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Beloved patrons, Denizens of the Lands of Cat, we have done music for a year! A fantastic, frightening, wonderful, wrenching,  ridiculous, radiant, You Have Got To Be Kidding Me, yawping Year.

And so in honor of that, as the March winds scourge the land, this month's theme shall be: YEARS. This one is really open to interpretation - the actual word years, various forms of it, or going more conceptual, like time passing and/or history.

As always

Rules Reminder:

-Three songs

-If it's not on Spotify, provide a link where it can be found

-Any genre, era, artist, style, etc. "Song" can also be loosely interpreted, I have no issue with spoken-word, for example.

-Though we do try to avoid promoting terrible people, everyone understands that sometimes you just love a thing and didn't know the artist was a suppurating dicktoad when we fell in love, and now we're stuck with the beautiful association and don't want to let the dicktoads win. That's fine, just keep it on this side of Butthole Jams: The Bin-Dweller's Collection. Or at least explain why it should come out of the bin!

-If you're wondering if a song you want to include "counts," the answer is always yes.

Don't forget, you can always come and discuss this or any other post, or just hang out, on the Discord server, where we seriously have not had one mean word in the months it's existed, and all the good parts of the internet exist without the bad. I love you guys so much.

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Paul Emily Ryan

I forgot about this almost immediately after seeing it (it's been a hectic month), then suddenly remembered while trying to get to sleep last night. Before too long I had the first song back I was thinking of, and then followed it up with too more. 1. "Tumble Down the Years" by Marillion This was on a previous playlist, though not from me, so it makes for some nice synchronicity. Also, look! The first original Marillion album in five and a half years came out this month! https://open.spotify.com/track/5dWsn7WJV1MFHqrZs3PoLH 2. "What Is Love" by Haddaway This one is partly only in here because I watched a film that prominently features a French version of it over the weekend, and I'm desperate. If I could find that version I would submit it instead of the original, to lessen how much I'm leaning on men, but it doesn't seem to have had a wide enough release. However! This was the number 1 song in Ireland the week when I was born, nearly 29 years ago. That's a more than sufficient reason for including it I'd say. https://open.spotify.com/track/2ahnofp2LbBWDXcJbMaSTu 3. "We Are Young" by fun. featuring Janelle Monae (though Janelle Monae is barely on it tbh) Some Nights turned 10 then this year. I could've picked the title song, or Carry On; either of those would've worked about as well. There's just something about this song though. There was a time in my life when I was reasonably new to the Internet and I would spend a bunch of time listening to random US and Australian radio stations. There's not a lot I remember from that time, definitely not a lot of songs, new or not. There was "We Are Young" though. I vividly remember hearing "We Are Young" what felt like months before it made it over here, and knowing something was coming down the line. What came down the line? I'm not even sure any more. Perhaps there's a subconscious element to all this. I don't know, but I'll indulge the idea anyway. It's weird. 2012 was the year I finished secondary school and went to college, one of the years people thought the world would end. And now it's ten years later. When I think back on this song, I don't feel old. I don't feel especially young either. Frankly I don't have time to feel old. I'm not sure how much the me of 10 years ago would recognise who I am now, whether he would like him or not. That feels like a damn cliché tbh, it's not something I spend a lot of time thinking about either. But you know, I don't think I'm anywhere close to the person I'm supposed to be. I don't even think the person I was ten years ago wasn't who I was supposed to be then. I'm getting there though. I feel like I'm closer. And I like to think I have plenty of time, and progress doesn't have to be linear. At least that's what I tell myself. Funny how time passes, ain't it? Jack Antonoff is one of the biggest producers in the world now. That's weird! And I guess he was the age I am now when this came out. Huh. https://open.spotify.com/track/5rgy6ghBq1eRApCkeUdJXf

Wendy Kitchens

Queen, ‘39 - https://open.spotify.com/track/0kIpcu3DQacQObHVyra9Jx?si=sslhxjBEQzSaIZZztzrjRQ