Random Music Thoughts Thread

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Green Day needs to make a sequel to this called "Wake Me Up When November Ends."

 

[The Cat]

Long live the Lizard King.​

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I considered using the Dido song in it's entirety, instead, but the chorus is too upbeat for the mood I wish to convey.

My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I
Got out of bed at all
The morning rain clouds up my window
And I can't see at all
And even if I could, it'd all be grey
But your picture on my wall
It reminds me that it's not so bad, it's not so bad

*sigh*

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Long live the Lizard King.​

He was an intelligent guy, just mentally and emotionally troubled.

 

[The Cat]

He was an intelligent guy, just mentally and emotionally troubled.

People are strange, when you're a stranger.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

People are strange, when you're a stranger.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I've never listened to this song outside the context of the movie before. But it's really good, and so is the video. She even purrs like a cat...

 

[Polaris]

My favorite musical key, based on how the keys sound to me, is C# Minor. It is unsurprising then that G Minor, which is the opposite of C# Minor being a tritone away from it, is my least favorite minor key.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

They have a song called Shai-Hulud and I was confusing it with the band Shai-Hulud, and wondering why I didn't like it this time. Sons of Arrakis rock.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Just booked a ticket to see Modest Mouse at the Salt Shed!

It's called that because Morton Salt used to have a warehouse for storing salt there.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I just figured out what the second song is about in the context of this story. It's obvious to most perhaps, but, it's all about the ache, yearning, and sense of loss that Pink feels about his father not making it back from the front.

I was considering making a thread about The Wall, and analyzing it in depth, and trying to unpack what Waters was trying to say here, but I maybe I need to focus on other things for now.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

The White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights
(another 2004 throwback.)

Now, I can easily understand
How you could easily take my man
But you don't know what he means to me, Jolene
Well, you could have your choice of men
But I could never love again
He's the only one for me, Jolene

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Listening to metal while filling out passport paperwork. Bureaucracy is so badass...

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I need to eat and get ready, so I can see my fellow weirdo in concert.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

"As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
Then I feel pretty blissfully."

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Intermission, and they're playing Brazil. Perfect.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Incredible. More later!

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

They played the entire album of Good News for People Who Love Bad News. Some of them I thought were played really well, some of them I thought were better on the album. It was a treat to see this with a bunch of other millennials who knew the words. Seeing how these songs are mostly downbeat, I can imagine how being here in concert and singing along was as cathartic for the others as it was for me. It was a release for me to sing these words while remembering all the crap I've dealt with in my life and all the crap that we know is out there in the world. I would say this was another magical experience, and it was a pleasure to witness. My favorite take from the album might have been The View.

After intermission, they played songs from other albums. They included two of my favorites which both merge a heightened sense of bleakness and desperation with nautical themes: The Whale Song, and King Rat. The rendition of King Rat easily surpassed the album. It thundered with an intensity and depth that was reminiscent of being at the bottom of the ocean, on the abyssal plains where no light penetrates. Listening to that version, it was as though we have all sunk so deep they have truly hit bottom. This fits the song, which includes lyrics like "I took all that I desired, even crooks have to pay the rent," and "And you know, you know, you know it all went wrong."

And for those who don't know, I used the whale captain below as my avatar for many years, before I got stuck on this bird theme.

This made me want to go to so much more concerts.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Is anyone else mildly annoyed in Fast TImes at Ridgemont High when Damone identifies this as being on Led Zeppelin IV? I'm not that knowledgeable about their catalogue, but that's the one album I know. Maybe it was intended to be Stairway to Heaven and they couldn't clear it? That's semi-plausible as romantic music, but that's against the joke, right? He's the cool guy teaching the nerdy guy about ladies but he doesn't know a damn thing he's talking about.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I went to the big post office downtown, in order to process my application for a new passport, since I let the old one expire in 2012. Since it was a Saturday, there were at most 10 people present in this gigantic building. Architecturally, the building reminded me of the 90s. It seemed to me that it must have once been considered cutting edge, and it has since faded and begun to show signs of decay.

There is one movie, and one song that comes to mind.