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nicknicklambert · 1 year

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Great London Songs

11 Parklife – Blur Released in 1994, the title track of Blur’s third album Only reached No. 10 in the UK chart, but it is probably one of the most recognizable “Britpop” songs. The verses are narrated by Phil Daniels, a London actor, in a strong cockney accent. It was written while Damon Albarn was living in Kensington Church Street and the band were recording the album in Fulham. At the 1995…

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#Blur #Britpop #charts #football #Greenwich #London #London Playlist #London Songs #Phil Daniels #songs #spotify

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ineffable-rohese · 4 months

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Neil's picks for Aziraphale & Crowley's Angelic Playlist were Cry Me a River (Julie London), The Book of Love (Peter Gabriel), and The Show Must Go On (Queen).

Three songs. Two about the aftermath of a break up, and one about coming together in love. So very clearly, we can infer a Crowley POV song, an Aziraphale POV song, and a song for the two of them and their happily ever after. (Song lyrics for all three after the cut for reference.)

The Book of Love is a perfect wedding song. It's a song to play under two people declaring their desire to spend eternity together. With lines about dancing and reading and it's perfect. It's originally a Magnetic Fields song that was released in 1999. Peter Gabriel recorded a cover in 2004 for the movie Shall We Dance about which I know nothing but the Wikipedia summary. But since we know how movies are important here... It's a standard rom-com with a bored Richard Gere secretly taking up ballroom dancing after following a pretty lady from the train (J-Lo). His wife (Susan Sarandon) thinks he's cheating, turns out nope, just dancing, drama ensues, he gives up dancing but eventually his wife becomes supportive and he realizes he loves his wife. And dancing. And they live happily ever after, with both of them getting what they want. Maybe we can draw some parallels here? But I think the song speaks for itself better than its connection with what sounds like a standard early 2000s romcom.

The individual songs are where it gets interesting.

Cry Me a River was first released by Julie London in 1951, but became popular after she sang it in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It starring Jayne Mansfield as an aspiring rock 'n roll singer. Again, relying on Wikipedia here, but there is an interesting bit about a blossoming forbidden relationship, wiretapped phones, and someone editing the recordings to keep the love affair secret. But again, it's probably a stretch to look too deeply into the movie.

The song has a very classic jazz feel. It's from a decade and a half later, but if you were, say, an angel who enjoyed Moonlight Serenade or A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square, it has a similar feel. You definitely wouldn't say it's bebop. The lyrics are about someone who was in love and had their heartbroken. Their former love (who never shed a tear over the break up) has returned and wants to make up. The singer essentially says "you love me? Prove it. Cry me a river like I cried when you left." Which, fair, but in our context, ouch.

The Show Must Go On is a Queen song, and we know how much Queen we hear in association with Crowley in particular. But this just isn't any Queen song. It was written by Brian May about Freddie Mercury's struggles as he neared the end of his life, and it was recorded in 1990. (Coincidentally or not, the year Good Omens was published, a book co-created by friends, one of whom would die too soon, and the other of whom would reflect on his friend's end of life struggles as the story was told more fully. Yes, I'm crying about this.)

In the song, the singer is fighting to reach a place of freedom, away from empty spaces and heartbreak. They are fighting with pure will, and even though their heart is breaking they smile and carry on because the show must go on.

What I really appreciate here with the POV songs, is that they are cross-coded. Queen is Crowley-coded, but the song about someone fighting through heartbreak to achieve something vital, while forcing a smile for the audience? That's absolutely Aziraphale in Heaven. And the 40s/50s jazz ballad is absolutely Aziraphale's style, but the jilted lover who may be willing to give their love a second chance but needs to see proof that the lover cares as much as they do is Crowley all the way.

It's almost like... Well it's almost like even in their separation, they are each carrying a piece of the other. The book of love has music in it, indeed.

The Book of Love

The book of love is long and boring No one can lift the damn thing It's full of charts and facts, and figures And instructions for dancing But I I love it when you read to me. And you You can read me anything.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it's just transcendental Some of it's just really dumb But I I love it when you sing to me And you You can sing me anything

The book of love is long and boring And written very long ago It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes And things we're all too young to know But I I love it when you give me things And you You ought to give me wedding rings

Cry Me a River

Now you say you're lonely You cry the whole night thorough Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river I cried a river over you

Now you say you're sorry For bein' so untrue Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river I cried a river over you

You drove me, nearly drove me out of my head While you never shed a tear Remember, I remember all that you said Told me love was too plebeian Told me you were through with me and

Now you say you love me Well, just to prove you do Come on and cry me a river, cry me a river I cried a river over you

The Show Must Go On

Empty spaces, what are we living for? Abandoned places, I guess we know the score, on and on Does anybody know what we are looking for?

Another hero, another mindless crime Behind the curtain, in the pantomime Hold the line Does anybody want to take it anymore?

The show must go on The show must go on, yeah Inside my heart is breaking My makeup may be flaking But my smile, still, stays on

Whatever happens, I'll leave it all to chance Another heartache, another failed romance, on and on Does anybody know what we are living for? I guess I'm learning I must be warmer now I'll soon be turning, round the corner now Outside the dawn is breaking But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free

The show must go on The show must go on Inside my heart is breaking My makeup may be flaking But my smile, still, stays on

My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies Fairy tales of yesterday, grow but never die I can fly, my friends

The show must go on The show must go on I'll face it with a grin I'm never giving in On with the show I'll top the bill I'll overkill I have to find the will to carry on On with the show Show Show must go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on

#ineffable playlist #good omens #good omens meta #ineffable lovers #ineffable divorce #queen #peter gabriel #julie london #neil gaiman #terry pratchett

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micamicster · 10 months

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A soundtrack for an as-yet theoretical tv show

#i know i posted a link to this playlist like 2 weeks ago but what if i made a graphic for it instead of making dinner?#so that people could see and read it and everything #what then?#nothing thats what. anyway <3 #when i drop out of medical school im sure that soundtracking tv shows will be a marketable skill <3 #I have to go to BED NOW and STOP anxiously jittering in my room.#tomorrow will be good and normal and I will have no difficulties with badge access to the scrub machine <3 affirmations <3 #peter grant #rivers of london #rol #fanmix #playlists

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twopercentboy · 8 months

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when bears in trees said we mend together and when bears in trees said the rough our diamond was in seemed so rough but no one bothered to start digging it up and when bears in trees said life is beautiful but life is work

#bears in trees #cassiopeia bears in trees #cassiopeia BiT #south london dirtbag boyband #every single line in Cassiopeia is so good #how do they make banger after banger like this #im so excited for the new era #Cassiopeia is already on every single main playlist of mine

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shedoessoshedoes · 10 months

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In this wake of (exciting!! wonderful!!) influx of news and fans discovering (or rediscovering) red, white, and royal blue for the first time as we get ready for the movie to come out, I would like to take a moment to recognize those that have loved this story since the beginning. I see you. I recognize you. I think you're cool. (and if you're just now falling in love with Alex, and Henry, I think you're pretty awesome, too)

#i read this book summer 2020 and it changed my life #truly a light in the covid darkness #rip to the rwrb playlist #i reread this book every two weeks #long live the london scene #red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwarb #alex claremont diaz #alex and henry #hrh prince henry

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lydiaplain · 2 months

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500 followers on Spotify! 🥳🎉🙏

Big big thanks to all! 🥰🎊❤️

🎶 New music coming soon!

All followers will receive my new song on their Release Radar playlists.. 🌹

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alexanderpearce · 11 months

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thought i’d share some of my fallen london playlists!!

fallen london / mysterious and indistinct (the unterzee) / seeking mr eaten’s name / THESUNTHESUNTHESUN

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esteemed-excellency · 2 months

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The Red Knight

#I made a moodboard and a playlist the brainrot is truly real guys #the playlist is still a wip I need to add more songs #it's a mix of the parabolan red knight concept + the tournament ES + fantasy au #pure vibes #fallen london oc #hiram hargrave #the red knight #my moodboard #my playlist #fantasy moodboard #moodboard #red moodboard #red aesthetic #hiram moodboard

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taste-in-music · 1 year

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Got to get it in my head I'll never be sixteen again I'm waiting to live, still waiting to love Oh, it'll be over, and I'll still be asking when

can you tell i was never kissed in high school

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babybirbb · 8 months

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you were always like my canary, a butchie playlist on spotify

touching yourself - the japanese house // too close - sir chloe // why’d you only call me when you’re high? - arctic monkeys // we didn’t start the fire - fall out boy // hayloft & hayloft ll - mother mother // kamikaze - omar apollo // cop car - mitski // over your head - orla gartland // side character - cloudfodder // kiss with a fist - florence + the machine // bags - clairo

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ezxthan · 10 months

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I love my problematic parents

#no red or green flag just white one with black dots #time to raise from the dead my maneskin playlist #tsundere italian london tipton #ikemen prince #ikeprince silvio #ikepri silvio #and let silvio say fck

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nicknicklambert · 2 years

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Great London Songs

Great London Songs. Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks #London #Londonsongs #LondonPlaylist

4. Waterloo Sunset – Kinks Released in 1967, based on memories of his time in St Thomas’ hospital when he was 13. It went to No.2 in the British charts and was their biggest hit. Rumors at the time that “Terry and Julie” were Terence Stamp and Julie London who were London’s hip celebrities at the time, but Ray Davies has denied this. It was never a hit in the US, but it is listed at No.14 in the…

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#1960s #1967 #hit #London #London Playlist #London Songs #music #Peter Gabriel #pop #psychedelia #Ray Davies #Rolling Stone #single #Terence Stamp #The Jam #The Kinks #Waterloo #Waterloo Sunset

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thedeafprophet · 5 months

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Despite all my rage: A playlist for Alexander Hastings, The Vitriolic Thief

Criminal, thief, arsonist. Light Fingers PC

Track list and lyric highlights under the cut

City Life - Redlight King

"Just another day in the city life Just another day where we live or die We're all prayin' through the smoke filled sky"

2. Catch Me If You Can - Set It Off

"I only feel at home when I'm on the run I only open doors just to pick the locks Too busy throwing stones at your fragile thoughts"

3. Play Dirty - Kevin Mcallister

"If you wanna go, this is how it goes If you wanna roll, heads are gonna roll If you wanna play, we can play all day But we play, play dirty, play dirty"

4. Volatile Times -IAMX

"Goodbye my friends Goodbye to the money Adieu to the fuckers that think that it's funny I just want to turn the lights on in these volatile times"

5. Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Tribe Society

"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage Someone will say, "What is lost can never be saved"

6. The Hand That Feeds

"My papa taught me how to howl How to bare my teeth and growl He taught me that the hand that feeds Deserves to be bitten when it beats"

7. Arsonist's Lullaby - Hozier

"When I was a child, I'd sit for hours Staring into open flame, something in it had a power Could barely tear my eyes away"

8. Searching For A Devil - In The Valley Below

"Well if you're hoping for a free ride Hell there's room in mine And we can love for the sake of the little one And his hazel eyes"

9. Reminders - Radical Face

"I wish I had more nice things to say But I was raised not to lie I'm either honest, or I'm an optimist But never both at the same time"

10. To Be Alone - Hozier

"I know that you hate this place Not a trace of me would argue Honey, we should run away, oh, someday Our baby and her momma and the damaged love she made"

11. Me And Mine - The Brothers Right

"I will burn your kingdom down If you try to conquer me and mine"

12. Beautiful Crime - Tamer

"We fight every night for something When the sun sets, we're both the same Half in the shadows Half burned in flames"

#alas. i have one playlist cover art done lol #fallen london #fallen london oc #oc: alex #playlist #light fingers #the later half of the playlist leans more into that aspect #youll tell if u play the songs lol #my art #Spotify

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aletterinthenameofsanity · 1 month

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This Rotten Work final playlist: Rachel/Daiyu!

As @evelynhug0 so kindly requested, I'm going to release each of the main character playlists (and one for the main ship, Rachel and Daiyu) once a week leading up to the release of the book!

With the book coming out next week, here is your final playlist, the big guns: the ship playlist for Rachel and Daiyu, our enemies-to-lovers lesbians draped in fire/lightning symbolism/magical powers, shared trauma, an absolutely brutal understanding of each other, and a shared love for drama. Both self-admittedly overdramatic with a love for Shakespeare, both know how to hit where it hurts and how to help each other cope- it'll just take a few duels, awful attempts at communication, and the world falling apart around them to get to that point.

Oh, and a few life-shattering secrets coming to light, but, well, y'all will have to read the book in order to hit that point, right?

Excerpt:

Daiyu and I are not that different, at the end of the day. We’ve had to do everything needed to conform to what Councilors and Headmasters and Administrators expected of us. We’ve had to kill, to maim, to torture. Neither of us really had a choice.

“Because you’re like me,” I murmur.

Daiyu's gaze snaps up to meet mine. She leans forward, her off-the-shoulder blouse falling slightly to expose more of her sculpted shoulder. “What was that?” she snaps, voice a smoky rasp that sends goosebumps up and down my arms.

“You’re like me,” I repeat, “You don’t like—"

And I’m cut off by Daiyu lurching a few inches forward and pressing her lips to mine.

I've kissed girls before, but not like this. Not girls who I've spent years hating—or, at least, rivaling. Not girls who I’ve cooked with and roasted and dueled in the hallways of the Academy and helped practice their theater lines. Not Lady Macbeths-in-training, not Headmaster’s daughters, not girls who take my breath away with their mere existence.

Sasquatch’s big toe, I’m kissing my sworn enemy.

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steelycunt · 1 year

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an um. snippet. from me. for the first time since. july :-)

#from a fic you likely will not see for at least. two months. but still <3 #reallt brave of me to snippet considering ive still got no plan from one scene to the next and have only written um. four scenes but. well #if you all bear witness to evidence of the wips existence then maybe it will help me commit to finishing it. :-)#this is also. this snippet is from the very first scene and it is not my favourite but the snippet i WANTED to share is simply too long so.#sorry about that. :-/ also im just talking now you don’t need to read these tags but it is so lovely being in remus’ head now im so used to #it it used to be so unnerving…but i live here now i love it…im also in a bit of a #loving sirius era atm so actually im enjoying writing about how pretty he is. (<- me after being visisted by three spirits on Christmas Eve)#special shout-out to hope lupin. kicking things off immediately with her funeral she is so killable and i really appreciate it.#tsahonip feels like a silly acronym so i think we’re sticking to shortening it to.#tsah #snippet #my fic #r/s #anyway. if it goes the way i want it to the whole fic is very. london and dreary flats and bars and mugs of tea and resentment + melancholy #you know. because ive never done that before have i. also the discography of the smiths so prepare for that on the playlist soz :-(

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ronon-dex · 6 months

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liam and sam were at the west end earlier.... I could've walked past them.... how do I summon the cast to me so I can tell them I think about the way they have made friendship, love and loyalty the heart and soul of truly great improvisational storytelling every single day. and also that they're funny

#*lies down* liam oberon please let me tell you about my 70+ song vax playlist #marisha let me show you the reams of keyleth art i have created #critical role #critical role cast #critical role london #echoes of the solstice #the mighty nein reunited: echoes of the solstice #the mighty nein #cr cast #i got up at 3am to catch a flight here and i just had a mai tai im very emotional

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