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ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask · 3 months

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I told @caffeineyum and @authortobenamedlater that I would give a better explanation of why I ship Fred/Kelly. I also ended up writing up some of the key points of my reasons for shipping John/Linda. So. Here goes.

I'm going to skip past The Fall of Reach because the cast is too young for most of it to really get into the whole romantic side. However, once we hit First Strike? Hoooo boy.

First Strike

Fred/Kelly - They are thick as thieves. Just some real dummy thicc stealy boys. Kelly is shown to be acutely aware of Fred's emotional state - on the way down to the surface she both covers for Fred's faux pas with FLEETCOM as well as physically reaching out to bump him to reassure him. Throughout the Reach conflict they are always backing each other up and checking in on each other. When they get collected by Chief and Kelly takes a Fuel Rod shot for Halsey, it's Fred who carries her out and then later he sits with her for a minute and talks before they go out into the Slipstream-spaghetti mess to repair the Ascendant Justice's hull. Kelly then spends most of the novel either unconscious or kidnapped, so we don't get a whole lot more from them.

John/Linda, on the other hand, has a veritable treasure trove of shipping material in First Strike. Chief spends the entire novel pining after her and he has an honest-to-goodness dream about one of his most cherished memories of her. However, I'll let these two quotes do the heavy lifting on this explanation:

"He wanted to smile, too, but nothing much - apart from Linda - in a long time had given him cause[...]"

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2. "They had frozen [Linda] while she'd still been in her suit. That was for the best, considering the extent of her injuries . . . but he would have given anything to see her face one last time."

Call me a hopeless romantic, but I just don't see someone saying "I would give anything to see her face one more time" about just a friend.

Ghosts of Onyx

Chief obviously doesn't appear, so John/Linda is a little sparse. However, at the end of the book Kelly asks "Do you think he's out there?" and Linda immediately and without hesitation says something like "Of course he is," because our girl is nothing if not loyal and trusting of her boyfriend's abilities.

Fred and Kelly also don't end up with a lot of time to think romantical-stylez, but they seemingly live rent free in one another's heads. When Fred realizes that he got a message from Halsey his first thought was to look for news about Kelly. Later when Kelly is in a stressful situation, she randomly thinks about the outdated phrases Fred would use to describe her dilemma.

Now, I realize how weak all of this is... but isn't that shipping in general? Reading waaaaaaay too far into things?

Anyhow. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

(I'm also tagging @makowrites because you've always got my back with Fred/Kelly and I love it.)

#halo #fred 104 #kelly 087 #john 117 #linda 058 #fred 104 x kelly 087 #john 117 x linda 058 #the lonely sailor of the good ship fred x kelly

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twopoppies · 5 months

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hi gina! sorry i’ve been looking through your blog but i couldn’t find it so I’m asking have you ever made a post about fics with side ziall? and if not, do you have some recs? xx

Hi, darling. I actually haven’t ever made a rec based on side pairings, and I don’t tend to take notes on how expansive their storyline is. But here’s what I have:

Scorpions et Madragores by Stria (E, 23K) Read the tags and author’s note on this one because there are some themes that could be triggering. This is a dark fic and Harry is a pretty creepy vampire, but the story is very well told and there’s a happy ending.

taking tips and getting stoned by alison (M, 24K) Slightly OOC, but I really enjoyed the realistic approach to the storyline and having a fic about life not turning out the way you thought it might, and the opportunity for second chances.

Run and I’ll Give Chase by orphan_account (E, 25K) I really liked the characterizations in this one; the way Harry wants Louis, but is afraid to want him, and then finally gives in? So good! Plus…there’s a second part Jump and I’ll Catch you (E, 13K) that I haven’t read yet.

let’s talk about making love by istajmaal (E, 25K) Oh, phone sex operator fics, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Through Eerie Chaos by mediawhore / @mediawhorefics (GA, 102K) This one is set both in present day and the 1920s and I absolutely adore this fic. This is such a unique and compelling story, the writing is beautiful, the characters are wonderfully realized, and I ugly cried for realz. Such a good fic.

Finding Lou by stylinsoncity (M, 60K) This author’s writing is always such a pleasure to read -- they really know how to craft a moving story. Slow burn romance with some super sexy smut and lots of emotions. Yes, I cried

I Will Never Rust by stylez (E, 38K) I must have read this at least 5 years ago and I honestly don’t remember details, but my notes say “gorgeous, sad, sexy” so... I’m crossing my fingers that old me knew what she was talking about. It’s frat boy Harry so that could go either way. LOL!

Loving You Is Free by littlelouishiccups (E, 68K) this was one of the first sugar baby fics I read in this fandom, and the set up is excellent. Steamy smut, and great side characters.

In Dreams by dolce_piccante (M, 24K) This actually might be my favorite of this author’s fics, although I know it’s definitely not the most popular. It’s just soft and romantic and sweet and I’m a sucker for tattoo artist Louis winning over slightly uptight Harry.

May We Stay Lost On Our Way Home by LoadedGunn (E, 74K) Famous!Harry meets fairy!Louis. Yep. Mix in this author’s always incredibly hot smut, magic, quirky characters, and this is just a great read.

Escapade by doce_piccante (M, 146K) I know, I know. This fic really doesn’t need more recs –– everyone knows this one. But it is a pretty perfect fake relationship AU. In particular, the hate to love chemistry of the main characters is done really, really well, the smut is super sexy, and t’s a really fun read.

#larry fic rec #my fic rec #side Ziall fics #Ziall

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mirmoria · 6 months

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Hi. I have an Only Friends fic idea!!!

Ray starts spending 90% of his time at Sand's, so naturally he and Nick become friends. The three of them start hanging out more and somehow they develop this family dynamic with sand and ray as the parents and he becomes their unofficial child. Sand cooks them breakfast, Ray habitually drops off lunch at Nick's new work place and nick helps him with his projects, the two help nick with boys at the club or a new crush, Nick hangs out with (third wheels) them on shopping trips, fancy restaurant visits (imagine ray and sand picking out a suit for him together), walks to the park etc. Nick could comfort Ray and Sand during a rocky period in their relationship.I just like the idea of an endeared sand finding nick and ray cuddling on the sofa and somehow joining them. ( honestly, this could work any way. Ray scooches between them camper stylez™️ w/o a threesome joke, or nick could get in between them for comfort on a particularly bad day). Nick keeps walking in on them going at it and screaming at them to get a room while ray jokingly enquires if he wants to join in. I love it.

#only friends the series #nick only friends #only friends ray #sandray #ray only friends #sand only friends

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pixel-moss167 · 1 year

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╰┈➤ ur stylez so cutee !!! could u try drawing my boy boom or maybe quantum if boom iz too complexx ? :0 !!

Aa ty!1

Such a funky fella it was so fun to draw them :D

(sorry if its missing something tho lol)

Ty for the request!

#pixelsartbutnotreally #art request

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dani-draws-201 · 2 years

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(Same anon who asked to comfort da precious garbz) can we carry da precious Garbz pls?🥺 Ex:Fireman carry or over the shoulder stylez. And thank you’s for letting us comfort the sad boi ✨

#gay furry #furry art #digital art #digital drawing #safe fur work #dani art #garbz #ask #anon #anonymous

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velvetcloxds · 1 year

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i think every bau boy was written by a woman. even derek was written by a woman trying to write a character by a man (inception stylez)

https://www.tumblr.com/velvetcloxds/715328778842308608/every-interaction-that-luke-has-with-penelope-is

no, you're right, there has not been a main man I didn't want to love in this show just yet except for like gideon ig and rossi is more dad than daddy but I think I just want penelope to have herself a yummy little prince charming so bad that I'm leaning into luke real bad ksjd

#monique replies #lovely anon

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abundanceofnots · 2 years

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I DIDN'T UNFOLLOW YOU THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN ANYONE WHO SAYS IT DID IS JUST TRYING TO DRIVE A WEDGE BETWEEN US AND FRANKLY THEY SHOULD DIE.

ahem.

my dear ellie I am very torn because upon reading your wip list I find myself desperate to know a little something about saiv chapter 3, but also...hatchet job? You have the hatchet? or the boys are goin' a-murderin'? enquiring minds want to know...

I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING MY OPTOMETRIST CAN VOUCH FOR ME EVERYTHING'S FINE PUT DOWN THAT SHOVEL HOWL

anyways, as i was going to say.

hatchet job, yes! the fancy title of my film critic ian / horror movie director mickey fic that i stole from mark kermode's memoir. or, you know, the idiomatic expression for "a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation" (courtesy of wiktionary)

the plan was to do four to five parts that would each jump forward a couple of years ahead in time (enemies to lovers stylez but make it snappy), and since that's most likely what it will forever be, just a plan, i can tell you what was going to happen in part one, the ever-so-eloquently titled fuck you, ian gallagher

ian is on top of the world. he's 25, finally doing alright after several not-really-worthy-of-mention years, working for his brother's growing online magazine where he makes good on both his english diploma and the years of consuming way too many horror movies (and real-life events) in the gallagher household by writing about anything spooky, scary or gory when it comes to pop culture

that's how he finds himself at horrorama, the biggest genre film festival on the east coast, filing a review on that year's most talked-about flick called sleep tight, daddy, where a young woman takes revenge on her father's years of abuse by locking him up in the basement and putting him through various kinds of torture. it's sick and twisted and there are people stomping out of the cinema in indignation, but to ian, it's just plain boring

he publishes his review, writing that the film "sure made him sleep tight in his seat" and that the debuting filmmaker lacked style and seemed unsure in his direction--and because everyone likes a good hatchet job, it goes viral and ian becomes the talk of the festival

the sudden onslaught of ego-stroking feels intoxicating and it makes ian do what he promised himself to never do again--take a guy to his room after striking a casual conversation with him over a couple of drinks at the hotel bar and proceeding to fuck both of their brains out

the guy's easily the best lay ian's had in years, maybe ever. muscly but soft, and a little on the shorter side, but with thick thighs and a beautiful cock that ian doesn't really get to pay much attention to before his own dick starts doing the thinking for them both and plunges itself into the presented sweet ass way too early

it's too good and it ends all too quickly. ian's lying in the tangled-up sheets, taking heavy breaths and already thinking about their second round, when the guy heaves himself up and starts putting his clothes back on. ian is confused

"i dunno, man," the guy tells him as he zips up his jeans. "you kinda seemed unsure in your direction and lacked style. might wanna work on that."

he leaves ian with that--and a smirk around the cigarette he fishes out his back pocket

the next day, when sleep tight, daddy wins the festival prize for the best feature debut, it finally downs on ian who exactly he fucked last night. or maybe who fucked with him, more like

because mickey milkovich, the film's director, takes the stage, this muscly but soft guy with a metal band t-shirt on, arranges the microphone to his height and uses his dedicated speech time to say: "i only really have one thing i'd like to share and it's this: fuck you, ian gallagher." and the crowd roars with laughter and applause as he flips the camera

end of part one

#wip writing tag tame #howlinchickhowl #answered

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medinainternational · 2 years

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(Motif-Radio) Reggae Pon Top # 35 track listing below:

SINGLES: DUB MASTER POPS- SO COOL HA'ANGANA- TRADING BREAD THE YUTES & TARRUS RILEY- BETTER DAYS KABAKA PYRAMID & PETER TOSH- MYSTIK MAN ROCKY DAWUNI & BLVK H3R0- NEVA BACK DOWN ISRAEL STARR FT. MILLION STYLEZ, RIDDIM CARTEL- COOL, CALM & COLLECTED EMPRESS NEPHTALI- HORIZON PAPA SAN- I SEE YOU KARBON- KING'S TOWN GEORGE PALMER & IRIE ITES- TIME WILL TELL KINGLY T- NEVER DROP MY GUARD JERRY HARRIS- CORRUPTION

RIDDIMS: IRIE ITES ROCKING TIME FRESH ISLAND RIDDIM TRIBUTE TO DENNIS BROWN RIDDIM BACK TO THE DAYS RIDDIM

DANCEHALL: AJII & DR. GANG- YOU MAKE ME HAPPY TOLLERANCE- DEAR MONEY CHRONIC LAW- LEADER JULIAN MARLEY- DON'T RUIN MY LIFE KABAKA PYRAMID &ANSWELE- LIFE IS EVERYTHING PERFECT GIDDIMANI- BEAM STALK IT'S DIA & CH CHING CHING- ALL RIGHT MR. LEXX- DONE A GYAL DING DONG- BAGGA GYAL CHARLY BLACK & RIA- FLEA MARKET RAS KWAME & MYX QUEST CAMIDOH FEAT KELWYN BOY- PULL UP RELAX RIDDIM RYGIN KING- CIRCUMSTANCES RYGIN KING- THERAPY

ROOTS/REGGAE/DUBPLATES: LOVE JOYS- LET ME ROCK YOU NOW GEORGE PALMER IRIE ITES- AFRICA ZAHIRA- CALL ON JAH KABAKA PYRAMID & BLACK AM I- MARY JANE GREEN LION CREW & ROE SUMMERZ- GOOD DAYZ DONOVAN KINGJAY- DUBPLATE EARL CUNNINGHAM- DUBPLATE HARNY ROOTS- DUBPLATE MYKAL ROSE DUBPLATE PHILLIP FRAZER DUBPLATE

#SoundCloud #music #Motif-Radio #ROOTS REGGAE #Dancehall #LOVERS ROCK #DUBPLATES #soundcloud

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gerogerigaogaigar · 7 months

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Alright so here are ten albums that, by all rights, should have been on the rolling Stone top 500 albums list. In my research I did learn that one of them (Buena Vista Social Club) was in a previous version of the list so why the fuck did they take it off? My first pick is probably a lil contentious but I feel strongly about it, the rest are so obvious that it is insane they aren't on there.

Three 6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez

I feel like I am screaming into the void trying to explain why this album is so good and influential. Despite remaining an underground artist throughout the 90s Three 6 Mafia were one of the pioneers of horrorcore hip hop. But more importantly than that their eerie lofi production and laid back tongue twisting was an obvious forerunner to the trap scene of the 00s and 10s. In fact you can hear them nearly create the trap beat several times in this album. Mystic Styles simply does not sound like it could have come out in 95 to me. It belongs much more alongside artists like Lil Ugly Mane than Wu-Tang Clan.

Beyond the realm of mere influence this is also just an incredibly good album that never deserves the lukewarm response that it got from the mainstream. The beats are so stark and sloppy, with such an emphasis on horror movie style dissonance. The resulting beats are perfect for both slow and lugubrious tongue twisters, and the intense violent horrorcore raps. Overall Mystic Stylez creates atmosphere more effectively than most hip hop artists could ever dream of.

Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner

UK garage and grime are not genres that American audiences usually pay attention to. Hell they aren't genres that most UK audiences pay attention to. Dizzee Rascal changed that when he released Boy In Da Corner. The frenetic pace of Rascal's rapping and the equally chaotic beats are transfixing. The wild urgency with which every line is delivered lends credibility to the fairly goofy and teenagery lyrics. Dizzee Rascal can be very goofy, but the catchyness of the songs and the sheer energy of it all made grime a hit genre worldwide if only for a moment. Also I love when someone flips a sample so well that you can't hear the original without thinking of the song that sampled it so basically r.i.p. to Billy Squire but Big Beat is just the sample in Fix Up, Look Sharp now.

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Iron Maiden do two things, rip guitar at one million miles an hour and scream at the top of their lungs. But there's actually a secret third thing and it's that they have some pretty decent lyricism. Iron Maiden are consistently concerned with the horrors of war. The subject is all over their previous singles and is present on both the hits on Powerslave. Aces High portrays a panicked pilot trying to survive a battle in WW2, and the more politically charged Two Minutes To Midnight criticizes the commodification of warfare and the fact that capitalists are bringing the world to the brink of destruction for the sake of profits. It's not all super prescient stuff tho. A lot of Iron Maiden songs are just there to sound cool. And they do. The guitars go fast and squeedly and meedly while the drum and bass are galloping along with the intensity of a freight train.

Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Metallica's first album is good, but the follow up blows nearly every other thrash album out of the water. With just a little music theory knowledge and a willingness to experiment Metallica crafted songs with acoustic intros, actually good bridges and breakdowns and even catchier riffs. All without sacrificing the breakneck speed. In fact Ride The Lightning is probably even faster than their previous efforts. It's not just about speed though, it's pacing. The fact that these songs tend to have slow intros that build into fast paced squeedling helps break up the album so it isn't all on all the time. This would also become a staple of Metallica's sound from this album on. But they never nail their own sound as hard as they do on Ride The Lightning. It's probably my favorite thrash album.

Harry Chapin - Verities & Balderdash

Choosing just one Harry Chapin album was extremely hard because basically all of his albums have at least one of my favorites of his on it. But there was no way to get Taxi, 30,000 pounds of bananas, and Mr. Tanner on one album. So I went for the album that I thought Rolling Stone would be most likely to choose. Verities And Balderdash starts off with Chapin's most well known song, Cats In The Cradle, and then it only gets better from there. Harry Chapin is the greatest lyricist of the 70s adult contemporary scene. Fuck it he's probably the best of the 70s period. Chapin's knack for writing complex and sincere emotions that give a voice to perspectives that don't get enough play in popular music. He gives a voice to people who are typically voiceless. Everymen with humble aspirations that still amount to nothing. The musical arrangements are part of what make this work. Chapin's voice is bolstered by a combination of folk guitar and bombastic strings that make every line about failing marriages and fascist fire departments seem exactly as big as they are to the characters in the songs.

Okay I'm just gonna talk about one song from this album. This song was a hit. The Town That Made America Famous. This is one of the best songs every written. Top ten songs of all time easily. In it the narrator describes his life in a tenement building with a poor family and all the poor families that have given up and don't see any prospects beyond day to day existence. It describes their oppression at the hands of their landlord "The best that we all could afford / But still too fine for the rich landlord / To tear it down" and the local police "The cops would make a point to shadow us around our town". And then when a fire starts in their building the fire department refuse to show up as retaliation for someone drawing a swastika on the firehouse. In the narrative it is made clear that the narrator and friends were the ones that did it, but the fire department doesn't know that. The only person who shows up to fight the fire is a plumber, the only working class member of the fire department. The plumber let's the narrator's family stay at his house and the singer reflects that "It's funny when you get that close, it's kind of hard to hate". This song actually makes my heart race with anxiety whenever I hear it. It is so horrifically real. So basically if you are one of my anarchist friends and you think that some fuck from the 1970s writing folk rock can't be infinitely more woke and prescient than anything coming out today then I've got some news for you. Harry Chapin is a fucking comrade.

Buena Vista Social Club - s/t

By the time this album was made in 1996 many of the musicians featured, Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén Gonzáles, Elíades Ochoa, to name just a handful of the more prominent ones, had been performing for decades. Segundo was already in his 80s. Almost all of them were Havana natives and played the local circuit, but the Cuban trade embargo severely hampered the ability for this music to reach wider audiences. Now there's no obligation to make your music for any audience other than the one right in front of you, but when American blues musician Ry Cooder ran into visa troubles while trying to put together an afro-cuban project he wound up smashing the Cuban musicians he was already working with into a group with several other local artists in the Havana music scene.

Okay history lesson over. The music on this album is so clearly the work of passionate experts with decades of experience under their belt. The delicate and vibrant melodies represent a slowing down of intensity that had become present in the bolero and danzón music of the time. Though many of the songs were newly written for this album, they feel like a return to some comfortable childhood place. A place that can only be kept alive in song. Solo escuchas un álbum de música Cubana escucha de Buena Vista Social Club.

Apex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Alright if anyone says IDM imma go feral. This is an ambient techno album. We don't gotta be elitist about this electronic music. In fact I think it is important that this is an ambient techno album because it gave the techno scene more mainstream attention than it ever had gotten in the past and it brought the ambient subgenre of techno more into the foreground.

If there is one thing that Richard D James understands it is texture. Every track on Selected Ambient Works is so much more than just a drum beat and a melody. While the drums have a hint of hip hop and the melodies are more present than other techno music, the real star is the diverse sonic textures that populate each track. From distant wet sounds that sound like the inside of a submarine to dry buzzsaw sounds to fuzzy bass lines there is so much to focus in on. When a new sound enters the mix it changes the entire flavor of the song as it's new texture slots into the sonic palate. And while later Apex Twin releases are just as incredible it is on this debut that Richard D James shows restraint. Any less and the songs would be boring, any more and they would be overwhelming. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is one of the high points in electronic music.

KLF - The White Room

The KLF are a weird anomaly, they jumped into the electronic music scene in 87 made a handful of incredibly creative releases and then dipped in 92 after firing a machine gun full of blanks into the audience at the BRIT Awards and deleting their entire back catalogue of music.

So uh The White Room is a house album. Kind of. The KLF were not really easily pinned down to a genre. There are aspects of rave, house, dub, hip hop, acid, etc all over this album. It has a grand and mythological sound that would be at home in an underground rave or a huge stadium. The lyrics are mostly spiritual nonsense. I don't mean that in an "Its spiritual so I hate it kind of way" I mean that The KLF are primarily inspired by the satirical Illuminatus! Trilogy and therefore use satirical takes on spiritual aesthetics. Songs like Last Train To Trancentral make a trip to the rundown shack they used as a recording studio sound like a religious pilgrimage.

Avalanches - Since I Left You

There is absolutely no other album like Since I Left You. There are plenty of sampledelica / instrumental hip hop / turntablist / plunderphonics records but no album is as dedicated to being all of those things at once as this one. The Avalanches conceived of this album while looking at all the weird and forgotten albums that populated thrift stores in their native Melbourne. To quote one half of the group Darren Seltman "[t]he more rejected and unwanted the record that a sample comes from, the more appealing it is, I guess it's almost a reaction to rare record finding, but occasionally things like 'Holiday' come up".

The way that samples are used here is unique. The album is made entirely of samples as is the case with plunderphonics, but the sheer number of samples and the dense layering is incredible. A breakdown of any one song on the album will show dozens of samples flitting in and out things making up the entire backbone of the track that you didn't even register was something you might have recognized. Hell even the very obvious samples like the aforementioned Holiday by Madonna is woven into the mix so well that it is fully divorced from its original context.

Now the other thing that Since I Left You has is atmosphere. Instrumental hip hop in this style has a tendency for one aesthetic and only one aesthetic: driving on the highway at 2:00 AM while feeling contemplative. Trust me that isn't overspecific I have listened to a lot of records. Since I left you is the polar opposite of this. The album is a brightly lit tropical dreamscape. A psychedelic reimagining of a cruise vacation. The joy of creativity and sunshine flows through every second of Since I Left You and it is impossible to come out the other end without a smile on your face. This is one of the greatest albums ever made and it definitely makes my top ten.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor

The complete and utter lack of any east asian music whatsoever on both rolling stones top 500 albums and the 1001 albums list actually makes me livid. I could make at least a top 100 list of just Japanese music. So I'm gonna do the bare minimum and put on probably the first Japanese albums to hit it big in the west.

YMO have a sound that, while not strictly ahead of their time is still fairly pioneering. There is a lack of the punk/new wave aesthetics of Tubeway Army, but more pop sensibilities than Ktaftwerk. They wind up falling in this unique synth pop place of very sincere bubbliness, but also artistic integrity. Nothing quite sums it up like their cover of The Beatles' Day Tripper. It's a fun off beat cover that retains the poppiness of the original but with a thrumming synth line that almost predicts techno. And techno artists do tend to list Solid State Survivor as an influence.

#500 album gaiden #three 6 mafia #dizzee rascal #iron maiden #metallica #harry chapin #buena vista social club #aphex twin #the klf #the avalanches #yellow magic orchestra

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