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daniel-profeta · 1 year

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top 10 songs of all time?

Changes everyday, but in no particular order some of my more consistent favorites are:

The front bottoms - Twin Sized Mattress

Car Seat headrest - Kimochi Warui *so many options here, but to pick one from this band...*

Tool - Lateralus

The Mountain Goats - Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton

Phoebe Bridgers - I Know the End

Elliott Smith - King's Crossing

AJJ - People II The Reckoning

At this point I started to think harder about the songs that have meant the most to me throughout my life and as I've gotten older. For example, I like a lot of Bright Eyes songs more than First day, but that song has had way more impact on me. I play it all the time, the lyrics are permanently imprinted in my mind, and to me it's one of the most beautiful and vulnerable love songs ever written. With that in mind more and more "important" songs started coming to mind.

8. Alex G - Forever 9. Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life 10. Johnny Hobo - New Mexico Song

Now I have ten, that was easy.

Except...

I remembered that one Demarco song that makes me cry everytime I hear it. Got to include that. How many times have I listened to the Glow pt 2 during the summer? How could I leave off something from Porcupine Tree, the band that I once considered my favorite band of all time? So I kept going, through names and bands that I collect like emotional trophies, not wanting to leave anything out. They all mean so much, it's honestly pathetic. I used to hyperfixate on things like Zelda and Star Wars, then I found this shit and my brain chemistry has been altered ever since.

11. Mac Demarco - Moonlight on the River 12. Mitski - Texas Reznikoff 13. The Microphones - I Want the Wind to Blow 14. Pigeon Pit - Nights like These 15. Radiohead - Exit Music 16. The Crane Wives - Never Love an Anchor

Funny how quickly a song can feel like home. That Crane Wives song technically shouldn't even be here, I only heard it for the first time a few weeks ago. Yet maybe listening to it 30 times since qualifies it for consideration. Phoebe Bridgers has a lyric in one of her songs about wishing she had written something instead of the original artist, but she can't cause they said it first. So instead she'll learn their song and sing until the feverish inspired feeling fades away in a voyeuristic catharsis.

I think about that line constantly. Also quickly want to mention here that I'm more of an album guy. I try to listen to full records to try an experience the full piece of art the creator made. So while no song off The Downward Spiral is on my list of favorite songs, that was and is one of the most impactful albums to me as a teenager.

17. Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere but not Here 18. XTC - Dear God 19. Wilco _ I am trying to break your heart 20. NIN - Burn 21. Lucy Dacus - Night Shift 22. Haley Heynderickx - Oom Sha La La 23. Swans - New Mind

Swans was hard, because there were a few songs that meant a lot to me. But ultimately there wasn't one more visceral or frankly more evil sounding than New Mind. Love the themes, love the singing style, love the backing yells, love the industrial outro, love the faint organ, love everything about that damn song.

The list kept getting longer, and for each song I was writing a paragraph to explain my choice lol. After the first like 15 I decided to stop doing that for the sake of your eyes and for risk of sounding redundant. But a major thing I love about some of these songs are how inspirational they are. Twin Sized Mattress, Denton Metal Band, Story of an Artist, they all paint a picture of the type of person I want to be. The type of art I will always support. The thing I hope to one day inspire in other people.

When you punish a person for dreaming their dream don't expect them to thank or forgive you. The best ever death metal band out of Denton, will in time both outpace and outlive you.

Those words could honestly save someone's life, it's crazy.

24. A Perfect Circle - Three Libras 25. Deftones - Rosemary 26. Frank Ocean - Ivy 27. November Suite - The Tower 28. Daniel Johnston - Story of an Artist 29. Sloppy Jane - Jesus and Your Living Room Floor 30. Big Thief - Not 31. Tyler the Creator - Boredom 32. Duster - The Landing 33. The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning 34. The Voidz - Human Sadness 35 - 108. System of a Down - (every song) 109. Death Grips - Beware

Okay, threw these and now dozens more names are crowding my brain, and this incredibly pretentious post must come to an end. Long story short, I only have one song left to share, but each of these song has a very personal connection to me. Certain ones (like that tool song) actually changed the way I look at the world and helped me through dark periods of my life.

Many of them inspire me, some of them are just beautiful in a broken and real sorta way, and all of them feel human. The art represents something bigger than itself and the ambition knows no bounds. These songs changed my world for the better, and if you read this you are now obligated to listen to all of them.

I could ramble about music till the end of time:)

finally 110. 100 Gecs - Money Machine

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campbyler · 2 months

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What are Mike and Will’s top three artists? (Idk if you’ve mentioned it before sorryy)

oooh i don’t think we’ve named specific favorites for them before!! i don’t know if we’ll be able to just name Three (edit: coming back to proofread after typing out this ask. i did not just name Three), bc to me acswy mike and will both have pretty varied music tastes — i think they’d both listen to a lot of different genres and artists, especially music that their friends/family/assorted loved ones introduce them to that might not be something they’d usually go for.

mike: we did mention in ch2 that mike has a demon days poster above his bed in the blue cabin, and while i don’t think gorillaz is one of his Favorite groups by any means, i do think he 1. listens to them a lot while driving specifically and 2. just reallyyyy loves their album art. to me mike is also such a pop punk enjoyer, so i think some of his go-tos include bands like all time low and paramore and blink-182, probably with a little midwest emo thrown in bc the boy did literallyyyyy grow up in indiana. i do also think he has a soft spot for feel-good pop, especially boyband music like 1D and BTR, and i think 5sos is not technically a boyband (or that they don’t like to be called one? iirc? maybe?) but i think he would listen to them quite a bit as well! really and truly i think mike would just like a little bit of everything, and his fav artists probably rotate a lot depending on his mood.

will: always a jeff buckley enthusiast across universes to meeeee, and the clear answers here are also the cure/the clash and other oldies rock OBVIOUSLYYYY but i think he would also totally dabble in typical Male Manipulator Music lol with likeeeee peach pit and pool house and the strokes especially. i think he’d also be into midwest emo (cannot escape his fate), and maybe also deftones and ptv a little bit (<- self indulgent and me projecting but i am not sorry). i think he also has a soft spot for pop, but not really in the same way mike does — for example, el definitely makes him listen to a lot of carly rae jepsen and the like when they’re together, and he also has a lot of good memories of listening to older pop songs with his mom when he was younger! like. he hits shuffle on his liked songs and it’s destiny’s child followed by radiohead followed by jenny by studio killers. he contains multitudes i’m afraid

#jenny by studio killers is a very special will song to me. if you guys care. i’ll scream it until i’m blue in the face #i also rec’d a fic on my main blog that basically cemented will as a sufjan stevens enjoyer for me for life #likeeee that is my canon now. sorry #anyways i’m so sorry i know you asked for Three and i just word vomited at you #but i just am so insane about them #and their music.#i have a lot of thoughts #asks #acswy reference

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pomegranate · 2 years

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and I would say I love you, but saying it out loud

is hard

so I won't say it at all

and I won't stay very long

but you are the life I needed all along

#beejhawk #hunnihawk #mash #m*a*s*h #hawkeye x bj #s08ep09 #mr. & mrs. who?#sorry to break out the sufjan stevens but. yeah. i had to 😔#mash edits by me

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rotisseries · 10 months

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happy fourth of july to fall out boy fans, sufjan stevens enjoyers, and the city of versailles

#explanation in case anyone needs it. they both have songs called fourth of july and both songs have lines referencing versailles #fall out boy #fob #sufjan stevens #anyway. did you get enough love my little dove why do you cry #and I'm sorry I left but it was for the best though it never felt right my little versailles #and I'm sorry I didn't mean any of it I just got too lonely in between being young and being right you were my versailles at night #if you even care #tell me what did you learn from the tillamook burn or the fourth of july we're all gonna die #it was the fourth of july you and I were fireworks that went off too soon and I miss you in the june gloom too #IF. YOU EVEN CARE

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homoqueerjewhobbit · 26 days

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The New Testament is Tanakh fanfic and Jesus is a Mary Sue.

#That post earlier put me in a bad mood so Jesus suck my dick until I have a 2nd coming #Shit talking Christianity is fun and easy.#Sorry sufjan if you see this this isn't about you're perfect.#Tanakh #post o' mine #clearing out the drafts

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thewisestdino · 1 year

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36 + hollyleaf

Should I tear my eyes out now? Everything I see returns to you somehow Should I tear my heart out now? Everything I feel returns to you somehow

#hollyleaf #biblicallyaccurate!warriors #my art #mspaint #warriors #warrior cats #tw gore #think i should tag that?#basically that scene from xmen #also this song was too perf sorry for the other person that asked for hollyleaf this one was too good #the sufjan slay #spotify draw #the only thing - sufjan stevens

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romeavethinker · 4 months

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(holding up test tube) Finaly, . garroth mcd Playlist.,.

#weeeeeeeeeeeee now i get to hallucinate scenarios about him !!!!!!!#tried to put it in some vague cohesive order in relation to his arc #loosely.#gee garroth how come youre allowed to have 7 sufjan stevens songs #eight* (i added another one)#aphmau #mcd #minecraft diaries #aphblr #aphverse #garroth ro'meave #character playlist #garroth #okay fixed the link sorry folks that was silly of me

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jimmyspades · 3 months

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chase away my heart and heartache

#he’s being terrorized by beautiful brunette women who care about him…#three of my best boys ❤️‍🩹#james spader #secretary #e. edward grey #boston legal #the blacklist #raymond reddington #alan shore #sufjan stevens #video #*#i made this for me it makes my heart ache maybe in a good way. sorry i can’t even talk about it. but i also made it for you. hugging you <3 #and yes I threw in an alandenny shot sue me.

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astrangerlately · 1 year

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#sufjan stevens lyrics #fourth of july #carrie and lowell #sufjan stevens #i'm sorry i left but it was for the best #absence #floral #cant remember any of the tags i use bc this song just obliterates any thought processes #vintage #sad #past #idk. idk. this song just breaks my brain.#tag later #100 #endings

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dominosbrackets · 1 year

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[ID the album covers for sufjan stevens "carrie and lowell" and the mechanisms "death to the mechanisms" END ID]

submitter comments:

fourth of july: Peak catharsis for depression. The refrain of "we're all gonna die", said not as an expression of doom but as a comforting lullaby, an acceptance in the face of death, (and to an extent, an affirmation of eventual relief to the more suicidal parts of my mind). The sweet pet names, the sheer EVERYTHING ABOUT "my little versailles" as a pet name-- storms, Ive heard a lot of cool song snippets but im not sure any of them will ever gutpunch as hard as that "my little versailles". Im getting teary just thinking about it.

death to the mechanisms: okay im talking abt the song not the *whole album* and . HOLY GOT DAMN JUST LOOK UP THE LYRICS ."WE'VE LIVED SO LONG TOGETHER, PERHAPS ITS ONLY FITTING WE DIE ALONE" THEYRE IMMORTAL SPACE PIRATES AND THEY SOMEHOW STILL END UP DYING . THE DIE THE WAY THAT THEY WERE MADE . WHAT KEPT THEM ALIVE IS WHAT ENDS UP KILLING THEM . IM GOING TO SCREAM FROM THE ROOFTOPS

#sorry but. sufjannnnnnnn 😩#sufjan stevens #the mechanisms #crysongs

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officialkendallroy · 5 months

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finally bought the new sufjan stevens album on vinyl today 🙏 god bless! OH AND THE MINI DJUNGELSKOG !!! whoopieee :3

#my friend was like... whos that. ? miss girl im so sorry you dont know about my guy sufjan #it's for the best tho #and i bought my mom some pillow cases at ikea :D

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still-july · 8 days

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more people should listen to fleet foxes methinks

#especially if you like:#the oh hellos #the arcadian wild #sufjan stevens #(sorry for tagging them but this is very important to me)#fleet foxes #music stuff

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sufjanista · 4 months

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Imagine you get jumped by Sufjan stevens and he says “take his ass to Chicago”

#all things go😹#ok sorry last one I swear #sufjan stevens #mine

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boysufjan · 7 months

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sorry wait the new sufjan album is coming out this friday??? as in the friday that's at the end of this week???? nobody talk to me im shifting into album release mode

#sorry i just got a text from akr about it and it jumpscared me #i forgot that it's october #sufjan stevens

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taohun · 7 months

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no luck on predatory wasp but here's casimir pulaski day from the same set

#sorry about the image but i'm not. it's fun!#sufjan stevens #sufjan

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knightofleo · 2 years

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Sufjan Stevens | Fourth of July

The hospital asked, should the body be cast Before I say goodbye, my star in the sky Such a funny thought, to wrap you up in cloth Do you find it all right, my dragonfly? "Shall we look at the moon, my little loon? Why do you cry? Make the most of your life, while it is rife, while it is light Well, you do enough talk, my little hawk, why do you cry? Tell me, what did you learn from the Tillamook Burn? Or the Fourth of July? We’re all gonna die”

#let's just put up the original too while we're at it i guess #good night #sufjan stevens #fourth of july #sufjan stevens fourth of july #carrie & lowell #did you get enough love #my little dove?#why do you cry?#and I’m sorry I left #but it was for the best #though it never felt right #my little Versailles

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