a song about the importance of maintenance and I treasure it. all of the Zephyrus album is good

5. Loves Me Like a Rock by The Wailin’ Jennys ⁃ turns out The Wailin’ Jennys, usually a folk band, did a cover of Paul Simon’s Love Me a Rock. it’s pretty good. (I actually downloaded this earlier today; I have no sophisticated thoughts yet)

6. I Don’t Want You Now by KT Tunstall ⁃ If Only is probably my actual favorite song off this album, but KT Tunstall is always a good time

7. Angels of the River by Oysterband ⁃ aaand the other stuff Oysterband does is odd, folky, kinda wifty stuff like this. Genuinely no idea what this one is about, any more than I know what Milford Haven is about. I like it though

8. Now I am an Arsonist by Jonathon Colton (ft Suzanne Vega) ⁃ to me, this is a very unlikely combination of artists; Colton usually does deeply nerdy fare, while Suzanne Vega soft and strange. this song is on my thieves playlist, and I could not really describe why

9. Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull ⁃ most of the Jethro Tull songs I like best are songs about industrialization with some of the weirdest flute solos I have ever heard, and Heavy Horses is no exception. This song is nearly 9 minutes long and about the arrival of tractors. it’s great. (Stormwatch is actually my favorite Jethro Tull album, and Weathercock or Acres Wild are more favorite songs from this one, but do I really like Heavy Horses)

10. Falling For The First Time by The Barenaked Ladies ⁃ This is the kind of overlapping wordplay I’m here for, the whole chorus delights me; "Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost/Anyone plain can be lovely, anyone loved can be lost/What if I lost my direction? What if I lost sense of time?". And the way it comes back in the final chorus, but tweaked a little. it’s just a good time.

I’m deeply surprised that there’s no They Might Be Giants, Great Big Sea, or songs from my highschool acapella group, but other than that, this is pretty representative.

@epsilon-delta do you play tag games?

[akantonelli]

shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals 💌🩷

shuffling my mountain songs playlist because that's the vibe

1. running to the light, runrig

genuinely one of my favourite songs of all time. imagine driving through the mountains during golden hour at sunset, windows down, the breeze in your hair... it doesn't get better

2. dancing as fast as i can, oysterband

going two for two on favourite songs. i'm aroace, but when i was younger and didn't know i picked this for my first dance song at my future wedding. 13 years later and if i ever get married, that still stands

3. proterra, runrig

i mean, i know i made this playlist but we're getting nothing but bangers rn... you're on for a great mountain driver with this

4. someone, somewhere, oysterband

promise this playlist has other artists on it, but a fun one for having a lil dance dance

5. four seasons in one day, crowded house

oh this is apt for the spa weekend 🤣 and they're australian... oscar win incoming??

[mostlyinthemorning]

Song poll

Thanks for the tag @ramonaflow @chelle-68

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most!

I feel like I should be asking people to vote for the song they've actually heard of, but let's give this a go.

Tagging @carolrain @blackandwhiteandrose @weathereyehorizon @missgeevious @dinnfameron and anyone else who wants to play.

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Bye Bye June

  Happy Independence Day, for those who are celebrating. And Happy General Election Day for those of us in the UK – though after fourteen years of this incompetent, corrupt rabble maybe we should name it Independence Day too? Anyway, I’m not here to pass inane political comments, I have something much more important in mind: it is time for my review of last month’s posts, in case you missed…

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The Wishing on Space Hardware playlist (story edition) v1.0

Hmm. A touch premature, perhaps, but while my grand finale plans include a stupidly ambitious attempt to compose a playlist of songs fitted to each character I’m using as a point of view (30+!), I have collected enough IBO-feeling songs to do that for fics in the series too. Well, I did after committing to the bit and hunting down ones to fit the stragglers. We are 18 posted out of 20, so there’s a possibility I’ll revise this later. But hey! For the moment, I’m quite happy with how this came out. And if you like mixes of British folk, indie rock, Country-adjacent stuff, and Leonard Cohen, maybe you will be as well. (Special achievement: it’s not wall-to-wall Thea Gilmore songs.)

For those of you just tuning in, my post-canon Iron-Blooded Orphans series Wishing on Space Hardware can be found at Ao3 via all good web browsers (probably the bad ones too). Full spoilers for both seasons of the anime come as standard.

Arc #1: Moving on or standing still

A Handful of Rusted Petals – Embers [Skinny Lister]

Long is the distance, hard is the mile / That drags me away from our innocent smile / Where wild is the welcome, the company right / Far from the rattle and roar of the fight

I like Skinny Lister a lot and thought this fit the bittersweet themes of these vignettes rather well.

The Grandmaster – The Game [The Levellers]

The clock ticked past the final hour / Which of the men had lost? and what was the cost? / The glasses now were empty and gone / To wash away the shame, and take away the pain

While not 100% on the money, this song seems to capture the feel of the Elion vs McGillis conflict, from Elion’s side at least.

To Catch a Falling Star – Get Better [Frank Turner]

So try and get better and don't ever accept less / Take a plain black marker and write this on your chest / Draw a line underneath all of this unhappiness / Come on now, let's fix this mess / We could get better because we're not dead yet

Gender flip the lyrics and this is basically Yamagi and Shino in this fic to a T.

Fragments of You/Pieces of Me – Injuries [Skinny Lister]

On the advice of my heart I flew / Into the burning sun / And for the life of me I can’t / Find me a way to return

Because sometimes life is at once fundamentally difficult and nevertheless glorious.

Arc #2: Monsters out of the past

Let Sleeping Angels Lie – Call You Friend [Oysterband]

So many times we’ve disagreed / Don’t count the cost there’s a greater need / We sit and watch each other bleed / That’s why I call you friend

Eugene and Shino’s relationship in a nutshell.

Between Family – The Power of Unity [Masaru Yokoyama]

(With full apologies to Mr Yokoyama. I tried to come up with an actual song but using this track is much funnier. Plus, you know. Smut. I don’t tend to spend much time putting lyrics to that.)

I can picture the polyamorous numpties to this far, far too well.

The Ares Affair – Everybody Knows [Leonard Cohen]

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded / Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed / Everybody knows the war is over / Everybody knows the good guys lost

The point where WoSH swerves hard from ‘fix-it’ to ‘consequences of fixing it’.

The Haunting of Takaki Uno – Don’t Dim Your Light For Anyone [Thea Gilmore]

The world is fierce, it's hard as nails / When you do good but goodness fails / You crawl the road that others run / Don't dim your light for anyone

I find Takaki tricky to write because his voice isn’t quite as distinct as Yamagi or Ride, but I know exactly what I want to capture through him.

Arc #3: The pressure of ghosts

Frozen Sunlight – Apparition #12 [Thea Gilmore]

And I smelled the ghosts of the ashes and the orchids / I've got promises tattooed to the insides of my eyelids / And I'll be watching when the Richter reaches ten / I bled by these weapons, babe, and now I'm one of them

Two Thea Gilmore songs in a row, I know, but they have very different tones and this is on point for my interpretation of Azee.

Of Obsessions and Erotemes – A Good Song Never Dies [Saint Motel]

There was a moment, a hole opened in the sky / A chance to join their pantheon / For all the times they never heard your battle cry / Now even angels sing along

I only encountered this song recently but I can see Iverson to it, so now it’s their villain theme.

Revolution for Beginners and Polyamory for Dumbasses – Modern Way [The Kaiser Chiefs]

Hold on to the basics / But we can't change all our tactics / There's no point sitting / Going crazy on your own

Had originally penciled in ‘Truth Is’ by the Levellers for this, but I think ‘Modern Way’ is more applicable to the whole.

Under a Crescent Moon – Son of the Left Hand [Duke Special]

In dying light my shadow calls / I watch his fingers stalk the walls / And now in hollow down I stumble on / The rubble of my babylon

Goes harder than perhaps the tone of the fic strictly requires, but honestly? I think that’s probably earned by the situation.

Arc #4: Schemes and daydreams

Eugene Sevenstark and the Hesperus Treasure – Plans [Devil and the Deep Blue Sea]

And I should find / A better way to spend my time / Than spinning grand designs / Every day with you

The story dealing with coincidence and anticlimax felt like it needed something soothing as a soundtrack.

Hope Against Hope – All This And Heaven Too [Florence + The Machine]

And I would give all this and heaven too / I would give it all if only for a moment / That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see / 'Cause I've been scrawling it forever, but it never makes sense to me at all

I listened to this a lot while writing the next story in the series, but it fits Kudelia too well not to use here.

Love, Death and Cannoli – Fire and Water [The Wandering Hearts]

All love's like fire and water / I ask myself, "Should I bother?" / When you look at me with those big brown eyes / And I know what I'll do / I've tried but it's impossible / Can't keep myself away from you

The Yamagi/Shino song as far as I’m concerned.

Fata Morgana – Belgrade [Battle Tapes]

We pretend in the darkness / We pretend the night won’t steal our youth / Singing me the sweet songs of seduction / Let me be the fool, fool, fool / Who will live and die for you

There are many ways to be seduced and become a fool for others. Also I needed a banging tune for what is, broadly, a long action sequence of a fic.

Arc #5: The end of the world

We Three Kings – Bullet [Saint Motel]

You don't stop a bullet that you set into motion / You don't stop a fire when you light an explosion / So then, why would we fight it? Already ignited / Counting down, down, down, down

This story is inevitable. Or if it isn’t, the major events are underway long before our protagonists arrive. And then there’s that one-in-a-million shot...

History of a Catastrophe – Who By Fire? [Leonard Cohen, live version]

And who by brave assent, who by accident / Who in solitude, who in this mirror / Who by his lady's command, who by his own hand / Who in mortal chains, who in power / And who shall I say is calling?

More Leonard Cohen, with this particularly beautiful version of the song, for an exploration of how terrible systems warp people’s lives.

Ragnarök in G Minor – Battlegrounds [Coco and the Butterfields]

Hey, hey, what do you say when you fall down / Hey, hey, go away from battlegrounds / And I, I feel like I'm living just to stop you winning / So carry on, carry on, carry on ‘til I'm gone

It’s that third line in the chorus. That’s the fic. (Or it will be once I’ve written this monster; the document passed 1MB a couple of weeks back, ye gods.)

A Day in the Light – Something for the Pain [She Drew the Gun]

Walls for the wind / Shelter from the rain / Something for the hunger / And something for the pain

This will be the coda to the series. And I feel this song works well for the history of IBO’s setting. A summing up, if you will.

[myalchod]

Tagged by both @junkshop-disco and @jenni3penny 💙

Shuffle your on repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people.

Indigo Girls - "Secure Yourself" Restless with an angel's wing / I dig a grave to bury you

Heart - "If Looks Could Kill" You're missing the mark, shooting in the dark / I'm pulling the wool from my eyes

Capercaillie - "Little Do They Know" For years now, we've been orphans in a storm / Hanging on in vain for the clouds to unfold

Julia Ecklar - "Threes: Take 3" Three things are most perilous: a victim with a grin, / A secret you're not in on, and a test you cannot win

Florence + The Machine - "No Light" You are the silence in between / What I thought and what I said

Jermaine Clement - "Shiny" Send your armies but they'll never be enough / My shell's too tough

June Tabor & Oysterband - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" Gets a taste in my mouth / As desperation takes hold

Vesna featuring Věra Martinová - "Bílá Laň" Tady je tvůj háj, tady je tvůj ráj, / jinam nepatříš

Oysterband - "We Shall Come Home" I need to touch someone / At the dying of the day

Todrick Hall featuring Bob the Drag Queen- "Wrong Bitch" And I'll be silent the day I see motherfuckin' monkeys fly / They flyin' now? Hmm

This went way more female vocalist-heavy than I realised my music is -- I don't know if it's that particular playlist or if I have a higher proportion of those than I realise -- and a lot more English-language too. Clearly I need to review/rebuild this playlist to add in a bunch of the other stuff I've been listening to regularly.

Not tagging anyone in particular cause I'm a lazy bum, but grab it if you want?

[turnips-creates]

url song tag!!!! (PLAYLISSSSSSTT)

*This is so freaking late, so I doubled the number of songs. Hope all y'all enjoy!*

I was tagged by the wonderful @pinespittinink !!! I'm so excited to do this, so without further ado, here's my my url in songs:

T: 'Tardigrade Song' [Cosmo Sheldrake] ; 'Talk on Indolence - Live' [The Avett Brothers]

U: 'Up & Down' [Exid] ; 'Used to the Darkness' [Des Rocs]

R: 'Rio' [Hey Marseilles] ; 'Revenge & It's Thrills' [Tonight Alive]

N: 'The Newry Highwayman' [Runa] ; 'notre dame' [Paris Paloma]

I: 'I Am the Winter' [The Family Crest] ; 'I Hope Your Husband Dies - Live' [Amigo the Devil]

P: 'Personal' [Point North] ; 'Parishaan' [Niyaz]

S: 'Sappho' [Ruby Shore] ; 'Setting Fires' [American Avenue]

C: 'Cherry Blossoms' [Dream Hotel] ; 'Candy Coated Lies' [Hot Milk]

R: 'Raging on a Sunday' [Bohnes] ; 'The Road to Santiago' [Oysterband]

E: 'Empress' [Morningsiders] ; 'Eat Me' [Demi Lovato, Royal & the Serpent]

A: 'AHH OOP!' [Mamamoo, eSNa] ; 'Athena' [Megan Dixon Hood]

T: 'Take Me to War- Live' [The Crane Wives] ; 'Trouble Finds You're [Juliet Simms]

E: 'Ego Trip' [The Book Club] ; 'Ensen Dhaif' [Emel]

S: 'Scream' [Dreamcatcher] ; 'she calls me daddy' [KiNG MALA]

tagging: @carrotblr @sentfromwolves @saphoblin @faelanvance @thesympatheticpotato @legiomiam

[miraphoenix]

Tagged by @bavajadas (💖) to "Put your playlist on shuffle and post the first ten songs, then tag ten people. No skipping!"

Clampdown -- The Clash

Blue Sky Mine -- Midnight Oil

Palace Of Memory -- Oysterband

Someday Soon -- Great Big Sea

There Is No Time -- Lou Reed

The Charge -- New Model Army

Burning Down The House -- Talking Heads

Cult Of Personality -- Living Colour

For My Lover -- Tracy Chapman

Born Feral -- New Model Army

No idea who to tag who hasn't done this, but if you want to, have at it! ^^