The Record Box
Long ago, when my site was in its infancy, a page named “The Record Box” was one of my favorite pages on my website. I only really used it for my SCM Player, which eventually stopped working due to youtube errors... I was crushed, as I quite liked the page. I love sharing my taste in music as it’s something very important to me. But tonight! It is resurrected once more! As a place to share music related things!!!
Album Log
I'm trying to get myself to listen to albums more consistently so what better way to do that than to make a log of albums I've listened to? I thought it sounded like a fun idea.
Album Title: Bloodletting
Artist: Concrete Blonde
Genre: Goth rock, rock
Date: 2/17/26
First Listen?: No
Favorite Track: Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
Thoughts: A big favorite of mine so I put it on while I did my dailies in Umamusume this morning. I was training Vampire Rice Shower so it felt appropriate and the album finished right as I completed my run. Neat! God I love this album
Album Title: Vanishing Vision
Artist: X JAPAN
Genre: Metal, J-Rock, Visual Kei
Date: 2/16/26
First Listen?: Yes
Favorite Track: Phantom of Guilt
Thoughts: Despite how I’ve been dipping my toes into V-Kei for a little while I never actually listened to much X Japan despite how influential they are. This album rocks and I definitely want to listen to more of their stuff now...
Album Title: The Apple Tree Under The Sea
Artist: Hemlocke Springs
Genre: Synth pop, art pop
Date: 2/16/26
First Listen?: Yes
Favorite Track: sense (is)
Thoughts: I've consistently loved everything Hemlocke Springs has put out- this is her first proper album release and it's full of total jams! I've always really liked how her style takes a lot of queues from 80s New Wave without feeling overly nostalgia bait-y. This album lived up to my anticipation! Go check it out :)
A Big List of Favorite Songs
A roughly alphabetical list of songs I really, really like as well as links to go listen on youtube, as a little sampler of my music tastes.
The Mission - And The Dance Goes OnThis Ascension - Ashes Don’t Burn
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
Kate Bush - Breathing
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
This Burning Effigy - Communion with Sophia
The Cure - Disintegration
Buck-Tick - Dress
The Changelings - Earthquake at Versailles
All About Eve - End of the Day
Vendemmian - Falling
Kate Bush - Get Out Of My House
Hemlocke Springs - head, shoulders, knees and ankles
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Autumn - How It Came To Be This Way
The Cure - Lullaby
The Sisters of Mercy - Marian
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Monitor
Loreena McKennitt - The Mummer’s Dance
Cocteau Twins - Musette and Drums
Echo and the Bunnymen - Nocturnal Me
Bauhaus - The Passion of Lovers
Cocteau Twins - Persephone
The Shroud - Prophecy
The Sisters of Mercy - A Rock and a Hard Place
Malice Mizer - SADNESS ~I know the reason for her sadness~
This Ascension - Sever
The Mission - Severina
The Shroud - Sulphur Salt and Mercury
Kate Bush - Suspended in Gaffa
This Ascension - Swandive
The Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
New Order - True Faith
Character Playlists
Here are my character playlists! Or any playlists I put together, really. I’m limiting myself to 8 songs per playlist to keep things concise. Get ready for either a lot of goth-adjacent genres, or tonal whiplash from the strangely prevalent Evanescence songs. Yeah, I don't know either.
Shanoa (Castlevania) - The False Martyr
A playlist for my favorite character in Castlevania and also just in general... I made a Shanoa playlist a couple years ago but it wasn't very good and like half the songs weren't super fitting so here’s a sort of revised version of it! It's meant to represent her anguish and her drive to do what's right despite all she’s been through. These are just a lot of my favorite songs, huh...
Nosferatu - Alone
Björk - Play Dead
Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
Nine Inch Nails - Sin
Autumn - How It Came To Be This Way
Die Laughing - Queen of Swords
Kate Bush - The Morning Fog
Albus (Castlevania) - The True Bearer
Albus is a fascinating character. His self destructive nature, the sacrifices he makes, and his all-consuming care for his adoptive sister all makes for a tragic but fascinating antagonist in the first half of Order of Ecclesia. So here are some songs that remind me of that headspace he must be in.
New Order - True Faith
Twin Tribes - Fantasmas
Depeche Mode - Barrel of a Gun
Evanescence - Disappear
Rosetta Stone - Leave Me For Dead
Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister
The Mission - Severina
London After Midnight - Sacrifice
Laura (Castlevania) - May The Light Go With You
People look at me funny when I say one of the best Castlevania characters is one of the sidequest villagers, but I am literally right. Many songs have reminded me of her and her rapport with Shanoa so here's a little playlist of them.
SPELLLING - Always
Strawberry Switchblade - Secrets
Kate Bush - L'Amour Looks Something Like You
Magdalena Bay - Head Over Heels (cover)
The Shroud - Vision
Lamb - Cottonwool
The Eden House - All My Love
Cocteau Twins - Fifty Fifty Clown
Shadowsight (Warriors) - See Into The Shadows
For this one I tried to get the camp horror vibe of The Broken Code down right, though the last three songs are more in a straightforward “Shadowsight angst” direction lol. A lot of these songs I listened to while I was first reading TBC (which is like 99% of the reason Strangelove is there lol)
Oingo Boingo - Heard Somebody Cry
Dead or Alive - There Is Something In My House
Depeche Mode - Strangelove
The Ramones - Pet Sematary
Echo and the Bunnymen - Nocturnal Me
Evanescence - Away From Me
The Sisters of Mercy - Marian
The Shroud - Prophecy
Clovenglade - A Hoofprint Left Behind
This is basically the “official” playlist for my interactive webshrine, Clovenglade. Both of songs I listened to a lot while working on parts of it, songs I feel like fit it thematically, and songs that just have the right “vibes”.
Loreena McKennit - The Mummers' Dance
All About Eve - Flowers In Our Hair
Kate Bush - Sunset
This Ascension - Ill Met By Moonlight
Evanescence - Imaginary
All About Eve - Paradise
Loreena McKennitt - The Old Ways
America - The Last Unicorn
