#an ode album

[sowhat17live]

S. Coups SVT is right here reward pics💕

[alexvacice]

V druháku na střední jsem jezdívala domů tramvají 14 z karláku až na teplárnu michli. Ta trasa byla asi o 15 minut delší než moje běžná, ale jezdila jsem tak ráda, protože jsem právě měla 15 minut víc na čtení. Ten rok jsem si zamilovala literaturu, četla jsem jako divá. Někde po cestě tam je starý kolejiště. Na jaře je zahaleno zelení. A ten pohled mě tak vždycky uchvátil, že jsem na chvilku musela zvednout hlavu od knížky a užít si tu přírodu uprostřed obstavený Prahy. Oproti všem zahradám to zarostlý kolejiště mělo svoje kouzlo. Sálo drzou a surovou energií. Na začátku jara, když je ještě chladno a vzduch dráždí, bylo cítit jak se přesně v tom místě příroda probouzí. I přes okna tramvaje bylo cítit jak všechno kolem vibruje magií života.

[seepingfrommyskin]

rip your heart out.

[daddy-long-legssss]

i will never forget that alex slicked his hair back with a fuck ton of gel a year ago today to acknowledge 10 years of ‘am’

[jathun]

To any caleb girlies out there...do yourself a favour and listen to "take me back to eden" by sleep token

Y'all can thank me later.

[frank-enweenie]

In the wind and rain // Make me new again.

Past Lives by L.S Dunes

[j1gsawz]

rip zep hindle you would have loved twenty one pilots’ 2013 album vessel

[asmodeauxx]

Rock 'N' Roll Suicide poster (Textured and Clean!)

saw a this album poster n wanted to draw Elias over it (I even personalized all the text!)

OG pic;

[wanopo-daily]

Day 148:

Vol.19 is a little weird..

if you look at all numbered volumes after volume 8, all of them have the text "WONDERFUL☆OPPORTUNITY! VOL.[number] in white, like the albums below!

the only volume (after 8) that does not fit in this pattern is 19 where the text on the bottom is green instead. i honestly have no clue why. i thought it was a new thing they were doing, but it went back to white with 20's cover so maybe 19 is just a little silly :)

[yansurnummu]

today's album I apparently accidentally got my mother into: Can Kırıkları - Şebnem Ferah (turkish alt rock/symphonic metal)

[hum--hallelujah]

me trying to explain to literally anyone why the song Millions by Gerard Way makes me lose my everloving mind no matter where I am or what I'm doing when I hear it

[thursdaynovember]

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Guilty Simpson released his debut solo album Ode To The Ghetto March 25, 2008

[schnaf]

Little Things

[daddy-long-legssss]

The Story Behind The Song: Arctic Monkeys’ early ambitions on ‘A Certain Romance’

Lucy Harbron – Far Out Magazine | January 17, 2024

It was 2006. Mortgages were crashing, and businesses were going bust. Tony Blair was on his last legs in office as the longest-serving prime minister since Margaret Thatcher, and the hangover of ‘Cool Brittania’ was beginning to set in with an unexpected ferocity. Things were bleak when a young Alex Turner sang, “There ain’t no romance around there” through the public’s speakers. Arctic Monkeys were about to write themselves into musical history as the voice of a new generation.

The final song on their debut album, there has always been something special about ‘A Certain Romance’. In 2022, after the release of their seventh album, The Car, Turner seemed to find himself reflecting back on that 2006 track. To the musician, that early cut holds a clue to everything that was to come as he said the piece “showed that we did actually have these ambitions beyond what we once thought we were capable of”.

Coming in at over the five-minute mark, ‘A Certain Romance’ almost feels like the Arctic Monkeys’ version of a rock opera, summarising all the themes, feelings and energy that came before it on their seminal album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. It has the cheekiness of ‘Fake Tales Of San Francisco’ and the catchy instrumentals of hits like ‘Dancing Shoes’ or ‘I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor’. Utilising the northern charm of ‘Mardy Bum’, it stands as a final, neatly summarising point on the social commentary found in their early tracks like ‘From The Ritz To The Rubble’ or ‘Riot Van’. Really, it could be argued that ‘A Certain Romance’ is the ultimate example of Arctic Monkeys’ original sound, perfectly encapsulating all the things that made the world listen up and pay attention.

It’s like they seemed to know that, too, always allowing the song a special place. In fact, it was really the band’s opening remark. Years before the offer of a debut album came around, the group were a well-oiled machine with their own local hits. They had the northern live music scene in their hands as their homemade demo CD was passed around like everyone’s worst-kept secret. Beneath the Boardwalk features eight out of the 13 songs that would be on Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, albeit in a slightly different, lower-quality version. But the opening number, ‘A Certain Romance’, sounds just the same.

It’s all there, from the rolling opening drums to that final guitar solo. Recorded and produced in a rented studio at only age 17, the existence of ‘A Certain Romance’, one of the band’s most explorative and energetic numbers, in this form this early in their career feels like a diamond sitting in a mine. It proves that they were always onto something special.

They never needed any help. In fact, their producer, Jim Abbiss, noted that they even seemed nervous about the help. “I think they were probably a bit weary, like ‘who’s this guy? And is he gonna make our sound this or that.’”

They didn’t want anything to change too much, as the group already had the songs figured out. Turner certainly did, as the track’s meandering narrative about hometown lads, fights, and local boredom is already there. Talking on a podcast, original member Andy Nicholson revealed the story behind the song. “We had a practice room with a pool table in, and we had a party in there, and we invited another band who were friends of ours, and we all had some drinks,” he said. “Then something happened, someone throws a pool cue, someone throws a pool ball, and everyone ends up fighting,” he added, explaining the lyrics, “there’s boys in bands / And kids who like to scrap with pool cues in their hands.”

But the magic of Arctic Monkeys lies in their nuance. What begins as a snooty analysis of his local landscape is a genuinely affectionate take. “Well, over there, there’s friends of mine / What can I say? I’ve known ’em for a long long time / And, yeah, they might overstep the line / But you just cannot get angry in the same way,” Turner sings, looking around at his bandmates and lifelong friends. ‘A Certain Romance’ is not only a time capsule for the group’s beginnings but is an ode to all the people who were there with them. It’s an ode to the hometown that made them and all its various characters.

But as the last guitar solo roars to life, there is an unspoken statement that they’re going to be bigger than what they came from. “I remember when we were recording ‘A Certain Romance’ and having a conversation with the producer about the final guitar solo,” Turner told NME, recalling the moment these songs were reworked for their debut. But they wouldn’t let anyone mess with ‘A Certain Romance’, knowing exactly what they were doing and trying to say with that one. In the 2003 demo version, all the feeling is already there, and Turner wouldn’t risk it.

“There’s something that happens at the end of that track where we break some rules in a single moment,” he continued. What happens at the end of the piece feels even more special, considering how the album was recorded. “These are the songs we wanna do, and I think this is the order we wanna do them in,” Alex Turner told their producer, recounting the conversation in 2007 to RadioX, “And he goes, ‘alright, we’ll try to record them in that order as well.’” As the final song, that last guitar solo is the last thing recorded for the album, standing as a cathartic outlet and a chance for the band to prove themselves.

“We focused on the [emotional] effect of the instrumentals over the words,” Turner reflected on the track, concluding, “and I feel like we’ve been trying to do that again and again since then.”

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[sniper2004]

this skng makes me have a panic attack im serious

https://open.spotify.com/track/5ruzrDWcT0vuJIOMW7gMnW?si=rAfmqsJlQriK13ImZ2REzQ

me when they’ve been saying you’re sophisticated