#Awolnation

[rhysmaart]

Well I met an old man dying on a train

No more destination, no more pain

Well he said one thing: "Before I graduate

Never let your fear decide your fate"

I say you kill your heroes and fly, fly, baby don't cry

No need to worry 'cause, everybody will die

Every day we just go, go, baby don't go

Don't you worry, we love you more than you know

[jvgsjeff]

Have a nice day. 🙂

[demigoddessqueens]

I’m sat! Hasn’t started yet but I’m still sat!

[emliyarmstrong]

AWOLNATION ft. Emily Armstrong -"Jump Sit Stand March"

[tacoma-narrows]

Okay given positive user feedback on this tag/post, I had to make it an actual thing

[karis17love]

ꨄ ᴅᴀɪʟʏ ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴅᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴄᴏᴀᴄʜᴇs ꨄ

"𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒."

click the image for better quality <3

Requested by: anonymous 💙

If you want a specific map, feel free to ask <33

[emuchipmunk]

John Tavares (vs Tampa) x Panoramic View - AWOLNATION

[funerama]

starting a collection

Prince / STP / Gare Du Nord / Mental As Anything / AWOLNATION

[inyoureyes-415]

You’re laughing. I lost the film leader while front row at awolnation and you’re LAUGHING

[dexterkronos]

AWOLNATION??? JAMES MARIOTT???? B E A R S I N T R E E S????

Its like the hidden depths of my play lists are jumping me omg.

Still can't afford the CD but man, I hope the songs get uploaded to YouTube so I can hear their takes 😭😭😭

[kidnocry]

lunkan parcz

Screenshots/ref below

[shaotie]

"Blame it on My ADD"

**WARNING** for blood in some of the pictures and mention of suicidal thoughts in one of the lyrics.

video contains **SPOILERS** for some of my fanfics

My adhd definitely helped put this together, hence the title. I just really like this song, been wanting to make a rottmnt video out of it for a while now, enjoy! 💚🐢

- masterpost for my rottmnt ao3 fanfics and art

- my fanfics on archiveofourown.org

any suggestions for a song you'd like to see me put my art to?

I mostly have movie and fanfic art, feel free to suggest whatever you like but preferably going with the overall angst theme and I don't post swears so if I can't find a clean version to a suggestion I likely won't use it 🐢💚

- song: Sail by Awolnation

0.15-0.49 — Seven Years

0.50-1.05 — Where Loyalties Lie

1.06-1.21 — Life: The Ultimate Sacrifice

1.22-1.37 — Where You Belong

1.39 — Where Loyalties Lie

1.42 — Life: The Ultimate Sacrifice

1.47 — Seven Years

1.51-1.53 — Where Loyalties Lie

1.55-2.09 — A Ninja’s Greatest Weapon

2.10-end — Where Loyalties Lie

[music-interpretation-review]

Video Version Battle: Head-To-Head

[sassysnowperson]

I was today years old when I realized that the band that produced the 2011's pop-dubstep sleeper hit where the chorus goes "SAIL (electronic buh dAH buhs)" is the same band that has made the recently viral audio, "RUN (electronic DUndundundundunds)".

So, shoutout to AWOLNATION for building a career based around viral success of single word imperatives relating to transportation. It's a heck of a niche, but you're doing great.

[greighish]

Alone Again (Naturally) by Gilbert O'Sullivan, one of my favorite songs.

The first half of the original song is about suicidal ideation brought on by a broken heart after being left at the alter and feeling forsaken by God. The latter half is about the author's grief over his father's physical death and his mother experiencing death of the spirit over the loss (of someone who was not kind to her) followed by death of the vessel and the author's greater grief over losing his mother twice; a sense of desertion, once again. It has the feeling of a little ditty shared by someone whose soul is tired. The juxtaposition.

The title is also the chorus, if you can call it that. It only stands alone once in the whole song, and it's almost like an afterthought. Every other utterance is sung with little more than a breath and no musical change between it and preceding verse, though it might be better to call it a pre-chorus. I love unconventional structures.

I also love covers...

FULL YT PLAYLIST

AWOLNATION f. Midland - A music box on its last leg. It has the overlapping reverb quality AWOLNATION is fond of. Feels more like psychosis and less like grief.

Pet Shop Boys f. Elton John - Sounds exactly like what you'd think a collab between them would sound like. I like the high hat and the rain. I love Elton's voice. I also love that he sings the line "I was cheerful, bright, and gay."

Sarah Vaughn - Very lounge. Sad lounge. Genderflip for the first half. My BFF hates her voice, or rather her vocal arrangements. I don't share her sentiments.

Shirley Bassey - No genderflip. Not lounge. More like mid-seventies movie theme song. Is that a clarinet? Some versions really try to bring Big Band back for a minute. I'm always fascinated watching her sing, her gestures and the way she contorts her mouth...

Neil Diamond - A guitar diddy. His tone along with the cadence is almost matter-of-fact.

Ray Conniff & The Singers - How should I say…? Very "I was popular in the 60s but now it's the 70s" White? I mean that observation-ally, of course.

Andy Williams - A little Spanish guitar... and bongos. It's Andy Williams, so a variation on the very 70s White theme.

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Maybe a little too happy? Jaunty? I think that's a marimba. But if I didn't know the lyrics, I'd say it was par for the Herb Alpert course.

Esther Phillips - That voice! Local bar singer. She put some soul on it. I like the strings. Better bongos, well better percussion all the way around. I can't help but think of her when I listen to early Erykah Badu.

Bobby Darin - They couldn't decide which flavor of lounge they were going for. From piano bar to wannabe bossa nova; they really ran the gamut. It has its merits, but the changes are somewhat distracting.

And then there's…

Nina Simone - She definitely put her stamp on it. Musings on her father's dying, their relationship while he was alive, pity for her mother who mourned him, and honesty with herself (if not with others) while in a child's grief after his passing. Leave it to Nina to inject a bridge that's reminiscent of a funeral dirge. And that slightly giddy piano phrase.

Just when I needed him most He was already a ghost And for all my life there were promises And they always have been broken