🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[UnquietDreams]

(+1 = 12)

I find the idea of "post-" genres to be infinitely interesting. How do you take an expression of art, deconstruct it to it's base components, and build from them something completely different? What will come out the other side? Often, beauty.

Scandinavia has a rich history of folk music, stemming back a thousand years. Strings, horns, harmonies and epic tales. Somehow, we took all that history, all of those rich rich stories, and ended up at Black Metal. What? How? Yeah, I don't know either. Never been a fan.

But what comes after Black Metal? How do you take something so extreme, and make it beautiful again? You deconstruct it. You take the lyrics, the chords, the structure, and you apply them to those age old themes of our folk music.

And so, we arrive at a curious genre called post-Black Metal. It is harmonious, mellow, wonderful. If you're a fan of black metal then, like an experienced sommelier, you might be able to pick out the notes of darkness left in this genre.
But they are faint.

@morelikeasong I'd like to dedicate this one to you, as it's more than folk music, more than black metal, more than it's components combined.
And yet, it is just a song. And it is beautiful.

Myrkur - House Carpenter.

I've just returned from the salt, salt sea
All for the love of thee

Oh, I love this. I really love this. I may have delved into Scandinavian heavy metal, especially in my wild youth, but I was never a fan of Black Metal. Too serious, and too "I want to piss off my parents," even for me in my teens. But I do enjoy what it has evolved into, especially what they call "viking metal," which is similar to this, but with more...um...metal.

But this is glorious. Glorious. I love this, and now have a new rabbit hole to run down. This is why I love this thread. New stuff to find, new stories, new things.

 

[morelikeasong]

@morelikeasong I'd like to dedicate this one to you, as it's more than folk music, more than black metal, more than it's components combined.
And yet, it is just a song. And it is beautiful.

Myrkur - House Carpenter.

Oooo I absolutely love this. Right up my alley. Thank you for the dedication and for sharing the background with us!

(And don’t forget to collect your +5)

Edit: anyone know why the spoiler code never works for me??
[SPOILER]testing[/SPOILER]

 

[vagrantx]

Oh, I love this. I really love this. I may have delved into Scandinavian heavy metal, especially in my wild youth, but I was never a fan of Black Metal. Too serious, and too "I want to piss off my parents," even for me in my teens.

Completely agree! I confess I've dabbled in other forms of extreme metal, Death for example. I have an album signed by Cradle of Filth. Was at a tiny little record shop in Stockholm where they were going to play later that evening. All the band was there in full corpse-paint and get-up, apart from Dani who arrived late, in his smart-car, in trainers, sweatpants, and a white tee. Took some of the magic out of that night, but damn if it wasn't hilarious.

But I do enjoy what it has evolved into, especially what they call "viking metal," which is similar to this, but with more...um...metal.

But this is glorious. Glorious. I love this, and now have a new rabbit hole to run down. This is why I love this thread. New stuff to find, new stories, new things.

I'm happy you liked it! There's some magical music out there to find, beneath the grime and murk. And thank you for sharing a story of your own! I very much enjoyed that


@morelikeasong
https://imgur.com/YeDGXBV.png

 

[UnquietDreams]

@vagrantx , I just want to say, apart from our lovely hostess, your posts are my favorite part of this thread, and really, one of my favorite things on the Lit boards. I love your music choices, but I love your stories, with all the whys and wherefores, much more. Part of it is the Scandinavian point of view of the world, so different from my as a Yank. But most of it is just you. Thank you and much love to you for it.

 

[---E---]

Day 8: A song that mentions a body of water
Blurry - Puddle Of Mud

"There's oceans in between us but that's not very far..."

 

[morelikeasong]

@morelikeasong
https://imgur.com/YeDGXBV.png

Yes! That’s what I did. But it just adds in that code. And the code isn’t working

[SPOILER]see?[/SPOILER]

 

[Azuldrgon]

Day 8: A song that mentions a body of water
No bonus today.

He mentions a few bodies of water in the lyrics.
Trivia bit: he named the song after his daughter.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Completely agree! I confess I've dabbled in other forms of extreme metal, Death for example. I have an album signed by Cradle of Filth. Was at a tiny little record shop in Stockholm where they were going to play later that evening. All the band was there in full corpse-paint and get-up, apart from Dani who arrived late, in his smart-car, in trainers, sweatpants, and a white tee. Took some of the magic out of that night, but damn if it wasn't hilarious.

I used to work concerts in high school and college, mostly lights but some sound work, and usually roadie crap work. But I got to see a lot of bands out of their stage persona. My main memory was Lita Ford walking in wearing sweatpants, no make up, and her hair pulled back in a ponytail. Not exactly teased up hair and leather pants, but still hot as fuck. I loved seeing behind the masks. (Well, not Kiss, they all wore bandanas when you were allowed to see them at all. And a dear friend's, now passed (FUCK YOU, breast cancer!) brother is in Kiss, so I can say "hey, I remember when that guy puked on my shoes!")

 

[vagrantx]

@vagrantx , I just want to say, apart from our lovely hostess,

Hehehe nice safeguard, wouldn't want to catch a spanking now would we? ...would we?

your posts are my favorite part of this thread, and really, one of my favorite things on the Lit boards. I love your music choices, but I love your stories, with all the whys and wherefores, much more. Part of it is the Scandinavian point of view of the world, so different from my as a Yank. But most of it is just you. Thank you and much love to you for it.

Thank you so much! My SO isn't very much into art, and as such it's been very cathartic for me to be able to express and share my love for all things artistic here. Never thought I'd find this amount of joy on what is in essence a porn-forum, but here we are Imagine trying to share posts like this in the comment section of Pornhub!
But, in seriousness, thank you. It's very nice to know that my doodlings are appreciated!

 

[UnquietDreams]

Hehehe nice safeguard, wouldn't want to catch a spanking now would we? ...would we?

We would. We would...

 

[vagrantx]

Yes! That’s what I did. But it just adds in that code. And the code isn’t working

[SPOILER]see?[/SPOILER]

You need to add ="button name" in the first hard bracket. (SPOILER="Button Name")This Should Work(/SPOILER) but with [ ]

 

[morelikeasong]

You need to add ="button name" in the first hard bracket. (SPOILER="Button Name") but with [ ]

If you don’t add a name it’s supposed to just blur it until tapped. I’ve done it successfully before but I can’t seem to get it to work consistently. So frustrating.


I don’t like the button. But I suppose it works so that’s something.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Oooo I absolutely love this. Right up my alley. Thank you for the dedication and for sharing the background with us!

(And don’t forget to collect your +5)

Edit: anyone know why the spoiler code never works for me??
[SPOILER]testing[/SPOILER]

I could say something about "princesses" and "spoiling..."

These boards are built on 1998 coding. Seriously, posting on here is just like the old Delphi Forums. (Turned into a ghost town, but I loved that place at one time.) I am surprised half of the stuff works, and more than half works differently than in the "help" screens.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 8: A song that mentions a body of water

Waterfalls - TLC

"Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to..."

+2 if the artists are multiple women
Total so far: 15

Goddammit!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 8 a song that mentions a body of water

8+1=9

We always, always, always have fun here on the Best Coast

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 8 a song that mentions a body of water

8+1=9

We always, always, always have fun here on the Best Coast

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Day 8: A song that mentions a body of water

It's only a passing mention of the Mississippi and probably not worth any actual points, but it's one of my favorite pieces of early Andrew McMahon.

 

[The_spirit_of_oz]

Day 8: A song that mentions a body of water
Christine Anu My Island Home

 

[MindYaBitness]

Day 8: A song that mentions a body of water

Pedro Capó-Calma

 

[Cjbdd]

 

[Biggalute]

 

[AmberLGreen]

Day 7: A song for a foggy/misty morning

Day 8: A song that mentions a body of water

 

[curious_slut]

Day 8: A song that mentions a body of water

Now I rise with the tide
Treading blind no more, no more
Sticks and stones, broken bones
Leave them on the ocean floor

 

[Bry1313]

Day 8: A song that mentions a body of water


Dammit, my song yesterday was perfect for today, anyways thank you PJ Harvey for being awesome, I won’t count back up singing so just +1 today for 7 points

 

[hotoldrguy]

Green River CCR