#OVERSHARING AND ITS BITTER AFTERTASTE

[perfectly-clear-from-here]

listened to tranquility base for the first time in absolute missions the other night on the last bus home AND THE MOON WAS SO FULL AND SO BRIGHT and yeah. life's considerably easier now. send post.

#star treatment saved me #its been FAR too long #honestly i am glad that the ultracheese didnt come on or else i would have sobbed on that bus- #tranquility base hotel and casino #tbhc #arctic monkeys #oversharing and its bitter aftertaste

[paperlovesadness]

I envy like pretty much nothing about being famous (seems like a nightmare). One thing I do envy though is those little interviews where they ask the celeb about like... The soundtrack of their lives.

Would I know how to answer? Hell no - it's too much pressure to have to decide which songs are my favorite.

But then again sometimes I get this overwhelming need to let people know that I believe that Careless Whisper by George Michael is one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, you know?

(this applies to many masterpieces of the sort of course)

#random thoughts #I just sometimes get the sharing compulsion #good thing I'm anonymous here cause irl I always end up with that sharinf hangover and feeling silly #OVERSHARING AND ITS BITTER AFTERTASTE #(ah lord. that one just came to me) #(when Alex's lyrics hit... they hit. That whioe song gets me on a spiritual level) #well... ANYWAY #(no pun intended) #this post is random and these tags are a mess #but using Tumblr for thoughts and word vomit [anonymously] is a healing experience #so here we are #(also I'm very serious about Careless whisper though. GODDAMN THAT SONG IS GOOD)

[xxselenite]

Stranger Things characters as Arctic Monkeys songs

Will: Love is a Laserquest - my favourite song for my favourite character, it has the perfect amount of angst and melancholia, sweet and sad. "When I'm not being honest I pretend that you were just so lover."

Eleven: Crying Lightning - an occult, obscure song that definitely makes you feel like you have superpowers. It's badass and powerful, just like her "But not twice as impossible as everyone assumes, you are crying lightning"

Max: Teddy Picker - an energetic song that carries criticism of the system, with a rock instrumental and just old enough for it not to be mainstream. "They've sped up to the point where they provoke you to tell the fucking punchline before you have told the joke"

Lucas: A Certain Romance - a song about friends and romance, sweet and sour, with a godly instrumental break and a certain melancholia to it despite the upbeat rhythm. "And if you could only see 'em then you would agree, agree that there in't no romance around there"

Mike: Mardy Bum - a song that starts as a cute little story about an argument to end up in a real one - weirdly resembling the one with Eleven in season 4. "I've seen your frown and it's like lookin' down the barrel of a gun, and it goes off"

Dustin: Science Fiction - a song about sci-fi (duuuh), technologies, and love. Isn't it SO Dustin coded? With a self-awareness of maybe having too much meaning for people to understand, just like Dustin is always stripped of his complexity. "I want to stay with you, my love, the way some science fiction does"

Hopper: Anyways - It's not really about the lyrics and more about the vibe. It feels retro, old-fashioned, quite comforting, and those are things I link to Hopper. "Oversharing and its bitter aftertaste, exactly the wrong time in exactly the wrong place"

Joyce: Matador - A song about a girl marrying an asshole, sitting and saying nothing, until the day she will. I think it sorts of illustrates her relationship with Lonnie. "Sulking won't get you nowhere, son. There's blood on your chin where you've bitten your tongue"

Robin: That's where you're wrong - A love song with an amazing vibe, it gives me major Robin energy though I don't have any clear explanation to explain why, it just does. "She looks as if she's blowing a kiss at me and suddenly the sky is a scissor sitting on the floor with a tambourine"

Nancy: Perhaps vampires is a bit strong but - A song about people underestimating you, just as she is not taken seriously. But like AM became one of the most successful bands, Nancy ends up being stronger than anyone else. "And though you pretend to stand by us, I know you're certain we'll fail"

Steve: Do Me A Favour - A song about being in the wrong in a relationship and knowing it, wanting things to end, which echoes what Steve said to Nancy during season 4. He was douchebag, he needed someone to tell him. "And do me a favour and break my nose, or do me a favour and tell me to go away."

Jonathan: Black Treacle - Another energetic love song that puts you in a good mood, but that talks about drugs. It's a bit vague, a bit hard to understand its depth, and definitely fits my favourite older brother. "Now it's getting dark and the sky looks sticky, more like black treacle than tar"

Billy: I want it all - a song about having a lot of girls, typical rock, also my least favourite song on the album and in this house we don't like Billy. "Said, ain't it just like you to kiss me and then hit the road?"

#stranger things #arctic monkeys #will byers #mike wheeler #dustin henderson #eleven #lucas sinclair #joyce byers #jim hopper #jonathan byers #billy hargrove #nancy wheeler #steve harrington #AM #suck it and see #wpsiatwin #favourite worst nightmare #humbug #tranquility base hotel and casino

[afriendcalledarchie]

Sticks and stones might break my bones but words like “Still got pictures of friends on the wall, I suppose we aren’t really friends anymore” and “Nosebleeds from epiphanies I took full in the face/ Oversharing and its bitter aftertaste” and “You’re just sounding it out, but you’re not coming back again” will destroy me and wreck every bit of self composure I’ve got left.

#alex turner #arctic monkeys #britpop #tlsp #miles kane #signed

[seventeengoingunder]

oversharing and its bitter aftertaste btw

#i forget this song exists every like. 3 months and then i remember #and then i go how could i forget it this is literally the best song ever made #and then i forget again #it's my brain letting me rediscover it time and time again as a little treat

[seventeengoingunder-archive]

oversharing and its bitter aftertaste. he gets it.

[mrschwartz]

alex talks so much about regret in his two latest albums and it makes me so sad

#everything that i've tried to forget #everything that i live to regret #regret is bascially the theme of pattern and yeah miles sings it but i feel like the majority was written by alex #his perception of his past and his future being opposing images in the dream synopsis #do i even have to say anything about the bourne identity? GOD #all. all of the bourne identity #jesus #'now look at the mess you made me make' feels like 'i just wanted to play music with my friends but shit hit the fan in the last 12 years' #all of my most muscular regrets explode behind my eyes #do you celebrate your dark side then wish you'd never left the house? #the things you try to forget. doesn't time fly? #basically all of the ultracheese which is one big pile of bittersweet reminiscing #especially the on the nose 'i've done some things that i shouldn't have done' #oversharing and its bitter aftertaste exactly the wrong time in exactly the wrong place #sharing secrets i was taking to the grave #// #what feels weird when i think about this is that #the things that he talks about regretting all happened in the 12 years he's been in the limelight right? #so some of it might even be stuff we know about? #like. what are those things? #i can't look at; let's say; 2013-alex and not think 'is this one of those moments in his life that he regrets?' #or worse; like in the bourne identity for example where he sings 'i doubt that i'll be coming back' #which is one of the many instances where he misses the way things used to be and hates the fact that it can't be like that anymore #goddddddd #should i even be this sad?? #i'm like. Devastated #alex #eycte #tbhc

[shit-talk-turner]

Why do you think that about anyways?

This is just speculation and my urge to analyze lyrics as if I'm in a college course called "Imagery and Meaning in the Works of Alex Turner"* but I have a theory that part of the ending of Alex and Taylor’s relationship was about Alex running away from the intimacy of having a partner like that - someone who shared his home, wanted to have kids with him, saw him at his grimiest man-bun mad-genius stage and still loved him, because he feels like he is fundamentally undeserving of that kind of love and intimacy. The lines that evoke this for me, “oversharing and its bitter aftertaste,” “sharing secrets I was taking to the grave”, indicate his discomfort when someone gets close or when he shows them more of his real self than he wanted to, and taken in the context of other songs like “The Bourne Identity” where he reveals his own discomfort with his “real self” makes me think that he’s talking about his urge to run away when someone gets a glimpse at this real self that he dislikes so much. Then a lot of the rest of the song evokes for me this image of a detached person, “behind my movie camera”, trying to recapture the vision that he wants to project and also running away (“rear view mirror”, “driving to the airport”) from the vulnerable self that he revealed earlier.

*register early, class fills up fast, allegedly due to the charisma of the lecturer, Professor Kane

#anyways #alex turner

[misseuropadiscodancer]

Oversharing and its bitter aftertaste

Exactly the wrong time in exactly the wrong place

Save it for a rainy day

Baby, you go hard in the paint

It's just another race to anyways

#Anyways #Arctic Monkeys #Tunez #Spotify

[victoreli]

everytime i make a personal post on here i remember arctic monkeys when they said oversharing and its bitter aftertaste

#like i delete in 2 minutes but still #arctic monkeys

[0arctic-monkeys-lyrics0]

Oversharing and its bitter aftertaste

Exactly the wrong time in exactly the wrong place

Arctic Monkeys, Anyways

#lyrics #arctic monkeys #love #alex turner #arctic monkeys lyrics #arctic monkeys 2014 #bestlyrics #girl #bestquotes #quote #indie lyrics #grunge #indie #troye sivan #anyways #tranquility base hotel & casino #arctic monkeys 2018 #daily lyrics

[perfectly-clear-from-here]

GUYS WTF MY SONG IS OFFICALLY OUT ON SPOTIFY ON MONDAY WHATTTTT-

#ik this is like absolutely out of nowhere BUT I JUST NEED TO SCREAM TO SOMEONE ABOUT IT AHHHHHH #also uhhh face reveal i guess if you listen to it when its out cause im on the cover 😭 #running around my kitchen rn AHHHHHH #in total and utter shock #anyway ahhhh stream virgin lips by apparatus in afew days HELP #oversharing and its bitter aftertaste

[visionsofdjango]

Oversharing and its bitter aftertaste

[strangedaysindeed9]

‘Anyways’ by The Martini Police

written by Alexander Turner

from the Arctic Monkeys ‘Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino’ 7″

Just another microcosm somewhere in the ether, Putting the world to rights with Bing Crosby eyes

Oversharing and its bitter aftertaste Exactly the wrong time, in exactly the wrong place Save it for a rainy day Baby, you go hard in the paint It’s just another race to Anyways

Philanthropic toga party What a place for both the opposite sides of my double life to finally collide

Sharing secrets I was taking to the grave Nosebleeds from epiphanies I took full in the face Oh, come o’er by the fire babe, let’s all participate in yet another race to Anyways

Oh, how’s your mum and dad been doing with the generation game?

Yeah!

I’m behind my movie camera I’ve got my megaphone You can call me Alexander It’s nice to meet you all

Listening to the shipping forecast driving to the airport Me and the guys Metropolis ablaze in the rearview

Devising methods to both have and eat your cake Mm, just like the ones that Mother Nature used to bake You look as if you know exactly what I’m gonna say Is just another race to

Anyways

#Arctic Monkeys #Anyways #tranquility base hotel & casino #TBH+C #The Martini Police

[fangirl-on-bitches]

Oversharing and its bitter aftertaste Exactly the wrong time in exactly the wrong place

Alex Turner, Anyways (2018)

#arctic monkeys #alex turner #anyways #tbhc #tbhc single

[laueana]

oversharing and its bitter aftertaste exactly the wrong time in exactly the wrong place

#this is my face