#the only thing missing is some a7x tbh

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 an incomplete compilation of songs which remind me of various Vrains characters and ships (alphabetised by category). these songs have been picked from my personal collection mostly and have been picked for a selection of reasons; some obvious, i think, others not so much.

Characters

Akira Zaizen

Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) by Styx

Earth

Rock You by Helix

Ema Bessho

Midnite Maniac by Krokus

What Do You Do For Money Honey by AC/DC

Yankee Rose by David Lee Roth

Jin Kusanagi

Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath

Holy Diver by DIO

Psycho Therapy by Skid Row

The Real Me by W.A.S.P

Steven by Alice Cooper

Wind Up Toy by Alice Cooper

Years Ago by Alice Cooper

Kengo Dojun

Dog Eat Dog by AC/DC

Metal Health (Bang Your Head) by Quiet Riot

No More Mr Nice Guy by Megadeth

Smokin’ In The Boys Room by Motley Crue

Sweet Little Sister by Skid Row

Ryoken Kogami

21st Century Digital by Bad Religion

Shoichi Kusanagi

Family Man by Fleetwood Mac

Hot Dog by LMFAO

Who Killed Bambi by the Sex Pistols

Spectre

Dem Bones by Creature Feature

The Bird and The Worm by The Used

Mind by the Talking Heads

Nasty Habits by Oingo Boingo

Takeru Homura

Beat The Bastards by Accept

Slave To The Grind by Skid Row

Yusaku Fujiki

Skate or Die by Teenage Bottlerocket

Zombie by The Cranberries

Ships

Aso x Taki x Genome

Weird Science by Oingo Boingo

Angelmakershipping

Rag Doll by Aerosmith

Ride The Wind by Poison

Blueghostshipping

Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue

Sugar Magnolia by The Grateful Dead

Crystalheartshipping

Soul Stripper by AC/DC

Datastormshipping

Bad Boy by Cascada

Bruises and Bitemarks by Good With Grenades

Liar, Liar (Burn In Hell) by The Used

Paralysed by The Used

Pretty Handsome Awkward by The Used

Hireshipping

Giving The Dog A Bone by AC/DC

Gone Shooting by AC/DC

She Goes Down by Motley Crue

Union City Blue by Blondie

Pathwayshipping

Lady Red Light by Great White

Respectfulshipping

Seven Wonders by Fleetwood Mac

Wisteriashipping

Insects by Oingo Boingo

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Of course I’m late to this, but I’m just now on my laptop to do it. I was tagged by @spicycal @5sosofficial and @notinthesameguey and once again this was hard af. I think I’m probably missing some albums, but this is a rough outline of my faves throughout the years.

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime as the best concept album to ever exist. This lineup of Queensryche was the best one, and everything after this was just meh. Such a shame.

Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane; or one of the first albums I bought with my own money, it speaks to me on another level, it is incredibly sexy and sensual and dark with an (un)healthy dose of existential dread. I only skip Sunday Morning tbh, too chirpy for me. Secret, tho...

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor. Hearing this album for the first time almost 13 years ago was... an experience. I remember hating the opening track Born, because the guy I liked (and hated his taste in music) posted it on Hi5. It was too thrash for me, but my, oh, my, how the tables have turned. There’s no skip. My heart literally beats out of my chest whenever I play this one and the lyrical content is right up my alley. My Acid Words, Sentient 6, Sell My Heart For Stones. So good. RIP Warrel Dane :(

All Time Low - Put Up Or Shut Up is one of those bitches. I came into the fandom right before the release of Nothing Personal and I remember liking almost all of their songs, but somehow this EP remained so special to me. It reminds me of a youth I never truly experienced but I also did, if that makes sense. Also love teenage Alex’s voice <3 (and Flyzik’s backing vocals on some songs)

Alesana - The Emptiness. By now you should know that I have a thing for concept albums. I already loved their previous work, but it wasn’t done right. When The Emptiness came out, I was blown by how polished it sounded. Still think that they were one of those bands that were overlooked and too easily labeled emo like it’s a bad thing.

Incubus - Monuments and Melodies.I realize that this is a compilation, but it’s also one of my most played Incubus albums. It’s missing a few songs to make it the perfect compilation, but it’s still so good, especially part 2.

5SOS - Youngblood. It was hard to decide whether I add Calm or YB, because Calm doesn’t have skips, and YB has Lie To Me and Woke Up In Japan (which I usually avoid), but it comes down to the fact that YB has more songs, and more songs I’m personally attached to (YB, Talk Fast, More, Meet You There, Ghost Of You), unlike Calm (Thin White Lies). 

I’m adding a few honorable mentions, just because: Placebo - Battle For The Sun, Opeth - Damnation, Paramore - Brand New Eyes, A7X - Avenged Sevenfold, Aghora - Formless, The Used - Lies For The Liars, BMTH - That’s The Spirit, Architects - Holy Hell, Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys, MGK - Hotel Diablo

Tagging @cccatz @sadistmichael @tigerteeff @twilightmomentswithyou @pxrxmoore @cashtonasfuck @krindy33 if you haven’t done it yet and want to :)) Here’s the link.

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It’s 2 am, but it’s a music tag, so I’m doing it. Thanks @5sosofficial, sleep can wait ✌😌✌ 

Edit: it’s 4 am, and I’m a long-winded bitch, so everything goes under the line.

Right, so, first order of business, 20 songs on shuffle:

5SOS - Talk Fast

The Band CAMINO - Berenstein

Phillip Phillips - Miles

Nao - Bad Blood

You Me @ Six - Liquid Confidence (Nothing To Lose)

Yves Tumor - Noid

Patric Fiori - Que Tu Reviennes

Bigflo & Oli - Dommage

Dido - Hunter

Anarbor - Tasty

5SOS - Empty Wallets

TOOL - Vicarious

Roseburg, Kellin Quinn - RIP

Jack’s Mannequin - Dark Blue

While She Sleeps - I’VE SEEN IT ALL

OK Go - Another Set Of Issues

Galantis - Runaway (U & I)

Zayn - BoRdErSz

While She Sleeps - GATES OF PARADISE

Julie Zenatti - Si Je M’en Sors

10 songs I’ve been listening to in no particular order:

Architects - Gone With The Wind

X Ambasadors - Unconsolable

Onlychild - Teeth

Bring Me The Horizon - Teardrops

While She Sleeps - FAKERS PLAGUE

5SOS - Thin White Lies

Architects - Animals

ASL - Voodoo

Ina Wroldsen - Sea

Normandie - Holy Water

10 albums that influenced my taste and made me a music snob (with commentary):

1. Linkin Park - Meteora

I think I’ve already talked about this, but I was in my early teens when this album came out, and I had a classmate that liked rock(ish music) so I went to the local CD shop that sold burned CDs (we won’t talk about it, 90s and 00s Macedonia was in a different century than the rest of the world) and asked for something cool and rock, and they gave me this CD. Now, like the nosy music nerd I was, I decided to play it once before I gave him the CD. Long story short, loved it so much, ended up buying him a picture frame and keeping the CD for myself. The angst in Chester’s voice and the tiny electronic twists together with the dark tunes made my teenage years (and still do) bearable.

2. Kyo - Le Chemin

I was maybe 9 when I first heard these guys on TV and fell in love with the guy in the red shirt. This was around the time I started understanding a bit of French and it certainly helped when a few years later I found a copy of this baby in our local French Institute. I’ve been listening to a lot of French music throughout the years, but nothing compares to this album. It made me understand emotions in French if that makes sense. There’s always a dark undertone to every song and I love how Ben’s able to infuse his voice with enough desperation/anguish/urgency while still talking about love.

3. Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane

Early teens again, on a vacation in Montenegro, bought it from a shop right off the beach lmao. The cover looked dope, and it was 2 euros. Mainly bought it because I loved that there was Jane in the title, a male name in Macedonian, also the name of the guy I had a crush on. When I went back to camp, he played it for me and he liked it as well (he was an employee there and a biiiiiiiit older than me). Little did I know that the syncopation, the embellishments and the raw energy Adam sang with in (only) this album was gonna make me compare every pop album to this one for years to come. This is like IT for me when it comes to pop music, even if it’s not entirely pop.

4. Six Pack - Minut Cutanja

I was 13, my brother wasn’t at home, so I decided to raid his computer for music. “Borrowed” a lot of punk music and this album which was titled just Six Pack. I didn’t really listen to Serbian music (tbh, I turned my nose at it bcs I thought it was something older people did, or ppl with no taste), let’s just say that living in a post-Yugoslavia world as a kid was fkn weird (@httpsgfg might agree). But there’s this song called 2 Minuta Straha (2 Minutes of Fear) which served as a soft transition to punk (punk-rock) for me, and consequently heavier rock and metal. Like, it’s such a great album, and made me open to finding other ex-Yu bands that sounded modern before their time.

5. Opeth - Blackwater Park

It was late 2007 and I made my first friend in high school (other than the ppl I already knew). She was this goth type that had a brother in a band and she listened to a lot of the music he listened to. Long story short, she showed me Bleak and that was IT for me. Loved the oriental vibes, the distorted guitars and the growls so fkn much. To this day I’m a growl > scream girl, and Mikael Akerfeldt’s to blame. Like... his growl is so smooth and homogenous, I love it, and wait until you hear his clean vocals. Top that all off with the jazzy solos and acoustic-sounding guitars, just makes it all so perfect damn it!

6. Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold

2007-2009 was definitely my a7x moment. I started my journey with Waking The Fallen, but The White Album (self-titled) was the pivotal one for me. There’s just something about the complexity of the composition, like the drums are fkn vicious, the guitars are more technical but also more melodic and the lyrics are liakfjndjflsdkjn! It’s also the album The Rev wrote some of my all-time faves like Brompton Cocktail, Afterlife and Almost Easy, and in hindsight... no, don’t want to think about it. But yeah, it set the bar for modern metal music for me.

7. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

Now, where do I fkn start with this one. Found it in 2009 or 2010, the peak of my prog metal days and I was just blown away that someone thought to create banger sonics with a banger backstory. Queensryche (at least those bandmembers back then) were absolutely genius in their craft, and I’m just sad they never got to make another album similar in quality.

8. Alice In Chains - Dirt

Back in the day, I really hated grunge, and if I’m being honest, I still hate Nirvana with a passion, hated the fact that musically they weren’t the best but got so famous post-mortem. I mean it’s not their fault, it’s their fans’ fault for being such dicks lbr. But in 2010 I bit the bullet and played me some AIC. I was trying to broaden my horizons so to speak, and grunge was next in line. Layne’s vocals had me hook, line and sinker. I’ve been a fan ever since and I even gave Soundgarden and Pearl Jam a chance.

9. The Police - Synchronicity

My mom’s to blame for this, she’s always liked them, and I used to listen to a lot of ska-influenced music as a kid (I still love it today). I think Synchronicity was the peak of their musicianship as a band and it’s just such an evergreen album. Like... It doesn’t sound like something produced in 1983, yknow? Sting is a mf genius.

10. Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire

The beginning of the last decade was a weird time for me music-wise. I think I wanted to make myself appear more grown-up in the eyes of ppl, and I got a lot of shit for listening to metal. So I went in all sorts of directions, from grunge, to pop-rock (ATL, Paramore that kinda thing), post-rock radio hits and even a bit of minimalist classical music and instrumentals. I used to play classical guitar, so this wasn’t really anything new, but the minimalist subgenre definitely was. I think I could classify my taste as sounding modern/timeless, I really don’t like music that’s stuck in a certain decade, and this album, or more like the song Divenire because that’s the one I’ve played the most, is exactly it. I could be 80 and still listening to this, thinking it just got released. This man is a genius.

Alright, almost 2 hrs after I first started writing this, I’m tagging: @tigerteeff @pxrxmoore @karajaynetoday @wheniminouterspace @httpsgfg or anyone who wants to do it. I guess I missed a few albums, but it is what it is.

xx