CheapSweets PopRocks

SubBlog of CheapSweets, for talking about anything music related. Mostly Doom metal :D

[fullmoonguidance]

let the bodies hit the floor is such a scary song. usually bodies hitting the floor isn’t a good thing but this guy wants it to happen anyway.

[fullmoonguidance]

and yet he insists there’s nothing wrong with him. haunting

[dragon-in-a-fez]

Martina McBride didn't win Country Music Association Song of the Year for a song about how burning your house down with your abusive husband still inside it is good, noble, and an allegory for the American Revolution for people to act like the genre belongs to bootlicking fucks

[dragon-in-a-fez]

other things people didn't do for you to act like country music belongs to bootlicking fucks:

Garth Brooks winning video of the year at the ACMs for a song about how none of us are free as long as there's racism and homophobia

Reba McEntire charting with a gothic horror song about an innocent man being executed by an incompetent judge and a corrupt sheriff

Willie Nelson being, well, his entire self tbh

Dolly Parton recording the hating capitalism banger of all time

Kacey Musgraves telling everyone to ignore the haters, smoke weed, and be a bisexual slut

[dragon-in-a-fez]

how the hell did I leave Morgan Wade off this list. wrote a song about being depressed, alcoholic, and suicidal and how mental illness stigma sucks, saw how much people connected with it, wrote a Part II of that song about how she's doing better now but you're never totally free of the risk of relapse. fucking icon.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I specifically curated this list so people couldn't be like "ah yes but you see here is my simple binary of good and bad country music which always works", I made sure to add different genders, eras, subgenres, etc and y'all are still pulling that shit in the tags!

listen. Alan Jackson, the archetypal mister big hat man sitting on a tractor singing about a pickup truck, wrote a shockingly normal song about 9/11 that was like "yeah I don't know jack shit about politics but my copy of the bible says we're supposed to love everyone" and then went on the radio and explained how he specifically wanted to write a song about that day that "wasn't vengeful". Miranda Lambert took the southern leftist slogan "y'all means all" and made it the title of a corny ass pop-country song for the Queer Eye soundtrack. Kenny Chesney stole a horse from a cop and Tim McGraw put the cop in a chokehold defending him, and I know that's not about their music but it is, and this is very important, fucking sick as hell

it's fine if you only listen to female country artists or pre-1990 country artists or whatever the fuck you want but stop acting like you've cracked the secret code to dividing a whole genre of art into good pure anti-establishment folk songs vs bad corrupted right-wing sellout pulp

[dragon-in-a-fez]

updating this post for 2025:

Luke Combs covering Fast Car and keeping the line "I work in the market as a checkout girl" and doing an interview about how he couldn't change a single word because it's not his story. king shit

Morgan Wallen doing I Had Some Help, literally the first song that spoke to me as a male survivor of domestic abuse. also shoutout to the guy for getting caught saying a racial slur and responding by specifically telling his fans not to defend him and raising a bunch of money for the Black Music Action Coalition. bro had an engraved invitation to the culture war and said "nah I'd rather be normal"

Shaboozey just absolutely obliterating the drunk roadhouse anthem glass ceiling

Maren Morris and Brothers Osborne with a song that okay, released in 2019 but I didn't hear until recently, about how good friends mind their own business and let you love whoever you want and also get high with you when you're broke

Kimberley Perry! If I Die Young Part 2!! "actually I'm glad I lived, bitch" ass song that I bet is gonna mean a LOT to kids fighting depression

Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan with Cowboys Cry Too. okay it's shallow and corny but genuinely a shallow and corny song about how men shouldn't be afraid to have feelings is what a lot of men need

[dragon-in-a-fez]

bringing the full version of this post back around because people are pissing me off today

[cheapsweetsrocks]

Listen. Some might say that strange women in music videos swinging swords is no basis for a system of music recommendation. But it hasn't steered me wrong so far.

[cheapsweetsrocks]

Case in point...

[cheapsweetsrocks]

Listen. Some might say that strange women in music videos swinging swords is no basis for a system of music recommendation. But it hasn't steered me wrong so far.

[kimkimberhelen]

Emma Ruth Rundle - Powerless - (Official Video) 2026

The first single from the new album ' These Killing Times' which will be out September 18th 2026.

[yuridiot]

doctor just prescribed me music really loud

[starrypawz]

Music ask game!

3. A song you’d choose to introduce someone to your favorite genre

and

15. A song you’d play for a toddler

Music Asks

Ok so I don't really have one overall favourite music genre but I'll go with this bc it was like kind of a pretty formative influence on me getting into 'alternative' music

I was around... 12 when I was introduced to this song and like that was via a slightly older friend I'd made on deviantart sending me the MP3 file via MSN

Also for context 12 year old me was like... pretty isolated and this is when I was going to an Accelerated Christian Education school so you can kinda guess how MIND BLOWN this kinda stuff was to me

15.

This was like my favourite song as a kid (although I didn't grow up listening to a lot of music) and honestly I'm like 'I can't think of much that I listen to that would be toddler appropriate'

[chelmnik]

crazy how clint eastwood by gorillaz is like, certainly amongst the top 100 songs of the noughties considering it is, on paper, a song by a fake cartoon band where del tha funkee homosapien raps about how he’s a ghost possessing the band’s fake cartoon drummer over a beat which is literally a yamaha keyboard’s dub preset

[cheapsweetsrocks]

Happy Bandcamp Friday

Pre-ordered the new album Wagon Burner from Dead Pioneers (releases on 26 June);

And I also picked up UNKILLABLE ANGEL by Ada Rook

[cheapsweets]

[cheapsweets]

It's Bandcamp Friday...

...this time, I picked up the new Hoaxed album, Death Knocks, which is an awesome heavy rock album I've had on repeat lately -

I also grabbed the second album Ada Rook put out last year, 59 Nights - it's more a collection of songs recorded over the last 4 years, including some Kittie and Children of Bodom covers. Maybe a little less accessible/more of an acquired taste, but there are some bangers in there ;)

I also picked up a couple of EPs by French anarchist musical collective Non-Serviam, that they'd put up as pay-what-you-want, including their split EP with Gallkrist (Japanese black metal musician Vivien Slaughter) - I still remember the summer I listened to a lot of Gallhammer (Vivien's previous band, an almost unintelligable all-girl Hellhammer tribute) and how much that messed up my app's musical recommendations for years afterwards...

Finally, political hip-hop artist Sa-Roc has put a lot of her earlier albums out for pay-what-you-want (which includes free!). Her 2020 album The Sharecropper's Daughter was really good, so I'm looking forward to exploring some of her earlier work!

[broccolimusicrecs]

Every time I go into the kitchen to cook now, I have the intense need to listen to Tadka, ever since watching the clip for the first time.

Truly a metal hymn to food!

(the reason to watch the clip specifically is so you can read the en translation from hindi)

[cheapsweets]

New Hoaxed album! 🤘

[nocturnal-desolation]

[cheapsweets]

This Bandcamp Friday...

...I picked up The Spin, by Italian scarlet doom band Messa - genuinely one of the best albums of 2026, these tracks are consistently bouncing around in my head even now...

I also (finally) picked up I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES by Backxwash. Just feels like one of those iconic albums, was probably my entry into trap metal and getting back into rap/hip hop, and my first introduction to Ada Rook too! That title track still gives me shivers!

[equis-equinox]

It’s Bandcamp Friday go buy some music from your favorite artists!!! Go! Go! Go!!

https://isitbandcampfriday.com

2026 Bandcamp Fridays:

February 6th

March 6th

May 1st

August 7th

September 4th

October 2nd

November 6th

December 4th

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays

[aijamisespava]

So, which would be the best Katarsis album to start off with? Assume my only exposure to them so far is Tavo akys...

Oooo! They don't have a full LP yet (Zeidlapis tau is their first). HOWEVER, they released an EP in 2024 called "Dausos." It's got 5 songs and is 15 minutes long (also features my favorite song of theirs, "Tyla"). Dausos also features a song called "Paleisiu" that got the revamp treatment over the fall.

Personal favorites of mine aside from Tyla include their Lemon Joy cover of "Balta Meile" (from Eurovision's A Little Bit More series) and "Kas man be jūros" (released over the summer). Popular ones include "Praradau tave," "DES," "Pamirsau ziūret I paukscius," and "Niekas."

Last, but certainly not least, their most popular song pre-tavo is "Vasara galvoj minoras."