#Love On A Farmboy's Wages

[rexcaliburechoes]

i'm having so many feelings about alm + berkut // literally no one asked

i'm having to many feelings about alm and berkut. they are my sons, baby boy baby, sweet children of mine. i want to wrap them up in blankets and give them hot chocolate and a place to scream their troubles and be heard.

thoughts under the cut because this got long.

one of the things that stick out to me the most about alm is how responsibility is thrust upon the poor kid. he knows he's getting into a war, he knows what a war with rigel will bring. he knows how the people suffer, and how something must be done, and the only way to do that is by a war. in order for any change to happen, sometimes force is the only path. he needs to throw off the yoke of the old gods and let the people live by their own hands, he needs to stop the suffering, and if it is war that will do that, then so be it.

alm has responsibility thrust upon him, when all he's really stated before is how he wants to help the people, and that's practically it. he doesn't necessarily want to wage war. i've read a really good fic outlining to celica (through lukas) how, "if there were another peaceful solution, alm's sword would be first on the pile", and i genuinely think this is true. the boy has been only taught the practical skills (combat, strategy, weather and terrain, etc) and not the finer points of leading. he acknowledges how much he has to learn when he prepares to right back against rigel, sure, and he does learn to lead, but as the quote in hamilton goes, "dying is easy, young man, but leading is harder."

when clive comes to him and just makes him leader, he practically says "hey wait are you sure this is a good idea??" and even later, everyone assumes he's gonna be king at the end of the war

and it hurts, because if you think about it, he's never been taught how to handle the court, how to handle nobility, any of this high aristocracy bullshit. and celica's right. he has no idea how the hell any of this works. he says he's not a farmboy, but he is. he's a country bumpkin from the southern most tip of zofia, hailing from a truly backwater village.

and sure, he has celica to rely on, and clive to rely on, and mycen to rely on. he's forgiven celica already since their fight, and loves her. but she's right. and clive just thrust the title of "leader of the deliverance" and later "king of valentia" onto him. and mycen, mycen isn't truly his grandfather, and all the man does is chide alm for every single decision he makes since leaving the village.

and it's not fair!! it's wholly unfair and sad and painful to think of how alm must step up to the mantle that was pushed upon him. mycen was right. "once you march on Rigel, you place yourself in the hands of destiny. You won’t be able to stop the events that unfold. No one will wish you well. Many will even try to stop you; unexpected tragedy is sure to follow. That is the price of what you are about to undertake." and he's right, and alm said he was ready for it, but even so!!

"and what of my peace?!" he screams to the uncaring world. "what of my personhood?!"

and the world keeps turning on its axis, cold and unchanging as the rigel winter.

"this is not the time for mourning or self-pity, boy." the world tells him. "you cannot be a person, for you are the leader, and leaders must make sacrifices."

and this theme, this arc of alm's fits incredibly well with berkut's. it fits so well and i'm so incredibly sad.

because berkut... berkut was a gentle child. according to the valentia accordion, he was so timid that even riding a horse could make him cry. berkut, being the nephew to the emperor, being in line to the throne only because his father's brother is the emperor, who has no children... he has never was supposed to become emperor in the first place, either. his worldview is deeply shaped by rigel's culture, by how "a prince of rigel cannot possibly be weak". i've discussed this before, about how berkut is an unfortunate product of his upbringing.

but it hurts. it hurts how, no matter what he does, he can't ever be recognised for his accomplishments, that he fails so horribly to a farmboy- a zofian country bumpkin, a weak soldier compared to him- that the only person he has to look up to (much like alm, as mycen keeps ripping him apart, and clive only wants him to lead and also tells him off throughout the story, and celica, who's an entire ocean mass away) finds him a disgrace and leaves him out to dry, because he's simply not good enough, not even when he's been forced to walk this path.

"uncle!!" he screams to the retreating figure of the red-clad emperor. "please tell me i am good enough for you!! please tell me my own pain wasn't for nothing!"

and the silence is deafening, just like crackle of flames that drown out even the cries of the one thing he truly cared for most.

#fire emblem #fire emblem echoes #fire emblem echoes shadows of valentia #fire emblem alm #alm #alm fire emblem #berkut #berkut fire emblem #fire emblem berkut #fe15 #fe 15 #fe sov #fire emblem echoes sov #rex rambles #i'm having so many feelings about alm and berkut #i love them so much and i think they deserve good things #please appreciate the boys

[planethobbit]

how i be acting when this shit comes on

#i heart xtc guys #plz listen to xtc #music box #xtc #Spotify

[labru-ao3feed]

by Looking4Amuro

Laios like Kabru. Kabru likes Laios. Yet the two of them refuse to do anything about it, and Chilchuck is sick of it.

So Chilchuck, with a little help from his friends, does the only thing he knows how.

He finds the biggest barn he can, and the heftiest chains around. There's only one solution to indecision, and he knows the answer well...

Words: 2552, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Kabru (Dungeon Meshi), Laios Touden, Chilchuck Tims, Marcille Donato, Falin Touden, Senshi (Dungeon Meshi), Chilchuck Tims' Wife

Relationships: Kabru/Laios Touden, Kabru & Laios Touden, Chilchuck Tims & Laios Touden

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Gay Sex, Come Eating, Mutual Masturbation, Anal Sex, First Kiss, Rough Kissing, Romance, Attempt at Humor, Chilchuck is the greatest wingman, group hijinks, Kidnapping, But Kabru doesn't really mind, Also Chilchuck is trying to connect with his estranged wife, Bottom Laios

#labru #dungeon meshi #ao3feed #fanfic #labru-ao3feed #laibru

[fairydriver]

shilling for the fellow who brings the sheep in

shilling for the fellow who milks the herd

shilling for the fellow with a wife for keeping

how

love on a farmboys

wages

#not legally permissible in court #im like crying about it #Youtube

[xtcz]

love on a farmboy's wages — 1983

#holy shidt #....... #xtc band #★ #their most loveliest prettiest thing ever aside from ***** #andy partridge #dave gregory #awwww no colin in this.. soooo sad 🫵😆

[turnleftaticela]

2:45 in Love on a farmboy’s wages XTC makes me feel smth idk how to say in words but i wish there was a whole song of it or at least a long bridge

#post

[stephensheffield]

Love On A Farmboy’s Wages, 14x11”, collage and mixed media, 8/24/2022. Today is our TWENTIETH anniversary! 20 short years, moving so fast on this wild wonderful ride! #twentieth #twentiethanniversary #20 #collage #collageart (at Mooselookmeguntic Lake) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChpT81rO07o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#twentieth #twentiethanniversary #20 #collage #collageart

[videostak]

playlist title: rainy summer day playlist!!!

OMG!

Sade - The Sweetest Taboo

Jean-Jacques Perrey - Berceuse Pour Un Bébé Robot

XTC - Love On A Farmboy's Wages

Bob Dylan - Simple Twist of Fate

The Flying Burrito Brothers - Colorado

Buffalo Springfield - Sad Memory

Shonen Knife - Cycling Is Fun

The Shaggs - Painful Memories

Nicolette Larson - Building Bridges

John Coltrane - Resolution

#omg sara great playlist title this was so much fun to do :D

[catboymisogynist]

🎶✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

Thank you for sending me this ^_^ here are some songs I’ve been listening to a lot lately —

Glass Tears - Harsh Symmetry

The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen

D-7 - Smithers

Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants

Love on a Farmboy’s Wages - XTC

#asks

[longliverockback]

XTCMummer 1983 Virgin ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Beating of Hearts 02. Wonderland 03. Love on a Farmboy’s Wages 04. Great Fire 05. Deliver Us from the Elements 06. Human Alchemy 07. Ladybird 08. In Loving Memory of a Name 09. Me and the Wind 10. Funk Pop a Roll —————————————————

Terry Chambers

Dave Gregory

Colin Moulding

Andy Partridge

* Long Live Rock Archive

#XTC #Terry Chambers #Dave Gregory #Colin Moulding #Andy Partridge #Mummer #LP #Pop #1983

[weaversweek]

#Uncool500 - the big list (part 1)

Remember the #Uncool50 music biography I did in October and November? A lot of other people did it as well, and contest sponsor @[email protected] has compiled a full #Uncool500 from our nominations.

Each nomination was worth 10 points, but we could each nominate four singles for 11 points, and one song for 12 points. ("Since yesterday" was my 12-pointer, the 11s went to "Constant craving", "You oughta know", "The middle", "Bulletproof".)

Ties are broken in a lot of ways. It's all inspired by "This is Uncool", a handbook of great singles from the last quarter of the 20th century. Anything in that book gravitated to the top of the tie; anything from this century followed, and songs from the 20th century and not in the book came further down.

@nonoxcol decided to use the "split vote quotient", acts that had a lot of songs nominated once or twice went ahead of acts with just the one big hit. Where a player had nominated the same act three or more times, the singles they'd nominated got relegated to the bottom of the tie - this happened to Duran Duran a lot.

Finally, @nonoxcol used editorial discretion to freshen up the 20 points section - 55 of about 350 singles were selected to represent decades other than the 1980s, and genres other than indie-rock. As I feared in my index post provocation, the largest minority on Music Twitter tends to be male, pale, and - if not stale - then certainly stuffy.

This post covers positions 500 to 227, songs qualifying on no more than three nominations. Positions 226 to 109 and 108 to 1 are in other posts.

20 points 500 CREAM - Wu-Tang Clan 499 Chewing gum - Annie 498 Chaise longue - Wet Leg 497 Chandelier - Sia 496 It was a good day - Ice Cube 495 Don't falter - Mint Royale ft Lauren Laverne 494 Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National 493 Texas sun - Khruangbin & Leon Bridges 492 Call me maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen 491 Thank u, next - Ariana Grande 490 Danny nedelko - Idles 489 Cranes in the sky - Solange 488 Point and kill - Little Simz ft Obongjayar 487 Serpents - Sharon van Etten 486 Once twice melody - Beach House 485 The look - Metronomy 484 Pure shores - All Saints 483 You want it darker - Leonard Cohen 482 Green light - Lorde 481 Kool thing - Sonic Youth 480 Professional widow - Tori Amos 479 Get lucky - Daft Punk 478 Love on a farmboy's wages - XTC 477 Long hot summer - Style Council 476 All apologies - Nirvana 475 Call the shots - Girls Aloud 474 Toxic - Britney Spears 473 The words that maketh murder - PJ Harvey 472 Family affair - Mary J Blige 471 Try again - Aaliyah 470 Picture this - Blondie 469 Girls and boys - Blur 468 Under me sleng teng - Wayne Smith 467 Planet rock - Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force 466 Celebrity skin - Hole 465 Doo wop (that thing) - Lauryn Hill 464 California love - 2Pac 463 No diggity - Blackstreet 462 Umbrella - Rihanna 461 Everything flows - Teenage Fanclub 460 Setting sun - Chemical Brothers 459 Lie dream of a casino soul - The Fall 458 Felicity - Orange Juice 457 Venus as a boy - Björk 456 Fastlove - George Michael

21 points 455 Fanfare - Eric Matthews 454 Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel 453 Bring the noise - Anthrax & Public Enemy 452 America's boy - Broadcast 451 Closest thing to heaven - The Kane Gang 450 Alex Chilton - The Replacements 449 Hilly fields - Nick Nicely 448 Rock me Amadeus - Falco 447 Mary's prayer - Danny Wilson 446 What a fool believes - Doobie Brothers 445 Yes, sir, I can boogie - Baccara 444 I know a place - Muna 443 You oughta know - Alanis Morissette 442 Happy hour - Housemartins 441 Dog days are over - Florence + the Machine 440 Blues for Ceausescu - Fatima Mansions 439 Modern love - David Bowie 438 Absolute beginners - David Bowie 437 Talk about the passion - REM 436 Nightswimming - REM 435 Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel 434 Glittering prize - Simple Minds 433 Too much too young - The Specials 432 Constant craving - k d lang 431 Creep - Radiohead 430 Christine - House of Love 429 Money's too tight (to mention) - Valentine Brothers 428 You got the love - The Source ft Candi Staton 427 Jesus built my hotrod - Ministry 426 Mr blue sky - Electric Light Orchestra 425 Sunshine on Leith - Proclaimers 424 Blindfold ep (Ten little girls) - Curve 423 A lady of a certain age - The Divine Comedy 422 Luka - Suzanne Vega 421 Back in black - AC/DC 420 Every little thing she does is magic - The Police 419 Crucify - Tori Amos 418 Word up - Cameo 417 Nag nag nag - Cabaret Voltaire 416 Watching the detectives - Elvis Costello

22 points 415 Holidays in the sun - Sex Pistols 414 Psychonaut - Fields of the Nephalim 413 It's a hit - Rilo Kiley 412 Wolf like me - TV on the Radio 411 Trouble - Sub Focus & Rudimental 410 Love song - The Damned 409 I wanna be adored - The Stone Roses 408 Another nail in my heart - Squeeze 407 A new England - Kirsty MacColl 406 Bachelorette - Björk 405 Only you - Yazoo 404 Stayin' alive - The Bee Gees

23 points 403 The final countdown - Europe 402 Rebel without a pause - Public Enemy

30 points 401 Ordinary world - Duran Duran 400 Gorecki - Lamb 399 I can't wait - Nu Shooz 398 Poison - Bell Biv Devoe 397 Dignity - Deacon Blue 396 Cruel to be kind - Nick Lowe 395 The way it is - Bruce Hornsby and the Range 394 No more tears (enough is enough) - Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 393 The number one song in heaven - Sparks 392 Something good - Utah Saints 391 Touch me I'm sick - Mudhoney 390 Headhunter - Front 242 389 Food for thought - UB40 388 Give me the night - George Benson 387 Papua New Guinea - Future Sound of London 386 Self control - Laura Branigan 385 Supernature - Cerrone 384 Lovely day - Bill Withers 383 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton 382 Tightrope - Janelle Monae 381 Evil - Interpol 380 The rat - Walkmen 379 Seasons (waiting on you) - Future Islands 378 My girls - Animal Collective 377 We live here - Bob Vylan 376 Groovejet (if this ain't love) Spiller ft Sophie Ellis Bextor 375 Up with people - Lambchop 374 Mad world - Tears For Fears 373 La tristesse durera (scream to a sigh) - Manic Street Preachers 372 Heaven knows I'm miserable now - The Smiths 371 Borderline - Madonna 370 This is the day - The The 369 Push the button - Sugababes 368 The girl and the robot - Royksopp ft Robin 367 Sunrise / The trees - Pulp 366 The drowners - Suede 365 So. central rain (I'm sorry) - REM 364 Man on the moon - REM 363 It's different for girls - Joe Jackson 362 Lose yourself - Eminem 361 Zerox - Adam and the Ants 360 Made of stone - The Stone Roses 359 She bangs the drums - The Stone Roses 358 The cutter - Echo and the Bunnymen 357 Souvenir - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 356 Just like honey - The Jesus & Mary Chain 355 Never let me down again - Depeche Mode 354 Street spirit (fade out) - Radiohead 353 The first big weekend - Arab Strap 352 Cattle and cane - The Go-Betweens 351 Under the Milky Way - The Church 350 Not too soon - Throwing Muses 349 Basket case - Green Day 348 One chord wonders - The Adverts 347 Close (to the edit) - The Art of Noise 346 Archie, marry me - Alvvays 345 99 Luftballon / 99 red balloons - Nena 344 Crazy - Gnarls Barkley 343 French navy - Camera Obscura 342 Christine / Tilted - Christine & the Queens 341 No-one knows - Queens of the Stone Age 340 Kung Kunta - Kendrick Lemar 339 Damn, dis-moi / Girlfriend - Christine & the Queens 338 Pink Frost - The Chills 337 Bonzo goes to Bitburg - The Ramones 336 Do ya wanna funk - Patrick Cowley ft Sylvester 335 Our lips are sealed - The Go-Gos 334 Because the night - Patti Smith Group 333 Missing (Todd Terry remix) - Everything But the Girl 332 Ghosts - Japan 331 Can't stand me now - The Libertines 330 Roscoe - Midlake 329 Oblivion - Grimes 328 Time to pretend - MGMT 327 There goes the fear - The Doves 326 Blinding lights - The Weeknd 325 Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions 324 Planet of sound - The Pixies 323 Don't talk to me about love - Altered Images 322 Race for the prize - Flaming Lips 321 Ice hockey hair - Super Furry Animals 320 Somebody told me - The Killers 319 Hazy shade of winter - The Bangles 318 Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel 317 Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 316 Games without frontiers - Peter Gabriel 315 All I want is you - U2 314 Upside down - Diana Ross 313 New year's day - U2 312 Destroy the heart - House of Love 311 Music sounds better with you - Stardust 310 Praise you - Fatboy Slim 309 One - U2 308 Can I kick it? - A Tribe Called Quest 307 Return of the mack - Mark Morrison 306 Being boring - Pet Shop Boys 305 The adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the wheels of steel - Grandmaster Flash 304 There there my dear - Dexy's Midnight Runners 303 Take a chance on me - ABBA 302 Treason (it's just a story) - The Teardrop Explodes 301 What do I get? - Buzzcocks 300 Pretty vacant - Sex Pistols 299 Only love can break your heart - Saint Etienne 298 (I don't want to go to) Chelsea - Elvis Costello & the Attractions 297 The model - Kraftwerk 296 Upside down - The Jesus and Mary Chain 295 Beetlebum - Blur 294 Back to life - Soul II Soul ft Caron Wheeler 293 Uptown top ranking - Althea & Donna 292 Outdoor miner - Wire 291 Genius of love - Tom Tom Club 290 The sun rising - The Beloved 289 Sweet dreams (are made of this) - Eurythmics 288 No scrubs - TLC 287 Perfect skin - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions 286 Sexy boy - Air 285 Mirror in the bathroom - The Beat 284 Walk this way - Run-DMC & Aerosmith 283 Fairy tale of New York - The Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl 282 At home he's a tourist - Gang of Four 281 Oh bondage up yours - X-Ray Spex 280 Back on the chain gang - The Pretenders 279 Ray of light - Madonna 278 Fake plastic trees - Radiohead 277 Our house - Madness 276 Totally wired - The Fall

31 points 275 The reflex - Duran Duran 274 Bette Davis eyes - Kim Carnes 273 Surrender - Cheap Trick 272 The logical song - Supertramp 271 The middle - Jimmy Eat World 270 You are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve - Johnny Boy 269 The drugs don't work - The Verve 268 The modern age ep - The Strokes 267 Heartland - The The 266 Wood beez (pray like Aretha Franklin) - Scritti Politti 265 Higher than the sun - Primal Scream 264 Someone somewhere (in summertime) - Simple Minds 263 Fall on me - REM 262 Overload - Sugababes 261 My favourite dress - The Wedding Present 260 Overkill - Men At Work 259 The story of the blues - Wah! 258 Fade into you - Mazzy Star 257 Zombie - The Cranberries 256 Black steel - Tricky 255 In the air tonight - Phil Collins 254 Shallow - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 253 Our lips are sealed - Fun Boy Three 252 Bad romance - Lady Gaga 251 Steppin' out - Joe Jackson 250 Blank space - Taylor Swift 249 Dress - P J Harvey 248 Sour times - Portishead 247 We found love - Rihanna ft Calvin Harris 246 50 ft queenie - P J Harvey 245 Paranoid android - Radiohead 244 Rent - Pet Shop Boys 243 Straight to hell / Should I stay or should I go - The Clash 242 Monkey gone to heaven - The Pixies 241 The winner takes it all - ABBA 240 Hit me with your rhythm stick - Ian Drury and the Blockheads

32 points 239 Weekender - Flowered Up 238 House of jealous lovers - The Rapture 237 Everything is embarrassing - Sky Ferreira 236 Last train to trancentral - The KLF 235 I want your love - Chic 234 Rain - The Cult 233 Vogue - Madonna 232 When love breaks down - Prefab Sprout 231 That's the joint - Funky 4+1 230 The 'sweetest girl' - Scritti Politti 229 Complete control - The Clash 228 (White man in) Hammersmith Palais - The Clash

33 points 227 Temptation - New Order

A few footnotes:

347 - It wasn’t clear whether nominators were for one side or the other. 345, 342, 339 - Different language versions of the same song have been combined 297 - Separated from “Computer love”, which may chart separately 243 - All nominations for “Straight to hell”, originally the AA-side.

#uncool50 #uncool500 #pop music #pop twitter #poll #cultural capital #john peel #lauren laverne #gideon coe #george lamb #what is cool #is this cool

[vmonteiro23a]

THIS IS OUR MUSIC: XTC - "Love on a Farmboy's Wages"

THIS IS OUR MUSIC: XTC – “Love on a Farmboy’s Wages”

THIS IS OUR MUSIC: XTC – “Love on a Farmboy’s Wages” Song from “Mummer”, the sixth studio album by XTC, released on this day (30 August) in 1983.

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[nedison]

Medley: Senses Working Overtime / Grass / Love On A Farmboy's Wages - XTC (1989)

I wish we'd get more officially released tracks from the '89 "acousXTC" tour. These are some of my favorite live recordings they ever made.

This is the highest fidelity release I've heard from that era, sourced from the first volume of the incredible ONXRT: Live From The Archives series.

#XTC #Andy Partridge #Colin Moulding #Dave Gregory #1989 #Acoustic #Senses Working Overtime #Grass #Love On A Farmboy's Wages #WXRT #ONXRT

[createdestroycreatedestroy]

(9/1/20)

"Love On A Farmboy's Wages", from XTC's 1983 album Mummer

FUN FACT: Longtime XTC drummer Terry Chambers cited this song as the reason he left the group.

Song of the day archive

#sotd #love on a farmboy's wages #xtc #mummer #1983 #xtc band #terry chambers #andy partridge #colin moulding #dave gregory #Spotify

[koholint]

this has been one of my favorite songs ever since i was a little kid because my mom had the album pictured so i finally listened to the actual poozies album it’s from and honestly… it kinda sucked lol. there’s an xtc cover though???

#songs tag #it's 'love on a farmboy's wages' though #not really one of my favorites

[andypartridges]

EVERY XTC STUDIO LP → MUMMER (1983)

Mummer is the sixth studio album by English band XTC, released on August 30th, 1983. Its title refers to the mummer plays that are staged around Christmas time in rural England, with performers donning suits of rags and tatters (hence the sleeve photo of the band dressed in newspaper). The first XTC record from the group as a solely studio-based act, it was the last to feature original drummer Terry Chambers, who left during recording sessions. Mummer contained three UK singles: "Great Fire," "Wonderland," and "Love on a Farmboy's Wages". While the album sold far less than its predecessor, English Settlement, Andy Partridge said: "until early 1982, our work was like black and white TV. Mummer was the first in full colour - bright sky blue."

#[andy partridge voice] the recording years :-) #mummer and the big express are two albums that i will defend with my life. just bc they didn't sell well doesn't mean they arent good #like. i cant help it if yall have no taste !! #anyways i love mummer sm it's so english and it reminds me of the transition into spring/summer #xtc #xtc band #andy partridge #colin moulding #dave gregory #xtclps* #x~* #mia makes stuff #at this point i just have to accept i hate the way all of these album gifsets look besides the one i did for english settlement lmao