▲ 14 r/xtc

Daily Song Discussion #127: The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul

RANKING SCALE:

1-4/10 = I do not enjoy this song.

5-6/10 = I think this song is just OK.

7-8/10: This song is pretty good. I choose to listen to this.

9-10/10: Basically perfect. A striking beauty.

SKYLARKING RESULTS:

  1. Summer’s Cauldron (9.76)
  2. Grass (9.23)
  3. The Meeting Place (9.20)
  4. That’s Really Super, Supergirl (9.29)
  5. Ballet For a Rainy Day (9.23)
  6. 1000 Umbrellas (9.41)
  7. Season Cycle (9.27)
  8. Earn Enough for Us (9.36)
  9. Big Day (8.34)
  10. Another Satellite (9.16)
  11. Mermaid Smiled (9.02)
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u/TMBGLOVER — 10 hours ago
▲ 26 r/xtc

Daily Song Discussion #126: Mermaid Smiled

RANKING SCALE:

1-4/10 = I do not enjoy this song.

5-6/10 = I think this song is just OK.

7-8/10: This song is pretty good. I choose to listen to this.

9-10/10: Basically perfect. A striking beauty.

SKYLARKING RESULTS:

  1. Summer’s Cauldron (9.76)
  2. Grass (9.23)
  3. The Meeting Place (9.20)
  4. That’s Really Super, Supergirl (9.29)
  5. Ballet For a Rainy Day (9.23)
  6. 1000 Umbrellas (9.41)
  7. Season Cycle (9.27)
  8. Earn Enough for Us (9.36)
  9. Big Day (8.34)
  10. Another Satellite (9.16)
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u/TMBGLOVER — 1 day ago

Why do you think BNL is such a hated band?

I’ve had discussions about them in a lot of other music subreddits, as well as Album of The Year, and there seems to be a LOT of people who see the Steve era especially as something “cringe” and “cloying” and “insincere”.

Why do you think this is? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to find tracks like Call & Answer, What a Good Boy, War On Drugs, Stomach Vs. Heart, Brian Wilson, so on so on, that prove this assumption wrong.

For example, there’s this article: https://www.stereogum.com/2190488/the-number-ones-barenaked-ladies-one-week/columns/the-number-ones/

and this one: https://horriblemusic.miraheze.org/wiki/One_Week

and this imgur gallery I created to hold a few other examples: https://imgur.com/a/Jledbax

u/TMBGLOVER — 2 days ago
▲ 24 r/xtc

Daily Song Discussion #125: Another Satellite

RANKING SCALE:

1-4/10 = I do not enjoy this song.

5-6/10 = I think this song is just OK.

7-8/10: This song is pretty good. I choose to listen to this.

9-10/10: Basically perfect. A striking beauty.

SKYLARKING RESULTS:

  1. Summer’s Cauldron (9.76)
  2. Grass (9.23)
  3. The Meeting Place (9.20)
  4. That’s Really Super, Supergirl (9.29)
  5. Ballet For a Rainy Day (9.23)
  6. 1000 Umbrellas (9.41)
  7. Season Cycle (9.27)
  8. Earn Enough for Us (9.36)
  9. Big Day (8.34)
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u/TMBGLOVER — 2 days ago

Hello everyone! (Intro)

i’m new here. I can’t join the other subreddit since someone already claimed Ramona. Anyways, I have an entire family of f/os. like I have three familial yumes and two romantic ones.

My three familial yumes are Lynn and Simon (the names I gave to the unnamed characters/my parents on slide 1), Frank Sidebottom (my brother on slide 2), my s/I is slide three, and my girlfriends Ramona and Lynette are slides four and five!

How do I claim Ramona and Lynette? I’m sharing with my familial yumes so I don’t have to claim them.

u/TMBGLOVER — 3 days ago
▲ 116 r/rem

How The West Was Won’s single cover is… uhh.. interesting.

Michael (i think) as a cowboy getting it on with a piece of electrical equipment!

u/TMBGLOVER — 4 days ago

Rate the mixtape I made for my girlfriend on a scale of 1-10

I have dysgraphia, so the J-card looks like a brain-damaged spider monkey flung crap at it, so I’ll just type it. [also I don’t want to share my girlfriend’s name] All in the alphabetical order of when they appear in my CD collection. Recorded onto a TDK 60-minute type 1.

SIDE A:

  1. Light Up My Room - Barenaked Ladies

  2. The Luckiest - Ben Folds

  3. Michelle - The Beatles

  4. Manchild - Eels

  5. The Too Much Song - Lemon Demon

  6. Bike - Pink Floyd

Side B:

  1. Untitled - R.E.M.

  2. And She Was - Talking Heads

  3. She’s An Angel - They Might Be Giants

  4. Ahead By a Century - The Tragically Hip

  5. Reservations - Wilco

  6. Then She Appeared - XTC

All of these are songs that make me think of her :) anyways, I’m fully expecting this to get downvoted (dunno why, I just have a hunch on this)

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u/TMBGLOVER — 6 days ago

Salad Fingers vs. Homestar Runner - nearly 20 year old animation from Youtube

honestly this is shockingly well done, for a 2006 youtube video made by what I assume to be a teenager.

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u/TMBGLOVER — 6 days ago
▲ 32 r/tmbg

Rocket Ship - Apollo-era demo that morphed into Spiraling Shape.

I like it a lot. I also like how the verses sound entirely different before suddenly just becoming Spiraling Shape.

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u/TMBGLOVER — 6 days ago
▲ 13 r/rem

Frank’s 2000” TV - Weird Al’s “style parody” of the IRS years.

The part starting around 2:49 really reminds me of Finest Worksong and Mills’ backing vocals in the chorus. :)

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u/TMBGLOVER — 10 days ago

I’m 52 albums in, one for every week of the year, here are the only albums I’ve given a 5-star so far!

(these are coincidentally all by bands I love, and some of my favorite albums of theirs)

u/TMBGLOVER — 11 days ago
▲ 47 r/tmbg

Okay, what TMBG album is this?

My votes are for Lincoln and State Songs.

u/TMBGLOVER — 12 days ago
▲ 28 r/Eels

Manchild was used in the ending of S7E23 of Futurama.

No joke, I first learned about Eels from this episode. This clip is a bit out of context, but the episode is actually really sad.

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u/TMBGLOVER — 13 days ago

Downloading music is glitching?

I have tried adding R.E.M.’s “The Great Beyond” and Eels’ “Tiger in My Tank” to my library, and every time i’ve tried it has glitched. I’ve even tried restarting the app, that didn’t work either.

What happens is this: I click “Add to library”. Nothing happens. I click on the three dots again and pick “Download”. Then it downloads. but THEN when I go to the album in my library, it shows the track‘s runtime as “0:00” and the lyrics don’t show up.

Is this happening to anybody else? or is my library/tablet just fucked?

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u/TMBGLOVER — 13 days ago

The store this “BEST VALUE” sticker on my copy of “Rockin’ The Suburbs” by Ben Folds came from.

Before you ask, I bought this used so I have no clue what store it originally came from.

u/TMBGLOVER — 14 days ago