#im like “i grew up with prog rock”

[di--es---can-ic-ul-ar--es]

A lot of rats had super intellectual parents. I did too: my dad preferred yes and crimson to acdc and creedence

[miiilowo]

I'm pretty sure? you've mentioned Call Me by Blondie before (my memory is awful bksnxks), but do you have any other songs you think William would listen to? What types of songs/music does he lean more towards

i think i may have mentioned that for Michael, but as for William's music taste, im not really sure. While I think making him listen to oingo boingo and devo would be funny, and it would match his personality energy wise, I dont think he actually would. the closest thing in relation to that would be MAYBE talking heads

now making him like hip to be square would be funny. that would be good. im gonna go w that. generally i would imagine its just like, prog rock and steely dan. dad music. no classic rock or speed metal or anything like that

then ofc he would probably just like music he grew up with, like everybody else does. songs from the late 50s and 60s, w early 70s for spice. im not as well versed in them as i am 80s and late 70s music, though i do LIKE older stuff so i could probably whip up a playlist or sumn

[borrelia]

OH HEY I LOVE MUSIC L'Via L'Viaquez by The Mars Volta (This is a highly experimental song and I LOVE IT for being fucking off the rails. This things goes nuts.) Passing Time by Ophelia Syndrome (I LOVE THIS SONG all of Ophelia Syndrome's songs are SO GOOD but not all their songs are on Youtube. Gotta use Spotify. Sad!) Beatophone by Caravan Palace (I love the Panic Album and nothing else by Caravan Palace. ELECTRO SWING FOR THE WIN)

THREE for the price of one!

L'Via L'Viaquez by The Mars Volta

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

can't agree that this is particularly experimental 😭 but it's definitely right up my alley!

EDIT: this is just prog rock fhgsdgsdf i still like it! but i grew up on prog rock so it's not that out there to me

Passing Time by Ophelia Syndrome

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

sorry its not bad i just got bored 😔 im not very big on acoustics or soft songs

Beatophone by Caravan Palace

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

lone digger got real popular when i was in high school or smthn so i already have a handful of caravan palace in my library from then :) beatophone is a nice one

[bedcorpse]

no fr i grew up in a music snob classic rock household (like im talking my dad thinking stuff like the beatles and rolling stones were mid prog rock devotee) which made me somehow an EVEN BIGGER MUSIC SNOB in some ways. anyways ccr sucks and yes an mcr blog said this die mad old men.

[wanderinstar]

🎅 oh, i cant believe santa forgot to tell you their favorite yes album

you noticed how much i like the buggles so the answer is pretty much as clear as it can get.

its ....

magnification!

just joshing. i havent gotten to that one yet. hopefully will though.

relayer, drama and 90125 are the ones i like the most. relayer because soon is a tearjerker for me and i love that. drama because i didnt already listen to the buggle guys enough and 90125 has some great ones on it. first i thought our song was a love song but then i read the lyrics.

fun drama fact(i dont know if you know this already. sharing it anyway)! white car might be referencing gary numan, as he at one point owned a car(that was white) and that made him the man(in a white car). fun drama fact: its criminal that white car is not longer.

i have a few vinyls, most are passed down from my grandmother though and theyre classical/opera. one the yes album vinyl, a 90125 cd, and a tally hall vinyl thats been lounging around my house for about a year now. i am going to procure for myself a lot more of these funny little pvc discs because it feels nice to collect them.

listened to rare bird's somebody's watching and can confidently say i like that one more than the self titled! thank you for recommending, very cool. huge synthesizers fan, i am.

man, these keep getting longer and longer. im afraid tumblr will no longer be able to contain the magnitude of me being your secret santa. lets hope it holds on.

do you like king crimson? what do you think of them?

Ohhh yes, keep 'em as long as your heart wants, I love it ;)

I've heard the white car story, but I'm glad you shared it ♡ I didn't like 80s Yes the first time I listened to it (I only liked Owner Of A Lonely Heart, which I I've known since I was a kid), but then it really grew on me and now I love it.

That's so cool that you have The Yes Album on vinyl! I don't own any of their records, but it's ok, I have others which I treasure.

I'm glad you liked Somebody's Watching :) Unfortunately Rare Bird didn't release many albums (only 5), but on the bright side I like all of them. If you're wondering which one to listen to next, I'd recommend Epic Forest, it's my second favorite.

I do like King Crimson! I think they sound a little crazy and it makes them awesome. Oh I have a little funny story about them: when I was getting to know prog rock, I searched King Crimson on tumblr and, if I'm not mistaken, that's how I found out about the relation between JoJo and classic rock. I even watched some episodes because I thought it would be fun to see all the references, but then I ended up forgetting about it… A lot of people say that King Crimson's power on the anime doesn't make any sense at all and I find it hilarious! Btw this character is, in my honest opinion, hilariously ugly, please check it out if you haven't already, I bet you won't regret it! Now back to the band, Red is my favorite album of theirs. What about you, what do you think of them?

[3ueueb47473hd82j]

i wonder what it is about ska-adjacent shit that i love SO fucking much besides it being. just like. really fun and good. its good music brent. but like. i didnt grow up with ska or anything. i mostly just grew up with prog rock dad shit and like stevie nicks so thats what my ears are really accustomed to. but i always LOOOOOOOOOOOOVED jazz as a kid i always had an affinity for it but i never really like. REALIZED how MUCH ive liked it and for how long until like.... semi-not-so-semi-recently. like maybe 3 years ago lol. like im ADDICTED to it like swing makes me fucking crawl on the ceiling and foam at the mouth like it gets me PUMPED. so like. reggae and rock and maybe a lil dash of punk all mixed together with a HORN SECTION? what the fuck is wrong with you? sign me up. 

[cheolsbae]

i graduated w a marketing degree last year dec.! i have no idea how to describe my current job lol. im like the front end for people importing goods and make sure they have everything all set up for customs clearance and delivery. its a lot emails mostly. we import the most stuff from Brazil and Israel (tho the Israel imports are just one company) weirdly enough. oh yeah Shh grew on me over time. the old ones are still good!! ~sss 1/3

my go-to recommendations (aka long-running comics w a consistent update): Sakana by MAD. so funny. traditionally done! Ava's Demon. unique layout/style. some animations. The Boy Who Fell (used to be Hell's Kitchen). This Is Not Fiction (TINF). cool style. funny. The main comics ive read that are completed are on Webtoon lol. Witch Hunt by sso park. just !!. Oh! Holy by Ahyun. funny/cute. official eng sub unfinished: I Don't Want This Kind of Hero and Cheese in the Trap ~sss 2/3 

both those Webtoon ones are... real intense rn cuz they're wrapping up i think. (and no i have not watched the kdrama for Cheese in the Trap. i hear its awful). idk what style. not painterly realistic lol. Vian Izak reminds me of prog rock with how his songs and albums are structured lol. He even has a little comic on his site to go with the albums. they tell a story like the only prog rock artist ive really fully listened to, The Dear Hunter. Act IV is the best followed by Act V btw. ~sss 3/3

Wow that sounds exciting tho, Are your colleagues nice? 

i know Sakana, started to read it a while ago but i need to keep up with the latest updates. I’ll add the other ones to my check out list, haven’t read smth new in a long time

I still have some acrylics and watercolours, from time to time i like to pain abstract stuff bc i suck at drawing fbskdbgs. 

Does he? he seems like a multi-talented individual, i love that! the aesthetic of the album is really good

Also how was your weekend going? smth new? did you know svt has tiktok now? im like vgsfhkgks why? give them their insta accounts back :( 

[atlanxic]

ok so i actually have an extensive arc-v/zexal crossover university au that i’ve talked a lot about on my private twitter and on discord but i think it’s time to put it all on tumblr. i wanted to make this all one post but i actually feel like it’s too much for that? so here’s part one of..... five or so?

yuuto, shun, and ruri lived in the same apartment complex as children, theyve known each other literally forever.

in middle school, yuuto & shun both discover hardcore/punk music and spend a couple years being kind of awkward and terrible about it until high school hits and they kind of level out. ruri teases them a lot for liking that awful racket but eventually she gets into it too, mostly because her and shun are kind of inseparable for quite some time. the three of them go to the local shitty music venue just about every weekend. for the first year or so ruri insists shes going to keep them out of trouble but like i said, she gets more into the music after a while.

shun and yuuto both mosh, shun probably more frequently than yuuto. they show up to school with bruises pretty often and rumours are started that they get in fights a lot or that theyre involved in a gang. there are also rumours that theyre dating, which dont go over very well, and result in them getting in actual fist fights a couple times. they try dating for like... 3 months in grade 7, and then decide that its weird and they work better as friends.

yuuto wears his hair in a mohawk for about a year before switching to the spiky mess we know and love. towards the end of middle school, they meet kaito at a prog-rock concert, all four of them pressed against the front rails together kaito and yuuto hit it off immediately, and exchange phone numbers after the show. shun is immensely suspicious. they text a lot, and then they start hanging out, and then they start going out. shun threatens to beat kaito up, kaito is fine with it, yuuto is not. etc.

meanwhile, ruri and sayaka meet in class. it doesn't even occur to shun to be suspicious of her until he catches them making out. he yells about it, sayaka is understandably frightened. ruri tells him off for scaring her girlfriend. she stays angry at him for longer than she has before. he eventually gives in and apologizes to both of them, but in a kind of dickish way.

yuuto and kaito break up towards the beginning of 11th grade. neither of them are upset about it, they stay friends. it was mostly because kaito felt like he needed to focus more on school, now that he's getting into college prep-level courses. yuuto cries about it once, and it takes several hours to convince shun that violence would be neither appropriate nor helpful.

all four of them move to a different city for college. sayaka goes to school in the town they grew up in. her and ruri stay in touch, but after half a year they decide that the long distance thing isn't working out for them. they still hang out when ruri and shun go back for the holidays, and its fairly bittersweet.

yuuto shun & ruri dont realize that kaito is going to the same school as them until all four of them are present at a queer alliance meet & greet. shun glares at him across the room for a while before yuuto notices he's there and goes over to say hello like a decent person. yuuto and kaito immediately hit it off again. theyre both kind of "fuck you grew into yourself really well im Gay."

immm gonna say that in first year, yuuto & shun live in the dorms together. they eventually decide the res life is not for them but. apartment hunting when youre like 18 and moving out for the first time is a bit much, so dorms it is.

anyway, shun catches yuuto and kaito making out in their shared dormroom like 3 fucking days after the meet and greet. kaito's expression is one of fear and conveys that he knows full well that shun is 2 seconds from beating him up. yuuto is kinda pissed off about it. yuuto and shun have a long conversation that night about how protective shun is. they fall asleep in each other's arms.

kaito avoids them for a little while, but the next time they see him, shun makes a genuine apology. yuuto and kaito start dating again a few weeks later. ruri is surprised and delighted about it. ruri ends up dormed with rin in first year.

they get along reasonably well, but they dont get close until rin accidentally lets slip that she's gay, and then ruri is like "oh thank god, me too." the context is probably: that yuugo visits them like basically every other day, and is Really Obviously In Love with rin, and rin's affectionate with him, so ruri just kind of assumes theyre dating. and at one point is like, do you want me to go somewhere else so you guys can make out, i could hang out with my brother tonight its nbd. yuugo blushes bright red and is like aaaaa its not like that, like, exactly like he does in canon. and rin's like “lmao im gay. i mean. what.”

ruri probably ids as pan? but anyway, shes like "ohhhh cool me too.” they both kind of stare at each other while this new info sinks in, and then yuugo says something and the moment is broken.

this is still a bit before yuugo's gay crisis

[later, during yuugo's gay crisis about yuuya] [rin] yuugo you had a crush on a boy in /middle school/ [yuugo] no i didnt i had a crush on you [rin] you used to complain to me about how hot he was like every lunch break [yuugo] that doesn't mean anything? [rin] obviously it does? how are you only realizing this now

ruri discovers that rin's been wanting to go to queer alliance meetings but has been too shy about it, so she drags her along. and someone mistakes them for yuzu and selena. idk who it would be..... sawatari maybe?

sawatari is like, Flaming Gay, a legitimate twink despite iding as bi.

anyway theyre like, thats not us, youre mistaken, and sawatari, instead of fucking off, is like, "holy fuck you have to meet them, you look so much the same it's eery." sawatari drags them through the party for like 20 minutes before actually finding yuzu and selena, and he's like "look i told you."

and all four of them are kind of like "holy fuck???" they get a selfie together, its not very good because the lighting is terrible, and they spend the rest of the evening hanging out.

yuzu and selena had a class together and hit it off immediately, theyre already dating. theyre a bit surprised to learn that ruri and rin /aren't/ dating. rin blushes at the suggestion and gets raised eyebrows all around. the four of them become fast friends and start getting lunch together and studying together on a regular basis.

ruri and rin meet yuuya through them, and because yuuya is friends with Everyone, they become friends as well. which sets the stage for yuuya and yuugo meeting, and yuugo's consequent gay crisis.

shun, ruri, and yuuto as pakistani immigrants, they arrived when they were very very young but they get a lot of shit for it anyway, especially ruri, who wears a hijab.

i figure the commons would be mostly latinx/mixed. so like, yuugo, rin, and shinji are all latinx. i rlly like the concept of black crow with a bleached-orange hi-top fade and subtle freckles. yuuya, yuzu, and gongenzaka can pprrobably be white? dennis could be ethnically jewish & light-skinned. fusion dimension crew are mostly japanese, so sora, yuuri, and selena. i.. am not really sure about reiji? following the theme i guess white/japanese mixed. tsukikage is japenese & immigrated like within his memory rather than a few generations back, he's bilingual. jack is latino and white-passing.

i like the concept of shun as a veterinary student, partly because i think he'd follow his interest in birds if things hadn't gone horribly wrong and partly because i find the idea of this edgy asshole in scrubs really funny. yuuto takes social work and ends up with crow as a teacher. yuuya, dennis, sawatari, and sora are all drama majors. yuuri is in botany. reiji is a law major, as well as being on the debate team and the student council. he never fuckign sleeps. shun also joins the debate team, and they do Not get along, but since debate team is the yelling hobby anyway, thats fine. yuzu is in the music program. selena is in poli-sci. yuugo stays in engineering. i dont, know about the rest of everyone.

conceptually, this is a north-eastern reasonably liberal college town, featuring two colleges and a trade school. one college is for the arc v kids, the other one will eventually be populated with zexal kids when i get to know them. kaito starts in zexal school and transfers at the beginning of second year. everyone is in first year rn except reiji and tsukikage, who are in second year, and also are dorming together, and also are gay.

so now that thats all set up!! back to the plot!!

ruri and rin meeting yuzu and selena happens a couple weeks after ruri and sayaka break up. selena hears about it and is like, hey if you need a rebound i can hook you up with someone, and ruri is like. "i feel like itd be disrespectful to date someone else before im over sayaka, ill stay single for a while." she never actually completely gets over sayaka, but she does eventually get enough emotional distance to move on. every time she goes home for the holidays they have awkward not-quite-gay moments.

much like in sfu, sawatari is loaded and hosts house parties whenever his father is away on business trips.

once the 4 girls are hanging out on a regular basis, they all sort of get to know each other's orbital boys. like rin and ruri get introduced to yuuya and get to know sawatari better. yuuya's goal is to be friends with absolutely everyone, and they make good progress on it.

yuzu and selena get to meet yuugo. yuugo is starry-eyed at all four of them, but alas, they are all too gay for him. at one point selena slaps him in the face and he spends like the next two weeks thinking about it lmao

likewise, they all get to meet shun. shun immediately decides that he is going to protect all of them. rin finds it kind of cute, yuzu finds it kind of weird, selena is outright offended about it. they get along a lot better with yuuto, since yuuto is just, easier to get along with. he joins their lunch dates once in a while, as does yuuya.

selena and yuuri met in their high school gsa and relentlessly gossip about everyone they meet. selena introduces yuuri to the rest of the girls exactly once, it does not go well. probably kye gives them all backhanded compliments. shun hears about this from ruri later and decides that yuuri is his enemy.

the first time yuuya and yuugo meet, its because the girls have invited both of them to lunch. yuuya introduces themself with a firm handshake and a wink. yuuya flirts a bit throughout the meal, as they tend to do. yuzu tells yuugo after the fact like, "dont mind them, theyre always like that." yuugo tries not to think about it much.

the second time they meet is at one of sawatari's giant house parties. yuuya, being slightly inebriated, is even more flirtacious than usual. yuugo gets it into his head that this is some kind of challenge, and refuses to back down from yuuyas advances until theyre in a closet together and yuuyas hand is up his shirt.

the next gay he visits rin to have a gay crisis. ruri politely sees herself out so they can talk.

i want to say shun is having a similar crisis about having come very close to having a one night stand with reiji. not because it was gay but because he hates the guy.

rin is exasperated but understanding, she rubs yuugo's back and calls him a pathetic baby while he whines. by the end of their conversation, yuugo has accepted that he's bi, and additionally, that making out is Great and he should do more of it. rin is slightly worried and gives him a safe sex talk, he yells and covers his ears during the entire thing.

meanwhile, shun is like "i fucking hate that guy why was it so satisfying to bite him" and ruri is like "bro i love you but thats way tmi, please do not tell me about your sadistic hatesex kink or whatever the fuck it is youre trying to convey." yuuto, also present, is like "i cant believe you made out with that asshole, and you still have the nerve to get angry at basically anyone i kiss for no fucking reason." shun swears up and down that it will not happen again, and also says that he has already apologized several times for being possessive about both of them, please let him live it down.

(it absolutely does happen again.)

(the second time they actually do go all the way, it is the best sex of shun's life, and he's upset about it.)

[yuuto voice] you have a Problem, why cant you date someone decent and have vanilla sex like the rest of us

rin slowly develops a huge crush on ruri. when she tells yuugo about it, hes like "yeah she's really pretty i completely understand."

[twinkrundgren]

I do agree with you that forgive me for the term "classic prog" has a very different sound to it since back then it was more a rebellion genre whilst today its more typical experimental and kind of accepted at this point at least in some circles. Ive been really into Pink Floyd for a while now and me being more into the modern stuff its interesting to hear the difference. What are some of your favorite prog albums?

there’s a big difference yeah, there’s so many factors in why they sound different people could write a whole thesis on it or something. and i’m not critical of modern prog- all music needs to evolve, and that’s what progressive rock sought to do, to evolve rock music into a respectable art form. that being said, i just prefer the 70s prog sound, it actually feels timeless to me, but i grew up listening to prog. 

some of my faves are supertramp’s crime of the century, utopia’s ra, and klaatu’s hope. i’m also really listening to yes’s drama to get ready for the upcoming yestival concert and i’m really into it. ELP is consistently great (except for love beach, but that’s a bit controversial) genesis’s foxtrot is amazing! Rush’s 2112 and hemispheres are tied for my favorite 70s rush album. 

the prog fandom here is mostly docused on 70s prog, and im sure theres a lot of reasons. we’re a lot different than other prog communities as well, being really open to lgbt identities and the like. its really peaceful here, not much drama at all.