#ragc

[midwestisolation]

i am but a kitchen sink a place to make the others clean

[swifty-fox]

bitches like my cause my music taste is full of whimsy

"The album trilogy chronicles a 17th-century sailor who catches his wife and brother having an affair. He then sets out to sea instead of confronting the two while the anger slowly builds in him. The rest of the trilogy tells the tale of the sailor finding the "Great Captain" who is the namesake of the band, trying to cope with the betrayal, becoming addicted to opiates, and eventually killing his brother in the heat of the moment.[1]"

[acumtv]

Delgaz 14.08.2024

Stimaţi clienţi,  În scopul efectuării unor lucrări în instalaţiile electrice va fi întreruptă alimentarea cu energie electrică în judeţul Bacău: – în data de 20.08.2024, între orele 08.00-16.00, municipiul Bacău, strada Unirii nr. 15, Punct Termic, CEC BANK, RAGC; – în data de 20.08.2024, între orele 08.00-16.00, localitatea Buhuşi, străzile:  Libertăţii, Chebac, Stadion, zona de post PT 32…

[colorsprae]

I'm somehow 12 years too late in realizing Andy Hull put out another RAGC album

[transgenderpete]

Mother I noticed, one of the men on the cross was allowed to come down

— The Church of the Good Thief - Right Away, Great Captain!

[idiottkid]

it must have been a month since you last loved me. and I haven't slept a wink I hope you care

[khoistop100]

# 28 Church of the Good Thief - Right Away, Great Captain

    You would think that after three reviews about a single guy I would run out of things to say. Seeing as I still have yet to review my favorite Andy Hull album and I have to defend picking this album over Manchester Orchestra’s Simple Math (mostly to my brother, the only person I really get into it over music with), I still have a solid amount to say about the writing and music of Andy Hull.

    When looking at albums on the star system, Simple Math is a five star album no doubt. Much like I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child, Simple Math is a very solid album with some great moments on it, mainly Deer, Pensacola (very bouncy, fun, not common for Manchester Orchestra), Pale Black Eye, Simple Math, and Leave It Alone. Yet when comparing it to I’m Like a Virgin, it doesn’t have the same level of diversity, that is to say, it doesn’t go from Sleeper 1972 (a song that barely moves through time on account of it being totally engulfed in mourning) to Golden Ticket (loud and almost indignant, with this undertone of longing that makes the song seem near but also far away). Now, it is easy to justify picking I’m Like a Virgin over Simple Math, since both are five star albums. Church of the Good Thief is four star, four and a half tops. Only about half of the songs are stellar, the other half are sort of run of the mill and unspectacular, but the peaks are so high for me, personally. The songs Blame, When I Met Death, Fur Stop Caring, I Wait For You, and Barely Bit Me are all great, with Blame and Fur Stop Caring standing out as particularly excellent.

    Blame, as I’ve said before, was the first song I heard by Right Away, Great Captain and remains one of the best. For one, the song has the most exposition of any of Right Away, Great Captain’s songs. It surmises the plot thus far, talking about the how the narrator murdered his brother after he caught his brother sleeping with his wife. The poetry in which Hull describes this moment in time is truly wonderful. “This house was my flowered heart, my petals have fallen/ if you love him tell me now and I’ll show you my scars.” It’s hallowed and forsaken in ways that I feel like only Hull can really hit and if that’s bias because he has already established himself as one of my favorite songwriters then fine, I just think he’s brilliant.

    Speaking of hallowed, Fur Stop Caring, a song that, like Mess Inside by The Mountain Goats, almost always gets me teary-eyed. In this song, the narrator is dealing with a ghost, be it his captain or his wife. “Shaking like a man should never shake I pulled a coin out from my breast, pretending it could change you” and “Stupid is as stupid does and stupidly I pulled the plug on you/ finally stopped beating/ stupid is as stupid does and somehow you’ll forgive the both of us/ the load that we still carry.” The most one I find that’s impacted me the most, recently, is “and from the shadow to the light/the God I know could not be tired/ but I am such a separate story.” I had the story of the Good Thief explained to me and it got me thinking about this project again. The story, in short, Jesus was crucified with two thieves. One of the thieves talked smack about Jesus while another while the other said that he believed that Jesus truly was the son of God. That thief, the good thief, was saved and sent to heaven. In one moment, a single moment of faith was enough to save someone for eternity. On the opposite side, we have the sailor from this story. Theoretically, his life was entirely good before this one act of rage and evil. Does that, then, define his life or does the entire life of good outweigh his one moment of bad. However, if the sailor’s life is seen as just a long list of bad and failure, the idea of a “Church of the Good Thief” would make since, as the sailor’s only hope for salvation would be to believe that God can forgive if you truly have a change of heart at the end of your life (I just want to shout out my wonderful girlfriend at the time of writing this. She’s super patient when it comes to telling me all about Christianity, as she was raised in an uber-Christian home and I was not. It’s wonderful to see work I already love in a new light, as Christianity is something so many artists are forced to grow up and deal with. I really appreciate her patience and top tier storytelling and her because she’s a great girl and great friend and a wonderful girlfriend).

    The Church of the Good Thief is not a perfect album but it has enough great songs that it’s a must listen for any fans of Andy Hull or storytelling over acoustic guitar. At its best, it’s an album that can echo in your heart, forever.

[birddad]

spell out your url with songs!! tagged by @deaineira :-)

b - beginners mind - bright eyes

i - interior people - king gizzard and the lizard wizard 

r - right away, great captain! - right away great captain

d - dead of night - orville peck

d - disappointing - john grant

a - all for myself - sufjan stevens

d - down, down, down to mephisto’s cafe - streetlight manifesto

this was fun!!! it was hard picking through the Ds LOL

tagging @gluku-pikron @agaricales @smallestbird and anyone else who wanna do it :-)

[artificial-sustenance]

3-29-17

[rhysles]

what if you could see my heart ? would you say , ❝ oh , brother , you’re the reason that we still don’t fall ? and the reason that we still don’t starve ? ❞                                                                          and oh no , i tried . i tried .

[lesbegays]

how did i make this post in 2012 when i was almost certain i didn’t get into manchester orchestra until 2017..........

dear pandora i made right away great captain/manchester orchestra radio for a reason pls play at least one song by those bands thank

[muchemoaboutnothing]

Omg I think you're the one other person in fans who knows about Right Away Great Captain! Its like almost too dark to vibe on fully for OFMD feels but there's a few songs where I was like oh I can seeeeeee this and Down To Your Soul is absolutely one of them. Did you listen to it while seeking OFMD vibes too?

Yes! The Eventually Home is one of my fav albums and it definitely delivers on the imagery and the angst. I can’t believe I haven’t seen them together until your post, but I imagine the cross section of RAGC fans, OFMD fans, and people who post original content on tumblr dot com in 2022 is fairly small. You might have a target audience of one right here lol. Love your work!

[airmanisr]

Transall C-160R ‘R203 / 64-GC’ by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 203 Military callsign F-RAGC Operated by ET02.064 of the Armée de l'Air, based at Evreux. 2019 Fête Aérienne Le Temps Des helices (Aerial Festival – The Time of the Propellers). Aérodrome de Cerny-La-Ferté-Alais, Cerny, France 9th June 2019

[alexandriteobscuraarchive]

Answer the questions…

Nicknames: Nebraska, a yodeled version of my fuckin name thanks to my xiv chara/oc,  @killtool calls me ‘Doc’ on occasion much to my delight, or (      )-mun that people sometimes use here

Star Sign: Aries---although technically I should be a Leo

Height: 5″2′

Favorite music artists: anime/vg music, Timber Timbre, Chelsea Wolfe, The Magnetic Fields (or any band by Stephin Merritt), Sleater-Kinney, Daniel Knox, Gregory and the Hawk, Now Now, Jack Stauber, The Manchester Orchestra/RAGC, Snail Mail, The Decemberists, etc etc etc...too much music. Also legit anything by the McElroy family. I’m a podcast whore

Last TV show you watched: I’m currently rewatching Counterpart

What kind of stuff do you post: Roleplays/drabbles, aesthetics, musings, nigh incomprehensible ooc posts---usually about my muses or my twitter

Do you have any other blogs: Yes, I have a total of 5

Why did you choose your URL:  it’s based around the primary muse of this blog (Danny) which draws attention to his special---not to mention very, very missing---right eye. I won’t go into any further detail than that to spare everyone

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff?? I haven’t taken a which house are you quiz in ages lmao

Pokemon Team: I don’t play PKG, whoops!

Favorite Colors: Red, green, orange and blue

How many blankets do you sleep with:  I still have my winter blankets on my bed and it’s fuckin June, you do the math

Following: no

Followers: double no

Tagged by: @maskedmuses​

Tagging: @killtool, @ethcrealprince & @royaltywritten​

[runaways-withme]

okay i know not posting something on social media when sometheing ragc happens isnt a bad thing cause ppl go things their own way n its not about social media prescence it’s at actually caring abt the ppl involved but like i hope tommorow at least kenny ortega says osmething or else im not gonna believe it