#the rippingtons

[onebadnoodle]

funky feline fella

[arconinternet]

The Ultimate Unauthorized Nintendo Strategies Series Plus Two Others (Books, Corey Sandler, Tom Badgett & Jason Rich, 1989-1994)

You can read these books (some of which require borrowing and thus an account) here.

[octever]

I'd do wild (homosexual) things with the Rippingtons Jazz Cat if I could

[dickgumshoesconfettishredder]

i was listening to vaporwave on Spotify and it autoplayed new songs in that genre and i found the coolest find!!!!! i am a huge Rippingtons fan and this made my day

癌 is the new thin - ぬいぐるみクレヨン Lush Crayon is slowed down Tourist in Paradise by The Rippingtons

have a wonderful day, this has made me so pumped!!!!

[mitjalovse]

Many musicians who were possible thanks to their eras had their genres. For instance, vaporwave could've only prospered during the previous decade, yet I'm not going to mention a musician that did good work in that period alone. You see, Cat System Corp. – be honest that you already checked the link, before you read this post – continues to establish himself as one of the better players here, since he does interrogate what the genre actually suggests. News At 11, his most famous work, imagines that faithful day in September as being completely normal without the event we are familiar with. Of course, the idiom always stands in the shadow of 9/11, though very few in the brand tackle the latter.

[tropichalys]

Dreams - The Rippingtons

Moonlight (1986)

Ambient / Downtempo / Piano / Tropical Chill

[radiophd]

the rippingtons -- paradise cove

[binguspoletooth]

Somehow, this is an acceptable work outfit as well as some other genre. Is this goth? Grunge? I feel a bit rocker edgy? My ass is not listening to rock music at this moment though lol

[rapidkirby3000]

Hmm...Kilimanjaro and Tourist In Paradise by The Rippingtons? 🤔

USA 1990

[crispyfishsticks]

Okay I’m about to make you go DEEP into those archives.

Who’s the first ever character you drew and how did they evolve as you started drawing more? 👀👀👀

First character was a Lock named Rippington. I eventually changed his name to Xahvin, because he was named after one of my fav smooth jazz bands at the time. Used to draw him frequently and he hasn't changed much. He is large for a lesser will and is a barely tempered, seething ball of outrage. He acts as diplomat to a particularly contentious empire that alternatively keeps trying to assassinate him and bury him in unnecessary paperwork. He's scarred up for reasons, half probably from the murder attempts and half because he's combative and has tussled with other Locks in the past. Riker (Archaeon) is one of his agents, the hate is mutual.

He also dislikes Scott, the Team, and all Traders. Kitra is still his Bonded Companion and about the only peaceful thing in his existence. Outside of her, he has a fairly agreeable relationship with Vel, a human that was lent to him by Movallo (diplomat to another empire) to help with diplomat duties. Vel earns his respect and they get along OK.

Old arts:

[aromantichc]

Aromantic Character of the Day (14/9/24) is...

The Rippingtons Jazz Cat!

@octever headcanons the Rippingtons Jazz Cat as arobi!

[namira]

I used to lowkey be a smooth jazz hater (For typical jazzhead reasons. Didn't help that my initial exposure was Ken*ny G lmao) but I've come around as the years have gone on.

[projazznet]

The Rippingtons – Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro is the second album by the American Jazz group The Rippingtons, released in 1988 for Passport Jazz Records, and later reissued under the GRP label. Kilimanjaro reached #3 on Billboard’s Jazz chart.

[bandcampsnoop]

7/21/23.

The Five Year Plan were a Bristol, England band whose members went onto bands like Heavenly, The Beatnik Filmstars among others. It's always interesting to listen to the pre-bands of indie semi-gods. Rob Pursey (Heavenly, Swansea Sound) and Tim Rippington (The Beatnik Filmstars, The Charlie Tipper Rebellion) founded the band as teens. It's the classic story of learning to play instruments together and finding a sound.

The band wrote and recorded "1985" but it never released. A couple of years ago they reformed and "properly" re-recorded the album, but added no new sounds. We posted their 2014 compilation CD release "Peacetime Broadcast" back in 2016. A lot of the comparisons remain - The June Brides, Orange Juice, Monochrome Set. This has a decided C86 sound.

[jude-thedude98]

Letters 6:27

By Us the Poets

I feel you,

Being in the closet

Is like a closed mouth

Full of hotsauce

Bursting to get out

I want out

I know you do

But you can't seemingly live without

The thought of

Your parents

Or peers

Striking you down

Well here's a mental medicine for life's emotional riding roller coasters

Just because they birthed you out

Doesn't make them your parents

A parent is someone who takes care of their kid no matter what

Circumstances unknown couldn't keep them from

Their own child

And how wild is it

That these so called best friends are not there to be with you till the end

But they are there to end when

Things get too thick

Or too thin

And maybe it's coming from within

Not within your friends

But within you

Because maybe if truth would've been told by you

Then losing someone special

Wouldn't have came in twos.

So you choose

To stay in the closet

Trapped with skeletons, rubbers, and R. Kelly's gun

A baretta too vendetta

For a night's fight of fun

I wish I could run

To your aid

But I'm tired already

I'm sore from the pain you kept me hustling behind

So spaghetti noodles

I go limp soup

You'll

Be alright

I wish you the best but

More importantly

I wish you love, peace, and acceptance

Of self.