#the mariner's revenge song

[foone]

So it's no secret that I'm a big fan of The Decemberists. They're probably my favorite band. I could easily name 10 songs that I consider to be some of the best music ever made. But The Mariner's Revenge Song, off Picaresque (2005), is the song that will be remembered in a hundred years after all their other songs have faded from the radio, even the oldies channels. It's their Bohemian Rhapsody.

It has everything!

Revenge!

Pirates!

Whaling!

Biblical allusions!

Orphans!

Dashing young men who seduce rich widows and ruin their fortune, driving them mad!

"It took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears"

Violation of confessional privacy!

Haunting accordion interludes!

Audience participation! (you have to scream like you're being swallowed by a whale)

Revenge destroying both the victim and the perpetrator!

Living just long enough to ensure they die alongside you in a horrible way!

Implied but not actually sung final chorus!

The entire song is a flashback!

It's a sea shanty for the ages but it's from the 2000s!

The word "roustabout". Do you even know what it means? It doesn't matter! It sounds great!

The Victorian Novel Disease! (tuberculosis)

The final words of a dying mother to her young child being an angry list of exactly how they should find the rake and kill him, slowly and painfully. The ones that echo in their head for the next 15+ years.

Ambiguously supernatural! Is the narrator's mother a vengeful ghost, following them around for decades, repeating her mantra and ensuring the whale happens and that both they and the rake survive? Maybe!

Is the whale supernatural? Yeah, real whales can't swallow people, but that's normal for mythological fiction. Also, the sky goes black. Poetic license, or is this a supernatural occurrence? Is the whale the dead mother? Who knows!

Nearly nine minutes of epic folk rocking!

"Find him, bind him / Tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters / Drag him to a hole / Until he wakes up naked / Clawing at the ceiling of his grave!"

LISTEN TO IT!

#the decemberists #The Mariner's Revenge Song #Youtube

[strange-doll-child]

They're still boyfriends in my head

#fanart #fan art #oc #oc art #guess whos baaaack #ocs #oc x oc #oc x oc art #princess andy #the mariner's revenge song #the blasting company #the petrojvic blasting company #tw blood #just a bit

[hermit-dragon]

I have decided that there shall be no more love songs! No more breakup songs! They have all been written. Acceptable topics include but are not limited to:

A legendary trio of a fighter, bard, and noble perhaps destined to destroy the world

Meeting some creepy immortal being who claims he sold the world

The devil listing off his list of many accomplishments and asking the listener to play some weird Rumpelstiltskin game with him

Hunting down the manipulative bastard that screwed over your mother when you were but a lad, leading you to become a sailor, get eaten by a whale, and eventually have an emotionally charged showdown with your mortal enemy in the belly of said whale

Psycho killer (qu'est-ce que c'est)

#aromantic #asexual #soldier poet king #the oh hellos #the man who sold the world #nirvana #sympathy for the devil #the rolling stones #The Mariner's revenge song #the decemberists #psycho killer #talking heads

[fisherman-fight]

ROUND TWO

JEEVES from JEEVES AND WOOSTER vs THE VENGEFUL MARINER from THAT REALLY LONG DECEMBERISTS SONG

PROPAGANDA:

JEEVES - "Okay, I know fishing isn't the thing most people think of when they think of him but it's established in the books and the show that it's one of his biggest hobbies. He's always angling for trips to places where there's good fishing, like the time where he keeps dropping hints he want to visit Cuba to catch some tarpon." "he's the most character ever he's a valet he's a manipulative bitch he's morally offended by bad fashion he's the most eloquent speaker on the planet he's got all of shakespeare memorised he knows so many facts and loves to infodump he once wrestled a swan and once knocked a policeman out cold and he has a weird gay thing with his employer"

VENGEFUL MARINER - hi, pollrunner here. the only propaganda I have for you is this incredible AMV of the song he's from

#fishticuffs #the mariner's revenge song #the decemberists #jeeves #jeeves and wooster #that jeeves propaganda is POWERFUL #sea shanties #<- it is not a sea shanty but i know there will be fans of this song in that tag

[ravenmold]

The fact that there isn't like, a detailed lyric-by-lyric animatic deliciously portraying every second of every Decemberists songs is, quite frankly, unbuttering my biscuit.

Like the undeniable truth is that every single Decemberists song deserves the love and devotion that the mariner's revenge song got. They're all Like That

#the decemberists #mold rant #the mariner's revenge song

[but-the-desserts-were-okay]

The Mariner’s Revenge Song is so good for so many reasons but chief among them imo is the fact that the narrator’s mother is the one who starts this violent revenge fantasy. Like he takes this journey on not just because hes angry but because she graphically tells him how to kill this man who did them wrong. Women are not typically allowed to have their anger be violent, its always about the woman ~outwitting~ their enemies and how ~happiness/success is the best revenge~. Fuck that i want a woman filled with apeshit murderous intent. In this essay i will

#let women be violent!!!! #the mariner's revenge song #the decemberists #some thoughts.txt

[pristina-nomine]

Heathcliff and Edmond Dantès in a car headbanging to The Mariner's Revenge Song

#heathcliff #edmond dantes #wuthering heights #le comte de monte cristo #the decemberists #the mariner's revenge song #messaggi in bottiglia #musica #letteratura

[inkshine]

Listening to "The Mariner's Revenge Song" while having painful muscle cramps really adds to the experience. I really *do* feel like I've just been swallowed by a whale and am only motivated to keep going by spite.

#dw I'm fine #it's nothing serious #just felt like tumblr would appreciate this #the mariner's revenge song #the decemberists #the decemberists the mariner's revenge song

[internet-league-blaseball]

#is this anything . i don't know #the mariner's revenge song

[indiestar]

The Mariner's Revenge Song Animated Comics

#the decemberists #the mariner's revenge song #music #video #unofficial #music video #anti hero #Youtube

[natjennie]

someone (me) has a type... (longass songs about ships)

#the live version of mariner's is TWELVE MINUTES LONG #and it FUCKS #the decemberists #punch brothers #the mariner's revenge song #another new world #music

[strange-doll-child]

Them again 💥💥💥

#fanart #fan art #oc #ocs #oc art #oc x oc #oc x oc art #ocs art #tw blood #princess andy #the blasting company #the mariner's revenge song #i gotta draw William more again fr hdbdhh

[bucket-of-mold]

I love the mariners revenge song, its like yeah heres how i killed the guy who gave my mom consumption by getting swallowed by a whale, now listen to this minute and a half long string section accelerando

#this doesnt make much sense bc idk shit about music despite playing an instrument for 7+ years #did she have consumption? probably not but who cares she is dead #the decemberists #the mariner's revenge song #hello one mutual who loves this song please feel free to steal this post and improve upon it

[figmentjedi]

The Mariner’s Revenge Song, but it’s a Gorilla Whale.

#the mariner's revenge song #godzilla here there be dragons #idw #godzilla

[sidhelives]

It started as a wild idea, then I couldn't get it out of my head until I wrote it down so here you go.

#fanfiction #the decemberists #The Mariner's Revenge Song #i don't know #don't ask me #SidheLives #sidhe writes

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

93.1 XRT, Chicago’s Finest Rock performed a valuable service in the 2000s in getting Baby Boomers into contemporary indie rock so now I can show my dad shitposts based on The Mariner’s Revenge Song, confident that he’ll understand them

#original #xrt #chicago #the mariner's revenge song