todd rundgren is from a town very close to mine and my aunt’s old long term boyfriend was a superfan of his and one day they were at a cafe or something and todd was there and her boyfriend chased him out of the place trying to give him his demo tape
i’m like this and then i wonder why i end up only surrounded by old people in my real life
crying again
daryl hall and john oates
watching this and crying so hard i got into a coughing jag
my hair looks like it wants to kill itself
it’s crazy when you make a character and then years later you meet someone who is exactly that character
i like meeting an album where it’s at. rather than thinking oh this part is too slow oh this part is too fast oh an intro should sound like this oh a closer should sound like this oh this part disrupts the flow oh this part doesn’t fit etc. cuz that to me kind of means you have an ideal album in your head that you’re comparing everything to. but if the artist rly cares about their music then they chose to put things the way they are for a reason. so i like to try and empathize with that. ofc not every album has enough care put into it to warrant that but still
i am a music first lyrics second kind of person which is prob why i haven’t gotten into a lot of those artists
i wonder if i can name all the songs i like from them
bob dylan: um i’ve heard several albums and liked them but the only song i rly return to is ballad of a thin man. also his version of must be santa (2009)
paul simon/s&g: i used to listen to graceland and surprise (2006) as a kid. don’t return much these days. i like the hits, 50 ways to leave your lover etc. i like america by s&g
bruce springsteen: i love thunder road and jungleland and rosalita and born to run (song). i listened to nebraska once and it rewired my brain for 24 hrs but have not returned to it since
lou reed/tvu: velvet underground self titled and white light/white heat are incredible albums. and i love satellite of love (obligatory as bowie fan)
leonard cohen: couldn’t tell you a single song sry
joan baez: the only song i remember by her is her version of babe i’m gonna leave you but it’s beautiful
oasis: i love the hits obviously wonderwall champagne supernova don’t look back in anger etc i just have yet to hear more stuff
joni mitchell: as a kid i listened to court & spark a looooot. my favs were raised on robbery, car on a hill, help me, etc. i loved big yellow taxi too. nowadays i rly love both sides now, obv river is beautiful, etc. also i like smokin from dog eat dog cuz of my mom
fiona apple: i’m long overdue for a proper deep dive but i love criminal
patti smith: literally the only song i know is because the night but i like it
i wonder if i can name all the songs i like from them
Pink Floyd shot by Andrew Whittuck, 1967
why is there no beach boys song with a normal backstory
it’ll be the most simple 3 chord pop song and the history is like “we were awake for a month straight trying to record it and then the tapes were destroyed and we all screamed at each other and vowed to never talk again and started seeing new doctors who told us to rerecord it so we did and then 10 random people we never even heard of before filed lawsuits for writing credits and won 98% of the royalties”
