#and the lcd soundsystem song slaps

[talesfromthecrypts]

Saw your White Noise gifset and was curious about your opinion on the movie. Was it any good? I haven't watched it yet, but I've been eager to see it.

It's good! Probably bites off more than it can chew, there is a severe lull after the "Part 2" section until the climax. Probably enjoyed the section that I can only describe as "National Lampoon's Vacation from Hell" the best. Excellent cinematography, acting, score. Worth a watch if you have any interest in seeing it at all. I am probably going to search out the book because I did enjoy the themes it was exploring and the film did feel a bit messy in the second half.

[klara-rosa]

some songs are just so good I wanna dive in and bathe in them and completely let them engulf me 🌊

[milfmoder]

A very magical memory just revealed itself to me. About 10 minutes into LCD Soundsystem's set I was searching for All My Friends since I knew they would be playing that song and I finally caught my pal Shannon's eye about 20 metres front and right of me. Somehow the rest of the crowd around us managed to notice this and, despite it being one of the most densely packed groups of people I've ever been in, parted for me like the red sea. I was carried forwards by jovial slaps on the back and cheers when I managed to group up with my friends it was genuinely magical. Sorry to the short guy who ended up directly behind me though. Them's the breaks kid.

[dancing-to-architecture]

22 - LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (2007)

Sound of Silver, more like "Sound of my Post-Collegiate Bummer Years".

This band rules. This album rules. Listen to it if you haven't yet. Thank me later.

It might be the best example of nü-disco, which isn't really a thing but it fucking SHOULD BE.

•Get Innocuous!-

This intro is forever, but it slaps so hard you barely notice it's been 2 ½ minutes when the singing finally comes in, and the fading-out singing is such a cool sound.

Normalize "it making you feel alive"!

•Time To Get Away-

Let the vocal acrobatics commence! For a guy who kinda talk-sings through most of the songs here, his ability to go from a low note to a high note is pretty amazing. Freddie Mercury-level octave leaping on display.

Otherwise, it's a funky-ass bop about breaking up.

•North American Scum-

As something of a North American scum myself, I love this song. Unfortunately, the last time i was given the aux at work... let's just say I was alone in my enjoyment.

"And for those of you who still think we're from England? We're not."

The chorus is simple but effective, and it WILL get stuck in your head.

•Someone Great-

Another long intro that i absolutely love. It just moves.

This song's instrumentation reminds me a lot of Oingo Boingo, in that everybody in the studio is doing something entirely different, and the whole thing really shouldn't work, but it does and it's beautiful.

This song's lyrics just (and likely will always) remind me of the last time i heard it: the day David Bowie died.

•All My Friends-

Starts with one of those chaotic piano bits that sounds like it's easy to play but I'm sure it's actually incredibly difficult, considering how it sounds just slightly out of time with itself, and it just keeps up like that forever.

Also, one of the most relatable songs on the album. I miss hanging out with all my friends. It's been too damn long since I've seen most of them.

•Us V Them-

This one has always had big Talking Heads energy to me. Might be the odd percussion and kinda anxious vibe.

Kinda repetitive at the end.

•Watch the Tapes-

Eh, it's alright. Imo, the weakest song on the album, which isn't to say it doesn't pull its weight, just the one I fuck with the least.

•Sound of Silver-

"Youth may be wasted on the young, but nobody old really wants to be young again, because being young FUCKING SUCKS and there's nothing to do but get torn asunder by your own out-of-control hormones and waste your youth."

•New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down-

Honestly, put this in my top 30 favorite songs of all time. One I've always wanted to try at karaoke, too.

I've never lived in NYC, never even been to New York state, but I've lived enough places and watched them change entirely to have this one really resonate with me.

(A personal aside: i miss the living hell out of you, dirty sketchy downtown Normal, Illinois. I miss your weird little shops and your holes in the wall that were all torn down to make way for hotels and CVSs and 5-over-1 "luxury apartment complexes" that all only exist to bilk college kids out of their money. They tore down and paved over everything that made you cool and interesting and replaced it with corporate bullshit, and you will never be avenged because nobody but me even cares about what you were anymore.)

This track is Completely Different from every other song on the album, but one of the most heartfelt songs of true despaired longing that i could name off the top of my head.

Nothing else i can think of properly conveys the sense of: 'yeah, sure, this place was objectively terrible and truly filthy and incredibly dangerous but it was ours and we loved it dirty and scary and wonderful. It felt like home.

And now you fucking suits and state senators have gone and cleaned it up and sanitized it and moved all the weirdos out and raised the rents to keep it the riffraff and made it "acceptable to the public" and ruined literally everything that made it special and fun and different and unique and good.'

The piano is so beautiful, the drumming at the end is inspired, and the video is exceptional, too.

Damn, this album is so good.

Favorite Track: New York, I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down. If you listen to one song on this album, make it this one.

If you listen to two songs on this album, pick North American Scum to go with it.

Least Favorite Track: Watch the Tapes.

As prophet of our age Laura Les put it best: "we don't want to watch the news, we just read statements".

[heroes-fading]

Do you know the song Losing You Memory by Ryan Star? I find it such an Joel to Ellie song when they are in that massive bitter phase. I mean with lyrics like

"Call all your friends

And tell them you're never coming back

Cause this is the end

Pretend that you want it

Don't react

The damage is done

The police are coming too slow now

I would have died

I would have loved you all my life" (that last line especially kills me given the second game :') )

And

"Wake up, it's time, little girl, wake up

All the best of what we've done is yet to come

Wake up, it's time, little girl, wake up

Just remember who I am in the morning"

I just really want to hear your thoughts on this!

remember when this was on tvd lmao

that soundtrack unironically slapped. so much of vampire media soundtrack goes so hard. the twilight soundtrack? whomever was the music supervisor for tvd? understood the assignment. iconic.

also the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind of it all.

i do love this song (more songs should have bagpipes) - and yes. i ignore tlou2 for my Mental Health but. IT'S A GOOD ANGST SONG.

if you want more angsty joel + ellie alienation/joel dead songs:

for blue skies - strays don't sleep

signs - bloc party

heart skipped a beat - the xx

someone great - lcd soundsystem

my backwards walk - frightened rabbit

wires - athlete (hospital coded thank u)

skinny love - bon iver

welcome home son - radical face

the devil's tears - angus and julia stone

agape - bear's den

anyway if you like emotional pain those should help

[thorne1435]

Hey thorne (can I call you thorne?), How've you been? Just wanna drop some more music recommendations, hope you enjoy this lot!

Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem

Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

Skinny Love - Bon Iver

You can call me anything, honey. ;)

Someone Great: Is this about a divorce or a miscarriage? Maybe an abortion? Anyway, I noticed that the synths aren't perfectly tuned, I think. They're ever so slightly sharp or flat (I couldn't tell you which). Like, they aren't quite tuned to 440 Hz, which always creates a certain surreal quality in a song as modern as this one. I mean it's not like it's from before 440 was the standard, the musical style is clearly modern, it's just...not tuned right. Makes it sound like it's from another place in spite of the fact that it's so perfectly familiar. I think this reflects a degree of separation from The Event that the lyrics telegraph as well, especially in the third verse. Artsy. I really like this one.

Here's a song my mom likes, probably for the wrong reason.

Maps: With album art like that, I was expecting something a bit more...noise-rock, y'know? Their voice has a delicate, soft-spoken quality, which is an interesting contrast to the typical rock instrumentation. Not that that's uncommon really, but I always find it interesting when I see it.

I'm losing track of what songs I've already recommended. Have I already given you Nothing's Coming Out? I know I've given you something by Remember Sports before.

Do You Want To: The chord progression has four measures of the same chord, and then on the fifth measure it raises the chord by a fifth. This is something that was common in classic rock and swing. The interesting thing is, what you expect from that pattern is for it to play 4 measures of the first chord, 4 measures of the second, and then flip back to the first for 4 more. This song doesn't do that. Just as you expect it to repeat the chord from the 5th measure, the 6th raises the chord by (what I'm hearing as) about another whole step, which shatters the pattern I expected, because it's not even as long the pattern typically would suggest. Phrases are not being grouped in 8 measures in this song, it's more like 6, and towards the end I was counting 4, I think. So that's neat.

This song reminded me of Roy Brown. This is really old, but give it a shot because Roy Brown slaps.

Skinny Love: This sounds like acoustic Imagine Dragons. Fortunately for me, I like Imagine Dragons. What the fuck is this about, anyway? It's a break-up song, I think, but like, I can't place the feeling they're trying to convey here. It's vaguely sad?? But it's really hard to get a read on it beyond that. It's not bad, but I don't think I get it.

bruh do you want sad guitar music? my man. i got you. do you know who dar williams is?

[there-must-be-a-lock]

Author’s Faves: 

Marked: BDSM, honesty, trust, trauma, healing, and what it really means to love someone. ~83,000 words, plus assorted codas/timestamps. Extremely explicit.

Let’s Get Married: Dean returning from Purgatory. ~850 words, PG-13.

Constellations: Incredibly fluffy not-too-explicit smut. 1250 words, mature.

Coming Home: In which Dean is fine. Totally fine. No, really. 4980 words, explicit.

1000+ words: 

Floor It: Edging, teasing, orgasm denial, objectification, so much dirty talk, Sub!Dean and a fluffy chaser. ~1700 words, explicit.

Show Me: Dean x Reader x Cas. The softest. Dean Winchester worship in the vague shape of a threesome. ~1050 words, hard R rating.

Hot Chocolate (and Goddamn Marshmallows): Christmas-themed marshmallow fluff. ~2530 words, rated G.

Trust: Chapter 7 of Marked from Dean’s perspective. Can be read as a standalone. ~3130 words, explicit.

Dust To Dust: For Angelina’s Duets Challenge Reboot, inspired by the Civil Wars song of the same name. Skinny-dipping, bonfires, sneak-attack angst. ~2250 words, rated R.

500-1000ish words: 

The Game - “Sexy rules.” 612 words, explicit.

Vacation: Uh. What it says on the tin? Sub!Dean, edging, and a beach house. 806 words, explicit.

Pollen: Endverse Dean x Reader x Cas + sex pollen. 750 words, explicit.

Envy: Dean x Reader and Sam x Reader. Darker than my average. Supremely filthy. ~990 words, explicit. 

The Contest / The Flannel / The First Date: Dean x Reader miniseries. Inexcusably fluffy trio of could-stand-alone pieces. Three moments in a relationship, all adorable and sweet and fun. Not listed in timeline order, but the order I think they work best. ~600 / ~1200 / ~1000 words respectively, rated G. 

Tiger Teeth: Inspired by the Walk The Moon song, with angst to spare. ~730 words, PG-13.

Choose-Your-Own-Winchester Kinkmas Eve Ficlets: Three “either-chester” Christmas-themed kink ficlets.

Mirror: Watching in a mirror, ~1120 words, explicit.

Share: Sub sharing, ~620 words, rated R.

Straps: Pegging, ~500 words, rated R.

Drabbles (500ish words or less): 

Let Her Under Your Skin: Dancing in the kitchen. Fluff with a bit of filth for seasoning. 570 words, mature. 

Zorro: “Sometimes you just wanna get slapped during sex by a girl wearing a Zorro mask.” 329 words, explicit. 

Demon Blade: Demon!Dean + knife play and pegging. 296 words, mature. 

The Beginning Of A Beautiful Friendship: Enemies to lovers. 220 words, mature. 

The Afterparty: Rockstar!Winchesters threesome. 280 words, explicit. 

Dessert: Inappropriate thoughts about Dean’s mouth. 286 words, mature. 

Hot and Cold: Sub!Dean, impact play, coming untouched. 433 words, explicit. 

Ten and Two / Six and Eleven: sub!Dean + teasing + coming untouched. 446 / 575 words respectively, mature. 

Let Me Leave: Dean angst and a lil pain with the pleasure. 293 words, explicit.

Downpour: First date + getting caught in the rain. 522 words, PG. 

Gone: Memories and whiskey and self-loathing. 495 words, rated R.   

Silk: Dean + silk lingerie. 450 words, mature.

Rag Doll: Demon Dean + overstimulation. 362 words, explicit.

Good Girl: Sexting while Dean’s away on a hunt. D/s themes, literally nothing but dirty talk. ~470 words, explicit. 

oh baby: Angsty AF drabble inspired by the LCD Soundsystem song. ~450 words, explicit-ish. 

Too Late: Fluff Friday drabble. Injured reader, Dean being protective. ~540 words, rated G. 

I’ll Be Here: Fluff Friday drabble: falling asleep on the couch together. ~280 words, G. 

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Back to the main masterlist here.

[kimchitae]

music tag ♡

tagged by @mainvocaljin thank u aisha bb!! i had (a lil too much) fun making this

your favorite album:

love yourself: tear - bts

d-2 - agust d

igor - tyler, the creator

ceremonials - florence + the machine

literally all of san cisco’s albums

your favorite music genre: rock, indie, hiphop, pop, tbh i’ll listen to anything 

your favorite song: i’m gonna put just a few i always play or else y’all r gonna be here all day HAHA

your eyes tell - bts

four o’clock - bts

let me know - bts

people - agust d

oh baby - lcd soundsystem

queen of peace - florence + the machine

new magic wand - tyler, the creator

as u wave - halfnoise

most listened to artist(s): bts, tyler, the creator, florence + the machine, lcd soundsystem, joji, 88rising, san cisco, boy pablo, the smiths

an album that’s important to you:

mono - rm

hyyh pt.1 & 2 - bts

love yourself: tear - bts

the queen is dead - the smiths

montgomery ricky - ricky montgomery

a song that’s important to you:

all my friends - lcd soundsystem

myth - beach house

moon child - the f16s

bags - clairo

beach - san cisco

cannibal queen - miniature tigers

fake love - bts

crystal snow - bts

what makes you like a song: the melody, lyrics, baseline, and overall slappability like on a scale of 1-10 is it at least an 8 level slap HAHA

your favorite instrument to hear in a song: bass and drums

a song to dance to:

best of me - bts

telepathy - bts

love my way - the psychedelic furs

dance, baby! - boy pablo

what’s good - tyler, the creator

sundress - a$ap rocky

breathe - 88rising, joji, don krez

gimme love - joji

stardust - marcelo ft. xavier wulf

a song from your childhood: 

dancing queen - abba 

the entire original shrek and shrek 2 soundtrack wssghdkfl

a song that reminds you of love (of any kind):

your eyes tell - bts

heartbeat - bts

sweet night - v

visions of gideon - sufjan stevens

this must be the place - talking heads

man in the moon - jukebox the ghost

all this and heaven too - florence + the machine

a song you love lyrically:

outro: tear - bts

trivia: seesaw - bts

let me know - bts

serendipity - bts

mystery of love - sufjan stevens

cardigan - taylor swift

all this and heaven too - florence + the machine

tagging: @seokjinssi @vjimin @taehyungsjuicybooty @jiminswn @marvelousbangtan @sopefactory ​ @taechnological @lifegoesmon @jinv @jeongookie @houseofarmanto @knjz

[taintmansion]

@lesbianwilliamzabka tagged me to list 4 songs ive had on repeat lately

1. Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem

2. Rhinoceros - The Smashing Pumpkins

3. Gut Feeling / (slap your mammy) - Devo

4. Big Red- Frank Black

I’m tagging @bawnjourno @tube-full-of-demons @soobawlz @nineinchniles

[hazardsoflove]

i was tagged by @miriammaisel to post my top 14 albums using this website <3

together - the new pornographers / they’re my favorite band of all time and this was the first album that came out after i started listening to them and also the first album i saw them on tour for so it’s v special to me

pony - orville peck / the only country artist you’ll catch me listening to

origin of love - mika / this album is so special to me it reintroduced me to mika and it’s full of absolute bangers

pop psychology - neon trees / underrated ahead of its time iconic album

wasteland, baby! - hozier / art

sound of silver - lcd soundsystem / the vibes of this album are immaculate

hozier - hozier / again. art

costello music - the fratellis / full of bangers

high violet - the national / i love you matt berninger

twin cinema - the new pornographers / my favorite tnp song is on this album so i have to stan

life in cartoon motion - mika / this album gives me so much serotonin

i can feel you forgetting me - neon trees / their first album in six years and it fucking slaps stream icfyfm

melodrama - lorde / yes❤️

brill bruisers - the new pornographers / i saw them on tour for the second time for this album and it slaps

i’ll tag @dykearchie @poedamron @sunsetcurvephantoms @archiesbetty @loveswitch @morbidstuff2019 @hotrod2007 @cinemetography @rockyblue & whoever else wants to!! 

[ifshewantsme]

✈★♛✒✦ this is quite a lot but i hope u dont mind, some of these qs are rly good, hope ur doing ok!

the more the better lol thanks :)) I’m doing well, I hope you are too!!

✈ Is there any kind of music that you can’t stand?

I can’t think of any particular genres that I hate but there is one song I cannot stand and that’s Paradise by Coldplay. I don’t even really dislike Coldplay (don’t particularly like them either) and Viva La Vida does slap but something about Paradise just makes me want to vomit. Genuinely can’t listen to it. My friends at school used to bully me by playing it all the time. 

★ Is there any music band you liked years ago that you would not like now?

I don’t think so. There might be some I like less but none that I dislike. 

♛ Name your top 5 music videos.

1. oh baby - lcd soundsystem (it’s a genuine cinematic masterpiece) 2. Season 2 Episode 3 - Glass Animals 3. Blue Song - Mint Royale 4. Nobody’s Empire - Belle and Sebastian  5. Burn the Witch - Radiohead  

(a very close 6th is Sprawl II - Arcade Fire, it had to be mentioned)

✒ If you were a song, what song would you be and why?

If She Wants Me by Belle and Sebastian lol. It’s been such a huge part of my life that it just feels like it’s a part of me. It’s not even close to being my favourite belle and seb song though, it’s just the one I have the biggest connection with. 

✦ What musicians did you like 5 years ago? 10 years ago?

I think five years ago was the height of my Kasabian obsession. Also listened to a lot of Green Day, The Killers and The Black Keys. That may also have been around the time I was getting into Radiohead which just seems crazy lol 

10 years ago I was 10 so I don’t really remember, I probably just listened to whatever my parents or brother were listening to. Also probably KT Tunstall, I loved her as a kid.

[scapegrace74-blog]

I have a couple Franz Ferdinand theses.

1. They are the Scottish LCD Soundsystem (silly post-punk w/ a hard slap and veiled social commentary).

2. This particular song is about pegging.

[silverhue]

8 / 9 / 24!

Thank you, dear!! 

8. A song that you liked when you where 10 that still slaps

Landslide, Fleetwood Mac (TECHNICALLY, it was Smashing Pumpkins, I suppose);

Lugia’s Song from Pokemon 2000 (shhhhhh.); and

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), Green Day (I don’t know if this slaps as much as I’m just super nostalgic).

9. A song that makes you want to go on an adventure

Something Wild, Lindsey Stirling and Andrew McMahon;

Sleep, Last Bison; and

Starlight, Written by Wolves.

24. A song to listen to on a long drive when you have the really strong urge to keep driving until you find somewhere to start a new life (preferably a European city whose language you don’t speak)

Blue Caravan, Vienna Teng;

tonite, LCD Soundsystem; and

Some Kind of Magick, The 69 Eyes.

Gimme more, guys!

[vexedtonightmares]

Top five songs used in any skam! (including og)

I’m gonna go based on the scenes as well (not just my enjoyment of the songs) to make it easier (and I’ll only use 1 per show so I don’t just list every evak song lol)

1. O helga natt by niels bech (og)- do I really need to explain?

2. Last dance by scratch massive (france)- The editing of this whole scene deserves all the awards

3. Trampoline by Shaed (druck)- another one that mostly has to do with the editing, it fit so perfectly with the scene and the song slaps so hard

4. Myth by beach house (italia)- this song was so perfect for the atmosphere of this scene I really couldn’t think of a better song to use, plus it slaps as well

5. Oh baby by lcd soundsystem (nl)- name a more iconic opening sequence, I’ll wait (also nl has the best music use overall in my opinion, they just do everything so fucking well ugh their minds)

[zanrai-kid]

I have no legitimate sleep schedule, so take my list of my Top 20 favorite Gorillaz tracks

20: Momentz - In the same league as Feel Good Inc., don't at me.

19: Stylo - Mos Def and Bobby Womack absolutely devastating on the bridges. Hearing Jeremih perform this live was gorgeous.

18: Humility - Gorillaz made a summer jam, and it sure sounds like it. Damon's getting old, man. Just wants to retire, wants to have a few beers by the beach. 

17: Sleeping Powder - iwasgone I M B A C K ASDKJHAJSDHGSKDJHFGKJHASGLDKJAGSD

16: Feel Good Inc. - A legendary song in my formative years, and a soundtrack to the Bush administration as important as “American Idiot”. Only so low on the list because of oversaturation.

15: Rhinestone Eyes - This song is the embellished production of Plastic Beach in a moment. I once made a mashup with this song and "Kangaroo Court" by Capital Cities.

14: Re-Hash - First song on the first album, and it slaps.

13: Ascension - Vince Staples is such a brilliant voice in the latter half of the decade, and I'm pleased to see Damon Albarn recognize this.

12: DARE - Hot damn, this song is a jam.

11: M1 A1 - Hearing this song kick off a Gorillaz concert feels like getting shot by a cannon. It's the "most like the sound the pilliows exuded on the FLCL soundtrack" song in the Gorillaz discography, and for that, I like it.

10: Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head - When Gorillaz want to tell a horror story, they double down and get Dennis Hopper to tell a story of apocalypse. Demon Days is such an immortal album, and this song will live on as a ubiquitous reminder of one's mortality at the hands of greed. Good one for the pessimistic crowds of both 2005 and 2019.

9: Rock the House - BETTER THAN CLINT EASTWOOD. FIGHT ME. When Gorillaz sample audio, they make sure to make the most of it. The ten second sample of John Dankworth's "Modesty Blaise" carries Del the Funky Homosapien's bragging boogie rap through to another level with the tight bass riffs the self-titled album is known for. Echo effects, horn stabs, a fucking recorder. This tracks fucks me up.

8: Souk Eye - I think a track off of The Now Now is one of the best works in the Gorillaz discography. Primarily because following Humanz and The Now Now, Albarn and Hewlett are in a strange time of their lives. Both are now 50 years old, and Gorillaz has lasted 20 years. The concept has run its course for now. To hear this song close this chapter of the Gorillaz story feels fitting. A love song to the many miles taken, only to realize one must leave their current circumstances in order to survive.

7: Last Living Souls - It's a cliche to say a song builds, but when the track starts with little more than a drum machine, and leads to an acoustic breakdown and string section breakdown back-to-back, you can agree this song builds. A lush atmosphere of tiny bleeps and bloops coming together to become greater than the sum of all parts. The song sounds so down and muted on the album, but hearing it live, it feels like a war cry. Both interpretations fit the themes of Demon Days, and it's a good one to start off the album following the Dawn of the Dead sampled "Intro".

6: El Mañana - Hearing this song follow "Busted and Blue" accompanied by visuals of Noodle during the Humanz Tour is the closest I've come to a religious experience at a concert. The sudden immediacy of the situation following "Feel Good Inc" is made aware from sirens and Damon delivering a ragged vocal delivery. The track ebbs and flows in and out of deep bass and washed out highs. It feels like a sigh. It feels like crying. And if you're a Gorillaz lore sucker like I am, this track accompanies the death of Noodle, the single most important event in the canon. Also, the acoustic version reminds one how good Damon is at evoking very quiet emotion.

5: Tomorrow Comes Today - When those drums come in, man, you get teleported to the turn of the millennium. Dirty trip-hop was coming out of the UK en masse, Fatboy Slim released one of my favorites albums of all time "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars", and Daft Punk's "Discovery" was still a year off. In between some of the most important music of my life being dropped, Gorillaz dropped their first single "Tomorrow Comes Today" at the end of the year and solidified their place for years to come. Slinking and sly, velvety and smoky. This is Gorillaz sending up a culture of basement shows and turntablism. If Think Tank is the first "Gorillaz album", this is when the transition was made manifest.

4: On Melancholy Hill - Ugh, this song. This song is pretty. Full stop. It's one of Gorillaz' very few love songs, and it still manages to capture the plasticine sadness of Plastic Beach. Plastic Beach was my first real and honest introduction to Gorillaz in college, as I only remember hearing about Demon Days from advertising in 2005, when I was 12. This track was just a treat to hear in spring/summer, and a reason I made so many (see: too many) of my finals about Gorillaz. Around the time Humanz was teased, I went back and realized this song had held up so well. It's just a universal sentiment about how the world we know is falling apart, but let's have this moment together. The acoustic version is an honest to God lullaby. Something I can play my future children. Not bad for only 16 lines of lyric.

3: Empire Ants - If "On Melancholy Hill" is about finding the beauty in ruin, "Empire Ants" holds a magnifying glass up to ruin, wondering how it came to be. Listening to the album, "Superfast Jellyfish" came just before. A satirical take on consumeristic meals leading into a song about how we are personified as ants, marching in tandem to complete our tasks and build ever outward, never truly satisfied until death. It is a reminder to look upon the greater picture that is our world and see the moments of tranquility for what they are. Sadly, these moments do not last, and Little Dragon's part reminds us we are part of a machine, ever moving, ever crumbling. It is beauty interrupted by obligation, and for a kid who was in college when this album dropped, and who is now 26 and facing a lifetime of having to make my own decisions, it's an anthem.

2: Hong Kong - I remember loading the entirety of Plastic Beach onto my iPod Nano, and having an iTunes gift card left to spend from Christmas/birthday/etc. Having seen the Demon Days Live concert, I knew this track had to be on my beautiful iPod Nano. That, and for some reason, "Dirty Harry (Schtung Chinese New Year Remix). I remember long car rides staring out the window, listening to this track as the scenery blew by. I remember reading up on this track's history, how it was released in-between Demon Days and Plastic Beach and it shows, how it's a tale of neo-industrial China and Hong Kong's place in both Chinese and British history. This is both a love letter and warning to the nation of the apocryphal train ride that inspired Demon Days. In a world where China seems to be ever rising, "Hong Kong" is a song that asks questions of how this will affect the world as a whole, using Hong Kong as a metaphor. That's nothing to say of the wondrous instrumentation, the piano part in particular on my wishlist of "Songs I Should Learn on Piano Before I Die". Many call it Gorillaz' most underrated track, and I agree full stop.

1: DoYaThing - I'M THE SHIT. I SAID I'M THE SHIT. Above all else, Gorillaz is a collaborative effort of hundreds of musicians from all walks of life. When you throw James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, a band that rose in the same timeframe as Gorillaz, and Andre 3000, my personal pick for the G.O.A.T., magic happens. Uncut, unedited, 13 minute magic happens. Is it a bit of a meme? Sure. It is a shitpost disguised as a legitimate song? Why not. But sometimes, the goofy aspect of Gorillaz can craft audio gold. And aren't we all about memes on this blog? Albarn's at his most snotty white boy. Murphy's production and vocals are a reminder he was every music nerd's wet dream in the 2000s. Andre 3000 is just laying into every line with a confidence not heard since Stankonia. Everything about this song is designed and manufactured to sound like it it running off the rails in a fit of confidence. It is both wildly powerful and mournfully unaware. In short, to quote the great music critic Todd in the Shadows on the subject of LCD Soundsystem’s song “Losing My Edge”, "(It is) a critical darling... This was tailor made for critics. It is perfect music nerd bait, total pandering." DoYaThing, my favorite Gorillaz song of all time.

[jonasaugustn]

i was tagged by @thatsaskam , @nimartino and @ieskeijser thank u angels!!! xxxx

favorite color: yellow! i love it especially on clothes, half my clothes are yellow aajssdhjh

top three ships: this is a difficult one because i don’t really ship much but i’d probably have to say noah x liv, imane x sofiane and yousana (clearly i’d die for all versions of sana and yousef)

last song i listened to: oh baby by LCD Soundsystem. NL’s soundtrack slaps + this aint an exception

last movie i watched: i don’t watch many films either but i think it was crimes of grindlewald bc my mum just got it on dvd and made me watch it with her lmao

i’m gonna tag @axelences @daphylecomte @iridescentwinters @t0asted and @joelcoen sorry if you’ve already done it/been tagged/don’t want to do it <3