Ground Control to Major Tom...

Princess Alice

Ground Control to Major Tom: Take your protein pills and put your helmet on!

Section42L

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky. We know Major Tom's a junkie.

Strung out in heaven's high, hitting an all time low...

Fossilmaiden

Ground control to Lesser Dog~

Yarrun XIX

Ground control to Greater Dog

Sredni Vashtar

Yarrun XIX said:

Ground control to Greater Dog

glennmagusharvey

Ground Control can contact Cirno all it wants; Cirno's not gonna listen.

Sredni Vashtar

I think I just broke the world by doubling down on the "depressing song" motif here, despite the Undertale jokes.

Yarrun XIX

This is now a sad song thread

Sredni Vashtar

There is a logical through-line vis à vis isolation and astronaut dying => space dog dying => family black sheep as space dog. Does "Brontë" deal with emotional isolation?

Yarrun XIX

okay, new goal of thread is to create a logical through-line to Bronte

changed my earlier post

Yarrun XIX

astronaut dying => space dog dying => family black sheep as space dog => singer pictures himself as a black sheep

Sredni Vashtar

Having listened to "Brontë" and seen the music video now—which almost made me cry; good job, Yarrun—this is the logical connector:

Sredni Vashtar

Seriously, look up the lyrics.

Obā-san

Corvina

Spaceboy, 
you're sleepy now 
Your silhouette is so stationary
You're released but your custody calls
And I want to be free
Don't you want to be free
Do you like girls or boys
It's confusing these days
But Moondust will cover you
Cover you

Tre

If this is the same Bronte I'm thinking about then oh God the feels. I don't even have any particular pet that's been dear to my heart and that one stings.

Gotye FTW. I know he's been doing stuff with the Basics these days, but there's something about his solo work that just speaks to the soul. I'm a little disappointed that he's considered a one-hit wonder in the US, his work is much better than any such status would imply.

Section42L

Sredni Vashtar

^^^^ That works for entirely different reasons, but it doesn't *quite* connect to either "Why Won't They Talk to Me?" or "Neighbourhood #2 (Laika)" to "Brontë" thematically—or does it?

^ That is another thing entirely!

Yarrun XIX

it is now the proper time

Section42L

^^ It does sorta relate back to the original song in the topic in a weird way, and particularly to the sequel song that I quoted in my initial response.

Obā-san

well the connection to Brontë should be obvious, but I have no clue what those other songs are about so

Sredni Vashtar

So, how to connect "Wuthering Heights", "Trespassers W", "Brontë", and "Ladies and Gentlemen..." thematically? Hmmmm.

I'm reading imaginary

characters with motives

that I should question,

I should point out...

Obā-san

I really have no clue what is happening in this thread so

Section42L

I admit I just posted a sad song at random myself, although by coincidence it does relate to "Ashes to Ashes" in a weird way.

Yarrun XIX

This is a fun game. We should do this more often

Sredni Vashtar

Today is Tomorrow said:

well the connection to Brontë should be obvious, but I have no clue what those other songs are about so

"Brontë" has one big theme that the lyrics and the video portray somewhat differently. I'll leave it to you to watch it when you like.

"Trespassers W", though, is about isolation, particularly in the face of the loss of faith or a more general guiding principle that one had in youth, and nods to the Winnie-the-Pooh stories in the title; meanwhile, "Ladies and Gentlemen..." references a famous line in Sophie's World, which is about an entirely different set of philosophical concerns.

Sredni Vashtar

"Inventory", on the other hand, is about paranoia and obsession turning everything in your life into a horrifying trial.