Weekly Music Club

[hatkirby]

I think I don't actually listen to very much queer music. I listen to a lot of pop music by gay icons that I can be like "yassss queen" at, and I listen to weird electronica. I would recommend my friend Emily's album, but she seems to have taken her Bandcamp down.

I think that pop music gay icons count as queer music, or, at least GLBTA+ music. I know you like Lady Gaga and Chappell Roan, I know that they are not cishets, and they write music about their experiences. I'd count them as queer music, unless they've specifically said they don't like that term.

This is true. I did almost recommend both Sine From Above and Good Luck, Babe! but they're already well-known enough that it felt silly to recommend them.

• Cisgender - Heterosexuality - Shamir
  • A band I found more recently. It's got some good gender feels on it.

Now THIS is some weird electronica!! I can get into this. Also yeah I sure am just trying to exist......

• Survival - Talk it Out - Sports Bra
• Wolf's Teeth - Talk it Out - Sports Bra
  • Sports Bra is a band I was very into a bit ago, I haven't listened to them as much recently but I still think of them very fondly. Survival is a very hopeful song about being trans, Wolf's Teeth is a bit more solemn. Additional shout out to Little Beast on the same album for inspiring a TAU story I never got far in writing.

This is very pretty! I have some trouble understanding what they're saying but I'm vibing with the idea of never dying, that sounds nice.

• End Studies - The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity - Seeming
  • A fun little song about destroying the current regime

END STUDIES yo this is banging.

• Dyad - Constant Companions - Jamie Page
  • Jamie Page is the partner of my partner Crows, and although we've never interacted directly I have a strong fondness for her and her music because of the love Crows speaks of her with. Also her music is good. There's that too.

Ooh Vocaloid! This is kind of giving me "Celeste custom map music" (<- positive).

[BeelieveinBees]

This week's theme is:
A Tad Strange

Post songs that you think of as strange, either in lyrics, sound, being different then what you usually listen to, or being a about bread!

[✝AngelSacrifice✝]

Ok sorry to post Hypmic on my first post in this thread but...

Shinjuku Style～笑わすな～

This song drives me up a wall... It sounds bad to me but I also listen to it all the time??? No disrespect if you like this song though. So the thing about it is I LOVE the back track of the mix of traditional and rock instrumentals. I also think the rap has a nice rhythm to it, but the rhythm does NOT sound good with the instrumentals. There is actually an official remix by Nerve Rackin that sounds SO much better, but I don't even listen to that version very often because it doesn't have the back track that I love. However the sad truth is the lyric are corny T 0 T so there is no real way to salvage the song anyway.

[BeelieveinBees]

A Tad Strange

• Probably End Up Dead In A Ditch Somewhere - From Rotting Fantasylands - Nero's Day At Disenyland
  • My understanding is that this is a fairly well known album but man it was my intro to strange noise music and I couldn't possibly pass it over for this theme
• Meat - Fawn/Brute - Katie Gately
  • A somewhat recent find, Katie Gately has a very unique sound that I love a lot.
• The Tug - Away Games - The Garages
  • So this isn't really weird sounding music, the lyrics are a bit odd but why I really chose this song was for the context. This is Blaseball music. Blaseball was a online game, it started as a baseball simulation, a very simple one, just text and emojis, where there were a handful of teams, and each team had a set of players who had a name and some stats, and it would simulate games. You could play by picking a team and betting on games.
    
    One of the teams was the Seattle Garages, this fictional team's mascot was a hypothetical garage band. Which. Obviously meant that the fans of this team needed to make a real band, and make real music, and a lot of it rules.
    
    As for blaseball, winning bets would get you currency that you could then spend on votes at the end of a season.
    
    But what were you voting for? Rules changes! Little things, like, redistributing the wealth of the richest players, or removing the loosing team from the league and replacing them with a new one, or opening the forbidden book it is forbidden.
    
    You'll never guess what they voted to do is season one.
    
    Opening the forbidden book caused a number of things to happen, including rouge umpires to incinerate star player Jaylen Hotdogfingers, a hellmouth to swallow the Moab desert, changing their team to be the Hellmouth Sunbeams, and the initiation of THE DISCIPLINE ERA
    
    Things just got much weirder from there. A black hole ate the sun. Necromancy had dire consequences. The peanut god got eaten by a big squid. We found Salmon Steve. It was a good time, I'd recommend looking into it if you like reading about shit like that.
• Two Letters Less Then The Apple - Songs About the Giant Isopods - Tom Lee
  • Songs About the Giant Isopods is a weird little album I listened to a lot in college, it's. Exactly what it sounds like, it was a charity album with 17 contributing artists that was produced but kinda fizzled out, for a long time there was no where to listen to it online outside of knowing where to look in archive.org for the download links. Fortunately, four years ago, someone uploaded the whole thing to youtube! So I can share these weird little songs. This is one of the weirder songs on the album, I frankly have no idea what the hell it's going on about outside of giant isopods.
• Something in the Woods - Romantic Dialectic - Skip K.D.
  • Skip K. D. / Skippocalyptic is a weird artist who I greatly enjoy. I don't know if this is their weirdest song but it's the one I felt like listening to.
• Probably Happened - Whiskey Pete Loves Flying J - elijah, blurds
  • A rambling little song that I think does a great job portraying emotion. It's pretty different then what I normally listen to but I think it's very effective and evocative
• Oh Drag! - Child Bearing Man - Little Teeth
  • I always have trouble understanding the lyrics of Little Teeth, but I love the sound. Lovely layers of voices.
• 300MB - Mouth Moods - Neil Cicierega
  • The Mouth Albums my beloved

[hatkirby]

• Uncanny - GHOST
  • It's called Uncanny so it's literally strange!! I'm cheating!! It's so good tho. Also look he has no cock he's just like me fr.
• Mythology - Fixed at Zero - VersaEmerge
  • This is not the kind of music I usually listen to; it's more rock than pop or electronica. This album goes hard though. I'm listening to this on SceneKids.com. One of the music gays I knew online when I was in high school spent years trying to get me to listen to it and I'm happy I finally did a few years ago lol.
• Pluto - Homogenic - Björk
  • I love Björk and this is an odd song with a bunch of screaming in it.
• Yung Rapunxel - Broke With Expensive Taste - Azealia Banks
  • Okay so I can't really recommend Azealia Banks. She's had a bunch of controversy and also Shinigami Eyes redlinks her name. But I do like this album and it's definitely not the kind of music I listen to. I kind of just want yalls to see this music video because it's deranged. Azealia Banks with teeth for eyes is certainly "a tad strange".

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Ok sorry to post Hypmic on my first post in this thread but...

Shinjuku Style～笑わすな～

I would not expect any different <3. Fling pussy.

You are right that this is kind of a bizarre song lol but I do like to hear the rapping anime men.

[PallasVoid]

Rolls up 1 week late to the prompt with starbucks

A Tad Queer

I don't listen to a lot of music that's Overtly Queer Themed or by artists that are Marketed As Queer. Honestly, all of these are songs that I have on various OC, D&D, and LARP character playlists and, as such, most of them are Queer By Association. I did my best to not tangent about why these songs are on the playlists that they are.

Bloom by The Paper Kites

• This is one song of many that I associate with Pallas Astor (Half-Elf Beastmaster Ranger who later took a level in Paladin because Kelemvor is a homie) and his now-husband Ashura Vlitra [Vlitra is his first name] (Half-Elf Glamour Bard). Yes, this is the D&D character that I played for about 2.5 years and then named myself after. I don't think I ever canonized it with the DM that ran that game, but in my mind this is the song that Vlitra ends up composing for Pallas (mentioned in one of the many, many drabbles I wrote for that campaign).

Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac

• This one is on the playlist for Xenia, the High Elf Knowledge Cleric of Selune I played for about 2 years (the campaign was somewhat concurrent with the one I played Pallas Astor in). She's a lesbian and the reason I get to have the meme of "You know, if I had a nickel for every time I turned a minor D&D villain into a spouse, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice." at my disposal. I used a line from this song as the title of one of the drabbles I wrote about that campaign.

Whenever it Rains by Aviators

• This one is on the playlist for Quentin, one of my LARP NPCs and maybe the saddest sadboy (conceptually) I've created to date. He's (essentially) a ghost who is kept corporeal through sheer force of will via fairly equal parts spite and grief. This is a song that is pretty 1:1 with how he feels about his husband (who died like nearly a thousand years ago).

Servants and Kings and The Ship in Port by Radical Face

• And rounding this off with two songs that are actually stated to be about Gay Shit. These two songs are from a series of concept albums that you can read about on the artist's website. These are also on the playlist for Vitus (Dragonborn/Damphir Fey Wanderer Ranger). The campaign I play him in is currently on hiatus and I'll probably be solidifying parts of his backstory while it is.

[BeelieveinBees]

Rolls up 1 week late to the prompt with starbucks

Bloom by The Paper Kites

• This is one song of many that I associate with Pallas Astor (Half-Elf Beastmaster Ranger who later took a level in Paladin because Kelemvor is a homie) and his now-husband Ashura Vlitra [Vlitra is his first name] (Half-Elf Glamour Bard). Yes, this is the D&D character that I played for about 2.5 years and then named myself after. I don't think I ever canonized it with the DM that ran that game, but in my mind this is the song that Vlitra ends up composing for Pallas (mentioned in one of the many, many drabbles I wrote for that campaign).

This is a really pretty song! And a really sweat lore to go with it.

Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac

• This one is on the playlist for Xenia, the High Elf Knowledge Cleric of Selune I played for about 2 years (the campaign was somewhat concurrent with the one I played Pallas Astor in). She's a lesbian and the reason I get to have the meme of "You know, if I had a nickel for every time I turned a minor D&D villain into a spouse, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice." at my disposal. I used a line from this song as the title of one of the drabbles I wrote about that campaign.

Clearly you need to make more minor villeins spouses.

Servants and Kings and The Ship in Port by Radical Face

• And rounding this off with two songs that are actually stated to be about Gay Shit. These two songs are from a series of concept albums that you can read about on the artist's website. These are also on the playlist for Vitus (Dragonborn/Damphir Fey Wanderer Ranger). The campaign I play him in is currently on hiatus and I'll probably be solidifying parts of his backstory while it is.

Radical Face has been on my radar for a bit (I think from snooping on your spotify through discord) and this finally got me to start listening to the family tree albums. They're pretty good! The concept is really fun too, I'd listened to a few of the songs but never read the explanation before.

• Uncanny - GHOST
  • It's called Uncanny so it's literally strange!! I'm cheating!! It's so good tho. Also look he has no cock he's just like me fr.

Oh I love Ghost! I generally only listen to full albums, so I've never listened to their singles before, but this is a fun song.

• Mythology - Fixed at Zero - VersaEmerge
  • This is not the kind of music I usually listen to; it's more rock than pop or electronica. This album goes hard though. I'm listening to this on SceneKids.com. One of the music gays I knew online when I was in high school spent years trying to get me to listen to it and I'm happy I finally did a few years ago lol.

I like this a lot, and the lyrics are pretty fun. Shame the artist and labels websites are down. The problem with 15 year old music.

• Pluto - Homogenic - Björk
  • I love Björk and this is an odd song with a bunch of screaming in it.

The top voted youtube comment on this song is

My mom and I eat yankee candles to this album

Seems fitting!

Ok sorry to post Hypmic on my first post in this thread but...

Shinjuku Style～笑わすな～

This is a pretty odd song! Very discordant.

[BeelieveinBees]

I am a day late! Honestly shocked it took me four weeks before this happened.

This week's theme is:
I forgor

Go through your music library or listening history and find some songs you haven't listened to in a hot minute. How do you feel about them upon revisiting?

[BeelieveinBees]

I Forgor

• Breathe In - Terra Lumina - Terra Lumina
  • Fucking loved this album when I was in highschool and my first go at college when being a STEM major was a significant part of my identity. It's still pretty good! Nerdy as fuck but it has a nice sound.
• Dawn of Man - Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido - Michael Guy Bowman
  • This album is the first bandcamp purchase on my account! At least, the since removed version that was on the official homestuck bandcamp was. I still greatly enjoy Bowman's sound. I really should get his independent work.
• Stellar Alchemist - The Sky is Calling - Kim Boekbinder
  • Another science themed song and album that I loved in highschool. This one one of the first non-homestuck albums I bought independent of my dad's music, and frankly, I was right, this fucks. I should listen to it more.
• Keep Breathing - Be Okay - Ingrid Michaelson
  • This was music that I inherited from my dad back in middle school, and one of my favorite songs by this artist. There's no way I had an undiagnosed anxiety disorder what are you talking about.
• Sedna - The Road To Santiago - Heather Dale
  • Another middle school favorite. Possibly even elementary? Heather Dale was one of the first artists I found on my own as a small. This song has the honor of being what I named my first fic after! Why I decided a ship named Sedna would be going to Mars when there's a fucking dwarf planet named Sedna is beyond present me, but I was in a pretty fucking weird brainspace when I started that fic so who knows.

[✝AngelSacrifice✝]

Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac

• This one is on the playlist for Xenia, the High Elf Knowledge Cleric of Selune I played for about 2 years (the campaign was somewhat concurrent with the one I played Pallas Astor in). She's a lesbian and the reason I get to have the meme of "You know, if I had a nickel for every time I turned a minor D&D villain into a spouse, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice." at my disposal. I used a line from this song as the title of one of the drabbles I wrote about that campaign.

Omg iconic???? Also yessssss!!! When Stevie Nicks sings about women it stirs something in my heart and all is right in the world

• Dawn of Man - Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido - Michael Guy Bowman
  • This album is the first bandcamp purchase on my account! At least, the since removed version that was on the official homestuck bandcamp was. I still greatly enjoy Bowman's sound. I really should get his independent work.

Hadn't heard of this artist before but this song whips. I like the way the synth is layered!