songs for your earholes

call me Moth. I am working my way through a spreadsheet of over 1000 albums chronologically. sometimes I talk about it. (photo credit: mine)

[moth-sounds]

Moth 

temperament: melancholic-phlegmatic

descriptors: 90s/00s kid, CD lover, ska defender, amateur record collector

summary: forced to learn music theory at a young age and saddled with the pressure of becoming a music teacher, an anxious moth decides to take matters into their own hands and major in an unrelated field to avoid burning out on the things they love most. the results: a bachelor’s degree and a massive spreadsheet containing all the music they’ve ever wanted to listen to.

forever favourites: They Might Be Giants, Five Iron Frenzy, Cosmo Sheldrake, Bill Wurtz, Neil Cicierega (aka Lemon Demon)

right-now favourites: Queen, Billy Joel, Talking Heads, Will Wood

1AAD (1 Album A Day)

progress: 46/1,127 (4%)

current era: 1970s

current mix: The Chuck Mangione Quartet, David Bowie, Elton John, Heart, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd

album(s) of the week:

non-1AAD

album of the week:

song of the week: 

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

i think we should all go back to carrying cheap little plastic mp3 players that look strangely edible and only hold like 200 songs

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

listening to unwritten just as natasha bedingfield intended

[jevilcore]

Music fans reblog this with an album you consider “your” album… one that is part of your personality, one that means a lot to you, or just one you really like… Mine is The Perfect Shade of Green by Skittish :>

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

[thepuppeteer-andthetrashmob]

Isn’t Lady Gaga bisexual?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

yes that is indeed why she's on the list of famous women who like women

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

why have multiple people reblogged this with some horse-assed "um actually most of these people are bi or pan" did I fucking stutter I said they like girls. what is your point. I'm going to kill you.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

#op probably has this post muted but the icon is too real.

the icon is because of this post

[wildflower182]

POV: you make a good post and then encounter tumblr reading comprehension

[ericrmalice-deactivated20240323]

btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post

op is basically saying something along the lines of "yea ik taylor swift is bi but like. why is she y'all's only lgbtq+ pop icon when there are all these other lgbtq+ people in the pop scene???"

i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hi op here I certainly did not fucking say Taylor Swift is bi

[wizardshark]

Taylor Swift: "I am heterosexual"

Swiftys: "she is bisexual"

[moth-sounds]

Knower dropped a fresh album today and it is the only thing I care about the only thing I want to listen to the only thing I want to talk about !! please listen to the new Knower album and consider buying it if you vibe with it bc they are entirely self produced and deserve so so much more love and attention than they have received. they are out here bringing insane raw talent and years of perfected skill and their own in-house orchestra and redefining modern funk and people need to care!!!

[tmbgareok]

[skautism]

[tazri]

Last month I caught Covid, and right at the start of my symptoms I saw this post. For the next 8ish days, I was HAUNTED by this song. It played on a loop in my head for hours. I would wake up in the middle of the night covered in sweat singing “…mixed with Zach Galifianakis” as it bounced around in my virus-addled brain. It was literally inescapable.

Anyway as soon as that ended, the Morbin Time memes started so you can imagine how that went for me, who would be deliriously sick for another 5 days.

[cloudstation]

Worst types of country songs:

Alcoholism rules

God bless the USA

Truck

Diet christian music

Love a small town blue eyed girl

Best types of country songs:

Just a specific ass situation

I hate this damn job

Woman kills those who've wronged her

Alcoholism sucks

[velvanova-deactivated20231121]

Here's a bunch of old (circa 2007) TMBG icons I found on the LiveJournal group "TMBG Macros"

[oceanicgf-deactivating-deactiva]

WHERE is the video with the guy with the laptop dancing to really bad music please i need this

[sensicalabsurdities]

before i hit play i was like “I’m sure ‘bad music’ is subjective” … and then

[artimies6]

@noitspronouncedgif @mothric

[knowlesian]

honestly i am lowkey obsessed with how terrible we didn’t start the fire is at being a song while also being among the the catchiest songs ever 

this is a song that includes a man screaming CHILDREN OF THALIDOMIDE and then the next lyric is buddy holly, ben hur / space monkey, mafia

it is just one man, listing historical events more or less in order with no context or end and then layering in a chorus so catchy you will BEG YOUR BRAIN to stop thinking about it

i just appreciate that level of aimless, technically skilled chaos for some reason

[twigstarpikachutroll22]

(via @lytefoot)

[silly-jellyghoty]

I always considered the we didn’t start the fire as a rebellion song PRECISELY because it doesn’t need to have “proper” lyrics talking about stuff but it feels literally like scrolling through news article headlines and it’s one bullshit after another until the chorus where you get to the rage of the person watching it all happen. It’s a BRILLIANT concept for a song

[greenheart-anon]

[inthefallofasparrow]

[wickedwonderlandd]

This man was literally born in the wrong era

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

He’s so young but he’s already a cool grandpa

[tmbgareok]

[thyrell]

that long ass post thats like make a playlist but you cant use any of these artists. and then like five pages of literally everyone whos been on the radio in the last 30 years. who the fuck cares

[thyrell]

it feels like some ppl treat music as a contest to like. listen to things that your friends arent familiar with to impress them. grade your taste like a game of golf where whoevers playlist has the lowest avg # of spotify plays wins. instead of you know listening to music because music is awesome

[umbralundertaker]

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

i love popular music that’s good enough that you both connect to it enjoyably and also popular enough for you to hear it playing in public at grocery stores or radios or cafes or bars or stores… it’s rare for that to happen but it does happen. sometimes songs justly deserve their popularity. when i heard zombie by the cranberries roaming a grocery store and a scottish girl next to me in the dairy aisle starting humming the lyrics… when i heard shake it off by florence and the machine at a pub and the girls next to me happily sat up and started singing along… when i heard with or without you by u2 on the radio in the car and was like wow I can’t believe this sounds good and my mother was like i used to love it at your age. the whole masterpiece that is hallelujah by leonard cohen

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

basically this quote is real:

[moth-sounds]

if you build your entire identity around believing you are superior to people who don't listen to the music you like you are incredibly uninteresting and rude also

[quixoticanarchy]

You know what’s another casualty of the dominance of digital music media? CD lyric booklets

Yes I do want to know what the singers are saying! And read the credits for who played what instrument, and learn all sorts of other info the musician(s) chose to stick in there! Even if they didn’t print the lyrics, maybe you’d get photos or background info about the artist or album

[libertineangel]

Sleeve notes my beloved, the artwork and packaging of an album is just as much part of the overall piece of art as the music and it’s such a shame to lose them.