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Lauren Laverne is absolutely killing it with the track selection today.

Always love the Rave Forever shows but this is an unbelievable run of quality tracks. Would urge anyone to listen back on BBC Sounds.

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u/RustyTheBoyRobot — 6 days ago
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This guy is currently in the lead!

Indy car driven by Rosenqvist from Sweden. Sure you have all seen this but I had not.

u/CapitalLock8099 — 11 days ago
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Seven years ago today

David passed on this day in 2019, always a blue one for me. I posted this tribute poem by Meghan Harrison in Discordia Review last year, seems apropos to do it again. Be well and be kind everybody.

David Berman Was Alive and Living in Chicago

Transparency is relentless;
Any patient can tell you.
The first moon that isn’t yours
Is a pill cut exactly in half
By the shadow of the earth.
The only medicine is time,
Which is also fatal.

There’s no money in the public clover.
The ruinous gleam collects
On bicycles and knees.
Dry insect bodies hiss like sprinklers.

Under the sodium lights,
In the country songs,
In the bus station bathrooms,
Loneliness gathers its community.
A jukebox suffers the
Analog shake of withdrawal.

At the end of any journey, the blurred
But unmistakable face of God’s Letterhead:
"To whom it may concern,
Your work isn’t right for us
At this time. Please consider submitting
To the crushing weight of the inevitable."

Total retirement is a molecular impossibility,
No matter how badly one wishes to withdraw
From popular society or the great
Lottery of the black hole—the winning ticket
Printed on the inside of your skull, a papercut
In your thinking that made you see
Every flatterer as a hollow suit, every open palm
As a setup for the punchline.

I hope you come back for the world
Ironically, as a conqueror, in
A triumph of ice—classic water.

u/RustyTheBoyRobot — 13 days ago
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Analysis of Feel Good Inc by Gorillaz

This is an interesting analysis of the song Feel Good Inc https://youtu.be/4gN\_FxCfXPc

Original music video https://youtu.be/HyHNuVaZJ-k

there’s more to it than you’d notice listening casually eg reference to the Industrial Revolution, William Blake poetry, questioning the digital revolution and mechanising human culture.

There’s 3 strands or motifs in the music:
1. feel good inc, catchy emptiness of capitalist music industry
2. Dystopia description rap resistance
3. Utopian prefigurative freedom with windmill, love referencing acoustic (floating paradise in the video, pursued by attack helicopters)

It blends hip hop, funk rock and folk styles which is pretty unusual. It’s a half human half cartoon band that often comments on the music industry.

Lyrics:
Feel good
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good, change, change, change, change)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good, change, change, change, change)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)

City's breaking down on a camel's back
They just have to go 'cause they don't know wack
So, while you fill the streets, it's appealing to see
You won't get undercounted 'cause you're damned and free
You got a new horizon, it's ephemeral style
A melancholy town where we never smile
And all I wanna hear is the message beep
My dreams, they got her kissing 'cause I don't get sleep, no

Windmill, windmill for the land
Turn forever, hand in hand
Take it all in on your stride
It is ticking, falling down
Love forever, love is free
Let's turn forever, you and me
Windmill, windmill for the land
Is everybody in?

Laughin' gas, these hazmats, fast cats, linin' 'em up like ass cracks
Play these ponies at the track, it's my chocolate attack
Shit, I'm steppin' in the heart of this here (yeah)
Care Bear reppin' in harder this year (yeah), watch me as I gravitate
Yo we gon' ghost town this Motown, with yo' sound, you in the blink
Gon' bite the dust, can't fight with us, with yo' sound, you kill the Inc
So, don't stop, get it, get it (yeah) until you're cheddar-headed
And watch the way I navigate, ha, ha, ha-ha, ha (ha, ha, ha, ha)

Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)

Windmill, windmill for the land
Turn forever hand in hand
Take it all in on your stride
It is ticking, fallin' down
Love forever, love is free
Let's turn forever, you and me
Windmill, windmill for the land
Is everybody in?

Don't stop, get it, get it (sha, sha-ba-da)
Peep how your captain's in it (sha-ba-da, feel good)
Steady, watch me navigate (sha, sha-ba-da, feel good)
Don't stop, get it, get it (sha, sha-ba-da)
Peep how your captain's in it (sha-ba-da, feel good)
Steady, watch me navigate (sha, sha-ba-da, feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)
Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da (feel good)

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u/Jlyplaylists — 10 days ago