Potomac Wading
by levyj413

Comment:
very cool! we've had great clouds up here, too.

Water Walking
by meyers

Comment:
ooooo! ahhhhh!!!

I love how her reflection is chopped off!

Doomed Plastic Love
by UrfaK

Comment:
Bobby, don't bring me plastic roses
I'm never gonna put them where my nose is
Bobby, I'm not in love,
Bobby, I'm not alone.

Call me...

on a plastic telephone.

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a classic punk rock opera...DPL!
by jonnienye

Comment:
they said it couldn't be done... a punk rock opera. punk rock had never been able to sustain a concept for longer than 2 minutes, never mind an entire album. But DPL was no ordinary punk band. It consisted almost entirely of failed, embittered nuclear physicists (the drummer was technically a rocket scientist). Their opera consisted of a fantasy in which their "great idea", using depleted plutonium to create vending machine snacks, was embraced by corporate America instead of mocked and condemned by global academia. The saga begins with their development of the idea, through the testing phase and then into everyone's public places. Drama ignites when little Billy develops a mysterious rash, but the brave doctor discovers that the boy is allergic to trees, not nuclear waste, as the nutty leftists claimed. So everybody celebrates by getting their faces pierced.

This album was credited with single-handedly ending the punk rock movement.

10

Delightful Poppy Locks
by Shermy

Comment:
Delightful Poppy Locks lived in a house in the woods with her father and three brothers. Her mother died when she was very young and she had to help her father with the chores. Her brothers were very lazy and demanded a lot of attention. Some days it was hard to be delightful, but she loved her family very much and did whatever she could to help them... but that got more difficult when Father lost his job at the coal mine. Del reached deep into her personal spiritual resources, where she found distant memories of songs that her mother used to sing to her. She quickly turned these songs into a best-selling album. Aging hippies loved her brand of pop-infectious musical fairy tales. It reminded them of their youthful ideals.

Then her brothers started doing drugs and a fairy godmother sent down mourning doves to peck out their eyes. Everybody else lived happily ever after.

10

Dream and Play in the Light
by The_Dentist

Comment:
DaPitL was really Dana Peavey Longstern, a musical prodigy who played all the instruments on her albums, sometimes two at a time. As her "band" name suggests, she yearned for the childhood she never got to have. Hers was spent in a poorly lit basement, where all the musical equipment was kept. Her mother had oversensitive hearing and couldn't bear to hear her child practicing. So Dana dreamed... and played... in the dark. She tried to build sunlight and meadows and trees with her music, but could never quite convince herself. She did sense, however, that there was a place, a slightly better lit place, somewhere within her music. The doorway seemed to be in the vicinity of a melody she wrote, the melody that would later become the first song on her eponymous album, "turn and pull". She played that melody over and over, trying to get closer to that door. When she learned to play the clarinet (it took her all of a day) she found that she could create windows to this magical place, windows glinting with her reflection. Unfortunately, her own eager visage blocked her view of whatever lay beyond.

One day her musical success brought her to New York City, where she thought she saw the same world... just beyond her reflection in the East River. They told her not to lean over so far, but she said "It's alright... I can fly."

10

Ducks Pic'n Larrivées
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
7 for duck action!

Dance Party Live
by SherwinJames

Comment:
7 for getting an osprey to dance!

Death Painted Life
by aznym

Comment:
Death Painted Life consisted entirely of drummers. Leo sang, sometimes, or maybe moaned. It was hard to distinguish any words. Jacklyn, the only female drummer, fell in love with Leo on the night of their first recording. It was raining. They all loved the rain, God's percussion, and a simple joy infused their playing. You can hear it best on track 3, "waterlunge"... but as I was saying, Jacklyn fell in love with Leo that night, the way he closed his eyes when he sang, the way words seemed unimportant to him, the way weather surrounded them both. You can hear her love best on track 5, "wellington" and her drum solo on track 8, "calla halo", is surely nothing other than the sound of her heart about to burst. All her life she had felt invisible and here she was now, a drummer in a group of drummers... who would notice her? who could even hear her? but Leo's gentle vocalese seemed to fill her with presence... was it his presence or her own? she didn't care. There was now some color within her outline. People were looking at her. They could see her!

it turned out Leo was gay. Sorry, Jacklyn. Jacklyn? Where did you go? her name is fading from the liner notes! But I can still hear her holding the songs together, like those things in a leaf that look like veins...

10

Detective Pendergast Lives
by daboardergirl

Comment:
Envious of Stephen King, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child decided to start their own band. Unfortunately, neither of them could sing and the woman they hired died mysteriously on the very day they had booked studio time. It was Lincoln who discovered her. Her door was unlocked... a light on in the bathroom... the sound of drip... drip... drip...

they released an instrumental album.

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