Time for 5 songs/4 outfits, Vissenta edition! I think I was first tagged by @the-real-housewives-of-waterdeep a while back, and after seeing @misery-lake post her Miz ones yesterday I told myself I was gonna do the thing.
With the last chapters of Concordance coming up, I'm finally able to share the soundtrack!
These tracks tell the story in song form, from Clint's self-defeating fixation on submission all the way to his happy ending with Phil and a new understanding of his life. I hope you enjoy these songs as well as how they relate to the fic.
Trinity Universe - Condordance on Youtube and Spotify*
*thanks to @grumpyarcherkitten for creating the Spotify version!
1. Blood in the Cut by K.Flay
All I do is pretend to be okay so my friends / Can't see my heart in the blender
2. Everything to Everyone by Everclear
I think you like to be their simple toy / I think you love to play the clown
3. Sugar by The Horrible Crowes
I guess you need a little sugar / ‘Cause you always wander around / How would you like a little fancy / Whenever you feel a little inside out
4. Hold Me Down by Halsey
Hold me down, hold me down / Throw me in the deep end, watch me drown / Knock me out, knock me out / Saying that I want more, this is what I live for
5. Night Is Young by Empires
Someone's got their hands on you / And not the way you want 'em to / But you ain't got a real fight / Oh, living in your eyes
6. Best of You by Foo Fighters
Has someone taken your faith? / It's real, the pain you feel / Your trust? You must confess / Is someone getting the best / The best, the best, the best of you?
7. Paper Money by Soulsavers
Don't you ever leave me, baby / I believe that you can save me / Heaven, just a taste / Heaven's so far away
8. Peer Pressure (Acoustic) by James Bay feat. Julia Michaels
You're dancing around on my mind every second / I'm under control till you're in front of me / Maybe I'm scared, I don't care, I'm addicted / I'm in it
9. Sympathy by The Goo Goo Dolls
It's easy to forget, yeah / When you choke on the regrets, yeah / Who the hell did I think I was?
10. I Luv the Valley OH! by Xiu Xiu
It's a pill and you've got to take it / I won't rest until you take it
11. The Cave by Mumford & Sons
I'll find strength in pain / And I will change my ways / I'll know my name as it's called again
12. Power by Bastille
Power, power / I will never understand the way I let you hold it over me
13. Feel Good by Gryffin, ILLENIUM, Daya
Take my hand in the middle of a crisis / Pull me close, show me, baby, where the light is
14. Breathless by Caroline Polachek
It's like a dream / Although I'm not asleep / I never want to wake up / Don't lose it, don't leave it
15. Body of Work by The Mynabirds
Yesterday happened just exactly as it did / You can't go back and undo it / You're not a knot, you're not a dead end / Don't ever forget / You're a living thing
Bonus Track: Good for Me by Above & Beyond
To be with you is easy / I know you're good for me / This feeling inside me / Oh, it sends me sky-high
А этот четверг пусть скрасят песни, из которых льётся невыносимая лёгкость бытия.
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У этой песни есть синтушно-писклявая версия, но там музыка забивает текст и вокал - а на этот, аккустический, вариант Lovelytheband сняли клип, и не зря. Незатейливая песня не приподносит каких-то грандиозных сюрпризов. В инструментальных частях - милая тема с вариациями, предприпев строится на движении вверх-вниз, мелодия часто топчется на месте (как в припеве - небольшой скачок вверх и плато). Текст для меня сводится к одной, но щемящей строчке: I could be lonely with you.
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Гитары много не бывает (да, это мой любимый инструмент). Меня завораживает потенциал этой песни: она радостная почти до надрыва, кажется - темп побыстрее, электроинструментов и ударных побольше - и вот вам готовая панкуха. Но такую мощную энергетику запихнули в попсовый медлячок, и он крут! По композиции интересно, что предприпев использовали в конце как бридж (и он вполне подходит для этой великой миссии). Меняющийся темп не даёт заскучать, а текст о начинающейся новой любви прекрасен целиком, но самое-самое - "Now I'm jumpin' up and down, she's the only one around and she means every little thing to me".
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Песня с альбома 2010 года, которая могла быть записана в 1980-х, отчасти благодаря электроинструментам и безмоциональному вокалу, напоминающему "Аббу" и "Баккару". Припев не особо отличается от куплета благодаря единому акцентированному ритму, который ещё и подчёркивается повторами слов. Бридж неожиданно появляется в середине песни после припева и перед следующим куплетом. В тексте немало математики (метафорической, конечно), самое классное - "Two wrongs will not make it right".
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И вновь Imagine Dragons (терпите))! Нет, я не специально, они слишком хорошо рифмуются с Mynabirds и Lovelytheband. В куплете мелодия держится на вокале, однако и у ударных в аккомпанименте тоже есть свой мотив. В припеве радует стакатто (когда It's - o - kay... поётся по слогам), которое подчёркивает такой мантровый, аффирмационный характер текста. Впротивовес ему - мелоличный протяжный звонкий бридж на пассажах сверху вниз.
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Интро ну о-очень похоже на Broken, и вышли эти песни в один (2017-й) год. Время было такое, очевидно;) однако в целом Heartbreak Century более энергичная. С вступлением вокала инициатива в музыке переходит от фоно к гитаре. И, честно признаюсь, фортепиано мне тут не хватило - его вообще можно было пихать везде, где нет вокала, хоть бы в инструментальную части бриджа, но не случилось. Кстати, в качестве бриджа здесь выступает начало первого куплета с минимальным аккомпаниментом - с одной стороны, ничего принципиально нового он не привносит, но с другой - не выбивается из общей картины, да ещё и открывает второе дыхание перед финалом.
Okay that is so cool you used to make AMVs! Do you have a channel name for us? Can you give more songs for GaaLee or SasuNaru please?
Hi, dear! <3
My AMVs are still up but I am too embarrassed to announce that here. It's the username I used before I switched to this one, so my entire lifespan can be found by googling it lmao... if you PM me, I might be more willing to give it to you. I don't actually have any SasuNaru AMVs though - I was a Kingdom Hearts creator mostly, and Sims :).
As for songs, yes, I can give you some good ones!
SasuNaru:
Hearts a Mess - Gotye
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Never Let Me Go - Florence & the Machine
The Resolution - Jack's Mannequin
I Hate You But I Love You - Russian Red
GaaLee:
May I - Trading Yesterday (omg so perf for them - ugh!)
CIUT 89.5fm in Toronto onair at 5; Post Eclipse Hootenanny w/The Marcells, Velvet Underground, Thin White Rope, FM, Klaus Nomi, Mynabirds, Robyn Adele Anderson, plus the Gruesomes & Personality Crisis
The Richard Swift Collection Volume 1: The Novelist/ Walking Without Effort Richard Swift (Secretly Canadian) (The Novelist originally came out in 2003, Walking Without Effort came out in 2004 but was always paired with The Novelist; this reissue is from 2018)
Richard Swift was a multi-instrumentalist who has a long history in the music business first beginning as a musician for The Promise Keepers (yes, that organization) as well as other Christian bands. He eventually came to his senses and got out of religion altogether (he took to calling God "Weird Beard") and set up shop as a record producer and a solo artist. He has produced records for the likes of The Mynabirds (their debut, What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood, which I have always thought was a jewel of a record), Pure Bathing Culture and Foxygen. He later joined The Shins (in 2011) and was the touring bassist for The Black Keys in the mid Aughts.
I only just discovered him via God's Jukebox, a site where members post the song that has captured their attention over the course of a week (or for some, daily) much akin to This Is My Jam, if anyone even recalls that site (mostly those who do were posters there and are now on God's Jukebox). Swift's music puts me in the mind of Nilsson and even to a certain degree, Lindsay Buckingham. Most people on God's Jukebox consider him akin to John Grant, but I am not a fan of Grant at all. If you dislike Grant like I do, don't let that comparison stop you from checking him out. Swift is one of those multi-talented musicians with a great voice, a supreme sense of melody, who can play just about any instrument. You hear one song from him and get a strong sense of what his work will sound like and this double dose of his early music doesn't disappoint at all.
Above you see the front and the back of the album with an obi. These two albums constitute Swift's first two solo albums and he has been packaging them together since he released them as The Richard Swift Collection Volume 1. Below you can see the cover without the obi, followed by the gatefold and then the back cover sans obi.
Here is a shot of the obi in all its singular glory (sideways to conserve space).
Below are the four sides of the two albums. The first two labels are for The Novelist. (For the life of me I cannot explain why the camera fails to show the white ring around Side 1 yet shows it clearly on Side 2. Curse digital photography...digital anything, actually.)
Here are the labels for the second album Walking Without Effort.
Swift died in 2018 of alcoholism. At the time of his death he was preparing two albums. One of those, The Hex, has been released. I'll be delving into this guy's back solo catalog for certain! This is a grand discovery for this music fan. I'd be remiss if I failed to mention one of Swift's recording mates who is all over both of these albums is Frank Lenz. Lenz recorded an album for Hidden Agenda which was a label out of Champaign, Illinois, an affiliate of Parasol Records, one of my all time favorite record stores before they closed up shop and became a strictly mail order business. I have, somewhere in my attic, both of Lenz's solo albums (Conquest Slaughter and Vilelenz and Thieves) that the clerks at Parasol convinced me to pick up!
Track 01 - Seconds by Ghost Loft
Track 02 - Push Pull by Purity Ring
Track 03 - Look At Where We Are by Hot Chip
Track 04 - 24 Hours by Sky Ferreira
Track 05 - Reptilia by The Strokes
Track 06 - Goes Black by Big Ups
Track 07 - Direction by Hugh
Track 08 - Brother by The Mispers
Track 09 - Awake My Soul by Mumford and Sons
Track 10 - In The Woods Somewhere by Hozier
Track 11 - BTSK by MSMR
Track 12 - Your Ghost by Greg Laswell
Track 13 - Buffalo Flower by The Mynabirds
Track 14 - Move to the Ocean by Brick+Mortar (Baauer Remix)
Track 15 - Haunting by Halsey
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