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diff --git a/docs/music/deathbed_playlist.md b/docs/music/deathbed_playlist.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..709224e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/music/deathbed_playlist.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# Playlist to put on on my deathbed + +2023-03-11 + +Memorandum provided without context and subject to revision without +notice. But seriously these are good songs. + +- Wake Me Up When September Ends +- Kitchen Sink +- Demolition Lovers +- Choker +- Bohemian Rhapsody +- Ode To Sleep +- House Of Gold +- Car Radio +- Taxi Cab +- Street Spirit (Fade Out) diff --git a/docs/music/img/index/squier.jpg b/docs/music/img/index/squier.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d228e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/music/img/index/squier.jpg diff --git a/docs/music/index.md b/docs/music/index.md index 548c058..f2020cd 100644 --- a/docs/music/index.md +++ b/docs/music/index.md @@ -8,22 +8,26 @@ Now I play: - bass - ukulele +- a midi keyboard, if you even consider it an instrument <details markdown="1"> <summary>Click to expand infodump on how I got into music</summary> I was not raised a music person. As a young kid I had near zero exposure -to formal music education. Once my parents picked up a synth for me at our -local supermarket in hope I might amount to something. I never did. Sorry -mom and dad :( +to formal music education. We would listen to Mandopop and Cantopop, and +mom would hum tunes while she did dishes, but that was it. + +There was once my parents picked up a 88-key keyboard for me at our local +supermarket in hope I might amount to something. I never did. Sorry mom +and dad :( In sixth grade I joined a brass band as a percussionist (that was before I wore braces; the conductor looked at my teeth and said "nyeh"). For most -of my band career I was in charge of the bass drum, but I did learn the -snare drum, the timpani, and the drum kit a lil bit. My favorite -performance however was Takarajima, where I played the agogo (the soul of -this musical number, despite being just one bar over and over again). +of my band career I was in charge of the bass drum and the drum kit, but +I did learn the timpani and a lil bit. My favorite performance however was +Takarajima, where I played the agogo (the soul of this musical number, +despite being just one bar over and over again). As a side effect, a disadvantage I had to all the other band kids was that I can't really read pitch, only rhythm. I did not know what a Bb minor @@ -59,27 +63,37 @@ it with me across the ocean. Instead, I will buy a Squier that costs about the same. (I know it makes no real difference, but I kinda prefer the Telecaster-style headstock that has all pegs on one side.) + + </details> -Here is a list of music I made, in reverse chronological order. +## My music -## [Early Sunsets Over Monroeville](early-sunsets-over-monroeville.md) +Here is a list of music I made, most recent first. - +### [This Song Will Uncure Your Depression](uncure-your-depression.md) -I recorded the ukulele, did the vocals, and mixed them in Ardour. Result -is an acoustic cover of "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville". + + +My first attempt at actual composition. Involves synthesized equipments, +bass, rapping, singing, and samples. -## Choker +### Choker I recorded this with my friend Ryan in August 2023 but I haven't got around to writing a blogpost -## [This Song Will Uncure Your Depression](uncure-your-depression.md) +### [Early Sunsets Over Monroeville](early-sunsets-over-monroeville.md) - + -My first attempt at actual composition. Involves synthesized equipments, -bass, rapping, singing, and samples. +I recorded the ukulele, did the vocals, and mixed them in Ardour. Result +is an acoustic cover of "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville". + +## Not my music + +- [Review of My Chemical Romance discography](mcr_discog_review.md) +- [Playlist to put on on my deathbed](deathbed_playlist.md) diff --git a/docs/music/mcr_discog_review.md b/docs/music/mcr_discog_review.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84fe3b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/music/mcr_discog_review.md @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +# Review of My Chemical Romance discography + +Review of MCR discography, in the same order I listened to each album from +start to finish for the first time. Expect diminishing neutrality. + +## The Black Parade + +First listen: late 2020 or early 2021, I don't remember + +General remarks: Formed my first impression of MCR: monochrome pop punk +talking about death. Or living in pain. Never got the point of the Patient +as deeply as the real fans do. + +Fav track: Sleep + +Close runners-up: This Is How I Disappear, Mama (these are two tracks if +you're unaware) + +Track stuck in head for longest: Disenchanted + +## Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge + +First listen: June 2022 + +General remarks: Another concept album but this time I got the idea. In +fact just go to the Amazon HQ and start killing. There's never a shortage +of evil men. Sounds homogeneous genre-wise (not necessarily a bad thing). + +What I like: Dynamics — angelic hums in Interlude, then immediately the +heavy guitars in Thank You For The Venom. The time change in INTYWIDFAL. +Also, only two songs are named after a chorus line. + +Fav track: I Never Told You What I Do For A Living + +Fav line: And we all dance along to the tune of your death (I, for one, am +certaining anticipating the tune of the death of certain people whose +names my lawyer advised me not to elaborate) + +Close runner-up: The Ghost Of You + +Track stuck in head for longest: Cemetery Drive + +## Danger Days + +First listen: August 2022 + +General remarks: _Another_ concept album? This time the lore goes as far +as comic books, which I never read. To summarize, band fights evil +corporation with laser weapons. + +What I like: Lots of mixed genres this time, and I'm glad they took +a break from dark sounds. + +What I don't: This time 9 songs are named the easy way. + +Fav track to sing: Summertime (only song playable on ukulele) + +Fav line: Terrfied of what I'd be / as a kid from what I've seen / every +single day when people try / and put the pieces back together / just to +smash them down + +Fav track to listen to: Bulletproof Heart (extremely relatable) + +Track stuck in head for longest: The Kids From Yesterday + +## I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love + +First listen: September 2022 + +General remarks: As with most debut albums, it didn't grow on me until +a couple listens. I'm in a phase where I'd pick select tracks to listen to +at will. + +January 2023 update: now I put on the entire record daily. + +What I like: Tempo changes! I wish they had more of them in later albums. +Also the way Drowning Lessons has an outro, and Demolition Lovers is +broken in half. + +What I don't: One, it's underproduced; two, Gerard's lines often consist +of a bunch of half notes or quarter notes in succession (example: all but +the last word in this line: We walk in single file / we light our rails +/ and punch our time / ride escalators colder than a cell), and eight +words in, this begins to sound monotonic. + +Fav track: Demolition Lovers (this started all the Three Cheers lore +didn't it) + +Close runner-up: Early Sunsets Over Monroeville + +Remarks on ESOM: This song goes HARD. The first verse is all fun and games +like "late dawns and early sunsets" and "holding hands and life was +perfect" but by chorus it was shit like "before I pull this trigger" and +"there's a corpse in my bed". Can't wait to recommend to people I hate. + +Track stuck in head for longest: also Demolition Lovers + +Misheard lyrics: "dressed in red and blue ice cream" where it should be "I +squeezed" and "ice cream and roses fall at your feet" where it should be +"rice grains" + +## Conventional Weapons + +First listen: October 2022 + +General remarks: Well, I sure am glad MCR shelved these songs in favor of +what is now Danger Days. + +Conventional Weapons is like No Phun Intended by Tyler Joseph in many +ways, including how they reused some of its lyrics. + +What I like: Gerard's voice is crystal clear in many tracks. + +What I don't: Too much repetition, and there are artifacts of monotonic +quarter notes from Bullets. Also some lyrics sound rhymed for rhymes' +sake. + +Fav track: The World Is Ugly + +Misheard lyrics: "I wanna suicide, get my gun" where it should be "As soon +as I get my gun". Truly horrifying misunderstanding. + +## Bonus mention: The Foundations of Decay + +First listen: May 2022 + +General remarks: Just imagine how the real fans reacted. First song in +8 years?! I hear it's categorized "progressive rock", but because the only +other progressive rock song I've ever heard is Bohemian Rhapsody, the only +conclusion I can draw is that all progressive rock songs are exactly +6 minutes long. + +What I like: This song leaves a _lot_ to be anticipated. It's like +a fragment of a map. Let's wait till MCR releases their fifth album. + +What I don't: "And so he gets to die a saint but she will always be the +whore" ← like, _which_ she? This sounds sus out of context (I say this +because I don't get the context). |
