#music things

[grntaire]

HELLLLLL YEAH!!!!!!!

[jasofthehollow]

just came across this beautiful rendition of siúil a rúin by irish-palestinian artist roisin el cherif. this song has always been close to my heart, especially after it's use in the nightingale, a film that explores the (ongoing) colonial violence on the island that i call home.

i really love the way that she weaves the arabic language into this song, as well as the influences from both irish and palestinian styles of music.

all the proceeds of the release are being donated to the doctors without borders gaza emergency regional fund so if you love her rendition as much as i do i would really recommend purchasing it on band-camp (i've linked it above).

[aquareegia]

for someone who gets easily overwhelmed by sounds, i sure love music where people scream in my ears

[theluigianapurchase]

curious

favorite part of a song

[lonelyloserkid]

Ummm so I’m starting a series of songs that remind me of certain smp characters.

For reference I watch Fable smp, Mer smp and Bound smp (Skybound)

Be ready! I’m a hugeee music person

[teganorsara]

Jaybird — Willi Carlisle

well, you tried and you tried but you never got better the cops got confused by your suicide letter not outwards but inwards used too many big words

[itachi86]

the music when everyone shows up to fight erzebet

[orchestratedemotion]

When you’ve been feeling kind of meh but your favourite band of all time come back from a 6-year hiatus with a song that transports you straight to being 14. Truly heady feeling, lads.

[irishsaints]

for y'all sleep token fans, riddle me this

sleep token tumblr:

I have a lyric question. by which I mean, riddle me this:

In "vore", does the lyric go

there is always something in the way I want to have you to myself for once

OR does the lyric go

there is always something in the way I want to have you to myself for once

the difference being:

a) something is in my way- it needs to be removed, so that I can have you to myself, just this once

b) there is something ABOUT HOW I want to have you to myself, just this once

asking for science reasons. and writing reasons.

things that would be especially helpful is if anyone has the lyric booklet from the album. websites all list it as two lines, as though to infer the first meaning- but i'd be curious if the lyric book has it the same way.

AND ALSO: i'm generally curious to hear broad thoughts on these two different interpretations!

[grntaire]

fun musical bit about this scene!:

the piece that the car is playing (the "classical music that stays classical music") is a tone poem, saint-saëns' danse macabre. it's a super famous piece that you've probably heard before and is associated with all things spooky. but it's not just spooky bc it sounds spooky: it's spooky bc it tells a story! a tone poem is a piece of music evokes a poem, short story, landscape, etc. in short, it's a piece of music that's describing or outlining something.

danse macabre tells the story of death, who every year on the stroke of midnight on halloween plays his fiddle to raise the dead. the dead dance for him until the following dawn, where they return to their graves until the next year. (musically it does a lot of cool things to reflect this: there's 12 notes at the beginning representing the 12 strokes of midnight, and the frequent use of a specific musical interval called the tritone. in the medieval period the tritone was also called diabolus in musica, literally meaning "the devil in music" bc of how dissonant it sounded to listeners at the time. it also quotes the dies irae chant as well!)

so the fact that it's what the car chose to play is SUPER cute. bc it's classical (technically it's from the romantic period, but w/e), like aziraphale wants, but it's also reminiscent of crowley. bc i bet the car knows just how much aziraphale loves crowley, too. it's a really subtle nudge that the car knows both of them and it's like the car is finding a musical middle for them both, almost.

it's also a subtly brilliant choice bc in the flashback prior, aziraphale said that crowley asked to meet aziraphale in the graveyard at midnight. just like death met the dead on halloween.

[jasofthehollow]

as the token "friend who is into folk music" there is nothing worse than having a well-meaning friend recommend you a "folk" song from whatever fantasy show/movie/video game they've been watching/playing because first of all- holy shit that is so kind of you to think about me. and now i have to break your heart by not liking whatever music you're about to play to me.

[aquareegia]

it's so funny that the stank face is the highest form of compliment you can give in the metal scene

[arlecchinos-enlightened]

I love when artists count in for their song and they keep it in the song, but I always get thrown for a loop when it's a different count in. We've got 1 2, 1 2 3 4! we got the simple 1 2 3 4, we got this one I just heard with the 1 2 . . . 3, so many options to choose from