i’m on a journey to listen to more albums in full, going to be listing some favorites here:
. eli and the thirteenth confession (1968), laura nyro (my dad suggested this and holy fuck, no actually holy fuck)
. american v: a hundred highways (2006), johnny cash, (something about late johnny cash hits me in the heartstrings)
. pink moon (1972), nick drake (the guitar?? i have some songs i need to learn...like all of them)
. i’ll cry if i want to (1963), leslie gore (never realized it’s my party had a whole concept album attached -- obsessed, want to play it at every party i ever throw if i ever throw a party again)
. soup (1995), blind melon (just really good and fun and interesting and ridiculous, all the good things)
. in a silent way (1969), miles davis (i just simply enjoyed it, definitely will be bringing more miles into my life)
. god save the animals (2022), alex g (listened to this because halsey has talked about him a lot and yeah this album is sick; the songs often have nostalgic acoustics mixed with electrics and insane electronics and to me it feels familiar but new at the same time? Idk if that makes sense but it’s masterful)
.i am a bird now (2005), antony & the johnsons (this feels like listening to a soul, i don’t say that lightly -- i’d say more but most words feel shallow with this one)
.the decline of british sea power (2003), british sea power (the concept of this album + the quality of the songs both within and beyond the concept = HOLY SHIT)
As the legendary artist and philosopher Sisqó once declared: I think I'll say it again.
'History is just one damn thing after another.'
It's a colloquialism you may have encountered recently, one that's come to infect the popular discourse as a fresh and novel sentiment that's uniquely suited to describe the idiotic hellworld we currently find ourselves stranded in.
Yet it isn't new. Not only is the line seventy years old, it's a corruption of the original, which precedes it by over four decades in the form of
'Life is just one damn thing after another.'
It's incredible how much meaning can be changed by replacing a single word, be it the example cited above or, as I recently learned to my determent, nonflammable and inflammable, especially as it relates to wigs worn during candlelight vigils. But enough about whose head may or may not be covered in second degree burns, we were talking about how life was eclipsed by history.
Pairing: SebastianXFemaleFarmer (with a little SamXFemaleFarmer)
Chapter word count: 2,291
Total word count: 75,203
Chapter 19 - Late Night Alcohol - is up! Teeny tiny chapter this week at just over 2,000 words, featuring Shane as promised. I chose the piano version of The Smallest Church in Sussex by Sea Power for this week's song. It reminds me a lot of Shane and I think if he chose a karaoke song, this is what it would be.
For any Disco Elysium fans - Disco Elysium used Sea Power's songs for their entire soundtrack. Harry sings karaoke to a modified version of The Smallest Church in Sussex.
The Decline of British Sea Power is a really good fuckin album. stand out tracks tracks are def: apologies to insect life (i stimmed rly hard to this song and it was So Good), carrion, and lately. i love the shitty lo-fi noisy punk rock vibes, i love the unhingedness of the british man, i love weirs early 2000s indie rock, man. its good shit