#vētra

[eurovision-revisited]

2000 Stockholm - Number 17 - BrainStorm - "My Star"

Back to Latvia and for a performance that is one of the most popular of Eurovision 2000 among Eurofans. It's one of the best-performing debut songs for a country ever and is from a band that is possibly Latvia's biggest. Latvia may have been the last of the Baltic countries to enter Eurovision, but here they are showing Estonia and Lithuania how its done.

Brainstorm (aka Prāta Vētra) are a band of school friends who by 2000 had been big in the Latvian music business for at least seven years. Later in 2000 they released their first best-of album. My Star is (unusually for 2000) a straightforward love song. The genre is alt-pop/folk and stands out a mile from absolutely everything else in Eurovision that year. It's a gentle, almost whimsical song lead by jangly guitars and the unmistakable voice and dancing style of singer Renārs Kaupers, more of whom later.

At Eurodziesma 2000, the first Latvian national final, this won by a large margin although the scoring was heavily weighted in favour of juries over the televote. Perhaps not surprising for one of the biggest bands in Latvia. At Eurovision, it had a good draw and went on in what was the far stronger second half. Even if it had gone on in the first half, it would have done well, purely because of how much it stood out.

Brainstorm subsequently have had a stellar career. They've released more than 15 albums in Latvia, more than 10 in English and at least 5 in Russian. They seem to be constant writing and recording new songs and touring, sometime simultaneously. They're huge across the Russian speaking world which has lead to some controversial concerts in Russia, especially after the invasion of Crimea in 2014. More recently however, they cancelled all planned tours and concerts in Russia and have made clear their support for Ukraine.

In the Eurovision world, they're the band that launched Latvia on the Eurovision scene and Renārs would go on to co-host Eurovision 2003 after Latvia's win in 2002. The band have also played Glastonbury (second on the John Peel stage on the Saturday in 2013!) making Renārs the only Eurovision host to have gone on to play Glasto. Please correct me if I'm wrong!

[jupiter-reimagined]

a song about drowning kittens shouldnt be such a bop but such is life sometimes

[haveyouheardthisband]

[bioerin]

was tagged by @thegreatwhynot thank youuu love to see Florence stans

Rules: Shuffle your ‘Repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 songs that come up.

tagging @empiria-caterima @frost0wl @cookiesandcontemplation @faslaidir @drearywhispers @bumblebee-bea and everyone else who wants to

[mayskalih]

I'm searching for inspiration. Musical inspiration. What's been on your playlist recently?

And if you want to also answer: which character(s) do you imagine it fits?

I have to warn you, my playlist is a very constant thing in my life. Most songs are there since 2007.

Since it's autumn and gloomy outside, I'm indulging Antimatter right now. Anything by Placebo, 'The Eraser' album by Thom Yorke, 'Varsovie', L'Alhambra, Paris' album by Saez. In a manner of speaking by Tuxedo Moon, Famous blue raincoat by Leonard Cohen.

As for the song for specific character.. Mariya Chaykovskaya - In the room of coloured capes (В комнате цветных пелерин) is a Kakasaku song for me, when their relationship is complicated. I love many her songs, highly recommend.

Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. I think it's very Ino song. Even though she knows her worth, sometimes self-doubt crawls upon her.

Prāta Vētra - At dawn (На заре). Kakashi during the time when he was genin teacher. This song is very special to me in many ways, kind of tribute to being young and making mistakes, and hoping for something better ahead. Plus, it's by my favourite latvian band (my home country), they're amazing.

Blink 182 - Miss you, very Deisaku or Sasosaku. Don't know why, just the feeling I have whenever I listen to them.

No Doubt - Don't speak. It's Sakura's song! I really love Gwen Stefani outfit in the music video and pretty sure Sakura would rock it as well. Plus the whole broken heart theme.

[beautiful-story]

🎶🎹🎸🎙️

[whitedarkmoonflower]

10 songs, 10 people

I was tagged by @sihtricfedaraaahvicius Thank you!

Rules: shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag 10 people

I added some explanations to the names. As you can see it's very much techno and house with some weird interludes from other genres 😘

1. Charlotte de Witte - Overdrive (My beloved "Techno queen". She is truly amazing, if you love techno of course.)

2. Laibach – Ohne dich. Remix (Rammstein) (Slovenian neoclassical dark wave band, formed in 1980 in Yugoslavia. Their remix of Rammstein's "Ohne dich" is awesome, but they have good music on their own. Rammstein has never openly admitted that they have been inspired by Laibach, but common - just listen to them 😄)

3. Prodigy - Voodoo People (Oh, yes. I think there are no comments needed. Prodigy is classics. I have tickets to the concert in November. Just a bit worried how it will be without Flint 😓)

4. Marusha - Somewhere Over the Rainbow (I'm sorry, I am ancient 😅. I was there at the Loveparade in Berlin in 1998 and danced with Marusha playing. Oh my God, she was so good! And I was there again in 2000)

5. Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar

6. Tiesto, Kirsty Hawkshaw - Walking on Clouds (I have a picture with him from Madame Tussauds Wax museum in Amsterdam 🤣)

7. Coldplay - A Sky Full of Stars (I can't hear techno, house and other heavy stuff all the time 🤩, in between I need something fluffy)

8. Pink Floyd, Andriy Khlyvnyuk - Hey Hey Rise Up (Ukraine! I'm still standing with you!)

9. Prāta Vētra – Starp Divām Saulēm (it would be weird if there wouldn't be any Latvian music on my playlist)

10. Amelie Lens - Feel it (another great techno girl DJ)

I'm not good at tagging, but hey I would love to hear from @st-eve-barnes @synindoodles @verenahx @namelesslosers, if you feel like into it 😘

[musavera]

[jerichoes]

for the music ask!! 4, 6, 12, 21, 27, 28, 30 gimme all the REXX

alright so i’ve answered a couple of these already BUT the good thing about songs is that there are a lot of them so i’m going to come up with new answers in addition to the previous ones >:3c

4. a song that makes you feel strong.

“velociraptor!” by kasabian. it’s just the right level of high energy.

6. a song that cheers you up.

albanian pop girlies have been coming through for me lately. “maybe you’re the problem” by ava max. it’s a bop. that whole album is full of bops if we’re being honest.

12. a song that grew on you.

“silvertongue” by young the giant. it was kind of weird at first but they won me over, like they usually do lmao

(and a bonus, just because it’s funny: i didn’t like “carpe diem” at first. or the band. now look at me)

21. a song for the rain.

for a summer thunderstorm: “shake and tremble” by django django.

for a light summer rain: “colors” by beck OR “galvā tikai sievetes” by prāta vētra (or brainstorm). the lyrics on the second one have 0 connection to the rain, it’s all based on silly goofy vibes and weird connections my brain made.

for a standard autumn rain: “lautturi” by pmmp.

27. a song you’ve seen live.

“live in the moment” by portugal. the man. they are. so good live.

28. a song you want to see live.

trying very hard to not just put joker out or käärijä here, in the spirit of trying to diversify these posts.

i desperately want to see stromae live and i desperately want to hear “fils de joie” live. i just love “multitude”, it’s such a great album. maybe one day.

30. a song you recommend.

i’ll give you five. “white gold” by metric, “beaming white” by east india youth, “make me feel” by janaelle monáe, “ways” by roman lewis, “baby you’re a haunted house” by gerard way. none of these go together, i just really really love them.

[wedgeantill]

Tagged by @natures-marvel

PROMPT: 5 favorite songs at the moment

A Real Hero - Electric Youth, College Thunder without rain - BrainStorm (Prāta Vētra) Never Gonna Stop You - Andrew Britton Believer - Imagine Dragons Идём на восток! - Ногу Свело!

Tagging: @itscooltoskate, @kenobismullet, @paradisoinfernale98, @renjall, @starynighty

[ne-spivay-ranenko]

Jukebox January: Day 3

the original post tag of all my posts

Today I'm doing C and Č, since I do have one Č song on the list! (I know there's a special characters day, but I have a different plan for that.)

California - Chappell Roan

I'm pretty sure I cried the first time I listened to this song, and I still cry regularly, because it hits that close to home. If I remember right, this song was written after she got dropped from her label and her partner broke up with her, all in 2020. For me, who had a hard time after graduating and feeling like I'm too old to achieve things (despite the fact I'm only still in my 20s!) it captures the feeling all too well. Also, I'm from the Midwest, and I grew up dreaming of places like California, so the perspective is very relatable to me.

Četri krasti - Prāta Vētra

Outside of Latvia, people may know them as Brainstorm (and as the best from Eurovision 2000, I will take no arguments). They're another favorite band of mine who's been around since the 80s. This particular song is the first on the album they released after their bassist died in 2004, and I think it makes a lot of the lyrics on this album very impactful. Prāta Vētra's lyrics are often layered in metaphors, and I'm always having to interpret them in a language I'm learning, but this one is particularly inspiring to me.

Carpe Diem - Joker Out

Could I really not put this one in, considering how much this band has become part of my life in the past half a year or so? Actually, while I enjoyed this song at Eurovision, I didn't vote for it--I voted for Latvia in the semifinal and Croatia and Finland in the final. The song that really got me into Joker Out, that'll be for tomorrow. I do have to say, though, my favorite things about Carpe Diem are the bassline and the structure of the song. In Eurovision, with the time limit of 3 minutes, I think it's hard to make songs that don't follow the exact "standard pop song" structure, but here we have two verses that are quite different, the guitar solo closer to the beginning than the end, and it even comes in 14 seconds under the time limit. I like it, I think it flows nicely.

Control - Poe

This song comes from one of my favorite albums in the world, which sadly kind of disappeared into obscurity because of some record label merger which resulted in Poe being dropped, losing all distribution of her album, and getting tied up in court over a bunch of things that happened around this. It's sad, because this is an artistically incredible album, with the songs woven with recordings of her father and young daughter speaking. It also ties in with the novel House of Leaves, which her brother wrote (though I've never read it, so I can't speak much about it). This song is so powerful and inspiring. I think my favorite lines are "All those things that you taught me to fear/I've got them in my garden now and you're not welcome here".

A couple more under the cut!

Champion - Fall Out Boy

When I want to feel better, this is one of the songs I reach for. "I'm a champion of the people who don't believe in champions" is the line that stood out to me from the first time I heard this song. I know Sia co-wrote this one, too. I have a complex relationship with Sia's music because some of her songs were really inspirational to me, but she's done some questionable things in recent years. Still, a song that feels good and gets me feeling inspired.

Crawl Out Through the Fallout - Sheldon Allman

Okay, so here's where I reveal my love for the Fallout games' lore. I've actually only played Fallout 4 (I have New Vegas too, but haven't played it yet). But I've always been fascinated by the duality of how nuclear technology is portrayed in society and media, how it's both futuristic and apocalyptic. So that's why I really love the Fallout soundtracks (and some other similar songs, which might pop up later.)

[jupiter-reimagined]

girls love me for my ability to look at a song and just start crying cuz it made me think of The Character

[thingyperson]

Chocolate ice cream

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Kaminari Denki x GN!reader

Can be read as platonic or romantic.

I got inspired from a song in my native language before writing this. I'll link it at the end.

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It had been about 2 weeks since you finished your 1st year of high school.

You weren't making much of your time off. Just laying around or going to the gym on some days when you felt energetic.

The break was supposed to be, well, a break.

But who would've expected it to be this boring.

You were currently laying on the floor near your door, where you had woken up. You wanted to check the time but your phone was somewhere in your pile of stuff. Probably somewhere on your bed. You were too busy daydreaming about having fun with your friends.

Seemed like you were the only one of the group that hadn't planned their break beforehand since everyone was busy traveling and spending quality time with their family.

You would spend time with your family but your parents had work and all your relatives (the ones that were around your age) were also relaxing or having fun elsewhere.

A muffled sound of a message disturbed your thoughts.

Truth being told you didn't feel like getting up, but after the first message came another and another.

You got up slowly and went to find your phone. Your bed looked like it wasn't being used for sleeping, rather some kind of trash pile. You didn't feel like cleaning your room so you resorted to putting everything that got in your way on your bed.

You dug a bit in the mess and soon found your phone. It was under your blanket.

You diverted your eyes onto the screen of your phone. It showed 10:37 and 9 notifications from Kaminari.

You used to hang out a lot during summer breaks since you lived pretty close and went to the same kidnergarden, school etc.

You clicked on the messages to see why he was spamming your phone during summer break.

*Kaminari ★

⇢hey ⇢hey ⇢[nickname] ⇢are u busy rn?

⇢are u busy today?

⇢im rly bored

⇢like

⇢really really bored

⇢if youre free do u wanna hang out or smt?

...and a bunch of stickers.

You obviously you weren't busy.

im free right now ⇠ where are you thinking of? ⇠

⇢we could hang out at the mall or cafe

lets go to the mall ⇠ ill see u there in 20 ⇠ ill go to entrance b ⇠

You cleaned yourself up and put on some decent looking clothes

You checked the mirror to double check if you looked okay and you were on your way.

The mall was almost right next to your house so you were on time.

There weren't a lot of people in the mall since it had opened at 10:30.

You quickly looked around and saw Kaminari waving you over next to a clothing store. You went over to him.

"Where should we go first?"

"How about we get some chocolate ice cream?"

You both went to the grocery store and bought chocolate ice cream cones. They weren't the best quality but that's why you chose that brand.

You both paid for the ice cream at the self check-out and went outside to eat your ice creams.

And in our hands we had chocolate ice cream.

[andrejsartclub]

2023.02.26. Pēc vētras After storm acrylic/hardboard,40x33 cm

[mayskalih]

Music Asks: #3, 6 and 9 please! ^.^

Hello!

3: A song that reminds you of summertime

Prāta Vētra - На заре

This song instantly brings me back to short summer nights that we have back at home. When I spent my nights walking around the old city, hopping from one smoky bar to another, not really getting drunk, just having long long conversations with a friend or two. Then take the first train home when it's already light and listen to this song believing the friendships will be kept, the future will be bright and everything will be easy.

6: A song tha makes you want to dance

Disclaimer: I don't dance. There's certain level of alcohol intoxication, under which I do have desire to dance. But this window of opportunity is very narrow.

Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To

Gosh I love this song.

9: A song that makes you happy

The Beatles - For No One

I don't know what is it about this song, but it instantly lifts my mood! Beatles in general are very mood uplifting, but this one has a grip on me I can't explain ahah