What Music Are You Listening to? (Vol. XVII)

[Hurdergaryp]

Summoning - Morthond

[Ethel mermania]

Feed me seymour---
Broadway cast recording of little shop of horrors.

[The Champions League]

Buraka Som Sistema – Restless

[Sword Island]

I have been listening nonstop to Paramore for the last week. I had been familiar with a couple of their songs before I decided to dive into their discography, which was an amazing decision in my book. My first logical step was to look at their most recent album, After Laughter, and man was I hooked by the end of my first listen. My favorite songs from that album were Rose-Colored Boy, a song that blends an optimistic beat with an equally pessimistic message, and Hard Times, a song that gets stuck in my head way too easily and describes the 2021 state of mind perfectly even though it was released in 2018. After that, I went on a YouTube binge and wound up listening to a few songs from their self-titled album from 2013. The whole album in my opinion is both an homage to the band's pop-punk roots and a bridge to the new poppier but still emo Paramore. The song that I believe encapsulates this transition from being an angsty teenage band to an adult-oriented group is Ain't it Fun, a song all about the real world and the reality that you no longer have the safety blanket of home. And yet this same album presents a genuine pop love song with Still Into to You. The musical diversity of Paramore is really shown off in After Laughter and Self-Titled, not discounting All We Know Is Falling, Riot!, or Brand New Eyes. In my opinion, perhaps because I haven't listened to enough songs from this era of Paramore, AWKIS and Riot! seem to blend together, with the three songs I listened to from Brand New Eyes( The Only Exception, Playing God, and Brick by Boring Brick) having a different but similar sound to the first two albums. Speaking of the first two albums, man are they good. Misery Business, For A Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic, Emergency, crushcrushcrush, Born For This, and Fences have all made their way into my Spotify playlist.

And as a was relistening to the This is Paramore playlist for the nth time, I realized the common thread of my addiction to Paramore was Haley Williams' vocals. The one constant is her, and that isn't even constant. On some songs like Still Into You, her voice takes a poppier sound and in others like Misery Business, it's far more punk and much more in line with eyeliner and low cut jeans of the mid-2000s. But the most impressive thing about Paramore is that they were able to change their sound but not their identity. They're still the same band that released All We Know Is Falling just matured.





Sorry if this is long I just needed to get my thoughts out

[Lumio Magika]

I was feeling a bit sad, so I whipped out an old favorite that always manages to draw out the sadness, and leave me happy again. A Tender Feeling

[Korean Proletarians]

The Eagles - "The Last Resort"

[Drongonia]

Iron Maiden
Hallowed be thy Name

Listen here, via YouTube / Iron Maiden

[Blargoblarg]

Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland

[Elwher]

Doc Watson - Matty Groves Interesting variation in so far as this is the only one I've found where the liaison is initiated by Matty rather than the lady.

[Frokolia]

If music from games counts, then Red Alert 3 - Soviet March (composed by James Hannigan)

[Heloin]

Ookla the Mok - The Comforts of Home

[Calimama]

Thug Life - Pour Out A Little Liquor

[Snow Bird-Worldism Crash]

"107.7 XM Radio Mars" (2009) - james ferraro

[Heloin]

Gunnar Madsen - Surprise!

[Calimama]

Acid Bath - Paegan Love Song

It was kissing my eyelids and burning my face away
Dying felt so goddamn good today
We dance the electric Pagan Love Song
We hunt with the children paling in the catacombs
Eating dead flowers bleeding in a strange daze
I was cutting throats and eating tears
Smiling in a ruined age

[Rhim Flavezztowland]

SHINee - Atlantis

[Drongonia]

Perturbator
She Is Young, She Is Beautiful, She Is Next

Listen here, via YouTube / Perturbator - Topic

[Calimama]

Trouble - Wickedness of Man

[Jack and Diane]

Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Southern Cross"

[Drongonia]

Phace & Misanthrop
Sex Sells

Listen here, via YouTube / Raving Panda DNB

[Blargoblarg]

Careless Whisper by George Michael

[Hurdergaryp]

X-Cut - Real World (Club Mix)

[Frokolia]

Was ist Des Deutschen Vaterland by Ernst Moritz Arndt

[Hurdergaryp]

Immortal - Cursed Realms Of The Winterdemons

[Lumio Magika]

Escape- Rupert Holmes