#music review blog

[honkycat-reviews]

welcome to honky cat reviews <3

list of vinyl I own

Batdorf and Rodney- Batdorf and Rodney

Beatles- Live at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 ★

Beatles- Rubber Soul

Billy Idol- Rebel Yell

Chappell Roan- Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

Count Basie- Pop Goes the Basie

Culture Club- Colour by Numbers

Cutting Crew- Broadcast

Dave Bruback- Adventures in Time ★

David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

David Bowie- Young Americans

David Bowie, Trevor Jones- Labyrinth

Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John- Madman Across the Water

Ensemble HD- Live at the Happy Dog ★

Hector Berlioz- Romeo et Juliette

John Lennon- Double Fantasy

John Lennon- Milk and Honey

John Lennon- Walls and Bridges

Laufey- Bewitched (Goddess Edition)

Laufey- A Night at the Symphony ★

Original Cast- The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Paul McCartney- Ram

T. Rex- The Slider

Van Halen- Van Halen

Vince Guaraldi Trio- A Charlie Brown Christmas

Wings- Venus and Mars

Wings- Wings Over America ★

list of CDs I own

Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour

Beatles- Revolver

Billy Joel- The Stranger

Bon Jovi- Greatest Hits

David Bowie- Let's Dance

Electric Light Orchestra- Best of ELO

Elton John- Duets

Elton John- Here and There ★

Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Jim Croce- The Lost Recordings

John Mock- Celtic Highlands

k. d. lang- recollection

Mario Galaxy Orchestra- Super Mario Galaxy Soundtrack

Neville Marriner- Amadeus Soundtrack Recording

Original Cast 1972- Cabaret

Original Cast 1993- Cabaret

Paul McCartney- Kisses on the Bottom

Ronan Hardiman- Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance

Sidney Bechet- Best of Sidney Bechet

Steely Dan- Aja

Stephen Trask- Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Tears for Fears- The Seeds of Love

Wings- Wings Over America ★

Yes- Best of yes

Genres: rock, jazz, folk/country, soundtrack, pop, instrumental, ★ means live, and italicized and bolded means i've reviewed it on this blog!

xoxo jam

[fortune-fatale]

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hi i’m Rilo or Fortune :]

this is my music-related blog! i like lots of different artists and types of music in general. i’ll probably be doing album reviews/general musical rambling on here. i have entirely no musical education so anything i say is entirely opinion-based.

i use any pronouns and am not comfortable giving my age but i am a minor. 18+ blogs dni as well as the other basic ones ( terfs, racists, homophobes, antisemites, islamophobes, get railed by a chainsaw fuck you)

i’ll be trying to keep a coherent tag system for this blog but don’t hold me to it

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[just-a-little-fangirl-love]

I was also super excited that they were on ASC. They're kind of an adorable group.

[dopeamean2024]

“Everyone looks to the past for inspiration but the art is to take those inspirations and use them to move the music on, not to buy a nostalgia ticket to past glories but to instead write the logical next chapter for that sounds or scene, that genre or style. And that, in a nutshell is what DopeAMean does so well on Blue Faces. Welcome to the future, it starts right here!” - Dave Franklin (reviewer)

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of forgotten dreams, DopeAMean emerges from the shadows, casting a spellbinding aura that's equal parts mystical, maniacal, and downright diabolical. His music is a potion brewed with the essence of ancient incantations and futuristic frequencies, a sonic elixir that transports you to a realm where the past, present, and future collide. With 'Blue Faces,' DopeAMean doesn't just rewrite the rules – he shatter them, forging a sound that's both hauntingly familiar and shockingly new. This isn't a nostalgia trip; it's a full-blown sonic odyssey, a journey into the heart of a musical labyrinth where every twist and turn reveals a hidden truth. So, buckle up and prepare to be seduced by the siren song of DopeAMean, because the future of music has arrived, and it's as unpredictable as it is undeniable.

[vitazmuzic]

im vitas, she/he

i listen to all sorts of stuff

this is kind of just a place for me to put my music thoughts

leave me albums in my ask-box, ill get around to them :-)

[folkhorrorrevival]

Ghost of an Idea:Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia by William Burns. Book Review.

As the number of books about Folk Horror and Hauntology is considerably increasing, focus falls now upon a quest for a unique selling point – the tone, the angle, which cultural examples will be concentrated upon. With Ghost of an Idea the aspect of Nostalgia is a point of interest. There is only so much that can be said about the ‘Unholy Trinity’ of folk horror films or Jacques Derrida’s origin…

[would-they-listen-to-that]

Kin playlist for Crow from Mystery Science Theater 3000? Pretty pllzzz

‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡ hi caller! here you go!

Weird Science - Oingo Boingo

Cabinet Man - Lemon Demon

My Own Worst Enemy - Lit

American Idiot - Green Day

What's My Age Again? - blink-182

Rebel Girl - Bikini Kill

Green Light - Lorde

Just What I Needed - The Cars

Like Humans Do - David Byrne

Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi

thanks for dialing in!

[acquired-stardust]

Game Spotlight #17: Telenet Music Box (1989)

Acquired Stardust is back with another spotlight! Need something to read to get your mind of recent world events? Been hunting for some new music to listen to? Do you just like learning about cool obscure stuff? Join Ash for a look at one of the most obscure things as of yet featured on the blog in 1989's Telenet Music Box for the PC88!

When thinking about the history of video games, many people of a certain age conjure to mind a beginning marked by the boom that Nintendo's NES (known in Japan as the Famicom) brought to the world. Fewer people will be overly familiar with Atari's platforms or their competitors, and fewer still will likely have heard about the infamous crash of the American video game industry in 1983 beyond being able to regurgitate myths of Howard Scott Warshaw's adaptation of E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1983) bearing supposed direct responsibility.

This pop history approach becoming so normalized to people is frustrating but understandable because it's all around us. Being inundated with countless YouTubers and streamers professing a love for retro games has inadvertently created a narrative that video game history is a straight line through mainstream smash hit consoles and this couldn't be further from the truth - there is a whole world before and around the NES that has gone largely unexplored, particularly in the west, and odds are if you've spent much time on Tumblr you're probably passingly familiar with the subject of this spotlight.

Japan has finally begun to more widely adopt PC gaming (in part due to the phenomenon that is vtubing), with an absolute explosion in market share in the past decade. What you might not know is that Japan actually has a pretty rich history of PC gaming that really blossomed in the 80s and 90s with several hardware manufacturers such as NEC and ASCII offering options that would give the world some early looks at teams and individuals that would come to define the medium going forward.

One such game changer (no pun intended) is Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear debuting in 1987 with its definitive version on MSX PCs and getting an incredible sequel that puts the NES-exclusive Snake's Revenge to shame, and another Kojima title would go on to define the NEC PC98 in popular consciousness with classic sexy adventure Policenauts easily being the most memorable title which would subsequently be ported and updated several times for home consoles such as the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation.

You may be familiar with the PC98 as screenshots from its many games are popular around Tumblr, most often featuring gloriously mid-late 90s anime girls rendered in stunning pixel art that feels like it exists somewhere out of time as things isolated from their origin as video game screenshots. Having been on Tumblr for over a decade (and the internet at large for even longer), it's my observation that the rediscovery of and appreciation for this retro anime aesthetic (and its later PC98 permutation) was really born here on Tumblr before spreading to other platforms to the point that you've probably seen at least one shot cross your dashboard before. But for this spotlight we're going even further back to the predecessor of the PC98, the PC88.

NEC's PC88 was released in the early 80s and most models featured a whopping 62 KB of RAM (in comparison to the NES's 2 KB) and many later models featured Yamaha sound chips which resulted in games often being visually and aurally significantly more impressive than you would see in home consoles at the time, in some cases lightyears ahead of the NES particularly in regards to music which is a pretty great thing for the sake of this spotlight. The games themselves were also quite varied in content from everything to the kawaii and comedic to erotic and even plenty of horror, with many standout games more accurately reflecting wider Japanese pop culture of the era than what you'd see on the comparatively sterile NES.

This wild west, edgy punk rock software library that goes part and parcel with Japan's nascent PC gaming scene is one of the coolest elements of going back to explore it. You never really know what you're in for, and you might be surprised (or even disgusted) with some of the unique experiences the platform has to offer. Many of these games (and those on the successor PC98) are completely untranslated and Japanese comprehension helps their enjoyment greatly and while often simple enough to enjoy without it that aspect has certainly contributed to their enigma in the west.

There are a lot of factors that have made PC88 and PC98 fandom and emulation not as glamorous as that of home consoles and some of that is due to limitations of the hardware in how it handles scrolling screens, with a noticeable chug as games scroll. Another factor is the compounding nature of its flaws and obscurity meaning emulators themselves are in Japanese and a bit tricky to figure out how to handle, old PCs infamously lacking a lot of user friendly features we take for granted today.

One such surprise is Telenet Music Box, a collection of then-prominent publisher Telenet Japan's biggest games' music. It's barely even a game and more a piece of software fit for a museum, with minimal activity limited to browsing game albums (a total of 13), choosing songs to listen to and creating custom playlists. Each of the 13 game albums is showcased with beautiful splash art and accompanied by a tracker for the keyboard as well as titles for each song and a timer for the length of songs.

Included in the mix is an impressive slate of Telenet Japan's games that showcase the depth and variety of the PC88's library such as Mugen Senshi Valis and even an early alternate manifestation of Shin Megami Tensei as a top-down dungeon crawler reminiscent of Gauntlet. Each of Telenet Music Box's 13 albums have their standout tracks, with some from Luxor and Final Zone being among our favorites.

Telenet Music Box is not a wholly unique concept and several other similar games were released for the platform (as well as the PC98), but it is an exceptionally clever one who's usefulness is perhaps all the more apparent now almost 40 years removed from its release, serving as a fantastic introductory course to a little understood part of video game history. It's a fantastic time capsule and with plenty to offer listeners of its roughly 3 hour runtime well beyond its value as virtual archaeology worth excavating.

Perhaps its most valuable asset is its ability to highlight the true nature of history. History is not a static thing with a start and an end but rather a living breathing thing that touches our everyday lives. Rare is it that anything begins or ends from nothing, with things instead in a constant state of evolution even when rising from the ashes of something else. One particular example of this is in Wolf Team's Final Zone (which features hilarious commentary in its opening scene that I'm not sure how made it past management - do look it up if you can) and Mugen Senshi Valis, the latter of which having been extremely popular in its time, spawning tons of ports and several sequels, with the team behind it eventually morphing into Namco's Tales Studio, responsible for some of the most beloved JRPGs of all time such as Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Vesperia.

While PC88 emulation can be frustrating to work out or find files for, an unforeseen strength of Telenet Music Box's concept of 'game as an album' is how much easier its discoverability is in recent years compared to the more traditional video games it shares a platform with, being far more easy to interface with and experience than the games it itself chronicles, and it can be found on YouTube in its entirety for your listening pleasure alongside plenty of other PC88 soundtracks. I invite you to dip your toes into this little-known scene and hope you come out of it with appreciation for the wide world of games outside what may be familiar to you, and maybe even some new favorite tracks.

A gem hidden among the stones, Telenet Music Box is undoubtedly stardust.

- Ash

[coldcrowmusic]

Stevie Nicks is definitely one of the most beautiful and stylish women in music

[idlejet]

Thank you The Other Side Reviews for the kind words about "We Are Not Robots"!

[honkycat-reviews]

underrated music medium for my age group is the radio!! because of how FM radio works, there's a ton more low-end to the audio but that REALLY works for certain songs!!

like livin on a prayer (bon jovi), barracuda (heart) and boys of summer (don henley) all just came on my local rock radio and I CRANKED the volume

[askmovieslate]

Do you remember "Hello Dolly!"? Has anyone seen the movie "Lincoln" starring Daniel-Day Lewis?

Now take those movies and mash them together, and what you get is an absolute mess. It's like taking a toast with jam on it, but then adding a slice of Camembert cheese on top of it. Sure you can still try to eat it, but the range of flavors goes from challenging to impossible, and then you'll probably end up with an upset stomach.

That's this movie. An absolute mess. The songs are bad, the lyrics are really stupid, and the melodies aren't memorable. Which is a shame, because the political arguments are actually very good, very interesting, and enjoyable to watch.

They should've been two separate movies.

Ah well. Happy Fourth of July to my American followers. You guys are great, and you deserve a better musical movie about your nation's Declaration of Independence.

[just-a-little-fangirl-love]

This is one of those songs that all kpop fans should at least be aware of.

[eliosvniverse]

Welcome to my blog!

You can all call me Elio. I have a past with Tumblr, but this is my first time having a blog! I'm very excited to share things here!

Here I will be discussing different medias as well as personal updates in the future.

I am interested in film, literature, and music. Please send recommendations/requests! I love emotional pieces as well as anything strange or unusual.

Here is a list so you can get a hint of my taste in media ♥️♥️ I'm excited to expand this list!

Movies and Television

The Red Shoes (1948)

Daisies (1966)

Suspiria (1977)

The Craft (1996)

Practical Magic (1998)

Labyrinth (1986)

Black Swan (2010)

Call me by your name (2017)

Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

Books

Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

Maurice (1914/1971)

The Secret History (1992)

Call me by your name (2007)

Albums

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... (1972)

Never for Ever (1980)

When the Pawn... (1999)

Bury Me at Makeout Creek (2014)

Please Send Recommendations! ♥️♥️♥️

More about me...

I have classes Monday-Thursday except for holiday.

I write poems and short stories!

I like horror and suspenseful media.

I love collecting things like porcelain dolls and vinyl!

Find my Socials

Instagram

Instagram Spam

Goodreads

Pinterest

Letterboxd: @eliosvniverse

Masterlist

Reviews and ratings

Original poetry and stories

I also write fanworks... You can find them @moiravim

[oatmealcookiess]

❥ hii welcome to my page !!

i write a lot a lot a lot

using this as an outlet for short stories + random rants

i always have a record playing im my room

❥ some fav artists: the 1975, troye sivan, billie eilish, amy winehouse, clairo, jeff buckley, boygenius, lorde, lana del rey, charli xcx, the cure, fiona apple, the strokes, radiohead, death cab for cutie, hozier, modern baseball, lady gaga

i loveeee film and i want to start learning more about it (follow my letterboxd in bio !)

❥ some fav films: call me by your name, little women (2019), the perks of being a wallflower, tick tick boom, juno, (500) days of summer, dead poets society, fight club

random facts about me

❥ i have seen every timothée chalamet movie - i write letters to my friends - i love going to local punk shows - i can’t stop drinking coffee - i’ve forced every person in my life to watch the show glee - i spend my entire paycheck on vinyls

recommend me anything and everything

lets be friends ! ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚

[annmroz]

when she said a superhero would come to help🤣