runningupthathill
nashville but not country. twenty. figuring it out.
Nashville, TN
post-punk melancholy with conan's awkward dad energy comfort
Desert Island
Sounds that define me
Ian Curtis died before this came out. The whole album knows.
Closer
Joy Division
★★★★★
Lovesong is three minutes and forty two seconds and Robert Smith wrote it for his wife as a wedding present. I think about the decision to put something that personal on an album this dark.
Disintegration
The Cure
★★★★★
The cover is a pulsar signal from a neutron star. It was in a science textbook before it was a t-shirt.
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
★★★★☆
Season four came out and Running Up That Hill was everywhere and my mom said she remembered it from when she was young and I put on the whole album alone in my room and did not come out for two hours.
Hounds of Love
Kate Bush
★★★★★
Lists
Where to Start If You Want to Understand the 80s
in order. don't skip Unknown Pleasures. don't skip Hounds of Love. don't skip anything.
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