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#FortnightFridayMusic
April 18 2025
The prompt is #Substance

The Cure, “A Short Term Effect” from Pornography, 1982

Lyric:
A day without substance, a change of thought
An atmosphere that rots with time
Colours that flicker in water, a short term effect

#TheCure had evolved steadily since their debut,Three Imaginary Boys, by the time they produced this atmospheric proto-#goth release.

I can't help but hear these lyrics as almost comically stereotypically goth-dreary now - the perspective of maturity, or world-weary cynicism? -
but they do reflect lead and driving force #RobertSmith's self awareness about the substances he and his bandmates were reputed to be indulging in at the time, and when I let go and sink into the music, yeah, it still works.

youtube.com/watch?v=IC8sxfHhtz

YouTubeThe Cure A Short Term EffectBy Darren Schroeder (D)
#80s#80sMusic#PostPunk
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craige

Hey! It's really still #FortnightFridayMusic 🎉

Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: #substance
Song: Cuscatlan
By: Frente!
Link: youtu.be/hl1uIcZfcIY

Substance from 1992 still relevant today. Existential dread as catchy pop

🎶 We danced the dirt with
Surrender for our drumbeat
Danced for the balance sheet
Died for the kind of
Lasting peace that pleases the world policeman
& fatherland raped motherhood
& told her it was for the global good
& now we ring the mission bell
To warn their children 🎶

The cover of "Marvin the Album" which has a load of orange fish jammed like a wallpaper in the background, some grass and a white tree. I'll let you image how it all fits together.
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craige

Hey! It's #FortnightFridayMusic 🎉

Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: #substance
Song: Genius
By: Custard
Link: youtu.be/GWv80GqkO5s

Doubling on Custard (nod to @electric_gumball ).

🎶 Count the numbers two and four and
Sit down on the couch
Listen to the vibrations
Coming from their mouths

He's 38 and reinvites himself into his life
He says he's never been there, he say neither has my wife
The camera dollies round and disappears from sight 🎶

It takes substance to re-evaluate your life.

The cover of the album "Loverama" by Custard in which the album title is written on one those lollies with words that you got in the 80's.
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Martin

For #Substance themed #FortnightFridayMusic

Swamp Dogg - Synthetic world

"Your world is plastic
Can see through to the other side
Your cities are made of wood
Antiques are what you've got inside

Houses are paper
But folks don't hear a word you say
Friendship's like acid
It burns as it slides away

So you see, my patience is growin' thin
With this synthetic world we're livin' in"

youtube.com/watch?v=BVKpJ6F6TkU

YouTubeSwamp Dogg - Synthetic worldBy cvdvanspeyck
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Martin

For #Substance themed #FortnightFridayMusic

MacArthur Park - Paul Shaffer + CBS Orchestra feat. Jim Webb

"MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again, oh no"

youtube.com/watch?v=iro-Td21aQw

YouTubePaul Shaffer + CBS Orchestra w Jim Webb MacArthur Park on LettermanBy Ken Baldwin
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