Ecoheretic

Tag: music

  • Illumination – Rollins Band

    “Illumination comes so hard / Makes me see but leaves its scars
    At times I wish that I didn’t know what I know now”

    https://youtu.be/dJaKEOCAfDw?si=0uL7sBbiXntrk2Ka

    I walked green miles of jungle / I walked through yellow miles of pain
    I crossed starvation’s desert / Watched dead rivers swell with rain
    The song of insects filled the air / Nights in cites of despair
    Where killer’s sons said, son beware / And all the roads from here to there
    I sailed the sea of desolation / Dropped my anchor there
    Plumbed the depths of isolation / Walked its length and was not scared
    Went from end to end to end / And then from there I went again
    The road that only this one knows / Off to nowhere here I go
    Illumination comes so hard / Makes me see but leaves its scars
    At times I wish that I didn’t know what I know now
    Thought and thought until I lost my mind
    Looked and looked until I went near blind
    The path is fair but so unkind
    At night the highway’s diesel roar / Speaks to me and tells me more
    Than any book I’ve ever read / Or anything you ever said
    With silent eyes inside / I watch myself and worlds collide
    The seasons burn and crack my skin / I stay outside and live within

    Illumination · Rollins Band
    Get Some Go Again
    ℗ 2000 SKG Music L.L.C….more

  • Drink – Alestorm

    “We live each day like there’s nothing to lose
    But a man has needs and the need is booze
    They say all the best things in life are free
    So give all your beer and your rum to me“

    Heavy Metal Pirates!  I Haven’t seen them live  yet, but to me this is absurdity is at genius levels.

    Piracy’s a crime and crime doesn’t pay
    And we go home poor at the end of the day
    But I’d rather live my life in rags
    Than be chained to a desk with a wife that’s a hag

    We live each day like there’s nothing to lose
    But a man has needs and the need is booze
    They say all the best things in life are free
    So give all your beer and your rum to me

    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer
    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer

    Drink, drink, drink, drink
    Drink, drink, drink, drink
    Drink, drink, drink, drink
    Drink, drink, drink

    We sailed Over the Seas for Wenches and Mead
    And told great tales of the Huntmaster’s deeds
    The Quest for a drop of That Famous Ol’ Spiced
    Has shown us the wrath of Leviathan’s bite
    We went Back Through Time to get more Rum
    Though we end up Shipwrecked having no fun
    But Heavy Metal Pirates we must be
    So give all your beer and your rum to me

    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer
    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer

    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer
    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer

    Drink, drink, drink, drink
    Drink, drink, drink, drink

    Written by: Christopher Bowes, Lasse Lammert Album: Sunset on the Golden Age
    Released: 2014

  • Save Yourself – Boy Sets Fire

    “Shut your mouth look around
    This motherfucker is burning down
    And nothing’s gonna save us now“

       I’m cynical by watching the majority of the left become politicaly apathetic, self-deafeating, ignorant, complacent, arrogant, aggreived victimhood, isolated to their towers of self-absorption after Biden was elected gives me little hope for the future.

    As a politicaly active person on the left all my life, the betrayl doesn’t come from MAGA or Republicans, it comes from the left and Democrats, because it’s been castrating itself willingly over the last 20 years.

    So this is what you want
    Choices are made and given up
    I just cant comprehend the need to sit when you can stand
    The game is rigged, the money spent

    Shut your mouth look around
    This motherfucker is burning down
    And nothing’s gonna save us now
    Get out… and save yourself

    There’s only so much I can say
    tried so hard to help you find your way
    But every step a wasted breath of false hope and promises
    There’s nothing to save, there’s nothing left

    Nothing’s left of you today
    Save yourself or die away

    So this is what you want
    Your choice was made, you’ve given up
    I’ll never comprehend the need to sit when you can stand
    There’s nothing left, the money spent

    Writer(s): Nathan Gray, Joshua Latshaw, Robert Ehrenbrand, Charles W Istvan, Christopher Rakus album: “While A Nation Sleeps…” (2013)
    BoySetsFire – While A Nation Sleeps.

  • Duvet – Bôa

    “I am falling
    I am fading
    I have lost it all“

    This was the theme song or the Anime “Serial Experiments Lain”. It has never left my head from the first time ive heard years and years ago.

        The song reflects & anime (to me), the disjointed, etherial, and dark atmosphere, like there’s a thing just out of your reach, but can’t quite hold it or see it.

        Once you seek it, however, it’s heavy, foreboding,  and descends upon you without warning.

    And you don’t seem to understand
    A shame, you seemed an honest man
    And all the fears you hold so dear
    Will turn to whisper in your ear

    And you know what they say might hurt you
    And you know that it means so much
    And you don’t even feel a thing

    I am falling
    I am fading
    I have lost it all

    And you don’t seem the lying kind
    A shame that I can read your mind
    And all the things that I read there
    Candle lit smile that we both share

    And you know I don’t mean to hurt you
    But you know that it means so much
    And you don’t even feel a thing

    I am falling
    I am fading
    I am drowning
    Help me to breathe
    I am hurting
    I have lost it all
    I am losing
    Help me to breathe

    I am falling
    I am failing
    I am drowning
    Help me to breathe
    I am hurting
    I have lost it all
    I am losing
    Help me to breathe

    Ah-oh, yeah
    Ah-oh-oh, yeah

    I am falling
    I am failing
    I am drowning
    Help me to breathe
    I am hurting
    I have lost it all
    I am losing
    Help me to breathe

    Written by: Paul Richard Turrell, Ben Henderson, Jasmine Rodgers, Alexander Caird, Lee Sullivan, Stephen Paul Rodgers
    Album: Duvet (ScummV Remix)
    Released: 2022

  • Border Line – Sharon Apple

    “Meet me and hit me
    Tiny and sticky candy
    Kiss and eating
    Are just the same things”

    ……………shiver down spine……………..

    https://youtu.be/KtH-ARmGM0M?si=kc3_MUdRTtFNBQeQ

    The borderline
    The borderline
    The borderline
    The borderline

    Red and roses
    Lips and breath
    Hair and dolls
    They’re look alike

    Smoke and mist
    Night and midnight
    The deep and hell
    They really get me

    Flip and fly
    Heal and feel
    Flower and poison
    Are on the brink

    The borderline
    The borderline
    The borderline
    The borderline

    Body and Jell-O
    Crack and jazz
    Arch and bridge
    They’re look alike

    Meet me and hit me
    Tiny and sticky candy
    Kiss and eating
    Are just the same things

    Free and fall
    And love and low
    Evil make you feel good
    Can’t help doing that

    The borderline
    The borderline
    The borderline
    The borderline

    The Borderline” is a song by character Sharon Apple and performed by Akino Arai. It is featured in the anime OVA series Macross Plus and its compilation movie.

  • The Price Was High – Drop Ninteens

    “I’m quiet as I’m kept and more or less concussed for years
    But I can’t shake your body
    So I shake mine instead when it’s time to percuss”

    This song exudes femenine desire and yearning, it has a great shoegazer ascetic to it and a smooth laid back danceable beat for non-dance music.

    The special way
    The hunt began and ended with London on my mind
    The nights from days
    And letters penned in earnest with heartstrings sent unsigned

    In a round about sway
    Not a word, not a sound
    All’s forgiven, anyway

    Haven’t even slept, so
    I’m quiet as I’m kept and more or less concussed for years
    But I can’t shake your body
    So I shake mine instead when it’s time to percuss

    In a round about sway
    Not a word, not a sound
    All’s forgiven, anyway

    Names escaped run amok with bottle caps for eyes
    The nights from days ferried east and ended with no one getting wise (when was this?)
    On the Champs-Élysées on no rest, you fluoresce
    All’s forgiven for forgotten men and women, more or less

    In a round about sway
    Not a word, not a sound
    All’s forgiven by the way
    Men and women, it’s time to percuss

    Written by: Motohiro Yasue, Paula Kelley, Steve Zimmerman, Greg Ackell, Peter Koeplin
    Album: Hard Light
    Released: 2023

  • In Blur – deafheaven

    “Forgive the trembling love,
    I’m weak and acting bold
    And alone”

    The rhythmic and melodic layering in this song is amazing. The atmosphere it radiates chills you.

    In blur, farther
    Glanced over stirred
    Imagined you laughing
    Muddied feet dancing
    What is this aching prism?
    This prison wincing
    Receiving sudden swaths of dogma

    Wandering over royal yonder
    Wandering over flooded ground again

    (What does daylight look like?)
    What does daylight look like in this chaos of cold?
    (What does daylight look like?)
    Solitude and falling into respites now

    In blur, hovered
    Accepted devotion
    Unearthed, bleeding ark of creation

    Wandering over royal yonder
    Wandering over flooded ground again

    (What does daylight look like?)
    What does daylight look like in this chaos of cold?
    (What does daylight look like?)
    Solitude and falling into respites now
    (What does daylight look like?)
    What does daylight look like in this chaos of cold?
    (What does daylight look like?)
    Solitude and falling into respites now

    Forgive the trembling love,
    I’m weak and acting bold
    And alone

    Written by: Christopher Johnson, Kerry Dylan Mccoy, George Lesage Clarke, Daniel Tracy, Shiv Mehra. Album: Infinite Granite. Released: 2021

  • A Night Like This – The Cure

    I’m coming to find you if it takes me all night
    A witch hunt for another girl
    For always and ever is always for you

    Say goodbye on a night like this
    If it’s the last thing we ever do
    You never looked as lost as this
    Sometimes it doesn’t even look like you
    It goes dark
    It goes darker still
    Please stay
    But I watch you like I’m made of stone
    As you walk away

    I’m coming to find you if it takes me all night
    A witch hunt for another girl
    For always and ever is always for you
    Your trust
    The most gorgeously stupid thing I ever cut in the world

    Say hello on a day like today
    Say it everytime you move
    The way that you look at me now
    Makes me wish I was you
    It goes deep
    It goes deeper still
    This touch
    And the smile and the shake of your head

    I’m coming to find you if it takes me all night
    Can’t stand here like this anymore
    For always and ever is always for you
    I want it to be perfect
    Like before
    I want to change it all

    I want to change

  • Amesoeurs

    For some reason they remind me of early “The Cure”, in their prepop era. I like this band they are atmospheric, darker shoe gaze feel. One of the Members is in the band “Alecast”, of whom I like as well

  • Absolute Favorite Song, Group, or type of music?

    Okay people out there in WP land this is a difficult question and one that is very hard to answer.

       It gets worse if you have diverse musical genres you enjoy and listening moods that you mold the music around your feelings or state at the time.

            Personaly; punk, hardcore, metal, & rock have been my main as well as many of the sub-genera’s of them all. Dark wave, industrial, blues, Ambient, folk, Folk Nordic metal, old country and bluegrass. I also like classical, early rap, more jazzy hip-hop/trip-hop or political (here’s looking at you Public Enemy) rap. I’ve never much been into pop, but PJ Harvey, Lady Gaga & Billie Elish i have a soft spot for because of their voice, they speak their truth’s, and the dark feminine nature they exude (Check out Chelsea Wolf). Im not a swifty but I like that she speaks out her politics and stands her ground.

    So I im going to try to answer one of the questions I asked above and of course it is not 100%, but my favorite band(s) of all time goes to CLUTCH. Every song is a story, the lyrics build it into a saga, and the music a foundation for a mythology.

    I first saw them in my brother’s basement in Madison, WI. Everytime I see them it’s like meeting up with an old friend.

    Released 1991

    Released 1995

    Released 1998

    Released 2013

    Released 2022

    Clutch Clutch Album Cover 1995

        Honorable mentions go to Carcass, The Dead Boys, Mastodon, Gwar, Godflesh, Boy Sets Fire, Paradise Lost, Subhumans, Grinch (west coast progressive hardcore), Bahaus, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Amy Winehouse, The Cure, Beethoven, Curve, Public Enemy, Anthrax, Conflict, Brian Eno, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Chelsea Wolf, Suldusk, Swallow the Sun, Red Fang, Melvins, My Bloody Valentine, Coil, etc…etc…etc…etc.…

    Released 1986

    Released 1992

    Released 2019

    Released 2006

    Released 1991

    Released 1977

    So what do ally’all like? Can you answer this question?

  • Holy Fuck! I’m famous 😂

        I had no Idea that any of the bands i was in back in the day were even relevant, but I guess people like classical music from the mid-90’s. Although its missing i was one of the founding members of the band “Downer”, but i never played out with them.

        Emo-punk back then was a completely different animal then what it has morphed into, which is more of a semi-goth fashion ascetic, rather than a mish-mash of rock, punk, hardcore, metal, even folk influences music type it was. Emo had nothing to do with look or style, it what was what’s inside that counted. Speaking up, baring your soul regardless of reaction of the audience.  But hey! I was just a bass player.

    Don’t get me started on what is considered to be “Goth” nowadays, it’s all become a fashion lifestyle were the music it aborted from it and is mostly just a side note. It’s a fact Bela Legosi is dead and the Sisters of Mercy didn’t include Sousxie and her Banshees. 😉

    I think it was Hot Topic’s fault. Back in my day you had to go to a pet store to get a good chain collar to wear or mail order spikes for your black leather biker jacket. Damn kids! Whom are now in their 30’s. Ageing, is and always will be, the best self-own on those younger than yourself who are making fun of you for being older.

    Chaste – Tounge in Cheek

    End of Witacre was the best of the three bands I was in ~1997. Of course ego’s got in the way of the one band i was in that had the talent and drive to make it, even if a little in the alt-music sphere. Remember this is way before MySpace, the internet music revolution, etc… recordings and making it to larger audiences back in the olden days was a lot more difficult than today because everything was analog and hardcopy.

        Anyway, I stood my ground and defended my longtime band mate and friend Cory and decided that if they were going to kick him out, then I wouldn’t be part of the band either. Thus, break-up. I still stand by that decision. Loyalty, honor & character mean a lot to me. In the beginning of 1998 I moved back home to my parents house, played lots of starcraft, Diablo and went back to school concentrating on the natural sciences.

    ©️ Jacob Pickard. 2026.