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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 12:26:08 JST silverwizard
   I'm just mainlining the Cardigans tonight.
   
   I'm still unsure that there's a band that specifically captures the kind of melancholy which is both sad, joyful, and empowered at the same time.
   
   I think Jaya the Cat is the closest I can find - but that's definitely different
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 12:29:20 JST silverwizard

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     • clacke at libranet.de is my main
     @notclacke Oooh - I've not heard of Kent - I'm going there!
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     clacke at libranet.de is my main (notclacke@misskey.de)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 12:29:21 JST clacke at libranet.de is my main

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     @silverwizard@convenient.email Less joyful sad but also that quirky Swedish brand of melancholy: Have you tried Kent?

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     Tali (taliesin@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 12:29:49 JST Tali

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     @silverwizard Cardigans good stuff

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 12:30:05 JST silverwizard

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     @taliesin I kinda hated Lovefool as a teenager kinda on principle, and, fuck was I wrong
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 12:40:37 JST silverwizard

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     • clacke at libranet.de is my main
     @notclacke Yeah - the is one of the cases where my ear damage is 100% holding me back - I need a lot more lyrics forward for good music - since musically just doesn't work for me, and Kent's lyrics (seem to me) to be more to merge into musical motifs, which just sound like soup to me
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     clacke at libranet.de is my main (notclacke@misskey.de)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 12:50:26 JST clacke at libranet.de is my main

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     @silverwizard@convenient.email Yeah, their lyrics seldom has any clear meaning, it's more of an ambience or a mood.
     
     And I haven't listened to their two English-version albums, so I don't even know how well they managed to translate that.

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     clacke at libranet.de is my main (notclacke@misskey.de)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 12:55:00 JST clacke at libranet.de is my main

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     Come to think of it I did listen to "If You Were Here" and it immediately annoyed me that they had the line "If you were here, if I was there" when it should have been "If you were here, if I were there" to match the Swedish text's intention. Doesn't bode well for the translations overall.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 12:57:20 JST silverwizard

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     • clacke at libranet.de is my main
     @notclacke Yeah - I think the sound is more important, and I'm very ok with that. But it's definitely a place where I'm gonna continue my Hedonistic Melancholy surge though
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     clacke at libranet.de is my main (notclacke@misskey.de)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 13:01:35 JST clacke at libranet.de is my main

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     @silverwizard@convenient.email Ah, you mean you need to song to stand out more clearly and Kent's messy guitar sound just comes out as noise for you?

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 13:07:17 JST silverwizard

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     • clacke at libranet.de is my main
     @notclacke I can't really do that style of music, since, uh, ear damage.
     
     I need strong beats and lyrics, because more complicated musically tracks just don't work for me. I can't distinguish notes because my ear drums are a mass of scar tissue and I've lost huge amounts of cilia to stuff.
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     clacke at libranet.de is my main (notclacke@misskey.de)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 13:07:34 JST clacke at libranet.de is my main

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     @silverwizard@convenient.email For melancholy sounds and crisp lyrics I can recommend Hellsongs. They sing AC/DC, Iron Maiden and other metal covers in a melancholic and light melodic way, and for me it's usually been the first time I actually heard the lyrics. ?
     
     They call it "Lounge Metal". Richard Cheese, Paul Anka and Dick Brave have done that genre too, but Hellsongs do it in that kind of Cardigans, Pomplamoose singer-singwriter way instead of a more Big Band Jazz direction.

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     clacke at libranet.de is my main (notclacke@misskey.de)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 13:10:51 JST clacke at libranet.de is my main

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     Thunderstruck and Run to the Hills are my favorites I think.

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