i was in a thrift shop the other day and they were playing the most unsettling variations of normal christmas music, culminating in this rendition of the 12 days of christmas except it was like 12 guys all singing over each other and going “no!” and interrupting the lyrics with random other phrases until they deadass just started singing 5 golden rings to toto’s africa. can anyone confirm that this is a real song and not that i stroked so hard i astral projected into a universe where everything is somehow worse than it is here
please if you do anything useful in your life, don’t scroll past this
watch it
PLEASE
tchaikovsky is proud
In case anyone is baffled by this, there’s a Tchaikovsky piece in which there’s supposed to be a loud sound but he never specified what you should use to make that sound. People have done all kinds of weird shit depending on how they think the sound should, well, sound. Hitting a large piece of wood with a sledgehammer is a relatively conventional one.
We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we’re strong. I believe in goodness and I believe in those who fight for it. I believe that we will keep fighting and we won’t stop until we make it. Stay strong and stand up for what’s right.
The sun is rising, but it don’t know, it don’t know The sort of day it dawns upon. The sky is blue, but the wind blows, oh the wind blows It’ll blow until the the hate is gone
Cause this is our land, no matter the lines This is our history no matter the time. This is the legacy that we leave behind And just you wait until they find
That we will not rest, no, we will not lie Down in the mud, we will reach the for the sky This isn’t over, we won’t take it This isn’t history yet Until we make it.
The sun is rising on a new day, on a new day And we are rising upwards, too We have our kindness, and they can’t take that away And we have a lot of work to do.
Cause this is our land, no matter the lines This is our history no matter the time. This is the legacy that we leave behind And just you wait until they find
That we will not rest, no, we will not lie Down in the mud, we will reach the for the sky This isn’t over, we won’t take it This isn’t history yet Until we make it.
Cause we are a people, no matter our labels We’re turning the tide and we’re turning the tables We’re grabbing the stars and controlling our fate Because love will conquer hate.
And we will not rest, no, we will not lie Down in the mud, we will reach the for the sky This isn’t over, we won’t take it This isn’t history yet Until we make it.
im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that’s what i do and im honestly curious if anyone in my country has ever been unequivocally happy about anything ever
scottish trad music genres:
Everyone I Love Is Dead
The English Have Stolen All My Sheep
You Want To Be My Boyfriend? First You Must Answer These Riddles Three
The Protestants Have Stolen All My Sheep
I Love You A Lot But You’ve Left Me And It’s Raining [fiddle solo]
The Sea Is Treacherous, Just Like The English
One Time Bonnie Prince Charlie Punched Me In The Face And It Was Awesome
The Fairies Have Stolen All My Sheep
We have of course the traditional Irish music genres to go with them:
* Everyone I Love Is An Allegorical Representation of Ireland
* The English Stole My Farm And Put Sheep On It
* You Were My Boyfriend But Now You Won’t Even Come To The Window To Look Upon Me And Our Dead Infant Child (In The Rain)
* Whack Fol Too La Roo Umptytiddly Good They’ve Stopped Listening Now Let’s Talk About Revolution
* Something In Irish, I Think It’s About Fairies, Or Maybe A Cow
oooo can I add to this? don’t forget Appalachian folk balladry, the American cousin of Scottish and Irish traditional music and just as uplifting as its Anglo-Saxon highland forbears!!!
genres include:
I Left Everyone I Love Back Home In The Holler To Be With This Guy Who Doesn’t Wear Shoes Or Have Teeth But He Plays A Mean Jug
The English Told Us Not To Move West Yet, We Ignored Them, My Entire Family Was Killed
You Were My Boyfriend But You Tied A Sack Of Rocks To My Petticoats And Threw Me In The Creek (And My Baby Too)
Mama Loves All 14 Of Us A Lot But She’s Weary Of Our Shit And Now She’s Dyin’ (Gather Round)
The McCleans Stole A Firewood Log From Our Pile So We Won’t Rest Until The Last Of Their Male Kin Is Laid In The Cold Ground
We Knew The River Would Rise But We Still Didn’t Fix The Levee
The River Rose, The Levee Broke, Everyone Died, It Was Just As We Reckoned (dulcimer twang-a-lang)
When The Rebels Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Southern Man And I Feed Their Horses My Best, When The Yankees Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Northern Man And I Feed Their Horses What The Rebels Left
The Tennessee Valley Authority Killed All My Sheep Somehow
Don’t forget that old standby “The Mine Collapsed and Everyone Died”!
I think someone needs to put in a word for the English folk tradition though:
I Met a Girl and We Went Hunting (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)
I Met a Girl and We Caught Some Birds (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)
I Met a Girl and We Found Her Lost Pet (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)
I Met a Girl By Staying At Her Parents’ House and She Made My Bed (It Was an Especially Thinly-Veiled Metaphor for Sex)
I Am a Girl and I Regret Engaging In Metaphors for Sex Because Now I’m Pregnant
I Met a Girl and Bribed Her Into Sex But She Stole My Horse and Ran Away With It
I Met a Girl At an Inn and We Had Non-Metaphorical Sex But She Stole My Stuff The Next Morning and Now I Have Syphilis
Your Fiance Died Either at Trafalgar or Waterloo, Let’s Get Married, I’m Glad You Said No Because I’m Really Him In Disguise
Lord Nelson Sure Was Awesome
The Press-Gang Dragged Off All the Important Men in My Life (And Now They Are Dead)
Farm Laborers Are The Salt of the Earth And Are Never Grindingly Poor
Begging Is a Completely Viable Career Option With Flexible Hours and Unlimited Access to Alcohol
OH GOD HELP ME I AM LAUGHING SO HARD I CANNOT BREATHE
(plus I know every variant of each and every one of these songs and I’ll send you the links if you want)
I once tried to write a folk song which was all folk songs. I see now I was not trying hard enough…
Some more:
I Fell In Love With A Bloke To Whom My Family Had A Mysterious Never-Articulated Objection (They Murdered Us Both)
This Guy Got Me Pregnant But It’s OK Because My Dad Fancies Him Too
This Old Flame Of Mine Showed Up And Implied My Marriage Was Bigamous (Now We’re At The Bottom of the Sea)
Robin Hood Did Stuff (Some Of It Was Hella Gay)
I Thought My Wife Was Having An Affair And People’s Heads Got Cut Off (Now I Regret It A Bit)
Extremely Alarming Obstetric Choices and Infanticide
Incest, Alarming Obstetric Choices, Infanticide and Murder-Suicide (With A Bizarrely Inadequate Weapon)
it got better.
A day may come when I do not reblog the Songs of My People post, but today is not that day.
More Appalachian classics!!
Killed by a Woman’s Rather Brusque Rejection of my Hand in Marriage
Killed by My Fiancée’s Adultery
Killed by My Wife Who’s Running off With a Carpet-Bagger
We’ve Been Building this Railroad for a Very Long Time and I’d Like to Go Home Now
I’m in Prison Building a Railroad and I’d Like to Go Home Now
The Mountain is Trying to Kill Us
Bears
The Devil’s a Cool Dude But Maybe Don’t Ask Him for Stuff
Met a Bear But It was The Devil
My House Is Falling Apart
I Literally Pray For Death
Seriously Take Me Home Jesus
My Banjo’s Bigger Than Your Banjo
Scarlet Fever: A History
I’m still waiting for the Welsh add-on
I love how Neil Gaiman just randomly pops up in the middle of this chain.
Yo, dude, do you want me to sing the songs of my people?
Behold, Caribbean folk music:
Animals live such charming lives (which are metaphors for sex)
I am a successful farmer who grows a lot crops (which are
metaphors for dicks)
We should go on a magical adventure (which is a metaphor for sex)
People who propose marriage are universally assholes
Don’t be a dick to animals, it will end poorly
You need to be praying way more frequently than you already are
(which is probably a lot)
People who make deals with the devil won’t have long lives, but
they will be extremely interesting
HAVE YOU TRIED MY HERBAL REMEDY THAT CURES DEATH AND REVERSES
CANCER????
If you do anything impressive with your life, jealous people will
murder you in cold blood
Don’t trust foreigners
ESPECIALLY don’t trust white people
No, dude, you have no fucking clue how badly it’ll turn out if you
trust white people you’ll have to kill your own kids no lie
(In reference to the last one, @ilzolende said “Well, I did eat
one of your cookies without permission.”
The songs of my homeland feel so validated by this.)
Who knew?
Jewish folk songs, holiday edition
My god can beat up your god
God please stop them from killing us when we say the above
no seriously god that wasn’t a joke
Fine we’ll encrypt the first thing is that what you want
DEDICATE YOUR LIFE TO THE LORD OR HE WILL FUCK YOU UP
SERIOUSLY
WE WARNED YOU
Dammit now there’s blood everywhere
god can you please help us clean up this mess
buying goats turns your life into some sort of rube goldberg hellscape
look we can count to 14 even when we’re drunk
See #1
Italian folk songs:
I Woke Up One Morning And The Nazi Were Here – The Story of How I Became A Partisan (AKA The International Communism Hymn)
Hooray For Comunism, Praise Socialism, Wave That Red Flag! (AKA The National Communism Hymn)
My Birth Town Is The Best Your Birth Town Could Never Compare to How Awesome My Birth Town is
My Birth Region Is The Best And I Cry Myself To Sleep Everytime I Leave
I Am Far From My Birth Town (Which Is The Best) And That Makes Me Sad
I Went Overseas And Worked Hard To Build A New Life There (But My Birth Town Was The Best So I Had To Go Back)
I Am Sad Cause I Have To Go To War (I Wanted To Stay Home With My GF Instead)
I Love You So Much (But You Are Too Far) – Tale of a LDR
I Am An Overworked Exploited Woman And I Hate War And Injustice
We Are Strong Women Who Banded Together To Strike In Protest To Have Our Work Rights Respected, But It Failed Because Of Damn Scabs (Who All Ought To Be Killed)
Hey So Can You Check Up On These Flowers Cause I Want To Give These Flowers To My BF Who BTW Is CHEATING ON ME THE BASTARD I AM CRYING SO HARD I AM NEVER GETTING ANOTHER BF MIGHT AS WELL KMS I
So, once upon a time I said, “If you can’t tell Captain America what you’re doing, you probably shouldn’t be doing it” and it inspired a poem by Catt Kingsgrave (aka theactualcluegirl) which eventually led to this pre-release rough-draft single, The Ballad Of Captain America’s Disapproving Face (also available for listening here on SoundCloud).
I guarantee you will never laugh this hard at any other song that opens with a riff on the Star Spangled Banner. Also there is, if I’m not mistaken, a kazoo cover of Star Spangled Man involved.
Anyhow, Murder Ballads is working on an album, and if you like the song, consider throwing a few bucks their way to help get their album made.
(The accompanying image up there is by the astonishing Frogbillgo, but is not associated officially with the album.)
I finally got around to watching this video, and now I can’t stop crying.
The gist of the story is one we’re pretty familiar with…the elderly woman can’t say goodbye to her partner because legally they are not “family,” and she’s afraid to say their relationship with each other so she says they’re friends who’ve lived together for decades but the hospital says it has rules…eventually she finds her partner’s nephew to sign the waiver form so the hospital lets her say her final goodbye…and then in her dreams she has the wedding they never got. At the very end the nurse asks again, and she proudly says, “she is my wife.”
This is one of Taiwan’s biggest pop stars with one of Taiwan’s biggest actresses, and the majority of it is played by a very famous, well-respected actress that I grew up watching…so needless to say this is super duper powerful and extremely moving to me. Thank you Taiwan…you give me hope. Thank you Jolin.
Katy Perry’s Firework is a song about self worth and hope, but the Katy Perry version sounds so empty and hollow and corporate and fake. Meanwhile every cover of that song I’ve heard sounds 1000x more sincere and real.
Even the JonTron cover?
Especially the JonTron cover.
I’m gonna listen to the JonTron cover.
i dont care who you are. watch it
I don’t know what I was ready for.
But it wasn’t this.
All the animators/animation styles are so great too.
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