It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! Today's mood is "stimulated".
Post a song/songs that you think fit "stimulated"! It can be about feeling stimulated, a stimulating song, a song about stimulants, a song you listen to to stimulate yourself, a song written on stimulants, a song that happens in a video game when you get stimulated, etc
There are no wrong answers, it's just an excuse to post music!
Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "stimulated".
It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! Today's mood is "fuzzy!"
Post a song/songs that you think fit "fuzzy"! It can be about feeling fuzzy in your brain, or warm and fuzzy in your heart, it can be about being fuzzy, or fuzzy animals or maybe the history of the song is fuzzy or whatever! The song can itself could sound fuzzy or just remind you of fuzziness. You can interpret the mood any way you want!
There are no wrong answers!
Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "fuzzy".
Here is a #fediwall for #TheIndieBeat radio now playing bot:
Since #BandcampFriday is fast approaching, I decided to hasten the release of my new single DOINITRITE (2025 Remaster) (all-caps deliberate…)
https://babumenos.bandcamp.com/track/doinitrite-2025-remaster
Note: While I mentioned earlier that I am closing my PayPal account, I haven’t got round to it yet. Should you feel generous and inclined to help out, your money would still reach me. You are very welcome, however, to get the track for free. In any case I would love to hear, or rather, read your feedback.
(Also, looks like no one has ever tagged their Bandcamp releases with #NoAI.) 
It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! Today's mood is "messy"!
Post a song/songs that you think fit "messy"! It can be about being messy, that you put on when you feel messy, it can be about emotionally feeling messy or about physical messiness or cleaning up or whatever! The song can itself be a mess, or maybe the making of the song has a messy history, or there's a messy story around it. You can interpret the mood any way you want!
There are no wrong answers!
Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "messy".
One of my recent reads was Jon Savage's "The Secret Public" (2024), which I thoroughly enjoyed. The more descriptive subtitle of the book is "How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955-1979)".
The book starts with early pioneers like Johnny Ray and Little Richard and ends with the disco hits of Sylvester and the Village People. In addition to musical artists, managers and producers Savage also writes in depth about the history of the LGBTQ movement(s) in the UK and USA. I found this part of the book equally fascinating.
Although the book is quite long (with the notes section more than 700 pages), it doesn't try to cover everything that happened during these 25 years. Savage has divided his book into five main chapters, each of which mainly concentrates on the events of one year (1955, 1961, 1967, 1973 and 1978). This makes the amount of material in the book manageable, but obviously ends up leaving out many interesting stories. For example, I was expecting that the colourful - and gay - producer Seymour Stein might pop up at some point during the book, but he never did. Luckily Stein's own autobiography ("The Siren Song: My Life in Music", 2018, written with Gareth Murphy) is a fun read and provides quite a bit of insight on these issues as well.
Some of the key people in Savage's book include producers like Joe Meek, managers like Brian Epstein & Robert Stigwood and musical artists like Dusty Sprigfield, David Bowie & Tom Robinson. The career of Andy Warhol is also a major part of the discussion, and not only because of his role as a manager of the Velvet Underground.
At a couple of points Savage is surprisingly careless with his musical history. For example, he mentions (on page 516) that the songwriter-producer Van McCoy joined Scepter Records, "where he worked on hit singles by Ruby & the Romantics, Erma Franklin, Jackie Wilson and Betty Everett", when in fact none of these artists recorded for the label. But while there may be other factual inaccuracies that I didn't spot, I still found his general arguments and the outline of his story quite compelling.
I really liked the way Savage chose to end his book, leaving his characters frozen at the end of 1979. I think we all know what happened next.
For a slightly more extensive review of the book, you may want to read Alex Needham's text in the Guardian:
It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! In honour of the worst February I've ever experienced in my life, today's mood is "dreary".
Post a song/songs that you think fit "dreary". It can be about dreariness, sound dreary, be done during a dreary part of a band/singer's career, or you can go the opposite and it can be something that snaps you out of being dreary!
There are no wrong answers!
Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "dreary".
Overall, a really strong album by Alessia Cara.
Undeniably, Alessia is a strong lyricist and songwriter, with a very soulful voice.
Unfortunately, one of the things that dragged down In the Meantime and TPOG for me is that Alessia can have a tendency to be over-reliant on slow/acoustic ballads.
What I like about Love and Hyperbole is that there's a good balance between uptempo tracks and ballads.
And on those slower tracks, there's enough happening in terms of production, or a big chorus, or a build towards a big final chorus, to keep things interesting.
So a really strong first impression for this new album.
Listening to Alessia Cara's new album Love & Hyperbole for the first time.
Some reactions 
Jermaine Jackson is seriously underrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5kZnkucMCs
It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! This week's mood is "submissive" for no real reason.
Post a song/songs that you think fit "submissive", it can be about submission or feeling submissive, something made as a firm of submission, about a submissive character, or even defiance against being submissive, or any other interpretations you have.
There are no wrong answers!
Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "submissive".
For #JMusicFriday about love...
Song: blue blur
Band: Ryu Matsuyama
Album: from here to there
Year: 2022
Country: Japan
So, Sabrina Carpenter did a version of her song "Please, Please, Please" with Dolly Parton. Of course, the radio edit without the F-Word, cause Dolly. https://song.link/y/YiQ7qiL73aI
What can't Dolly do?
It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! This week's mood is "love" because Valentine's is coming up! (& also we can all use more love in the world atm)
Post a song/songs that you think fit "love", it can be about love, something you listen to when you're in love or want to be loved, something written due to love, or something that reminds you of love!
There are no wrong answers!
Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "love".
It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! Today's mood is "distraught" b/c *waves hand at world*
Post a song/songs that you think fit "distraught", it can be about feeling distraught or you put on when you feel distraught or to combat it or however you want to interpret it.
There are no wrong answers!
Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "distraught".
It's posted-- thanks to @gloriousnoise for mentioning the idea.
Albums that made me:
https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/albums-that-made-me/
#music #punk #PunkRock #80s #1980s #90s #1990s #80sMusic #90sMusic #history #MusicHistory #PopMusic #electronica
@wendigo @HailsandAles @BlackenedGreen @derthomas @skullvalanche @buffyleigh @rtw @starshaped @srgower
:: Don’t pay for my music! ::
Hello everyone,
since I’m in the process of shutting down my PayPal account for good I’ve just reset all my releases to €/$ 0,00. Should be at least 200 free downloads, so, go ahead and get my music for free.
https://babumenos.bandcamp.com
Remember, *do not* enter any amount of money, it won’t reach me anyway!
Today's #TuneTuesday is #FlowerPowerMusic : Songs or albums about flowers.
This was the first one that came to my mind:
Song: 花 (Hana)
Artist: 藤井 風 (Fujii Kaze)
Year: 2023
Country: Japan
It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! Today's mood is "looking forward".
Post a song/songs that you think fit "looking forward", it can be about predicting the future or is forward thinking in some way, or about moving forward/looking forward in life, it can be about a band or singer changing their style, or something you listen to to help you look forward or whatever you want!
There are no wrong answers it's just an excuse to post music!
Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "looking forward".
It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! Today's mood is "recovery" b/c Ami is in recovery and the world could do with some recovery too.
Post a song/songs that you think fit "recovery", it can be about feeling like you're recovering or it can be literally about recovery or a song that sounds like how you've felt while recovering or has a recovery resonance or makes you feel like you need to recover from listening to it, whatever you want.
There are no wrong answers!
Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "recovery".
#Music #PopMusic #Rock #Punk #PunkRock #CountryMusic #HipHop #ClassicalMusic #Instrumental #VGM #soundtrack #TV #anime #television #film #movies #videogames #ska #techno #kpop #jpop #cpop
