Sing Me Awake With A Song About Pirates

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This blog is going on an indefinite semi-hiatus for awhile.  Jack and I have some personal stuff going on and I don’t have the energy to run this blog by myself while taking 5 courses and working two jobs.

I will probably still post occasionally, but there’s definitely going to be no set post schedule, and we will not be posting daily.

-- Lena

[truthandshadow]

Music videos don’t usually make me feel things but oh my god

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This is my favourite Christmas song ever.

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Okay, maybe this one is cheating a little.  It’s not really a Christmas song.  But it mentions mistletoe!  That’s close enough, right?

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Welcome to Lena’s Lead Up to Christmas!

Okay, look.  I work in retail.  I am not a big fan of Christmas music, and having to listen to Christmas music for up to 8.5 hours a day at work is close to agonizing.

So for the next few days I will be posting my favourite not-very-Christmas-y Christmas songs.  Enjoy!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[never-forget-viva-la-pluto]

This is the funniest thing I have ever read

[wolfwhovian]

I have to hear this song nonstop while I’m working and this makes it so much better

[i-cant-carry-it-for-you]

Jjfjehhdhehe

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It... somehow didn’t occur to me that I could just delete things from my iTunes library?  So I went through and deleted a bunch of stuff.  Mostly duplicates or instrumentals from soundtracks or stuff my mom bought for retirement slideshows using my account.  

As I was going through, I was thinking, ‘There are so many good songs here that I haven’t heard in forever.  Why do I use the skip button so much?’  But the answer is partly that even if I don’t like a song anymore I tend to hold on to it for sentimental value.  Even if I can only think of one specific scenario where I’d want to have that song on hand.

I have a lot of duplicate songs.  Sometimes for good reasons!  Like the same song covered by different artists, or a studio version and a live or acoustic version.

Sometimes there’s not really a great reason.  Like sentimental value.  (I don’t like the song “Just the Way You Are”!  Why do I need Alex Goot’s cover AND the original?)  Or wanting an album to be complete.  I don’t need two versions of Cake by the Ocean that are exactly the same!  But it’s on the SWAAY EP and the self-titled album DNCE, so if I want to listen to just one of those albums I need both versions.

[gffa]

star wars edit with WW84 trailer music | by voordeel_ts [x]

[penstab]

THE BOOHOO-HUND + DULCIMER

[creekfiend]

I played this and Lambchop RAN from across the room to stare at my phone like O___O the entire time it was playing… She kept tilting her head back and forth and back and forth and looking at me and then back at the screen…….

[madeline-kahn]

Music in Film: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) dir. Cathy Yan Music supervision by Gabe Hilfer and Season Kent

[daysfadeandnightsgrow]

how… how did I not know abt this

[brawltogethernow]

Completely unrelated to whether or not you like their music, you have to respect this energy.

[harpsona]

An Inuyasha sequel is in the works?!

[ewaneneollav]

Finally listened to all music! My favorite song was an untitled file called “ssssddsdrt66677888.ogg” that I found on a flash drive that I found in a landfill in Tunisia

[fuchinobe]

In case anyone is actually into this there are 3 volumes of these:

[en-seta]

Ok so at first I was like “oh haha funny meme” then I was actually impressed by this cellphone music thing??

I looked it up and just listening to the first volume I am blown away like transcended a new level of music creators/Saharan culture blown away guys pLEASe listen to this itissogood

[demonfox38]

[Bandcamp link here!]

[findingfeather]

Humans are REALLY INTO MAKING AND SHARING MUSIC, guys.

[kawuli]

If you like this you might also like

Awesome Tapes from Africa

which is, well, what it says on the tin. Some stuff is free to download, some stuff is available to purchase, some stuff is both.

Just on the first page, we have:

Arthur — Vuvuzela  Dance Remixes Vol. 3 — S’Bamu [South Africa]

Nahawa Doumbia — La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 1  [Mali]

Asnakech Worku — Asnakech (featuring Hailu Mergia) [Ethiopia]

Khalifa Gueye — Ruba [Senegal]

The site started as just a guy digitizing music from cassette tapes that you couldn’t find anywhere outside street markets in various African cities, and now it’s an actual record label that works with African musicians… and also a guy digitizing tapes.

It’s amazing cultural anthropology as well as great music.

[iamoutofideas]

there’s also nyege nyege tapes in uganda which holds a festival every year with a lineup of electronic artists from around the continent & the diaspora

then there’s c-drik who runs the syrphe database where he has spent decades working with musicians in africa & asia to give them a presence online & a means of communication with each other & the rest of the world.

[nineprotons]

ngl, #3 (Amanar, “Alghafiat”) from the bandcamp page linked above is seriously awesome. I mean, it’s all cool, but that one in particular has a cool 70s-esque guitar groove feel to it that wouldn’t be too out of place in some music I’ve listened to since I was a kid (thanks to my parents). I think it’s my favorite.

[alistrawrites-deactivated202301]

@cloud–atlas this may be relevant to your interests.

[cloud--atlas]

Holy fucking SHIT. I made a series of oh! oh! oh! noises *out loud* as I read down this post before even seeing you’d tagged me in it. Hell YES is this relevant to my interests!! This is awesome!!

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Jack Edit here: I used to live in africa, and this is 100% true. It’s wild.

[thegaymertrainer]

This talent tho

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This is such a fantastic mashup, oh my god.  Someone in the comments pointed out how the baseline and the lyrics are always opposite songs.  Absolutely brilliant.  

[fivekets]

someday, in the distant future, humans will once again be capable of hearing the phrase “what is love” without also feeling the primal urge to  respond with “baby don’t hurt me”

[megparsec]

So at that point, people will say “baby don’t hurt me”…no more?

[iwantasecretgarden]

I tried to scroll past I really did

[quousque]

beautiful set up, perfect follow-through. great teamwork everyone