#one of my all time favorite albums

[novemb-r]

Robert Wilson, William S. Burroughs and Tom Waits

A year after hammering his art down to its primal essence with the Grammy-winning apocalyptic stomp of 1992’s Bone Machine, Waits ushered in a strange new beast on The Black Rider, with help from a legendary Beat author, William Burroughs; an avant-garde theater visionary, Robert Wilson and a nightmarish German folk tale, “Der Freischütz”.

Not a cast album, this release is Waits’ interpretation and performance of the songs he had originally created for the stage production of The Black Rider which premiered in Hamburg in 1990. The album may be the most sinister and fractured-sounding in Waits’s catalog with lyrics for three songs written by Burroughs. The most telling is the cowboy noir “Crossroads,” where the magic bullets become a metaphor for drugs. Burroughs said, “I had the idea of comparing the magic bullet in the original German story to heroin. Once you use one, you’ll use another. Tom said, ‘Yeah, and the first one’s always free’ and of course that went right in.”

Photo: Ralf Brinkhoff and Birgit Mögenburg

[whyfalloutwhenyoucanpanic]

I love you Homework (1997) by Daft Punk

[razorsadness]

The Monorchid - Let Them Eat… (1997)

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Summer – Thomas Dewing // The Hermit Thrush – Thomas Dewing // The White Birch – Thomas Dewing // seven – Taylor Swift

[front-facing-pokemon]

[ohgaylor]

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

[the-skys-gone-out]

[celestialsblues]

I think I've been going through it / and I've been putting your name to it

So Much (For) Stardust by @falloutboy

[novemb-r]

Tom Waits - Watch Her Disappear. Footage is a clip from Edouard Lock's Film Amelia, featuring footage of the dance troupe La La La Human Steps from Quebec, Canada. Dancers: Naomi Stikeman and Jason Shipley-Homes

[whiskeyswifty]

The Black Dog - Taylor Swift (Starting Line Album)

based on the Starting Line album Say It Like You Mean It

[arilphys]

i haven't drawn caim in 3 years

[lesbian-space-fish]

But I will love you more than Death

[SPOILER WARNING!!]

Song: More Than Death by Creeper

[gideonisms]

Do you ever listen to a song and you're like wow what an interesting commentary on gender roles and class and aging and then you look up the band and realize they just probably think the world is like that

[locomotive-complicity]

hey, happy anniversary to Appetite For Destruction 🎉

[authenticcadence18]

I’ve said it once I’ll say it again

The Tortuted Poets Department was born of heartbreak and loss. The loss of a longtime partner, the loss of a longtime friend, the loss of a potential romance, the loss of ideals about love, the loss of places you used to love that you have to leave behind in order to grow, the loss of your past self.

it feels absolutely AWFUL to be in that sort of state, to lose things that were once so vital to who you are.

Common critiques of TTPD are that it is “too long” or “not cohesive” or “all the songs sound the same” or “the songs aren’t written as well”.

but guess what that’s what heartbreak feels like !!!!! it lasts too long!!!!! it doesn’t just GO AWAY it lingers like a 31-track album!!! thoughts after heartbreak aren’t cohesive! they are frantic, they aren’t put together, they’re all over the place they’re devastated. And “all the songs sound the same” so do your thoughts in the wake of major heartbreak. In my experience, the brain likes to shuffle through the same thoughts over and over and over again. And to people saying the songs aren’t as well written I mean. Thats what happens when you have to keep functioning and “do it with a broken heart.” TTPD is what it sounds like to have your heart broken. Each song is a different hour, day, week, month of dealing with it. Those songs ARE well written, and even if some of them don’t contain the most polished lyrics they are raw and real. That’s what makes them comforting.

I just think a lot of the critiques of TTPD are looking at it purely from a musical standpoint and not an emotional one. TTPD is about catharsis, capturing as many feelings as possible bc if you don’t write them down they’ll stay in your brain and haunt you. TTPD is about taking your demons and making something beautiful out of them so they hurt a little less