#Song to go

[aeolianblues]

🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

Valentine's Day edition! ❣💕

Conveniently, this Friday is Valentine's Day, and so I'm spicing up your playlists with some Valentine's themed Songs-to-go!

If this is the first time you've heard of it, hello and welcome! Song-To-Go is a weekly song poll released every Friday where I present you with new, lesser-known songs to listen to while you scroll. (I haven't always been great at the 'weekly' part ik)

Choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (and I try to make sure there’s always something you won’t know). If you like what you hear, go listen to the full songs, they’re yours to carry along on your scroll!

[latest poll, and playlist of everything so far (in order) and other/future picks]

Whether you're madly in love, heartbroken, needed more time, think your girlfriend's got the face of an angel; voice of a god, stole your girlfriend's shit ex's ride because he was cheating, are writhing in love, learning to let them go, or maybe even shaking ass at a nightclub/sexing to a mean song this Valentine's Day. I got you covered.

I feel putting Fontaines on here is almost unfair, at least in my personal circles. Also, I've gone with Grian's exaggerated portrait of sick and all-consuming love, rather than the seemingly obvious choice, I Love You. But I guess, if you choose to spend Valentine's Day with the proud and glorious nation of Ireland, then go right ahead and use that song. Also the new album is literally called Romance. But I'd urge you to definitely listen to all the rest of the artists on this list too, because Valentine's Day can't be complete with just one song, surely!?

This week, I've got you soulful neo-jazz from Montreal, London indie pop, one of the most devastating new Canadian softer indie (think Boygenius) bands I've heard, new Brazilian riot grrl (though iirc Karen's now moved to the UK so lucky UK folks, you can catch her live), the most poetic and devastating Irish post punk band, beautiful-voiced chill Irish indie rock (though check out her harp work on Emptiness Follows, holy fuck), and London's newest face of indie sleaze 2.0.

As always, tell me what you like, way you’d want to see more of, etc. Happy Valentine's day, I'm putting lyrics under the cut for you, hope you love the tunes! See yous next week. Happy listening!

A handful of handy lyrics for you:

Busty:

Rachel:

(have cried to this one, won't even lie. The pain in her voice when she sings this literally gets me every. single. time. Can't take this song anywhere smh.)

Tiny Horse:

Face of an angel, voice of a god You can have my money and my credit cards

Something about the way that I'm living feels like I'm doing it wrong Baby, you're my new religion and I'm giving it all

This obsession numbs my pain, Getting high off your face

If you want me, I'm yours, You can ride me like a bicycle

Karen:

Fontaines:

Aoifa:

Peace:

[fluent-in-lesbianism]

I took a 6yo boy to his placement and as soon as I got him situated in the back he saw my SpongeBob driver’s license air freshener hanging on my rearview mirror. He asked if that’s really SpongeBob’s driver’s license and I said yeah it’s real. Then he asked where I got it if SpongeBob’s underwater so I told him I wore a helmet like Sandy and stole it from SpongeBob when he slept, and without missing a beat he goes “That’s identity fraud”

[sunshinetrinket]

i hope im not just a mutual to you but also a really annoying stranger who is somehow always going through something

[iravaid]

On conservation and survival

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a banger

VeryVeryVinny

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[bearloonz]

you understand?

[xzyumi]

tang dynasty miku

[magentasnail]

god what have you done?

[lesbian-disaster-academic]

i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

[daincrediblegg]

OK THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL EVERYONE FUCKING REPEAT AFTER ME. THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL DO WHEN YOU WATCH MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL THIS YEAR:

You will navigate to the page on disney plus (and it has to be here. Unless someone has actually uploaded the REAL movie anywhere else you cannot get it elsewhere)

BUT YOU WILL NOT HIT PLAY. You won’t do it. Because it’s NOT THE REAL VERSION OF THE FILM AND DISNEY IS FUCKING LYING TO YOU AS IT ALWAYS DOES

You will scroll down HERE. To EXTRAS instead. You MUST GO HERE. This is non -negotiable

THEN YOU WILL SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EXTRAS AND YOU WILL THEN HIT PLAY ON THIS BAD BOY: THE FULL LENGTH VERSION

And you will watch it. And you will thank me for having been so blind and led astray by that stupid fucking mouse. You’re welcome.

[aeolianblues]

Once again I come bearing songs! It’s Friday so I’m back with another song wizard new music Friday!

The idea? A weekly song-to-go poll to take a lesser-known song along with you as you scroll!

As with last week, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (I’ve tried to make sure there’s something you won’t know), and if you like them they’re yours* to carry along on your trip!

*as in add them to your library etc., if you like them a lot come ask me and I’ll try and dig up a Bandcamp like for you, hee hee

🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

[last week’s poll, which isn’t open anymore of course, in case you wanted more songs to take with you. Or just come talk to me, I love a music chat!]

Poll’s open for a week, so if you miss this one, I’ll hopefully be back with another one by next Friday!

Happy scrolling! If you want to give your dash a few songs, reblog, I’m just bored :)

[hattersarts]

:I

[doctorsiren]

Oh Dipper, you would LOVE Chappell Roan

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

I’m just saying if they did make Muppets The Iliad, they couldn’t actually depict Achilles mowing Hector down and spearing him through the throat so instead how this would look is Animal dragging a very much alive Pepe the Prawn around in circles and laughing maniacally while an uncomfortable Kermit looks at the camera and does that face where the hand inside him clenches a little.

[jamnsketch]

venus // pluto