music meme!

An eon ago @floggingink tagged me in a music shuffle meme! I'm not a huge playlist person, but here's a selection of tabs I had open, stuff I heard on the radio in the part few days, etc etc. (Is the radio the analog version of shuffle? You tell me.)

The Who, "Baba O'Riley" — The episode of Joe Pera Talks to You where Joe Pera discovers Baba O'Riley (sample here) is such a pure and joyful watch, and also IMO one of the best on-screen depictions I have ever seen of how the first ecstatic stage of a new hyperfixation feels: this, more, again, again! Let me share this thing with you, strangers and friends, so that you might also feel transcendent joy!

The Lone Bellow, "Honey" — Love the mellow energy on this one. For some reason I feel like if this had been on the radio in 2017/2018, it would have shown up in a bunch of top-shelf Bughead fics. Maybe it's the "Put the pedal to the floor/Let the darkness come" lyric?(@anniemurphys, thoughts?)

R.E.M., "Strange Currencies" — This Esquire article described the soundtrack for The Bear as "widely praised by forty-something-year-old Midwestern dads," and like, uhhhh: guilty as charged.

boygenius, "Not Strong Enough" — "Always an angel, never a god": what a mood, what a mood. Also, it reminded me that I really want to make a mixtape of song pairs with opposite titles. Obviously the match for this one is Sheryl Crow's "Strong Enough."

Twisted Sister, "We're Not Going to Take It" — I have always wondered about the lyric "Your life is trite and jaded/Boring and confiscated." My theory is that it was supposed to be "constipated," but that that was actually too much rebellion for the label.

Skeeter Davis, "The End of the World" — Whenever I hear this song, it's playing over the credits of Mad Men in November 1963. But the other day I heard it on my local oldies radio station, followed directly by Len's unparalleled 1999 one-hit wonder "Steal My Sunshine," and gentle readers, I about had a stroke.

Dove Cameron, "Boyfriend" — I've never encountered this song anywhere outside of the Internet, but anytime I hear it, I walk around with it stuck in my head for the next 3 days. It's basically the same lick over and over again, but when it's this sticky, you don't honestly need more than that.

Jimmy Buffett, "Come Monday" — Awww, Jimmy. Legitimately sad about his passing.

Duncan Sheik, "Barely Breathing" — Truly, the '90s will always be with us. Or at least with me.

Joni Mitchell (with Brandi Carlile and others, 2022), "Both Sides Now" — Do you need to have a good cry? Well, you do now. Consider this an open tag for anyone who wants to play - I'd love to hear what you've been listening to!

Shoutout to my dad for being the funniest person I know

Just one more reason to not use Spotify -_-

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having talented friends is so wild!!!!!! like. YOU!!!!!!!!!! YOU made THAT. YOU DID THAT?!?!?!?! YOU created!!!! THAT!!!!!!!!!!! WOAH!!!!!! praise!!!!!!!! praise for one thousand years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

being obsessed with a song and being obsessed with the blorbos is so funny because u will listen to the song and go HMMM……. if i ignore this one lyric forgo this whole verse remove the context AND solely focus on these five completely unrelated isolated lines…? this song is TOTALLY about Them 😎😎😎

if you’re cold, she’s cold. let her in your window

The survivors of District 12 singing and dancing at Finnick and Annie's wedding hits so different after reading/watching tbosas. Can you imagine Snow's reaction to that propo? No matter how hard he tried to erase Lucy Gray and to obliterate District 12, she lived on in her music, music which is kept alive by the people of the place she once called home.

Starting a chain!! With this quiz and this Picrew.

Tagging: @tuff-ponyboy @veggiesforpresident @sleeplessgreaser @fishfishfishfishfishfishfish1 @literallyhim0 @cadesblade @tigergirlpaya @arieshasbrainrot57 @kitty-beloved and anyone else who wants to do this.

Still laughing at Brian May offhandedly writing the greatest understatement in the history of academia in his astrophysics doctoral dissertation:

Ah, yes - “various pressures.” Like being one of the greatest guitarists ever and playing/writing/singing for the most legendary rock band of all time.

Those various pressures.

@pantsaretherealheroes tagged me in a music meme - it’s been a minute! What a fun way to kick off 2023 though. 😊

when u get this u have to put 5 songs 🎵 u actually listen to, publicly. then, send this to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) ✨  

Here are five relatively new songs showing up on my fave radio station lately that I have been enjoying...

“don’t overthink it, boy” | boy - The Killers | (does Erasure know about this one? I’m sure they’re cool with it)

Now it seems more than ever/ There's no hands on the levers/ And I want to feel the pressure/ of God or whatever | Here to Forever - Death Cab for Cutie | (love my midlife existential crisis with a nice backbeat) Sleepwalking through a sad scene /I been living in a bad, bad dream | Bad Dream - Cannons | (does Tame Impala know about this one? kidding, kidding - but those dreamy synthwave vibes!) “an embryonic love/the first time it scarred” | Seventeen Going Under - Sam Fender | (a Geordie Bruce Springsteen! seriously, I love this so much...and yeah, yeah,  listen closely to those lyrics and tell me which beloved maple syrup murder show character this reminds you of) “I’m gonna leave my sins in the past/Like blood on the tracks” | Blood on the Tracks - Marcus King | (you guys, this sounds like it was recorded in a hole-in-the-wall blues club in 1971, and I mean this as high praise) Tagging ten people? In this economy? But I would love to hear what @sullypants @stars-inthe-sky @burberrycanary @floggingink @jandjsalmon @whatwillthegirlbecome @booksandabeer @lurker-no-more and YOU (YES, YOU; please tag me) have been listening to. As always, never any pressure. <3

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*by live theatre i mean plays, musicals, operas, ballets, concert versions of musicals, staged readings, & things of that nature. EDIT: YES this includes amateur, local, kids, high school, & community theatre. almost every show i've seen has been local

if you want, list the names of the shows you've seen in the tags!

i love you WEIRD SCIENCE MIKU!!!!!

he'd begrudgingly agree that he has taste in music

songs referenced: 1, 2, 3, 4

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