We have been watching a tv series set in Wales. Holy shit is that place depressing. I’m sure there are some lovely parts but we haven’t seen them yet. So in honor of Wales give me your best hellscape songs.
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Toth, Decay
For a second, I thought that said “Tooth Decay.”
ive been to wales….pretty part of the country…lovely accent too…when they actually speak english…welsh is to english what frysian is to dutch…
which is to say..incomprehensible noises they make at tourists to pretend to be exotic
anyways
Funny story…
My grandfather was Frisian and moved to Canada when my mom was a toddler. His English was flawless by the time I was born.
My grandmother was from Rotterdam and moved to Canada with my grandfather…she could get by in English but not without slipping Dutch words into each sentence.
I was born in Canada with no Dutch influence and I still don’t know English.
lol..me mum speaks flawless posh english
me dad never got dutch right
i grew up with ben je wekker…which means are you alarm clock…..not are you awake.. that would be wakker
added song just coz i like it
I love Wales and the last descriptor that would come to mind is “hellscape”, but I am reminded of Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert.
Edging a bit eastward, Derek Jarman’s The Last of England was a gut punch and a mind fuck when I saw it in the cinemas. It conveys the rage, the agony, and the feeling of being lost in the gutted post-industrial hellscape that was Thatcher’s Britain.
Albert Oehlen, Mayo Thompson (feat. Tilda Swinton) – “Disco Death” (from Derek Jarman’s The Last of England OST)
Challenge accepted…
You win.
Courtney Fairchild doing a solid cover of Pink Floyd’s “Nobody Home.”
Dr. Dooom’s In The Room:
Ok, this was supposed to be tragic. It’s Welsh poet Dylan Thomas reading his heartbreaking “A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London.”
But some mook decided to animate a still photo of Thomas as if he was actually moving his lips, and if you watch the botched job, especially with the sound off, it’s the funniest thing ever.
Low hanging fruit here
in unrelated news….i only quite recently discovered mf doom
dudes got the best damn samples
i figured as you are a muppet you would probably be okiday with me going off on a tangent
……. 😛
RIP, MF Doom.
Everything he said rhymed…
MF Doom was the Kool G Rap of MF Dooms if Kool G Rap was MF doom.
And for the true hip hop heads…
“I don’t want fans that don’t know who G Rap is”
if you don’t know who Kool G Rap is (second verse):
What show is it? I’ve been watching Hinterland, and I thought Wales was pretty, albeit sometimes in a gray, stark kind of way.
@LemmyKilmister yes. It will be next week’s Brain Drain. The cinematography is so gray, bleak…