Weekly Music Club

[BeelieveinBees]

Musics great! Sharing things is great! Themes are great!

Let's share music that fits a theme together!

The idea is that every week I'll pick a theme, and everyone who's interested will pick a handful of songs that fit that theme. The idea is to share 1-5 songs, but I'm not a cop. Make a whole ass playlist if you want. Share a full album. Follow your fucking heart. Babble a bit about each song. Post them with no context. Do what you fucking will, my friend, the thread is full of possibilities.

Linking to the song is great, especially through youtube, bandcamp, or another source that doesn't require an account to listen to the full song. You can link to a song by typing

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[url=https://www.website.com]Song name[/url]

I will try and update the theme every Tuesday, but I make no promises about how good I'm going to be at remembering to do so. Feel free to suggest themes too! Feel free to chat about what other people shared! Have fun! Or don't, I'm still not a cop.

Our first theme is:
Favorite Songs

[BeelieveinBees]

Favorite Songs, in no particular order:

• The Horror and the Wild - The Horror and the Wild - The Amazing Devil
  • The Amazing Devil is possibly my favorite artist right now. They have just the right sound to give me them good brain feels.
  • Interestingly, this is, overall, my least favorite of their three albums, but I do love this song quite a lot.
• Reality is Afraid - The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity - Seeming
  • Song for when I need to feel powerful.
  • Darling We Are Dangerous. Reality's Afraid of Us.
• Clipping - Clipping - The Gates of Sleep
  • Song for when I need to feel grief
• Rusalka and the Shepherd Girl - 'Til Death - The Forgetmenaughts
  • Folk rock makes brain go brrrr what can I say
• St. Thomas - Divided - Skip K.D.
  • Songs to go completely insane to. Artist to go completely insane to.
• I/Me/Myself - The Normal Album - Will Wood
  • Gotta have a will wood on here.
• Very Go Round - Mad Rat Monday - Chongo
  • I affectionately refer to this genre as "mashup hell". I fucking love it.
• SC__TER_D - CONSUMED - the garages
  • This song is single-handedly responsible for Blank Slate, which is still rated Most Likely to Not Be Completely Abandoned out of all my fics.
• Roll Me Through The Gates Of Hell - Smash The Windows - Mischief Brew
  • I found this song, and therefor artist, in what I believe was an 8-tracks playlist that Mary P Sue made. Thanks Mod M!
• Breaking Out - Act II: The Father of Death - The Protomen
  • I'm sorry to Void, but I still don't care about Megaman. That doesn't prevent this Megaman rock opera from going fucking hard though.

Me: rule of thumb is 1-5 songs.
Also me: Fuck that I'm posting twice that many songs.

[hatkirby]

My first thought was YESSS I love this idea, and my second was OMG CLIPPING !! <33

I love a good list of favorite music! I'll try to include a mix of all-time faves, and current faves:

• Are You Satisfied? - The Family Jewels - Marina & the Diamonds
  • The Family Jewels is an extremely influential album to me, and while I don't listen to it much anymore (I first heard it in high school), in my heart it is still one of the best albums of all time. It's from a time in Marina's life when she was struggling with issues that were really relatable to me and it feels so emotionally raw. It's hard to pick a favorite track off of it, but Are You Satisfied (the first track) is so singable, so peppy, so sad, and such a good introduction to the rest of the album. And if you like the sound of it, then you've got 14 other songs to listen to! My other faves are Seventeen, Guilty, The Outsider, Hermit the Frog, and Obsessions. You've probably also already heard Oh No!
• Early Christmas Present - My Best Friend Is You - Kate Nash
  • This is another of my old favorite albums. This song in particular is so fast paced and cheerful sounding, despite being about finding out that your partner cheated on you by contracting an STD.
• I Will - Night Time, My Time - Sky Ferreira
  • Fave fave fave fave. Definitely grungier than the other kind of music I like, but that's Sky Ferreira. I used to sing this song at my mom in the car. I've been waiting for her next album for over a decade.
• Make-up Smeared Eyes (Acoustic Version) - Recover EP - Automatic Loveletter
  • An absolute power ballad about a breakup. It's fun to belt this one out at karaoke and slide dramatically down the wall.
• Memory Reboot (Slowed) - Memory Reboot - VØJ, Narvent
  • I've gone on record saying this should be four hours long and I stand by that.
• Pavlov's Daughter - 11:11 - Regina Spektor
  • The gravedigger's getting stuck in the machine, the picking's getting slim, slimmer; I hear them say my name: Regina! Regina! Reginah-ah-ah!
• Home - Cavetown
  • This is a really iconic young Alcor song to me, and it's really emotional.
• The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - Birdy - Birdy
  • This is a cover of a song by The Postal Service, which I also like, but this cover and this album in general (which is almost entirely covers) is important to me. I listened to it a lot during a very hard time, the 12-year anniversary of which is coincidentally tomorrow.
• 孤独ノ隠レンボ (Hide and Seek of Isolation) - 150-P
  • This is A-ya's main song from Shuuenpro. It's a cover by an utaite named Himeringo, who I think does a really good job. Probably my favorite song from the project.
• i think about it all the time - brat - Charli XCX
  • I know everyone in the world knows about brat but I can't deny that this is probably my favorite song and album right now.

I think I should post this now because otherwise I'll go on forever. Looking forward to listening to other ppls music!

[BeelieveinBees]

• Are You Satisfied? - The Family Jewels - Marina & the Diamonds
  • The Family Jewels is an extremely influential album to me, and while I don't listen to it much anymore (I first heard it in high school), in my heart it is still one of the best albums of all time. It's from a time in Marina's life when she was struggling with issues that were really relatable to me and it feels so emotionally raw. It's hard to pick a favorite track off of it, but Are You Satisfied (the first track) is so singable, so peppy, so sad, and such a good introduction to the rest of the album. And if you like the sound of it, then you've got 14 other songs to listen to! My other faves are Seventeen, Guilty, The Outsider, Hermit the Frog, and Obsessions. You've probably also already heard Oh No!

I loved The Family Jewels in highschool too! It's a fun album. Guilty of first learning about it from a Oh No! Vriska lyricstuck though.

• I Will - Night Time, My Time - Sky Ferreira
  • Fave fave fave fave. Definitely grungier than the other kind of music I like, but that's Sky Ferreira. I used to sing this song at my mom in the car. I've been waiting for her next album for over a decade.

This is the year, I can feel it.

• Memory Reboot (Slowed) - Memory Reboot - VØJ, Narvent
  • I've gone on record saying this should be four hours long and I stand by that.

You're right tho, you should say it, this fucks. I'm going to have to check out some of Narvent's other stuff.

• Pavlov's Daughter - 11:11 - Regina Spektor
  • The gravedigger's getting stuck in the machine, the picking's getting slim, slimmer; I hear them say my name: Regina! Regina! Reginah-ah-ah!

Man I haven't listened to Regina Spektor in a while, I should revisit her. Pavlov's Daughter is great. 11:11 was a good album as a whole.

Damn she put out an album in 2022. Still making music after all this time.

• Home - Cavetown
  • This is a really iconic young Alcor song to me, and it's really emotional.

Holy shit I've never listened to this Cave Town song before you're right this is so fucking Alcor.

I wanted to post some really on point lyrics but there's to many of them to choose from.

• The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - Birdy - Birdy
  • This is a cover of a song by The Postal Service, which I also like, but this cover and this album in general (which is almost entirely covers) is important to me. I listened to it a lot during a very hard time, the 12-year anniversary of which is coincidentally tomorrow.

I wasn't really feeling this song at first, but I really like how it progresses. The singer's voice is lovely.

• 孤独ノ隠レンボ (Hide and Seek of Isolation) - 150-P
  • This is A-ya's main song from Shuuenpro. It's a cover by an utaite named Himeringo, who I think does a really good job. Probably my favorite song from the project.

I was wondering when this would appear on your list.

• i think about it all the time - brat - Charli XCX
  • I know everyone in the world knows about brat but I can't deny that this is probably my favorite song and album right now.

This is my introduction to Charli XCX! It's a good sound.

[hatkirby]

I don't think I knew you liked The Family Jewels!! It's really embedded in my DNA to the extent, that it feels weird that other people have heard it. Like you're seeing into my soul. Not as much as if you'd listened to any of the songs on Give Me The Money, but still. That's so funny that you heard of it through Homestuck though. Kind of Bees behavior. Is that how you heard of Regina Spektor too.

• I Will - Night Time, My Time - Sky Ferreira
  • Fave fave fave fave. Definitely grungier than the other kind of music I like, but that's Sky Ferreira. I used to sing this song at my mom in the car. I've been waiting for her next album for over a decade.

This is the year, I can feel it.

Sobbing crying throwing up

I haven't listened to Regina's newest album because I'm not as into that kind of music anymore, but her older stuff is still special to me. Soviet Kitsch is in my top albums ever.

I heard Home by Cavetown right around the same time I heard Jackrabbit and they both feel so much like 2019 to me. Home also felt very relatable when I was trying to be asexual. It still feels ridiculously Alcor, like not just the ace stuff, not just the trans masc stuff, but like.... "My eyes went dark, I don't know where my pupils are" huh????? "Get a load of this monster, he doesn't know how to communicate, his mind is in a different place, will everybody please give him a little bit of space" i am GOING to CRY

Birdy has a pretty particular sound. At one point I wrote a TAU analysis of one of her other covers, Young Blood.

• 孤独ノ隠レンボ (Hide and Seek of Isolation) - 150-P
  • This is A-ya's main song from Shuuenpro. It's a cover by an utaite named Himeringo, who I think does a really good job. Probably my favorite song from the project.

I was wondering when this would appear on your list.

Look at them!!! ITSUMO DOORI KOKO KARA HAJIMARU!!!!!!!!! (I know this is from a different song lol)

Ok ok ok ok ok so if you like Charli's sound, I think most of brat is very good, and my other faves are probably 360 and "everything is romantic". But my super favorite Charli songs are from her album True Romance, and I love every song on the album so it's hard to rec just one but the first track Nuclear Seasons is a great intro. This is another 2013 album to me haha. I listened to it After the event though so it's not quite as emotionally charged to me as Birdy.

• Reality is Afraid - The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity - Seeming
  • Song for when I need to feel powerful.
  • Darling We Are Dangerous. Reality's Afraid of Us.

Ooh I like this. I'm not sure what it is about it. It's just very pretty and epic. Kind of makes me think of Control for some reason.

• Clipping - Clipping - The Gates of Sleep
  • Song for when I need to feel grief

It means a lot to me that you like this song. It's one of the pieces of art I'm most proud of creating.

• St. Thomas - Divided - Skip K.D.
  • Songs to go completely insane to. Artist to go completely insane to.

This goes hard as hell. It's giving like, a darker Mitski. I have to listen to more of this artist.

• I/Me/Myself - The Normal Album - Will Wood
  • Gotta have a will wood on here.

I don't listen to enough Will Wood, considering the community I'm in and how much everyone talks about him. He's not exactly the kind of music I usually listen to but this song is good. I know I like the tulpamancer song too. I should give a whole album a try.

Ok wait now I'm paying attention to this lyrics of this song and it's making me insane. What is happening. Help.

• Very Go Round - Mad Rat Monday - Chongo
  • I affectionately refer to this genre as "mashup hell". I fucking love it.

I have a Tumblr mutual who likes this game! Omg I hear 100 gecs and Weird Al in this.

• SC__TER_D - CONSUMED - the garages
  • This song is single-handedly responsible for Blank Slate, which is still rated Most Likely to Not Be Completely Abandoned out of all my fics.

Not quite my cup of tea but yessss Blank Slate, I'm holding onto hope. Plays this song in your head 50 more times.

• Roll Me Through The Gates Of Hell - Smash The Windows - Mischief Brew
  • I found this song, and therefor artist, in what I believe was an 8-tracks playlist that Mary P Sue made. Thanks Mod M!

Wait why do I know this song. *reads your message again*. Okay yeah that's probably why. I still feel like someone showed me this in person though.

• Breaking Out - Act II: The Father of Death - The Protomen
  • I'm sorry to Void, but I still don't care about Megaman. That doesn't prevent this Megaman rock opera from going fucking hard though.

Oh yeah this is pretty catchy. Also we gotta get Void on here.

[ToothPasteCanyon]

I love this!! Here's some of mine:

Obviously Paradise by Gates of Sleep: https://thegatesofsleep.bandcamp.com/track/paradise Had so many fun times singing it with Star in Karaoke, and lately when I visited Cardiff it started playing as we were pulling up to the station and I was like he's here with me

Gonna take an immediate swerve with Sims 1 - Build Mode 5 - Now What? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2MFv2xe8yQ just listen to it it's honestly Art to me, like this is embedded in my brain. There are so many Sims 1 and 2 pieces I could have linked but this like. idk it evokes such an Emotion in me I love it.

The Clash - Clampdown rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lt4O-EHNnw Good walking song, feels very in the mood of the Current Political Moment

Red Dwarf theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV0hwZwNQZc I wouldn't recommend the show but the theme song slaps so hard, first part is just so dramatic and lonely and then it launches into a great jam

Gorillaz - Don't Get Lost in Heaven + Demon Days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcKzlZHl7PY I'm cheating because this is two songs but honestly they don't feel complete without each other. I could put this whole album on here, I think Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head was my favourite song when I was 6 which is extremely funny if you ever listen to that one. But like man there's a tired optimism to these tracks I really love.

I could go on, I love this thread idea

[BeelieveinBees]

Alright! New week new tunes!

This week's theme is:
A Tad Queer

Post songs that you associate with queerness, for whatever reason. Be it explicitly queer, something you heard in a formative time in your life, something you first heard in a boys love anime, or just a really damn weird song.

Also! If anyone's interested, I can ping you so you get a notification whenever I post a new theme. Just let me know if you'd be interested.

[BeelieveinBees]

A Tad Queer

• Lilac and Black - All of Us Flames - Ezra Furman
  • Ezra Furman is an artist who came very close to making my favorites list last week. I love her voice, I love her lyrics, I love the sounds of her band. All of Us Flames is a great album, and Lilac in Black is one of my favorite songs off it. It's powerful and queer and has a great sound.
• Cisgender - Heterosexuality - Shamir
  • A band I found more recently. It's got some good gender feels on it.
• Anarchy Date - Blast Off! - Queer Rocket
  • An old Nightvale weather that I have very fond memories of singing with my partner Wizard at two am as we walked to an all hours grocery store
• 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.
• End Studies - The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity - Seeming
  • A fun little song about destroying the current regime :)
• 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.

[hatkirby]

• Skeleton Life - Lamune-P
  • I was shown this song near the start of the gender Pandora's Box opening for me and it feels very transgender. The lyrics are very wistful and seem to be about wanting to trying your best to find meaning in your life. The video has both Kagamine Rin and Len in it, although it's sung by just Rin, and it gives the vibe of Rin imagining herself as a boy. At least that's how I look at it, and I'm biased.
• Girls Like Girls - This Side of Paradise - Hayley Kiyoko
  • This is a song by a lesbian called Girls Like Girls. Kind of hard to misinterpret. I especially love this song though because a friend from college made an Utena AMV using it and it's one of the best things I've ever seen.
• Not Like The Movies - Teenage Dream - Katy Perry
  • Yes I know this is a Katy Perry song. It's not about being queer, but it expresses a disillusionment with the expectations of romance in society, and it's long spoken to me as a queer person. It's really beautiful to me.
• Transgender - (III) - Crystal Castles
  • This is a pretty dark song, but it speaks to me. Listen for Alice Glass and not Ethan Kath.

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.

[BeelieveinBees]

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.

• Skeleton Life - Lamune-P
  • I was shown this song near the start of the gender Pandora's Box opening for me and it feels very transgender. The lyrics are very wistful and seem to be about wanting to trying your best to find meaning in your life. The video has both Kagamine Rin and Len in it, although it's sung by just Rin, and it gives the vibe of Rin imagining herself as a boy. At least that's how I look at it, and I'm biased.

I remember you sharing this in TAU chat! It's a fun song. I can absolutely see the trans take from the video

• Girls Like Girls - This Side of Paradise - Hayley Kiyoko
  • This is a song by a lesbian called Girls Like Girls. Kind of hard to misinterpret. I especially love this song though because a friend from college made an Utena AMV using it and it's one of the best things I've ever seen.

Hell yeah, let's go lesbians! I need to finish Utena. I don't know if I ever will but I definitely should.

• Not Like The Movies - Teenage Dream - Katy Perry
  • Yes I know this is a Katy Perry song. It's not about being queer, but it expresses a disillusionment with the expectations of romance in society, and it's long spoken to me as a queer person. It's really beautiful to me.

I was about to say I remember liking Katy Perry a lot but I realized I had her confused with Kesha. I don't know how much Katy Perry I've listened to, but this is a nice song.

• Transgender - (III) - Crystal Castles
  • This is a pretty dark song, but it speaks to me. Listen for Alice Glass and not Ethan Kath.

I can't understand a word they're saying but I enjoy the sound.