ShrimpShady

ShrimpShady

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  • ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #153

    Look man, I live in a tropical country. I don't know when summer ends, but I'll pretend it's the end of summer.

    This song is like regressing into my past life as a teenage boy in suburban Illinois feeling heartbreak for the first time.

    Powerful stuff.
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    It's slow as hell. Not even a slow burn. Just slow.

    But the guitar work is some of my favorite. One of the best riffs in 7/4. It doesn't even feel weird or janky, and the two guitars together are just so delicate.
    ShrimpShady
    I feel like buying a hand frother

    And a chef's press

    And a digital thermometer

    And fancy butters

    And rare imported instant ramen

    And those straws with flavored balls in them that you drink milk out of to make it taste better

    I think I'm a slave to consumerism
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    Macha
    Macha
    How can we know if it's actual communism or not if there is no such thing as an actual communism? Then the answer is usually something else disguised as communism.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    My shrimp farm is owned collectively by sentient shrimp who work for food and electricity vouchers. I think it's been working pretty well
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    Macha
    19 millions jobs opportunity for shrimps.
    ShrimpShady
    There's a fly perching on an excess, untrimmed portion of string dangling out of my guitar's tuning post.

    This would make a sick album cover
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #152

    Absolutely disgusting song and message. Just classless, degenerate songwriting. You can hardly even call it music, it's so vile. I feel violated just listening to this hateful filth
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #151

    Well, it's Indonesia's 80th birthday, but I didn't really think through what I wanted to recommend for the big day

    So here's another bizarre anonymous street punk song, this time one about weed and hedonism that was either sung by a prepubescent boy or a young woman

    This song went so hard in middleschool
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    There's actually a lot more stuff of substance I could talk about regarding Indonesian music, like:
    1. Gamelan music being used in a lot of anime soundtracks, like Akira and Bakemonogatari
    2. Gamelan music inspiring Debussy, Satie (I think), and the greatest composer: Robert Fripp
    3. Dutch-Indonesian rock band Tielman Brothers from the 50s
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    4. That one Spinal Tap clip
    ShrimpShady
    Shrimp Rule #?️

    Revenge, as tantalizing as it may be, doesn't fix anything. Especially for the most heinous of evils :blob_hmm_two:

    The few times folks tried to get revenge for a genocide ended up with absolutely nothing gained.

    The only path forward is truth, reconciliation, and justice

    Of course I'm speaking from the position of someone who has never been genocided :sweating_profusely:
    Representing_Tromba
    Daily music recommendation #151
    This shit sounds like ass until you reach the last song. Then you are thrown into an ethereal plain of pain and sorrow out of nowhere. Had this album in my cd collection for years.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #150

    In Indonesia, "punk" doesn't really sound like you'd think, a lot of the time. Punk can mean anything really. No need for high tempo power chords and angry vocals. Even just a bunch of kids singing over a ukulele is punk.

    And that's what this is.

    Punk Street Indonesia is a legendary song by who the fuck even knows.
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    That's the thing with these songs. They're made by a bunch of kids while the internet was still in its infancy here, and no one really cares to figure out who they are. You gotta be in the know to know, you know.

    Anyway, this song is like American Pie. Epic in length and very topical.

    Except it doesn't try to shroud any of its meaning in metaphor. It's very on the nose, as punk tends to be.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    It's a nice little time capsule from Indonesian society circa 2000-ish.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    Anyway, I also have an actual punk recommendation

    Teenage Death Star are a hardcore punk band managed by one of my old college professors. Very cool. He also seems like a pretty cool guy, except for that time he discouraged his students from taking the day off to protest. Not very punk.

    Funnily enough, when I spent a semester in the UK, the professors were the ones on strike.
    ShrimpShady
    I highly respect musicians who are so good at their instruments that they start playing stuff that sounds like shit on purpose
    Hoshino
    Hoshino
    What about authors?
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    I haven't really seen anyone try
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #149

    These guys are the Indonesian math rock band. Straight up. No one's better than them.

    And just to randomly dox myself: they're from my city and this music video was filmed in my former highschool :blob_aww:

    Anyway, this song is great. The guitarist has riffs for days, the drummer's tight tight tight, and the bassist's super melodic
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    They also seem like really cool guys (I've never met them despite them residing in the same city as me). Their song "Sandy" was made for Down Syndrome Awareness Month with its music video recorded in one of the special needs schools here. Really nice sentiment. The song also has sick ass riffs.
    ShrimpShady
    I was about to complain about romance manga again but then I remember that I've done that way too many times :blob_hmm:
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    Not to mention that the need for fast progress can lead to contrived progress. Oh, the male lead was kind to the female lead that one time, and I guess that's enough for love to bloom. Let it cook for longer, man. The steak's still mooing.
    Hoshino
    Hoshino
    Also,when it ends with a confession.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    We don't get too many of those anymore, but instead we get even more of what I said I wouldn't complain about
    ShrimpShady
    If you're from a country that doesn't have English as its primary language, you most definitely have gained random niche knowledge from the reading section of English proficiency tests.

    Every once in a while, I'll remember that Darjeeling Limited is a movie that exists because it was on a TOEFL test once.
    ShrimpShady
    I think y'all put too much ice in your drinks
    ShrimpShady
    Last night I dreamt that I was kidnapped by these random dudes and they wanted me to solve calculus problems in order to free me

    Just pull the trigger ?
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