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whitewriterAt certain points in my life, most notably perhaps in my mid teens to early 20s and again recently I listen to albums like they're books.
As a teen my access to music was somewhat limited. I had the radio. Recommendations from friends.
But that was about it. I wasn't a huge consumer. I frequently consumed repetitively the same music over and over again -- not really looking to broaden my tastes. If my friend hadn't recommended Muse to me I'd probably never had found them. Linkin park got more radio play, so that's how I got to them. TV music was more accessible, and I bought a few soundtracks of series I really loved, E.R., X-files, Six Feet Under.
Lately spotify has really changed all that since I've been exploring super widely.
I typically tend to like things written in the 90s, especially if it was from 93 - 2000s.
Nu-metal lately (so linkin-park style)
which brings in Korn, who I would have written off in my teens but now I furiously regret cause i think I would have liked them. No one in my school seemed to like Korn. Maybe its a bit too hard for a teen.
Northlane is more 2000s but if I'm in the mood, they're actually a pretty popular local metal band.
Previously Violent Soho (supposedly alternative rock, but I'd call it bogan rock really).
For all these bands, after about 3-4 years of really good albums I guess like anything, you can hear that they get a bit bored, or older, try to stretch a little and I typically don't like the results of their experiments. Why would I if it was their original sounds that I fell in love with.
Today I was probing for more songs to add to my "songs to listen to when your sad" playlist -- which is mostly just melancholic, and beautiful songs that aren't hardcore -- and I often use as a work playlist because they're not controversial tracks (on the whole) Although, I wonder if it contributed to one of the women crying in the unit the other day because coldplay was playing ...but that wasn't intentional by any means.
Today I added some tracks I fully forgot about that I'd loved in the past: Breathe by Sia (Six Feet Under soundtrack song actually) and found a new favourite. Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt --
which then lead me to listen to the entire nine inch nails album "The Downward Spiral" which included some songs I didn't realise came as part of that album, but did.
Reading on wikipedia about how the writer of 9INCH hired the house where Charles Manson had convinced his "family" to murder random people (including an 8.5 months pregnant lady) is just, gives such an edge to the album. What an f-ed up idea is that. I understand the writer was battling drugs and depression, but going so deep to find art... the extremes humans go to...
Musical journey indeedy.
Yesterdays good vibes and today's hanging out with mates Mon and Bel... and quite possibly the release I feel from melancholic music has left me rejuvinated.
There's Sunday brunch with an old SJA turned midi friend and her bf tomorrow prior to work.
Haven't seen her in a long while, possibly not since I moved from MSH to SSH.
As a teen my access to music was somewhat limited. I had the radio. Recommendations from friends.
But that was about it. I wasn't a huge consumer. I frequently consumed repetitively the same music over and over again -- not really looking to broaden my tastes. If my friend hadn't recommended Muse to me I'd probably never had found them. Linkin park got more radio play, so that's how I got to them. TV music was more accessible, and I bought a few soundtracks of series I really loved, E.R., X-files, Six Feet Under.
Lately spotify has really changed all that since I've been exploring super widely.
I typically tend to like things written in the 90s, especially if it was from 93 - 2000s.
Nu-metal lately (so linkin-park style)
which brings in Korn, who I would have written off in my teens but now I furiously regret cause i think I would have liked them. No one in my school seemed to like Korn. Maybe its a bit too hard for a teen.
Northlane is more 2000s but if I'm in the mood, they're actually a pretty popular local metal band.
Previously Violent Soho (supposedly alternative rock, but I'd call it bogan rock really).
For all these bands, after about 3-4 years of really good albums I guess like anything, you can hear that they get a bit bored, or older, try to stretch a little and I typically don't like the results of their experiments. Why would I if it was their original sounds that I fell in love with.
Today I was probing for more songs to add to my "songs to listen to when your sad" playlist -- which is mostly just melancholic, and beautiful songs that aren't hardcore -- and I often use as a work playlist because they're not controversial tracks (on the whole) Although, I wonder if it contributed to one of the women crying in the unit the other day because coldplay was playing ...but that wasn't intentional by any means.
Today I added some tracks I fully forgot about that I'd loved in the past: Breathe by Sia (Six Feet Under soundtrack song actually) and found a new favourite. Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt --
which then lead me to listen to the entire nine inch nails album "The Downward Spiral" which included some songs I didn't realise came as part of that album, but did.
Reading on wikipedia about how the writer of 9INCH hired the house where Charles Manson had convinced his "family" to murder random people (including an 8.5 months pregnant lady) is just, gives such an edge to the album. What an f-ed up idea is that. I understand the writer was battling drugs and depression, but going so deep to find art... the extremes humans go to...
Musical journey indeedy.
Yesterdays good vibes and today's hanging out with mates Mon and Bel... and quite possibly the release I feel from melancholic music has left me rejuvinated.
There's Sunday brunch with an old SJA turned midi friend and her bf tomorrow prior to work.
Haven't seen her in a long while, possibly not since I moved from MSH to SSH.
