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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:
- Summer’s Cauldron (9.76)
- Grass (9.23)
- The Meeting Place (9.20)
- That’s Really Super, Supergirl (9.29)
- Ballet For a Rainy Day (9.23)
- 1000 Umbrellas (9.41)
- Season Cycle (9.27)
- Earn Enough for Us (9.36)
- Big Day (8.34)
- Another Satellite (9.16)
- Mermaid Smiled (9.02)
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:
- Summer’s Cauldron (9.76)
- Grass (9.23)
- The Meeting Place (9.20)
- That’s Really Super, Supergirl (9.29)
- Ballet For a Rainy Day (9.23)
- 1000 Umbrellas (9.41)
- Season Cycle (9.27)
- Earn Enough for Us (9.36)
- Big Day (8.34)
- Another Satellite (9.16)
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
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:
- Summer’s Cauldron (9.76)
- Grass (9.23)
- The Meeting Place (9.20)
- That’s Really Super, Supergirl (9.29)
- Ballet For a Rainy Day (9.23)
- 1000 Umbrellas (9.41)
- Season Cycle (9.27)
- Earn Enough for Us (9.36)
- Big Day (8.34)
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.
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!
Flans directed the video for Ben Folds Five’s “Song For The Dumped”.
Learned about this from TMBW earlier. https://tmbw.net/wiki/Videos_Directed_By_John_Flansburgh
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:
Light Up My Room - Barenaked Ladies
The Luckiest - Ben Folds
Michelle - The Beatles
Manchild - Eels
The Too Much Song - Lemon Demon
Bike - Pink Floyd
Side B:
Untitled - R.E.M.
And She Was - Talking Heads
She’s An Angel - They Might Be Giants
Ahead By a Century - The Tragically Hip
Reservations - Wilco
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)
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.
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.
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. :)
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)
Okay, what TMBG album is this?
My votes are for Lincoln and State Songs.
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.
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?
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.