#gronlandic edit and suffer for fashion are SO GOOD

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Of Montreal fans interact pls

[hexenmeisterer]

THE ARMAND PLAYLIST

this goes basically chronologically through Armand's story, up through the end of The Vampire Armand. There is definitely show stuff in there as well, I just cannot separate them out! I tried to choose songs that not only describe a specific moment in his story but also apply to him in general. I had a really fun time seeking out songs about Spiritual Bird Stuff, The Movies, Complex Trauma, and Jesus. and finding music in his languages-- there is at least 1 song each in Ukranian, French, Italian, and Latin! (dang, no Greek tho..)

a truly excessive amount of liner notes under the cut!

Seven Swans: religious bird stuff!! references the Book of Revelations, the second coming of christ. all the sevens, the seven seals seven churches etc. 

"UNCUT: Your god seems very vengeful in your songs. STEVENS: [Laughs] Oh no. There's no element of revenge in the character of God, but there's definitely an aggressive joy. He's not chasing you like a stalker, he's chasing you like a lover chases you. There's a lot of aggression in that kind of romance. We pursue things out of reverence, out of our need to worship."

He will take you If you run, He will chase you 'Cause He is the Lord

Afraid: 

Cease to know or to tell or to see Or to be your own Have someone else's will as your own You are beautiful and you are alone

Donna Donna: RELIGIOUS BIRD STUFF PT 2 

the various translations from Yiddish on the wikipedia page are interesting!! 

On a wagon bound for market There's a calf with a mournful eye High above him, there's a swallow Winging swiftly through the sky

el árbol del olvido:

 lyrics translated

Where I was born there is a tree that is called forgetfulness Where, to console themselves, vidalita(my little life) the moribund souls go

Rock me Amadeus: the lyrics of rock me amadeus are profoundly irrelevant. except for the Rock Me Amadeus part :)

Mi Sei Scoppiato Dentro Il Cuore / You Burst Inside My Heart: 

lyrics translated

Maybe because you looked at me Like no one has ever looked at me I feel alive Suddenly for you

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy : marius de romanus literally founded the good old fashioned school of lover boys, and armand did, in fact, learn his passion there :)

Gronlandic Edit:

So am I erasing myself? Hope I'm not erasing myself I guess it would be nice to give my heart to a god But which one, which one do I choose?

Amarilli Mia Bella: “The verse alludes to the Greek myth of Amaryllis who, picking flowers on a mountainside, falls in love with the shepherd Alteus. He, however, is interested only in flowers, and says that he can love only the girl who brings him a new flower. Amaryllis follows the advice of the Oracle at Delphi, taking a temple arrow and waiting on Alteus’s doorstep each night, piercing her breast and her heart as she calls his name. Because of the shepherd’s dilatory response, she is obliged to repeat her action for thirty nights, after which he finally emerges to find a beautiful flower where her blood has fallen. Naturally, the flower was named in her honour.”

Lyrics and commentary

take this my arrow, open my breast  and you shall see written in my heart:  Amaryllis is my love.

Venus in Furs: hashtag masochism... Also probably marius loved this painting which masoch was referencing in the title of his book 

Whiplash girl child in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

Liquid Smooth:

I'm beautiful, I know 'cause it's the season But what am I to do with all this beauty?... I'm at my highest peak, I'm ripe About to fall, capture me

Angry Johnny: this one goes out to you, Lord Harlech! 😘

Johnny, angry Johnny This is Jezebel in Hell I wanna kill you I wanna blow you … away

Ave Verum Corpus: Armand’s experience of near-death.

Hail the true body, born of the Virgin Mary: You who truly suffered and were sacrificed on the cross for the sake of man. From whose pierced side flowed water and blood: Be a foretaste for us in the trial of death. O sweet, O gentle, O Jesu, son of Mary, have mercy on me. Amen.

“William Byrd’s setting of this text was written to celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi, which had been outlawed in England in 1548 following the Reformation. But Roman Catholics still surviving in England still celebrated the feast secretly, sometimes more brazenly.

Kerry McCarthy (in her book Byrd) writes that Corpus Christi had been an especially festive holy day before the clamp-down on popish rituals commenced. “Medieval parishes had celebrated it with lavish floral displays and elaborate outdoor processions [of the Blessed Sacrament], and this sort of activity continued even after Catholic worship became illegal in England.” https://canticasacra.org/byrd-ave-verum-corpus/

What Was I Made For: 

I used to float, now I just fall down I used to know but I'm not sure now What I was made for What was I made for?

II MOST WANTED: Armand is a passenger princess! No but fr I really like the two meanings of “most wanted” here — they are pursued by enemies, and also armand sees himself as the most desired, most beloved. (Also I like this next to “In The Backseat” later as two moments of Carseat Metaphor.) also just this sense of being devoted completely to marius forever.

Didn't know what I want 'til I saw your face Say goodbye to the old me Came out of nowhere, didn't give no warnin' Pedal so heavy like the two most wanted… I’ll be your shotgun rider ‘til the day I die.

Suffering Mother: Armand’s return to Ukraine and seeing his parents again.

Lyrics translated

Lovingly I bathe you with my bitter tears, As I sought to hide you from the wicked foes. My heart is breaking, for I must now lose you Never more, my dear son, will I ever see you Son of mine

Water Me: 

He told me I was so small, I told him “water me” I promise I can grow tall when making love is free

Linger: "I'm such a fool for you" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Dies Irae: Children of Satan arrive on the scene!

In the Backseat: Armand losing the anchor of Marius and getting forced onto the path towards coven leadership

I like the peace In the backseat I don't have to drive I don't have to speak I can watch the countryside Alice died In the night I've been learning to drive My whole life

You Want It Darker: Armand’s conversion to Children of Darkness .. no one is coming to save him, God is terrible actually, this might as well happen!!

A million candles burning For the love that never came You want it darker We kill the flame

Year Zero: just fun with Satan! 

Belial, Behemoth, Beelzebub Asmodeus, Satanas, Lucifer

Like A Parrot: bird trauma stuff!

Like a parrot and a picture window I can see where I'd like to be But repeated blows to my feathered little head Have taught me not to fly straight.

Think Of Me Once In A While, Take Care: the vibe of when he’s languishing on the chair staring into the fire of a burning vampire

DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR: Lestat the traitor shows up and fucks up his whole thing! And then he has to commit covenicide..

Satan, fortify me! I don't eat, I don't sleep, I don't eat I let it consume me How do I break you, before you break me?

I’m With You: begging Lestat to love him! and feeling utterly abandoned in the world.

Isn't anyone tryin' to find me? Won't somebody come take me home? It's a damn cold night Trying to figure out this life Won't you take me by the hand? Take me somewhere new I don't know who you are But I, I'm with you

Pour Nes Pas Vivre Seule: taking leadership of Théâtre des Vampires

lyrics translated

In order not to live alone,  One lives with a dog One lives with roses Or with a cross. In order not to live alone, One makes cinema One loves a souvenir A shadow, anything…… In order not to live alone, Others have children—  Children who are alone Like all the children.

Thankless Job: I love listening to this and thinking about Armand passive-aggressively cutting off people’s hands and murdering interlopers as leader of the Theatre des Vampires

Harvesting the kidneys for the fall; Savin' up the livers in the fridge No-one ever thanks me when I'm done How self-absorbed people can be!

Blank Space: Loumand budding romance anthem <3

Got a long list of ex-lovers They'll tell you I'm insane But I've got a blank space, baby And I'll write your name

Don’t Leave Me (Ne me quitte pas):

They say, "Sir, do you got a light? And if you do then you're my friend And if you don't then you're my foe And if you are a deity of any sort Then please don't go" Ne me quitte pas, mon cher Ne me quitte pas

Phenom: 

Careful I'm an animal Trap trap trap First of the secondary class class class You know I don't trust you what's the catch catch catch Don't you fucking touch me I will gnash gnash gnash Cause I am an old phenomenon And I am an old phenomenon

Experimental Film: extremely fun to think of him working on writing/directing the trial to this. But in general I feel like this his approach to relationships and life

You're all gonna be in this experimental film And even though I can't explain it, I already know how great it's I already know the ending It's the part that makes your face implode

Paparazzi but specifically the 2009 VMAs performance of it with the blood: generally his one move to start a relationship of any kind. Could specifically be start of devil’s minion tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h6Vc9__kqM&ab_channel=MTV

Pet: here bc of this fanvid, it’s so perfect! https://archiveofourown.org/works/57352849

你快樂所以我快樂 You’re Happy So I’m Happy: This is just the codependent national anthem… I lovingly pin it to armand’s lapel. Loumand, but also every relationship he’s in probably.

Lyrics translated

Your hair was dripping So I became feverish You were feeling tired So I fell asleep Ah.. heaven knows People say, If you're happy, then I'm happy too. Roses are blooming—  What else could I want? Something out of reach, out of reach.

household blender: beware. this is literally just 30 seconds of blender noises. 

Movies: 

Put me in a movie and everyone will know me You'll be the star, you know you are

Seventeen: specifically his relationship to daniel’s + his own age 

I used to be free I used to be seventeen Follow my shadow Around your corner I used to be seventeen Now you're just like me

Eat the Acid: refusing to turn Daniel

you don't wanna be changed like it changed me

All I Want: Devil’s Minion <3

I wanna talk to you, I want to shampoo you I want to renew you again and again Applause, applause, life is our cause When I think of your kisses, my mind see-saws Do you see, do you see, do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too

Will Anybody Ever Love Me:

Will anybody ever love me? For good reasons, without grievance Not for sport Will anybody ever love me?  In every season pledge allegiance to my heart

Let X=X: pure vibes

As Good As It Gets:

I want you to disappoint me On and on until we're old I'm inside folding laundry You're outside fixing the hose And I think this is as good as it gets, my love I think this is as good as it gets Pray to God that you think that it is enough

Dirty Computer: love thinking about Armand’s deeply freaky and loving relationship to technology. and feeling broken

Dirty computer, walk in line If you look closer you'll recognize I'm not that special, I'm broke inside Crashing slowly, the bugs are in me

Two Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter songs from SAVED!: for the end of memnoch the devil

(this is the same artist under a different name who sings DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR as lingua ignota.)

Relevant bits from the album notes:

"SAVED! is an apocalyptic revelation on the complex, sometimes ugly, always nonlinear process of healing. Herein, Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter documents an earnest attempt to achieve salvation through the tenets of charismatic Christianity, focusing on the Pentecostal-Holiness Movement, which dictate that one’s closeness to God is demonstrated through transcendental personal experience. Sonically and thematically, the record is both a logical conclusion to and a significant departure from Hayter’s previous work as Lingua Ignota. Mirroring her personal evolution away from pain, she sheds the moniker that made her successful for its unflinching expression of lived trauma and instead builds herself anew, claiming her full given name, determined to see value within [...] To evoke the lonely roads of salvation-seeking, SAVED! is stark, confined mostly to vocals (sometimes overdubbed into a dissonant chorus of twelve simultaneous voices) and piano prepared with bells and chains, the earthly and celestial. Speaking in tongues is achieved by self-imposing a variety of conditions; sleep deprivation, fasting, repetition of prayer, and sensory overstimulation. [...] in its quest for salvation and healing SAVED! is a renunciation of life. Here solace is found in absolute retreat from the world, far from pain and sin, burning with the holy fire until the end comes. And it is written: as you are when the end comes, so will you be when you must face Him. Whether this is enlightenment or insanity is up to the listener to decide. 

ORIGINAL MUSIC AND TRADITIONAL HYMNS PERFORMED BY REVEREND KRISTIN MICHAEL HAYTER OF PERPETUAL FLAME MINISTRIES ON PIANO PREPARED WITH BELLS AND CHAINS.

DOCUMENTED BY BROTHER SETH MANCHESTER AND HIS ALMIGHTY AUDIO RECORDING MACHINE."

I KNOW HIS BLOOD CAN MAKE ME WHOLE:

I know His blood can make me whole I was a gambler just like you I was sick and I couldn’t get well I just touched the hem Just touched the hem of His garment.

HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING:

Through all the tumult and the strife I hear that music ringing It finds an echo through my soul How can I keep from singing? No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that Rock I’m clinging Since Christ is Lord of Heaven and earth How can I keep from singing?

The Apassionata obv

Ever New: Being Alive, full of wonder about Benji and Sybelle

Welcome the spring, the summer rain Softly turned to sing again Welcome the bud, the summer blooming flower Welcome the child whose hand I hold Welcome to you both young and old We are ever new, we are ever new

Hermit the Frog: @ Marius at the end of TVA

Oh, my heart just burst like a glass balloon We let them fly too high and they shattered too soon Are we the wrong damn people in the wrong damn room?

You Left This:

You left this in my chest You left this in my chest  Dark door closing on the rest  You left this in my chest

[memehyena]

Of Montreal Sentence Starters

Feel free to change pronouns, and remember to specify muse for multimuse blogs!

CW: Mentions of Inappropriate Content, Death, Religion 

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MY DARLING, I’VE FORGOTTEN

"Don't remember what I saw in you."

"Your charms have become less charming."

"My dear darling, I've forgotten what I saw in you."

"Now I'm lost, I don't know a gentle way to say that our life together is over."

"Now, I'm lost."

"I seem to recall some vague memory of feeling happy."

"That was a long time ago."

"Never in a million years would I have dreamt that you would be indifferent."

"Sweetheart, incredibly it's true."

"Please don't think that I'm being impulsive or careless."

"I'm not miserable, I just can't continue this lie."

"I wish this had a happy ending."

"I wish there was something I could do."

IF YOU FEEL YOU MUST GO, DON’T GO!

"I love you completely."

"Please, I don't want you to go."

"How could I lose you so fast?"

"How come our love did not last?"

"How come I waited my whole lonely life for you, just for you to leave me?"

"My dear, I wanted you to know."

"I tried to live a life of beauty."

"I tried to love you truly."

"I tried to hold you in my arms, but you slipped right through me."

"I never knew Venus to be so moody."

"I love you."

DISCONNECT THE DOTS

"Come disconnect the dots with me, Poppet!"

"It's so beautiful."

"It's so beautiful, our lunacy."

WRAITH PINNED TO THE MIST AND OTHER GAMES

"Let's have bizarre celebrations!"

"Let's forget who, forget what, forget where."

"We'll have bizarre celebrations."

"I'll play the Satyr in Cyprus, you the bride being stripped bare."

"Let's pretend we don't exist."

"Let's pretend we're in Antarctica."

"We'll play Tristan and Isolde, but make sure I see white sails."

"Maybe I'll never die."

"I'll just keep growing younger with you, and you'll grow younger, too."

"Now it seems too lovely to be true, but I know the best things always do."

THE PARTY’S CRASHING US

"You're such a mystery."

"I just want to stand and stare."

"Nibble on your ear and smell the ocean in your hair."

"I know you damage me."

"You leave me tangled in a knot."

"But when you reappear, I see Neptunian blues that eyes forgot."

"I only feel alive when the VU is flashing."

"Alarms going off in my head."

"I want to grab you and just kiss you."

"Maybe I should sit down."

"No sense in cashing us, now."

"Bombs going off in my head."

"I want to grab you, want to scream at you."

"The party's crashing us, now."

"We made love."

"You freed me from the past."

"you fucked the suburbs out of me."

"All those ugly days that made us so sick? They're just fossiils, now."

SUFFER FOR FASHION

"We just want to emote until we're dead."

"I know we suffer for fashion or whatever."

"We don't want these days to ever end."

"We just want to emasculate them forever."

"Pretty sirens don't go flat."

"It's not supposed to happen like that."

"Not like that."

"We've got to keep it physical."

"Please call to say that you miss me, feel me, or whatever."

"Please call to say you miss me."

"We've got to keep our little click clicking at 130 BPM."

"It's not too slow."

"If we've got to burn out, let's do it together."

"Let's all melt down together."

GRONLANDIC EDIT

"Scientists are nihilists with good imaginations."

"I am satisfied hiding in our friend's apartment."

"I'm so absent-minded."

"Am I erasing myself?"

"I guess it would be nice to give my heart to a God."

"Which one do I choose?"

"All the churches filled with losers, psycho or confused."

"I just want to hold the divine in my mind and forget all the beauties wasted."

"I just want to hold the divine in my mind."

"Let's fall back to Earth and do something pleasant."

"We fell back to Earth like gravity's bitches."

"Physics makes us all its bitches."

"I guess it would be nice to help in your escape."

"He's the worst faker by far."

"I forget all of the beauties wasted."

"I guess it would be nice."

"Show me that things can be nice."

"You're trapped."

"You've got my back in the city."

"I don't want to panic."

[machecoul]

Goooood morning! I realized that I didn't actually do an individual songs in English rec! And I do still have Spanish and Dutch to do XDD

Architecture in Helsinki - The Owls Go

This is, bar none, on an emotional level, my favorite song on earth. Period. I am getting a tattoo based on this song. I have listened to this song HUNDREDS of times since I first heard it-- in 2005, the year I moved away for college. XD It just reminds me of sitting and enjoying the peace of the wee hours in my crappy first apartment.

Also Architecture in Helsinki - Contact High, It's 5!, Escapee, I Know Deep Down, Heart It Races, Imaginary Ordinary, Souvenirs, B4 3D, ... okay honestly I WILL list almost every one of their songs if I try to pull out multiple favorites. I just have Seeeeerious Feelings about AiH.

of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse, Oslo In the Summertime, Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games, Gronlandic Edit, A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger, Suffer For Fashion, The Party's Crashing Us, to name a few. They also have an album called The Gay Parade, which is delightfully chaotic the whole way through, I think I'll go with Fun-Loving Nun as my fav off of there.

The Hush Sound - Wine Red, Honey, We Intertwined (which is like one of three songs I would be comfortable ever doing for karaoke) Lighthouse (which has great lyrics and a great little ending to go with them), Lions Roar (which has a very cool kinetic typography video on youtube that someone did as a project but it was never finished and it's a tragedy honestly), Weeping Willow... man, again, just... literally everything. T_T

I should probably do a second English one for everything NOT part of my holy trinity here. 😂😂

well it’s evening here now so good evening lol.

OH, i really really love the owls go ashjkl. can definitely understand why it’s your favorite song. 🥺

songs that we listened to in important times of our lives just hit different sghjl.

“the gay parade” sounds like the type of stuff i’ll definitely enjoy. 😉

WAIT i know weeping willow and absolutely LOVE it.

love that you keep sending me those. 🥺🙏🏻 thank you sm.

[canvasofthecosmos]

The Signs as Of Montreal Songs

Aries: Labyrinthian Pomp

I’ve got my bright girl near me She’s so much taller With a crisp endorsement From the C.C.A.A. Booty Patrol She’s so meta, references Stendhal Shares my strange urge to Smash a window in every house on our block

Taurus:  Lysergic Bliss

Love the way you wear your curly hair sanguine and spiraling tied in a bun Love the way it falls about your face mercurially gilded by the sun If we were a pair of jigsaw puzzle pieces we would connect so perfectly Creating a still photo of a scene

Gemini:  The Party’s Crashing Us

Yeah, I only feel all right when the view is flashing And bombs going off in my head I want to grab you, want to scream at you, no icing me down The party’s crashing us now The party’s crashing us now

Cancer:  An Eluardian Instance  

Now, I’m viewing my memory reel in reverse Scrolling back to come to feel your weather then Now, I’m noting the Himmlers of our parabola To predict the points of thou-shalt-not-return

Leo:  Triphallus, To Punctuate!

Guess I should be happy for you, for your success and all that But your fame ain’t got nothing for us I supported you kid, back when no one else did (oh yeah, alright) You know I waved your flag, back when no one else did I just want things to be the way they used to be, When you only set a place for me (Oh…)

Virgo: Gronlandic Edit

I am satisfied, hiding in our friend’s apartment Only leaving once a day to buy some groceries Daylight, I’m so absent minded, nighttime meeting new anxieties So am I erasing myself? Hope I’m not erasing myself

Libra:  Suffer For Fashion

We’ve got to keep it physical When our tellies are six hours away Please call to say that you miss me, feel me or whatever Vicissitudes are boxing our heads Like they just want to emaciate them forever Forever Forever

Scorpio:  Gratuitous Abysses

Staying in touch is making us boring, voiceless is underrated, I think it’s dumb and I really hate it I must vilify us to make you special, I know my compass is beyond retrieval, I’m just ‘illuminations’ and ‘flowers of evil’

Sagittarius:  Hegira Émigré

I was out in the desert, hunting ufo while I saw scorpions and aliens I already know. My baby’s meditating to stop the war, but I got myself a rifle ‘cause I ain’t gonna get walked on anymore.

Capricorn:  Wintered Debts

I need teach myself to feel again Somehow I lost the thread of being human Wrapped up in this bitterness Too much bitterness, too much bitterness, too much bitterness, too much bitterness

Aquarius:  Obsidian Currents

You like to think that you can Live beyond good and evil Amputated from humanity On some lifelong intellectual retreat

Pisces:  Raindrop In My Skull

My guitar feels strange in my hands I have almost no tactile perceptions On the TV there’s a Mexican horror film It isn’t dubbed, I’m not really watching

[canvasofthecosmos-oldacct]

The Signs as Of Montreal Songs

Aries: Labyrinthian Pomp

I’ve got my bright girl near me She’s so much taller With a crisp endorsement From the C.C.A.A. Booty Patrol She’s so meta, references Stendhal Shares my strange urge to Smash a window in every house on our block

Taurus:  Lysergic Bliss

Love the way you wear your curly hair sanguine and spiraling tied in a bun Love the way it falls about your face mercurially gilded by the sun If we were a pair of jigsaw puzzle pieces we would connect so perfectly Creating a still photo of a scene

Gemini:  The Party’s Crashing Us

Yeah, I only feel all right when the view is flashing And bombs going off in my head I want to grab you, want to scream at you, no icing me down The party’s crashing us now The party’s crashing us now

Cancer:  An Eluardian Instance  

 Now, I’m viewing my memory reel in reverse Scrolling back to come to feel your weather then Now, I’m noting the Himmlers of our parabola To predict the points of thou-shalt-not-return

Leo:  Triphallus, To Punctuate!

Guess I should be happy for you, for your success and all that But your fame ain’t got nothing for us I supported you kid, back when no one else did (oh yeah, alright) You know I waved your flag, back when no one else did I just want things to be the way they used to be, When you only set a place for me (Oh…)

Virgo: Gronlandic Edit

I am satisfied, hiding in our friend’s apartment Only leaving once a day to buy some groceries Daylight, I’m so absent minded, nighttime meeting new anxieties So am I erasing myself? Hope I’m not erasing myself

Libra:  Suffer For Fashion

We’ve got to keep it physical When our tellies are six hours away Please call to say that you miss me, feel me or whatever Vicissitudes are boxing our heads Like they just want to emaciate them forever Forever Forever

Scorpio:  Gratuitous Abysses

Staying in touch is making us boring, voiceless is underrated, I think it’s dumb and I really hate it I must vilify us to make you special, I know my compass is beyond retrieval, I’m just ‘illuminations’ and ‘flowers of evil’

Sagittarius:  Hegira Émigré

I was out in the desert, hunting ufo while I saw scorpions and aliens I already know. My baby’s meditating to stop the war, but I got myself a rifle 'cause I ain’t gonna get walked on anymore.

Capricorn:  Wintered Debts

I need teach myself to feel again Somehow I lost the thread of being human Wrapped up in this bitterness Too much bitterness, too much bitterness, too much bitterness, too much bitterness

Aquarius:  Obsidian Currents

You like to think that you can Live beyond good and evil Amputated from humanity On some lifelong intellectual retreat

Pisces:  Raindrop In My Skull

My guitar feels strange in my hands I have almost no tactile perceptions On the TV there’s a Mexican horror film It isn’t dubbed, I’m not really watching