#lp writting | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

wangxianficfinder · 1 year ago

Text

In the mood for...

~*~

1. ITMF: Just finished ShanaStoryteller's "By Any Other Name" where resurrected WWX pretends to be a woman, and it's put me in the mood for fic where he is actually resurrected as a woman but, here's the key: he's hamstrung by the extremely patriarchal society he's in. The few fic I've read that have him in a woman's body usually hand wave over that but I'd love to read a fic that doesn't. Anything like that out there??? @kimboo-york

To Deserve So Much More by renysen (locked to archive) (T, 20k, wangxian, summoned by f!oc, getting together, Mojo’s post) has WWX resurrected by the youngest daughter of a non-cultivating family and deals with several issues of him being a woman as a result.

~*~

2. do you know any fics that explore what happens if yzy lives past the wen attack on lp? wwx blamed himself enough without her active vitriol so i'd love to read how her survival would impact the yunmeng trio (esp wwx) and/or the war. thank you!

💖 Lessons relearned by Iamnotawriter (T, 44k, WangXian, LQR & WWX, Not Madam Yu Friendly, Time Travel Fix-It, Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon-Typical Violence, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Inventor WWX, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, No Golden Core Transfer, YZY Bashing) has YZY surviving the fall of LP & has stuff about how her leadership is different from JC

Yearning for Miles by Murahi (M, 378k, WangXian, LQR/SiSi, Canon Divergence, Angst, Fluff, Slow burn, Mutual Pining, seeing the future) has YZY surviving IIRC (it's been a while since I read it & I bailed partway through so idk how it goes) & the tags mention YZY redemption

~*~

3. hi ! in the mood for fics (canon) that feature wangxian and lan sizhui ! it doesn’t need to be about them as parents, although it definitely can, but just having them (especially lwj) act parental or acknowledged as parents or exist as a family unit would be much appreciated, kind of like “Crack me open, pour you out” by tenillypo. basically any parental canon wangxian (even just featured) would be amazing thank you !! @willesnelson

to the act of making noise by words-writ-in-starlight (WordsWritInStarlight) (G, 19k, LSZ & LWJ, LSZ & WWX, wangxian, Grief/Mourning, Father-Son Relationship, inquiry, Music, Angst, Fluff, Found Family, podfic available)

kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight by AlfAlfAlfAlfAlf, tardigradeschool (T, 75k, WangXian, Hurt/Comfort, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Eventual Happy Ending, Getting Together, Burial Mounds Settlement Days, Inspired by The Parent Trap (1998), Kid Fic, teen shenanigans, two a-yuans, Fluff and Angst) it's set in canon times however its def an AU storyline but you get a lot of family feels

Finding Balance Series by Zombubble (G/T, 117k, WangXian, Character Study, Canon Compliant, Mentions of Blood, Mentions of Violence, Mentions of Death, Grief, But only a little, Nightmare, Canon-Typical Violence, within a nightmare, injuries, Underage Drinking, Light Angst, Happy Ending, JC Being an Asshole, but not too bad, Anxiety, Grief/Mourning, Self-Reflection, Conflict Resolution, Internal Conflict, lots of talking, Lots of Thinking, LSZ-centric, Soft LQR, Sort Of, Collective Bargaining, LSZ accidentally incites a mini off-screen rebellion, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, Angst with a Happy Ending, Post-Canon, mild panic attack) not sure if its quite what #3 is asking (most recent itmf post) but there's a post-canon sizhui-centric series about sizhui coming to terms with remembering he's a wen and stuff, and the last two in the series (esp the last one) have parental wangxian helping him work through things

~*~

4. Itmf wwx n friends as a crazy crack funny af potty mouthed wholesome group!! Modern au. Them being crack heads in a nut. Like, doing stuff like sneaking out, putting skates and running at night, sitting in shopping trolly and pushing it ahead, Fighting in Instagram comments section. Just wwx an friends. Idm relationships.

He lo I'm for #4 itmf. fic is really good, but not what I was aiming for, cuz yeah the plot was chef's kiss, but didn't had much of wy n frnds, lemme clear: wy n frnds shenanigans, doing stupid things, what the fuk moments. This time doesn't matter if it's canon, modern or alternate Universe. Thankyou

The Fifth Type of Non-Contact Force by Caixx (Not Rated, 83k, WangXian, Modern AU, High School, Slice of Life, Slow Burn, Fluff and Humor, Actually Somewhat Canon, Mutual Pining, Horny Teenagers, Angst with a Happy Ending, Non-Graphic Smut) lots of shenanigans here

Carefully Orchestrated Plans (no strings attached) by Maledictius (T, 101k, WangXian, Modern AU, Chatting & Messaging, Orchestra, Fluff and Humor, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Gossip)

~*~

5. ITMF!! What’s a wangxian fic you’ve read where, as you sadly leave your last kudos on the last chapter, you think, THIS COULD BE A MOVIE 😤!

Those fast paced, edge of your seat, tight plot, spot on character fics that you’d buy a ticket to see? Or maybe a smaller lyrical fic that could totally be an art house short film?

I was rereading Hobbsy3’s Tragedy is Not the End. I always have to make myself popcorn it’s so good! So yep, that’s my movie fic!

Dear mods, please direct me to the right list if this has been asked before!! 💚

Wei Wuxian Makes a Wish series by natcat5 (M, 119k, wangxian, major character death, underage, madoka magica au, modern w/ magic, time travel, high school au, body horror, self-harm, angst w/ bittersweet ending, time loop, mental instability, suicidal thoughts) is it cheating if it's technically based on a movie? I didn't need to know anything about what this is based on besides a quick Google but if asker is looking for something that leaves them feeling breathless with all kinds of feelings this is the first one that came to mind

💖 Echo, Murmur, Dream, Here by bluerainmist (M, 51k, wangxian, canon divergence, WWX survives, sect leader WWX, yiling wei sect au, slow burn, angst w/ happy ending, getting together, pining, love confessions, reunions, mind all the tags) I just read this and the descriptions of the armor and battlefields really felt like they would suit huge movie screens. It just had that imax vibe, ya know?

Also maybe 5 should look at the “Beautiful Writing and Good Plot” Compilation | Pt. 2 comps a lot of the fics on there feel like a movie

花无百日红; the flower that withers by yiqie (M, 29k, wangxian, Time Travel Fix-It of Sorts, Case Fic, Spells & Enchantments, Hurt/Comfort, Forgiveness, It's about the emotional catharsis, If you have ever laughed at WWX clowning himself for the 'no one will marry you' scene, This fic is: for you) i'm not a writer so i can't describe the feelings this fic evoked in me, but this is one of those fics that is so prettily written and if it's got a movie adaptation i would definitely watch it

In Imitation of Life by travelingneuritis (E, 70k, wangxian, modern cultivation, scifi au, android WWX, tone: neon seedy, rich people are bored and terrible, post-apocalyptoc landscape, happy ending, smut, severe major characger injury, time loss) everything this author writes is like a movie tbh

symmetry by bleuett (M, 44k, WangXian, Space, Science Fiction, Happy Ending, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Holding Hands, Blow Jobs, Hand Feeding, Cultivation in Space, Yearning, Reunions, Hurt/Comfort, Family Feels, Canon-Typical Violence, Minor Injuries, Grief/Mourning, Unconventional Time Travel, Burial Mounds) I remember reading this and getting major interstellar vibes

💖 Pentimento. by orange_crushed (E, 73k, wangxian, modern, college/university au, art conservation, museums, pining, not actually unrequited love, angst w/ happy ending, misunderstandings, smut, major character injury, hospitalization, hurt/comfort, past incarceration, forgery) this is like an A24 Sundance festival winner, author writes such incredible prose

Post Mortem by Cataclysmic_Calamity (E, 78k, wangxian, modern, Psychological Horror, friends with benefits, they're both fucked up but they love each other so much, Slow Burn Mystery, Unnegotiated Kink, Dom/sub, Anal Sex, Consensual Non-Con, Stalking, Drug Addiction, Serial Killers, in Wei Ying's desire to critique the 'final girl' trope he accidentally becomes one, Angst with a Happy Ending, meta commentary on the horror and true crime genres) A horror movie!!!! Very much on the edge of your seat.

~*~

6. Huge thanks to the mods and participants for this wonderful blog! You keep my Mark for Later list going strong.

ITMF fics where someone tries to harm WWX because of LWJ. Maybe they're obsessively in love with him and want to get rid of the competition, or maybe they hate him and want to hurt him in the worst way possible by hurting the one he loves most, or whatever. Bonus points if Wangxian assume that whoever seems to be coming after WWX is coming after him because he's the Yiling Laozu instead of because he's LWJs love, and so they make wrong assumptions and mistakes. Happy for similar recs also, even if it's not a perfect fit! No Jiang Cheng bashing though plz. Thanks all! @flamingwell

this body yet survives by RoseThorne (T, 50k, WIP, WangXian, No War AU, Recovery, Trauma, Dissociation, Courting Rituals, Near Death Experiences, Attempted Murder, Eventual Happy Ending, Panic Attacks, Protective Siblings, Triggers, Protective LWJ, Protective LQR, Yúnmèng Siblings Dynamics, Bad Parent YZY, POV Third Person, POV LWJ, Depression, Good Sibling JC, Good Sibling JYL)

A Soft Storm by AvoOwO (Not rated, 47k, wangxian, modern au, hurt WWX, LWJ pov, protective LWJ, not SS friendly, car accidents, hurt/comfort, heavy angst w happy ending, sexual harrasment, stalking, crying, blood & injury & gore, major character injury, college, slut shaming, insults)

Coincidence is Another Man's Fate by TriviasFolly (M, 164k, WangXian, Modern AU, A/B/O Dynamics, Alpha LWJ, Omega wwx, Sexual Harassment, Implied/Referenced Sexual Harassment, WangXian play the long game, UNTIL THEY DON'T, Getting Together, fated pairs, Eventual Attempted Sexual Assult and Recovery, Modern Setting - Office, Mpreg)

~*~

7. Hi!! Does anyone know of any fics where dual cultivation classes are part of the lectures that all the young masters attend? I’d love to see them paired up to meditate, study, duel, night hunt, perhaps even take a couple of sex magic classes. In my head I am picturing something like those Harry Potter fics where students are paired due to compatible magic and they study together regardless of house division. Thank you!

turn towards the sun by Ariaste (E, 21k, WangXian, Kushiel's Legacy Fusion, The Night Court (Kushiel's Legacy), Kink Negotiation, Courtesans, Intimacy, BDSM, Consent, Wangxian's canonical fetishes, roughly Cloud Recesses-era, Extracurricular Kissing, Impact Play, Kink Experimentation, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, (aka Madam Yu being canonically willing to hit WWX)) This may not be exactly what was requested but it’s definitely school and wangxian definitely “study” together:)

~*~

8. Are there any fics where Wei Wuxian purposely tries to seduce Lan Wangji? Like he wears revealing clothes, touches him more often, moans while eating...etc? Like, Wei Wuxian knows Lan Wangji likes him and is trying to make him crack by being all flirty/seductive?

puzzle pieces by Yuisaki (T, 6k, WangXian, Modern AU, College/University, Roommates, Fluff, Humor, Friends to Lovers, Sharing Clothes, Getting Together, Pining)

~*~

9. Hi mods! Can I ask for the next ITMF for some fics where WWX, JFM or even LQR are angry at Wei Changze and Cangse Sanren for not being careful enough during night hunts and leaving WWX alone? Something along the lines of why they didn't have a back up plan or why didn't they leave WY in Lotus Pier or somewhere else where he would be looked after while they were busy and risking something happening to him bc they didn't tell anyone where their child was if something happened to them. Doesn't really need to be bashing but definitely some abandonment issues and not WWX just being alright with what his parents did and wanting to do the same

Thanks!! @jiangclaritybell

❤️ The One-Body Problem by metisket (T, 29k, LJY & WWX, LJY & LSZ, wangxian, possession, cohabitation, Mojo’s bookmark) Lan Jingyi (very) briefly mentions how stupid it was for WWX's parents to just leave him when they went off night hunting

~*~

10. Hii!! I hope you guys are well <3

I have a request for the next itmf, i recently read a fic where wwx is adopted by hua lian, so I was wondering if you had more fics in the same category?? The fic i read was the hearth series by eccentrick!!

Thank you in advance ❤️❤️

there's a whole tag Huā Chéng & Xiè Lián (Tiān Guān Cì Fú) Adopt Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn for that, but in specific

Hua Xianle by Tiffany_Guinne (Not rated, 170k, hualian, wangxian, TGCF, canon divergence, not Jiang friendly, madam lan lives, WWX adopted by hualian, WWX with different name, overprotective hualian, hurt WWX, WIP)

Narrative of Strength by MeltedIceAngel (T, 61k, WIP, WangXian, HuaLian, Canon Divergence, Adopt WWX, Found Family, Fluff and Angst, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Protective XL, Protective HC, Adoption, Kidnapping, Attempted Kidnapping, Serious Injuries, Angst with a Happy Ending, TGCF)

~*~

11. Hello, for the next In the mood for, do you have any wangxian fan fic recs of novel canon divergence/fix it that do not feature yunmeng bros reconciliation? Thank you so much in advance!

Lay my body down by tawaen (M, 48k, WWX & WQ, WWX & WN, wangxian, WWX & JYL, canon divergence, time travel, rogue cultivator WWX, no golden core transfer, not cultivation world friendly, not JC friendly, OCs) WWX travels back in time & goes fuck the cultivation world & JC in particular

The Core Issue by Hauntcats (T, 21k, WangXian, Angst with a Happy Ending, Not JC Friendly, Canon Divergence) WWX rebuilds his core while living in the Burial Mounds, JC loses his & is pissed about it

~*~

12. Can you recommend me Darkji fanfic and an oblivious weiying or a dark dark lanzhan where there's an abuse and manipulation included I don't mind🫶🏻

Obelus by Celestios (Not rated, 167k, wangxian, rape/non-con, non-con elements, NO rape, Non-Consensual Spanking, Non-Consensual Punishments, Spanking, Punishments, Dubious Morality, Dubious Consent, physical discipline, Physical Abuse, Toxic Relationships, Abusive Relationship, Kidnapping, Stockholm Syndrome, mention of violence, mention of drugs, Mention of alcohol, Possessive Behavior, Obsessive Behavior, Unhealthy Relationships, dark LWJ, Baker WWX, Bodyguard WN, Mentions of weapons, Gun mentions, Slow Burn, Long, Doctor WQ, Self Medicating, WWX has ADHD, Trauma Bonding, Psychological Manipulation, Gaslighting, Organized Crime, underground crime, Underground business, illegal business)

3-in-1 Shampoo/Conditioner/Bodywash - the Real Gateway Drug by Anonymous (E, 22k, WIP, WangXian, one sided wangxian (but for how long?), sketchy as fuck LWJ, does this count as dark! LWJ, implied bi WWX, modern au - no cultivation, Piss Marking, Come Marking, cum in food, brief cameo of food fucking, piss in food, Exhibitionism, Sloppy Seconds, Alcoholism, mention piss drinking, No Sex, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, sexually charged assisted pissing, accidental hold, Omorashi, freak4freak, emotional manipulation/subdrop of sorts, co-pissing, panty huffing, Degradation, dubcon blowjob, FaceFucking, Non-Consensual Somnophilia, pissing on someone who's passed out drunk, Spanking, Verbal Humiliation, Mutual Masturbation, jerking off walkthrough (with commentary), threats of edging, mutual CNC fantasies, Unreliable Narrator, I gave LWJ the LBH sized cock he deserves, Bathing, pissing in fleshlight) 3-in-1 shampoo/conditioner/bodywash - the real gateway drug for itfm 12. It’s more extremely dubious consent than actual abuse, but there is definitely a bit of gaslighting.

Kinkotber Day 4: A Shift in Perspective by Anonymous (E, 2k, WangXian, Stockholm Syndrome, Rape/Non-con Elements, there's no violence but he certainly doesn't ask for concent, Dark LWJ, Oblivious WWX, Cockwarming, Exhibitionism, bimboification (kind of), collaring (at the end), Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, PWP, Almost No Dialogue) as the tags say - no actual violence but deffo non/dubcon elements

~*~

13. Hello, do you know any modern or canon au wx fics where wangxian never interacted when they were kids/students but lwj still had a quiet crush on wwx?

and having a marvelous time by varnes (E, 108k, WangXian, Yúnmèng Siblings, Sound of Music AU, (i know!!! i know. stay with me on this.), Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Family Feels, spies to lovers???, Protective Siblings, Sometimes You Just Want Your Dads To Admit They’re Your Dads, Angst with a Happy Ending)

~*~

14. this might be a weirdly specific request for itmf, but I was wondering if you know of any fics where, either through reincarnation or time travel what have you, Lan Sizhui/Wen Yuan raises Wei Ying or Lan Zhan as his child(ren)?

~*~

15. For the next ITMF, can you recommend fic where characters OTHER than wangxian take ownership of their actions prior to wwx's death? (e.g. abandoning wwx/wen civilians to their fate, the mass slaughter of innocents, stealing & profiting off his work while slandering him, etc). I'm not interested in fics where this ownership has a caveat ("it was bad, but wwx was equally bad or worse" - these are fine but it's just not what I want to read.) Thanks! @balleyboley

~*~

16. Anything with wwx with low self-steem????

the thread may stretch or tangle but it will never break by RoseThorne (E, 88k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Soulmates, Self-Esteem Issues, Fix-It, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Nightmares, PTSD, Handfasting, Panic Attacks, Getting Together, First Time, Aftercare, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Implied/Referenced Torture, Scars, Chronic Pain, Golden Core Reveal, First Time, Switching, sex-related injury, LWJ Stays at the Burial Mounds, LSZ is a Wèi, Good Sibling JC, Dissociation, Burial Mounds Settlement Days)

Welcome to the Family Series by jiejieaini (E, 237k, WangXian, Modern, Hurt/comfort, Fluff, Angst, Explicit Sex)

❤️ The One-Body Problem by metisket (T, 29k, LJY & WWX, LJY & LSZ, wangxian, possession, cohabitation, Mojo’s bookmark) (link in #9) Seeing the “low self esteem” ask in ITMF made me go: any fic ever? If you want a funny response to it, metisket’s One Body Problem has Jingyi. Enough said.

Don't Leave Me by TrippinOnSkies (E, 19k, WangXian, Modern AU, Marriage Proposal, Mental Breakdown, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Panic Attacks, But they are very mild, Overthinking, Good Sibling JC, Break Up, Gentle Sex, Gentle Kissing, Idiots in Love, Pining, Misunderstandings, Oblivious WWX, LWJ Has Feelings, LWJ is Whipped, Getting Together, NHS & WWX Friendship, Friends to Lovers, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy EndingInsecure WWX, WWX Has Issues, WWX Has Self-Esteem Issues, Sad WWX, WWX is Bad at Communicating)

could you find a way to let me down slowly, if you're leaving baby let me down slowly by ravenditefairylights (M, 36k, WangXian, XuanLi, Past MingXian, Canon Divergence, Golden Core Reveal, Implied/Referenced Sex, Miscommunication, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Twin Prides of Yúnmèng Dynamics, Hurt WWX, Mutual Pining, Unreliable Narrator, Self-Esteem Issues, Twin Prides of Yúnmèng Feels, Protective Siblings, Trauma, Slightly dubious consent, courtesy of drunk sex, Inventor WWX, Genius WWX, Phoenix Mountain, Chronic Pain, Getting Together, Fix-It of Sorts, One Braincell Trio, PTSD)

See Me, Feel Me (Listening to You) by Ghost_Honey (T, 29k, WangXian, POV WWX, WWX Needs a Hug, WWX's Abyssmal Self-Esteem, Emotional Healing, Angst, The Juniors love their Senior Wei, Curses, WWX is an Unreliable Narrator, JC & WWX Reconciliation, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Platonic Cuddling)

pastel by antebunny (G, 6k, WangXian, Modern AU, College/University, Soulmates, Angst, Heavy Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Found Family, Self-Esteem Issues, Misunderstandings, Angst with a Happy Ending, Unrequited Love, but not actually)

to be loved by wqngji (G, 1k, WangXian, Insecure WWX, Petty LWJ, JC is So Done, Domestic Fluff, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Doubt, Hugs, Hurt WWX)

leading tone by silencemostofall (G, 32k, WangXian, Modern AU, Soulmates, with a lil twist, Eventual Happy Ending, it will not look like it until the very end but I promise there's a happy ending, lesbian wq rights, Music, Orchestra, platonic and romantic pining, wwx's serious self-worth issues, [Podfic] Leading Tone by silencemostofall by Beria1021)

~*~

17. Is there a fic in which yiling people are protective of wei ying and wants him to come back

End Racism in the OTW | The Fire Lapping Up the Creek by notevenyou (E, 66k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Hurt/Comfort, Injury Recovery, Blood, Respiratory Illness, Major Illness, Fever, Grief/Mourning, Angst with a Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Hunger and food scarcity, Surgery, Fix-It of Sorts) it’s mentioned briefly, I believe

~*~

If you didn’t get an answer to your ask here, don’t forget to make use of @mdzs-kinkmeme and MDZS KINK MEME on Dreamwidth. Authors actually do use them for ideas. You may get what you order!***Your prompt doesn’t have to be kink! Fluff, crack, whatever - it’s all good!***

#wangxian #mdzs #wangxian fic recs #i'm in the mood for a fic #the untamed #wangxian fic search #wangxianficfinder #long post

165 notes · View notes

krispyweiss · 1 year ago

Text

Album Review: Rhiannon Giddens - You’re the One

“Way Over Yonder” is a fiddle tune with handclaps and harmonies, but it ain’t no spiritual. The penultimate track on Rhiannon Giddens’ You’re the One is instead about an illicit bar where the women are nice and the men are pretty.

That Giddens isn’t singing about the hereafter, but the here and now, on such a song isn’t the only surprise on You’re the One. The singer, multi-instrumentalist, former Carolina Chocolate Drop, opera composer and singer, author, MacArthur Genius and Pulitzer Prize winner’s fifth solo album is also her first of all-original material. Better still, it’s nearly on par with 2017’s Freedom Highway, Giddens’ high-water mark to date.

This is despite the LP’s lack of musical or lyrical cohesion as Giddens dumps her philandering man on the soulful “Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad” and the country-tinged “If You Don’t Know How Sweet it Is;” embraces her man on the playfully ribald “You Put the Sugar in My Bowl;” and rejects men writ large on the grinding funk of “Hen in the Foxhouse.”

I really don’t care how big it is as long as you keep it out of my way, Giddens sings as strings and percussion accentuate the kiss-off of the century.

She sings about America’s promise with Jason Isbell on the rollicking celebration of good that is “Yet to Be” and fronts a jazz orchestra on the torchy ballad “Who are You Dreaming Of.”

And when the album goes out on the sub-60-second “Good Ol’ Cider” and Giddens’ banjo, the listener is left to go back to the beginning to puzzle over how she makes it hang together. Several spins later, it’s clear it doesn’t matter. That she did it is the greatest surprise of all.

Grade card: Rhiannon Giddens - You’re the One - A-

9/28/23

#rhiannon giddens #you’re the one #2023 albums #jason isbell #carolina chocolate drops #our native daughters

8 notes · View notes

randomvarious · 9 months ago

Text

Today's compilation:

Q Presents: The Best of the Best 97 1998 Alternative Rock / Britpop / Big Beat

Folks, this little comp here, which was included as a freebie sampler in an early 1998 issue of British music magazine Q, really gets at something that I've been banging the drum about for years now, and it's simply that, writ large, UK music is just better than American music. And I don't know how long it's been that way, but it dates back to at least sometime in the 90s. The things that have always seemed to set us apart from each other are our relative eases of access to different types of music and the overall rigidity, or lack thereof, of our many-tentacled popular music industries. And I'm gonna simultaneously get into both of those things right now.

For one, while electronic music in the US has largely been treated as this weird and foreign sideshow, the UK has managed to fully embrace it. They had their Second Summer of Love back in 1988, which saw teenagers and twenty-somethings taken hold by the acid house phenomenon, in which large warehouses were commandeered in order to throw enormous and illegal late night raves. And outside of London, Manchester caught the bug for it especially, which then spawned an iconic scene called Madchester, with bands like The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays venturing into alternative/indie dance territory by incorporating acid house into their own respective sounds. Versatile British dance trendsetter Paul Oakenfold would co-produce the Happy Mondays' most acclaimed LP, 1990's Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, and in addition to that, enterprising DJs were also hijacking the airwaves with pirate radio transmissions of their own too, so they could bring other underground electronic music, like jungle and breakbeat hardcore, to the masses as well.

And the prevalence of both the warehouse raves and pirate radio then seemed to engender this tradition among a significant amount of youths towards clubbing. Nightclubs would be open every night, often with some sort of theme or genre allocated for each one of those nights, and the young people would have their pick of where they wanted to go. And this time around it was all legal, except for all the drugs that you might choose to do 😅.

Now, the US, of course, has had its own clubbing history and culture too, but clubbing seems to be a far less popular activity among Americans, and you'll almost never hear our most popular radio stations showcasing the kind of electronic dance music that gets played at a club, whereas the BBC will be hip enough to air sets from some of the UK underground's greatest contemporary dance DJs.

So with nothing like a Second Summer of Love ever managing to occur in the US, despite the fact that we invented both house and techno, we still never really had a generation that electronic music successfully permeated to a comparable point of ubiquity as the UK did. And I think that's the main reason why our music isn't as good as theirs. You'll find electronic music in plenty of American pop material now, but we are so far behind what the UK has already been doing for decades. They developed their own scenes for every electronic genre under the sun and it ended up serving as this connective tissue to make the UK such a sonically vibrant and dynamic melting pot. Underworld's utterly strange techno odyssey, "Born Slippy," went to #2; drum n bass was popular enough to chart; Portishead, Massive Attack, and Tricky were all huge deals; and the big beat scene that was helmed by people like Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and The Prodigy went simply bonkers. And the US really never had *anything* close to that, besides some of that big beat crossing over to soundtrack our futuristically-themed audiovisual media, like The Matrix, et al., and some car commercials.

And without that dimension of electronic music being able to flourish Stateside, the state of our own industry resulted in something that was a whole lot more cliquish and segregated. Little to no cross-pollination really ever occurred here and the most tangible thing we ever got out of it when it actually did happen was rap-rock and nu metal 😒. After grunge died, some of our biggest, most accessible American alt rock acts ended up being names along the lines of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Third Eye Blind, the Goo Goo Dolls, and Everclear, and over in the UK, they had Radiohead, Oasis, and Blur. And Radiohead would end up drawing inspiration from Aphex Twin and IDM, and Damon Albarn from Blur would go on to form The Gorillaz. Do you see what I mean?

So all of this is to say that while Q could produce a CD like this, comprised of fantastic music by mostly UK acts that the record-buying public over there was already familiar with, no widely read US publication would've been able to pull off the same in 1998 with a CD of mostly US acts. They might've been able to cobble together a better album with purely indie material, but then a lot of the names on that CD would've been obscure to a whole lot of folks. And while this comp from Q presents UK-made electronic music in the form of big beat from The Chemical Brothers, big beat-hip hop from The Prodigy and prolific abstract Big Apple rapper Kool Keith, and vocally soulful drum n bass from Roni Size / Reprazent, the best that the US probably could've mustered in comparison would've been something from someone like Moby, and *literally no one else.*

To be clear, America has produced plenty of great music without electronic music being popular enough to really inspire it, but the problem is really twofold: that amount of music, for the massively larger population that we have in comparison to the UK, is in nowhere near as much of an abundance, and for the great stuff that we have made, our industry, mechanisms, and apparatuses don't really do all that much in order to successfully raise its profile to a point of pervasiveness like the UK does. And I think a lack of electronic music being somewhere in the accessible ether definitely has something to do with it all.

Seeing as how this post is already long enough as it is, let me just provide one example of a song from this album that's a) very good and b) by a popular UK band that's not very well-known to Americans. I'm sure the US has had an indie group whose sound approaches that of England's Mansun before, but there's no way that what they ever made ended up amounting to anywhere near a similar amount of commercial success. Mansun's music has been available in the US, but they've only ever managed to chart once here, on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks list, with their 1996 single, "Wide Open Space," peaking at #25. And while the debut LP that that song is derived from, Attack of the Grey Lantern, didn't chart in any capacity in America, conversely, it managed to make it all the way to #1 on the UK's Albums Chart.

And the Mansun song that's on this Q comp here, "Mansun's Only Love Song," is from that same album too, and I think it's safe to say that no remotely popular American band has ever made anything quite like it. It's super catchy, melty, and silky-smoothly surging Britpop with icy synths and a distinct hip hop underbelly. And it's so good 🥰.

So, something that us music lifers always seem to be confronted with is this difficult-to-maneuver intersection between art and capital, which often leads to an axiomatic conclusion that striving for capital will always corrupt art, and sacrificing your art generates the potential to attain more capital. And while that's certainly borne out in the US to what feels like an extreme degree in more modern times, I don't feel like that conflict has ever been as dire across the pond, and this simple comp here of 15 songs that were mostly made by UK acts shows that some of those who are capable of making excellent and inventive music can also make a good chunk of change off of it as well, without having to either be a rare indie band that finds a way to strike rich, or a group of total sellouts. Whatever the UK's had in place, they've certainly managed to find that balance a whole lot more often than the US has, and one of the main reasons why they've been able to do it in the first place, in my opinion, is because the fertile ground that had been laid by acid house in the late 80s enabled electronic music, more broadly, to achieve a mix of popularity, accessibility, and inspiration that never came anywhere close to materializing in America.

Fin.

Highlights:

The Chemical Brothers - "Block Rockin' Beats (radio edit)" Texas - "Black Eyed Boy" Erykah Badu - "On and On" Bush - "Swallowed (7" mix)" The Prodigy - "Diesel Power" Supergrass - "Tonight" Portishead - "Cowboys" Depeche Mode - "Barrel of a Gun" Blur - "Country Sad Ballad Man" Mansun - "Mansun's Only Love Song" Primal Scream - "Burning Wheel" Roni Size / Reprazent - "Heroes" Oasis - "Fade In-Out" Radiohead - "The Tourist"

#alternative rock #britpop #brit pop #alternative #alternative music #rock #big beat #dance #dance music #electronic #electronic music #music #90s #90s music #90's #90's music

4 notes · View notes

leffee · 8 months ago

Note

With the main 7 how do rank how often they’d want cuddles/ how affectionate they are?

I’d love to give Vinnie and penny a hug! oh and your writing is phenomenal you’ve gotten me back into watching the show!

Ok ok, so last things first, thank you thank you so much!! I'm glad you like my silly little writting, such things are really really propeling me to write for this small fandom and I'm getting proper into it. I think I might have to do a list of things I want to write out so I don't forget any ot he plots that come to me sometimes randomly sometimes not.

And I got you back into watching lps? Omg, now that's a compliment like no other! Well then, I hope you enjoy yourself ^^. Feel free to report back with anything if you want to, you know I love talking about basically anything involving lps, whether stuff that acutally happened in episodes etc or just completely made up headcanons, AUs etc.

I too want to give those two a hug, well, all of them really, but of course especially Vinnie <3. I I could I would never let him go... okay, I would, because more than wanting to hug him myself I want his friends to hug him so I could release him for that.

Now onto the questions, I'm gonna guess that you have already read it but I actually have already asked something very similar to the "how affectionate they are" question, I'll still provide a link, it's here:

Oh, that cover is terrifying

However, I can still use that as an excuse to talk about them™ in the sense of that "how often they’d want cuddles" ask. It's kinda different and I'm taking advantage of that, even if this will be probably pretty short (compared to my other answers anyway >.>):

Penny/Vinnie, I'm counting those two together in the sense how often they want cuddles because for both of them the answer is "basically all the time", just, you know, Penny's rather open about it most of the time, Vinnie on the other haaaand not really. Penny is known as the affectionate one anyway and she has been doing this for years, so no one is surprised when she says she want affection. She will also often initiate it for those reasons too.

Vinnie though, well, he won't say it at all most of the time, the best you can get out of him are nonverbal cues like getting closer to you, "accidentaly" tripping and landing on someone, just standing there are staring at you with the most intense gaze ever "...What's going on?" Sunil flinched seeing Vinnie's peculiar position "Nothing, just chilling like that." "That literally does not look like chilling one bit." Honestly, he looks like he's planning to pounce on you and gouge your eyes out. One thing though! He can use his permanent coldness as an excuse if he's really desperate, he can just say that he's cold as he awkwardly tries to initiate a hug or cuddling and say that's the only reason why he's getting closer.

See why those two are so great together? She wants cuddles all the time, he wants cuddles all the time, perfect, right? That is if Penny manages to break through the tall, tall walls of tsunderesness he exhibits when it comes to physical affection, but then again I'm pretty sure she knows how it really is with him ;) everyone knows actually oop

Minka: I think she really likes cuddling but is not up for them all the time because that requires staying in one place for sometimes long time and often she's too hyper for that. Aside from that, yipee, give her cuddles :))), he's happy to initiate or join, be prepared though because she might jump on you when you least expect it

Zoe: she prefers other forms of physical affection like kisses, but that doesn't mean she never wants cuddles because she absolutely does. At the same time she might not be up for them all the time either because she's worried (I mean, rightly so) that it will mess up her hair or create wrinkles on her clothes, maybe even destroy her make up if she's not careful. Still, wants cuddles sometimes and thinks they're great

Pepper: oh she's definitely not up to admitting that she wants any sort of hugs or cuddles most of the time just like Vinnie, but at the same time she doesn't exactly crave them that super often. Will only do it if the other person initiates them and even then she will pretend that she doesn't really like it all that much (contrary to Vinnie who after initial protests and all that once cuddled will normally go quiet about it and enjoy himself)

Sunil: he mostly wants cuddles when he's scared/worried/anxious, basically feeling any sort of negative emotions because it makes him feel safe and grounds him. Besides that, he craves them sometimes too, but not quite as often as certain others, still, he won't complain one bit at being cuddled at any point. I think he likes when someone lies on top of him cause then they're like a human blanket for him and it's just nice, squishy sort of pressure

And last but not least, Russell: hmmm I think he'd want cuddles pretty often, I know we're talking about human au, but in his case I'm following the logic that he in one episode (season 4 episode :3) said that "nobody wants to hug him because of his quills" and bby was really sad about it :(. I don't know what could replace that in human au, but anyway that's how I conclude he likes cuddling. He might be kinda like Zoe sometimes in not wanting it to happen because it might wrinkle his clothes if he's supposed to be somewhere public that day, but aside from that he's definitely not opposed to them, though I think seldom he might be a bit tsundere about cuddless too

Welp, this ended up pretty long in the end, oops. Honestly I call bs on that, they all want cuddless all the time and they deserve them, let us make them all cuddle all the time with each other in a big ass pile

#lps 2012 #asks

3 notes · View notes

libidomechanica · 8 months ago

Text

Wont to see: and, having pickd up several

Tribute paid: nor this world’s delight? Who leaves to be hove down to a hundred dishes; lamb and pistachio nuts—in short, all meats, and limb to limb spoiling through a clown, and the shock of cold water turbidly flower in light, throbbed

to her song, were still more nearly treasure. Give me once there? Without a weedye crop of ink, falling on her children up if nursing the good company invited. The golden pomp is come, that title doth springe giues place to elder time,

and take care of Poets fury tell, and shortly rain’d upon the race? Wont to see: and, having pick’d up several animals he saw—a taste and pomegranate nodding o’er dropp’d in the wakened soul from yours. I couldn’t even

but incessant care to tend the whole world. Are lying in the sun, show me your slim, express’d, he ask’d the silence and I felt before, all made us rich, can make her; and thinner tray, tapping the connection such people to be helps

to all others’ intellectual breeze, at once met with him, now him, on thy heart, my mouth be heir office might start eternal—just that the Saints above, in solemn troops into hands when the red life so rarefied a bliss. But Venus

sittes and a Troop of his absence such expense; the new vastness of the sea, the dark, and wooed Sleepe again—oppress’d with melancholy, and then his nature’s deep breathe? He must fade as well as the pillow’d upon the river? Yet

it should close, ne’er weary, to the vestry of the sphere; Prithee why so pale? The sun will and play till he flung the rat; I know too were busy beyond which I should in the parent’s brooding wings, but never dies! We are puppets, Man in hopeless

flame kindled at his rest. And drove afield, and still, at least, and pleasing thorn, without him, her host, that we are free an LP of poetry left on in the sky, with wild thyme and nearer than half of paradise, no tear-floods, nor

well. The sun and there, his rapier brandished high through the bonie Betty, as father’s breast. And with nectar—starlings sake, give you apt to kill me, what is that Lovers, too, out of the deeps—of ocean? Divine a thing among many. So

closed down with what Haidee’s sake, knowing wiser, he may take her now; tis but a child, too, bleeding, this young, looking ill prevail? Hope, in pity mock not Woe with thee thrill the day? To think for two. By this, alas, is more worthless damage

than married lady—the gentlemen. Thy fair in the tale had touch’d with which thou wondrous Mother- Age!—When did these loves; never writ, nor no man ever wife was liberty; and now than to be lou’d, and all love repose, till grief lies onward

stray’d, my heart will gie to Polly Stewart! Trembling Pricket, or hunt the highway, and knew the way to love. The long- neck’d geese of thine and hell at one day I met wi’ a crazy auld man! The white man not a chef come down to a very

part to live your tongue’s a feckless matter what could fail! Dead, long dead, stiller worlds, beyond the murm’ring stream; the sequel of the dead, ten will laugh as he sate by the bones are moved in the evening, and his lakes. Who wanted to say, by

delay, a death, opprest, leaue what seas between us an uncorrupt my saint to point: slowly to the Abbey, and ask’d why? Now sang He like yon youthful joys, tho’ shelter’d in the good matter what peace, and redder that does his faire outside,

which wakes my sommers pryde: also my age now the same to be a devil, wooing his style than a windy morn; an’ she has twa sparkling roguish een. Where is no plant that thought warbling his own vision of all humanity,—

lie on their Strength and bore its fragrant but the lass o’ Ballochmyle. And there was not a bell was rung, not as I wont to frame my desires, and the names of tissue, meridian-like, were two spirit all the valley. A heart

to herd with incessant. Men, my brothers, are a kind that they deaf that sweetheart to her even strained in the pith, like a shroud! Mind to scorn whom frown’st thou thy fury on some few years long enough infinite mercy he had been a Sultan

and the wild seas, on thy pillow them: but chiefly where Deva spread; gazelles and some skill in giving known that earth has Nero, more strong to shear away, dead ere his sort ever scuttled ship or cut a Of laughter’s heart is rest.

#poetry #automatically generated text #Patrick Mooney #Markov chains #Markov chain length: 7 #144 texts #ballad

2 notes · View notes

pierreism · 1 year ago

Video

youtube

'Your Beautiful Self' by Land of Talk

Following 2021′s isolation-inspired Calming Night Partner, Liz Powell returns this October with her next LP, Performances, a title that addresses not just her duties as a songwriter, but the act of performance writ large: how we present ourselves to the world and the burdens of expectation, exposure and failure that comes with it.

“I needed to make a love letter to my teenage self by being more vulnerable and doing all the production myself,” she writes. “I'm performing what's in my brain but I'm tired of performing femininity for the music industry, femininity in my life, respectability, and vulnerability. I'm trying to grow out of these and break out of these roles in my life.”

The video is bookended with images of Liz looking away, as if disinterested in the gaze looking back at her. Performance is, ultimately, an act of giving. When that invariably drains you of your life force, who can we count on to give back? With her confessional and soul-searching music, Liz Powell creates a mirror that reflects humanity’s beauty back to us — if only we could just see it.

#Land of Talk #Liz Powell

5 notes · View notes

theeverlastingshade · 2 years ago

Text

Dogsbody- Model/Actriz

Dance music was a prevalent force in pop music writ large throughout the course of 2022. While the indie sleeze revival more or less came and went without leaving much of an impact dance music across the board dominated 2022. The results were largely mixed, but the unifying force binding these records was the communal joy that erupted as a result of people finally being able to share these public spaces once more. The enthusiasm was palpable, and the energy undeniable. But as welcome of a shift as this was from the tepid mid-tempo bedroom pop by numbers billboard fare of the last few years I kept wondering when something truly nasty sounding might emerge from this vein. Enter Model/Actriz, a Brooklyn 4 piece with a penchant for industrial breakbeats and bad vibes. Their earliest EPs were loaded with scorched earth stompers as impenetrable as they were exhilarating, and they didn't exactly signal any impending forays into dance-punk proper. But on the band's debut LP, Dogsbody, they've successfully shed the caustic veneer of their early EPs in favor of a more full-bodied, but no less immersive experience. Dogsbody isn't an easy listen, but it's an enthralling one that never lets the urgency at its core come at the expense of the band's disarming immediacy.

Dogsbody has garnered Model/Actriz numerous comparisons to the seminal experimental aughts band Liars, which is a good place to start with them, but it does seem to sidestep the group's overt theatrical quality. To my ears, Model/Actriz stake out an idiosyncratic space that finds the sweet spot between art-damaged agitators like Liars or Special Interest, and art pop auetuers like Perfume Genius or Arca. Dogsbody is an urgent and volatile record, with shards of post-punk, noise rock, industrial, and glam rock interwoven throughout, but it isn't anywhere near as punishing of a listen as some of those tags taken together might suggest. Most of these songs are laced with propulsive grooves and anthemic hooks that are seemingly tailored for mosh pits but achieve a utility well-beyond a soundtrack to thrash to. Songs like "Mosquito " and "Amaranth" lunge for the jugular with sinister precision, their propulsion enveloping the listener like a heated blanket, while songs like "Pure Mode" and "Crossing Guard" masterfully sustain increasingly amplified tension through steady, unsettling rhythms and delicately doled out dissonance. There aren't many easy entry points on Dogsbody, but it's a deeply visceral, versatile record that keeps the listener on their toes every step of the way.

The bulk of the thematic concerns throughout Dogsbody are centered around sex. From the initial infatuation described on opener "Donkey Show" "Like when a knife is swallowed cutting water/And if it, if it hurts/I'll let him murder my/Murder my dull mind if it puts me in his eye" to the unusually uplifting finale about feeling content while being embraced by your partner "Lying on our backs, your head in my chest/Finally alone on the hillside/Silent but the sound of our breaths falling/Like petals accumulating" sex is an omnipresent, all-consuming force animating these songs. Sex is frequently portrayed as a harrowing, but insatiable compulsion not to be navigated lightly "With a body count/Higher than a mosquito", "I want to see the petals stagger onto me/See my body carried, splintering", "And then it's bleeding over/Onto my jaw/Onto my neck/Pours out of my hands", etc. But there are a few songs like the aforementioned closer, and the stunning mid-album ballad, "Divers", where the horror subsides and a disarming tenderness emerges "Braiding our arms/In the tall grass/Like laying in a palm/Held where clouds bend to breath" that helps frame the surrounding aggression. For Model/Actriz the line between agony and ecstasy in love and/or lust couldn't be any more blurry, but that doesn't make either any less worth pursuing.

Essentials: "Sleepless", "Divers", "Mosquito"

#model/actriz #dogsbody

2 notes · View notes

the-sith-in-the-sky-with-diamond · 2 years ago

Text

J'ai publié 7 323 fois en 2022

C'est 5 284 billets de plus qu'en 2021 !

60 billets créés (1%)

7 263 billets reblogués (99%)

Les blogs que j'ai le plus reblogués :

@zoeykallus

@wild-karrde

@kaminocasey

@cobaltbeam

@clonememesfrikyeah

J'ai étiqueté 1 663 billets en 2022

#awesome other people's art - 120 billets

#awesome other people's writing - 78 billets

#*nods nods* - 52 billets

#^this - 52 billets

#pouic tish - 34 billets

#👀 - 29 billets

#awesome other people's writting - 28 billets

#m o o d - 26 billets

#the bad batch - 26 billets

#lp art - 20 billets

Tag le plus long : 89 caractères

#diversity of alien race and scenery makes me feel it s one of the few real sw show lately

Mes billets vedette en 2022 :

n°5

Star wars character sheet (old ver)

Well it's not really a character sheet, but an ultra reference for your star wars character. It can be a good base to develop an original character with who you want to roleplay with, or draw/write about it etc.

CHARACTER INTRO

GLOBAL gender – race – age – sexuality - homeworld

BODY shape – height - hair(color, shape) – eye - skin - freckles – scars – birthmark – cybernetic – tattoo - etc

DISABILITIES ?

BACKGROUND + ERA dark past / old fashioned wanderer etc - in which era your character is evolving?

RELATIONSHIP family - allies – enemies – friends – lover - famous connection

ALIGNEMENT chaotic/neutral/lawful; good/neutral/evil ; faction ; religion

ACTIVITY career – job – etc

GOAL

Voir l'intégralité du billet

54 notes - publié le 14 juin 2022

n°4

"Guest" & Bonus

Cody deserving a hug, more caff and less kniffe:

No thoughts, just Crosshair in my brain:

Voir l'intégralité du billet

56 notes - publié le 30 mai 2022

n°3

Lana at the end of the Rishi//Traitor arc:

Luhcy: You have to apologize to Theron

Lana: Fine.

Lana: 'Unfuck you' or whatever.

This quote is generated from https://incorrectquotesgenerator.com

This suits so well to that situation kfjsjdkskks

63 notes - publié le 23 juin 2022

n°2

Siblings dynamic in TBB

So I finally jump into the water and get back to create content... I hope y'all are going to be kind to me .. please! ~ Here we go, my headcanon about brotherhood on the Clone Force 99'

The gif have been made by @lisasstars and dividers by @djarrex!

Voir l'intégralité du billet

67 notes - publié le 26 août 2022

Mon billet n°1 en 2022

To all metalhead \m/

Tomorrow in France, a metal festival named Hellfest is going to beginning. It will be from the 16th to 19th june, and from 23th to 26th. I will be broadcasted on Arte TV. It's a German-French tv, and it's FREE. I have linked the English versio of the website.

There will be BIG NAME, like Ghost, Megadeath, Gojira, Korn, Deep Purple, Scorpion, Guns'n Roses, Sabaton, Epica, Nightwish, Metallica, Airbourne, Megadeath, Wardruna, Therion, Sepultura, etc..

And of course, less "famous" by general public. There is various stage for all variety in metal, on the stage named "Warzone", "Temple", "Altar", "Valley". You can found all the lineup and days here.

I hope some of you will enjoy looking at the free and official stream on Arte! \m/

216 notes - publié le 15 juin 2022

Obtenez votre année 2022 en revue sur Tumblr →

Wow. What a mess! x)

#tumblr2022 #année en revue #mon année tumblr 2022 en revue #votre année tumblr en revue #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

1 note · View note

chrisryanspeaks · 3 months ago

Text

Wishy’s ‘Triple Seven’ Debut: A Game-Changer in Indie Rock

Wishy's long-awaited debut LP, ‘Triple Seven’, drops today via Winspear, solidifying their place as one of the most promising acts in indie rock. After making waves with their 2023 EP *Paradise*, the band quickly became a name to watch, and the buzz has only intensified since they announced their debut LP in May, highlighted by a FADER Gen F profile. Last week, they graced the cover of NME, which hailed them as "one of the most exciting new rock bands operating anywhere right now." Their debut has garnered significant acclaim, earning the title of Stereogum's Album of the Week, which praised it as "one of the best indie rock debuts in recent memory." Paste Magazine further underscored their rising star status, naming them "The Best of What's Next" and bestowing the LP with a Paste Pick designation, declaring it "one of the most irresistible, unshakeable albums of the year." Uproxx, in an IM20 feature, lauded Wishy as "one of the best new bands in indie rock writ large," while Pitchfork added their voice to the chorus, recognizing Wishy as "a standout voice in a new generation of shoegaze" in their review. Read the full article

0 notes

audiofuzz · 3 months ago

Text

Wishy’s ‘Triple Seven’ Debut: A Game-Changer in Indie Rock

0 notes

longliverockback · 10 months ago

Text

Black Sabbath The Complete Albums 1970-1978 [Box Set] 2014 Rhino ————————————————— Tracks LP One: Black Sabbath 01. Black Sabbath 02. The Wizzard 03. Wasp - Behind the Wall of Sleep - Bassically - N.I.B. 04. Wicked World 05. A Bit of Finger - Sleeping Village - Warning 06. Evil Woman

Tracks LP Two: Paranoid 01. War Pigs • Luke’s Wall 02. Paranoid 03. Planet Caravan 04. Iron Man 05. Electric Funeral 06. Hand of Doom 07. Rat Salad 08. Jack the Stripper • Fairies Wear Boots

Tracks LP Three: Master of Reality 01. Sweet Leaf 02. After Forever (Including the Elegy) 03. Embryo 04. Children of the Grave 05. The Haunting 06. Orchild 07. Step Up 08. Lord of This World 09. Solitude 10. Deathmask 11. Into the Void

Tracks LP Four: Black Sabbath Vol. 4 01. Wheels of Confusion 02. Tomorrow’s Dream 03. Changes 04. FX 05. Supernaut 06. Snowblind 07. Cornucopia 08. Laguna Sunrise 09. St. Vitus Dance 10. Under the Sun

Tracks LP Five: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 01. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 02. A National Acrobat 03. Fluff 04. Sabbra Cadabra 05. Killing Yourself to Live 06. Who Are You 07. Looking for Today 08. Spiral Architect

Tracks LP Six: Sabotage 01. Hole in the Sky 02. Don’t Start (Too Late) 03. Symptom of the Universe 04. Megalomania 05. The Thrill of It All 06. Supertzar 07. Am I Going Insane (Radio) 08. The Writ

Tracks LP Seven: Technical Ecstasy 01. Back Street Kids 02. You Won’t Change Me 03. It’s Alright 04. Gypsy 05. All Moving Parts (Stand Still) 06. Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor 07. She’s Gone 08. Dirty Women

Tracks LP Eight: Never Say Die! 01. Never Say Die 02. Johnny Blade 03. Junior’s Eyes 04. Hard Road 05. Shock Wave 06. Air Dancer 07. Over to You 08. Breakout 09. Swinging the Chain —————————————————

* Long Live Rock Archive

#BlackSabbath #Black Sabbath #Geezer Butler #Tony Iommi #Ozzy Osbourne #Bill Ward #Complete Albums #Compilation #Box Set #Metal #2014

1 note · View note

adhamhocaoimh · 2 years ago

Text

No Spill Blood w/ Percolator • Whelans, March 22nd

No Spill Blood, the lauded Dublin luminaries responsible for one of the most proficient meldings of metal adjacent music and synthesiser intensity I’ve yet heard, have returned after some eight years with the impressive, oppressive ‘Eye of Night’, ten tracks spread over forty minutes of undulating heft.

Dublin krautrock shoegazers Percolator were warming up, and a band I had not yet had the pleasure of hearing. Their performance was exploratory and refreshing, an unexpected start to an excellent evening. Beautiful atonality, and an ethereal female vocal floating over arrhythmic pulsing bass and jagged, metallic guitar chords betrayed a definite SWANS influence. Their LP, ‘Sestra’ is recommended if you’re interested in groups like, NEU, Devo, My Bloody Valentine or even some later stage Einstürzende Neubaten.

A short breather. A trip to the bar. Then the band I came to see, whom I’ve come to love, took to the stage.

Much has been made of No Spill Bloods debt to Goblin, John Carpenter and horror soundtracks, but less so perhaps has been said of Big Business, the once guitarless duo that became half of Melvins, or Zombi, their pioneer brethren in bringing synths to the fore in each music.

The now ancient departure of Lar Kaye, formerly of Adebisi Shank, to focus on All Tvvins may have proven an unexpected blessing afor No SPill Blood, as they recruited Ror Conalty behind the kit, a man who has wowed me with his beat prowess since the days of Puget Sound, Verona, and even on Grafton Street beating out improvised percussion on found items.

Easily one of the most talented sticksmen the country has yet produced, his singular mark on the stellar ‘Eye of Night’ cannot be understated, underpinning the dense and oppressive sound woven by Matt Hedigan and Ruadhan O’ Meara with rhythms both primordial and progressive.

The record, excellent as it is, barely does the songs justice, I came to understand as they launched into the punishing ‘Cradle Scythe’ and the blackened hardcore of ‘Anvil Crawler’, the pairing that opens the album. Backed by sublime and abstract visuals, I assume prepared by visual artist Conalty himself, the sheer weight of the material left barely a moment to breathe, nor a head unbopped.

That something this sonically dense has been conjured by a trio is as remarkable as the compositions themselves, the brutal, thoughtful ‘Ad Unguem’ and the hypnotic ritual dance of ‘Dead Satellite’ writ large upon the dark ambience of the Whelans stage.

The track ‘Eye of Night’ itself seemed like something akin to Battles, if Battles had backbone but also were haunted by unspeakable things, a rhythmic onslaught that would see Stanier himself humbled. When I say the nuance and inventiveness of the recording does not do the songs justice, I watched awestruck as all three men demonstrated astounding technicality whilst the details lost in the claustrophobic production of the album were brought to the fore.

A set dominated, obviously by songs from ‘Eye of Night’, their new record for excellent Finland based label, Svart Records, the evening saw the songs brought to fresh, fist pumping life, a beautiful marriage of flawless execution and feverishly good songcraft, with perfect sound delivered throughout. Bone shaking low end and vast, glacial soundscapes rendered in beautiful 3D, Hedigans bestial roar echoing throughout the colossal fray underpinned by seemingly impossible percussion.

If you find yourself with an opportunity to catch them live, you would be be making a grave mistake to pass it up. One of the finest heavy bands to sprout from these shores, No Spill Blood take no prisoners, pull no punches, and leave nobody behind.

0 notes

randomvarious · 9 months ago

Text

Today's compilation:

Now That's What I Call Music! 48 2001 Pop / Teen Pop / Adult Contemporary / House / R&B / UK Garage / Pop-Rock / Trance / Alternative Rock / Dance-Pop / Latin Pop

Alright, well, I know what *some* of you might be thinking here:

Hey, waitaseckin! You're tryna tell me that the 48th volume of Now came out in 2001? But my copy of Volume 6 that I hold near and dear to my heart came out that same year too! How the hell could they have released more than 40 volumes of this stuff within a single year?!

Well, you silly American, they didn't. I mean, don't you know that this whole super pervasive enterprise of repackaged contemporary hits didn't actually start in the States?? Now's original home is in the UK, and its first ever volume came out in 1983. And on top of that, while each of your American installments in the main series have only consisted of either one disc or one cassette, the UK's releases have been either double-discs, double-cassettes, or double-LPs!

So that's what we have here, folks. An early 2000s double-disc Now dispatch from the UK.

youtube

Now, I know that over the past week and change I've been really singing the praises of the UK music industry writ large when comparing it to America's, but the buck is going to have to stop right here, because despite this thing having a small, eclectic handful of flat-out y2k-era bangers on it, it's still, unfortunately, pretty freaking bad. The plurality of what's on this is pure pop music, and while the tunes that were also popular in the States, like Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird" and Britney's "Stronger" are the ones that undoubtedly go the hardest, the vast majority of the rest of them are just very flat. No flair or pizzazz in the production chops; just deeply uninspired, hollow, mass-produced dreck. I don't think I've ever heard a good solo Spice Girls single before, and that streak continues with both Emma Bunton's "What Took You So Long" and Melanie B's "Feels So Good," and even the often reliable Robbie Williams, whose singles usually satisfy with a level of charmingly catchy and classy glitz, sounds like lame Christian megachurch pop-rock here, with "Let Love Be Your Energy." Ugh!

But what always seems to make these UK versions of Now ultimately still worth a listen is the electronic music, which is something that the US versions didn't dabble in too much in the early years, besides a couple Fatboy Slim jams here and there. I got pretty deep into the nature of the UK music industry in a post last week, but to sum it up quickly here, the UK embraced electronic and dance music in the late 80s with the Second Summer of Love, which made acid house wildly popular, and ever since then the country has been far more willing to embrace many forms of electronic music, while the US simply hasn't.

So that's why there are a whole lot more dance tunes on the UK comps than the US ones, and even though they can be quite cheesy too, like Dario G's pop-trance defilement of The Cranberries' "Dreams" 😒, you're still bound to run into at least one very good song that Americans don't know anything about; and that song in this particular volume is a piece of house from Italy's Planet Funk called "Chase the Sun." As far as I can tell, Planet Funk have never charted in the US in any capacity before, but this debut single of theirs ended up proving immensely popular across the pond, netting itself a top-five spot on the UK singles chart in 2001. With a melody taken from an Ennio Morricone tune and vocals provided by Finland's Auli Kokko, this very sleek and well-layered gem really makes for a beautifully warm and nocturnal kinda vibe 😌.

But other than that, there's really not too much else here that Americans who had their radios locked onto their favorite commercial hit radio stations and their TVs tuned to MTV wouldn't know about. Usually when I sift through these UK versions of Now, I end up finding a lot more goodies that failed to make it Stateside, but nothing else on these two discs here really feels worth writing about. I still prefer the UK version of this series overall, of course, because the electronic music naturally makes it far more eclectic than the US version, but that eclecticism doesn't always translate into a better release; and such is the case here 😔.

Highlights:

CD1:

Nelly Furtado - "I'm Like a Bird" Shaggy feat. Ricardo "Rik Rok" Ducent - "It Wasn't Me" Modjo - "Chillin'" Britney Spears - "Stronger" Backstreet Boys - "Shape of My Heart"

CD2:

Feeder - "Buck Rogers" Papa Roach - "Last Resort" Planet Funk - "Chase the Sun" Safri Duo - "Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)" Mýa - "Case of the Ex" Chanté Moore - "Straight Up" Joe - "Stutter"

2 notes · View notes