#srs24

[bilbao-song]

final days to sign up for secret rocker santa!

november 28th will be the last full day to sign up!

anyone who enjoys basically any type of music from the 1950s to 1990s and who is interested in sending and receiving fun anonymous messages at least a few times a week from december 1st-25th is welcome to participate!

(i will likely be leaving the form open for at least part of the 29th as well, but it mainly depends on my schedule, so the 27th and 28th are the last guaranteed chances!!)

➜ more information ➜ sign up here! (or here if you’d prefer to stay on tumblr) ➜ F.A.Q. page ➜ see the most recent updates here!!

please consider reblogging if you have music-liking followers! 🎄❄️

[1134soup]

Hi! I'm your secret rocker santa, it's good to (kind of) meet you!

I'm not entirely sure what to ask but I figured I'd just ask about music lol. What are your favorite artists (I mean, aside from Simon & Garfunkel) and what kind of music were you trying to look into over this?

-⛄️

THIS IS SO COOL IT IS VERY COOL TO MEET YOU

I’m big into THE BEACH BOYS!!!!! AND THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND BEASTIE BOYS AND TALKING HEADS AND GARY NUMAN!!!!!! I’m open into getting into whatever honestly I’ll get into almost anything

here’s my topsters from this year if this helps 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[thebreakfastgenie]

hiya! i’m your srs this year!

first a few questions — pronouns? do you/what holidays do you celebrate in december? and how was/is your weekend going?

for the duration of this month you can call me willow :)

~🎄🦝

hey!!

I use she/her pronouns. I celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Years! My weekend was great but super busy! I just got home from visiting my family in Maine.

[lil-melody]

Okay, so you watch quite a few Let's Plays! I used to watch them all the time, but that was maybe a decade ago, and I really only watch them sparingly now. The only ones I tend to watch are people playing The Sims, which I'd love to have again. So I'm afraid I can't give any great recommendations unless you're interested in that, haha.

As for where I'd like to go next...I went to the UK a couple of months ago and I LOVED it, so I'd really like to go back, but I also want to go places I haven't been yet. I'm thinking Switzerland would be nice, maybe France (but really I'd only be going for Pere-Lachaise Cemetery) but I've also been thinking about Brazil a lot! I love Brazilian music and I'd really like to explore what Brazil has to offer. The only problem is that nobody wants to go with me. 😭

So back to Christmas...with the season coming up, are there any favorite Christmas movies you like to watch?

The Sims is like a disease (a good one), it has a grip on you and doesn't want to let go - I have a friend on my year that is addicted to The Sims, he would probably appreciate the let's plays you're watching 👀

Look at that, I want to go to France at least once for Pere-Lachaise Cemetery. Wanna put at least a flower on Jim's grave, I own him so much 💜 *gasps* Why nobody wants to go with you to Brazil? It's sad!

Actually yes and it's the "Die Hard" trilogy 😂 My family is extreme!

Jokes aside, my mum always watched these movies on Christmas and it somehow became a tradition. Also, each year seeing Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons? Sign me up!

What about you? Any favourite Christmas movies?

[passingthetime]

I'm sorry to hear about the cold, I hope you feel 100% well soon. I'm doing fine, in spite of the respiratory allergies 🤧 I know the struggle it is to not be able to breathe properly and it sucks!

I like art too, even though I don't really do anything artistic. I like 70s sci-fi art and some artists like Wayne Thiebaud and Magritte. I would never say I understand a thing about art, though, I just appreciate seeing it haha! I'm curious about the new style you discovered, is it ok for you to share it?

I think I listen to a lot of classic rock too, but pigeonholing music genres is actually something I'm not good at, at all! When people ask me what kind of music I like the only thing I can think of saying is that I like music from the 70s. But I think that's actually a good way of describing my music taste lol.

As of now, what would you say is your favorite artist/band/album?

— 🫖

Thank you! And I hope your allergies clear up and let you breathe properly soon!

Yess, 70s sci-fi art is so cool! Also I didn't know Wayne Thiebaud, but I just looked him up, and wow, his art is really cool! (Also I do like Magritte too) 🌟

And yeah, I'm probably going to post some art too, but I can show just a photo before I do a proper scan. It's not anything groundbreaking, of course, the style is new only for me haha.

It's a big step for me because my art is generally way too rigid, but this style is very spontaneous, so I finally get to loosen it up. Also I'm so happy to be working with colour pencils again. ✏️

And honestly, I think your approach to music genres is the proper way to go about it - there was a time I was so obsessed with genres, I would just give you a long, boring list of classic rock subgenres if you asked me what music I like haha.

Lately I've been really obsessed with Pescado Rabioso and Almendra (70s and 60s rock bands from Argentina). If you don't already know them, I recommend Cementerio Club by Pescado Rabioso and Ana No Duerme by Almendra; they are amazing songs!

What are some of your recent favourites?

[lord-of-the-weird]

it snows a lot where i live, in fact the last two weeks were filled with snow. my city is surrounded by mountains so that is probably why. what about you? has it snowed for you this holiday season yet?

queen is also a favorite of mine, i adore their entire discography. do you have a favorite record by them? which songs do you like the most? the velvet underground is amazing, i recommend their first record, my ultimate favorite song by them is venus in furs, it brings a special feeling.

sadly i do not have any pets, i always had a wish but it never happened. do you have pets? if you do tell me about them :) - 🎄

it hasn’t snowed enough to stick in 7 years :(

i’m so jealous i love snow and mountains!

honestly love every 1975 and before! (all there albums really bit especially the early stuff!) if i had to pick one i’d probably say opera! ughhh they have so many great songs some of my favs are bohemian rhapsody, killer queen, dragon attack, seven seas, flick of the wrist etc. how about you?

oooh i’ll definitely check it out when i get rid of this headache!

aw i hope you get one someday! i have three! (kinda)

this is lily although this pic is a couple years old. she’s about 17 and a 1/2 and i’ve had her since she was born <3 she’s currently snoring next to me🥺 oh and she’s a quarter siamese! 

this is holly from last year. i have a tradition of taking her pictures when this tree! she’s just an 8 years ago poodle mutt i got for christmas as a puppy!

and the newest bear! she’s around 3 years old and next weak is her is her first gotcha day! she’s a a mountain feist although the american kennel club does recognize as a breed so technically i have all mutts😂 she’s actually my brothers but… :)

[moptopper]

Hello 👋 Merry Christmas!!! I’m your Santa! 🎁 Nice to meet you

I’ve never played Chrono Trigger but that’s great to hear about the soundtrack. I’ll have to look up a playthrough

Thanks for the Barenaked Ladies recs lol

Radiohead: their most famous album is OK Computer, but all their albums are good. They changed up their style a lot, going from grunge in the early 90s with their debut album Pablo Honey to more experimental rock a few years later, to electronic music in the early 2000s with Kid A and Amnesiac and maybe Hail to the Thief. 2007’s In Rainbows was… hard to describe but it’s very good and one album I have to listen from start to finish with no skippable tracks. With their most recent albums The King of Limbs and A Moon Shaped Pool they dipped into jazzy instrumentation. They’re on hiatus right now but the singer and one of the guitarists is in a band called The Smile with a jazz drummer from another group. Sorry for the wall of text lol, I love Radiohead’s music

The HU: Mongolian folk metal with traditional Mongolian influences sung in Mongolian. Their second album Rumble of Thunder is what I’d suggest for harder music. I don’t speak Mongolian but I love the energy lol. There’s other Mongolian folk metal groups like Tengger Cavalry who were from Inner Mongolia (part of China now) and were early pioneers of the genre though the HU is the most well known right now. I know of other bands from Mongolia and other countries with similar cultures who do throat singing but their names escape me at the moment. If I remember I’ll let you know

And a happy New Year!!! Sorry for the late reply, but thank you so much for being my Secret Santa this year, it was a lot of fun!

Ooooh that does sound interesting — I like it when bands really switch up their sound over time, it's so cool to see how an artist's style adapts to new influences. I'll have to listen to In Rainbows, and probably one of the more recent albums, too, since I love jazzy influence lol!

Oh, I have heard of The HU actually! What a cool genre to get into. I know a guy who lived in Mongolia for a few years and everything I've heard about the country and culture is just incredible! He wasn't specifically into folk metal, but I had another friend who got really into that genre and gave me a fun, albeit brief overview once 😂

[daisyknife]

Lol, so a good long history with the band then 😂

What other music do you like? And are you excited about winter?

Absolutely! 🤣 they’re like my first rock love lol

I like other prog bands (especially King Crimson and PFM), more classic rock like Led Zeppelin, David Bowie and The Beatles, and then a list of other various favourites: David Sylvian and XTC, Radiohead, Blur, Nirvana, Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, Elbow, Nick Drake, Björk, Kings Of Convenience, Pond,… we could be here a while 😆 also what music do you like? 😊

I gotta be honest, winter is my least favourite season, I love Christmas and new years but all the long months after that remind me of bad experiences :/ I do like the winter aesthetic but it doesn’t even snow here so… after all the festivities are over I’m gonna be waiting for the flowers to bloom 😅 I used to love summer but with global warming now it’s getting um… inconvenient to go outside. So now it’s autumn. What’s your favourite season? (Is it winter? 🫣)