lyrics (@syrena-of-the-lake ’s lyrics plus a few verses of my own to fill in the blanks):
It’s nine o’clock on a work night
And to my so-familiar chagrin
There’s a crack-of-dawn shift I’ve been scheduled for
So I guess it’s ‘bout time to turn in
–
But the foam in my mattress ain’t memory
There’s an issue that blocks my repose
‘Cause it’s real hard to sleep when you can’t hear a peep
Over ballads your bed done composed
–
La, la-la, di-di-da
La-la di-di-da da-dum
–
Sing us a song, you’re the pianobed
Both a bed and piano upright
Now you’re trapped in this mattress and melody
While Tumblr all laughs at your plight
–
Now Mozart and Bach, they are friends of mine
And Brahms with his sweet lullaby
But when my bed folds up tight in the dead of the night
I can’t sleep however I try
–
I say “Wolfgang, Johannes and Johann,
I respect all your great symphonies
But I can’t get much sleep with concertos
Being played on my head and my knees”
–
Oh, la, la-la, di-di-da
La-la di-di-da da-dum
–
The doctor says I need eight hours of sleep
This is takin’ those years off my life
And my spine needs a potion from the open-close motions
That’re treating it like a jackknife
–
And the torture, it’s got an accomp’niment
Not enough that it’s breaking my bones
While I’m mashed in the covers, it’s playing a cover
This bed likes the works of Tom Jones
–
[A familiar ditty is sung over the solo.]
–
Sing us a song, you’re the pianobed
Both a bed and piano upright
Now you’re trapped in this mattress and melody
While Tumblr all laughs at your plight
–
They let me sleep in on a Saturday
At least every once in a while
And when it gets out of tune, I can sleep until noon
A slumbering musicophile
–
Then the piano snaps shut, a crescendo
And the chords all resound in my ear
And it’s goodbye bedtime, and hello three-four time
And move over, Beethoven is here.
–
Oh, la, la-la, di-di-da
La-la di-di-da da-dum
–
Play us a song, you’re the pianobed
I’ll be stuck in your mattress all night
So I may as well sing to your melody
While Tumblr all laughs at my plight
#it got better #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #music #(me: my dude have you considered getting a different bed) #(also me: you know you’re literally listening to this while #procrastinating on taking the plunge on buying a mattress that isn’t just a pile of springs) #(me: …) #((update: I have now purchased the mattress)) #((god I hope six inches of latex foam is enough; my loft bed can’t support more weight than that)) #((I guess if it isn’t I can always go back to the status quo until my brother moves out and #I have enough space for a bed without going three-dimensional)) #((and add more latex foam then)
A nearly complete 1st century BCE carnyx found in 2004 at Tintignac, France (the one in the left picture, with a reconstruction in the right). Fashioned as a snarling boar, the carnyx was a war horn used by the Iron Age Celts between c. 200 BCE and c. 200 CE
fun fact, the first reconstruction of the carnyx was built in Scotland in the early 90s, and John Kenny brought it to my dad’s photographic studio (our house) to have publicity pictures taken. I was very very young, but I had a precocious interest in history, and Kenny showed me the detailed boar’s head, which had an articulated tongue that would give the effect of a subtle ululation when it was played. He played it for us in our garden, and I can still remember the sound. It sounded like a trumpet, if a trumpet was a wild prehistoric animal capable of throwing back its head and howling. It sounded like something great and tusked and angry and brass that knew what blood was and wanted it.
I don’t know how old I was when I heard it, I think it must have been after its debut at the museum, but I do remember Kenny telling us we were among a very small handful of people who had heard the carnyx in 2,000 years. I remember my nextdoor neighbour’s pigeons all taking off from his loft, and the wide silence that rang out afterwards, that more often came in the wake of foghorns from the harbour. I wonder, in retrospect, what all those people packed around us in their tenements in the poor part of Leith thought they’d heard. what does an ancient celtic war horn sounds like, floating through the window while you’re doing the dishes?
Hello friends!!! On this April 1st I- with neither guile nor ill-intent- invite you all to listen to Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up with me, because it’s a fun song that I enjoy. You’re a free agent in this decision entirely. Happy April Fools Day
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#April Fools #music #legitimate Rick Astley #Tumblr traditions #this post was queued to ensure proper timing #(it’s 12:11 AM on April 1st but I remembered just in time)
If you vote please reblog and maybe put your age I’m the tags because I’m curious as to who this reaches.
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#oh god that’s a tough one #I’m going to go with ”All About Soul”‚ but it really is very close #I agree that Blazer makes an excellent point with ”And So It Goes” #also–these are certainly not the only songs that are way up there‚ but–I want to give a shoutout here to ”Code of Silence” #a song that is on the greatest-hits compilation in my *heart* #surveys #music #P.S. oh right my age #29
snoozing peacefully in this bed when it violently snaps shut and starts playing gymnopedie no. 1 amidst the sounds of me desperately calmoring to escape
SING US A SONG YOU’RE THE PIANOBED
Sing us a song, you’re the pianobed
Both a bed and piano upright
Now you’re trapped in this mattress and melody
While Tumblr all laughs at your plight
Now Mozart and Bach, they are friends of mine
And Brahms with his sweet lullaby
But when my bed folds up tight in the dead of the night
I can’t sleep however I try
I say “Wolfgang, Johannes and Johann,
I respect all your great symphonies
But I can’t get much sleep with concertos
Being played on my head and my knees”
They let me sleep in on a Saturday
At least every once in a while
And when it gets out of tune, I can sleep until noon
A slumbering musicophile
Then the piano snaps shut, a crescendo
And the chords all resound in my ear
And it’s goodbye bedtime, and hello three-four time
And move over, Beethoven is here.
Play us a song, you’re the pianobed
I’ll be stuck in your mattress all night
So I may as well sing to your melody
While Tumblr all laughs at my plight
Tags:
#music #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #love the decor fandom
spotify wrapped is weird because of how many of you are apparently using subscription services for music
you know there are legally operating websites your ISP will be cool with you visiting that have tons of music files on there, right?
Spotify is free, though; i assume most Spotify Wrapped posters are just using the ad-supported free plan, not paying for a subscription. I do dislike the ads, though – which are the legal music piracy websites?
Youtube. For ad-free, Youtube + UBlock Origin.
(note for some of the mobile Internet users out there: UBlock Origin *is* available on Android Firefox)
The breadth of their library, already substantial a decade ago, has improved tremendously. It has been several years since the last time I searched for a song on Youtube and did not find it.
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#anyway I agree with OP #for songs I know I’ll want to listen to many times in the future I use local files #but if I only want a song once or twice‚ or if I’m looking up new songs‚ that is what Youtube is for #(this is actually my *primary* usecase for Youtube) #((well‚ that and videos to watch while on the treadmill)) #reply via reblog #the more you know #music #I think different aspects of this post qualify for both #proud citizen of The Future #and #disappointed permanent resident of The Future
from the creators of kids bop meet adult bop where we take regular songs and make it have as many curse words as possible
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck Banana phone
banana phones go obsolete so quickly, a major manufacturer committed serious crimes in the past, they’re sometimes buggy, and you never get calls on them from anyone you want to talk to! swearing at them thus makes total sense.
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #it got better #music
i wish a songwriter wouljd be brave enough to write about the unexplored topic of having a fun night at the club
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#music #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #clubbers live in a dark-matter universe #witnessed only indirectly through their media #like alloromantics but much more so #(I do personally know a fair number of alloromantics) #(and even some alloromantic allistics) #(but the percentage of special interests depicted in pop music that are romantic is *way* higher than the percentage I see around me) #(in my own part of the elephant) #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see
I love band drama because most of the time the answer to “what happened to group X and why do they sound so bland now?” is “they had one good idea, used it on their first album, and it’s all been downhill from there”, but every so often you’ll run into one where it’s like “they had an acrimonious falling-out when it was revealed that the bassist was embezzling money from the touring budget to feed his thousand-dollar-a-day Funko Pop habit, and the drummer knew about it but didn’t say anything out of misplaced loyalty to a version of their friendship that no longer existed, ultimately leading to the guitarist quitting the music industry in disgust and moving to Canada to become a lumberjack, so now the lead vocalist – having obtained the exclusive rights to the name and discography of the now-defunct group in a piece of legal chicanery that may have involved Russian mob connections – is the only remaining member of the original lineup, and it turns out that he’s an idiot”.
every day i learn new things about the beatles
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#music #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
Brinens and Things 