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2011.09.14 22:59 geekgirlpartier Name That Song: For identifying and locating songs/artists/albums/genres

A subreddit for identifying a song/artist/album/genre, or locating a song/album in a legal way. May contain NSFW content. Please read the rules before posting. Thank you and good luck :)
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2009.08.30 11:12 Death Metal - news, reviews, videos & discussion.

Death metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Descended originally from thrash, it often employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
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2020.01.24 22:47 Sn00byD00 Reddit Sessions

This subreddit is for all musicians who want to show their talent to the world. Are you about to release a song? Want to share your OC videos and clips? Or let your followers know about your livestreams or concerts schedules? This is the place for you!
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2024.05.21 22:13 newmusicrls Weekend Picks 20 (May 2024)

https://minimalfreaks.co/2024/05/weekend-picks-20-may-2024/
  1. GMJ, Jiminy Hop – Caladan (Original Mix) 07:30 122bpm 6A
  2. Latmun – Play The Music (Original Mix) 06:21 129bpm 12B
  3. Arude – Who You Are (Original Mix) 05:42 124bpm 12B
  4. Magenta, Skore – Dubplate (Original Mix) 04:29 88bpm 10A
  5. Pvlomo – Infraworld (Original Mix) 05:10 127bpm 7B
  6. Frank Storm, Francis De Simone – Quarterback (Original Mix) 06:25 130bpm 8B
  7. Oscar Mulero – The Sweat And The Salt (Original Mix) 05:05 140bpm 10A
  8. DESIREE (RSA), Selaelo Selota – Selaelo Selota – Thrrr… Phaaa! (DESIREE Remix) (Original Mix) 06:55 122bpm 9A
  9. Atlas – Particles (Original Mix) 09:01 132bpm 12B
  10. Radio Slave – Strobe Queen (Original Mix) 12:02 120bpm 5A
  11. Patrik Berg – Nothing But Love (Original Mix) 06:53 133bpm 6B
  12. Traumer – Nectar (Original Mix) 06:51 129bpm 8A
  13. PACH. – Body Control (Original Mix) 05:58 129bpm 5A
  14. Mathys Lenne – H23 (Original Mix) 05:13 138bpm 8A
  15. Dan Laino – Take A Trip (Original Mix) 04:56 125bpm 4A
  16. EeQue, Don Edward, Ez Maestro, ToooValid, SY.SHIN – Ba Kene (Original Mix) 05:19 112bpm 8A
  17. Jamie Stevens, Kasey Taylor – Ochre (Original Mix) 08:08 126bpm 4A
  18. Miishu, Nyadollar, Nyamal Nyang – Cheza (Original Mix) 05:16 122bpm 9A
  19. Lance DeSardi, Jesse Rennix – Higher feat. Jesse Rennix (Extended Mix) 06:37 124bpm 6B
  20. Mendo – I Like That (Original Mix) 05:46 128bpm 6A
  21. Tuccillo – Frames (Original Mix) 07:24 123bpm 1A
  22. Whitesquare – Ephemeral Eyes (Original Mix) 06:54 127bpm 5B
  23. Lionayve – Mmetho (Original Mix) 06:33 118bpm 11A
  24. UNKLE, &ME, Keinemusik – Only You (&ME Remix) 08:34 120bpm 4A
  25. Space Motion – Ludo (Original Mix) 05:34 124bpm 3B
  26. AC Soul Symphony, Dave Lee ZR – I Want To See You Dance (Art Of Tones Remix) 06:05 127bpm 7A
  27. Braille – Suntime (Original Mix) 03:08 127bpm 1A
  28. Armonica, Zamna Soundsystem, ROZYO – Summertime Sadness feat. Blu (Original Mix) 05:31 124bpm 3B
  29. MoRsei – From Earth (Original Mix) 08:10 108bpm 12B
  30. Ariel Zetina – Slab of Meat (L-Vis 1990 Remix) 04:27 138bpm 6B
  31. Monty, En:vy – INLOVE (Original Mix) 04:34 87bpm 8A
  32. Anonimat, Soulmac – Brainwash feat. Sensitive (It) (Original Mix) 07:21 122bpm 4A
  33. Visage Music, Ragie Ban – Time After Time (Extended Mix) 05:29 124bpm 9A
  34. Brassic – Antagonist (Original Mix) 02:45 140bpm 9A
  35. Claudio PRC – Zenith (Original Mix) 07:47 129bpm 12A
  36. Adonis – Few Times (Original mix) 06:49 95bpm 6A
  37. Fulltone – Alba (Original Mix) 08:57 122bpm 8B
  38. Digital Base, Andy Vibes – 30 YEARS (Original Mix) 05:10 130bpm 8A
  39. Bruno (HU) – I Am Here (Original Mix) 06:09 128bpm 5B
  40. Decadance – Saoirse (Original Mix) 06:18 163bpm 3A
  41. Hector Couto – Flufly’s House (Original Mix) 05:48 131bpm 6A
  42. Yanamaste – Dance (Original Mix) 05:02 140bpm 3A
  43. Julian Liander – Sukuru (Extended Mix) 05:28 120bpm 4A
  44. Javi Bora – Yes To All (Original Mix) 05:53 123bpm 5A
  45. Avis Vox, A*S*Y*S – Body Mind & Soul (Original Mix) 05:23 132bpm 9B
  46. Danner (US) – State Of Mind (Original Mix) 05:39 130bpm 4A
  47. Jungle Rootz – Midnight Skunk (Original Mix) 04:39 140bpm 7B
  48. Dokho – Balao (Extended Mix) 05:26 120bpm 3A
  49. Wingz – Ghost (Original Mix) 05:07 107bpm 2A
  50. Apparel Wax – MINI003A (Original Mix) 04:41 122bpm 8A
  51. Bombossa Brothers – Destino (Extended Mix) 07:10 121bpm 8A
  52. A08 – Nineoneone (Dengue Dengue Dengue Remix) 04:40 163bpm 5B
  53. Fdh – Spion Kopje (Original Mix) 05:51 145bpm 9B
  54. Timboletti – Kava (Original Mix) 06:33 119bpm 12A
  55. Jou Nielsen, Paul Ikky – Mentalism (Extended Mix) 05:31 124bpm 3A
  56. Mance – Checkpoint (Original Mix) 05:24 133bpm 9A
  57. Lyktum – Enlightened (Introspect Remix) 08:16 144bpm 5B
  58. Michel De Hey – Hot Like That (Original Mix) 05:26 127bpm 4A
  59. Viikatory – Cartesian Space (Original Mix) 04:55 138bpm 9A
  60. Chunky Jackson – What You Do To Me (Gass Klubb Remix) 05:12 68bpm 5A
  61. Castion – Higher Place (Extended Mix) 05:47 128bpm 3A
  62. Alexny – Shake It (Original Mix) 05:12 124bpm 4A
  63. Pakard – Forbidden Pleasure (SYEP024) 05:07 145bpm 11B
  64. Layton Giordani, Anyma (ofc), Loofy – Last Night (Anyma x Layton Giordani Extended Remix) 05:14 129bpm 5B
  65. Ben Graves – Do It Like That (Original Mix) 07:05 128bpm 4B
  66. You Man – Birdcage (Theus Mago Version) 04:38 93bpm 10A
  67. Byron Stingily – Why Can’t You Be Real (Danny’s 12″ Version) 07:25 125bpm 6A
  68. MOREKI, Sims Noreng, F3 Dipapa, Gift Tonic, Jozi WA Meropa, Deco the voice – Simunye (Original Mix) 02:52 113bpm 4A
  69. Mincy – Simulation Conversation (LO’99 Remix) 03:30 138bpm 10A
  70. Luca Agnelli – Game Over (Extended Mix) 05:39 155bpm 1A
  71. Blaze – Lovelee Dae (Seth Troxler Extended Remix) 06:48 127bpm 7A
  72. Stocked Up – No Data Access (Original Mix) 07:08 131bpm 4A
  73. T.M.A_Rsa, Frozen Deep, B6 Rider – Impilo Yam feat. B6 Rider feat. Frozen Deep (Original Mix) 07:34 112bpm 11A
  74. Noon – SNOOZE (Original Mix) 02:48 145bpm 5B
  75. DJ Physical, Olympe4000 – Free access to nothing (Original Mix) 05:15 153bpm 8B
  76. Starving Yet Full, The Spirit Project – Find Your Way (Monkey Safari Extended Remix) 06:03 92bpm 2B
  77. Ferra Black – Titan (Original Mix) 05:30 128bpm 10A
  78. Ximena, Ali X, Pvlomo – Pastillitas (BadWolf Remix) 05:59 120bpm 12B
  79. Tom Kench, Balsamic Vin – Love Song of Mine feat. Balsamic Vin (Extended Mix) 04:36 126bpm 1A
  80. Cyclops – Tear Jerker (VIP) 02:25 140bpm 7A
  81. Lua, Isaac Carter, Callum Asa – Drift (Original Mix) 07:38 128bpm 5A
  82. FJAAK, Skee Mask – Black Ice (Original Mix) 04:51 143bpm 6A
  83. Sandro Puddu – Get Right (Original Mix) 04:11 126bpm 5A
  84. Leo Bufera – Here We Go (Original Mix) 05:30 150bpm 11B
  85. Atmos, Jakes – Hypnosis (Original Mix) 04:28 87bpm 7A
  86. Eli Brown – Trick Daddy (Extended Mix) 05:08 138bpm 8B
  87. Aiden Francis – Sundancer (Original Mix) 06:58 105bpm 11B
  88. Acerbic – Spitfire (Original Mix) 05:46 147bpm 4B
  89. Lars Bartkuhn – Everymorning I Meditate (Original Mix) 04:38 104bpm 1B
  90. Felipe Gordon – My Legs Are Numb (Original Mix) 06:03 120bpm 9A
  91. Benales – Sorrow (Original Mix) 05:19 140bpm 6A
  92. Matt Caseli – R.O.A.R (Extended Mix) 05:23 126bpm 12B
  93. DAN-E-MC – Musica House (Eddie Amador Club Mix) 06:50 126bpm 8B
  94. Robytek, Emmanuel Jal, SAMBA MAPANGALA, Shield (IT) – Shuka (Original Mix) 05:38 122bpm 9B
  95. Sinego – Mujer (Yulia Niko Remix (Extended)) 05:41 126bpm 8A
  96. joshE – Lets Go (Original Mix) 04:55 130bpm 7A
  97. Anthony Godfather, Elilluminari, Alvaro Varen – La Blanca y la Rosa (feat. Elilluminari) (Remix) (Remix) 04:55 130bpm 11A
  98. Shimza, Rachel Chinouriri – Parachute (Extended Mix) 05:35 118bpm 7A
  99. Dr Packer – You Got The Love (St. Croix Extended Remix) 05:31 128bpm 7A
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2024.05.18 23:52 deeptechsharing Beatport Weekend Picks 20 (2024)

Title: Beatport Weekend Picks 20 (2024) Genre: House, Techno (Peak Time / Driving), Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass, Tech House, Deep House, Psy-Trance, Minimal / Deep Tech, Progressive House, Dubstep, Indie Dance, Trap / Wave, Nu Disco / Disco, Funky House, Bass / Club, UK Garage / Bassline, Afro House, Melodic House & Techno, Bass House, Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic), Organic House / Downtempo, Electro (Classic / Detroit / Modern), 140 / Deep Dubstep / Grime, Mainstage, Jackin House, Amapiano, Trance (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic), Drum & Bass, Hard Techno, Electronica Release Date: 2024-05-14
DOWNLOAD in 320kbps: https://sharing-db.club/djs-chart/482320_beatport-weekend-picks-20-2024/
Tracklist: 1. GMJ, Jiminy Hop – Caladan (Original Mix) (7:30) 2. Latmun – Play The Music (Original Mix) (6:21) 3. Arude – Who You Are (Original Mix) (5:42) 4. Magenta & Skore – Dubplate (Original Mix) (4:29) 5. Pvlomo – Infraworld (Original Mix) (5:10) 6. Frank Storm, Francis De Simone – Quarterback (Original Mix) (6:25) 7. Oscar Mulero – The Sweat And The Salt (Original Mix) (5:05) 8. Atlas – Particles (Original Mix) (9:01) 9. Radio Slave – Strobe Queen (Extended) (12:01) 10. Patrik Berg – Nothing But Love (Original Mix) (6:53) 11. Traumer – Nectar (Original Mix) (6:51) 12. PACH. – Body Control (Original Mix) (5:58) 13. Mathys Lenne – H23 (Original Mix) (5:13) 14. Kasey Taylor, Jamie Stevens – Ochre (Original Mix) (8:08) 15. Miishu, Nyadollar & Nyamal Nyang – Cheza (Original Mix) (5:16) 16. Lance Desardi, Jesse Rennix – Higher (feat. Jesse Rennix) (Extended Mix) (6:37) 17. Mendo – I Like That (Original Mix) (5:46) 18. Tuccillo – Frames (Original Mix) (7:23) 19. Whitesquare – Ephemeral Eyes (Original Mix) (6:54) 20. Lionayve – Mmetho (Original Mix) (6:33) 21. UNKLE, &ME, Keinemusik – Only You (&ME Remix) (8:34) 22. Space Motion – Ludo (Original Mix) (5:34) 23. AC Soul Symphony, Dave Lee – I Want To See You Dance (Art Of Tones Remix) (6:05) 24. Braille – Suntime (Original Mix) (3:08) 25. Zamna Soundsystem, ROZYO, Armonica – Summertime Sadness feat. Blu (Original Mix) (5:31) 26. MoRsei – From Earth (Original Mix) (8:09) 27. Ariel Zetina – Slab of Meat (L-Vis 1990 Remix) (4:27) 28. ENVY, Monty – INLOVE (Original Mix) (4:34) 29. Anonimat, Soulmac, Sensitive (It) – Brainwash (Original Mix) (7:21) 30. Visage Music, Ragie Ban – Time After Time (Extended Mix) (5:29) 31. BRASSIC – Antagonist (Original Mix) (2:45) 32. Claudio PRC – Zenith (Original Mix) (7:47) 33. Adonis – Few Times (Original mix) (6:49) 34. Fulltone – Alba (Original Mix) (8:57) 35. Bruno (HU) – I Am Here (Original Mix) (6:09) 36. Hector Couto – Flufly’s House (Original Mix) (5:48) 37. Yanamaste – Dance (Original Mix) (5:02) 38. Julian Liander – Sukuru (Extended Mix) (5:28) 39. Javi Bora – Yes To All (Original Mix) (5:53) 40. A*S*Y*S, Avis Vox – Body Mind & Soul (Original Mix) (5:23) 41. Jungle Rootz – Midnight Skunk (Original Mix) (4:39) 42. Dokho – Balao (Extended Mix) (5:26) 43. Wingz – Ghost (Original Mix) (5:07) 44. Apparel Wax – MINI003A (Original Mix) (4:41) 45. Bombossa Brothers – Destino (Extended Mix) (7:10) 46. A08 – Nineoneone (Dengue Dengue Dengue Remix) (4:40) 47. FDH – Spion Kopje (Original Mix) (5:51) 48. Timboletti – Kava (Original Mix) (6:33) 49. Jou Nielsen & Paul Ikky – Mentalism (Extended Mix) (5:31) 50. Mance – Checkpoint (Original Mix) (5:24) 51. Lyktum – Enlightened (Introspect Remix) (8:16) 52. Michel De Hey – Hot Like That (Edit) (3:16) 53. Viikatory – Cartesian Space (Original Mix) (4:55) 54. Chunky Jackson – What You Do To Me (Gass Klubb Remix) (5:12) 55. Castion – Higher Place (Extended Mix) (5:46) 56. Alexny – Shake It (Original Mix) (5:12) 57. Pakard – Forbidden Pleasure (Syep024) (5:07) 58. Loofy – Last Night (Anyma x Layton Giordani Extended Remix) (5:14) 59. Ben Graves – Do It Like That (Original Mix) (7:05) 60. You Man – Birdcage (Theus Mago Version) (4:38) 61. Byron Stingily – Why Can’t You Be Real (Danny’s 12″ Version) (7:25) 62. Mincy – Simulation Conversation (LO’99 Remix) (3:30) 63. Luca Agnelli – Game Over (Extended Mix) (5:39) 64. Blaze – Lovelee Dae (Seth Troxler Extended Remix) (6:48) 65. T.M.A Rsa, B6 Rider, Frozen Deep – Impilo Yam (Original Mix) (7:34) 66. Noon – SNOOZE (Original Mix) (2:48) 67. Olympe4000, DJ Physical – Free access to nothing (Original Mix) (5:15) 68. The Spirit Project, Starving Yet Full – Find Your Way (Monkey Safari Extended Remix) (6:03) 69. Ferra Black – Titan (Original Mix) (5:30) 70. Ximena, Ali X, Pvlomo – Pastillitas (BadWolf Remix) (5:59) 71. Tom Kench, Balsamic Vin – Love Song of Mine (Original Mix) (3:41) 72. Cyclops – Tear Jerker (VIP) (2:25) 73. Isaac Carter, Callum Asa – Capsule (Original Mix) (6:26) 74. Fjaak, Skee Mask – Black Ice (Original Mix) (4:51) 75. Sandro Puddu – Get Right (Original Mix) (4:11) 76. ATMOS, Jakes – Hypnosis (Original Mix) (4:28) 77. Eli Brown – Trick Daddy (Extended Mix) (5:07) 78. Aiden Francis – Sundancer (Original Mix) (6:58) 79. Acerbic – Spitfire (Original Mix) (5:46) 80. Lars Bartkuhn – Everymorning I Meditate (Original Mix) (4:38) 81. Felipe Gordon – My Legs Are Numb (Original Mix) (6:03) 82. Benales – Sorrow (Original Mix) (5:19) 83. Matt Caseli – R.O.A.R (Original Mix) (3:20) 84. Dan-e-mc – Musica House (Eddie Amador Club Mix) (6:50)
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2024.05.17 04:09 Trojianmaru Help deciding on my special summon.

Honestly idk if I got lucky or unlucky. After eliminating all the draws that gave the same as each other, or were included in better draws, I'm left with:
Sung Jinwoo SR Weapons Steel Dagger (A1) Kasaka's Venom Fang (A2) Knight Killer (A2) Frostbite Falchion (A1) Lustorus Dragon Sword (A4) Naga Guardian Dragon's Trident (A0) Demon Knight's Spear (A2) Rock Golem Hammer (A2) West Wind (A2)
Hunter SR Weapons Steel Shield (A2) Ancient Grimoire (A1)
SR Hunters Song Chiyul (A2) Lee Joohee (A5) & Yoo Jinhoo (A4) Kim Chul (A0)
SSR Weapons Vulcan's Rage (A0) & Black Hawk (A0) Demon King's Longsword & SR Hunter Park Heejin
SSR Hunters Hwang Dongsoo (A0) Lee Bora (A0), Lee Joohee (A5), & Orb of Avsrice (A0)
I struck a line through all the ones I think aren't worth it, but now I'm unsure who to pick between Kim Chul, Hwang Dongsuk, and Lee Bora (especially since she comes with an SSR weapon too)
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2024.05.12 06:59 Cupcake112014 Analyzing 2000s Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Merry Christmas

As established in my pilot analysis, 2000s Strawberry Shortcake was my childhood. Now, rewatching it as an adult, I look at the show more analytically. Some people may tell me that it's "just a kids show, it's not that deep," but I disagree. I think it’s very important to look critically at kids media, to make sure that it's sending good messages to them, or at least not sending bad messages. Also as adults, we can look back on our childhood staples and see how they affected us. Okay, rant over. These analyses will be filled with spoilers, so read on at your own risk.
Our episode starts with Strawberry planning her Christmas shopping (ft a musical number about it). She's having a hard time figuring out the right gift for Huck. At the same time, Apple clearly misses the wagon that they lost in the pilot ep (sidenote: this is one of the few times where events in a previous episode are acknowledged in later episodes). Custard is a grinch, and attempts to hibernate so that she doesn't have to be involved in the festivities. Pupcake is just being his energetic self. Honey's the first to arrive, since she is going to be taking Strawberry to the north pole. Then, her human friends show up to decorate the tree and they also bring treats to share, which all act as foreshadowing for what their gifts will be. Strawberry tells her friends to make themselves at home while she and Honey are gone, and it's pretty clear that the writers did this so that Strawberry's friends would all be together for the B plot, even though the B plot was nearly non existent. There's one scene showing the others being bored at Strawberry's house. So much more could've been done with that plotline. Anyway, Strawberry takes Honey Pie Pony with her to the North Pole to buy gifts. Honey and Strawberry act as foils to each other, since Strawberry is focused on getting the perfect gifts for her friends, while Honey is focused on how much she wants a saddle and projecting her desires onto the others. Interestingly, this is one of the few episodes where we see adult characters who aren't villainous (looking at you Pie Man, we'll get to you later). She visits several different shops and finds the perfect gifts for everyone: cookie cutters for Ginger Snap since she'd lost her old ones, a sugar plum plant for Orange Blossom since she didn't have any plums to make cider with, an angel cake topper for Angel Cake, a wagon for Apple Dumplin, a cat tree for Custard, a bell collar for Pupcake, and a saddle for Honey. Even after all that shopping, she still can't find anything for Huck, and Honey certainly doesn't provide any good suggestions. Strawberry and Honey end up meeting Santa himself, and Strawberry cries to him about how she can't find a present for Huck, and how she's nearly out of time. Santa asks her what she wants for Christmas, and she insists that she wants nothing except for her friends to be happy. I take issue with Strawberry's characterization in this episode. This could've been an opportunity for Santa to help her realize that she's allowed to want things too, but this doesn't happen. After Honey gives an exhaustive wish list, Strawberry tells her that they have to go. They then see some kids having a snowball fight, and that gives Strawberry an idea to gift Huck snowballs. She makes a bunch of them and puts them in the wagon. Unfortunately, the snowballs melt, which, come on, how did she not see this coming? There's snow on the ground in Strawberryland, so clearly, they should know how the stuff works. Anyway, Strawberry has to break the news to the others that their gifts were ruined. They forgive her, and then there's a musical number about the gift of friendship. During that song, Santa must have done some Christmas magic to fix/replace the ruined gifts and put them under the tree. Her friends are very happy with their gifts, and even Custard wakes up just in time for hers. Pupcake gifts Honey a bone, which was foreshadowed earlier, and it teaches Honey a lesson about thinking of other people. Strawberry also receives a gift, which is implied to be from Santa, and it's a blanket with her friends' faces. It kinda irks me that it seemed like the others barely brought any gifts for anyone, even though Strawberry was freezing her ass off in the north pole, making sure everyone had a perfect gift. I mentioned earlier that I wish they'd done more with the B plot, and something they could've done was get/make things for Strawberry to surprise her. I'd be worried for anyone who tried to emulate Strawberry from this episode, since more realistically, this kind of behavior would lead to someone being taken advantage of in their relationships and/or developing resentment for others since their relationships would end up being one-sided. All in all, this is the first season, where the authors/creators still hadn't found their stride with this show, and this episode is a clear example where there's a lot of room for improvement.
Comment your thoughts below!
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2024.05.10 23:43 NyxShadowhawk I Read the Silmarillion So You Don't Have To, Part Five

I Read the Silmarillion So You Don't Have To, Part Five
Disclaimer: I started this series for my mother and sister, who are diehard LotR fans, but don't want to read the Silm. They wanted the Tolkien lore, though, so they asked me to tell them what happens in the Silm, and it became this fun summary.
Previous Part
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Chapter 10: Of the Sindar Meanwhile, in Middle-earth…
Remember the Sindar? They’re the people of Elwë, the only one of the original three Elven Lords who never made it back to Valinor, and Melian, a Maia who seduced him. The Sindar are basically native to Middle-earth, and save for Elwë himself, none of them have seen the Two Trees of Valinor. That makes them “Grey Elves,” neither light nor dark. They live in Beleriand, the westernmost land mass of Middle-earth, on which most of The Silmarillion takes place, and which is completely gone by the time LotR takes place.
Elu Thingol by Bohemian Weasel
Elu Thingol by Bohemian Weasel
The Sindar know Elwë as Thingol, which is Sindarin for “Greymantle,” and acknowledge him as king. Earlier, I assumed that Thingol and Melian were the ancestors of the Sindar, but this isn’t true; they only have one child, and her name is Lúthien. She is one of the other major players in The Silmarillion, and was based directly on Tolkien’s wife Edith, so she’s kind of a big deal. She’s born in the forest of Neldoreth, and white flowers spring up to greet her.
While Melkor was being held captive in Valinor, the Dwarves finally enter the picture in Middle-earth. They call themselves Khazâd, and the Sindar call them Naugrim, which means “stunted people.” The Elves are somewhat bewildered when the Dwarves come into Beleriand from the East, because they didn’t know that any other people existed. They assumed that they were the only living things who could speak or make things. They don’t learn the Dwarven language, but the Dwarves endeavor to learn Sindarin. When the Noldor eventually show up, the Dwarves really like them, because the Noldor share their reverence for the god Aulë and their skill at metalwork and cutting gemstones.
Because Melian is a Maia, she can see the future. She warns Thingol that the peace isn’t going to last. Thingol decides to build a fortress in case worst comes to worst, and enlists the help of the dwarves to build it. The Dwarves oblige, happy to have a new project, and Thingol pays them in pearls, which they’d never seen before. The biggest pearl is called Nimphelos, which the Dwarves particularly value. (Its name sounds a lot like Omphalos, an egg-shaped sacred stone at Delphi that the Ancient Greeks thought was the navel of the world.) The Dwarves build Thingol a mansion underground, in the style of their own. I’m guessing that, like Hobbit holes, this is a reference to Celtic fairy lore that describes fairies as living in mounds. Like the fairies of British and Irish lore, Thingol has a lavish underground palace called Menegroth, the Thousand Caves. Its pillars are carved to look like trees, with carved animals on the walls and in the “branches” of the pillars. Colorful mosaics decorate the floors, banners and tapestries chronicle the deeds of the Valar, there are silver fountains and singing nightingales, and it’s all as beautiful as anything gets outside of Valinor.
Everything’s great for a bit, but Melkor’s monsters still exist, and eventually Orcs and wolves push into Beleriand. The Elves don’t know what the Orcs are. They assume that the Orcs are Avari (Elves that refused to go to Valinor) that turned evil, which is almost right in an indirect way. Thingol needs weapons to fight Melkor’s monsters, but the Sindar don’t have any weapons and don’t know how to make them, because they’ve never needed them before. The Dwarves know how to make them, having used them to fight all the dangerous things in the East, and they teach the Sindar how to make and use them. Dwarves remain the absolute best at making things of steel, and they invented chainmail.
Remember the Nandor? They were another subgroup of Elves who split off from the Teleri while they were traveling to Valinor, and stayed in Middle-earth. They become the Wood Elves, and their descendants will be the elves of Mirkwood. But at this point in history, they come to Thingol, seeking protection from Melkor’s monsters. Thingol lets them stay in an eastern land called Ossiriand.
A Sindar Elf named Daeron invents the runic writing system, which the Elves don’t care for, but the Dwarves readily adopt.
Once again, everything’s great for a while. But then, Morgoth and Ungoliant have their struggle to the north. The Sindar hear Morgoth’s shrieking and know that something is wrong. Melian’s magic keeps Ungoliant from entering their land, but barely. The Sindar are suddenly assaulted by Morgoth’s massive army of Orcs from his northern citadel of Angband. The Orcs aren’t like anything the Sindar have ever seen, and there’s thousands of them. We get a short summary of the ensuing battle (in which Tolkien drops more place names than I can possibly keep track of).
The Elves and Dwarves win, but they lose a lot of lives in the process. The King of the Nandor, an Elf named Denethor, dies in combat. Distraught by his death, many of his people renounce open war. They are called Laiquendi, “Green Elves,” because they wear leaves. The rest of the Nandor join the Sindar, and merge with them. The Sindar fence themselves into their forest with a magic wall of “shadow and bewilderment” that Melian casts to keep the Orcs out. After that, their forest becomes known as Doriath, the “Land of the Girdle,” after the magic wall. The wall protects them, but the peace and bliss are broken.
Beleriand Map
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Chapter 11: Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor In which the Two Trees have a last hurrah.
Back in Valinor, the Valar are very sad about the Trees, but they’re even sadder about Fëanor. Fëanor is, without a doubt, the best of the Elves. He may be a narcissist, but he’s right about how great he is: he’s the strongest, the smartest, the cleverest, the most beautiful, the most skilled, and the most capable both mentally and physically. Imagine all the good he could have done in the world, and what beautiful and useful things he might have made, if Morgoth hadn’t corrupted him! Now he’s going to waste his life on a pointless endeavor, and his entire line is cursed. It didn’t have to be like this. When a messenger tells Manwë how Fëanor responded to the prophecy of doom, Manwë cries.
However, Manwë doesn’t dispute Fëanor’s boast that people will sing of his deeds until the end of the world. After all, songs are beautiful things. If you remember, Eru Ilúvatar told Melkor that all of his evil deeds will result in more beautiful things, that no one would otherwise have conceived of. Evil always begets good, in spite of itself. Fëanor’s evil deeds will result in the creation of beautiful art in the future, thus indirectly producing good things. But that doesn’t make Fëanor’s actions any better in the present.
Yavanna, goddess of plants, and Nienna, goddess of sorrow, do their absolute best to heal the Trees. The Trees are beyond saving, but the goddesses’ lamentation does do something: With their last bit of strength, Telperion bears a single silver flower, and Laurelin bears a single golden fruit. Yavanna picks them both off the trees. After that, the Two Trees die for good, with nothing but their lifeless stems remaining in Valinor as a sad monument to what once was. Manwë blesses the flower and the fruit, and Aulë makes vessels to hold and preserve them. Then Varda hangs them in the sky as the new lamps: The flower of Telperion is the Moon, and the fruit of Laurelin is the Sun. The two lights will help the Children of Ilúvatar and hinder Morgoth.
Creation of the Two Trees by Julia Pelzer
Creation of the Two Trees by Julia Pelzer
Each group of Elves has a different name for the Moon and the Sun. The Vanyar (the Elves who got to Valinor first and stayed there) call them Isil and Anar. The Noldor call them Rána the Wayward, and Vána the Heart of Fire.
The Moon and Sun also have their own Maiar to guide them through the sky. The Maia of the Sun is called Arien, and the Maia of the Moon is called Tilion. Both Maiar had loved their respective Trees while the Trees were alive, and begged for the position of tending to the Sun and Moon. Arien is a fire goddess who doesn’t fear the heat of the sun, and Tilion is a hunter god who was one of Oromë’s companions. (This mirrors Norse Mythology, in which the Sun is driven by a goddess called Sol or Sunna, and the Moon by a god called Máni.)
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Narsilion by breath-art
The Moon rises first, and brings hope to the Elves. When the Moon rises, Fingolfin and the Noldor begin their long trek into Middle-earth across the frozen north. After the Moon rises and sets seven times, the Sun is hung in the sky, and the first dawn comes. When the Sun sets, it comes to rest in Valinor, briefly reminding the Valar and remaining Elves of the light of the Two Trees and the joy they once had. But the Sun and Moon still pale in comparison to the Two Trees. The only remaining things that preserve the original light, pre-Ungoliant’s destruction, are the Silmarils.
Morgoth is obviously horrified, and immediately sends dark clouds to prevent the Sun from shining upon his land of Angband. Arien, the Maia of the Sun, is the only entity that Morgoth is really afraid of, and he no longer has the strength to attack her. But he does send evil spirits after Tilion, the Maia of the Moon. (This might explain why the moon has phases, but it’s not explicitly said.)
The Valar still remember what happened the last time they put up lamps, and they’re not about to let Morgoth destroy their paradise for a third time. They decide to almost completely cut off Valinor from the rest of the world. They make the Pélori Mountains around Valinor rise impossibly high, with sheer faces like glass. The only way in or out of Valinor is through a mountain pass called the Calacirya, which the Valar leave open to allow the Elves to see the stars. But the pass is heavily guarded. And, as an extra precaution, they fill the sea with enchanted islands that are full of illusions to confuse and trap anyone who tries to sail to Aman. The Noldor are officially, permanently cut off from Valinor — there’s no turning back now.
Telperion and Laurelin by MrSvein872
Telperion and Laurelin by MrSvein872
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Chapter 12: Of Men In which the Men finally show up.
Having sealed themselves away, the Valar basically leave Middle-earth to the mercy of Morgoth. It’s not all bad, though; the Sun keeps Morgoth at bay, and it causes many new things to grow in Beleriand. Beleriand is a pretty nice place, for what it’s worth. Not as nice as Valinor, but, y’know… it could be worse.
When the Sun rises, the Men finally awaken. The Elves have a lot of different names for them, but the important ones are Atani (“Second People”) and Hildor (“Followers”). The Men didn’t have a Vala to invite them to Valinor. Men fear the Valar, because they don’t really know what the Valar are or why they’re there, and the Valar have stopped paying attention to Middle-earth. Ulmo watches over the Men through all the water of Middle-earth, but Men don’t know how to understand the divine messages brought to them by the water. It’s rumored that the Men befriend the Avari, the Dark Elves who never went to Valinor.
At the time, Men looked more like Elves than they do now. Men were taller, stronger, and longer-lived than they are now, but Elves were still prettier, wiser, and more skilled than Men. Elves are immortal, and do not sicken or age, but they can still be killed. Men have less robust bodies and are more prone to illness and injury. Dark Elves are better than Men, but the High Elves that saw Valinor are significantly better than both Dark Elves and Men. The only Dark Elves that come close to the greatness of the High Elves are the Sindar, and that’s only because their queen is a Maia.
The other big difference between Elves and Men is what happens after they die. When Elves die, they go to the Halls of Mandos and eventually reincarnate. The Elves don’t know what happens to Men after they die. If they go to the Halls of Mandos, they don’t go to the same part of them that the Elves go to. No one but Mandos and Manwë knows what happens to the Men after that. Only one Man ever came back from the dead (we’ll get there). It’s possible that the only entity that knows anything about what happens to Men after death is Ilúvatar himself.
The relationship between Elves and Men gets steadily worse with time, mostly because of Morgoth (again, we’ll get there). By the time of the Third Age, when LotR takes place, there are very few Elves left. They have retreated away from the sunlight, into lonely woods and caves, and “become as shadows and memories.” The Men take over from the Elves, and forget that the Elves ever existed. But the The Silmarillion is about the First Age, and back then, Elves and Men were friends. Some Men achieved greatness through learning Elven wisdom, and some Men even had children with Elves.
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Chapter 13: Of the Return of the Noldor In which we return to the main plot, and a LOT of shit goes down.
Where we last left the Noldor, Fingolfin was leading them on an impossible journey across a frozen wasteland to cross into Middle-earth, because he saw Fëanor burn the boats on the opposite shore. Fëanor and his sons continued further into Middle-earth, and made a camp in the north.
Morgoth also saw Fëanor burn the boats. Even Morgoth was a little afraid of Fëanor, so he decides to preemptively attack Fëanor’s camp. Despite being taken by surprise, the Elves trounce the Orcs, because they still have the strength of Valinor in them. They’re strong and swift, with sharp and effective weapons, and the Orcs don’t stand a chance. A small handful of Elves — Fëanor, his seven sons, and their loyalists — slaughter an entire army’s worth of Orcs in only ten days. Morgoth’s plans for the conquest of Beleriand are ruined, for now.
Fëanor assumes that by chasing down the Orcs, he’ll find Morgoth. Fëanor is so impassioned, so ready to finally kick Morgoth’s ass, that he pats himself on the back for having defied the Valar. It was such a good idea to tell the Valar to go fuck themselves and come to Middle-earth! Now he gets the opportunity to personally take Morgoth down!
He spoke too soon. Fëanor promptly finds himself face-to-face with the fortress of Angband and an entire army of Balrogs. Oops.
Somehow, Fëanor manages to hold his own against multiple Balrogs, until Gothmog, the Lord of the Balrogs, nearly kills him. He only survives because his sons arrive at the last minute with reinforcements to fend off the Balrogs.
Fëanor against the Lord of the Balrogs by Evolvana
Fëanor against the Lord of the Balrogs by Evolvana
Fëanor doesn’t live for much longer, though. His sons start to carry him back to their camp, but he bleeds out on the way. He curses Morgoth and tells his sons to avenge him with his dying breath. As his spirit leaves him, his body burns to ash, because his soul is just that fiery. And that’s it — Fëanor, the mightiest Elf to ever life, is dead. His curse means that his soul is forever trapped in the Halls of Mandos, and he will never reincarnate. No one like him will ever appear in Arda again.
The Death of Curufinwë Fëanaro by Gwenniel
The Death of Curufinwë Fëanaro by Gwenniel
Honestly, I’m surprised that Fëanor dies this early. I thought he was the central character, but I’m still only about a third of the way through, maybe less.
Despite having taken out Fëanor (mostly due to Fëanor’s own arrogance and impulsiveness), Morgoth still lost badly. He sends an envoy to Fëanor’s sons, acknowledging defeat and requesting a ceasefire, even offering to surrender a Silmaril. Fëanor’s eldest son, Maedhros (MY-thros, ‘th’ as in “this”) takes over from Fëanor as the leader of the Noldor. Maedhros doesn’t trust Morgoth as far as he can throw him, but decides to go to the negotiation anyway, with backup. Of course it’s an ambush, and there are Balrogs. All of Maedhros’s backup are killed, and Maedhros himself is captured and taken to Angband.
Fëanor’s other sons build themselves a mighty fortress, but Morgoth keeps Maedhros hostage until the Noldor agree to end the war and leave Beleriand. The sons of Fëanor doubt that Morgoth will keep his word on that. They also literally can’t stop fighting Morgoth, because of their oath. So, Morgoth hangs Maedhros by the wrist from the face of the Thangorodrim Mountains. The only remaining option is to try to rescue him.
Maedhros Upon Thangorodrim by Jenny Dolfen
Maedhros Upon Thangorodrim by Jenny Dolfen
Back with Fingolfin, the rest of the Noldor painstakingly make their way across the land bridge. It’s an agonizing journey, and many Elves die, but when the first dawn finally comes, Fingolfin unfurls his banner and blows his horn in victory. The ice starts to melt, and flowers spring up under his feet. The Sun chases Morgoth to the depths of his citadel, so he doesn’t harass Fingolfin’s group as they arrive in Middle-earth.
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Helcaraxe by Stefan Meisl
Fingolfin is wiser than Fëanor, and doesn’t try to attack Angband. Instead, he tries to find the other Noldor. Most of his Fingolfin’s group really hate Fëanor and his sons, because it’s their fault that they nearly froze to death. So, they make their own camp near Lake Mithrim.
Fëanor’s group hears of their arrival. They’re astounded and impressed that Fingolfin and co. managed to survive, and that they made it to Middle-earth. They would welcome Fingolfin’s group, but they’re too ashamed to offer. Too little, too late.
Fingon, Fingolfin’s son, decides to try to heal the relationship between the two groups of Noldor. He recognizes that Morgoth would be thrilled if his enemies were so divided against themselves. If they want to stand a chance against Morgoth, they have to unite. Fingon has the perfect idea for how to bring the two groups together. He was very close to Maedhros. He doesn’t know that Maedhros wanted to go back for him when Fëanor burned the ships, so, he assumes that Maedhros betrayed him. Even so, he still cares enough about Maedhros to want to try to rescue him.
He climbs the mountains of Thangorodrim by himself, hidden under the cover of the darkness that Morgoth created to shut out the sun. Then, Fingon takes out a harp and starts singing. He sings a song from Valinor, from long before the unrest took hold. His voice rings throughout the mountains, in which there had never been singing before. He sings in defiance of Morgoth like the Whos singing in defiance of the Grinch on Christmas Day.
He Sang a Song of Valinor by Jenny Dolfen
He Sang a Song of Valinor by Jenny Dolfen
Faintly, he hears an answering voice singing the same song. Maedhros is singing, despite his suffering. Fingon climbs up to where Maedhros hangs, and cries when he sees how much pain Maedhros is in. Maedhros has long since given up hope, and begs Fingon to shoot him, to put him out of his misery. Fingon prepares to shoot an arrow, but says a prayer to Manwë, asking him to have mercy.
Fingon’s prayer is answered. Manwë sends the King of the Eagles, Thorondar, who picks up Fingon and carries him up the mountain face to where Maedhros hangs. Fingon can’t find any way to open or break the shackle that holds Maedhros, and can’t detach it from the mountain face. Maedhros again begs Fingon to kill him, but Fingon figures that it’s better to lose a hand than to die. Fingon cuts off Maedhros’ hand, and Thorondar catches him, carrying both Elves back to Lake Mithrim.
Flight from Thangorodrim by jyonyi
Flight from Thangorodrim by jyonyi
After that, the rift between the two groups of Noldor is healed. Fingon is hailed as a hero by both groups of Noldor. Maedhros steadily gets better, and recovers his strength. He pulls and Inigo Montoya and learns to wield a sword just as well with his left hand. He also waives his claim to kingship over the Noldor. He begs Fingon to forgive him for having deserted him back when Fëanor burned the boats, and tells Fingon that he’s the rightful heir of the House of Finwë. That’s a nice gesture, but it’s actually part of the curse — The House of Fëanor became known as the Dispossessed, because even though they’re the older brother’s children, they permanently lost the rulership of the Noldor.
The now-united Noldor decide to explore Beleriand a little more, and they eventually meet the Sindar. The Noldor and Sindar recognize each other as kin, but have a hard time understanding each other because they speak different languages. Eventually, they figure out a way to talk to each other. The Noldor learn about King Thingol and the magic wall around his kingdom of Doriath, and about the Sindar’s battles with the Orcs. The Sindar are delighted that these stronger, smarter elves from Valinor arrived right when they were most needed, and assume that the Valar must have sent them.
Thingol is less enthused about a bunch of hotheaded foreign princes arriving in his land. The only Noldor he trusts to let past the magic wall are Finarfin’s children: Finrod, Angrod, Aegnor, and Galadriel. This is because their mother was Eärwen, one of the Teleri Elves and Thingol’s niece. So, they’re his closest relatives among the Noldor. Angrod is the first of the Noldor to enter Thingol’s palace in Doriath. He tells Thingol all about what happened to the Noldor in the North — how they crossed over, how many of them there are, how they beat back Melkor’s forces, how Finrod saved Maedhros, etc. He leaves out the part about the kinslaying and the curse.
Thingol gives the Noldor his blessing to remain in the northern part of Beleriand, but they can’t displace the Sindar from their homes. They also aren’t allowed to come past Doriath’s magic wall, unless they’re invited, or if they desperately need an audience with Thingol. Thingol is Lord of Beleriand and the Noldor are imposing upon him, so, they’re in no position to argue.
When Angrod brings this message back to the Noldor, Maedhros straight-up laughs. “What kind of king is he? These aren’t his lands. He doesn’t have the power to grant us leave to live here, as if we were his vassals. If it weren’t for us, there’d be Orcs breaking down his door.
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Maedhros by _star热爱生活呀巴扎嘿
Caranthir, another one of Fëanor’s sons who inherited his father’s fiery temper, also doesn’t like Thingol’s conditions. “Who’s idea was it to send Finarfin’s sons as our spokesmen? I don’t trust a word they say, and I don’t trust this cave-dwelling Dark Elf. Finarfin’s sons should remember that, whoever their mother was, their father was still a Noldo — they should be loyal to the Noldor.”
Angrod is furious at this, and storms out. Maedhros chides Caranthir for going too far. The rest of the Noldor are all concerned that Fëanor’s whole family appears to be a ticking time bomb. It’s only a matter of time before one of them snaps and causes violence. Maedhros reads the room, and manages to get his brothers under control. He decides that he and his brothers should leave before things get worse. Not just leave the meeting, but leave the region — it’s better that they and the other Noldor remain friends at a distance, rather than risk another confrontation that tears them apart from within.
Maedhros and his brothers head east. Their new home is more exposed, and has less natural defense against Angband, but Maedhros doesn’t mind this. He and his brothers can be a buffer for the rest of the Noldor if Morgoth attacks again. And of course, the curse is still in effect.
Caranthir and his people are the first to find the Dwarves, who had stopped coming into Beleriand ever since the battle against Morgoth. You’d think that the Dwarves and the Noldor would have a lot in common, since both love to make things from metals and gems, and they both appreciate good craftsmanship. But nope. The Dwarves are too secretive, and Caranthir is too arrogant. He doesn’t even bother to hide that he thinks the Dwarves are ugly, and all his underlings follow suit. Despite that, the Dwarves and Caranthir’s Elves have a common enemy in Morgoth, so, they form an alliance anyway. From that alliance, Caranthir ends up learning a lot of Dwarven secrets about metalworking and masonry. It’ll really pay off for him in the future.
Caranthir by Miyota
Caranthir by Miyota
Twenty years pass since the Sun first rose, and Fingolfin decides to throw a feast to unite all the scattered Elves. This feast is such a big deal that it has a name — Mereth Aderthad, the Feast of Reuniting. It’s a last moment of joy and happiness before everything goes to hell again. A number of Sindar attend the feast as well, alongside their leader, an Elf called Círdan (you’re gonna want to remember him). Thingol does not leave his magically-fortified palace, but he sends two diplomats to the feast — Daeron, the Elf that invented runes, and another called Mablung. There are even some Green Elves from the easternmost part of Beleriand. The main language spoken at the party is Sindarin, because the Noldor have had an easier time learning it than the other Elves have had of learning Quenya. All the Elves are on good terms with each other, and everything is great for a while. The Noldor begin to think that maybe Fëanor was right about Middle-earth being a good place for them.
Another thirty years pass. Turgon (Fingon’s brother and a son of Fingolfin) meets up with Finrod (a son of Finarfin). Together, they travel southward on the River Sirion, just to get away for awhile. They sleep on the riverbank, and Ulmo (the Vala of water) sends them a dream. Neither of them remembers the dream, only that it was troubling, and neither realizes that they had the same dream. After that, they’re both burdened with a sense of unease. Troubling dreams can only mean one thing — Morgoth is going to become a problem again. Turgon and Finrod independently decide that it’s a good idea to prepare for the worst.
Finrod and Galadriel, his sister, are briefly guests of King Thingol in Doriath (being two of the few Noldor whom Thingol would allow past the magic wall). Finrod is very impressed by the majesty of Menegroth, the king’s underground palace. He wants his own underground palace just like it, and tells Thingol as much. Thingol could have said, “no, how dare you copy me,” but instead he tells Finrod about a secret place in his realm — there’s a gorge in the River Narog, the river to the west of the Sirion, where there’s a cave complex that Finrod can use to build a palace.
Enlisting the help of some Dwarves, Finrod builds his palace, Nargothrond. He gives the Dwarves treasures from Valinor to thank them. The Dwarves are so impressed with the jewels that they make Finrod a beautiful necklace called the Nauglamír, which is said to be the finest work of the Dwarves in the First Age. It’s set with many, many gemstones from Valinor, but it’s as light as spider silk. The Dwarves are also grateful to Finrod for giving them an excuse to build another cool cave palace. They give him an epithet in their own language, Felegund, which means “Hewer of Caves.” Only a really cool Elf appreciates caves so much that he asks for his own cave palace.
Finrod by _star热爱生活呀巴扎嘿
Finrod by _star热爱生活呀巴扎嘿
Galadriel decided to stay in Thingol’s court, instead of following her brother to Nargothrond. She happened to meet one of Thingol’s relatives, a certain Sinda named Celeborn, and fell in love with him. Staying with Celeborn gave Galadriel the opportunity to study at the feet of Melian herself. So, if you’re wondering where Galadriel gets her wisdom and power from, it’s because she learned directly from a Maia.
Meanwhile, Turgon is feeling homesick for Valinor. He remembers the city of Tirion on its hill, with its silver tree (not the Silver Tree, one of its descendants). When he returns home, Ulmo personally appears to him, and tells him to go to the Vale of Sirion. He finds a hidden valley surrounded by mountains, in the center of which is a hill. It’s the perfect place to establish a New Tirion.
Throughout all this, Morgoth has been carefully observing the Noldor’s activities, and judging their strength. As soon as the Noldor are too distracted by city-building to prepare for war, Morgoth strikes. The Orcs are still a lot weaker than the Elves. Fingolfin and Maedhros chase the new Orc army all the way back to Angband. They kill every last one, within sight of Angband’s gates. But remember, Morgoth is a Vala, and has more up his sleeve than simply Orc armies. He causes earthquakes, fires, and volcanic eruptions. The Elves realize that there’s only one thing to do: cut the threat off at its source. They lay siege to Angband, and this siege lasts a full four hundred years.
Angband by gresetdavid
Angband by gresetdavid
The Orcs are so afraid of the Noldor that they don’t leave Angband. Fingolfin boasts that the only way Morgoth could score a point against them is if the Noldor commit treason amongst themselves, which sounds a lot like tempting fate. Despite his confidence, the siege is a failure. Four hundred years, and the Elves don’t get any closer to capturing Angband, let alone taking back the Silmarils. Morgoth can still send spies out the back way, because the Elves can’t climb the snowy Thangorodrim Mountains. He captures Elves alive, and terrifies them so much that they do his bidding without having to be forced. He also looks for opportunities to sew dissent amongst the Noldor. It worked once, so it can work again.
A hundred years into the siege, Morgoth tries to capture Fingolfin. He knows that Maedhros isn’t about to let himself get captured again, and taking out the king would be an advantageous move. So, Morgoth sends a bunch of Orcs to sneak towards the Elves’ camp using the back way, through the same frozen mountain pass that Fingolfin used to get into Middle-earth. Morgoth should know at this point that Orcs are no problem for Elves. Fingon notices the Orcs, and slaughters them. This battle doesn’t even count as one of the “great battles,” because there aren’t enough Orcs for it to be notable. After that, there’s an interlude of peace that lasts for many years.
Fingon by _star热爱生活呀巴扎嘿
Fingon by _star热爱生活呀巴扎嘿
Morgoth finally gets the memo that he’s not going to beat the Elves by throwing Orcs at them. So, he tries a new tactic: A fucking dragon! If you think Smaug is bad, he’s a little baby lizard in comparison to Morgoth’s dragons. This one is called Glaurung (“gold worm” in Sindarin), and it’s a fat worm-like thing with a mouth of sharp teeth and fire breath. Glaurung is a young dragon, so, he mostly just thrashes around destroying fields and so forth. But he sufficiently terrifies the Elves
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Glaurung by Vaejoun
Fingon isn’t afraid, though, and takes a band of archers to pummel Glaurung with arrows. Glaurung’s armored scales haven’t fully developed yet, so the arrows drive him crawling back into Angband. Fingon is endlessly praised by the Noldor for having defeated the dragon, and Morgoth is kicking himself for having shown his hand too soon.
After Glaurung’s defeat comes the Long Peace, which lasts two hundred years. In that time, the Elves have the opportunity to build beautiful cities and write books of lore and create other art. (This time is called the “Long Peace” because Morgoth doesn’t make any attacks, but presumably, the Siege of Angband is still going on.) The Noldor and Sindar also intermix, becoming more like one society, though the biological and cultural differences between them remain: The Noldor are still smarter and stronger, wiser, better warriors, and they like living in stone buildings. The Sindar have better singing voices, and are better musicians in general, and like living in the woods. Some Sindar are nomadic and wander around Beleriand, singing as they go.
*whew.* That’s it for this section.
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2024.05.09 12:53 Smack-works Help to define "compact music"

Could you help me to define "compact music"? I thought the challenge could be interesting to music theorists.
My entire taste in music is based on the concept of "compact music", but I don't know how to describe it to other people, theorists or laymen. As a result, it's extremely hard for me to search for "compact music". I consider myself very lucky if I find at least a single "compact" composition in an entire album.
Sometimes I celebrate if I find at least 8 seconds of compact music.

What's "compact music" supposed to be?

Compact music has those components: * It's based on a (very) short motif. A motif with noticeable (and important) variation, but only a little bit of variation. It's not about developing an idea or creating some large-scale musical structure, story or journey. * It's focused on the structure of the motif, it doesn't try to create an abstract texture (rhythmic, ambient or psychoacustic texture). Though there can be noticeable audio effects. * The motif could be interpreted as having ambiguous emotion or being especially evocative. That's subjective, of course. But maybe less subjective than you think. What I'm trying to say is that the motif has to have an especially clear "punch", an especially strong contrast, something which can get earwormed even into the brain of an untrained listener. * The music doesn't have to do anything special from the theoretical perspective. * Preferably no vocal.

Prototypical examples

Let's start with the most famous examples of compact music.
Pantera - Floods Outro. Repetitive (but not too repetitive) sound, focus on the structure rather than abstract texture, strongly evocative. Other Pantera solos I've heard don't count as compact music.
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby. Only 2-4 chords. But they contain a strong contrast. Note that a ton of other popular Beatles songs don't count as compact music. The Who - Baba O'Riley.
Opus III - It's A Fine Day (e.g. first 14 seconds) and ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (e.g. first 35 seconds).
Can we characterize such music theoretically? Calling it "minimal music" or "ambient music" doesn't seem correct. If the former means something like In C by Terry Riley.

A philosophical tangent

There's a concept of "meaning molecularism" in philosophy:
The label “meaning holism” is generally applied to views that treat the meanings of all of the words in a language as interdependent. Meaning holism is typically contrasted with atomism about meaning (where each word’s meaning is independent of every other word’s meaning), and molecularism about meaning (where a word’s meaning is tied to the meanings of some comparatively small subset of other words in the language—such as “kill” being tied to “cause” and “die” or “if … then…” being tied to “not” and “or”).
The idea's that you can find a couple of elements (e.g. words) tied into a self-contained "meaning molecule".
So, I'm interested to know what are the smallest yet most emotional "music molecules".

More examples

Boards of Canada

Some specific songs of BOC count as "compact music". E.g. Nothing Is Real and Amo Bishop Roden. The latter is my favorite.
But in general BOC leans too much into ambient and has a lot of components which are not bad, but not necessary for compact music.

Yume Nikki community

Some specific songs of Kikiyama count as "compact music". E.g. The End and Barracks Settlement and Flute Player. Some specific songs from fangames also count.
But Game Music, in general, doesn't aim to explore this direction at all.

Minimalism, pop-minimalism

I'm not sure minimalism and pop-minimalism consistently explore compact music.
For example, from Brian Eno's Before And After Science only By This River and Spider And I count as compact music.
From Tortoise's Millions Now Living Will Never Die only the beginning of Glass Museum counts.

Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal sometimes has quiet sections which count as compact music. But it's pretty rare.
E.g. Xenoflux (4:57 - 8:36) by Ne Obliviscaris and Itinerant (0:00 - 3:18) by Rosetta and As Fire Swept Clean the Earth (0:00 - 0:24) by Enslaved. Aforementioned Floods Outro, too.

Progressive Rock

Progressive Rock has sections with compact music, but there's no consistent exploration of that.
E.g. Sooner or Later (up to 2:30) by King's X, Pull Me Under (first 20 seconds) by Dream Theater, Entangled (from 4:24 till the end) and Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats by Genesis.
From Neo-prog Rock I know a banger A Million Miles Away (I Wish I Had A Time Machine) by Edison's Children.

Electronic Music, PilotRedSun

PilotRedSun explores compact music relatively consistently! E.g. Deathly, Fragile Spinet and Grinch's Ultimatum.
He also brings a lot of elements which are not bad, but not necessary for compact music.

Psychedelic music

I'm not sure psychedelic music consistently explores compact music.
From The Last Days Of Gravity by Younger Brother only Psychic Gibbon (e.g. 2:02 - 3:16) and Your Friends Are Scary (e.g. 1:41 - 2:06) count as compact music.
From Shpongle's Museum of Consciousness nothing counts.

Hip-Hop

I'm not sure hip-hop consistently explores compact music.
Though from Special Herbs Vol. 5 & 6 by MF DOOM a bunch of particular tracks count. E.g. Coffin Nails and Valerian Root.
J Dilla's beats I heard don't count as compact music (Bye. may be an exception). But it's not a criticism, obviously.

Miscellaneous

Below I'll name famous musicians and their most compact songs I know:

Some obscure personal examples

Title Screen (first 14 seconds) or Hub World (0:33 - 0:48) from PS1 game Jinx.
Dude 1: 0:33 love this part ❤️
Dude 2: It has a fantastic chord progression. This is a severe underrated gem.
Electricity (Dr. Rockit's Dirty Kiss) (first 29 seconds) by The Avalanches and Matthew Herbert. King of my castle (0:06 - 0:48) by Tiger Hifi. Be Forever (first 30 seconds) and Doubt (first 24 seconds) by Piknik.

Conclusions

Could compact music be its own genre?

You may think "this is not a specific genre because it's way too restricted". But people worship some examples of compact music. I think there could be a demand for such music. And despite severe limitations, there's a lot of potential. I think a musician could find a way to explore this "genre", if they wanted to. And even if compact music can't be its own genre, why shouldn't there be some definition/description anyway?

How to define compact music?

I'd guess defining compact music would require two steps:
  1. Define the typical size of compact music. How many chords/bars it usually takes. How many seconds the loop lasts.
  2. Define the typical ways to give the motif an especially noticeable contrast or short development.
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2024.05.08 07:18 Large-Abrocoma5834 The Simpsons really does suck now, it’s official

I know that has been the case for a while now but I’m not a cynic and refuse to talk shit without actually trying to enjoy something instead of just going straight to complaining when something changes. But yeah no I just watched the recent season (+ the most recent episode) and it was so bad. Why is every other ‘joke’ just “Can we say that anymore?” It’s giving Boomers who don’t like being called out for racism (i.e Apu) and moreover, it’s not a joke to complain about jokes you can’t make. That doesn’t circumvent having to actually write. It’s just whining and doesn’t hold much comedic value. They had the most pitiful musical number for Moe from which they stole the beginning and end of the Mr. Grinch song and didn't even try with anything in between what they ripped off. Nothing about the Simpsons is good anymore. Huge bummer.
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2024.05.07 17:01 jaztinax I Ranked Every Glee Song: Part 6

Hi friends! I've made the slightly unhinged decision of sharing my ranking of all (well, close to all) the songs that were featured on Glee. This is part 6 out of... probably like, 50. Because Glee has a lot of songs. A LOT.
4 years ago, I also hosted a very extensive ranking where the sub got to participate in ranking the entire Glee soundtrack, and you can see the results here! Let me know if you guys want a redo of this, and I'll find a less consuming way to make this happen, because that ish was HARD.
If you coincidentally also have ranked all of the Glee songs, you are more than welcome to join and reveal your rankings as well!! Or share your opinions, everything is welcome :)
Just a quick reminder of what I've had in mind while ranking these so you guys understand more: I scored them based on vocal performance, context of the show, how it compared to the original song and how much I liked the actual production/arrangement of the Glee version. So a song could be really good, but if it was used in a bad or cringy scene, it'll affect the score negatively or the other way around!
We are still in the good tier, which are songs that I think are good, but not great. They've made it just within my range of songs that I'm okay with.

GOOD TIER

605. The Rain In Spain

Performed by Blaine Anderson, Finn Hudson, Mike Chang and Noah Puckerman.
This song is so random and I don't know who even came up with the thought of having this on the show, but it's not bad. Not going to lie, I wish I ranked this lower but I can't go back now, lmao.
Score: 58,2/100

604. My Sharona

Performed by The Warblers, with Skylar as lead.
Well, I don’t have a comment about this one now because I thought this was done by VA this whole time.
Score: 58,25/100

603. Jingle Bell Rock

Performed by Sam Evans.
This is a cute little Christmas song, I have this on my Christmas rotation sometimes. I don't have much to say about the scene, but I did enjoy this episode as a whole.
Score: 58,3/100

602. Kiss

Performed by Holly Holiday and Will Schuester.
I used to like this song a lot more back in the day, I remember listening to this all the time. I have since listened to the original just as much, maybe even more, and revisiting this song after being familiar with Prince singing it, it just becomes so glaringly obvious that their voices sound so strained and unnatural here. I do like this ship, and it's a good song. Their chemistry during this scene was amazing!
Score: 58,33/100

601. Don't Sleep In The Subway

Performed by Artie Abrams and Rachel Berry.
Artchel getting one-on-one time and a duet was something I never, ever saw coming. I feel like the only other time they've gotten a scene together was when she asked for his help with Run Joey Run. I think it was really refreshing to see them together. The song is alright though, it rates higher for context in my opinion.
Score: 58,33/100

600. Nowadays / Hot Honey Rags

Performed by Holly Holiday and Rachel Berry.
A very fun performance, although I don't listen to this song a whole lot. I love that the way to resolve things with Rachel is to just sing a duet with her.
Score: 58,4/100

599. Wake Me Up

Performed by Rachel Berry.
Even though I very much prefer the original and never listen to this version, I do like this song choice for the storyline. It does a good job at conveying Rachel's feelings about being on Funny Girl but feeling like, "is this what I really want to be doing forever?". I wasn't a huge fan of this storyline, but it makes sense for someone as ambitious as Rachel to want something more. Getting to do your dream role as such a young age with so much life to live still and career achievements to gain, it doesn't need to be over just because you have the one thing you always wanted right now.
Score: 58,5/100

598. Raise Your Glass (Season 5)

Performed by New Directions, with April Rhodes and Will Schuester as leads.
I just know the Warblers fans who voted for this song to be featured on this episode was so mad when the show gave it to April and Will and I love the thought of that. If I were to assign this to someone else than Blaine, I'd give it to Marley and Unique or Sam, Tina and Artie. It makes the most sense for the latter to do it considering they were present for the Warblers performance of it. There are so many great moments in this scene though, like Blaine recreating a little moment from his Warblers performance, Kurt trying to take away April's flask, Unholy Trinity moment and everyone just being super unhinged. I would've liked it better if someone else was singing it, though.
Score: 58,75/100

597. Rehab

Performed by Vocal Adrenaline.
I like this introduction for Vocal Adrenaline. It set a good example of the prime show choir rival, and you just know that New Directions is never going to be that. Or do you? It is the pilot after all, we don't know where this will go. They obviously never end up reaching the level of VA; although Paradise By The Dashboard Light came pretty close to that.
Score: 58,8/100

596. Somebody Loves You

Performed by Blaine Anderson and Kurt Hummel.
This song being on Glee was so huge for me at the time, because I felt like Betty Who was just a niche artist who had a specific following, and I was so excited when I heard they were doing this song! Less excited when I found out Klaine was doing it (was hoping for a more group number type of thing), but they did a good job nonetheless.
Score: 59/100

595. The Living Years

Performed by The Hipsters.
Out of all the unhinged things Glee has done, the most forgotten one has to be a show choir consisting of senior citizens competing in a high school show choir competition. They kind of slayed though.
Score: 59,1/100

594. Get Back

Performed by Kurt Hummel and Rachel Berry.
I wasn't familiar with this song when they first did this on Glee, but I've since listened to the original and its accompanying album a lot since, and that's also made me appreciate this more. A really unexpected song choice for Hummelberry, but it works!
Score: 59,25/100

593. There's A Light (Over At The Frankenstein Place)

Performed by New Directions, with Finn Hudson, Kurt Hummel and Rachel Berry as leads.
Out of all the Rocky Horror songs, this one is my least favorite, but they all sound great in it.
Score: 59,3/100

592. Do Ya Think I'm Sexy

Performed by The Warblers, with Blaine Anderson as lead.
Does anyone know the story behind the choice of songs for these Warblers songs that was released, but was not on the show? Because they're so random, I swear.
Score: 59,33/100

591. Planet, Schmanet, Janet

Performed by Carl Howell.
I honestly did not know this song existed until this year, but I understand why they chose Whatever Happened to Saturday Night over this. They're not that different to be honest, but he definitely has more charisma in the other one.
Score: 59,4/100

590. Science Fiction Double Feature

Performed by Santana Lopez.
Santana being the lips is so iconic. Her voice is so interesting here! She has such a different tone and plays around with it a lot. I don't think she ever did something similar again.
Score: 59,45/100

589. More Than Words

Performed by New Directions, with Brittany Pierce and Sam Evans as leads.
I used to think this song was really boring, but I have since appreciated this a lot more. I think it does feature Brittany's weaknesses in her vocals though, but it's still a very sweet duet.
Score: 59,5/100

588. You're My Best Friend

Performed by Blaine Anderson (and ND as puppets?).
This whole episode made no sense, and we truly did not need such a Blaine-centric episode at this stage of the show. So, the song and the vocal performance here are pulling the weight here.
Score: 59,55/100

587. Dance The Night Away

Performed by Vocal Adrenaline, with Clint as lead.
I feel like this is the 10th time I've written about a Clint song so this has to be the last one, which means this is my favorite one out of all of them.
Score: 59,6/100

586. Rise

Performed by New Directions and the Warblers, with too many leads for me to bother to list.
Although not as nostalgic or effective as others in the same category, this song works really well for a originally written competition song. It has all the elements that make it good, and I think if it was used in season 2 or 3, it would've definitely been a bigger hit among the Glee fandom.
Score: 59,67/100

585. You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch

Performed by k.d. lang and Will Schuester.
This must be the only time they've had a guest singer that only did a song, but wasn't a guest actor on the show? Which is wild and so random. Love the way this song was used on the show, though.
Score: 59,7/100
That's it for this part! Did you see any songs that you would've ranked higher (or lower)?
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2024.05.01 21:55 OMGALEX Compilation of info about Sonic Lunch 8/22/24 performance / potential TH reunion

Hey there! Something that frustrates me about being a TH fan is that it’s almost impossible to figure out what’s happening with the band and it’s members. Please feel free to use this post to help me compile all known information about Andrew’s upcoming performance at Sonic Lunch.
INFO
-Sonic Lunch is a series of free concerts throughout the summer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, taking place in Liberty Plaza.
-Andrew is opening for Antwuan Stanley (frequent Vulfpeck collaborator) on 8/22/24.
-The show on 8/22 won’t be a tally hall reunion, but “get your ties ready” and “gas up the wind star” if you live close (This comes from Matthew Altruda, a radio host in Ann Arbor who has interviewed TH members). The Sonic Lunch twitter confirmed today (5/1/24) that the show won't be a tally hall reunion, but tweeted about "Vulfpeck and Tally Hall members" uniting (though technically speaking one member from Vulfpeck and one member from TH could fulfill that sentence).
THEORIES
This leads me to believe that Andrew will be performing with Ross and Bora again (for those who don’t know, they performed a few TH songs at a concert last week). A kind of dream scenario would be Andrew, Ross, Bora, Rob and Zubin performing together (assuming Joe is still focusing on his mental health), as this would still fit the bill as “not a tally hall reunion”. I wouldn’t rule out Joe performing completely; I’m all for it, but the fact that it was stated not to be a reunion strikes me as meaning 5 out of 5 members haven’t signed on. It could also be possible everyone’s on board (Joe included), but something like Zubin not being able to make the flight on that day is keeping from the performance being a full reunion.
EXTRA / ETC.
I’ve seen some talk about a TH-related side project / album coming out this year; all I could find is that it’s apparently something Matthew Altruda mentioned at one point. There’s speculation that it’ll be another Rob Cantor solo album (his first since 2014’s Not a Trampoline). Zubin also may be involved, as he was seen using recording software in a recent video.
If you know anything else about the upcoming performance or any TH reunion news, you’re welcome to comment about it and I’ll add it to this post, but please link your source or at least explain where you heard it from!
Thanks!

rallyhall

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2024.04.24 06:56 Diligent-Kale-6097 The Guy in the Window

I am a female 31 years of age and have a daughter who is five. I have been an avid listener for years now. Not since the beginning but for years. I have posted to your reddit maybe one other time, but that was with a paranormal story. This story is very different, and it still chills me to my core each time I think about it. This story involves something far more dangerous than a paranormal entity; it involves humanity in a form far worse than dead... dangerous.
At the time of the incident, I was 29 and my daughter was three. I was in my bathroom bathing her and kept hearing a sound that seemed to be coming from the direction of my bedroom window. I wasn’t concerned with this sound at first because I live in an apartment complex on the ground level and people, especially kids walk by the window in the mulch all the time. So, I continued to bathe my daughter when the sound moved from my bedroom window to my daughters. Now I noticed the sound shift, and so did my small dog. She’s typically the quiet type as she’s 12 years old. The sound was almost as if there was someone tapping a metal object against the glass. Alert at this point my dog lets out this ear-piercing bark, one I have never heard from her before. Feeling on guard now, I removed my daughter from the tub and wrapped her in her towel and told her to stay in the bathroom as I proceeded to the kitchen and grabbed a knife.
Fight or flight at this point is kicking in as my dog recedes from the direction of my daughter’s room I approach it. Entering the doorway I begin hearing in a sing-song low guttery voice, “I’m here to play with a very pretty lady, a lady that I know. A lady that I see, a lady that I often see in my dream.” Absolutely beside myself at this point, and my fight or flight senses always in fight mode. I reached the window and drew open the curtains. As the voice kept singing the song and the tapping sound kept repeating on the window. I snatched the blind string and opened the blind quickly just to come face to face with an old white man, bearing a long and dirty beard, with eyes that sunk into his head and dark as the night was. He looked at me and grinned, a grin that I can only describe as the one the Grinch wore when he devised his plan.
Stuck in a shocked panic for what seemed like an eternity but was probably no more than a minute or two if that. I began to spring into action. I turned, jetted into the bathroom and grabbed my daughter and my cell phone. I ran to my front door still holding the knife, just in case the man happened to run towards my door. I was dialing the police and on the phone with a dispatcher as I ran out of my door and to my neighbor’s house. I proceeded to bang on her door with as much force as possible to get her attention. I wanted my child safe at least. She flung open her door, upset of course until she seen the terror on my face. As I handed her my daughter and began to force myself into her apartment the old man came running around the corner and into the breezeway lunging straight for me with a knife of his own in his hand. I managed to get my neighbor, her three kids, and my daughter into the door as this maniac arrived within arm’s length of me. Slamming the door, I told her to take the kids and get into the bathroom because that is the only room in the apartment that the door locks and there is no window. The old man was now banging and kicking her door, as well as dragging the knife down it. I stayed at the door to ensure he did not make his way in, and as I’m sitting in the floor my feet push against the coat closet base and my back firmly against the door, I heard a booming voice “Drop you weapon and get on the ground now!”
I sat listening as the sounds of a tussle came from the breezeway. Then “boom. Boom. Boom.”
“You can open the door ma’am, it’s the police!” Relieved I eased open the door in time enough to see the one officer exiting the breezeway with the man and another asking me if I was okay and if I could answer a few questions.
I spent about 15 minutes explaining the situation to him as he jotted down the notes in his pad. The other officer then approached us with two window screens, as the old man had taken the one off my window and my daughters in attempt to get in. The approaching officer asked me if I recognized the man, and I told him I had never seen him a day in my life. This is when the officer looked at me and said that this man admitted having been following me for about a month. He first seen me at the grocery store which is within walking distance from my apartment. Since then, he had watched and waited for the opportunity to try and get into my apartment to “play with me”.
This man followed me. For a month. And to make it even odder I would tell my then boyfriend that I felt at times as though I was being watched and it would scare me. The main thing I am thankful for is that I am the type of person who locks all windows and doors, no matter how safe I feel.
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2024.04.24 06:55 Diligent-Kale-6097 The Guy in the Window

I am a female 31 years of age and have a daughter who is five. I have been an avid listener for years now. Not since the beginning but for years. I have posted to your reddit maybe one other time, but that was with a paranormal story. This story is very different, and it still chills me to my core each time I think about it. This story involves something far more dangerous than a paranormal entity; it involves humanity in a form far worse than dead... dangerous.
At the time of the incident, I was 29 and my daughter was three. I was in my bathroom bathing her and kept hearing a sound that seemed to be coming from the direction of my bedroom window. I wasn’t concerned with this sound at first because I live in an apartment complex on the ground level and people, especially kids walk by the window in the mulch all the time. So, I continued to bathe my daughter when the sound moved from my bedroom window to my daughters. Now I noticed the sound shift, and so did my small dog. She’s typically the quiet type as she’s 12 years old. The sound was almost as if there was someone tapping a metal object against the glass. Alert at this point my dog lets out this ear-piercing bark, one I have never heard from her before. Feeling on guard now, I removed my daughter from the tub and wrapped her in her towel and told her to stay in the bathroom as I proceeded to the kitchen and grabbed a knife.
Fight or flight at this point is kicking in as my dog recedes from the direction of my daughter’s room I approach it. Entering the doorway I begin hearing in a sing-song low guttery voice, “I’m here to play with a very pretty lady, a lady that I know. A lady that I see, a lady that I often see in my dream.” Absolutely beside myself at this point, and my fight or flight senses always in fight mode. I reached the window and drew open the curtains. As the voice kept singing the song and the tapping sound kept repeating on the window. I snatched the blind string and opened the blind quickly just to come face to face with an old white man, bearing a long and dirty beard, with eyes that sunk into his head and dark as the night was. He looked at me and grinned, a grin that I can only describe as the one the Grinch wore when he devised his plan.
Stuck in a shocked panic for what seemed like an eternity but was probably no more than a minute or two if that. I began to spring into action. I turned, jetted into the bathroom and grabbed my daughter and my cell phone. I ran to my front door still holding the knife, just in case the man happened to run towards my door. I was dialing the police and on the phone with a dispatcher as I ran out of my door and to my neighbor’s house. I proceeded to bang on her door with as much force as possible to get her attention. I wanted my child safe at least. She flung open her door, upset of course until she seen the terror on my face. As I handed her my daughter and began to force myself into her apartment the old man came running around the corner and into the breezeway lunging straight for me with a knife of his own in his hand. I managed to get my neighbor, her three kids, and my daughter into the door as this maniac arrived within arm’s length of me. Slamming the door, I told her to take the kids and get into the bathroom because that is the only room in the apartment that the door locks and there is no window. The old man was now banging and kicking her door, as well as dragging the knife down it. I stayed at the door to ensure he did not make his way in, and as I’m sitting in the floor my feet push against the coat closet base and my back firmly against the door, I heard a booming voice “Drop you weapon and get on the ground now!”
I sat listening as the sounds of a tussle came from the breezeway. Then “boom. Boom. Boom.”
“You can open the door ma’am, it’s the police!” Relieved I eased open the door in time enough to see the one officer exiting the breezeway with the man and another asking me if I was okay and if I could answer a few questions.
I spent about 15 minutes explaining the situation to him as he jotted down the notes in his pad. The other officer then approached us with two window screens, as the old man had taken the one off my window and my daughters in attempt to get in. The approaching officer asked me if I recognized the man, and I told him I had never seen him a day in my life. This is when the officer looked at me and said that this man admitted having been following me for about a month. He first seen me at the grocery store which is within walking distance from my apartment. Since then, he had watched and waited for the opportunity to try and get into my apartment to “play with me”.
This man followed me. For a month. And to make it even odder I would tell my then boyfriend that I felt at times as though I was being watched and it would scare me. The main thing I am thankful for is that I am the type of person who locks all windows and doors, no matter how safe I feel.
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2024.04.24 06:52 Diligent-Kale-6097 The Guy in the Window

Hello Joel,
I am a female 31 years of age and have a daughter who is five. I have been an avid listener for years now. Not since the beginning but for years. I have posted to your reddit maybe one other time, but that was with a paranormal story. This story is very different, and it still chills me to my core each time I think about it. This story involves something far more dangerous than a paranormal entity; it involves humanity in a form far worse than dead... dangerous.
At the time of the incident, I was 29 and my daughter was three. I was in my bathroom bathing her and kept hearing a sound that seemed to be coming from the direction of my bedroom window. I wasn’t concerned with this sound at first because I live in an apartment complex on the ground level and people, especially kids walk by the window in the mulch all the time. So, I continued to bathe my daughter when the sound moved from my bedroom window to my daughters. Now I noticed the sound shift, and so did my small dog. She’s typically the quiet type as she’s 12 years old. The sound was almost as if there was someone tapping a metal object against the glass. Alert at this point my dog lets out this ear-piercing bark, one I have never heard from her before. Feeling on guard now, I removed my daughter from the tub and wrapped her in her towel and told her to stay in the bathroom as I proceeded to the kitchen and grabbed a knife.
Fight or flight at this point is kicking in as my dog recedes from the direction of my daughter’s room I approach it. Entering the doorway I begin hearing in a sing-song low guttery voice, “I’m here to play with a very pretty lady, a lady that I know. A lady that I see, a lady that I often see in my dream.” Absolutely beside myself at this point, and my fight or flight senses always in fight mode. I reached the window and drew open the curtains. As the voice kept singing the song and the tapping sound kept repeating on the window. I snatched the blind string and opened the blind quickly just to come face to face with an old white man, bearing a long and dirty beard, with eyes that sunk into his head and dark as the night was. He looked at me and grinned, a grin that I can only describe as the one the Grinch wore when he devised his plan.
Stuck in a shocked panic for what seemed like an eternity but was probably no more than a minute or two if that. I began to spring into action. I turned, jetted into the bathroom and grabbed my daughter and my cell phone. I ran to my front door still holding the knife, just in case the man happened to run towards my door. I was dialing the police and on the phone with a dispatcher as I ran out of my door and to my neighbor’s house. I proceeded to bang on her door with as much force as possible to get her attention. I wanted my child safe at least. She flung open her door, upset of course until she seen the terror on my face. As I handed her my daughter and began to force myself into her apartment the old man came running around the corner and into the breezeway lunging straight for me with a knife of his own in his hand. I managed to get my neighbor, her three kids, and my daughter into the door as this maniac arrived within arm’s length of me. Slamming the door, I told her to take the kids and get into the bathroom because that is the only room in the apartment that the door locks and there is no window. The old man was now banging and kicking her door, as well as dragging the knife down it. I stayed at the door to ensure he did not make his way in, and as I’m sitting in the floor my feet push against the coat closet base and my back firmly against the door, I heard a booming voice “Drop you weapon and get on the ground now!”
I sat listening as the sounds of a tussle came from the breezeway. Then “boom. Boom. Boom.”
“You can open the door ma’am, it’s the police!” Relieved I eased open the door in time enough to see the one officer exiting the breezeway with the man and another asking me if I was okay and if I could answer a few questions.
I spent about 15 minutes explaining the situation to him as he jotted down the notes in his pad. The other officer then approached us with two window screens, as the old man had taken the one off my window and my daughters in attempt to get in. The approaching officer asked me if I recognized the man, and I told him I had never seen him a day in my life. This is when the officer looked at me and said that this man admitted having been following me for about a month. He first seen me at the grocery store which is within walking distance from my apartment. Since then, he had watched and waited for the opportunity to try and get into my apartment to “play with me”.
This man followed me. For a month. And to make it even odder I would tell my then boyfriend that I felt at times as though I was being watched and it would scare me. The main thing I am thankful for is that I am the type of person who locks all windows and doors, no matter how safe I feel.
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2024.04.23 13:47 Charity00 The Amazing Race 22 - Review

I’ve decided to rewatch every Amazing Race and rank them all.
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SEASON 22 gets a 7/10
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I enjoyed this season and I can’t list many negatives. Not many dull legs and there was usually enough happening to keep it interesting - we had multiple penalties in leg 1, Dave’s injury, a team eliminated with an Express Pass, U-Turn plots, alliances, flirting between teams and visually one of the best routes. There wasn’t much negativity and mostly had a satisfying feel good vibe throughout. However it just had a bit of a “meh” feeling (especially at the end) so can’t rank it amongst the best seasons. The cast felt a little dull (especially the final 5) and there weren’t any crazy or larger than life personalities or controversy. But still enjoyable overall!
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General Thoughts
- I feel they did everything right with route, challenges, likeable teams, a little bit of inter-team drama… but the cast is unfortunately one of the dullest and is the only reason it isn’t amongst the top seasons that got 8-10. The cast isn’t “terrible” but the only big characters were Chuck/Wynona and they aren’t top tier like Natalie/Nadiya, Brendan/Rachel or Margie/Luke. Then there’s a big gap and the next biggest characters were Pam/Winnie or Max/Katie who were “fine” but once again aren’t Dustin/Kandice or Tara/Wil. But the cast wasn’t “super boring”. Every team actually had somewhat of a story, while I would argue that many teams from TAR20 and TAR21 felt irrelevant, especially their early boots.
- But many teams were cast because of gimmicks such as Bates/Anthony (professional hockey players), Caroline/Jennifer (country singers with famous grandfathers), Joey/Meghan (YouTubers), Mona/Beth (roller derby moms - this wacky hobby got them on rather than being huge characters), Idries/Jamil (twin doctors isn’t common) and Dave/Connor (having both a father and son being cancer survivors is a gimmick). They also like to cast a team with either beards or wacky hair (in this case Chuck) but they really need to make sure they’re interesting personalities and not just “look interesting” or have an interesting backstory or job. I say it in most reviews but it is harder to relate to and support gimmicky teams.
- This season did have some big storylines - Dave’s Achilles injury, John/Jessica’s downfall, some good alliance drama (everybody vs Joey/Meghan, Mona/Beth and John/Jessica, strategy over the 2nd Express Pass, flirting between Anthony/Bates and Caroline/Jennifer), the 3 teams taking the penalty in the first leg and Chuck/Wynona as a unique and sometimes bickering team. And it felt unpredictable with big characters John/Jessica and Dave/Connor leaving early, and to a lesser extent Pam/Winnie also having a shock elimination, and then even Chuck/Wynona. Even Idries/Jamil had a big edit in their boot episode. But that did leave us with an underwhelming final 5 where the characters were not fleshed out well. The first half was definitely a lot stronger than the second half. But the final 5 were still likeable enough and it felt nice and satisfying to watch to the point where it wasn’t “too dull”.
- Bates/Anthony are very generic “nice guy alpha male” winners. They deserved it, they were nice, but it’s an empty feeling like most winners. They are pretty forgettable winners. In this case I would have preferred a Caroline/Jennifer or Mona/Beth win because they were underdogs, always seemed to be enjoying the race, and would have made for a more unique outcome. Pam/Winnie, Chuck/Wynona, or even Joey/Meghan would have made more interesting winners too.
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Route
- A fantastic route and is visually the most appealing route so far and such a nice variety of places. The beautiful islands of Bora Bora, New Zealand looked stunning, Bali looked stunning, bustling Hanoi, the Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana, snowy Switzerland, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Scotland and Northern Ireland (and a quick stop to order a pint in London), and even ending with landmarks in Washington DC. Even the Los Angeles starting line was iconic at the Griffith Observatory overlooking Hollywood. A contender for one of the best routes, and definitely best looking route! Entertainment and storylines are more important than route for me but was still nice to see.
- Challenges were much better than last season’s. The worst type of challenges are the ones where teams are just “doing things” without struggling and basically arrive and leave in the same order. This season didn’t have many of them. The shemozzle race in New Zealand was awful and it just didn’t seem possible to fail badly. But I liked the sandcastles, the Bora Bora water challenges and stilts, the Bali surfboard puzzle, the phrase in the Vietnamese song, the Botswana canoe, the animal challenges in Africa (remembering the order of silhouettes/guiding donkeys), the bagpipes and serving Titanic passengers.
- The season’s twist had the winner of the first leg winning not only an Express Pass but a 2nd Express Pass to give to another team. I really like this twist - it doesn’t drastically change the game (which is a good thing) but encourages inter-team dynamics and strategy. Besides that, this season had 2 U-Turns, 1 Fast Forward, Speed Bumps and 1 Keep on Racing leg. This season also had 2 poorly implemented Switchbacks. The purpose of a Switchback is to pick an interesting challenge and create some more good moments with that challenge. TAR14’s cheese hill was fantastic…but here they used different equipment so they took away what made the first challenge hilarious - people falling over and dropping cheese down the hill! And then TAR8’s briefcase challeng was fine as a Leg 2 challenge in the Family Edition, but this luck based challenge doesn’t belong in a finale.
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Cast Ranking
1.Chuck/Wynona - definitely the biggest characters of the season, plus I generally support the older or unfit underdog teams. Not as big a characters as BoppeMark or David/Mary but fascinating enough. Wynona was terrible at most things and I sort of liked her attitude of hilariously complaining through most challenges, “My heinie is sore, this seat isn’t padded” on the horse and just sitting in the sand wanting vodka in the digging challenge. Chuck used up almost all his Road Blocks in the first 5 legs haha They argued a lot because of Chuck being disappointed in her - there’s a scene where Chuck is pushing Wynona up the hill and he’s like “I can’t hold both the sleds and your ass” haha and he forcibly pulls her at one stage. They had some fun bickering (and awkward bickering) and bizarre quotes like comparing working in Walmart to using stilts somehow. Sometimes they felt inspirational and were learning to work together, and the next episode Wynona is crying after an uncomfortable confrontation. Plus Chuck’s hair!
  1. Pam/Winnie - these 2 are very underrated! You don’t have to be super dramatic or villains or have a wacky job or backstory…I just found these 2 so witty and likeable. Quotes like “Sesame Street on crack”, “Crocodile Dundee - African edition” and after being eliminated “Crying is for bitches so we’re definitely not crying” haha. But what makes them endearing is that they’re just 2 normal friends with fun personalities. And I just love HUMOR! They just seemed to have a fun quote for everything like when they were talking about working best alone, one of them joked “Yeah if we were the only team racing, we’ll be fine” haha Sad to see them go earlyish because I think they could have been fan favorites if they made it to the end!
  2. Max/Katie - weren’t as interesting as I remember but the most unique out of the final 5. They started as “villains” with Katie being like “I’m not likeable at all” and faking being nice to other teams, and some mild bickering with Katie belittling Max for failing at manly challenges like car racing. But then they sort of turned into a generic couple later on. Some witty remarks here and there like “The honeymoon continues in Africa…that tents gonna be rockin” after surviving a non-elimination haha and Max making fun of John and being a bit arrogant at times. They were okay, but much better couples in past seasons.
  3. Dave/Connor - these 2 are polarising. Some fans liked them because they seemed super sweet and had a tragic cancer backstory (with their bad luck continuing with Dave’s injury). Others found them annoying because of how often they were shown crying about their cancer or crying about their injuries or even crying about how much they loved each other…just too much haha And Dave had that “get ahead of them I’m old” mentality. They definitely made a bigger impact than many teams at the end (some fans liked them, some didn’t and that means they made an impact), plus I enjoyed their injury arc with them coming 1st in 2 legs despite Dave being on crutches, and then leaving because of their injury.
  4. John/Jessica - were arguably the biggest characters for the first 4 legs with their cockiness and Express Pass plotting. A dominant performance and always finished near the top…and then a shock elimination in leg 4. I like shock eliminations where we actually care about the early boots. John’s downfall in Leg 4 (after a dominant and sometimes cocky 3 legs) is one of my favorite 1 episode storylines. So just like Dave/Connor, they made a bigger impact than many of the later teams.
  5. Joey/Meghan - the next 4 weren’t that compelling to me, but Team YouTube had the most fun lines. However they were “playing up for the camera” A LOT! I know they’re YouTubers but they really felt like it too, unlike Michael/Kevin who were wacky but also felt more down to Earth. Joey especially was showing off and yelling a lot - like randomly yelling “RAISE THE ROOF RAISE THE ROOF” for no reason and a very over the top reaction to handling a scorpion and base jumping. Some jokes were okay like “Who wants to get tripping” with Joey “Is someone going to get high or something”. They did have a sweet bond, and I liked their friendship with Mona/Beth. When they fell behind in Switzerland and Meghan broke down crying, they felt the most genuine and I liked them much more here. I wouldn’t say they were boring though.
  6. Caroline/Jennifer - the “country singers” weren’t that interesting but if you look closely there’s some small fun moments like “Beverly Hills has left the building” when dirty, and some of Caroline’s random stories like her squirrel that died of loneliness in her bra and her family making her do a fire drill by jumping off the roof haha. I found them really sweet and likeable though. Yeah they were proud of their flirting and followed Bates/Anthony but weren’t super reliant on them. They were “dumb blondes” at times but not that bad and I enjoyed seeing them get through.
  7. Mona/Beth - weren’t that interesting either but I found Caroline/Jennifer slightly more endearing and relevant to the season. Team Roller Derby wanted to prove they are badasses and not just moms. They did well, however I actually prefer the less athletic “mom” teams like the Bowling Moms or The Glamazons. They had some moments I guess like “It sounded like they were torturing an animal” with the bagpipes and were likeable…but were pretty forgettable.
  8. Bates/Anthony - just like Caroline/Jennifer and Mona/Beth, I also found the Hockey Players likeable but not that interesting. For alpha males, they were very sweet, gentle and down to Earth. When Bates had his bag stolen, Caroline/Jennifer felt so bad because he was the like the nicest person ever. But they weren’t good TV and I would rather support 2 blondes or 2 moms than a sporty team.
  9. Idries/Jamil - seemed likeable like when they joked about being ‘kindergarten teachers’ haha but their main storyline was being afraid of water and failing completely at the water challenges. Became an early boot disaster team which I don’t mind.
  10. Matt/Daniel - didn’t get to do much - only remember them taking the penalty with Max/Katie and Caroline/Jennifer yet losing a rowing race despite being the fittest of the 3. They were embarrassed what their fellow firefighters would think. A memorable way of losing I guess!
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Leg Rankings
1.Leg 4 - Indonesia (F9 - John/Jessica eliminated) - FANTASTIC…and not just because of the Express Pass blunder. It started with alliances and airport scrambles (which are being phased out). Getting the monkeys to open coconuts was unique (with Caroline wanting a monkey but remembering the squirrel that she kept in her bra and died of loneliness haha). Preparing the fruit offering was a great challenge (plus John/Jessica putting something together in a random person’s house haha) as well as the surfboard puzzle at the end (Caroline having a meltdown and eventually just lucking out and picking the right board haha). But of course this episode is all about cocky John/Jessica’s downfall - switching detours, struggling and still not using the Express Pass despite Jessica suggesting it many times. And John being like “I have no regrets” after being eliminated and Phil is like “Oy vey” haha But great location in Bali, great challenges (especially the memory one), drama, Dave/Connor surprisingly come first again, just everything worked here!
  1. Leg 7 - Botswana (F7 - Pam/Winnie eliminated) - another fantastic leg with so many placement changes and great challenges! Caroline/Jennifer and Max/Katie are caught speeding (with Caroline/Jennifer having to give a local $100 to go and exchange it…and hope he returns haha). Max/Katie struggle to find their car, get a speeding ticket, reverse into a pole and complete a seduction dance for a Speed Bump haha (with some Katie sass). There was the waterskiing with crocodiles Fast Forward which was fine (maybe better if a weaker team tried it). Paddling with goats had some fun bickering and crashing into other canoes “roller derby on the water” especially Chuck/Wynona and Mona/Beth, and then Joey “I feel like Pocahontas” haha. Then Pam/Winnie have a disaster at the detour - struggling to control their donkeys and then missing some of the animals on the other detour. Teams were falling behind, catching up, some bickering, great location, chaos with animals (goats and donkeys) and a shock elimination!
  2. Leg 5 - Vietnam (F8 -Dave/Connor eliminated) - this episode was criticised for being disrespectful to Vietnam veterans and you even had Joey describing the B-52 “It’s a plane crash not a house” in an uncaring way. Definitely a missed opportunity for a reflection segment. But it was a very entertaining leg! Dave/Connor officially leave the race (Pam/Winnie being like “We can finally win without someone in a wheelchair rolling past us” haha). There’s the U-turn drama with everyone plotting to U-Turn the “John and Jessica minion squad” of Mona/Beth and Joey/Meghan. The communist performance (Katie “they’re like One Direction” haha) was a nice tricky challenge and the bamboo dance had Chuck/Wynona failing over and over because they weren’t holding hands. Chuck/Wynona were great - they bickered, forgot their chickens and Wynona is like “I need 12 limes…and a husband who listens” haha And the locals mock the teams “Look at that Westerner with the chickens” haha There’s even some banter and teams exploring Hanoi. A very fun leg!
  3. Leg 1 - French Polynesia (F11 - Matt/Daniel eliminated) - one of the strongest premieres! It had a classic flight scramble (rather than a starting line challenge, they’re navigating to the airport, getting on shuttles, bantering with other teams etc), most teams were shown throughout and great location in Bora Bora! There were some alliances with the first flight agreeing to give the Express Pass to 2nd place and Max/Katie being sneaky. The skydiving had no drama whatsoever but it was over beautiful Bora Bora and in a way it is refreshing seeing an entire cast prepared for height challenges for once. The sandcastles was a terrible luck based challenge but it worked well - Wynona complaining the whole time “I don’t want to go to Bora Bora and build sandcastles - “I thought they’d have vodka and 7-ups” haha and Winnie “You’re gonna look like Tom Hanks from Cast Away”. And a memorable and fantastic ending - 3 teams agreeing to take a penalty and a close rowing race. A great leg but would be higher with more big moments besides the ending.
  4. Leg 2 - French Polynesia (F10 - Idries/Jamil eliminated) - continued through beautiful Bora Bora and was another strong leg. There’s chats about John/Jessica’s 2nd Express Pass with Mona/Beth complaining about teams sucking up…but then hilariously sucking up themselves “Nice to meet you, we call you Abercrombie and Fitch because you’re fabulous” haha Untying the shells underwater was a fun challenge with Idries/Jamil really struggling and almost considering the 6 hour penalty (Amazing Race doesn’t have many water challenges, which I usually enjoy). The underwater picnic wasn’t as difficult but still looked good on TV. The stilts challenge was also a fun challenge at the end with Pam/Winnie falling behind on it. There’s placement changes, Max/Katie and Caroline/Jennifer catch up, Pam/Winnie struggle in the water and get lost (“We’re gonna jet ski to California” haha), Dave’s injury, and a hilarious disaster of a leg for Idries/Jamil who struggle with water. But the premiere is ahead because of the quitting strategy at the end.
  5. Leg 8 - Switzerland (F6 - Chuck/Wynona eliminated) - one of the most beautiful legs but was poorly planned with lots of trains and equalisers. Some of the train navigation (and flirting) was okay though. The most dramatic Chuck/Wynona episode - A LOT of arguing mostly due to Wynona being slow and the arguing reduced her to tears. Wynona conquered the Eiger Road Block but Chuck was hilariously not supportive “well the kids need a mother” instead of “good job”. Also joking, “If things go wrong, I won’t marry for the first month” haha I loved the Swiss dogs, and Chuck treating them better than his wife haha. The ending is fantastic though - the cheese switchback has Katie struggling and hilariously holding up all the teams, Chuck/Wynona arguing and struggling of course, Joey/Meghan stressing out (crying and fighting for the first time) and not being able to find a taxi, and then Chuck/Wynona get a penalty for not using the sleds correctly…so Joey/Meghan survive! Very exciting and dramatic leg…just not that well planned.
  6. Leg 9 - Germany (F5 - Non elimination) - was a fun quirky leg and I like unique night legs. Bates loses his bag on the train…with Caroline/Jennifer offering women’s underwear and thongs. Some of the history questions are interesting to see who knows their history (Which president said “Tear down this wall”? Caroline/Jennifer thinking it’s the Great Wall of China haha and Max disappointed as Ronald Reagan was his favourite president…an interesting choice). Base jumping was okay as just an additional challenge and the weird funhouse was okay (Mona/Beth “Kids this is what drugs is like”). It wasn’t super difficult but seems memorable in a way. And assembling a train track/transporting neon letters had some difficulties, plus the animated graphic of the burning train was hilariously random. Bates/Anthony smashed their letter and had to separate from their allies Caroline/Jennifer. And a tense finish with Mona/Beth getting lost and then overtaken in a footrace by the threats Bates/Anthony. So a generally fun leg and a tense finish!
  7. Leg 6 - Botswana (F7 - Non elimination) - a decent leg despite not many big moments. An okay flight segment, teams discussing the U-Turn and teams having to guess where the Kalahari desert is and Chuck/Wynona guessing LOTS and LOTS of countries. Also Chuck saying “This is where The Lion King is made” and teams laughing that it’s a cartoon haha Catching the scorpion was okay but impossible to fail. Watching the bushmen put the scorpion in their mouths was intense and Max was like “I better keep my mouth closed so they don’t do that to me”. And Joey freaking out over the scorpion was either hilarious or annoying. There’s some fun banter with the teams driving their bushmen around during the leg (calling Caroline/Jennifer “very beautiful women”, Joey/Meghan being like “Did you add them on Facebook yet?” And Pam/Winnie “It feels like we’re smuggling bushmen”). And making a fire/making a Guinea fowl trap had some switching and placement shifts and were some challenging enough African tasks.
  8. Leg 10 - Scotland (F5 - Joey/Meghan eliminated) - this leg was okay but the final 5 just aren’t interesting characters. It had similar flight drama and U-Turn drama to Vietnam with Bates/Anthony, Caroline/Jennifer and Max/Katie vs Mona/Beth and Joey/Meghan. The 3 teams get on an earlier flight. The bagpipes was fine with Caroline having a meltdown but then finally getting it, “I have found my husband in Scotland. His name is Jim and I think he’s 70.” Meghan also struggled “Maybe his saliva will give me superpowers..I basically made out with that guy”. Making haggis/rolling whiskey barrels were not that interesting besides the hilarious Scottish poet (“1759 was when I was born”…with Jennifer “we like our men older” haha) and maybe the Skittles Speed Bump may have worked better as a Detour option. Mona/Beth “the haggis tastes good…sorry Scotland but it was awful” haha A close battle between U-Turned teams Mona/Beth and Joey/Meghan! So a tense ending, and some good drama but generally dull in between.
  9. Leg 11 - Northern Ireland (F4 - Caroline/Jennifer eliminated) - another leg that just felt “okay” and also had a few meltdowns and things going on, but the teams at the end are just not that engaging. Plus locations felt very dull and dreary, especially considering the high calibre this season. The bog snorkelling was pretty tame for a final 4 but they lucked out with Jennifer having a big meltdown, and then praying. Most final 4’s would breeze through it in a dull fashion. Serving the Titanic passengers was better and caused some interesting difficulties with multiple teams especially Mona/Beth missing the board “My kids are gonna eat mac and cheese for the rest of their life”. Caroline/Jennifer got lost, and felt like they almost caught up. Just not enough conflict - they tried to show Max slightly mocking Mona/Beth for getting on a later flight from the previous leg and complaining about Mona/Beth following them. The 2 legs ranked below aren’t great either but this one at least had some struggles at challenges, especially the Titanic one.
  10. Leg 3 - New Zealand (F9 - TBC) - a pretty dull leg and it didn’t help that it ended with a “To Be Continued” - last season the “To Be Continued” was straight after James/Abba lost their bags (cliffhanger), but this one was just after Dave/Connor checked in 1st. Dave’s injury was a big focus - getting assessed and being allowed to continue, on crutches and other team’s reactions, using their Express Pass, and managing to finish 1st (a good story for them). The challenges were dull though - driving the car around cones had a few struggles but nothing interesting, fishing was boring, and the shemozzle race was a terrible challenge (the worst challenges are the ones that are difficult to fail like this pointless challenge). Max/Katie bickered with directions with Katie being like “I got a doctorate so I’m pretty much always right” haha nice New Zealand scenery and the flight scramble was okay (Bates/Anthony make fun of John for being sneaky and some alliances). But too much focus on boring challenges and no storylines besides Dave’s achilles.
  11. Leg 12 - USA (F3 - Finale) - unfortunately a very underwhelming finale (not the worst though). Bates/Anthony got a lead and never lost it with nothing interesting happening. It showed off Washington DC well enough and it’s sites (although it looked so grey and gloomy) and I liked them visiting the Lincoln memorial where Martin Luther gave his “I have a dream” speech. Tricking the teams into meeting Obama was silly but….something I guess (frustrated Max being a Republican). Not a fan of the briefcase switchback because it’s very luck based. It feels like Max fell behind because of bad luck, despite Katie saying it’s because Max is an idiot haha. Catching the baseball and finding the globes weren’t bad challenges but fell flat because of Bates/Anthony not struggling. It’s hard to say whether the globes was a difficult memory challenge or not…but it was very anticlimactic when Bates/Anthony left before Max/Katie even showed up. So boring winners, boring challenges, boring finale, and just no struggles, drama or placement changes.
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Summary
So a middle of the road season with a fantastic beginning, good middle and an okay but duller end. It had a fantastic route with enough moments and things going on to make most legs enjoyable. There were also lots of likeable teams with minimal negativity (which can be good too). However I feel TAR22 lacked big characters and controversy so the season felt average at times and misses out on that “excellent” category. This season needed divisive characters like Natalie/Nadiya or Brendan/Rachel, or even funnier teams like BoppeMark or Zev/Justin. Or a crazy bickering couple. Also a more exciting ending with a more dynamic final 5 and more dynamic winners! But still an enjoyable season overall.
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So after each season I will place it on a ranking: (also included links to previous reviews)
1.TAR5 - 10/10
  1. TAR3 - 10/10
  2. TAR12 - 9/10
  3. TAR17 - 9/10
  4. TAR18 - 9/10
  5. TAR2 - 8/10
  6. TAR7 - 8/10
  7. TAR20 - 8/10
  8. TAR11 - 8/10
  9. TAR13 - 8/10
  10. TAR6 - 8/10
  11. TAR10 - 7/10
  12. TAR22 - 7/10
  13. TAR14 - 7/10
  14. TAR1 - 7/10
  15. TAR9 - 7/10
  16. TAR21 - 6/10
  17. TAR15 - 6/10
  18. TAR4 - 6/10
  19. TAR8 - 6/10
  20. TAR19 - 5/10
  21. TAR16 - 5/10
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2024.04.17 21:57 samsungjello Ranking The Top 52 Eurovision Song Contest Countries since 1975: The -Ia's (#32-#28)

Under three weeks until Eurovision goes to Sweden for the 7th time, our countdown really starts to get to the meat and potatoes. We are now getting to the top half of the list, and with that we start to see more known ESC hits, which for me is very exciting! It has been a nice journey learning about the acts that have influenced each country at this contest, and may it continue into the top 30!

The Countries

Placement Country Score
28 Serbia 87081.981
29 Croatia 73990.339
30 Romania 73540.311
31 Bulgaria 71403.49
32 Armenia 69723.425
Sorry about the title, I meant to point to the fact that all of these countries end with -ia, and that they are all together results wise, which is pretty interesting. Just above Latvia (#33) is Armenia, who despite never winning, have steadily gotten results, as they have only NQ'ed 3 times in 15 attempts since they joined in 2006. Above Armenia is Bulgaria, who have quite the opposite results than Armenia, only qualifying 5 times since they debuted in 2005. But when they DO qualify, they have produced some of the best songs this contest has seen. Above Bulgaria (on this list and geographically) is neighbor Romania, who like their neighbor have left their mark on this competition, and even though they face financial difficulties today, at full strength they are a force to be reckoned with, with some top 3 placings to back it up. Inside the top 30 is Croatia, who don't have a top 3 in their history, but are only one of two countries here to host an ESC, and have one of my all time fav entries. They actually have only qualified 3 times in 11 years prior to this year's contest, but like with Bulgaria, cannot be counted out when they do qualify. And at the top here is the resident ESC winning country in Serbia***, whose history here is shorter than all the rest here, but have really impressed with their time, becoming a Eurovision darling with some of their entries and style.
** If you don't count the Croatian Yugoslav entries. ** Croatia hosted Yugoslavia's ESC in 1990.
*** Notice the gap between Serbia and the rest? Things will be REALLY serious soon.
Some Notable Artists: André (Armenia), Luminița Anghel (Romania), Monica Anghel (Romania), Aram Mp3 (Armenia), Maja Blagdan (Croatia), Danijela (Croatia), Bora Dugić (Serbia), Doris (Croatia), Equinox (Bulgaria), Alex Florea (Romania), Poli Genova (Bulgaria), Ilinca (Romania), Željko Joksimović (Serbia), Konstrakta (Serbia), Lado (Croatia), Lidija (Croatia), Kristian Kostov (Bulgaria), Magazin (Croatia), Iveta Mukuchyan (Armenia), Nicola (Romania), Nina (Serbia), Boris Novković (Croatia), Ovi (Romania), Marcel Pavel (Romania), Eva Rivas (Armenia), Paula Seling (Romania), Sistem (Romania), Jelena Tomašević (Serbia), Elitsa Todorova (Bulgaria), Marija Šerifović (Serbia), Sirusho (Armenia), Victoria (Bulgaria), Stoyan Yankoulov (Bulgaria)

The Worst Years

Romania 2023 Theodor Andrei - D.G.T. (Off and On)

Contest Ranking: DNQ (15th 2nd Semifinal) My Ranking: 36th (-1.9)
Yikes, what a disaster. Our first time talking about the most recent ESC, and it's because of Romania and their entry D.G.T (Off and On). But first, let's talk about the performer Theodor Andrei, who was able to turn this former duet of a song into one suitable to win the national final and compete in Eurovision. In some interviews, Andrei spoke out about how he wanted to send a song "never seen before" for Romania at ESC, as he wanted to mix several genres that both his countrymen and foreign listeners would enjoy. This man has the repertoire to pull it off, as he has a long history of acting and singing from an early age. Unfortunately, TVR (Romania's broadcaster), had different plans for Theo, as they not only rejected all of his ideas for staging, they also forced Theo to do a slower revamp of his song for Eurovision, as well as not give him any money for the staging at the contest. This contributed to a quite bizarre performance, one where he can be seen with a white... costume(?) flashing all over the screens. It's quite sad hearing about the troubles he had to deal with, because this song doesn't deserve to get ZERO points in his semifinal, joining the hall of "nil points" entries.

Bulgaria 2009 Krassimir Avramov - Illusion

Contest Ranking: DNQ (16th 1st Semifinal) My Ranking: 39th (0.627)
This one is a bit funny. After 4 years and only 1 qualification (finished 5th), Bulgaria would host a national final that had 14(!) events over the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009. At the end of all of the events, it would be a former pantomime, named Krassimir Avramov, that would represent the country in Moscow, quite controversially, I should add. It's funny that the offical ESC site says that Avramov has a "very rare and unique male voice", when so many people in Bulgaria took exception to his musical abilities when he won. They took SO much exception that there was a live debate on whether Krassimir should go to Eurovision or not! After all of that, Avramov and his "unique male voice" would preform his song in Moscow, and promptly exit after finishing third to last overall. I don't want to say the protestors were on to something, since I'm talking about this song in the Worst section, so I'm not going to, and I'll move on... ***
**Maybe they *were** onto something...

Croatia 2010 Feminnem - Lako je sve

Contest Ranking: DNQ (13th 2nd Semifinal) My Ranking: 33rd (1.553)
Now here's an act with some experience at ESC, with the girl group Feminnem representing Croatia in Eurovision with their song Lako je sve. They first competed in 2005 for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as both nationalities are represented in the group. That entry got 14th, a respectable finish, which lead to them trying to represent Croatia in 2007, to no avail. In 2009, they would try again to represent Croatia, but would fail again. It would only be in 2010 where the group would finally break through and get the chance to represent Croatia, a country whose performances were starting to slip as the 2000's were ending. With the chance to reverse their country's fortunes, they would... not qualify, kicking off a streak of 4 consequent NQ's. In fact, this entry would kickstart a bigger trend for the country, as mentioned earlier, they would only qualify 3 times in 11 years, and it all started with this song**.
** It should have started a year earlier, but Croatia's 2009 entry qualified through back up jurors despite finishing 13th in their semi.

Serbia 2013 Moje 3 - Ljubav je svuda (Љубав је свуда)

Contest Ranking: DNQ (11th 1st Semifinal) My Ranking: 29th (1.775)
Here we have another girl group making this list, this time it's Serbia with their 2013 entry. Serbia are quite efficient at winning this competition, as they have only failed to make the final 3 times like Armenia, so when they don't qualify, it's always a big shock. This group is made of a former ESC rep, as Nevena Božović was Serbia's Junior ESC participant in 2007. This group actually had to reunite, as before the competition the group broke up for their separate careers. And after this performance, they would break up again to resume said careers, due to the average age of this group was nineteen (19!). For a group that had an impressive individual resume, the only award they would receive that night would be a Barbara Dex award, and in the future another Serbian girl group would redeem Moje 3 with a storm...

Armenia 2011 Emmy - Boom Boom

Contest Ranking: DNQ (12th 1st Semifinal) My Ranking: 29th (1.799)
Of the three times Armenia didn't qualify to Grand Final, this one was the worst preforming of the bunch. For the contest in Germany, Armenia's broadcaster decided to internally select the performer this time, choosing what people consider one of the countries most popular singers in Emma Bejanyan, better known as Emmy. Emmy had a fast rise to stardom with her first song in the 90's, and she gained notoriety while touring with the all female quartet Hayer. The song she would sing is called "Boom Boom", which in theory would keep the Armenian "boom" in this contest, as they always made the Final prior to this year. In fact, they had never missed out on the top ten before this year, a feat in itself. Unfortunately, as Emmy came out onto the stage in a boxer's glove, this song would put a "boom" to Armenia's top ten and qualification streak, as this would be the nation's first non qualifier. Here's a fun fact: Armenia has only made the top 10 twice since this entry, so I guess this song was more of a "boom" than one would think... just not in a great way...

The Best Years

Croatia 1998 Danijela - Neka mi ne svane

Contest Ranking: 5th (131 pts) My Ranking: 5th (292.853)
For a country that technically has an ESC trophy (Yugoslavia 1989 was from Croatia), it is quite surprising to find that Croatia really haven't been able to replicate their 90's success. Their top three songs by (my) score are 1996 (197.392), 1999* (237.33), and this entry in 1998, "Neka mi ne svane", preformed by Danijela. We have ourselves a repeat performer! Danijela Martinović had her breakthrough in 1991, when she joined the band Magazin, who were a big band dating back to the Yugoslav days. In 1995, the band would represent Croatia's 3rd ever ESC entry, with the song "Nostalgija", which got the country their first top 10. One year later Danijela would leave the band to pursue her solo career, which lead her to win the Dora festival, which got her a ticket to the big dance in Birmingham for ESC '98!
I didn't know which song this was, but when I saw the black cloak over Danijela, I was like "Oh, it's THAT one." This song fits under the umbrella of the Balkan ballad, which for me always hit more than they miss. This one hits for me (shock)! I think that the quiet buildup at the beginning really pulls the viewer in, as it is only her voice that can be heard at the start. Then as the music swells and she hits the chorus, which feels like a nice reward for the viewer being invested for the beginning. I think the most iconic part of her preformance though was the costume change, as she discards her black robe for a clean white dress, which probably represents her moving on from her lover. Oh, I forgot to say this before, but this song is a love ballad (also shock). It's very interesting that Croatia sent in female ballads in their early days of ESC, and it's also very interesting that in back to back years, they would have two women in white dresses singing dramatic ballads**. It's also very intriguing that they would finish in similar positions, with less than 15 points separating them. Both of those songs represent a blooming time for Croatia, a time that they have struggled to get back to since, but maybe this year they can start to change that.

Armenia 2008 Sirusho - Qélé, Qélé (Քելե, Քելե)

Contest Ranking: 4th (199 pts) My Ranking: 5th (300.409)
Armenia certainly came on to the ESC stage with some force! With their first five entries placing in the top ten, they already had a formula that translated very well. Of the first five, this was the one that placed the highest, finishing 4th, one of two times Armenia would enter the top five in their ESC history. What would be that entry? Probably one of the few highlights from an otherwise dull year in "Qélé, Qélé", preformed by Sirusho, also known as Siranush Harutyunyan, an Armenian born singer who, surprise surprise, blossomed onto the field when she was only nine! She already had awards for a Best Album, and for Best Female Performer, and was regarded as an Armenian icon when she was selected by AMPTV to represent the country in Moscow for Eurovision '09. The song she would sing was the overwhelming choice by the Armenian public, called "Qélé, Qélé", written by Siranush herself alongside Canadian producer Harout Arthur Der-Hovagimian.
Like I said earlier, 2008 was not the best year for Eurovision. The joke entries were at an all time high and not many songs from that year were memorable, even the winning song. But this song is not one of them! In fact I would say this song is one of the bright spots of Belgrade 2008, as it is very catchy and upbeat in its tone. I cannot help myself but to occasionally hum the chorus every once in a while, because it is one that really grows on you, and in a fun way as well! The energy of Siranush carries this song a long way, as she really belts out some of the lyrics. It also helps that she actually does what she says in the song, which is "Come qele, move qele". The whole choreography of the performance is very well done too, which is very important since there is not much in the background to occupy our eyes. I think what I'm trying to say is that this song is very well done, and it would have been a crime if it didn't finish in the top five! Despite the fact that according to my formula Armenia 2014 finished higher (4th), the points advantage ***just* goes to 2008 (by 3 points btw), and while I do like that entry, I think this one deserves its top spot at the top of the Armenian totem pole.
** Russia 2008 was a song that I did not like that much for a LONG time. So much so that I would agree that block voting was the only reason it won! Now today I don't think that, and the song has annoyingly grown on me, to a point where I wouldn't even call it a weak winner (barely).

Romania 2017 Ilinca feat. Alex Florea - Yodel It!

Contest Ranking: 7th (282 pts) My Ranking: 5th (431.229*)
Years that end in 7 were very good for three of these countries. This is the first of the "20X7" babies with Romania topping their 2010 entry** with "Yodel It!", probably one of the most... unique songs I've heard at Eurovision, and that is saying a LOT. Meet Ilinca, aka Maria Ilinca Băcilă, who is a professional singer and... yodeler. I only pause there because it's rare to see yodelers on the professional stage. In fact, she's the only yodeler in Romania! But anyway, Illinca started singing when she was only 7, and in her early teenage years participated in The X Factor and The Voice. She also has done some opera, which makes sense considering the yodeling is not that far from opera, now that I think about it. Maria would be joined on the stage by rapper and singer Alex Florea, who has also competed in The X Factor when he was younger. Apparently he is also an actor, which is also neat, I think.
Knowing that one of the singers is a professional yodeler is one thing, but hearing it for the first time is another. This song seems a bit generic at the start, but that goes out the window when Maria starts yodeling... and it was at that point where this song would enter the ESC hall of randomness. You know, those entries that make you go "huh?" or laugh due to the nature of it. If you need any visual reminders, here's this(same year lol),this,this,this, and especially this (Oh man 2008 was more rough than I thought). But this one joins it for good reasons! The message of the song is quite simple, but with Maria's yodeling throughout the duration, I don't think that it was the focus anyways. The yodeling itself is quite impressive, but you expect nothing less from a trained opera/yodeler. In fact, I'm pretty sure that it was the reason this entry landed so high in the standings at the end of the night. Is it Romania's best placing, no, that would go to 2010 and 2005. Is it their most iconic? Well that comes to preference, for me that would go to 2010 (barely). But this is certainly a highlight for a country that has produced a surprising amount of.
** Another one of those ones that grow on you the more you see it! "You and me, can't you see we're playing with fire..."

Serbia 2007 Marija Šerifović - Molitva (Молитва)

Contest Ranking: 1st (268 pts) My Ranking: 1st (536.023**)
For Serbia, their ESC time has been relatively short and also really long compared to the other countries here. Of course they were part of Yugoslavia, but when the country broke down in the 90's, Yugoslavia eventually became Serbia and Montenegro and took part in two contests in the early 2000's. But when Montenegro broke away from the country in 2006, Serbia and Montenegro became... Serbia and Montenegro, but now they are two separate countries instead of one! The first time Serbia would represent themselves as a single country for the first time in 2007 in Helsinki, and they came in with a bang! Meet Marija Šerifović, born in the 4th largest city in Serbia, she made her recording debut when she preformed with her mother n TV in 1998. She grinded out two albums in the early 2000's, and in 2007 she would compete in Beovizija which was the national final for Serbia, in which she would win and travel to Finland for ESC 2007.
Even though non-English music is starting to really flourish now in ESC, it was a completely different picture in the 2000's, which was a product of the language rules and the juries/public shifting preference towards English songs. Since 1988, when Switzerland won for the second and at this point most recent time, 5/18 of the winners prior to 2007 sung in English or mostly English, including the last 8 contests, the longest such streak in ESC history until after 2007 to 2016, which was 9 straight English songs. So really since 2000 and up until 2017, there was ONE non English ESC winning song, which for me is quite remarkable. The only way a non English song could win in these times is that the feeling of the song would have to transcend language. And that is what this song does to a tee. Just like with "Lane moje", "Molitva" is a song that you can really feel the emotion of, no matter that one cannot understand the language. The passion in which Marija and the Beauty Queens sing their parts is nothing short of amazing. And since there isn't much in the staging with the performance, the audience can just focus on the powerful voices on display. There's no gimmicks, unless you count the moment when the singers hold hands, revealing a heart from the paint on their hands, just a well composed song sung beautifully. This entry deserved to win, despite the fierce competition that went on right after this song **, and it's quite remarkable that this year is the connecting tissue to make sure there wasn't a near 20 year gap between non-English songs winning at this contest, which probably helped this contest in ways we don't understand. Even though they haven't got back to the mountaintop since then, it is quite amazing that Serbia pulled *this** off on their first try as an independent nation.
** This song is one of the Top 50 ESC songs since 1975.
*** I guess I can talk about it now, but to keep it brief, the more serious song, when done right to its abilities, will always trump the more silly goofy song at ESC in terms of voting, but both are needed at Eurovision due to the utility each adds.
*** And also because why not, Serbia 2022 is ranked 64th of all songs since 1975 ; Serbia 2012 is ranked 86th of all songs since 1975

Bulgaria 2017 Kristian Kostov - Beautiful Mess

Contest Ranking: 2nd (615 pts) My Ranking: 2nd (687.011**)
Up until 2017, Bulgaria had only qualified to the Grand Final twice, with both of those entries finishing in the top five. Talk about all or nothing! That is exactly the case with probably one of my favorite ESC songs ever, "Beautiful Mess" by Kristian Kostov. We finally have a non native person representing another country, as Kristian was born in Russia to a Bulgarian father and a Kazakh mother, with the latter being from a region bordering Kazakhstan. Kristian got a boost of fame from being on The Voice Kids Russia, where he was mentored by former ESC winner Dima Bilan. He would then go on to be in *The X Factor in Bulgaria, where he would finish as a runner up, but that was all that was needed to be signed to a record label, Virginia Records, release his debut single which would top the national airwaves, and release another single which would hit number one for over 3 months! So at only 17(!), he would get the chance to sing for Bulgaria in Kyiv, with his song "Beautiful Mess".
This song is an all time classic. It's one of those songs that would win easily in almost any other year, and it really comes down to how this song was produced and preformed (duh). The instrumental is probably the most underrated part of this song, setting the scene for a performance that feels emotional. When Kristian takes a break from singing, all of the horns (I think) flare up and it's so beautiful and great and wonderful and all of the other positive adjectives. The build up is great, the song feels like a ball of energy that releases after the first chorus, rebuilds, and then releases again in a ball of fire that engulfs everyone and everything, and it's so amazing. I haven't even talked about Kostov's voice, it's just magical. The range that he has, at only 17(!!) is incredible, and he is the bow on top of an sublime gift of an entry. I actually heard recently that the placing of the song was quite a letdown for Bulgaria, as many thought it would win. Apparently Kristian had a lot of pressure to win this competition, but Eurovision is not that straightforward. Even with that, this song probably WOULD have won if it wasn't for probably a once in a million (more like 1/49) song that managed to unite the juries AND the public, something that hasn't been replicated in this voting era. If this song came in 2016, it would have won*, if it came in 2018, it would have won, if it came in 2019, it would have won*. I feel like this song can stack up to MANY Eurovision winners, and in many of those cases it would come out on top****. Anyways, I don't think Kostov should be disappointed with this result, considering that it IS one of the Top 50 highest ranked songs of all time, and it is easily Bulgaria's best preforming entry ever. (It's incredible that a country could qualify so little times, but have bangers nearly every time it qualified!)
** This song is one of the Top 50 ESC songs since 1975.
*** Wow another reference to Russia 2008, one more and I get a free donut!
**** It would have been close, Australia, Russia and Ukraine with this Bulgarian song would have been an INCREDIBLE battle to watch that year.
***** I only say that because of 2007, where the more joking entry (Ukraine), finished second to the more emotional serious song (Serbia)
****** Easily. Arcade (Netherlands) didn't win ANY of the juries or the public's vote. And while I like Norway and North Macedonia that year, I think this one would have pulled it off. I do agree that it may be a bit closer.
******* Last one I promise. For any year prior to 2007, the eras are too different to compare. I think this song would beat 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2013(?).

Final Thoughts

So another five down, getting ever so closer to the top 10 ESC nations! Do you think that Bulgaria should have won in 2017? (I think not just because of Portugal) Do you think "Molitva" deserved to win over Ukraine that year? (Also yes but I'm glad both songs are remembered, though one song is remembered a LOT more than the other one) Do you think that Croatia will get their own ESC trophy someday? (Heart says yes, but then I look at their recent history)
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2024.04.08 02:50 migrantgrower Can you recommend some other music to check out based off the artists I like? Also, Serbian music seems to have a higher concentration of "pijem zbog nje" than other nationalities.

My dad was Serbian, and it wouldn't be until after he passed, sadly, that I got heavily into the music. I did have a passive interest in it while he was around, mostly just into Zeljko Samardzic, who I guess was most accessible/catchy to my then teenage self (he's got so many bangers), but whom I've since come to appreciate is maybe more of a product for mass-appeal/parties?
My interests in the last several years have been in:
Toma Zdravkovic, Bora Spuzic Kvaka, Saban Saulic, Halid Muslimovic, Zeljko Bebek, Dzej, Dino Merlin, Oliver Dragojevic, Nedeljko Bilkic, Tozovac, etc., etc. I'm missing several, but those are the main names to come to mind... I also especially adore Balasevic, but he seems to be a controversial figure to adore, so I often leave him out- most of my fellow Serb friends appreciate his artistry, but shit on him for some political reasons (which I'm not versed in)... I really believe Balasevic's ability to weave an intricate tapestry with words equals or even surpasses the very best Western songwriters; guys like Dylan, etc.
I mostly like the sad songs you'd request at a kafana at 2am when you're wasted and don't mind quietly/internally ugly crying because of the memories/feelings/nostalgia they evoke. On that note, as mentioned in my title, I've found a remarkably high concentration of "pijem zbog nje" in Serbian music, more so than the music of other nationalities from what I've observed. Serbian girls are pretty special though, so I get it, I guess...
I know not all the names I cited are Serbian, but you should get the idea. Also, I'm not only looking for the sad stuff... my dentist, who is Serb, introduced me to Ekaterina Velika, and I dig their stuff as well, for example.
Thank you in advance, my fellow čevaps.
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2024.04.08 00:50 digital4kcollector (offer) list, (request) offers

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2024.04.07 19:43 crispy_kat Comprehensive Glee Guide Season 2

Hey! I posted my season 1 guide yesterday, which I made for my friend who just started watching (she's on episode 10 now, so I guess it worked!) and I just finished making the season 2 guide. If I left anything out, let me know! This took a while so I may have forgotten some things. Feel free to use this if you want to convince your friends too!
  1. Audition - Important
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2. Britney/Brittany - Filler but ICONIC
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3. Grilled Cheesus - Funny and then tragic, all in 40 minutes!
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4. Duets - You are literally forbidden from skipping this episode
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5. The Rocky Horror Glee Show - Watch
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6. Never Been Kissed - very very important
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7. The Substitute - Goop! Not incredibly important but should still watch
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8. Furt - filler but cute, still recommend you watch
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9. Special Education - first competition of S2!
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10. A Very Glee Christmas - Fluff episode but funny moments
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11. The Sue Sylvester Shuffle - Should watch
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12. Silly Love Songs - Important
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13. Comeback - mostly filler
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14. Blame it On The Alcohol - iconic
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15. Sexy - Not the most important
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16. Original Song - funny
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17. A Night of Neglect - Filler but still good
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18. Born this Way - MUST WATCH
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19. Rumours - very very good
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20. Prom Queen - good episode and important
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21. Funeral - Sad but mostly filler
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22. New York - very important, finale
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That's Season 2! Season 3 Guide coming probably tomorrow :)
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2024.04.04 04:10 InvestmentFlaky8112 Ok...I present Tally Hall Trivia

1:When,and where was the band formed? 2:Recite what nora said in the first 15 seconds of bora. 3:What Disney Junior show did 3 members work on,and who were the members that worked on it. What were the names of their monsters? 4:What is the new leaked album called? 5:Name ALL of the albums,in order of release. 6:Name Each Member. 7:What comedy group were two members a part of? 8:What member rarely sings? 9:Who replaced Joe on tour once? 10:What Rob Cantor song was originally a tally hall song? 11:JOE HAWLEY JOE HAWLEY JOE HAWLEY JOE HAWLEY JOE HAWLEY JOE HAWLEY
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2024.03.30 17:32 Witty_Pop_3587 Boys with Boxs and CONSUME: Boy Wears Box to School Review

Ah, well it’s that time of the week but no series video in sight, now this review series will cover video not often judged or talked about in this sub as to give more attention to videos to hate on.
Today’s video was skipped by most due to it looking like an obvious copy of the Girl Wears Box Video where our lead is traumatized at the age of five because a boy told her she was ugly. Needless to say it was stupid.
But now, we look at its seemingly copy, there’s a lot to cover and no time to waste.
A boy is coming to a new school and we don’t see him wearing a box, rather an oni mask. A girl walks by and is like “woah buy Genshin Impact!” Yes this video is a version of the original video all while being a 20 minute ad.
We get a copy of the license action Grinch gag where the Child Grinch wears a bunch of stuff to cover his face. The Bully explains the Genshin ad making it really obvious he plays it. No beating around the bush here.
We learn that he was hiding a shitty makeup job with plastered scars, cream noticeable on his nose, I know the make up department gets no funding but try harder guys.
At home the kid is playing Genshin, which you should be too instead of reading this review as his mama enters stop reveal the school is putting in the Jungle Book as the school musical.
Now this is a weird choice considering Jungle Book only exists as a children’s play on stage and the more popular Lion King seems to make more sense. Until you remember this kid needs to play a human role so he can be himself and all that bullshit.
Now you have fallen into my trap! You will be forced to listen to me talk about musical theatre and still read the rest of the review because you have to know which score I give it and what video I plan on covering next. Anyway, Beetlejuice is a musical based on the 1989 Tim Burton film of the same name. It stars Alex Brigthman and-
Back to the actual review, the kid wants to try out as an animal and it’s his favorite movie. Not to judge kid but really? It’s not even the best Disney film but hey, you do you and you don’t have the best taste in video games either.
The mom’s all like “oh try out for Mowgli.” Which bitch, that isn’t how things in theater work, let the kid try out for what role he wants to be.”
Mowgli don’t wear a mask, which isn’t true. In fact masks are like poison to the stage. But now he doesn’t want to audition and now he does. It isn’t as bad as the girl from the talent show video with Lily Singh where she decides to quit and rejoin the show multiple times over the course of five minutes.
He watches the ending of Jungle Book and says the lines out loud, theater kids do a lot of things, that isn’t one of them. In math class it’s partner work time which bully is like “ha ha.”
Teach writes the question in the board and gives like two seconds before asking bully the answer which he gets wrong, probably because he gave them no time to work. Main Boy correctly answers leading to bully say that anime fans are nerdy.
Look I don’t think anime fans are that smart considering how some of their fandoms act. I seriously need an insult name for main boy but calling him ugly isn’t good. He is quite the dry actor so I’m sticking with Dry.
Dry head to the audition where the process is just reading a monologue for the character you want. It’s a musical, why aren’t they singing? Although I should be grateful that there are no songs since all Dhar songs make me wish I was deaf.
Dry reads the monologue with his normal voice, no impression, and happy tone for what seems to be an emotional monologue. Yet the video believes this is good acting, the director says he should try out for Mowgli which he shouldn’t say because it’s his job to see what role he is good for, not base it each student off each role they try out for.
Bully puts a mask to his face and insults Dry, the mask looks like it’s worth 25 cents, it’s the wrong bear fur, and I doubt they use masks since they block actor’s ability to emote properly.
Dry runs away and bully gets kicked out and properly punished. He protests he was Mowgli last year which is stupid. Why would a school put on the same musical twice in a row? Why would the kids do it? This is stupid.
While playing Genshin, CONSUME, he reveals his school which coincidentally happens to be where his fellow player goes to school. And then they decide to meet up at dark in an empty location.
At the location, a pedophile shows up, kidnaps Dry, and the video ends. If course that is the realistic ending for trying to meet a player if a game with a pedo problem, instead it happens to be bully. All the stars had to align for that to happen.
He gives the math homework which he had a spare copy of, and bully says he goes by his middle name somehow since no substitute has called out his first name
Friendship montage. Bully helps him get good at romancing Girl, playing Genshin, which you should to https://apps.apple.com/us/app/genshin-impact-v4-5/id1517783697.
At the end, the bully’s bully friends show up and confront bully about not being a bully. so bully is all like he’s a loser and I’m using him. And guess who happens to be walking around the corner? It’s bad actor, wow. He trips and falls like a dumb ass and shouldn’t he know he’s lying? What’s the point of this third act break up?
We learn the fucker ran home to have a pity party, how he did that on foot implies he lives next to the school. This pity party takes place on OPENING NIGHT! Now tonight isn’t the night to have a pity party because not showing up will make you look like a dick.
The director is trying to stall as it’s apparently been hours since school ended and the show is about to begin. However if the lead vanished before a show, the understudy would just be asked to take his place.
It seems there is no understudy as the show might have to cancel. Wow shitty actor who gives a shit about no one but himself. Thanks a lot dickweed.
Bully manages to run to his house to apologize to Shit Actor. So this gets him to go back to put on the show. He dashes into stage and seems to say an ending monologue despite just showing up. A kid says look at him, gives a long pause, says he’s a good actor suddenly the show is over. Huh? He just showed up!
Also musicals doesn’t end with a monologue, they end with a song. God, The kids go to play more Genshin and all live happily ever after playing Genshin forever.
This video sucks , an overly long ad for a shitty mobile game with a bad representation of what a musical is like. The acting is bad, cut and dry with forced coincidences to move along the plot. And Bad Actor nearly getting his show canceled over a minor comment makes me really dislike him. 2/10
As for the future, April 1st I have a special surprise, and after that I have two videos in mind. One involves Neela being a sad white girl with daddy issues, the another is another evil foster mom video. You’ll find out soon, until then, enjoy your time.
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2024.03.29 11:51 Diligent-Kale-6097 always lock your doors and windows

For some context I'm female 31, with a 5 year old daughter. At the time of this story I was 28 and my daughter was 3.
Before I delve into this story I want to give you the layout of my apartment, as I believe it is important to the story. I live on the ground floor of a 2 story complex. When you enter my front door there is a coat closet and immediately to your left is the living room with a sliding glass door and to the right is the dining room area which both rooms circle through the kitchen, and lead down a hallway, my room is on the left, the bathroom right across it and the hallway ends in my daughters room.
I was bathing my daughter and kept hearing this odd sound, at first I shrugged off the sound because at times I cause myself unnecessary anxiety and I thought that this may be one of those moments. I stepped out of the bathroom to grab a towel out of the linen closet right there next to the bathroom when I heard the noise again, this time louder, it sounded as if something metallic was scraping against something glass, at the moment that I made notice of the sound so did my dog, she's a little chihuahua and has a piercing loud bark as it is, but the bark, noise if I'm being honest that she let out made my skin immediately crawl.
I turned to face the direction the noise was coming from when a sense of pure dread spread across me, the noise was coming from my daughters bedroom window. My dog still growling and barking at the window was backing away from it. Now, I have to add when my fight or flight senses kick in, for some odd reason my reaction is always fight. Due to this I began slowly approaching the window instructing my daughter to stay wrapped in her towel in the bathroom. I reached the window and slowly separated the curtains, revealing the blinds. As I done this a voice with a very low, guttering sound said in a sing-song way said, "I'm here to play a game, a game with you. Do you want to play a game, a game with me too, pretty lady?"
I will for as long as I live never forget those words, my skin crawling and my senses on 11, I grabbed the string and snatched open the blinds and there standing face to face with me was an older black man in all black clothing with a salt and pepper over grown beard and a baseball cap. He looked at me and grinned, the way I would describe this grin is like the one from the Grinch, his eyes said things to me that his mouth was not. They looked sunken and evil and the grin made my stomach turn. As I'm standing there face to face stuck in absolute fear, it felt like it lasted hours but it wasn't more than 5-10 seconds before I reacted. I turned to run back and grab my cell phone from the bathroom counter and my daughter while he was trying to push the window open from the outside.
I grab my daughter up in a panicked way calling the police and grabbed a knife from the knife block, just in case this man met me at my front door in the breezeway. I knew he wasn't going to get in the window unless he broke it, because I'm a lock your doors and windows person no matter what. I'm on the phone with the dispatch explaining the situation as I bang on my neighbors door across the hall to let me. She opens the door and as she does the old man comes around the front entrance of the breezeway and charges at me. I basically throw my daughter at my neighbor and push them inside and slam her door locking it, just in time for the man to reach it. He's banging on the door singing that same song, and saying things like "I've been watching you, following you. All I want to do is play with you." Extremely terrifying things, my neighbor is crying and asking me all these questions as I'm instructing her to take her kids and mine to the bathroom and shut and lock the door, because it's the only door in the apartments with no window and a lock.
Then by the grace of all things good, I heard "Drop your weapon and get down on the ground now!" being shouted in the breezeway, apparently the police approached without lights and sirens so that they didn't scare him off and were able to catch him. A long few minutes passes by and there is a loud official banging on her door and an announcement with it "Police officer, you're safe now ma'am, can you open up and answer some questions for us please?" I open the door and step out, I look down to the parking lot and see another officer putting the guy in the squad car and having a conversation with him, the officer with me began asking questions and I explained and told him the entire story. We were talking for about 30 minutes when the other officer approached us, he held in his hands 2 window screens and proceeded to tell me, my neighbor, and the officer the version that the man told him.
According to the officer this man had seen me at the grocery store that is within walking distance from my apartments about a month ago, and had been watching and following me since. Which it then dawned on me, every time I'd tell my boyfriend at the time that I felt as though I was being stared at, followed or something it was likely my instincts noticing this man. The officer also said that the man had tried first to enter my bedroom window but realized there was a dresser in the way, he could see it through a gap in the blinds so he went around to the only other window and was cutting the screen with his knife in his words "to alert and scare me, because women who fear are women who smell good." I can't make this up, I had never in my life been so terrified and to this day have not been as scared as I was that night.
He knew I was alone with my daughter, he followed and watched me to time it perfect. The only thing that saved me and my child that night was the fact that I lock my windows, and he had a hard time getting in. The cop showed me a knife that he had with him for me to verify if I had seen the weapon on him. The thing is like I told the cop, I didn't see a knife, when I seen him he didn't have it displayed. But it was a large carving knife, and there is no telling what this man wanted to do with that knife. I'm just extremely thankful that my neighbor opened her door when she did and that the police got him.
Always lock your windows and doors, no matter where you live or how safe you feel. I still live in the same apartment, and I still have nightmares about the night a random old man tried to check me off his bucket list.
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2024.03.29 09:55 Diligent-Kale-6097 the first one. my own.

Always Lock Your Windows and Doors
For some context I'm female 31, with a 5 year old daughter. At the time of this story I was 28 and my daughter was 3.
Before I delve into this story I want to give you the layout of my apartment, as I believe it is important to the story. I live on the ground floor of a 2 story complex. When you enter my front door there is a coat closet and immediately to your left is the living room with a sliding glass door and to the right is the dining room area which both rooms circle through the kitchen, and lead down a hallway, my room is on the left, the bathroom right across it and the hallway ends in my daughters room.
I was bathing my daughter and kept hearing this odd sound, at first I shrugged off the sound because at times I cause myself unnecessary anxiety and I thought that this may be one of those moments. I stepped out of the bathroom to grab a towel out of the linen closet right there next to the bathroom when I heard the noise again, this time louder, it sounded as if something metallic was scraping against something glass, at the moment that I made notice of the sound so did my dog, she's a little chihuahua and has a piercing loud bark as it is, but the bark, noise if I'm being honest that she let out made my skin immediately crawl.
I turned to face the direction the noise was coming from when a sense of pure dread spread across me, the noise was coming from my daughters bedroom window. My dog still growling and barking at the window was backing away from it. Now, I have to add when my fight or flight senses kick in, for some odd reason my reaction is always fight. Due to this I began slowly approaching the window instructing my daughter to stay wrapped in her towel in the bathroom. I reached the window and slowly separated the curtains, revealing the blinds. As I done this a voice with a very low, guttering sound said in a sing-song way said, "I'm here to play a game, a game with you. Do you want to play a game, a game with me too, pretty lady?"
I will for as long as I live never forget those words, my skin crawling and my senses on 11, I grabbed the string and snatched open the blinds and there standing face to face with me was an older black man in all black clothing with a salt and pepper over grown beard and a baseball cap. He looked at me and grinned, the way I would describe this grin is like the one from the Grinch, his eyes said things to me that his mouth was not. They looked sunken and evil and the grin made my stomach turn. As I'm standing there face to face stuck in absolute fear, it felt like it lasted hours but it wasn't more than 5-10 seconds before I reacted. I turned to run back and grab my cell phone from the bathroom counter and my daughter while he was trying to push the window open from the outside.
I grab my daughter up in a panicked way calling the police and grabbed a knife from the knife block, just in case this man met me at my front door in the breezeway. I knew he wasn't going to get in the window unless he broke it, because I'm a lock your doors and windows person no matter what. I'm on the phone with the dispatch explaining the situation as I bang on my neighbors door across the hall to let me. She opens the door and as she does the old man comes around the front entrance of the breezeway and charges at me. I basically throw my daughter at my neighbor and push them inside and slam her door locking it, just in time for the man to reach it. He's banging on the door singing that same song, and saying things like "I've been watching you, following you. All I want to do is play with you." Extremely terrifying things, my neighbor is crying and asking me all these questions as I'm instructing her to take her kids and mine to the bathroom and shut and lock the door, because it's the only door in the apartments with no window and a lock.
Then by the grace of all things good, I heard "Drop your weapon and get down on the ground now!" being shouted in the breezeway, apparently the police approached without lights and sirens so that they didn't scare him off and were able to catch him. A long few minutes passes by and there is a loud official banging on her door and an announcement with it "Police officer, you're safe now ma'am, can you open up and answer some questions for us please?" I open the door and step out, I look down to the parking lot and see another officer putting the guy in the squad car and having a conversation with him, the officer with me began asking questions and I explained and told him the entire story. We were talking for about 30 minutes when the other officer approached us, he held in his hands 2 window screens and proceeded to tell me, my neighbor, and the officer the version that the man told him.
According to the officer this man had seen me at the grocery store that is within walking distance from my apartments about a month ago, and had been watching and following me since. Which it then dawned on me, every time I'd tell my boyfriend at the time that I felt as though I was being stared at, followed or something it was likely my instincts noticing this man. The officer also said that the man had tried first to enter my bedroom window but realized there was a dresser in the way, he could see it through a gap in the blinds so he went around to the only other window and was cutting the screen with his knife in his words "to alert and scare me, because women who fear are women who smell good." I can't make this up, I had never in my life been so terrified and to this day have not been as scared as I was that night.
He knew I was alone with my daughter, he followed and watched me to time it perfect. The only thing that saved me and my child that night was the fact that I lock my windows, and he had a hard time getting in. The cop showed me a knife that he had with him for me to verify if I had seen the weapon on him. The thing is like I told the cop, I didn't see a knife, when I seen him he didn't have it displayed. But it was a large carving knife, and there is no telling what this man wanted to do with that knife. I'm just extremely thankful that my neighbor opened her door when she did and that the police got him.
Always lock your windows and doors, no matter where you live or how safe you feel. I still live in the same apartment, and I still have nightmares about the night a random old man tried to check me off his bucket list.
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