#the shadow side

[the-nation-of-today]

You're looking and whispering You think I'm someone else This is hell, yes Literal hell

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows"

--Leonard Cohen (Sept. 21, 1934-Nov. 7, 2016)

Everybody Knows :: Leonard Cohen

[potatobvbqueen]

YALL WE DID IT. ANDY BLACKS SOLO SONG “WE DON’T HAVE TO DANCE” HAS REACHED A HISTORIC STREAM MILESTONE OF 100 MILLION STREAMS. Thank you everyone who has helped stream the song to hit this milestone.

[watchthekittycatcher]

Since Fall Out Boy is going apeshit rn and BVB is also gonna be touring soon I'm banking on a FOB rendition of "We Don't Have to Dance"

[ace-of-anunnaki]

Part 2: 2/3 "Looking around"

Lamashtu cameo time

[agstricker18]

Andy Biersack wallpapers pt 2!

[akwardlyuncool]

Sitting To Know Your Collection April Roundup

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Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 14 (April 1st - 7th)

Album: Ceilings by (2008) Alive In Wild Paint Play Count: 2 Top 2 Tracks: - Everywhere An Ocean (Track 9) - Ceilings (Track 1)

I got this cd randomly with a different Equal Vision purchase I had made years ago and never got around to listening to it, so this week was truly something new to me. Not gonna lie, based on the cover art and it being from ‘08, I thought I might be getting metal or post hardcore. Now it might give a little post, but all I could really think was long winded emo. I would look up and realize a song was still going and the runtime would have been like 4 minutes lol. That’s probably not that long, but when the songs are already so “soft,” things just dragged a little. (There are 5 and 6 minute songs on there, so I’m not totally off.) It got better the more I listened so to be fair it probably just needed more than 2 run-throughs. This is a mood record for sure, so maybe down the line when I’m in the mood for something Emo/hardcore without the screams, I’ll revisit it. (I’m sorry and I don’t hate it, it just gives black skinny jeans without the screams lol.)

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Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 15 (April 8 - April 14)

Album: The Upsides Deluxe Edition by (2010) The Wonder Years Play Count: 4 Top 2 Tracks: - I Was Scared and I’m Sorry (Track 13) - Hey Thanks (Track 10)

Part of me feels like I had more than 4 runs of this album, but that’s what the notes said, so I’m going with that. Honestly I was just geeked to get The Wonder Years, so of course they were gonna get a high play count. At my big age of 32, a simple pleasure of mine is singing, or screaming if no one’s home, pop-punk in my bedroom. I also needed more time with this album anyway. A lot of the songs I’m more versed in their Burst & Decay versions, than I am the original so I have to relearn some flows when I play the OG’s, but I get there in the end.

The opening track (My Last Semester) is a little funny to me only because I look at the band and think of course they wouldn't fit in with these gross, misogynistic frat boys. Hey Thanks is a new favorite, but the staple still hit just as hard.

Any week that reps The Wonder Years is a good week.

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Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 16 (April 15th - April 21st)

Album: The Shadow Side (2016) by Andy Black (Andy Biersack) Play Count: 3 Top 2 Tracks: - We Don’t Have To Dance (Track 2) - Break Your Halo (Track 10)

This is my favorite of Andy’s solo releases and I played it a lot when it first came out. Upon the current binge session though, the conclusion is that it was fine. There were definitely songs that my brain had and still has on repeat but overall it wasn’t as poppin as I thought it would get. Maybe I just didn’t have as strong of attachment to the album as I used to. That’s not me saying I don’t like the album, just that it didn’t hit as hard this go around. Still good though.

PS: Again with another save from library trash.

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Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 17 (April 22nd - April 28th)

Album: [A ---> B] Life (2002) by mewithoutYou Play Count: 4 Top 2 Tracks: - Gentlemen (Track 6) - Silencer (Track 11)

Not gonna lie this one was hard to consume as in the comprehension took me a minute. I got 4 runs and still felt like I needed more time. That being said I’m glad I took a chance on this album/band. I've heard of mewithoutYou before but I never really listened, so when my boss was getting rid of some CDs I said okay. I’m also a Tooth & Nail fan which definitely played a part in that pick up. If you’re unfamiliar though, note that they are on the heavier side of the label. I don’t dislike heavy music, I just didn’t realize how much was featured on the label. I did find some standout tracks, however my ultimate favorite part of the album was (SPOILER) the bonus hidden track. Those will always be my favorite part of any CD, simply because I love the surprise of finding it after I realize that the album isn’t in fact over. CHEFS KISS!

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Sitting To Know Your Collection: Week 18 (April 29th - May 5th)

Album: Bry (2016) by Bry Play Count: 5 Top 2 Tracks: - Your Life Over Mine (Track 5) - Pieces (Track 10)

Listening to this album again gave me similar feelings to when I first bought it. I was hella attached to the original versions of many of these songs because I had been following Bry (The artist) on YouTube for so long and the full album was just a little bit of a let down. This album is so overproduced and I could tell immediately. I don’t know, I could just hear the differences and even though I got 5 runs in, I wanted to go pull up the OGs the entire time. The album isn’t bad, still very much listenable, but knowing the history of where these songs came from and even the “lore” of the bad contract Bry got into with this record, just doesn’t make it hit like I want it to.

PS: I encourage a listen of the original works, just for comparison.

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April was a little more Emo, a little more heavy, but nothing terrible. Good month.

Note: Trying a different set up for April let's see how I like it.

[jedi-starbird]

'Desert hermit Ben Kenobi develops a reputation as a crazy wizard because he keeps talking to thin air.'

No. This is Tatooine, talking to yourself is hardly the weirdest thing they've seen. Ben Kenobi, however, keeps having full on fucking screaming rows with thin air and seemingly gets replies back, which is decidedly a step up.

(They've managed to piece together that a major point of contention is the acquisition and raising of a child? Clearly Ben is a wizard that had a bitter divorce with a desert spirit and is working through a custody dispute)

[soracities]

Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone)

[the-nation-of-today]

BVB + Andy Black on ghosts

Louder Than Your Love // The Void // Dead Man Walking (Overture II) // Vale (This Is Where It Ends) // Introduction: Resurrection // Soul Like Me // Ghost Of Ohio // Fire In My Mind // Saints Of The Blood // Blackbird // Kill The Hero

[gunstellations]

encounter (1/?)

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cont. of unfamiliar side

[potatobvbqueen]

Hi Tumblr. Need the BVB armies help in streaming Andy Blacks solo song “We Don’t Have To Dance” cause we are 130,090 streams away from securing 100 million streams on Spotify. Thank you so very much if you help secure this cool history making this history making 100 million streams for our dear Andy’s solo work. Both his solo work and his band deserve all the support and success in the world. 🫶🏻✨

[amazingdeadfish]

It's the Spookie Month

[saltsourz]

Goober, eldritch squid/octo guy. The guy ever omg!! Doom morph haters DNI!!! /lh

Bro has 2 sides

[hyperfixated-homo]

miss him,,,, fanders are we still around. hows it going. what have i missed. how long has it been

[ace-of-anunnaki]

Part 2: 1/3 "Crossing the Threshold"