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hi! i like music!

i'm bee, also known as @coelacanthropology. i also run @beestvs and @beespoems.

this year i want to try new things. i'm going to do my best to try new hobbies, meet new people, go to new places, learn about new topics, and experience new art.

one way i'm doing this is by listening to way more music! in addition to working my way through my list of movies and shows, i've been replacing the youtube videos i used to watch with listening to music! i've been listening to a ton of new (to me at least) music lately and i'm having a really good time!

i've recently been downloading music and burning a lot of cds which has been super fun. i love scrolling my dash and seeing people post songs, but i've noticed a lot of the time people post spotify links. i don't use spotify, so i can only listen to the previews, but this made me think that i do have a lot of song audios saved to my computer because i've been downloading music like crazy! so i thought i would make this blog as a place for me to put songs i like, get music recommendations from people, and maybe put my thoughts about certain songs or albums!

i don't expect anyone to follow along, but if you do then i'm glad to have you!

icon: the album art from twin fantasy by car seat headrest

header: cropped album art from the sunset tree by the mountain goats

#bee talks #bee's music #pinned

eltonjohndenver

some of you don’t seem to realize that In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade and he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame "I am leaving, I am leaving" but the fighter still remains

dogpawsswapgod

The Sunset Tree turns 20 this week. can’t believe i’ve been listening to The Sunset Tree for 20yrs!

“Love, Love, Love” is my Sunset Tree song. what’s yours?

b0nkcreat

i'm your only friend (realizes that's statistically unlikely) i'm not your only friend (considers my positive qualities) but i'm a little glowing friend (suddenly gets cold feet) but really i'm not actually your friend (remembers to be confident in relationships) but i am

#they might be giants

userparamore

eyes that light up, eyes look through you / cover up the blank spots / hit me on the head

TALKING HEADS | THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (NAIVE MELODY) Stop Making Sense (1984) | dir. Jonathan Demme

effervescent-fool

i usually get really annoyed when spotify has the wrong lyrics but honestly this line in broom people being changed from "i am a babbling brook" to "i am a battling frog" might just be an improvement

girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they’re girls who do girls like they’re boys always should be someone you really love

thesmellofdustafterrain42

The guy who owns the junkyard a few blocks from here : Hey what the fuck

#tmg #txt #no children

pekingopera

if-i-were-perceived

daily affirmations:

it is okay to skip a song you like because youre not in the mood

it will not hurt the songs feelings

the song knows it is still loved

so do all of your childhood stuffed animals

effervescent-fool

have you ever seen the rain

bonivers

music was made to be listened to at night in a moving vehicle

sunrisetune

New The Mountain Goats song just dropped but for real!

Respect to Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and his passing, from the Goats' bandcamp page:

"I've been writing songs whose titles start with "Going to…" for thirty years or so – it's an informal series within our catalog, though I don't do so many of them any more. Last year I was listening to multiple versions of the Dead's "Peggy-O" (try the version from Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham, NC, 4/12/78) and thinking about Fennario, also the land of "Dire Wolf," and I thought I'd write a traditional style tune myself. I thought about how lucid and unsentimental traditional songs are about death and change – how folk songs present life as it is and let the feeling flow from there – and I wrote "Going to Fennario."

I listen to the Grateful Dead all the time; their endless musical curiosity is a north star for anybody who seeks a life in music, plus anybody who tours in a rock band walks down paths cleared by the Dead. Their work means so much to me. We weren't going to release any new music until later this year, but in honor of Bob Weir, who's crossed over to the next life and leaves behind a musical legacy that will be treasured for as long as people listen to music, I wanted to put this out now, so here's an early look at what we got up to last fall between tours. It's got Mikaela Davis on harp, Rob Jost on bass, George Douglas on the hammered dulcimer — his son plays in the Mountain Goats — and then the usual suspects – me, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster – holding down the rest. You can pay what you like, believe it if you need it, or leave it if you dare; 100% of the proceeds on this single will go to the American Cancer Society.

Thanks, Bob Weir, for all those "Jack Straw"s that're always right there when I need 'em. Your work lives on. Travel safely home.

–John Darnielle 1/12/26"