#tunes!!!! jam!!!!! bops!!!!!!
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Fuck what you heard, listen to this hot shit
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GO LISTEN TO MY ATL DJ HES GOOD PEOPLES 👌🏾
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I gotta lock in with bruh cause he fuck with my art too
I honestly just need a more peaceful place that I can focus and handle my bidness cause where I'm at ain't it definitely check out the music tho
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se acicala hasta pa la esquina
luce tan bien que hasta la sombra le combina
#jams#daddy yankee#this isn’t tunes from the time loop this is just a bop I had stuck in my head#~~asesiiiiiina! me domiiiiiina!~~~
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Everything I know of saltburn has been against my will, I have been bombarded with scenes of the movie and I have thus decided I cannot and will not endure it (I fear I will not survive a viewing of it) BUT
I thank its existence because of this cover and its resurgence of the bomb ass track that murder on the dancefloor is. Sophie Ellis-Bextor 👑
Tdlr: saltburn girlies and guyies (I am not brave enough to be one of you) but check this sick ass cover from a fav band of a fav song that I just had to share 🤗
#constant repeat worthy#youre welcome#burn this goddamn house right 👇#but i digress#music recs#fav band atm#royel otis#saltburn#Youtube#sophie ellis bextor#jams#tunes#bops#hard bop#music#indie music#indie rock#indie pop#music reccs
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Current obsession. Upcoming fic titles, fer sure.
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renowned goats aficionado and good opinion enthusiast sarah eternalgirlscout i come seeking your wisdom. what are some boppy or danceable tmg tunes
I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED. your mileage may vary on danceability, but i do think all of these are certified bops. there are many more goats songs that could be classified as such, but i tried to make this quick + short so i limited this list to ones i had something to say about off the top of my head.
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Dance Music
this one was my first thought and it's not exactly a happy song to start with, but the upbeat tempo in contrast to the subject matter is intentional and one of my favorite things about the song
Southwood Plantation Road
allow me to share one of my favorite tmg banters from 2003:
"This, my friends, is a dance number. Somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty audiences so far this year have declined my kind offer that they get they freak on to this song. But you may freak away. I won’t tell nobody. [Audience member: Southwood Plantation Road!] That’s the fucking song, my friend!"
Alpha Rats Nest
another anti-love song in the vein of "No Children." a lot of songs off of Tallahassee could be categorized as bops, but this is the other one i think of when i think of tunes that make me want to get up and move
Corsican Mastiff Stride
when the album Getting Into Knives came out and i heard this song for the first time, i literally dropped what i was holding when the drums started
Parisian Enclave
the sheer rhythm of this one is irresistible. it really gives the sense of collective, swift movement, like the rats this song is about
Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of
another song about movement, about freedom
Choked Out
when I was in undergrad, there was more than one incident of me headbanging so hard to this song while driving that i didn't realize i was going like 15 over the speed limit
Foreign Object
an old friend and i used to joke about getting tax benefits married if we were both single in our mid-30s, and a vital part of the scenario we imagined was that this song would be our first dance at our wedding
January 31, 438
a song about dancing! like "Dance Music," the subject matter is enhanced by the irony of being paired with this tune
Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome
another song i should not be allowed to listen to while driving
First Blood
like a lot of high-tempo mountain goats songs, the boppiness and danceability is at odds with the topic in order to make a point. it's a fast-paced, entertaining jam tearing down the mythology of the action movie, an often fast-paced genre that puts entertainment above the implications of its philosophy. and you can shake your ASS to this song
This Year
what else is there to say about this song? the first time i saw the mountain goats live, in a tiny theater on a college campus in northern wisconsin, almost the entire crowd stood up from their seats and danced in the aisles. i spun under my now-husband's arm and i swear i got a smile from john darnielle. there WILL be feasting, and dancing. this year, next year, every year
any other Goats Enjoyers are welcome to add to this post! i admit this skews fairly recent. let's get some crunch on it
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Hey so like, I was wondering if you could do like a Branch or JD x Metal troll s/o One shots? (Rock or punk if you can’t do metal) but if you can’t do it in general, that’s totally OK. I totally understand ^^
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Branch and John Dory dating an Metal! S/O
Pairings: Branch X Reader, JD X Reader (Seperate)
Warnings: Swearing, Fluff
A/N: As an metal head I'm SCREAMING SO LOUDLY WITH EXCITEMENT! I enjoy this request so I hope you like it since I've been getting very lazy to write more since I have some tests coming up but hope you like it (,,>﹏<,,)
John Dory
- You and John dory meet inside of a metalhead concert... Well more like john dory was going to go drop Floyd off to the concert but his eyes met yours pulled in by your tall figure and your messy like state but the bat wings on your back aswell. - John dory shyly asked you about well Metal music - It turns out that you have many interests in common with each other, both inside and outside of the metal music genre about you. - It was the mutual love of music well your love for it and John dory nodding his head pretending he understands! - that forms a deep bond between you two. As you spend time with your boyfriend and listen to metal, you begin to appreciate his passionate personality and unique style, and begin to fall more and more in love with him as he does with you - You are good friends with Floyd after meeting John dory's family which is acutally pretty cute - When John dory wakes up and see's you looming over him with corpse makeup though he screams so loudly it isn't funny... It is funny - John dory knows yoy have a passion for the genre and always find ways to express yourself through it - He does get freaked out when you play it out of nowhere but hey! he loves you - He sometimes asks you to turn it down which you comply with of course - John dory tries to get you to listen to pop but when you just stare and bop your head slightly he knows you like it but it can't ever replace Metal - He wears your metal shirts just for fun and whenever you see him in them you rush over to hug him - He loves having you kiss him if your wearing black lipstick he likes the kisses since he is touch starved.
Branch
- You met at a concert accidentally bumping into each other - When Branch became a rock zombie and turned back to a pop troll he still enjoyed some rock music and maybe he would enjoy metal music too! - To branch you were a total rockstar - Branch knows how you love everything about metal, from the clothes to the music to the attitude.
- But, behind the confident and tough exterior, Branch has a soft side that only you can see
- You and Branch are a perfect example of opposites attracting. (name) is daring and unpredictable while Branch is reserved and thoughtful.
- You and Branch have a deep connection and understanding of each other despite their differences in genre - Branch is a true supporter of your ambitions and talents especially when you want to jam out and singing metal songs. - You love helping branch grow and gain confidence. - (name) loves talking about metal music with Branch and educating him on the different genres and artists as he stares at you lovingly with an soft smile
- (name) and Branch have a strong sense of loyalty toward each other. - branch always see you often head banging to your favorite heavy metal tunes. - (name) pushes Branch to be the best version of himself by challenging him and encouraging him to step outside of his comfort zone. - You have a wardrobe full of edgy and trendy metal shirts with graphic designs and slogans. - Since your a metal head if he ever finds something he knows you would like for example when vising barb with poppy he bought an Rock and Metal band shirts when he gave it to you he laughed when you kissed his cheeks
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Rating the god games levels
Apollo: 7/10 kinda short but the short-ness made it kinda funny too. Extra points cuz it is Apollo
Hephaestus: 9/10 excellent, a bop, would have no notes but I can’t figure out why the “drown in your sorrow and fear” tune there at the beginning and it pisses me off
Aphrodite: 10/10 very jamming and makes me wanna boogie and also she made some valid points
Ares: 4/10 his intro was my favourite of all hit his singing segment stresses me out
Hera: 11/10 amazing no notes no complaints her segment slaps and I won’t hear a word against it
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the rat holiday is once again upon us, may you all jam to your fave tunes and bops on this blessed day
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chand ko chakor dekhe, tujkho naseebo wala (the bird looks at the moon, a lucky one looks at you) | hawks x reader | chapter 1
“You’ve died twice? From clocks?” “I know you’re not blind to the rocks and debris flying literally everywhere! The world would be better off without you in it!” you scream at the villain. The machine is even louder as it breaks and jams into the ground. “Flying building pieces or something, I don’t know—one hit me yesterday. The first day I got knocked into a wall, and then I woke up hugging my body pillow. Same thing the next day. And the next, and the next. Did my number three pro hero partner save me? No, he let me get stuck in a fucking time loop!” Or, you’ll do a lot of things with infinite time on your hands, but falling in love with Keigo Takami isn’t one of them.
a/n: lady gaga mentions all over :) i know mha is set in the future but i didn’t feel like inventing some fictional artist in the future so, you know. whateva. i am a lady gaga fan.
warnings: afab reader with she/her pronouns. FOUL language, reader curses so much, and just general rudeness, lots of death because reader is morbid, chapter warnings will be added to each chapter
“You like the song Poker Face.”
“Um, duh?” Hawks gives you a lopsided grin. “Doesn’t everyone?”
“No.” Your eyes dim. “I don’t. But that doesn’t matter. You’re about to be really happy in two seconds.”
Sometimes you say two seconds as a kind of placeholder time, like if your mother was telling you to come downstairs to eat or if a civilian wanted an autograph in the midst of you taking a photo with another one. But in this case, it’s literal. 1, 2, and—
“Oh, hey!” The hero’s eyes brighten as the tune starts, bopping his head to the rhythm almost immediately. The sound comes from the mall you two are walking by. “Nice guess, Nightingale. Unless you requested it specifically for me.” He gives you the famous wink, punctuated with a single finger gun.
“How would I? You never told me that you liked it. Send a feather over there, that kid’s about to fall.”
Like a real hero, his head sharply turns the same time a feather shoots out, right as a child stumbling on a skateboard falls back. The back of his shirt nudging him back up, the kid waves shakily, stammering thank you, Hawks! thank you! even though the shitty birdbrain would have missed it if you didn’t call it first.
“You could have stopped that too if you saw it first. Why let me take the credit? In a generous mood today, are we?”
“No.” You cross your arms. “It’s just he thinks girl heroes are lame. Sexist little shit. I should have let him fall. It’s fucking hilarious when he does.”
This time Hawks cocks (ha, rhyme) his head, looking more avian than usual. “You know him?”
“Sure. I know him. Someone in a pirate costume is about to turn the street.”
And so he does. “Okay, Nightingale, you’re freaking me out.”
With a sigh, you begin a flurry of wind under you. “You go left, I’ll go right!”
“Wha—”
The ground breaks right as the beat drops. Out of the road a man with a large clock tattoo on his neck emerges, at the top of a loony machine. Several people scream (no he can’t read my POKER FACE she’sgottolovenobody), and like real pros, both you and Hawks are up in the air in an instant. Somehow he’s quicker than you, even still. Well, fuck it—you’re not a literal fucking bird, are you?
“You go left, I’ll go right!” Hawks shouts, and then a second later, “Huh?”
Ha. Little birdie’s confused, you wonder if his head will do a full 180. That would be cool and gross at the same time. More gross. You hope he doesn’t do that.
“I am Clockworth, the clock villain!” both the man from the ground and you shout at the same time. When his eyes gape in your direction, you flip him the bird. The snot-nosed skateboard kid points up like a dope, like you’re some fucking. Spectacle sight that is going to keep him safe no matter what.
“What’s going on?” Hawks, pointedly not at the right, as you catch the boulder that goes flying down in the wind. “Did you get a tip about this?”
“Would that make me know what you were going to say?”
“Dunno, maybe you’re just intuitive.” i wanna roll with him a hard pair we will BE
“I didn’t get a tip, shitbrain.”
“Rude,” he quips. “Then?”
“I’m reliving—”
Another boulder that neither he nor you see coming smashes into. your goddamn face.
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“—the same day over and over again.”
One punch to the wind and the boulder breaks, crumbling into tiny rocks that litters down Hawks’ wings. He brushes the smoke out of his face.
“Cool.” Then he’s zooming away, nine wings spreading out in different ways to evacuate the six fucks who think they’re so cool spectating instead of running.
No no, Hawks is not going to be chill about this, that’s what you’re here to do. You just dropped a bomb on him, and he is going to be surprised if you have to beat the surprise into him yourself.
“You don’t believe me. The biggest trauma of my life and you don’t believe me.”
“How can I after fuck-with-Hawks day?”
“Fuck-with-Hawks day,” you whisper dreamily. You wish you were reliving fuck-with-Hawks day, you’d never want to wake up notthatthisisadream. “Sure, but I don’t fuck with Hawks on non-fuck-with-Hawks days. Aerial wheel!” The hell was up with calling out the names of your moves in the first place? To strike fear? Clockworth wasn’t-that-the-name-of-the-thing-in-Beauty-and-the-Beast Villain Man doesn’t look scared as he fires off the tiny clocks he keeps producing straight out of his head.
“You absolutely fuck with Hawks on non-fuck-with-Hawks days.” Two swords in his hands now. Predictable, even without the time loop thing. “Okay, fine, I’ll bite. Answer a few questions for me.”
“Sure.” Not like you’re fighting a villain in the meantime.
“How many times have you relived today?”
“Ten. No, shit, eleven. Fuck! I was going to tell you yesterday (or yestoday) and that would have been perfect but now it’s the fucking eleventh day.”
“Why didn’t you tell me yesterday?”
“Got killed.”
Hawks barks out a laugh, slamming his full weight into the machine carrying Cogsworth Clockworth. “During this fight? That’s embarrassing for you. You’re talking about trauma, what do you think the other me had to go through seeing your dead body?”
“Way to make it about yourself. Oh, die,” you snap irritably when a tiny clock hits you on the cheek. It doesn’t even sting. Goddamn useless quirk.
“Harsh.”
“Not you, dipshit.”
“Ah. Proceed. Anyways, next question. Do you know how to beat this guy?”
i'mnotlyingi'mjuststunninwithmylovegluegunning stupid as SHIT lyrics. “Yeah, keep hacking away at the fucking thing. You break through it eventually. Sometimes. I assume all the time. Two out of eleven times I haven’t actually seen you do it.”
Something about knowing the future does wonders to a man’s vigor and strength. With the backend of his sword-feather, Hawks finally stabs through it, right as you finally shoot a burst of wind strong enough to knock CLOCK BOZO down.
“You’ve died twice? From clocks?”
“I know you’re not blind to the rocks and debris flying literally everywhere! The world would be better off without you in it!” you scream at the villain. The machine is even louder as it breaks and jams into the ground. “Flying building pieces or something, I don’t know—one hit me yesterday. The first day I got knocked into a wall, and then I woke up hugging my body pillow. Same thing the next day. And the next, and the next. Did my number three pro hero partner save me? No, he let me get stuck in a fucking time loop!”
Yanking on the man’s hair, you force him down, keeping both your legs away from any sweeping risks (the first time had been embarrassing enough. Never again.)
Wingspan shorter but not too short, Hawks lands in front of you, holding the struggling villain down as you tie his hands together. “Okay, one more question.”
“Only one? My lucky day.”
“Why tell me, and why tell me now?”
Mockingly, you hold up two fingers. You don’t know how bird elementary school works, but the Oxford comma won’t disguise that he merged two questions into one.
“I believe you. C’mon, you can give me two answers.” Hawks tilts his head with his kicked-puppy pet-me feed-me-a-treat wouldn’t-look-bad-whimpering look.
“Okay, fine. I’m telling you now because I’ll toss myself into the sun if I don’t tell someone, and I’m telling you because…” Sirens fill the air, signaling the police have arrived. Not that you were all that tense before, but your shoulders relax a little. They’ll take him away and you and Hawks can have a nice little talk so you can steal his ideas on how to get the hell out of this then pretend they’re your own the following day.
“I’m telling you because you’re always there.” Not in the he’s a hero way, not in the your quirks compliment each other and that’s why you’re always paired together way, not in the he’s the closest thing you have to a best friend way, not even in the feeling safe when he gives you a reassured smile way. “There’s two constants. Doesn’t matter what I do. One is that you’ll be a part of my day, and the other is that I’ll die before the clock hits midnight.”
For the first time since you’ve broken the news to him, Hawks looks genuinely concerned. It gives you a sick pleasure. “You die every single time?”
“The villain’s still alive!”
“No, you idiot, he’s tied up!”
Bang, goes the bullet into your stomach.
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“Yeah,” you groan, slumping forward next to your cup of coffee, “every single time.”
Hawks whistles lowly, placing a single hand over you to pat your head. “She’s good,” he says to the waitress, in his stupid, charming, beautiful tone, “But she’ll take another coffee. Best start a tab.”
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Lost In Japan — VoicePlay music video
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When the VoicePlay guys go to clubs together, they're usually the ones on stage. But for the sake of this video, the swanky VIP section became the VP section. They took inspiration from Shawn Mendes's original music video, and took the opportunity to get a little gussied up for a (pretend) night out. Add in their usual fabulous singing and some fancy camera work, and the result is a certified jam that's also fun to watch. If you aren't already, you should be at this club. You don't even have to move from where you are right now.
Details:
title: Lost In Japan
original performer: Shawn Mendes
written by: Shawn Mendes, Scott Harris, Nate Mercereau, & Teddy Geiger
arranged by: J.None & Earl Elkins Jr.
release date: 17 May 2019
My favorite bits:
those tight, crisp opening harmonies
Layne acting startled in the corner before his part begins
J.None's buttery smooth lead vocals
the laid-back bounciness of Geoff's bass line
the abundance of airy sounds Layne put into his percussion to enhance the anticipatory feel of the lyrics
Earl and Eli providing solid backing vocals throughout
Eli looking from one iteration of J to another on his opposite side by the power of editing
going from pure unison on ♫ "can't get your off my mind" ♫ to that big harmonized belt of ♫ "I can't seem to get you off my mind" ♫
those cool lighting effects in the couch panels (Good job, Eli.)
the silence between their unison lines
the middle trio bopping from side to side
J moseying from his falsetto back down to settle into his chest voice and finish things off beautifully
Trivia:
This is a rare instance of neither Layne nor Geoff being involved in the arrangement or video production for a long-form video. Earl and J had both been getting more involved the music arrangement process over the previous year, and they did a fantastic job on that together. Similarly, Eli had been getting more into the lighting and editing side of things, so he handled the visual duties.
J.None's first arrangement for the group was also a Shawn Mendes tune, their short cover of "In My Blood" the previous summer.
Ironically, the video filming was slightly delayed because the enormous white couch got a bit lost in transit.
The cover art was once again designed by Rek Dunn.
They teased the video release a couple days in advance on Twitter with a string of suggestive symbols.
A fan was taken with Earl's snazzy outfit and drew some equally snazzy fanart.
art by rtlndr_ on Instagram
This track was later included on VoicePlay's "Citrus" album, which compiled most of the songs they recorded from 2017-19. Because the individual songs had already been made available digitally, that album is exclusively a physical item that can only be purchased at live shows or through their website.
Fellow a cappella group Citizen Queen had released their own version of the song a few months earlier.
The word Japan in the title seems to have attracted a larger than usual contingent of Japanese viewers on YouTube, many of whom left very nice comments.
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K-Pop Debuts and Comebacks for the First Week of Mar 2024 (Feb 26 - Mar 3 2024)
Feb 26
CRAVITY - Love or Die
Rising boy band CRAVITY returns with a catchy pop rock track!
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TAEYONG - TAP
NCT's talented rapper TAEYONG is back solo in this catchy bop!
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P:LAVE - WAY 4 LUV
Popular virtual idols P:LAVE return in this beautiful song and MV!
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Feb 27
M.O.N.T - IDGAF
Underrated boy band M.O.N.T has fun by not caring what others think in this MV and performance!
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Feb 28
BOBBY - harmless ft. CHANMINA
iKON's BOBBY, one of K-Pop's best idol rappers, is back solo stronger than ever in this collaboration with popular Korean-Japanese rapper CHANMINA!
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NCT WISH - WISH
NCT's final Japanese unit plays cupids in training in this cute debut!
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Feb 29
Slevin - Higher
Indie artist Slevin drops a smooth alt-RnB tune.
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Mar 1
ONF - Goosebumps
Unique boy band ONF shows off their unique and futuristic pop sound again in this new track!
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Mar 2
HORI7ON - LUCKY
Korea-based Filippino boy band HORI7ON returns with another earworm!
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Mar 3
JOYCE - Blue love
Indie artist JOYCE shows off her soulful vocal chops in this RnB jam!
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What is your favourite song of the week?
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"Era" by Tayla Parx ft. Tkay Maidza
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Now, some people say "era" is a term owned wholly and completely by Taylor Swift in 2024. But I say, words change hands all the time. Some people say she's too powerful, too omnipresent. But I say, we have shouldn't give her any more credit than she deserves. Some say nothing can stop her. But I say, we've got to start somewhere, and that somewhere is with "Era", a better song than Taylor Swift's released in an eternity. This is a joyful, joyous bop and a vital step in reducing the amount of space taken up by Swift in the pop sphere, and I'm only slightly unserious about this. Admittedly: in one sense this is just a hype song, and we all love those but also how much do we need another one? But it's in the details that "Era" becomes something truly special. Parx and xSDTRK deliver a production that snaps and bangs, but also soars and swoops - it demands attention from the first hit and never relents. Yet Parx more than rises to the level it demands, her nimble flow skipping through the song, pivoting and leaping and never staying still for more than a moment. And the lyric? I don't want to overstate it but "My one-two step/ Ciara" deserves a Nobel Prize. Not to be outdone, Tkay Maidza brings a characteristically dynamo energy to her verse: every line or couplet an aphoristic gem, the sort of thing you could have overlaid on a desaturated photo and gone viral with once upon a time. Together they're unforgettable - in a more just world, they'd be enough to bring down a juggernaut.
MG:
I've given the monoculture more thought this year and instead of the position I'd previously maintained ("we are still in a monoculture, we have always been in a monoculture") I've shifted my stance to "there was never a monoculture." What we thought of as a monoculture was nothing more than the low visibility of anything counter to the mainstream. But, like, goths are nothing new! Not to again bring up the makeup videos but a popular pro/con year end position was in response to so-called "microtrends." In the sense that I'm referring to them, microtrends are just anything that's popular on TikTok for a day or a week or whatever a standard unit of time is over there. But what stood out to me about these microtrends is that it wasn't the same groups of people reinventing themselves constantly, it was one group dominating for a period and then being supplanted by something quite opposite -- MedSpa beauty with lots of filler and botox and everything overdrawn and exaggerated vs. "butterfly eyes" which use the natural contour of creased skin to create an iridescent effect of wing-beats on the face. You can't do both, it's not the deterioration of monoculture, it's highlighting the fact that we could never all be the same.
Anyway, that's all largely taking place in the physical realm. Mentally, I think we're closer to a version of monoculture, and "Era" reflects that. No, this song does not supplant Taylor Swift's monopoly on the word, if anything it's closer to the omnipresent dupe; the world already has great fondness for "eras" so name your song "era" and capitalize on the zeitgeist! But it's not just fondness, our status as an online society steered by complicated algorithms and overexposure means that we are all very much in tune with our multiplicity of identity. We are all in various eras at all time. Our gluttony era when we eat a meal. Our fasting era when we're between meals. Our messy era when we need to shower. Our clean girl era when we're in the shower slathering our bodies with fresh slop. It goes on, our boats beating back the ceaseless current.
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1980s Power Pop Playlist
Folks, we've got a brand new tune that kicks off this playlist now, and its own title might as well be the four-word credo that really essentializes the power pop genre as a whole: "Fuck Art Let's Dance," by a British band called The Name.
Sometimes you really just gotta stop taking all of this music stuff so damn seriously all the time and come to appreciate the mass-appealing pleasures of tried and true simplicity. British Invasion bands like The Beatles and The Who may have made significant artistic progress since their earlier works, but that was no reason to leave the vibe of that early stuff behind. What's already been done is no longer fresh, but some of the formulas that were used back in those early-to-mid-60s days were proven to have been pretty golden, and a late 70s-to-mid-80s crop of rockers who had grown up with those early British Invasion records on their radios had their hearts set on bringing it all back to the fore. So, fuck art, let's dance!
While this little playlist once had a combination of songs that were mostly from the indie stalwart Bomp! Records branch of American power pop and mid-to-late 80s stuff from the C86-UK indie/twee pop label Subway Organisation, it now adds a bunch of tunes that preceded that British indie pop wave too, from a pretty big subculture called mod revival. Helmed by The Jam, who used the same iconic blue, white, and red 'target' as The Who for their own band logo, mod revival was an insular scene that really took off after The Who's Quadrophenia movie came out in 1979, instilling in UK teenagers and twenty-somethings a deep desire to emulate the Vespa-riding lifestyle that the film itself had depicted. Essentially, mod revival mixed a new wave and punk rock sound with the 60s mod sound of yesteryear, but if we're going to generalize it, it was really, for the most part, a regionally specific variant of power pop.
So in addition to "Fuck Art Let's Dance," a catchy-as-shit song with only a little over 10,000 plays, we've got another couple mod revival bops too, like the soft, dreamy, and keyboard-infused "One Step Ahead" by a band called The Stripes, which only has a little over 6.2K plays. And I added a couple other tunes from Bomp! and Subway Organisation too, with "I'll Get Lucky" by SoCal power pop heroes The Plimsouls, which has 39.3K plays, and the much more obscure "Do It Again" by Clockwork Orange-referencing UK band Korova Milk Bar, which only has a little over 6.2K plays.
The Name - "Fuck Art Let's Dance" Deadbeats - "Choose You" The Plimsouls - "I'll Get Lucky" The Stripes - "One Step Ahead" Small World - "First Impressions" Korova Milk Bar - "Do It Again"
And then for the YouTube version of this playlist, I was able to add all the songs that were added to the Spotify one too, plus a handful of some more mod revival tunes that aren't on Spotify at all. And I don't think that I have a total favorite among this YouTube-only set, but The Scene's super bouncy "Hey Girl" is so irresistibly catchy and deliberately simple, from both musical and lyrical standpoints, that it almost sounds like it could be from the 60s itself, which I don't think can be said about any other song in this playlist. Really seems like these guys took the term 'mod revival' quite literally with this record of theirs, and for those who might be keeping track, this is The Scene who hailed from Bradford in West Yorkshire, and not the other UK mod revival band called The Scene who were from East London 😅. "Hey Girl" is nearing 27.7K plays.
Also added a tune from The Groove Farm, a band that was on Subway Organisation, and whose "Crazy Day Sunshine Girl" is criminally short, but makes its 45 seconds really count. And that one's only got 53 plays as of right now!
The Reputations - "I Believe You" The Scene - "Hey Girl" The Clues - "No Vacancies" The Groove Farm - "Crazy Day Sunshine Girl"
And this playlist is also on YouTube Music.
So with this update, our Spotify playlist is now at 19 songs that clock in at over 55 minutes, but over on YouTube we've got 30 songs that clock in at 85 minutes. So if you want an extra half-hour of power pop-type tunes from the American-centric Bomp!, the UK's mod revival scene, and UK label Subway Organisation, you better check out that YouTube one!
And here's the list of compilations that were used to put this whole thing together:
100% British Mod (1998, Captain Mod) Destination Bomp! (1995, Bomp! Records) The Roots of Powerpop (1996, Bomp! Records) Battle of the Garages: Part 1 (1994, Voxx Records) Whole Wide World, Volume 2 (1994, Subway Organisation) Take the Subway to Your Suburb (1994, Subway Organisation) Burns From the Valley of the Sun (1991, Frontier Records)
Next week we'll be getting a little bit deeper into mod revival ✌.
Enjoy!
More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!
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Favorite 2024 Song Finds
As per tradition these are not all released in 2024; basically though this list is for jams i listened to for the first time this year and became obsessed with
Every year i make what i call a "365 playlist" (366 for 2024, since it was a leap year) which started as a playlist i added a song a day to but nowadays functions more as a yearly snapshot in playlist form of the music i listened to and vibed with in a year. i've made one every year since 2019 and it's one of my favorite personal traditions. the one i made for 2024 can be found here (note that the year is not yet over so i'm still fine tuning, i will eventually have this pruned down to 366 songs)
Full list and notes/ramblings under the cut:
10. Walk Through Fire - Yannis & The Yaw (2024)
9. All the time / Tout le temps - The Knocks, Yelle (2024)
8. Even When The Water's Cold - !!! (2013)
7. Garden of Eden - Rachel Chinouriri (2024)
6. synthesizer - DE'WAYNE (2024) / deeply treasured rec from @parkshuppy, who introduced this song to me as "the trans anthem i heard on the radio" (also the video serves absolute cunt, i just need it to be said)
5. Steady Waves - Cross Record (2016)
4. CHIHIRO - Billie Eilish (2024) / some might be surprised this made it onto the list rather than the absolutely iconic gen z queer anthem of the ages LUNCH but this is hands down my favorite song off of an album i absolutely adore, finneas went off with that production and i can't get enough of it even now
3. Get High - Herizen (2018) / that drop in the chorus changed my whole life
2. On My Mama - Victoria Monet (2023) / at the beginning of the year when i was struggling the most with Mysterious Chronic Illness That Still Has No Name my therapist suggested i make a playlist as a low pressure way to express my feelings about it. i liked this idea so much i made 3, one of which was a playlist meant to hype myself up when i needed the confidence/energy boost, and i put this song at the very top of that list. so that probably explains why this is my most played song of the year. you can listen to the full playlist here if you want
1. Kororon - Eve (2022) / actually though i'm really genuinely surprised this song did not take the top spot on my spotify wrapped considering every time it came on this year i did put it on repeat at least 4 or 5 times but it is number one on the only list that matters so there. The music video is really wonderful, highly recommend checking it out if you like quality animation and sapphic undertones
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Featuring: a selection of catchy and upbeat vocaloid songs with unhinged lyrics (presented in order of more or less increasing unhingedery; i feel it would only be responsible to include a warning for go to daitokai for, shall we say, incredibly sexually explicit lyrics), and Kesha
Joyride - Kesha / song of the summer, i'm lowkey devastated it never became the giant hit it deserved to be
All I Need Are Things I Like - PinnochioP / i am a hatsune miku stan now what can i say
Dappou Rock - Neru / i have only one word to describe the music video for this song, and that is "bonkers"
ゴー・トゥ・大都会 [Go To Daitokai] - ニャン・トン��ン [Niang Donglong] / and yet this is such a fucking bop i have it on all my playlists and i'm not even a little bit sorry
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heyyy! I'm back lmao just wanted to tell you i sat down yesterday and listened to the entirety of Foals' discography and so far these songs stuck out to me the most:
Cassius
Syrups
What Went Down
A Knife In The Ocean
All really good!!! I think Syrups is still my all time favourite by them (something about that First Song™ you hear by a new band you enjoy that just. idk. makes it special or something if that makes sense) but Cassius is a second favourite tbh it's SO catchy
what are your favourite songs by them? :3c
Hi there! You listened to their whole discography?! That's wonderful that you gave them a try! I'm so happy to hear that. I'll share my thoughts on those songs:
Cassius: Definitely one of the better songs on Antidotes in my opinion! It is quite catchy, you're right! I almost always overlook the repetitiveness of it for how catchy and infectious it is dance/at least bop your head to!
Syrups: A banger. No doubt about it. Man, that bassline always draws you in. One of my faves on the whole album. Love how it's split into two parts with the first sounding more... polished? And, the second half they just banged out as a jam... Great stuff.
What Went Down: BANGER! It's one of their most well-known songs for a reason. This one hypes me up sooo much! I highly recommend watching some live videos of this one too because they go so hard performing it and Yannis goes out into the audience (literally, INTO the audience) from the bridge until the end of the song to hype up the crowd. Here's a great example!
A Knife in the Ocean: Fantastic closer for What Went Down. Listen, this one is still in my top 5 for the album, but it's honestly one of their best. It's so bleek, lyrically, yet wonderfully written. This one is some of Yannis's best songwriting.
There's always something about that first song you listen to and how it stays dear to your heart. I'm happy it was Syrups for you though. What a solid tune to have as your first song experience for them! As for some of my personal faves, that's hard! Let's see:
In Degrees
Albatross
Wash Off
2001
Wear & Tear
After Glow
Like I said, I'm happy you gave them a listen! It's absolutely crazy to me how quickly they've become one of my all-time faves. They're, like, my #1 comfort band. Happy to talk more about them with you anytime! :)
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