#Wicked Lester

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30 Gennaio 1973 – Dopo aver cambiato il loro nome di Wicked Lester, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley e Peter Criss si esibiscono per la prima volta come Kiss, al Popcorn Club del Queens, a New York.

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Wicked Lester - The Original Wicked Lester Sessions - "She" - 1972 - Pre...

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Me Waiting For Bye-Byes

Wicked Lester has always been one of those things for me.

You know, the kind of thing that you remain aware of, but like to put off as you please. Something like the Kiss reunion pre-1996, while you eagerly await the follow-up studio album to Revenge (1992), if you know what I mean. It's difficult.

But today we have a little treat that I just couldn't pass up, and one that could also be used wonderfully as a kind of door opener to even more Wicked Lester songs. So why not?

In this respect I like to remember a little anecdote about the recordings for Paul's '78 solo album. Wasn't it said by someone relevant (1), vaguely recited, that the last bit of Goodbye was written pretty much as the last of those sessions while everyone else except Paul was on lunch break? And without wanting to question this, I can imagine this scenario quite vividly.

Because as much as I appreciate Paul's solo album and Goodbye, you can hear that. Which of course is not to denounce the quality of the result, no, not in any way, but simply to point out where exactly Paul could have gotten the necessary inspiration so quickly.

One is obviously from Destroyer (1976), but I already wrote enough about that a while ago, and the other, well, has covered a few extra kilometers and must have hopped back into Paul's lap from the then orphaned Wicked Lester album (1972) to the studio in 1978, and incidentally goes by the name of Keep Me Waiting. Goodbye's vocal chorus and Keep Me Waiting's opening and main riff should, I guess, speak for themselves.

And yes indeed, Paul writes best when under pressure *wink emoji

Side Note:

(1) Paul himself

Just don't let yourself be pressured into clicking on those highlighted links below:

Goodbye (1978)

Keep Me Waiting (1972)

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(WICKED LESTER)

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idv characters as really shitty (actually phenomenal) blackout poems

all taken from @reallybadblackoutpoems (thank you for your service)

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is this anything

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I can’t believe the Malevolent fandom has slept on For Good from Wicked as a Jarthur song. Arthur as Glinda (Kristen Chenoweth) and John as Elphaba (Idina Menzel). Trust me.

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Hey everyone, requests are open again!! I would really like to see some slasher requests :)) Spooky season is coming! Tags specified some of the things I write for but check out my masterlist for the full idea of things I write for.

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Lorraine Wickes: Imagine if you got to the ARC one day and everyone was like, quietly reading.

Lester: I would be suspicious.

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ineffable husbands in different fonts (to some extent) except they get slowly more insane

Aziraphale and Crowley (Good Omens)

Stede and Ed (Our Flag Means Death)

Killer Queen and Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy (Queen)

Remus and Sirius (Marauders)

Belle and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast)

Phil Lester and Dan Howell (Dan and Phil) Imagine this is flipped for continuity, but it felt wrong to put Phil on the left.

The Priest and Fleabag (Fleabag)

Marvin and Whizzer (Falsettos)

Glinda and Elphaba (Wicked)

Quirrell and Voldemort (A Very Potter Musical)

Alphys and Undyne (Undertale)

(don't ask for explanations, this just makes sense in my head)

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Smackdown 6/16/23

Shotzi wore the Bald Eagle Bikini Top from Wicked Lester Clothing (no longer sold)

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Radio 16

I'm in the midst of a rather marginary yet tricky quandary right now, because I'm not quite sure how to thematically classify our comparison today. Is Radioactive an evolution of Christine Sixteen, a re-write, or simply what is usually dismissed as a rip-off? Maybe I'm approaching this banality a bit too pointedly, because actually it's all one and the same anyway, and in the case of Kiss even more so, right? Then even twice more so. That should be only right and proper to me, and besides no bad reason to be allowed to evade this anyway pedantic question.

And what else would there be to say about Radioactive? There would be those sexy, snappy riffs again, you know, the ones that are so characteristic of Christine Sixteen, like whistling after a hot girl. Same piano. Identical vocal melodies. The echo chorus in the refrain. All that, just shifted around a bit. The way you do it every leap year in your own home basement. Sure, one could argue that Radioactive could be categorized rhythmically, at least partially, as a precursor to Charisma, but then I'd have to rummage around in the Wicked Lester mothballs for Simple Type, but I don't feel much like that today, and besides, I could save that for another review, which I plan to do anyway. But to say it again with one last metaphor, this time from my own moth-box: Radioactive is exactly what you'd get if you put Christine Sixteen in a cocktail mixer, mixed it once vigorously, and poured it back into your glass. Now that's what I call a Straight Shooter. You can count on Gene.

Today no highlighted links, you can hear it all out quite wonderfully even without half a dozen video examples.

Christine Sixteen (1977)

Radioactive (1978)

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dan requested more ways for his gay sims to fuck lmfao

WHICH ONE OF U GOT HIRED BY EA

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Please please please make the winx rewrite playlist on Spotify

Mkay so… I got way too invested and wound up making a 5 1/2 hours long way-too-detailed playlist

This is the link:

Veiled Wings and Shattered Panoramas Official Playlist

And if you want to know why I chose each song, down here is the way-too-detailed-explanation of the playlist!

First off; I chose 2 songs to represent each season

Season 1- Wings by PIXY and Faerie Soiree by Melanie Martinez

Season 2- What’s up Danger by Blackway and Black Caviar and Different World by Alan Walker and Sofia Carson

Season 3- This is War by 30 seconds to mars and Nightmares Never End by JT Music and Andrea Storm Kaden

Season 4- Tiller’s Prayer by Sabrina Jordan and Ribs by Lorde

Subsection here for the main song of each arc for s4

Arc 1- Generation Why

Arc 2- The Old Therebefore (the singing to snakes version cause it’s more dramatic)

Arc 3- What Was I Made For? By Billie Eilish

Arc 4- Spinnin by Madison Beer

Season 5 will be… Nightmares Come to Life from HSMTMTS and Long Live by Taylor Swift

Next I chose 2 songs for each member of the Winx

Bloom- Rising by Julia Lester and The Albatross by Taylor Swift

Stella- Sober II (Melodrama) by Lorde and skinny dipping by Sabrina Carpenter

Flora- Envy the Leaves by Madison Beer and Mouth of the Eden by Sabrina Jordan

Musa- Whispers by Halsey and the grudge by Olivia Rodrigo

Tecna- Invisible Chains by Lauren Jauregui and idontwannabeyouanymore by Billie Eilish

Aisha- The Tradition by Halsey and Comfort Crowd by Conan Gray

Subsection for my 3 main songs I associate with the girls:

A World Alone by Lorde

WOKE UP by XG

For Good from Wicked

Continuing with the boys

Sky- Lie by Jimin and In My Blood by Shawn Mendes

Brandon- Something Big by Shawn Mendes and Thumbs by Sabrina Carpenter

Helia- Cough Syrup (the Glee version) and Speak Out (Acoustic) from HSMTMTS

Riven- Boy in the Bubble by Alec Benjamin and BLUE by Billie Eilish (cmon ‘I thought we were the same birds of a feather now i’m ashamed’ is so Driven coded it’s not even funny. And the whole final part from ‘you were born bluer than a butterfly’ is just so perfect for him.)

Timmy- The Other Side and Summer Child by Conan Gray

Nabu- Wool by Flatland Cavalry and Die Alone by FINNEAS

Subsection for my 3 main songs I associate with the boys:

Youth by Shawn Mendes and Khalid

ON by BTS

The Story by Conan Gray

Next, songs for the couples!

Skloom: lovely by Billie Eilish and Khalid, Surrender by Natalie Taylor (and in the future) Maybe this Time by Joshua Basset and Sofia Wylie

Stella and Brandon: There’s no Way by Lauv and Julia Michaels and R.E.M by Ariana Grande

Flora and Helia: Canada by Lauv and Alessia Cara and Venus Sunrise by Lia Marie Johnson

Rivusa: Ain’t No Doubt About It from ZOMBIES 3 (partially as a joke but also cause that song is absolutely so them) Alley Rose by Conan Gray and ESPECIALLY Vermillion by Sabrina Jordan

Tecna and Timmy: Someone You Like by the girl and the dreamcatcher and Tell Em by Sabrina Carpenter

Aisha and Nabu: Tornado Warnings by Sabrina Carpenter and safety net by Ariana Grande and Ty Dolla $ign

Next, songs for different characters and a few couples!

Icy- 28 Reasons by SEULGI

Stormy- The Lighthouse by Halsey

Darcy- Partners in Crime by FINNEAS

Darcy and Riven- Getaway Car by Taylor Swift and Astronomy by Conan Gray

The Trix- Lightning by Little Mix

Daphne- Can’t Catch Me Now

Valtor- Burn the Witch by Shawn James and Castles Crumbling by Taylor Swift and Hayley Williams

Daphne and Valtor- Dynasty by MIIA

Now Roxy’s squad!

Roxy- Control by Halsey and How Villains are Made by Madalen Duke

Shirley- Matilda by Harry Styles

Naten- Kid in Love by Shawn Mendes

Alexa- Follow the White Rabbit by Madison Beer

Chimera- Wandering (Don’t Go) by Hues and Lia Marie Johnson

Chimera and Naten- The Alchemy by Taylor Swift

Roxy and Shirley- On My Way by Sabrina Carpenter and Alan Walker

The Sibling Squad- Grow by Conan Gray and Warriors by Imagine Dragons

Then I put a bunch of songs that just remind me of the Winx or help me get into a writing mood, I’ll just put the title here cause I’m getting tired

Rise

odd eye

run for roses

untouchable

ringo

s-class

thunderous

lion

secret story of the swan

panorama

centuries

voltage

flesh & bone

legends never die

lifts

Finally, I put a song for Selina and what will be the main song for season 6

For Selina: Fall Little Wendy Bird Fall by Lydia the Bard <- this is exactly the vibe future Selina will have for reals

And finally, the main song for s6:

Til Forever Falls Apart by Ashe and FINNEAS

Wow… I def put way too much thought into this.

Anyways, hope u enjoy!

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Wicked Lester Paulie, my beloved 😩