Nightcap With ELO
AUDIO By LC Weber on September 1, 2009 at 10:04 pm
It’s the last dance of the night, TSS. This is the song.
Electric Light Orchestra is that group of soulful white dudes that give Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers a run for their money. Rarely referenced but often played, ELO is on in the background at your neighborhood bar. You tip the bottom up on a bottle of High Life or a jar of sangria and feel good about the night, and before the days of Shazam you’d say “I love this song! What is this?” It’s “Strange Magic” and it’s the audio manifestation of a great fucking moment captured before a transition. A whole chorale of synth and strings lining the white boarder of a Polaroid of you and your closest of kin on a late summer night.
And if I could do prom all over again, this is the song I’d end the night on.
If I could do it all over, I would have never gone with my weed dealer or let him pick me up in his Camero. I would have never worn that purple nightmare of a dress or dyed my hair red or stood for LSG’s “My Body All Over Your Body” as the song of the night. The defining moment. The one ballad I got up and twirled my purple tulle nightmare to, with the man-boy who sold me eighths on Wednesdays.
I would have taken TSS. A few years and eleven million visits together and here we are; swapping shots from a flask on the dance floor, laughing about joining The Drinking Section.
And this is the song. The Polaroid of the great fucking moment. The nightcap.
We all know things can’t stay as they are. We have to move onward and upward. In the words of ELO, it’s never gonna be the same again. So savor the night and moment.
Things will be much different tomorrow.
Goodnight, TSS.
Download — Electric Light Orchestra – “Strange Magic”
Previously Posted — In The Future…
Posted in AUDIO, GENERAL, LOOSIES, MUSIC, SMOKE BREAK — Tags: electric light orchestra, ELO, nightcap, strange magic
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59 Comments
Wow, I’m speechless. If this is the end I just want to be one of the firsts to say THANK YOU.
Wow TSS Wow. It’s been fun.
*raises glass of coconut flavoured crystal light to toast.
damn it’s been great folks… wish it could have lasted longer…
peace
say it aint so…
all the cryptics…
i guess tomorrow is just todays yesterday (madlib)…
I want to say thanks for all of the support and we won’t leave you hangin’. But things, people & priorities change. It’s an inevitable fact of life.
RMF!
Gotty™
Tomorrow’s just your your future… yesterday.
“Baggin’ Crack” = Fire.
Thanks Gotty
*eyes well up with tears*
*bottom lip quivers*
*tries not to blink to keep tear from rolling down cheek*
*musters up half-assed smile in a futile attempt to mask sorrow*
*steps up to podium*
*starts pseudo-hyperventilating like his momma beat the brakes off of him*
*babbles barely intelligible yet heartfelt words of remembrance*
*Trackstar the DJ cues up “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye” by Boyz II Men*
I’d like to propose a toast:
“May your best yesterdays be your worst tommorrows…”
Thanks for everything.
It’s gonna b a sad day 2morrow. from the bottom of my heart TSS you will be missed. Put 1 up in the air for the best blog i’ve ever known.
Hey guys, if this is truly comin to an end, I gotta say thanks. I looked forward everday to gettin home from work to check out what you had to say. I didn’t agree with everything that was written here but I respect the fact that people have different opinions. I wish you all the best in whatever it is that you move on to do. Thanks again.
yall gonna be missed to the fullest if this ish aint around tomorrow morning
Jesus I fear tommorow…
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
Fresh!
it’ll take some getting used to.
nice way to bring in the first day of September!
I got nervous…
I miss that grey sweater thingy in the background of the old layout already, lol
Ain’t that about a bitch!
Wait…wtf’s goin on..?
Damn…. I should’ve posted more… more quixotic to the wonders that are called coolers… waxed poetic on the virtues of killer mike, slaughterhouse, amanda diva, hot spitta et al…….
*raises Woodford Reserve*
Here’s to you TSS
wait so you guys aint leaving right? pheewwwwwwwwww
on that note, bring back the old TSS!! ha.. jk. Love the fact that you guys never stayed at a plateau and kept climbing. Congrats
Wait nahhhhh ya’ll gotta be playing.
This is like… I feel like…. nahhhhh this can’t be happening?
WHAT?
Listen somebody tell me this is a joke… I can’t be over! This is THE site.
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED AM I TRIPPN BALLS OR DID TSS JUST GET DIFFRENT WTF IM HIGH AND YOU DID THE CHANGE NOW…? NOT CEEWL DUDE…
too damn bright. and too orange.
WTF is goings on here?
Yo, if it’s a wrap for real, for real…I’mma be on some spoiled, bratty shit like fuck all yall, I never wanted to visit this site (11,000,0000 times) anyway…..
Sometimes change is for the good, I like it. Nice job as usual, TSS.
somebody owes me a carafe of sangria for the near-heart attack I almost suffered, lol
I don’t know what to feel. It’s all been too sudden.
Good luck with everything guys. Let’s just make sure you don’t leave is with the Heroin Section. Smack is bad.
hahahahaha I got you, Teef.
WTF is wrong with y’all!?!?
*claps*
I love it. It’s fresh, as always.
Besides, after about 6 million views, that T-Shit got kinda dingy anyway.
*standing ovation*
TC I got at you on Facebook for fuck sakes, i nearly has a heart attack
lol @ Heroin Section
love the new layout, so the search option on the site is doen and over with now??
retweet function is kewl dood
Man, I like this shit….
I feel like I just stepped into the MATRIX!
TSS is MAJOR!
*puts one in the air for TSS.. the internets won’t be the same.. I guess twitter killed yall.. peopleofwalmart lives on while TSS rides off into the sunset..
Damn, I can’t believe this. Wow! I been coming here since ‘06. This is my home page yo. What am I gonna do now? I learned how to download music from the people on this site. Hahaha. Well, congrats to everyone at TSS for such a good run. Thanks TSS.
tonight we celebrate for tomarrow is a new day
I still got the old layout open on another tab. I’m never closing that bitch.
^ LOL
I like this new layout though. Shit’s tuff.
at first i was like WTF? now i’m like WTH?
i have yet to find another site that has such devoted followers – myself included – ready to slit wrists at the thought of TSS’s demise.
love what you’ve done with the place. i’ll just need to dim my screen display, but … eh.
*well i guess its really over.. so who’s gonna take the weight ©gangstarr
^me too tres. me too….
Shit looks nice. Even better than the preview
Major!
This layout is wack! Fuck wordpress
Damn Damn DAmn!!!
*goes back to wormin*
What in thee fuck is goin on?
ELO is dope, their best joint is that song they play in Blow. This one’s a little soft but still classic.
this ain’t right…. just ain’t right.
RIP to my first and truest love
Austin aka Yikes!
If I was drunk this new layout would really be fcukin’ wit my equilibrium or some sh*t..
*hugs his 100% Cotton blanket tighter*
Thought I was at the wrong site at first.
what the duece fam!!! i am hella confused.. i hate change….