#one album each day 2k22

[tameila]

december albums.

December 1st: A Folded Letter, Cold Weather Company

December 2nd: Pretty. Odd., Panic! at the Disco

December 3rd: A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, Panic! at the Disco

December 4th: Vices & Virtues, Panic! at the Disco

December 5th: Reanimation, Linkin Park

December 6th: The End is Where We Begin, Thousand Foot Krutch

December 7th: Three Days Grace, Three Days Grace

December 8th: One-X, Three Days Grace

December 9th: Life Starts Now, Three Days Grace

December 10th: Self Made Man, Larkin Poe

December 11th: Conditions of a Punk, half•alive

December 12th: All We Know is Falling, Paramore

December 13th: Riot!, Paramore

December 14th: Brand New Eyes, Paramore

December 15th: Paramore, Paramore

December 16th: After Laughter, Paramore

December 17th: Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony, Gregory Alan Isakov

December 18th: Antarctican Dream Machine, Novo Amor

December 19th: Life is Yours, Foals

December 20th: Sonder, Dermot Kennedy

December 21st: SOS, SZA

December 22nd: Takk…, Sigur Rós

December 23rd: A Weekend in the City, Bloc Party

December 24th: I Want to See Pulaski at Night, Andrew Bird

December 25th: A Winter’s Solstice, Windham Hill Artists

December 26th: Butterfly Blue, Mallrat

December 27th: Fruit from the Trees, Jack Van Cleaf

December 28th: Guard Dog, Searows

December 29th: Vitalogy, Pearl Jam

December 30th: ( ), Sigur Rós

December 31st: Collapsed in Sunbeams, Arlo Parks

[lgcmanager]

CRYSTALLIS MISSION 002

SCHEDULE TYPE: TRIMESTER ( PART 1 OUT OF 2 ) SCHEDULE RESTRICTIONS: cannot be paired with another trimester schedule, unless stated otherwise. for reference as to whether your muse is eligible for this event, please click over HERE.

( important note: there is two parts to this mission, so this is the first one and the next one will be coming after the deadline has passed! )

in preparation for their comeback, the CRYSTALLIS members gathered together during their free time with their manager, SEO YEWON. 

SUMMER ACTIVITIES

as YEWON hands each of the girls their schedules for the next few weeks, she begins to tell them the first event they will be participating, “since you will be promoting at the end of july and beginning of august, you will be attending M! COUNTDOWN’s summer special ( JULY 14 ).” for the special stage, they will be performing TWICE’s DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY ( lyrics distribution can be found HERE ).

like mentioned before, HYEJOO and SOMIN are participating in the LEGACY x PEPSI campaign with ‘SUMMER TASTE’, so they will be working on that during this time and will be performing this in on the last day of lgc’s family concert 2k22, which is scheduled to be on SEPTEMBER 24 in SEOUL. they will also be invited to HANWOO’s ( dbsd’s siwoo & haneul ) radio show on AUGUST 10 where they will talk about their experiences as crystallis members and answer some of the fans’ letters. 

since JAEHWA and SOYOUN will be busy with their schedules, they will be missing some of the promotions so the rest of the members will be singing their parts during that time. they will also have fansigns and online fan calls from AUGUST 1-5.

on AUGUST 4 ( while preparing for m!countdown ), DANBI, ICHIKA, and YURA will be visiting BAE SIWOO to give them their album. after receiving the album, SIWOO will ask the girls if they could do a dance challenge with his newest song, “THAT THAT”. the girls will then be taught a short snippet of the chorus before filming the videos.

in addition to that, DANBI, ICHIKA, and YURA will be appearing on AUGUST 7’s episode of THE RETURN OF SUPERMAN. they will be taking care of PARK JOOHO’s children ( NAEUN, GEONHOO, and JINWOO ). 

VLIVES WITH CRYSTALLIS 

then after their comeback, CRYSTALLIS will be given a chance to pair up and do vlives. since most of the girls have busy schedules ( due to notoriety tiers ), we’ve given an estimated period as to when the vlives have gone live ( sometime between JULY 25 to AUGUST 18 ). the order of the vlive are as follows:

GEUM DANBI & SEO YURA

AHN JAEHWA & YAMASHITA ICHIKA

GONG HYEJOO & MIN SOYOUN

MOON SOMIN

due to the uneven number, SOMIN will be having her own individual vlive. do note that for these livestreams, YEWON will be nearby to monitor the comments and the conversation. in terms of what the girls can do, it’s up to you but the only condition is that they cannot reveal anything related to their future activities ( both group and individual ). on average, the vlives last about 15-20 minutes depending on how much time is allotted from them and when they’re doing the livestreams.

LGC FAMILY CON 2K22

more details about the concert will be revealed at a later time, but for the girls, they are expected to practice on all of their songs in preparation for the concert. they are also told that because lgc’s family concert will be held in various locations, the girls will be traveling overseas on AUGUST. 

REQUIREMENTS

SUMMER ACTIVITIES: write a 4 replies (minimum 8 lines, 3 per mun) thread with another crystallis member about anything related to the activities above ( or behind the scenes during the butterfly comeback promotions ) for +6 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE ANYWHERE and +4 NOTORIETY ! 

VLIVE WITH CRYSTALLIS: write a 300+ word solo OR a 6 replies (minimum 8 lines) thread with your partner about anything that was shown during the vlive for +6 VARIETY or MCING/HOSTING and +3 NOTORIETY !

make sure to use the hashtag lgc:crystallismission for all of the tasks. you have until AUGUST 13, 2022 at 11:59PM EDT to complete the requirements and validate your points. please submit the following form ONCE on the points blog.

 MUSE NAME ∙ CRYSTALLIS MISSION 002 - SUMMER ACTIVITIES: +6 ( skill points distribution ) , +4 notoriety [ LINK ]  - VLIVE WITH CRYSTALLIS: +6 ( variety OR mcing/hosting ), +3 notoriety [ LINK ] 

[tameila]

october albums.

October 1st: Over The Garden Wall (Original Television Soundtrack), The Blasting Company

October 2nd: Night Time, My Time; Sky Ferreira

October 3rd: Magnify, Ham Sandwich

October 4th: Tallahassee, The Mountain Goats

October 5th:The Sunset Tree, The Mountain Goats

October 6th: Transcendental Youth, The Mountain Goats

October 7th: Human Overboard, James and the Shame

October 8th: I Was / I Am, Noah Kahan

October 9th: One, Birdtalker

October 10th: Cannot Be, Whatsoever; Novo Amor

October 11th: Below the Salt, Haley Blais

October 12th: Bronco, Orville Peck

October 13th: The Gods We Can Touch, AURORA

October 14th: Spinning the Truth Around (Part One), Blue October

October 15th: Stick Season, Noah Kahan

October 16th: Songs of Love and Hate, Leonard Cohen

October 17th: Tattoo You, The Rolling Stones

October 18th: Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend

October 19th: Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend

October 20th: Rae, Ashe

October 21st: Midnights (3am Edition), Taylor Swift

October 22nd: The Loneliest Time, Carly Rae Jepsen

October 23rd: The Car, Arctic Monkeys

October 24th: BIG!, Betty Who

October 25th: a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet gets you out and then into the sun, Aly & AJ

October 26th: Crybaby, Tegan & Sara

October 27th: People Pleaser, Laura Elliott

October 28th: Best Day of My Life, Tom Odell

October 29th: The Greatest Thing I’ll Never Learn, Dylan

October 30th: Inside Voices / Outside Voices, K. Flay

October 31st: Afterthoughts, Greywind

[tameila]

november albums.

November 1st: Tell Me Things You Won’t Take Back, Cate

November 2nd: American Bollywood: Acts I & II, Young the Giant

November 3rd: American Bollywood: Acts III & IV, Young the Giant

November 4th: Créatures, Sweet Crude

November 5th: emails i can’t send, Sabrina Carpenter

November 6th: Dirt Femme, Tove Lo

November 7th: DECIDE, Djo

November 8th: Apocalypse Whenever, Bad Suns

November 9th: Ivory, Omar Apollo

November 10th: Quiet the Room, Skullcrusher

November 11th: Being Funny In a Foreign Language, The 1975

November 12th: Can You Afford to Lose Me?, Holly Humberstone

November 13th: LP3, Hippo Campus

November 14th: People in Motion, Dayglow

November 15th: Bear Creak, Brandi Carlile

November 16th: When I Close My Eyes, Chelsea Cutler

November 17th: She’s so Unusual, Cyndi Lauper

November 18th: Parallel Lines, Blondie

November 19th: Dil Se (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), A.R. Rahman

November 20th: Testimony, Ferron

November 21st: One Day at a Time, Kodaline

November 22nd: Under My Influence, The Aces

November 23rd: The Beauty of Survival, Foreign Fields

November 24th: Islands, Bear’s Den

November 25th: Dilate, Ani DiFranco

November 26th: MAYBE IN ANOTHER LIFE…, easy life

November 27th: Every Feeling I’ve Ever Felt, Ellen Winter

November 28th: Future Shine, flor

November 29th: Billy Talent, Billy Talent

November 30th: Billy Talent II, Billy Talent

[tameila]

July Albums.

July 1st: Further Joy, The Regrettes

July 2nd: MUNA, MUNA

July 3rd: I Blame The World, Sasha Alex Sloan

July 4th: Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen

July 5th: Hot Fuss, The Killers

July 6th: Sam’s Town, The Killers

July 7th: Day & Age, The Killers

July 8th: Battle Born, The Killers

July 9th: Wonderful Wonderful, The Killers

July 10th: Imploding the Mirage, The Killers

July 11th: Pressure Machine, The Killers

July 12th: Sawdust, The Killers

July 13th: The Execution of All Things, Rilo Kiley [recommended by @kymal​]

July 14th: Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa

July 15th: The Head and the Heart, The Head and the Heart

July 16th: Special, Lizzo

July 17th: Signs of Light, The Head and the Heart

July 18th: Hadestown, Original Broadway Cast

July 19th: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix

July 20th: Bankrupt!, Phoenix

July 21st: Coyote Stories, The Crane Wives

July 22nd: The Queen is Dead, The Smiths

July 23rd: Flamingo, Brandon Flowers

July 24th: The Desired Effect, Brandon Flowers

July 25th: Ghost Town, Lauren Aquilina

July 26th: Indestructible, Disturbed

July 27th: Build a Problem, Dodie

July 28th: Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park

July 29th: Meteora, Linkin Park

July 30th: Minutes to Midnight, Linkin Park

July 31st: A Thousand Suns, Linkin Park

[tameila]

june week three & four albums.

June 13th: The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie

favorite(s) before listen: Starman

favorite(s) after listen: Starman, Hang On to Yourself, Ziggy Stardust

June 14th: Ingénue, k.d. lang

favorite(s) before listen: Constant Craving

favorite(s) after listen: Constant Craving, Miss Chatelaine, Wash Me Clean, So It Shall Be, Season of Hollow Soul

June 15th: American Idiot, Green Day

familiarity: @kymal recommended Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown, but I was an American Idiot girl. i would listen to “Letterbomb” on the bus ride home nearly every day, and that’s all you need to know about what kind of middle schooler i was

favorite(s): This is a no-skip album, but -- as mentioned before -- my favorite song is Letterbomb, followed closely by She’s a Rebel and Holiday. Though, during this listen through, I found myself appreciating Extraordinary Girl and Homecoming extra amounts.

June 16th: 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day

familiarity: recommended by casey and i gotta say...there were multiple times while listening to this album where i thought of you, casey, and went, “yeah, this checks out as their favorite Green Day album”

favorite(s) before listen: 21 Guns, Know Your Enemy

favorite(s) after listen: Another solid, no-skip album, but I would say my standouts are -- [proceeds to listen half the album] Know Your Enemy, 21st Century Breakdown, Before the Lobotomy, East Jesus Nowhere, Peacemaker, Last of the American Girls, Murder City, Horseshoes and Handgrenades

June 17th: Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe

familiarity: This is one of those albums that has sat on my to-listen lists for far, FAR too long

favorite(s) before listen: Make Me Feel, Pynk

favorite(s) after listen: Make Me Feel, Pynk; Crazy, Classic, Life; Screwed, Don’t Judge Me, So Afraid, Americans

June 18th: MONTERO, Lil Nas X

familiarity: this album was rec’d by @mischiefseven​ way back at the beginning of this project, but I had obviously listened to this album front-to-back many times as soon as it came out so had been saving to revisit it for later -- aka, Pride Month, babEY!

favorite(s): This is a no-skip, fabulous from the first to last second album, but my particular favorites are One of Me (ft. Elton John) because Elton John’s collaborations with all these young queer artists makes me emotional, Tales of Dominica, Dead Right Now, and That’s What I Want

June 19th: SAWAYAMA, Rina Sawayama

familiarity: I know Rina from her song, “Cherry”, and I’ve had her on my radar since as an artist that I wanted to explore more.

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Dynasty, STFU!, Bad Friend, Chosen Family (I also love the version with Elton John too ofc)

June 20th: Expectations, Hayley Kiyoko

familiarity: As a wlw, I have - of course - heard and listened to just about all of Hayley’s discography with this album being no exception

favorite(s): Feelings, What I Need, Sleepover, Curious, Wanna Be Missed, HNLY, Palm Dreams

June 21st: BLUE NEIGHBOURHOOD, Troye Sivan

familiarity: I listened to this album non-stop when it came out, but it’s been a while since I revisited it. In retrospect and with knowledge of his newer music, I can say that this album definitely felt rougher around the edges than I remember it being when I first enjoyed it; however, I still think it stands a great work of art in Troye’s discography and I still genuinely enjoyed each song.

favorite(s): As mentioned, I enjoy each song of this album but I would say that my favorites are Fools, Talk Me Down, Suburbia, Youth, Lost Boy, Blue

June 22nd: Bloom, Troye Sivan

favorite(s): another no-skip album, but my favorites are Lucky Strike, Plum, Postcard, and Seventeen

June 23rd: So Jealous, Tegan and Sara

familiarity: I am more familiar with their other album, Heartthob, but figured I’d start here

favorite(s) before listen: Where Does The Good Go

favorite(s) after listen: Where Does The Good Go, You Wouldn’t Like Me, I Bet It Stung, Speak Slow, Fix It Up, I Can’t Take It

June 24th: Heartthrob, Tegan and Sara

favorite(s) before listen: Closer; Goodbye, Goodbye; I’m Not Your Hero, Drove Me Wild, Love They Say

favorite(s) after listen: added to the aforementioned...How Come You Don’t Want Me

June 25th: If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power; Halsey

familiarity: this album was recommended by @theoh-raeken back when I first started this project but, like Lil Nas X’s album, it was one that I’d listened to when it dropped so I wanted to wait a while to do another listen through. Compared to the rest of her discography, I wouldn’t say that I enjoyed this album as much as her other ones, but it’s still a solid album.

favorite(s) before listen: Bells in Santa Fe, Easier Than Lying, honey; I’m not a woman, I’m a god

favorite(s) after listen: my favorites did not change

June 26th: Superache, Conan Gray

familiarity: new Conan album!!

favorite(s) before listen: People Watching

favorite(s) after listen: People Watching, Disaster, Best Friend, Family Line, Footnote, The Exit

standout lyric: All that I did to try to undo it / All of my pain and all your excuses / I was a kid, but I wasn't clueless / (Someone who loves you wouldn't do this)

June 27th: Good at Falling, The Japanese House

familiarity: I have a passing familiarity with a number of her songs

favorite(s) before listen: Wild

favorite(s) after listen: Wild, We Talk all the Time, You Seemed So Happy, Marika is Sleeping, Worms

June 28th: BADLANDS, Halsey

familiarity: it’s been so long since I’ve listened through this album that I just had to come back to it. might relisten to their other albums later on as well.

favorite(s): A solid, solid album but I would say my favorites would be Haunting, Young God, Strange Love, Roman Holiday

June 29th: White Noise, PVRIS

favorite(s) before listen: You and I

favorite(s) after listen: You and I, Holy, White Noise, Smoke, St. Patrick, My House

June 30th: RINA, Rina Sawayama

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Ordinary Superstar, 10-20-40, Cyber Stockholm Syndrome

[tameila]

May Week Two-Week Four Albums.

 May 9th: New Again, Taking Back Sunday

familiarity: we are now entering the territory of TBS albums that I have not heard yet

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: New Again, Summer, Man;  Swing, Where My Mouth Is, Cut Me Up Jenny, Capital M-E, Carpathia, Everything Must Go

May 10th: Taking Back Sunday, Taking Back Sunday

familiarity: happy birthday to me! we’re breaking into the self-titled album today.

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Faith (When I Let You Down), Sad Savior, Since You’re Gone

May 11th: Happiness Is, Taking Back Sunday

familiarity: Funnily enough, when I was studying abroad in Ireland back in 2014, I checked in on TBS and - instead of checking out all the albums in between this one and the last one i remembered - i jumped straight to this one. don’t regret it! this album feels like a slight turn from their older stuff, but it was a direction i really enjoyed and it reminds me of long, evening walks around the University of Limerick’s campus.

favorite(s) before/after listen: Flicker, Fade; Stood a Chance, Beat Up Car, It Takes More, Better Homes and Gardens, Like You Do, Nothing At All

standout lyric: the bridge and outro of “Flicker, Fade” is [chef’s kiss]

May 12th: Tidal Wave, Taking Back Sunday

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Homecoming, I Felt It Too, Call Come Running, I’ll Find A Way To Make It What You Want

May 13th: Dance Fever, Florence + The Machine

familiarity: [bangs on pots and pans] new Florence album!! NEW FLORENCE ALBUM!!!

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: King, Free**, Choreomania, Girls Against God, Dream Girl Evil, Cassandra, Heaven is Here, Daffodil, My Love

standout lyric: the bridge of Free, my friends. that’s what it feels like to be a creator of any media of art. that’s just the meaning of life right there.

May 14th: Monsters, The Midnight

familiarity: discovered The Midnight through Julien Solomita. he uses their song “Good in Red” a lot on his streams, and I would highly suggest their Horror Show EP. it’s an album for driving at dusk with the windows down. figured, since I enjoyed it so much, might as well check out an album!

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: ((gonna be honest with you. i am filling each of these days out right now and i usually like the songs that i like the most on spotify so that i remember but i don’t have any liked on this album. but i remember enjoying this album so i think i just thought the whole album was a vibe overall. maybe, someday, if i have an extra hour, i’ll relisten and update this with specific songs but...until then...I’ll just give it a thumbs up!))

May 15th: Preacher’s Daughter, Ethel Cain

familiarity: No familiarity with the artist but I ran into a tiktok on my fyp that included a snippet from the scream in Ptolemaea and I was like,”Sign me up!”

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: American Teenager, A House in Nebraska, Family Tree, Thoroughfare, Ptolemaea, Televangelism, Sun Bleached Flies, Strangers

standout lyric: "What I wouldn't give to be in Church this Sunday / Listening to the choir, so heartfelt, all singing / God loves you, but not enough to save you / So, baby girl, good luck taking care of yourself”

May 16th: Back of My Mind, H.E.R.

familiarity: I am going to see my favorite boys, Coldplay, on the 28th, so we are officially entering the preparation stretch of the month. H.E.R is one of Coldplay’s openers. Also, should be noted, I will be skipping the song on this album that features a certain abuser.

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: We Made It, Damage, I Can Have It All, Slide

notes: Since I am getting to these write-ups so late, to the point that the concert has come and gone, I can say that H.E.R was amazing on stage. This album was pure R&B, which I enjoyed, but she was up on stage, shredding on the electric guitar and playing the drums and just rocking out. Loved that style from her!

May 17th: FANDOM, Waterparks

familiarity: had an extra day in my concert preparation to slip in a random album. I know Waterparks from their song “I Miss Having Sex But At Least I Don’t Wanna Die Anymore”, a Scanlan Shorthalt anthem, but felt compelled to check out the rest of this album after hearing another song on a playlist. also, i gotta be real here. didn’t realize that this album came out in 2019. it has the vibe of the mid-00s emo/punk scene.

favorite(s) before listen: I Miss Having Sex But At Least I Don’t Wanna Die Anymore

favorite(s) after listen: I Miss Having Sex But At Least I Don’t Wanna Die Anymore, Watch What Happens Next, High Definition, Telephone, Turbulent, [Reboot]

May 18th: Gallows (Deluxe), DRAMA

familiarity: another one of Coldplay’s openers.

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Barely Friends, Falling, Missing

May 19th: Parachutes, Coldplay

familiarity: ah, and here it begins, the album where my love for Coldplay began. I used to “steal” the CDs for this album and A Rush of Blood To The Head from my dad’s car and listen to them on our 5-CD boombox in the basement. I listened to “We Never Change” with all the wistful melancholy that a prepubescent child can possess.

favorite(s): Since I love Coldplay and they are My Boys™, I feel entitled to wax at length about my feelings on each album. because I have opinions. That being said, there are only two Coldplay albums that I consider to be true “No Skips” albums and Parachutes is very close...but not one of them. I would still highly recommend it to be listened to from start to finish. There’s no true “duds” on this album, just a couple songs that take some warming up to. While Yellow is, of course, a classic, I would pick a live version of it over the album recording any day. my personal favorite picks from this album are...Don’t Panic (one of their best and my favorite from this album), Shiver, Trouble, We Never Change, Everything’s Not Lost

standout lyric: "Oh, all that I know / There's nothing here to run from / ‘Cause yeah, everybody here's / Got somebody to lean on”

May 20th: Harry’s House, Harry Styles

familiarity: Taking a break from Coldplay to check out the new Harry Styles album

favorite(s) before listen: As It Was

favorite(s) after listen: As It Was, Music For a Sushi Restaurant, Late Night Talking, Little Freak, Matilda, Day Dreaming, Keep Driving, Satellite

standout lyric: not a lyric, but the outro to As It Was where, after the bridge, he brings in wedding bells...that shit changed me fundamentally

May 21st: A Rush of Blood to the Head, Coldplay

familiarity: remember when I said that I only have two Coldplay albums that I consider to be perfect? This is number #1 out of the 2.

favorite(s): There’s not a single song on this album that I would ever dare to skip. This album should be enjoyed front-to-back often and with reverence. Not only are these songs all amazing on the album recording, but this album is best known for having the most songs that are staples to Coldplay live performances to the point that I was disappointed when songs like In My Place and God Put a Smile upon Your Face were not included on the setlist for their current tour. That’s the problem with having a 20+ year discography. You can play a 2-hour long show and still not be able to fit in all your best hits. In particular, those two aforementioned songs MUST be enjoyed alongside their live versions. God Put a Smile upon Your Face, especially. I love this album so much that I even struggle to pick a favorite. I long dream of them embracing this sound again but, at the same time, you could never replicate this album..Just...You Gotta Listen To This Album. That is my platform. That is my truth.

standout moment: I think I’m gonna hand my honorable mention to the bridge of Politik. life-changing bridge. Also, See You Soon, a song from this era that was never officially released but has a live recording is one of my absolute underrated Coldplay songs. Highly recommend.

May 22nd: X&Y, Coldplay

familiarity: notoriously the most hated Coldplay album by Coldplayers. if someone names this album as their favorite, it’s one of the most surefire ways to out yourself as not really listening to Coldplay. that being said, this album holds a lot of sentimental value to me and, as such, I think quite a few songs that I love like Low and The Hardest Part would be scoffed at by more reasonable fans.

favorite(s): My favorite from this album is Swallowed in the Sea. It’s attached to be a very specific and personal childhood memory for me, and I am very protective of it. I think we all have a song like that. Which is to say, seeing it crop up on Fjorester playlists all throughout CR2? Drove me mad. How dare you reduce it to a simple love song when it means so much more than that!! Other notable mentions from this album are X&Y (listen, and listen close, the lyric is “YOU become my best friend” not “SHE become my best friend”. Coldplay uses gender neutral pronouns more often than not which is why they are beloved among the queer community, you fools!!) and A Message.

standout moment: When the bridge hits in A Message and Chris’ adds on, with absolute devastation and heartbreak, “And I love you, please come home” to the chorus lyrics. yeah. We should talk about it more.

May 23rd: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, Coldplay

familiarity: and here we have it -- the second perfect Coldplay album. I may be biased because this is the era where I saw them in concert for the first time and when I actually felt like I was a part of the Coldplayer community, but I think every song from this era -- Prospekt’s March and all the B-sides -- are worthy of praise as well. though I could take or leave most of the “remixes”. After X&Y, this album was a huge comeback for Coldplay. X&Y almost tore them apart, and every inch of this album is built on togetherness and love between four best friends who chose each other and the music they loved to make. Like A Rush of Blood to the Head, it has such a unique and distinct sound to it that, as much as I’d love to see it, I know that it’s not replicable.

favorite(s): My favorite from this album is 42, but my underrated favorite is Yes. Do the people know? Do they know that Yes is one of Coldplay’s sexiest and most sensual songs? Do they know? Also, the best version of Viva la Vida can be found on their live album, LeftRightLeftRightLeft, only now available on Spotify as of this year.

standout lyric: My standout lyric is actually gonna go to “Gravity, release me and don't ever hold me down / Now my feet won't touch the ground” from Life in Technicolor ii from the Proskept’s March EP. I can’t explain it; it’s just always meant a lot to me.

May 24th Mylo Xyloto, Coldplay

familiarity: Coldplay’s official entrance into the pop genre, and -- Damn, they did it with style. It was also the introduction the Xylo bands at concerts -- now a Coldplay staple. This is another album that has a lot of sentimental value to me. The first single, “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall”, came out the day of my high school graduation and it was also the day that we had to put down our childhood cat, Annie. The full album was released on the day that we had to put down our childhood dog, Ellie. It was an album that was there for me during a year where it felt like I was having to say goodbye to my whole childhood. This album also saw a huge boom in the Coldplay fandom on tumblr. It’s since died down, but those were fun days.

favorite(s): My favorite song from this album is Charlie Brown. You know when you’re at a concert and suddenly everything seems to slow as you look around at the thousands of people who are there with you? Confetti rains down around you. Every nerve in your body is buzzing. You are elated and bright-eyed. and every single person is experiencing the same moment as you. all of you, together. and you are just hit with a wave of total adoration and affection for every single one of them? Yeah, Chris Martin captured that feeling with the last 35 seconds of Charlie Brown in 2011, and I have never emotionally recovered. Honorable mentions go to Every Teardrop is a Waterfall, Hurts like Heaven, and Up With The Birds. Major Minus is also majorly underrated.

standout moment: when the instrumental shifts in Up With The Birds, and Chris sings “Might have to go, where they don't know my name / Float all over the world just to see her again”....yeah...i cry every time....

May 25th Ghost Stories, Coldplay

familiarity: ah, the divorce era. I honestly don’t have a lot to say about Ghost Stories. I see it as the yin to Mylo Xyloto’s yang. It was an intimate era -- quiet and subtle -- compared to the big, loud explosions of color that were the trademarks of MX. and, I think a lot of Coldplayers view it in the same way. It’s not an album for discussion and Opinions. it’s just an album for listening and nodding understandably.

favorite(s): My favorite song from this album is Oceans. When I went to see Coldplay live in 2016, our show got rained out, but they went out with a bang by playing A Sky Full of Stars. The energy in the stadium that night was and remains unmatched. To this day, 3 minutes and 3 seconds of ASFoS hits and I tear up....I just...love Coldplay so much...

standout lyric: “You’ve got to find yourself alone in this world” are the lyrics for the one and only tattoo that I am dead-set on getting one day

May 26th A Head Full of Dreams, Coldplay

familiarity: another notoriously hated album by Coldplay fans. which is a fact that I’m glad I found out much later because this album carried me through the worst years of my life. Coldplay really said “When you’re in pain, when you think you’ve had enough / Don’t ever give up” and I sobbed on the interstate, driving 70 mph, because I knew they were right.

favorite(s): Up&Up has my heart. It’s what hope sounds like to me. A Head Full of Dreams deserves to be used in some kind of cyperpunk/sci-fi media -- 1:50 and onwards? Perfect sci-fi ambience. I am in space. We are the universe and the universe is us. Birds is beloved amongst Coldplay fans, and for good reason. I also have a soft spot for Adventure of a Lifetime. It should also be noted that Everglow is only valid when it’s played live; the album recording is meh.

standout lyric: Gotta give it up to “When you’re in pain, when you think you’ve had enough / Don’t ever give up”

May 27th Everyday Life, Coldplay

familiarity: After the more pop-rooted sounds of the previous three albums, this album was a return to their more alternative sound -- with a lemon wedge of pop. In a lot of ways, this album listens to me like the culmination of all their previous eras. There’s elements of Parachutes, elements of A Rush of Blood to the Head, elements of It’s also the first album where Chris Martin let himself say ‘fuck’; we were all very happy for them.

favorite(s): My favorite song is Champion of the World. Honorable mention to Arabesque. The sax solo goes on just a little too long, but it’s otherwise perfect. I love any Coldplay song where they go a bit harder, dig a bit deeper with their sound, and Arabesque is definitely one of those songs. You also can’t go wrong with Sunrise, Trouble in Town, Orphans, Èkó, Everyday Life, and Old Friends.

standout lyric: when Chris sings “I guess we’ll be raised on our own then” in Orphans

May 28th Music of the Spheres, Coldplay

familiarity: It’s the day of the concert, and we have reached the most recent Coldplay album! This album is very hit-and-miss for me. Songs like Colortura and People of the Pride are easily two of the best amongst their entire discography, but they’re stuck on an album that feels very sparse and mid-tier. Out of all the albums that they’ve released before now, this one has felt the most incomplete and poorly executed. Coldplay always puts on a great show, but this album was truly saved by the graces of its best songs. 

favorite(s): The moment Coldplay dropped that minute-or-so long trailer video for Music of the Spheres and I heard that snippet of People of the Pride, I was in love. The moment I heard People of the Pride on the album, I knew I needed to hear it live. The moment I heard it live, I lost my goddamn mind. People of the Pride is easily one of the best Coldplay songs, and it makes saying this album isn’t that great so hard lol. If Coldplay would just release an album that’s full of songs like God Put a Smile upon Your Face and People of the Pride, they would be unstoppable, and I believe this whole-heartedly in my heart and soul. Colortura is also a masterpiece. It’s over 10 minutes long, and it should be. When the music box instrumental starts at 5:34, I ascend to a higher plane of being. I was so disappointed that they took it off the setlist of the tour, but also I would have been sobbing in that stadium if they’d kept it. Honorable mention to Infinity Sign for immortalizing the “Olé Olé Coldplay” chant, which is the best Coldplay chant, and to Humankind. Biutyful won me over eventually, mostly because it comes right after People of the Pride and I listened to People of the Pride so much, but it’s mostly saved by Chris’ solo vocals at 2:12.

standout lyric: “We’re only human / But we’re capable of kindness / So they call us Humankind”. Also, the last 30 seconds of My Universe are the best part. I love when it just sounds like they’ve having fun.

[tameila]

April Week Four Albums.

April 25th: The Ditty Bops, The Ditty Bops

familiarity: recommended by @thesylversmyth​

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Ooh La La, Pale Yellow, Four Left Feet, There’s a Girl

April 26th: Speak For Yourself, Imogen Heap

familiarity: As I mentioned when talking about Frou Frou, Imogen Heap has been in my musical lexicon for some time now. I have always had a particular for “The Walk” from this album, but I think this listen through has “The Moment I Said It” replacing its top place

favorite(s) before listen: Headlock, Goodnight and Go, Hide and Seek, The Walk, Just For Now

favorite(s) after listen: Headlock, Goodnight and Go, Hide and Seek, The Walk, Just For Now, Clear the Area, The Moment I Said It

April 27th: Ellipse, Imogen Heap

favorite(s) before listen: First Train Home, Between Sheets, Canvas

favorite(s) after listen: First Train Home, Between Sheets, Canvas, Swoon, Tidal

April 28th: Life in Cartoon Motion, MIKA

familiarity: I was introduced to MIKA by a friend in school through the song, “Lollipop”. After ever since, I have interacted with his music here and there, but No Place In Heaven is the only album of his that I have listened through fully. which is a real shame, especially since a line in “Stuck in the Middle” gave me pause and I have now discovered that MIKA and I are essentially the same person -- middle of five children with two older sisters and a younger brother and younger sister. like, bestie, call me, i think we’d have a lot to talk about

favorite(s) before listen: Grace Kelly, Lollipop, Love Today, Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)

favorite(s) after listen: Added onto the aforementioned list...My Interpretation, Any Other World, Billy Brown, Stuck in The Middle, Erase, Happy Ending

standout lyric: “Are five kids better than one?”

April 29th: The Boy Who Knew Too Much, MIKA

favorite(s) before listen: Rain

favorite(s) after listen: Rain, We Are Golden, Blame It On The Girls, I See You, Good Gone Girl, By The Time

April 30th: The Origin of Love, MIKA

familiarity: I just gotta add a note that “Popular Song” is so...Glee...iykyk

favorite(s) before listen: Popular Song, Emily, Elle Me Dit

favorite(s) after listen: Popular Song, Emily, Elle Me Dit, Origin of Love, Stardust, Make You Happy, Tah Dah

May 1st: No Place in Heaven, MIKA

favorite(s) before listen: Talk About You, Oh Girl You’re The Devil, No Place in Heaven, Staring at the Sun, Good Wife, Rio

favorite(s) after listen: Added onto the aforementioned list, I really enjoyed “The Last Party” and “Good Guys” during this listen through

standout lyric: "maybe I’ll be myself when I’m somebody else”

[tameila]

september albums.

September 1st: Phantoms, Marianas Trench

September 2nd: Disappear Here, Bad Suns

September 3rd: Positive Friction, Donna the Buffalo [recommended by @thesylversmyth]

September 4th: Seventeen Going Under, Sam Fender

September 5th: Petals for Armor, Hayley Williams

September 6th: FLOWERS for VASES / Descansos, Hayley Williams

September 7th: Jubilee, Japanese Breakfast

September 8th: The 1975, the 1975

September 9th: i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it; the 1975

September 10th: A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, The 1975

September 11th: Woman on the Internet, Orla Gartland

September 12th: WHO CARES?, Rex Orange County

September 13th: Forward / Slash, Leanna Firestone

September 14th: Cheers, Jukebox the Ghost

September 15th: Sympathetic Magic, Typhoon

September 16th: Underground Complex No. 1, Typhoon

September 17th: SPARK, Whitney

September 18th: Girl of My Dreams, Fletcher

September 19th: Wintersmith, Steeleye Span [recommended by @jabletown]

September 20th: Hold The Girl, Rina Sawayama

September 21st: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Saint Motel

September 22nd: Growing Pains, Sammy Copley

September 23rd: Basket of Light, Pentangle [recommended by @jabletown]

September 24th: Tusk, Fleetwood Mac

September 25th: Tango in the Night, Fleetwood Mac

September 26th: The Lion’s Roar, First Aid Kit

September 27th: Demon Days, Gorillaz

September 28th: Plastic Beach, Gorillaz

September 29th: Stand for Myself, Yola

September 30th: BURN PYGMALION!!! A Better Guide to Romance, The Scary Jokes

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august albums.

August 1st: RENAISSANCE, Beyoncé

August 2nd: PANORAMA, Hayley Kiyoko

August 3rd: Surrender, Maggie Rogers

August 4th: Hold on Baby, King Princess

August 5th: LIVING THINGS, Linkin Park

August 6th: The Hunting Party, Linkin Park

August 7th: One More Light, Linkin Park

August 8th: Slow Bloom, The Home Team**

August 9th: Better Off, The Home Team

August 10th: rising, mxmtoon

August 11th: Dookie, Green Day

August 12th: Diamonds, Johnnyswim

August 13th: JOHNNYSWIM, Johnnyswim

August 14th: Traumazine, Megan Thee Stallion

August 15th: Are You Happy Now?, Jensen McRae**

August 16th: WHEN WE’RE FAR APART I FALL APART, Abby Holliday

August 17th: Whisper Wars, The Cab

August18th: SURF, BLACKSTARKIDS

August 19th: Mother Tongue, Miner

August 20th: Skinny Dipping, Stand Atlantic

August 21st: Long Lost, Lord Huron

August 22nd: HOLY FVCK, Demi Lovato

August 23rd: IMPERA, Ghost

August 24th: Meliora, Ghost

August 25th: The Shark in Your Water, Flower Face

August 26th: Collide With the Sky, Pierce the Veil

August 27th: RAZZMATAZZ, I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

August 28th: Fix Me, Marianas Trench

August 29th: Masterpiece Theatre, Marianas Trench

August 30th: Ever After, Marianas Trench

August 31st: Astoria, Marianas Trench

[tameila]

June Week Two Albums.

June 6th: Kissing to be Clever, Culture Club

favorite(s) before listen: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

favorite(s) after listen: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, I’ll Tumblr 4 Ya, Boy Boy (I’m The Boy)

June 7th: Colour By Numbers, Culture Club

favorite(s) before listen: Karma Chameleon

favorite(s) after listen: Karma Chameleon, Church of the Poison Mind, Miss Me Blind, Stormkeeper, Romance Revisited

June 8th: Electric Warrior, T. Rex

familiarity: Recommended by @jabletown​! Gonna be honest, my familiarity with T. Rex is 100% from “I Like To Boogie” because it was on the Billy Elliot soundtrack and my mom loved that movie/soundtrack

favorite(s) before listen: Bang a Gong (Get It On)

favorite(s) after listen: Bang a Gong (Get It On), Mambo Sun, Jeepster, The Motivator, Life’s a Gas

June 9th: Murmur, R.E.M

familiarity: I grew up listening to R.E.M through my parents, so I was very excited when I learned that the lead singer, Michael Stipe, is queer. However, I only had time to fit in one album, and my dad suggested their debut album to me since it was the album that got him into their music. As someone who grew up with their more popular albums like Document, Automatic for the People, and Out of Time, I was grateful for this suggestion!

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Radio Free Europe, Talk About The Passion, Moral Kiosk, Catapult

June 10th: Listen Without Prejudice, George Michael

favorite(s) before listen: Freedom! ‘90

favorite(s) after listen: Freedom! ‘90, They Won’t Go When I Go, Cowboys and Angels, Waiting for That Day, Waiting (Reprise)

June 11th: Sheer Heart Attack, Queen

favorite(s) before listen: Killer Queen

favorite(s) after listen: Killer Queen, Flick of the Wrist, In The Lap of the Gods

June 12th: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John

favorite(s) before listen: Bennie and The Jets

favorite(s) after listen: Bennie and The Jets, Funeral For a Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, I’ve Seen That Movie Too, The Ballad of Danny Bailey, Your Sister Can’t Twist (But She Can Rock’n’Roll)

[tameila]

June Week One Albums.

May 29th: The Walls are Too Thin EP, Holly Humberstone

familiarity: after sleeping for 11 hours after the concert and it suddenly being 10 pm before I knew it, I needed a quick listen and I have wanted to pick up this EP after hearing the title track

favorite(s) before listen: The Walls are Too Thin

favorite(s) after listen: The Walls are Too Thin, Haunted House, Scarlett

standout lyric: "Bringing up four daughters / Made the house a fortress Dirty knees and honey bees / And nowhere else would sting as sweet / Can't believe we're turning off the lights”

May 30th: Willy and the Poor Boys, Creedence Clearwater Revival

familiarity: Figured for Memorial Day that I’d listen to an Americana classic

favorite(s) before listen: Fortunate Son

favorite(s) after listen: Fortunate Son, Down on the Corner, It Came out of the Sky, Don’t Look Now

May 31st: Indigo Girls, Indigo Girls

familiarity: recommended by @thesylversmyth

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Secure Yourself, Prince of Darkness, History of Us

June 1st: HUMAN. :II: NATURE., Nightwish

familiarity: I have a passing familiarity with Nightwish, but my sister and brother-in-law went and saw them in concert recently. 

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Music, Shoemaker, All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World - The Blue, AtWoNWAtW - The Green, AtWoNWAtW - Aurorae, AtWoNWAtW - Ad Astra

June 2nd: Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman

familiarity: A day late, I realized -- “Wait! It’s Pride Month. I should be listening to queer music by queer artists” and though it’s never been confirmed (and she certainly doesn’t owe us any such thing) that Tracy is a part of the family, the way she’s adored amongst the queer community is reason enough for me to include her

favorite(s) before listen: Fast Car

favorite(s) after listen: Fast Car, Talkin’ Bout a Revolution, Why?, For You, Across the Lines

standout lyric: “We gotta make a decision / Leave tonight, or live and die this way”

June 3rd: Yes I Am, Melissa Etheridge

familiarity: I actually grew up listening to Etheridge’s Lucky album. or, i should say, her song “Breathe” off her Lucky album. That and “Fallen” by Sarah Mclachlan went hand-and-hand for me lol. but this is the album I found suggested most often.

favorite(s) before listen: Come To My Window

favorite(s) after listen: Come To My Window, I’m the Only One, Silent Legacy, All American Girl, Resist, Ruins, Talking to my Angel

June 4th: Lucky, Melissa Etheridge

favorite(s) before listen: Breathe

favorite(s) after listen: Breathe, Lucky, This Moment, Will You Still Love Me, Tuesday Morning, Giant

June 5th: For the Roses, Joni Mitchell

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire, Let the Wind Carry Me, Blonde in the Bleachers, Judgement of the Moon and Stars

standout lyric: "I get that strong longing / And I want to settle and raise a child up with somebody / But it passes like the summer / I'm a wild seed again, let the wind carry me”

[tameila]

May Week One Albums.

May 2nd: My Name is Michael Holbrook, MIKA

favorite(s) before listen: Tomorrow

favorite(s) after listen: Tomorrow, Tiny Love, Ready to Call This Love, Tiny Love Reprise

May 3rd: Favourite Worst Nightmare, Arctic Monkeys

familiarity: went into the day with no album prepared and this was a recommended one on the front page. Between Heardle and the restaurant in Chicago that I ate at over the weekend with my friend, it felt that Arctic Monkeys had been cropping up and saying it was their turn!

favorite(s) before listen: Fluorescent Adolescent, Do Me a Favour, 505

favorite(s) after listen: Fluorescent Adolescent, Do Me a Favour, 505, D is for Dangerous, Brainstorm, This House is a Circus, The Bad Thing, Old Yellow Bricks

standout lyric: "perhaps ‘fuck off’ might be too kind”

May 4th: Toxicity, System of a Down

familiarity: recommended by @jabletown​ ! as a person who consumed AMVs during my middle school years, uh...yeah, I know System of a Down lol

favorite(s) before listen: Chop Suey!, Shimmy, Toxicity

favorite(s) after listen: Chop Suey!, Shimmy, Toxicity, Prison Song, Bounce, Aerials, Arto

May 5th: Hypnotize, System of a Down

familiarity: Hypnotize is my favorite System of a Down song, so I had to throw this album in too

favorite(s) before listen: Hypnotize

favorite(s) after listen: Hypnotize, Dreaming, Kill Rock n’ Roll, Stealing Society, Tentative

May 6th: Tell All Your Friends, Taking Back Sunday

familiarity: it’s the start of my birthday weekend! I’ve been excited to return to Taking Back Sunday’s albums ever since I started this project but kept holding them off, but my birthday? it’s the perfect time! I have always felt like TBS doesn’t get nearly enough attention and love. they’ve always been one of my favorites from their heyday of music. I’m most familiar with their first three albums and then their sixth, but they’ve released an album as recent as a couple years ago so I’m interested to see how they’ve changed over the years

favorite(s) before listen: I would say that the only song on this album that I’m not overly familiar with is “The Blue Channel”

favorite(s) after listen: This album is a classic but I was amazed that I found myself not getting into it that much. It’s definitely still a nostalgia listen and I enjoy each song, but my top favorites are You’re So Last Summer (this song is truly top tier), Ghost Man on Third, Cute Without the ‘E’, There’s No ‘I’ in Team, and Timberwolves At New Jersey

standout lyric: i mean...come on, the most iconic lyric has to win...”The truth is you could slit my throat / And with my one last gasping breath / I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt” this lyric fundamentally changed me as a person when i first heard it

May 7th: Where You Want To Be, Taking Back Sunday

familiarity: I relistened to some of my favorites off this album a few months back and -- my god, the way I probably, legitimately hadn’t listened to those songs in a decade and yet the lyrics came to me like I’d listened to yesterday. Out of their first three albums, I slept on this one quite a bit. I had my favorites and I’d ignore the rest of it, which is why I’m particularly excited to do a full listen through since I discovered new favorites when I did that with Louder Now last year

favorite(s) before listen: Set Phasers To Stun, A Decade Under the Influence, This Photograph is Proof (I Know You Know), One-Eighty By Summer, Number Five With a Bullet, Little Devotional, ...Slowdance On The Inside

favorite(s) after listen: Happy to report back that this is a no skip album! I wouldn’t say that any of the songs that I hadn’t listened to before Wow!’d me, but it was nice to experience the album as a cohesive whole

standout lyric: “Well, my best side was your worst invention”

May 8th: Louder Now, Taking Back Sunday

familiarity: hands down my favorite of their albums! I did a full listen through of this album last year and ended up falling absolutely in love with “My Blue Heaven” to the point of anger at my younger self for slighting it -- to the point of taking up this project to, in part, explore older albums with great songs that I may have slept on.

favorite(s): No skips! No skips! An amazing album from start to finish. As started, My Blue Heaven has become one of my favorite TBS songs, but Miami and MakeDamnSure are also high on the list. Miami is one of those songs that just makes me want to stand in the middle of the street in my suburban neighborhood at midnight and scream iykyk. and MakeDamnSure is not technically a queer song...but it’s a queer song.

standout lyric: "I'm just asking you to hear me / Could you please, just once, just hear me?”

[tameila]

April Week Three Albums.

April 18th: ULTRA BLUE, Utada Hikaru

familiarity: The love I have for Utada HIkaru is immeasurable. They were one of my first introductions to J-Pop with their album, First Love, and I have followed their music through the years. After hearing (belatedly) that they were at Coachella, which I didn’t give a damn about until I heard they were there, I knew I wanted to relisten to one of their albums. I plan to go back and listen to the others eventually but, for today, I chose this one because it’s especially nostalgic for me. I used to listen to this album while typing up my roleplay replies to my best friend back when we’d just started building our world and were chatting on MSN every night. 

favorite(s): This is a no-skip album for me! I would say my particular favorites are Keep Tryin’, COLORS, BLUE

April 19th: Strange Trails, Lord Huron

familiarity: I made a previous attempt to listen through this album since it seemed right up my alley but never finished it. so I’m back!

favorite(s) before listen: The Night We Met

favorite(s) after listen: The Night We Met, Until The Night Turns, Fool For Love, The World Ender, Meet Me in the Woods, Way Out There

standout lyric: “I had all and then most of you / Some and now none of you”

April 20th: Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones

familiarity: I was talking to my co-teacher about this project one afternoon -- she’s around my parents’ ages -- and mentioned how I’d like to look into some more classic rock. This is one of the albums that she suggested.

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Wild Horses, Bitch, Moonlight Mile

April 21st: Candy-O, The Cars

familiarity: recommendation from my co-teacher

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Night Spots, Shoo Be Doo, Double Life

April 22nd: A Night at the Opera, Queen

familiarity: I mean, it’s Queen! But, I would say that I know their music in bits n’ pieces rather than from listening to full albums. For no lack of not wanting to, mind you, which was why I was happy for this recommendation from @wookiees​

favorite(s) before listen: You’re My Best Friend, Bohemian Rhapsody

favorite(s) after listen: You’re My Best Friend, Bohemian Rhapsody, Death on Two Legs, Seaside Rendezvous, The Prophet’s Song, Love of My Life

standout lyric: "Mama, I don’t wanna die / I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all”

April 23rd: G*psy Punks: Underdog World Strike, Gogol Bordello

familiarity: recommended by @jabletown​

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Sally, Not a Crime, Illumination

additional notes: The standout quality of Gogol Bordello is their tunes, in my opinion. The rambunctious, foot-stomping instrumentals were the real seller of this album to me.

April 24th: Man on the Moon: The End of the Day, Kid Cudi

familiarity: This is an album that I’ve always wanted to explore but felt daunted by the length of it. An hour? Who’s got that kinda time! Me on a rainy Sunday, it would seem.

favorite(s) before listen: Day ‘N’ Nite (Nightmare), Up Up & Away

favorite(s) after listen: Really loved this album as a cohesive whole. Some of my top favorite include...Day ‘N’ Nite (Nightmare), Up Up & Away, Man on the Moon, Make Her Say, Enter Galactic, My World, Heart of a Lion

[tameila]

April Week Two Albums.

April 11th: Ma Fleur, The Cinematic Orchestra

familiarity: Was in the mood for some orchestral flourishes on this fine Monday and went, “You know what always sounded right up my alley but I only ever listened to one of their songs? The Cinematic Orchestra”. So, anyway, here we are!

favorite(s) before listen: To Build a Home

favorite(s) after listen: To Build a Home, That Home, Music Box, Time and Space

April 12th: London Calling, The Clash

familiarity: I would say that I know all of The Clash’s hits  but I have never sat down and actually listened to one of their albums. recommended by @jabletown​ 

favorite(s) before listen: London Calling, Lost in the Supermarket

favorite(s) after listen: London Calling, Lost in the Supermarket, Hateful, Wrong ‘Em Boyo

April 13th: Wet Leg, Wet Leg

familiarity: This album popped up in my Spotify recommendations and, after also having them pushed to me through my tiktok algorithms, it felt like a good time to check ‘em out

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Chaise Longue, Angelica, Wet Dream, Ur Mom, Too Late Now

standout lyric: that part in “Ur Mom” where she’s like,”I’ve been working on my loudest and longest scream”? cathartic. wish that were me.

April 14th: ¡Viva la Cobra!, Cobra Starship

familiarity: Foreseeing a rough end to the week, I decided to revisit another old pop punk haunt that was also recommended to me by my best friend. Cobra Starship was never amongst my “favorites” of their era, but I saw them open for FoB once and their songs that I did love I loved very much, so it felt only natural that I should give them the “lemme see if I was missing something” treatment. Also, I meant to start with their first album but only realized halfway through this one that I’d chosen the wrong one. I was just eager to hear “Kiss My Sass”. That’s their best song.

favorite(s) before listen: The City Is at War, Guilty Pleasure, Kiss My Sass**, Damn You Look Good and I’m Drunk

favorite(s) after listen: The City Is at War, Guilty Pleasure, Kiss My Sass**, Angie, Prostitution Is the World’s Oldest Profession, My Moves Are White (White Hot, That Is)

additional notes: I love “Damn You Look Good and I’m Drunk”. I do. That “S-C-A-N-D to the A to the L-O-U-S” chant? iconic. but it has been forcibly removed from my favorites because I just can’t stomach the transphobia of the “VIP party boys” interlude these days

April 15th: While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets; Cobra Starship

familiarity: Cobra Starship’s New Jersey energy is so strong that, even though I never knew that they were from New Jersey...I knew.

favorite(s) before listen: Send My Love to the Dancefloor, Bring It (Snakes on a Plane)

favorite(s) after listen: Send My Love to the Dancefloor, Bring It (Snakes on a Plane), The Kids Are All Fucked Up, Keep It Simple

additional notes: I feel like this first album was very run-of-the-mill, standard pop punk. Like, if I didn’t know it was a Cobra Starship album, nothing about the lyrics or sound would have stood out to me as being their style. Their personality as a group really jumped out in their next two albums.

April 16th: Hot Mess, Cobra Starship

favorite(s) before listen: Good Girls Go Bad, Hot Mess

favorite(s) after listen: Good Girls Go Bad, Hot Mess, Nice Guys Finish Last, Pete Wentz is the Only Reason We’re Famous, Living in the Sky with Diamonds

April 17th: Night Shades, Cobra Starship

favorite(s) before listen: You Make Me Feel...

favorite(s) after listen: You Make Me Feel..., Anything for Love, Don’t Blame the World It’s the DJ’s Fault, Fucked in Love

additional notes: I never really got into this album and, if I had to guess, it’s because this album felt like a more matured version of their first and let go of the more campy, playful style that they embraced with their two middle albums. I just feel like this album had nothing to offer that I couldn’t get from any other pop punk album. A decent listen, but it’s a shame that this is the album that they finished off on.

[tameila]

April Week One Albums.

“April 4th: Well, I Should Have...*, H. Jon Benjamin

familiarity: Saw a tiktok talking about this album where H. Jon Benjamin hired a jazz band to record an album with him and he filled in to play the jazz piano. But, he doesn’t know how to play the piano. I knew I had to listen immediately. Not doing the full shtick for this one. Just here to vibe on a Monday!

April 5th: Soundtrack to the End, Communist Daughter

familiarity: recommended by @thesylversmyth!

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Not The Kid, Oceans, Northern Lights, Soundtrack to the End

standout lyric: “When we were younger / We had nothing to do / So we'd close our eyes / And spin around in circles / Happy to hit the ground / Or happy to just fall down”

April 6th: Nothing Happens, Wallows

familiarity: I got recommended their newest album when it came out but decided I wanted to listen to this album first since I had previous exposure to it through their song “Do Not Wait”, which I really enjoyed

favorite(s) before listen: Do Not Wait

favorite(s) after listen: Do Not Wait, Only Friend, Treacherous Doctor, Scrawny, Worlds Apart, What You Like

standout lyric: "I’m a scrawny motherfucker with a cool hairstyle”

April 7th: Tell Me That It’s Over, Wallows

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: I Don’t Want to Talk, Especially You, Marvelous, Hurts Me, That’s What I Get, Guitar Romantic Search Adventure

standout lyric: less one lyric and more a love of the lyric parallel in “I Don’t Want to Talk” where, in the chorus, he sings “Tell me that it’s over now / Then i could shut this off” -- referring to his overthinking and, especially, his emotions about the situation. and how we get a glimpse at the quote unquote ‘truth’ of those wanting-to-be-dismissive lyrics in the bridge with, “Don't usually cry, but looks like that's over / I start to lose sight of myself and I wish I could shut it / Wish I could shut it off”. What can I say! I love songs where man explore the effects of toxic masculinity and how they feel the need to be “shut off” their emotions but, really, they can’t.

April 8th: How to be a Human Being, Glass Animals

familiarity: I’ve had a passing familiarity with Glass Animals over the years and, being familiar with “The Other Side of Paradise” from this album, I was happy to take the rec from @kymal on this one

favorite(s) before listen: The Other Side of Paradise

favorite(s) after listen: The Other Side of Paradise, Agnes, Mama’s Gun, Youth, Life Itself

standout lyric: [woof] -- also, the delivery of “I miss him / Don’t you blame me / That boy went stone cold crazy”? marvelous. love performing that in the car by myself

April 9th: PEP, Lights

familiarity: I’ve been familiar with Lights music since "The Listening” and, with every new album, it’s just such an experience to hear how her sound has matured and evolved since then. [this was not recommended by @kymal outwardly but i saw her talking about it on twitter and that’s how i found out about the new album so i’ll credit them lol]

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: Beside Myself, Prodigal Daughter, Jaws, Rent, Okay Okay (this song makes me wish i had long hair so i can twirl it around my fingers during the chorus i need to perform)

standout lyric: “If you wanna live in my head, you gotta pay the expenses / And honey, you can't afford what the rent is”

April 10th: five seconds flat, Lizzy McAlpine

familiarity: listened to her 2020 album a while back for this project and this album just dropped on Friday

favorite(s) before listen: N/A

favorite(s) after listen: doomsday, called you again, all my ghosts, reckless driving, ceilings, hate to be lame

standout lyric: less a lyric and more a moment where, at the end of ‘all my ghosts’, you hear her whispering, “fuck yeah” in the studio and laughing and you realize that the explicit rating on that song is solely for that