PhD in English Literature. Romanticism, Gothic, Victorian, and supernatural fiction. Dark music connoisseur. Co-author of "Come Forth in Blood" with Ryan Henry.
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#80sGreatFollowUpAlbumsTop15
Day 5
Joy Division | Closer
“Unknown Pleasures” is an astonishing debut with an iconic cover. But for me, this is Joy Division’s masterpiece. The darker second side includes 4 of their greatest songs.
Heart & Soul
#ManchesterTop15
Day 11
New Order | Age of Consent
I saw you this morning
I thought that you might like to know
I received your message in full
a few days ago
I understood every word that it said
Now that I've actually heard it
you're going to regret
#AnimalsTop15
Day 3: 🐰 🐷 🦔
Echo & The Bunnymen | Porcupine
A change of skin
Will shed the tail
Hung on the wall
For use again…
Smash the pig
This pork is mine
I'm pining for the pork
of the porcupine
#MarchOfTheBodyParts
Day 28: (Arms)
Nick Cave | Into My Arms
I believe in Love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
If He felt He had to direct you
then direct you into my arms
…
#MarchOfTheBodyParts
Day 20: Legs
The Doors | Hello, I Love You
She holds her head so high
like a statue in the sky
Her arms are wicked
and her legs are long
When she moves
my brain screams out this song
#1978Top20
Day 2
Buzzcocks | Ever Fallen in Love
I can't see much of a future
Unless we find out what's to blame
(what a shame)
And we won't be together much longer
Unless we realize that we are the same
#1993Top20
Day 10
Depeche Mode | In Your Room
In your room
Where time stands still
Or moves at your will…
In your room
Your burning eyes
Cause flames to arise
Will you let the fire die down soon
Or will I always be here?
#ManchesterTop15
Day 15 - Surprise!
Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart
Do you cry out in your sleep
all my failings exposed?
There's a taste in my mouth
as desperation takes hold
Just that something so good
just can't function no more
#1980Top20
Day 8 - Unranked - 🪨 and 🤘🏻only
Bruce Springsteen | The River
Now those memories
come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a curse.
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
or is it something worse
that sends me down to the river?
#MarchOfTheBodyParts
Day 25🩸
The Doors | Peace Frog
Blood is the rose of mysterious union
So many choices, but what better choice for a “blue sunday?”
This song is literally flooding with blood! 😆
#ManchesterTop15
Day 14
The Chameleons | Second Skin
When you fail to make the connection
you know how vital it is
Oh when something slips through your fingers
you know how precious it is…
…
A perfect song…from a perfect album.
#ManchesterTop15
Day 13
The Smiths | This Charming Man
I would go out tonight
But I haven't got a stitch to wear
This man said, "It's gruesome
That someone so handsome should care.”
#1993Top20
Day 18
Mazzy Star | Fade Into You
You live your life, you go in shadows
You'll come apart, and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what's not there
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
#OurMusicExperience
Day 3: Song
This Mortal Coil | Song to the Siren
Hear me sing, "Swim to me
Swim to me; let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you.”
#20FaveBands
Day 19
The Chameleons
“Script of the Bridge” IS a perfect album - with intricate guitar arrangements, lulling bass lines, punchy drums, and Mark’s plaintive yet powerful voice.
“Second Skin” is stunning both lyrically and musically:
#GoldenYearsDec2023
1993
Depeche Mode | In Your Room
In your room
Your burning eyes
Cause flames to arise
Will you let the fire die down soon
Or will I always be here
#BeginningsAndEndings
Day 1: Album opener from the 60s
The Doors | Break On Through
You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run, tried to hide
#1969Top20
Day 1
The Doors | Touch Me
Now, I'm going to love you
'Til the heavens stop the rain
I'm going to love you
'Til the stars fall from the sky
For you and I
Can’t you see that I am not afraid?
#1969Top20
Day 2
The Rolling Stones | Gimme Shelter
Ooh, a storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Ooh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
#15BestBassLines
Day 2
Joy Division (Peter Hook)
Twenty-Four Hours
Practically every Joy Division song is a masterclass in how to use bass guitar to drive melody and heighten tension (Disorder! Heart & Soul! LWTUA!)
But this one is my favorite.
#7LoveSongs
Day 3: 💔
The Cure | To Wish Impossible Things
It was the sweetness of your skin
It was the hope of all we might have been
that fills me with the hope to wish
impossible things
…
#1998Top20
Day 1
Pulp | This Is Hardcore
Leave your make-up on
and I'll leave on the light
Come over here, babe
and talk in the mic
Oh yeah, I hear you now
It's gonna be one hell of a night
#ItsInstrumental
11 🎸
The Smiths | This Charming Man
This is probably the most uplifting song I’ve ever loved 😆 I’m just in awe of Marr’s 🎸work, Andy’s walking bass lines, and Moz’s croon. The irresistible BOUNCE of it all. Bittersweet perfection
#1987Top20
Day 8
Depeche Mode | Things You Said
I get so carried away
You brought me down to earth
I thought we had something precious
Now I know what it's worth
#SideTwoOpeners70s
Day 14
Joy Division | She’s Lost Control
And she expressed herself
in many different ways
until she lost control again
And walked upon the edge of no escape
and laughed, "I've lost control.”
#CraftyTunes
Day 5: Leather/Lace
Velvet Underground | Venus in Furs
Taste the whip of shiny, shiny leather
Ooh, shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs
the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress,
And cure his heart…
#2008Top20
Day 1
The Cure | Underneath the Stars
Kicking this challenge off with the best song from the ‘worst’ Cure album.
Floating here
Like this with you
Underneath the stars
Aligned
For 13 billion years
The view
It's beautiful
#1978Top20
Day 15
Kate Bush | Wuthering Heights
Ooh, it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine a lot, I find the lot
Falls through without you…
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
#1986Top20
Day 4
Sonic Youth | Shadow of a Doubt
Met a stranger on a train
He bumped right into me
Swear I didn't mean it
Swear it wasn't meant to be
Must've been a dream
From a thousand years ago
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
Kiss me
#1978Top20
Day 13
Siouxsie & The Banshees | Switch
Different lives
In different places
Familiar problems
Same old faces
Shuffle lives
Into wrong categories
Cross the wires
And fuse humanities
#1976Top20
Day 3
Ramones | Blitzkrieg Bop
Hey ho, let's go
Shoot 'em in the back now
What they want, I don't know
They're all revved up and ready to go
#1987Top20
Day 18
INXS | Never Tear Us Apart
We could live
For a thousand years
But if I hurt you
I'd make wine from your tears…
I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never ever tear us apart
#MidlandsTop15
Day 4
Bauhaus
In the flat field I do get bored
Replace w/ Piccadilly whores
In my yearn for some cerebral fix
Transfer me to that solid plain
Hammer me into blazen pain
Moulding shapes no shame to waste
& drag me there w/ deafening haste
#MarchOfTheBodyParts
Day 10: Face
The Byrds | Have You Seen Her Face?
Have you seen her face?
Her eyes reflect the colors in the sky
A warm familiar place
to be swept into
whenever she's close by
#1978Top20
Day 5
Xray Spex
The Day the World Turned Dayglo
I clambered over mounds and mounds
of polystyrene foam
And fell into a swimming pool
Filled with fairy snow
#LoveInAutumn
22
Marvin Gaye | Sexual Healing
Baby, I got sick this mornin'
(heal me my darling)
A sea was stormin' inside of me
Baby, I think I'm capsizin'
The waves are risin' and risin'
And when I get that feeling
I want sexual healing
😭🥺😇🙏🏻🥰
#1986Top20
Day 20
The Smiths | There Is A Light…
And in the darkened underpass
I thought, "Oh God, my chance
has come at last"
But then a strange fear gripped me
And I just couldn't ask
#MidlandsTop15
Felt
Loneliness is like a disease
Triggers off my sense of unease
I was lonely till I found the reason
The reason was me
Oh, Penelope Tree
Why don't you just enter the night?
Why don't you just do what you like?
#ManchesterTop15
Day 3
Happy Mondays | Wrote for Luck
And I wrote for luck
And they sent me you
And I sent for juice
You give me poision
I hold the line
You form the queue
#1998Top20
Day 2
Depeche Mode
Only When I Lose Myself
There's a thousand reasons why
I shouldn't spend my time with you
For every reason not to be here
I can think of two
to keep me hanging on
feeling nothing's wrong
inside your heaven
#MidlandsTop15
Day 9
Duran Duran | Planet Earth
Only came outside to watch
the nightfall with the rain
I heard you making patterns rhyme
Like some new romantic
looking for the TV sound
You'll see I'm right some other time
Look now, look all around
there's no sign of life
#DownUnderTop15
Day 1: Unranked
INXS | Don’t Change
I'm standing here on the ground
The sky above won't fall down
See no evil in all directions
Resolution of happiness
Things have been dark for too long
Don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me
#RockNRoyal
Day 2
Jimi Hendrix | The Wind Cries Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping up
the broken pieces of yesterday's life
Somewhere, a queen is weeping
Somewhere, a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries, “Mary…”
#1998Top20
Day 17
Garbage | Special
Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I've run out of patience
I couldn't care less
#1990Top20
Day 15
Cocteau Twins | Road, River, & Rail
Road, river, and rail
"So embarrased, I'm not sure at all"
Lies mother's daughter
Truth is she found love
#80sThirdsTop15
Day 1
The Cure | Faith
On certain days, this is my favorite Cure album. It’s the one I listen to the most. A full spectrum of gray - sadness, disillusion, weariness, resignation - even a bit of spite with “Doubt.”
“The Funeral Party”
#1969Top20
Day 4
King Crimson | Epitaph
Knowledge is a deadly friend
If no one sets the rules
The fate of all mankind, I see
is in the hands of fools
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
#1978Top20
Day 1
Wire | Practice Makes Perfect
Waiting, waiting, waiting for us
Waiting, waiting, waiting for us
Waiting, waiting, waiting for us
Waiting, waiting, waiting for us
Waiting, waiting, waiting for us
Waiting, waiting, waiting for us
#1987Top20
Day 17
R.E.M. | The One I Love
This was the first R.E.M. song I ever heard as a kid and I loved it. Their next few big singles threw me off but eventually I found my way back to discover the brilliance of their back catalog.
…
#1990Top20
Day 20
Deee-Lite | Groove Is In The Heart
Your groove I do deeply dig
No walls, only the bridge
My supper dish, my succotash wish
(Sing it, baby)
I couldn't ask for another
No, I couldn't ask for another
🙏🏻
@barryma40000659
for everything!
#1990Top20
Day 12
Sonic Youth | Kool Thing
Kool Thing sitting with a kitty
Now you know you're sure looking pretty
When you're a star
I know that you'll fix everything
#1998Top20
Day 5
Placebo | Without You I’m Nothing
Strange infatuation
seems to grace the evening tide
I'll take it by your side
Such imagination
seems to help the feeling slide
I'll take it by your side
#1990Top20
Day 5
The Sisters of Mercy | More
Some people get by
with a little understanding
Some people get by
with a whole lot more
I don't know,
why you gotta be so undemanding
I want more
#MarchOfTheBodyParts
Day 15: fingers
Echo & The Bunnymen | Silver
Just look at you with burning lips
You're living proof at my fingertips
Ti-ti-ti-ti-tips!
#MusicWordsJanuary
Day 17: Music
The Doors | When the Music’s Over
For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end…
#StarTop20
Day 3
Portishead | Wandering Star
Please could you stay awhile
to share my grief
For it's such a lovely day…
Wandering stars
for whom it is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever
#MarchOfTheBodyParts
Day 22: Toes
Madonna | Dress You Up
Let me cover you with velvet kisses…
Gonna dress you up in my love
(In my love)
All over your body
In my love (all over, all over)
From your head down to your toes
#MrandMrsMusic
Day 2
The Birthday Party | Mr. Clarinet
Her white stockings & red dress
that goes swish, swish, swish
around her legs of lace
Marry me, marry me alive O
Would you tell her for me
oh Mr Clarinet
that I love her, love her, oh I love her
#80sGreatFollowUpAlbumsTop15
Day 10
The Sound | From the Lions Mouth
I’m thrilled to see this album popping up on so many lists as recognition for its brilliance is overdue. Each of the 10 tracks are unforgettable. Post punk perfection.
Fatal Flaw
#CraftyTunes
Day 4: Flower/Floral
The Cure | A Chain of Flowers
All I want is summer
Stories from before
Just like the time you tried to hide
Behind the churchyard wall
And fell asleep before I came
And found you in a chain of flowers
…
#MeasuresofMusic
Day 18
Echo & The Bunnymen | Never Stop
Measure by measure, drop by drop
And pound for pound, we're taking stock
Of all the treasure still unlocked
The love you found must never stop
#RocknRoyal
Day 21
The 13th Floor Elevators
Kingdom of Heaven
The incense and the candles
and the colors on the wall
Your image stands reflected
as a princess come to call
Your suspicions I'm confirming
as you find them all quite true
And the kingdom of heaven
is within you
#ABCsOfAugust
Day 5
The Easybeats | Friday On My Mind
Monday mornin' feels so bad
Ev'rybody seems to nag me
Comin' Tuesday I feel better
Even my old man looks good
Wed'sday just don't go
Thursday goes too slow
I've got Friday on my mind
#1987Top20
Day 20
The Cure | Just Like Heaven
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
🙏🏻 to
@barryma40000659
#OurMusicExperience
Day 7: 🎹
The Smiths | The Queen is Dead
She said:
“Eh, I know you and you cannot sing.”
I said: "That's nothing,
you should hear me play piano.”
#1987Top20
Bangles | Hazy Shade of Winter
Hang on to your hopes, my friend
That's an easy thing to say
But if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend
that you can build them again
#ItsInstrumental
Day 8 🎸
Pink Floyd | Time
Along with “Comfortably Numb,” David Gilmour has recorded two of my all-time favorite 🎸solos
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
#80sGreatFollowUpAlbumsTop15
Day 14
Cocteau Twins | Head Over Heels
GARLANDS is my favorite, and TREASURE is probably their finest work, but this bridge between the two is one of the coolest and most unique in their entire discography.
#15BestBassLines
Day 7
ABC (Mark Lickley)
Poison Arrow
Disco music is unfairly maligned. There are tons of awesome funk or disco bass lines but when I think of that sound my new wave-addled brain thinks of this addictive 80s pop gem.
#1980Top20
Day 4 - Unranked - 🤘🏻only
Motörhead | Live to Win
They can't take it away
If you've got something to say
They might try and fence you in
But you've only gotta live to win
* The title track rules but there’s more!
#MidlandsTop15
Day 6
Au Pairs
Spending time nowadays
By my side
That's oh so nice
And again with you
It's equal nice
It's paradise
You're equal but different
It’s obvious
#1993Top20
Day 13
PJ Harvey | Man-Size Sextet
🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻
I'll measure time
I'll measure height
I'll calculate my birthright…
Douse hair with gasoline
Set it light and set it free
#1979Top20
Day 13
The Clash | London Calling
The ice age is coming,
the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running,
the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear era, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning
I live by the river
#OurMusicExperience
Day 9: 🎤
Beastie Boys | Pass the Mic
Well, everybody rappin'
like it's a commercial
Actin' like life is a big commercial
So this is what I've got to say to you all
Be true to yourself and you will never fall
#1976Top20
Day 2
Thin Lizzy | The Boys Are Back In Town
Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Dino's bar and grill
The drink will flow, and blood will spill
And if the boys wanna fight
you better let 'em
#1998Top20
Day 4
PJ Harvey | A Perfect Day, Elise
White sun scattered all over the sea
He could think of nothing but her name Elise
God is the sweat running down his back
The water soaked her blonde hair black
#BalladsOfBritain
Day 3
Throbbing Gristle | Beachy Head
Cliffside in East Sussex and favored destination for the hopeless.
The cover of “20 Jazz Funk Greats” and the videos for The Cure’s “Close to Me” and Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes” were shot there.