10 things George loves


"I don’t think there’s anything wrong with today’s music or that it lacks anything. There has always been, and there will always be, a profound and humbling surplus of great music being made by human beings. Sometimes you have to look harder, sometimes it’s right there in the charts. But “it was better when” is not a look I flex, because people have (literally: read the Greeks) always been saying “music/art/literature/life was better back in the old days.” Sometimes they say the problem’s that it’s gotten cruder, or less grand, or too commercial or whatever. But none of that’s true. People are always making awesome music. Not always in the same genres, so you can’t always be looking for awesome present-day rock music, or awesome classical music, or awesome Western swing. But music itself is a vast eternal conversation and there’s always amazing stuff to be heard. Whether it’s honest or not, I don’t know, that’s not really where my head’s at — many of the great classical composers who wrote deathless pieces of profound feeling were literally Doing It For The Money, but the music they wrote will endure forever, because the artist’s motivation in practicing his/her craft is really not the issue. The only thing that matters is The Stuff They Make and whether I can feel it when it hits. Shout out to my man Wolfgang Amadeus, working on commission for strangers and breaking hearts forever."
— John Darnielle, in response to “Do you think there’s a lack of sincerity in a lot of today’s music?” (via annaverity)

Track Title: Empty Apartment

Artist: Mark & James

Album: hello, i love you, & goodbye
posted 3 weeks ago

Anonymous asked: "what are your favorite songs? (apart from carry you, obviously)"

They change every two weeks or so.  And I think a lot of the time I have songs that I love listening to, but I don’t actually consider favorite songs? 

I think my favorite-favorite songs are —

But lately the songs I’m most enjoying listening to are —

(That’s the mix in my car, plus some goofy stuff.)

posted 3 weeks ago with 5 notes

frontiercity: i know you like this dirty pop: i don’t trust you if you don’t like pop music 1. aaron’s party (come get it) - aaron carter / 2. wannabe - spice girls / 3. mmmbop - hanson / 4. barbie girl- aqua / 5. c’est la vie - b*witched / 6. never ever - all saints / 7. bring it all back - s club 7 / 8. 5, 6, 7, 8 - steps / 9. i want it that way - backstreet boys / 10. i think i’m in love with you - jessica simpson / 11. i do (cherish you) - 98° / 12. all or nothing - o-town / 13. candy - mandy moore / 14. another dumb blonde - hoku / 15. i wanna be bad - willa ford / 16. so yesterday - hilary duff / 17. (there’s gotta be) more to life - stacie orrico / 18. what a girl wants - christina aguilera / 19. everything - fefe dobson / 20. …baby one more time - britney spears / 21. he loves you not - dream / 22. whenever, wherever - shakira / 23. it’s about time - lillix / 24. miss independent - kelly clarkson / 25. beep - the pussycat dolls / 26. how do i deal - jennifer love hewitt / 27. smile - vitamin c / 28. crush - jennifer paige / 29. biology - girls aloud / 30. push the button - sugababes / 31. can’t get you out of my head - kylie minogue / 32. gotta get thru this - daniel bedingfield / 33. miracles happen - myra / 34. tangled up in me - skye sweetnam / 35. pop - nsync (8tracks)

frontiercity:

i know you like this dirty pop: i don’t trust you if you don’t like pop music

1. aaron’s party (come get it) - aaron carter / 2. wannabe - spice girls / 3. mmmbop - hanson / 4. barbie girl- aqua / 5. c’est la vie - b*witched / 6. never ever - all saints / 7. bring it all back - s club 7 / 8. 5, 6, 7, 8 - steps / 9. i want it that way - backstreet boys / 10. i think i’m in love with you - jessica simpson / 11. i do (cherish you) - 98° / 12. all or nothing - o-town / 13. candy - mandy moore / 14. another dumb blonde - hoku / 15. i wanna be bad - willa ford / 16. so yesterday - hilary duff / 17. (there’s gotta be) more to life - stacie orrico / 18. what a girl wants - christina aguilera / 19. everything - fefe dobson / 20. …baby one more time - britney spears / 21. he loves you not - dream / 22. whenever, wherever - shakira / 23. it’s about time - lillix / 24. miss independent - kelly clarkson / 25. beep - the pussycat dolls / 26. how do i deal - jennifer love hewitt / 27. smile - vitamin c / 28. crush - jennifer paige / 29. biology - girls aloud / 30. push the button - sugababes / 31. can’t get you out of my head - kylie minogue / 32. gotta get thru this - daniel bedingfield / 33. miracles happen - myra / 34. tangled up in me - skye sweetnam / 35. pop - nsync (8tracks)



Anonymous asked: "thoughts on jake bugg slagging off the boys?"

Music snobs are generally assholes who disrespect the target audience of the music they’re slagging off more than they disrespect the artists, and therefore I think music snobs in general are pointless and have nothing to offer any discussion of music, art, or culture.  If you think ANY musical genre or act is shitty based on who you see as its target audience, then you’ve already invalidated all of your opinions.

posted 2 months ago with 5 notes

‘Music snobbery is the worst kind of snobbery’



Track Title: What Makes You Stop Believing (One Direction vs. Journey)

Artist: No Saturday Night Surgery

Album: Best of Bootie 2012 (Unmixed)

greenconverses:

What Makes You Stop Believing (One Direction vs. Journey) by No Saturday Night Surgery


Track Title: Pop Danthology 2012

Artist: Daniel Kim

Album: Pop Danthology 2012

romnelvan:

“Pop Danthology 2012” - Daniel Kim


❅ hey hey hey you should come this way, i put together some free music for you. merry christmas and all that? :D?

❅ hey hey hey you should come this way, i put together some free music for you. merry christmas and all that? :D?


Track Title: I Want It That Way

Artist: Backstreet Boys

Album: Millennium

(I deleted the captions because if you WEREN’T alive in 1999, you aren’t legally supposed to be on Tumblr, and you definitely should not be reading a random 25-year-old stranger’s blog.)


I have had this goddamn song stuck in my head for like six months, and I think I heard it twice, eleven years ago. 

posted 6 months ago with 9 notes

donedirection:

i think it’s hilarious when people get distraught over the comparison between one direction and the beatles.

you realize that if you took the beatles and fast forwarded them fifty years until now, they’d be one direction to a tee? they were just a uk-based boy band who wore preppy clothes and sang cute pop songs and had a huge fan-base of mostly women who screeched every time they breathed. sound familiar?

i keep hearing that one direction could never have the lasting prevalence that the beatles have maintained through the decades, but can you think about that for a second? in one fourth of the time, one direction has became far more successful. they’ve broken records that the beatles never even put in place. and they’ve only been around for two years! they’re going to go a lot further. when they’ve broken records left and right, i’m not sure how people can say they won’t hold a lasting relevance.

and as for their musical relevance, they’ve only put on one album thus far. the songs the beatles produced in their early stages were just as artificially pop-based as one direction’s music seems to us now. they have long careers ahead of them in which their music will guaranteed mature along with them, and will take on more responsibility of the writing as time goes on.

it’s not an insult to compare the beatles to one direction. it’s an honor the other way around. and that’s coming from a huge beatles stan.