#english band

[th3-0bjectivist]

Dear listener, three months ago I began posting music by recently deceased artists and long-dead bands that were, all of them, exceptional in some way. I haven’t stopped since, and with this post I hereby pronounce my quarter-year long rediscovery of dead bands to be officially complete… and lucky you, I’ve got a plump Maraschino cherry to place on top of this layered ice cream cake. Folks, crank the volume, smash play, and be placed in salivating awe at one of the most influential dead bands of all-time. Imagine a musical act that is completely mediocre in every way; just some shitty, generic modern band the likes of which you hear ad infinitum on Top-40’s radio. Now, add to that same non-specific act a lead lady vocalist that has a voice on par with Billie Holiday. Back that superb voice up with instrumentalists hungry to deliver something that sounds new and exciting to the world, subtract the pretentiousness and insincerity of modern music, and cube the equation with infinite collective creativity and genuine inspiration. What you are left with is the almighty and immortal Portishead. As English as roast beef and hailing from Bristol, this group hasn’t made an album in about fifteen years and only technically lives on through ultra-rare live performances. In just under two decades from the mid-90’s to 2008, this group managed to produce not mere music, but genuine lightning-in-a-bottle magic. The members were all very motivated by old timey film soundtrack LP’s, leaving a lot of their tracks sounding like a tune from a film noire. Whether they liked it or not, they had a major hand in popularizing trip-hop, a highly experimental genre (in the 90’s anyway) which relies heavily on hip hop tempos mixed with soul, jazz, funk, or whatever form of electronic music you want to throw into the fusion. This was also a band that just kind of burned out; despite their notoriety and mega-successful presence in the industry, the members of this collective were just fallible people at the end of the day, and apparently suffered from extreme exhaustion by way of constantly recording and touring. If you spent your time in studios cranking out some of the highest quality music available at the time, you’d be exhausted too. This is Biscuit from 1994’s Dummy, and it is merely one of many, many outstanding works from their contemplative, well-executed and downright industry-changing catalog. Truly quality music (just like any quality entertainment; movies, television, art, etc.) should reveal something true and perhaps tragic about the human condition. Portishead excelled in this area. It doesn’t matter if they were only around for a moment in time. Their music is TIMELESS.

I don’t generally post many ultra-famous acts on this page unless given a motivation. Here’s my motivation; Portishead changed music on the planet Earth forever. They’re more goth than the whole of modern goth music. They’re trippy-er than the entirety of trip-hop. And, if anything you do in your life has 1/10th the positive impact on the globe as this here musical act, you, my friend, have earned my respect for merely existing. Image source: https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-roots-of-portishead-767977

[dedicatednotobsessed]

Thank you si much for your help, you’re heaven sent!!! ;-; since i only messed up the number i’m confident the postman would figure out who is the going to and deliver it to the right address so things should be fine. I would like to double check something else though, how many emails was i supposed to get, only the one with the order confirmation or more? Once again, thank you so much!!! ><

I’m glad I could help! 🥰 and yeah, I only got the order confirmation even though it said you would get updates 😂😂 I blame everything on Jack though. Totally Jack’s fault 🤪

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

[bea-lele-carmen]

[papa-osmubal-artworks]

Tears for Fears

[witchpuppies]

[gabitzart]

Bitter old man

[stressoutlet]

I feel like so many good omens fans are headcannoning Crowley being friends with Freddie Mercury, that they're forgetting the way funnier option: the Bentley being obsessed with Roger Taylor after hearing that man sing I'm In Love With My Car

[ohgaylor]

LOVER (redesign) — inspired by Walking Like We Do (2020) by The Big Moon (front / back)

[th3-0bjectivist]

Dear listener, when I’m not posting music so underground that it’s wedged to the Earth’s lower mantle, I’m generally trying to remind you of great acts you’ve forgotten or have never heard of before. Decidedly on the latter for this post, I would like to point out no ‘music blog’ should be without at least one jam by Massive Attack. I don’t really need to sing this band’s praises, their accolades and accomplishments in the music industry are well known. But for the uninitiated, I don’t think that I can recommend an act that, past or present, manages to produce a more hypnotic or enigmatically sensory experience with electronic music. They were trend-setters all the way through the mid to late 90’s with their music simultaneously hitting it BIG at dance clubs, college campuses and the public at large all over Europe and the United States. If you happen to enjoy hip hop, post-punk, industrial, psychedelic, dub and/or dance… Massive Attack is your one-stop shop for ALL of the above. They’re also industry pioneers, having virtually invented trip-hop which was at the time dubbed ‘The Bristol Sound’, as their first album, Blue Lines, is widely considered to be the first trip-hop album made and it was recorded (at least partially) in Bristol, England. They're known for regularly including extra instrumentalists for live performances and became recognized for their collaborations with the likes of Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser, and the immortal Sinéad O'Connor when they needed a talented lady vocalist to enhance their instrumentals. The one and only piece of work this group has released in the last thirteen years is a 3-song EP, so I think it’s rather safe to assume that we won’t be seeing any more Earth-rending albums or spirited live performances from them for the foreseeable future. However, their discography is already, in two words, *a masterpiece* and I really can’t recommend you either revisit their discography or dive in for the first time. If you smash play on the track above, you’ll be immersed in Dissolved Girl from their OUTSTANDING 1998 album Mezzanine. After this musical entry, I’ve got a few weeks worth of Halloween music headed your way!

There is so much more detail I could have gone into for this post, but a lengthy group history didn’t feel appropriate for the purpose of brevity. It’s always possible you won’t or don’t like their works. But the only indefatigable way to know if you personally resonate with their tunes is to give them the old community college try, or to simply revisit their albums and start all over again. But be warned, going down the rabbit hole of their discography might leave you temporarily addicted. I would know, I tried it myself for this post. Image source: https://massiveattack.ie/info/take-it-there

[dedicatednotobsessed]

Hiiii~ Are you in the us time zine where it’s almost midniiiight??? or do you have to wait more for lyall??? >>

So I live on the west coast, just waiting until 9 pm for LYALL to drop {when it turns midnight on the east coast in America it will be released 🥰}

When Romy came out, one of the boys responded to my friend when she asked when it will be released and he {we’re really sure it’s Jack} responded: “midnight everywhere around the world. 😊}

So just waiting in pain and misery until 9 pm hits 😪 but it should be out in a lil over 20 minutes 🥰

[sophaeros]

arctic monkeys for rockin'on, september 2009

[momgothic]

omg soldier, poet, king is NOT a Christian worship song

folks on tiktok being like YALL DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS ABOUT JESUS??? and "better take it off my dnd playlist now!!!"

it's not about jesus holy fuck, i mean, it is, but it isn't.

Dear Wormwood is a concept album that uses biblical symbolism to talk about an abusive relationship. The Oh Hellos have a whole ass THING about retelling stories (biblical, mythological etc) to use to deal with your own story which is like...a whole thing in storytelling anyway (the new testament is a monomyth yall, Hero's Journey 1.0, in that regard everything is biblical)

Dear Wormwood is put in the context of someone writing letters (inspired by The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis) to their abuser. "Soldier, Poet, King" is from the perspective of the protagonist, on the receiving end of the abuse, who (after the song "Exeunt") is escaping from the abuse and attempting to continue their life outside of it. The person who is the soldier, poet, king, is the protagonist. "your city" is the abusive relationship. "Wormwood" is the devil of this person's life.

If you look on Genius, yeah the story is about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. In context? It's about the Second Coming of the protagonist. The rebirth they get after escaping.

The ending song of the album, "Thus Always to Tyrants", the last line of the album is

Where I go, will you still follow? Will you leave your shaded hollow? Will you greet the daylight looming? Learn to love without consuming?

The protagonist is attempting to mentally escape from the abuse, worried about carrying the trauma into the next relationship.

Soldier Poet King is not about Jesus. It's about fighting. It's about escaping the cycle of abuse. It's about the power that resides in stories, about people who have experienced this before and succeeded. It's about using those stories and learning from them.

Keep the shit on your dnd playlist, it's sort of the whole point.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔗𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔰 𝔉𝔬𝔯 𝔉𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔰 – ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔒𝔳𝔢𝔯 ℌ𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔰

[pipartuuli]

I would die to protect earlyklok Toki for real. That’s my baby brother.

[fkmylif3]

okay im probably the last person to notice this but here spears looked up to see winters and lip arriving and he smiled and called lip, ONLY called lip!!! and his voice was lighter than usual too like he's so happy to see him omg???!!😭😭😭