#this is about Ana Ng

[heycerulean]

i love listening to a song and it just sounds so right and it makes your bones get all jumpy

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

ana ng is so bill and ted. tbh.

[mellotronmkll]

So awkward when you have a concert coming up for a band you do love but you're so thoroughly in the middle of an intense hyperfixation on another band that you're like desperately trying to tear yourself away from them to listen to the band you're seeing and muster up some excitement but you like can't and then you feel bad . Or maybe this is just a really specific problem I have often

[sonny-whorezik]

THE WORST SHOW ON TELEVISION

[iwakuraz]

oh heres a thing I drew yesterday. credit to my friend cenra for the photo in the background!

[thermodynamic-comedian]

madohomu makes me absolutely insane btw. girl that can't be saved x girl that refuses to stop trying. girl that lives in a timeloop x girl that forgets everything when the loop repeats. love divided by time and space, yet omnipresent. homura falls deeper and deeper in love with madoka, and her love is felt, even when madoka forgets who she is, over and over again. this is the shit that they might be giants was talking about when they wrote ana ng

[tumbleinthenet]

"i don't want the world, i just want your half."

how do i explain this. i've been listening to ana ng on repeat, and it made me think about little sasha and milla, a world apart, doomed not to know each other for another decade or so. i can't lie, i'm very proud of this one 😅😅😅

[spindlyspidercat]

"they're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you"

closeups under the cut <3

This was for an art class homework assignment, i definitely overcomplicated it for myself but it was SO WORTH IT! (I got a 100% on it)

If you cant tell this is based on Spencer and Maeve from Criminal Minds... i love them so so much and this song makes me think of them >:3

And yes cutting out all the tiny words took me one million years (about three hours probably.. maybe more.)

[tmbgareok]

just letting you know. the video for ana ng on your official channel is blocked in the united states due to a copyright claim.

JF: I see. What is so odd about this is it seems ANYONE can post on YouTube using our music except us.

[rizz-penguin]

tumblr pls i need more songs for my janeway/chakotay playlist some of you have to have good music taste right

songs so far under the cut

disco (surf curse)

el scorcho, i just threw out the love of my dreams, buddy holly, and undone (the sweater song) (all by weezer)

looking out for you (joy again)

i will, hey jude, i want you (she's so heavy), her majesty (the beatles)

i wanna be your boyfriend, she's the one, judy is a punk (ramones)

treehouse (alex g)

money (the drums)

harness your hopes (pavement)

accidentally in love (counting crows)

black sheep (metric)

not a lot, just forever (adrianne lenker)

ana ng (they might be giants)

sober to death (car seat headrest)

back to the old house, there is a light that never goes out (the smiths)

my love is all mine, strawberry blonde (mitski)

head over heels (tears for fears)

there she goes (the la's)

again & again (the bird and the bee)

the bidding, hidden in the sand (tally hall)

lucy~ (carbon amodio)

something about you (eyedress)

everyone adores you (at least i do) (matt maltese)

anyone but you, you love me (the moldy peaches, kimya dawson)

too sweet (hozier)

out of my league (fitz and the tantrums)

space song (beach house)

taking whats not yours, loving machine, lovers rock (TV girl)

honeypie, anything you want (JAWNY)

[mellotronmkll]

Im happy my dad made me listen to tmbg from a young age for many reasons but one of them is that the nostalgia that comes with listening to a song and remembering that it was my or my brothers favorite when we were kids is so nice

[sonny-whorezik]

ana ng incident number 73914 this week

[ur-fav-album-is-a-rock-opera]

Lincoln by TMBG: If it were a rock opera

PREFACE: THIS IS NOT INTENDED TO BE A SERIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE STORY OF THIS ALBUM. THIS IS PURPOSEFULLY A HUGE STRETCH.

Ana Ng- We open to a man we'll call Joe, soliloquizing his love for a woman far far away. He woke up one day and an image of her simply popped in his head. This man, despite having never met this woman, feels a psychic connection towards her, and is sure they will one day meet and fall in love.

Cowtown- This man realizes that in order to find this woman he must take aid from a magical creature. His creature of choice is Ophiotaurus, of Greek mythology.

Lie Still, Little Bottle- We now turn the camera to a woman-- Ana Ng. She has turned to substance abuse to solve her problem: she is stuck in a horribly dull sales job. Ana is an extremely eccentric woman, who lives alone in a big house with only a cat named "The World", after the tarot card. Joe, across the earth, struggles with the same problems with his job.

Purple Toupee- Ana and Joe separately reminisce on their jobs and the events of their lives. They both feel that the only solution to feeling sad is working with higher up salesmen, who in Ana's part of the earth wear purple toupees to signify their high status. Joe, however, knows he is on a mission and has an obligation to find Ana, and so he quits his job.

Cage and Aquarium- Joe has followed his calling, and makes his way into Posidon's kingdom to search for Ophiotaurus. He feels creeped out by the water, but enters a sense of calm as he continues through the aquarium cage that is the ocean.

Where Your Eyes Don't Go- Joe continues through the ocean. He enters a nightmare dimension, similar to that of the scene in Moana with all the glowing ocean monsters. Though he's terrified, he continues on.

Piece of Dirt- We go back to Ana, who is not in the ocean, but rather on the earth-- which she views as a mere piece of dirt in her depression. She then has a sudden breakthrough, having the same vision of Joe as he had of her. She feels haunted by him, and makes up a name for this sudden phantom in her mind, calling him Mr. Me.

Mr. Me- Joe has finally found Ophiotaurus in the Ocean Monster realm. Ophiotaurus hears his tale, and takes him to Poseidon.

Pencil Rain- Poseidon arrives, and deems Joe's situation one he can aid with. He creates a rain of magical pencils, and then, carefully sorting through, gives one to Joe. This magical pencil will transport him to Ana's town immediately, once the magic words "The Pencil Rain" are spoken four times in succession. As he says these, he gets transported to Ana's town.

The World's Address- Ana, forever paranoid of the government, registered everything about herself under her cat's name. Joe is looking for Ana's address, but only manages to find a record of her cat; "The World",'s Address. He connects the dots and shows up at her door. Ana, who has been going crazy with trying to figure out who this man in her mind is, is even more freaked out when Joe suddenly shows up at her door. She rants at him, incomprehensible things, but he only loves her more.

I've Got A Match- Joe stays at Ana's house and chooses to take care of her. They gradually enter an unstable romantic relationship, characterized by Joe's obsession with getting Ana to love him and Ana's fear of Joe. However, now that Ana is in such a vulnerable state, she needs Joe to take care of her.

Santa's Beard- TIMESKIP! It's Christmas, because every rock opera needs a good Christmas song. (Looks at Tommy by The Who). Ana and Joe make a mutual friend, who works as a mall Santa. He isn't obsessed with Ana, and treats her kindly. She is immediately drawn to him, but Joe catches on and forbids her from seeing him again.

You'll Miss Me- We now get Mall Santa (who is also an Improvisational jazz musician)'s song. He is very sad that Ana has spurned him, and doesn't know Joe is the one being possessive. He writes a song with his band about Ana.

They'll Need A Crane- Joe is wary of Ana now. He loves her very much, but anyone could see that their relationship is codependent. Ana and Joe have also had to return to working their separate jobs, to support their relationship financially, and this puts even more strain on their relationship. Ana goes back to her drinking habits. Joe starts to see that they might not work out after all, but hates it and attempts to ignore it.

Shoehorn With Teeth- Joe has a weird dream in which he is desperately searching for a shoehorn.

Stand On Your Own Head- Joe wakes up from this strange dream, and somehow believes it is another sign from the gods, this time a sign to break up with Ana. He approaches it jovially, and she seems to not care, her only concern being about whether of not he will allow her to have custody of The World.

Snowball In Hell- Ana quits her job and Joe leaves her house. Ana decides to only do what is good for her from now on, even if it leaves her with a lack of money. She reflects on her time in the sales industry with a laughing attitude. She is finally starting to heal. Meanwhile, Joe must stay in his job. Having sacrificed everything to be with Ana, Joe is now stuck in a town he knows no one else in.

Kiss Me, Son of God- Joe rises up the ranks, and becomes the CEO of his company. He is now emotionally numb, an evil corporate supervillain. He takes advantage of anyone he can to make money, and wastes his life away like this.

I hope you enjoyed the first entry to my new project ! Request albums in my asks or respond to this with an album request, and I might do it especially if I know it well! :)

--meow

[missionel]

i am so normal about ana ng from the song ana ng 👍👍

[devilish-parrot]

TELL BE ABOUT CAR SEAT HEADREST NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAAAAAYYYYY enjoy my disorganised yapping

okokokokokok sO

imagine this. its the late 2000's. will toledo, a gay guitarist and probably based-on-lyrical-content depressed high school student starts a band named nervous young men. they release a couple albums (like four i think) he tells a couple friends about it and ppl in school so hes got a couple listeners already

its 2010. the summer after will graduated from school. he releases four albums in four months under the name car seat headrest to bandcamp. these are called the numbered albums, because their names are numbers. (my favourite is three) these were very loop based. he didnt tell anyone about it to see how many listeners hed get and it wasnt more than 100. the audio quality is so bad. theyre not on spotify :(

(my fav numbered album is three because A) the cover is made by cate wurtz (ill get to her in a second), B) portait of the artist as a young fag is a great song C) he makes callbacks to a couple of these songs on a later album (he keeps making callbacks its so great) and D) oh starving is here which is on living while starving which ill talk about later

the one-man-band car seat headrst is named so because he recorded the instruments on his computer in his house, and the vocals (again on the computer) in his car. he did all the instruments himself.

so cate wurtz! shes an artist who dated will and now theyre friends. i love her art style so fucking much, ive started reading one of her web comics. she did some of the cshr album covers and some of the cshr lyric books (eg my back is killing me baby cover and booklet). he has written. SO many songs about her and albums.

theres some albums that arent on bandcamp anymore like sunburned shirts and disjecta membra.

will had this scrapped project called stabby ode, which is one of my fav cshr albums. he reversed abbey road songs and looped them and played music on top of it and BOOM new music is made. this project was scraped and so these songs were moved onto an album named littlle pieces of paper with no written on them.

2011 - there was gonna be a fifth numbered album but it was renamed to my back is killing me baby aka mbikmb. its on spotify too! i rlly like this one. the song open-mouthed-boy is goofy oh my god

then, will starts working on an album called twin fantasy. this is his most popular album, and how alot of people are introduced to cshr. he releases a couple demos to tumblr. wee

twin fantasy releases and og wow. i am a sucker for concept albums. this ones about will being sad and gay and its about his relationship with cate (i read somewhere that shes a tgirl and they dated before she was out. idk how true this is though) my fav track is beach life-in-death its thirteen minutes and it references songs from three and it kicks ass. he references ana ng by they might be giants on the track cute thing! cate made the lyric booklet

will toledo is a furry and if you look at his album covers (especially mbikmb or twink fantasy) you can probably tell. his fursona is a jackrabbit named mortis

2012 - next album is monomania, another concept about cate, but this time its a break up album. v good album. souls is my fav track

2013 - next is the living while starving ep, which is one of my favourite eps of all tine (if it werent for devil moon. i dont like that song) theres a song on here called its only sex. thats one of his most popular songs, and its how i was introduced to the band. (the vid u reblogged from me was that song its so good) i cant choose a favourite. he made this album while messing about on logic (the music making programme)

next is nervous young man, title being a callback to his band nervous young men. its like two hours long. its basically a compliation album of a buncha songs he wrote between the ages of 17-21. he wanted it to kinda be like those top hits of an artist cds from all different albums. ive only heard less than half of this album but i love everything ive heard. fav track is definetly boxing day.

2014 - next is how to leave town. i havent heard it. he wrote the songs while he was moving across america so the whole album has that theme

2015 - will is signed to a record label named matador records and there are more people in the band now!!! their names are andrew katz the drummer, ethan ives the other guitarist and backup vocalist and seth dolby the bassist. they can record music in an actual studio now and these people know what theyre doing with their instruments so the quality is much better.

together they release an album called teens of style. there are new songs on here but also remakes of older cshr songs. nice album, fav song is probably something soon

2016 - they put together a proper new album with amazing audio quality and its called teens of denial. this is also how a lot of people are introduced to the band. i cant choose a fav track this album is so good

2018 - around this time, a band that car seat headrest is touring with, called naked giants, join forces with car seat headrest so now theres like 7 people in the band. their names are henry the precussion guy, gianni the bass in naked giants and keyboard in cshr and grant the other other guitarist

now that there are a shit ton of people in the band, will doesnt play much guitar and instead jumps and dances and screams around in live preformances

also they they remake twin fantasy with this bigger budget. lyrics are changed, song lengths are extended, audio is inporved. the 2011 version is called mirror to mirror or mtm and 2018 ver is called face to face or ftf. the new lyric booklet includes pictures of hojin stella jungs series of paintings called the lady. she talks about her paintings on the track high to death. i think shes a friend of wills

2019 - LIVE ALBUM LUVE ALBUM LIVE ALBUM LIVE ALBUM I LOVE LIVE ALBUMS

2020 - making a door less open (or madlo) relases and i have not heard this one. i think this ones more electronic than others. the cover is by cate and its lovely

2021 - they release madlo remixes and madlo influences (cover songs!!!). i havent heard either of them but the covers are again done by cate

2023 - ANOTHER LIVE ALUM and the whole time is will is either fursuiting or wearing a costume from andrew the drummers side project 1trait danger. i cant tell you anything about 1td other than will keeps dressing as a guy named trait with rabbit ears, a gas mask and bright orange costruction man jacket

also on the first day of pride month will released a five minute vertical video explaining what patreon is, and letting fans know that theyre on there now. i am so jealous of anyone whos subscribed to them i need to get a job lowest tier is only three dollars a month

no music since then :( will is doing monthly patreon streams yay also they have msic videos that are good. i like the something soon music videos (yes theres two. one from over a decade ago thats will dancing in his dormitory and you cant see his face. other is done with full band)

FAV CSHR PREFORMANCES!!!

cover of uncontrollable urge live on kexp radio 2018(?)

drunk drivers/ killer whales live at rock the garden 2017. he is so hot here ohhh myyy goood swooon (i mean, i swoon every time i see a photo of him soooo)

august 23rd 2013, wills 21st birthday. live at speaktree, he and three other people (katy on guitar, aurther on drums and joe-hawley-lookalike austin on bass) preform the only live preformance of jerks. im pretty sure will was drunk there lol

even though cshr was a one man band for a long time, he did live preformances with other people.

last time i counted how many cshr albums there are, i got like 28. rest in piss.

ive noticed that, while trying to learn their songs on guitar, that they use a lot of barre chords yipee :) which is where you put your index finger across the other fret board and use your other three fingers all over the place. unfortunetly i cant sing as low as will :(

so yeah theres a buncha info about them i did with no research so sorry if things are wrong. tis was probably quite disorganised lol

[cinnamoncokepills]

any other edblrs out there that are emetoph0bic (scared of thr0wing up/v0mit/others being s!ck) but are curious about purg!ng?? or maybe who have overcome the emetoph0bia?? it’s tempting bc l@x are tiring to work around, but i freak out and get all panicky…ig that’s why i’m ana and not mia lol