Posted by octopusprime on April 5, 2004, at 0:19:02
In reply to Re: MUSIC to rock with in Babble :-), posted by Fallen4myT on April 4, 2004, at 20:52:57
just to be different, i am going to give a few anecdotes about bands / albums / songs and what they mean to me:
* alice in chains - dirt. when my mother found this album she asked me if i was suicidal and threatened to take me to a shrink. i wasn't suicidal at the time. ironically enough, some years later when i was suicidal, i put that album on.
* tragically hip - fully completely. i heard this album in 1993. we used to play it at pool parties with my school friends. it was always the summer time rock out chill out party music, and it is still my very favourite album to this day.
* the cure - oh the cure. my first serious boyfriend was a goth (or a wannabe) and he introduced me to the cure. and how i love the cure. there was charlotte sometimes "sometimes i dream/while the other people dance" and from the edge to the deep green sea and so many others ... when i broke up with my first serious boyfriend i believe i spent that summer getting high, listening to the cure, playing computer games, and crying. robert smith knew my pain. he understood. he still does understand. i don't know if i can listen to pictures of you or prayers for rain without crying.
* depeche mode - policy of truth. "you had something to hide/should have hidden it shouldn't you/and now you're not satisfied/with what you're being put through". i listened to this song over and over when my dear old friend called me, desperate for advice, because he had cheated on his girlfriend. i encouraged him to not tell her or to lie. he didn't listen. then i had to listen to the nuclear fallout. and i cursed him for not taking my advice while listening to policy of truth.
and there are so many more little stories ...
i ascribe songs to people or to periods of my life. and when i listen to those songs, i can close my eyes and picture how i felt and throw myself back in time. sometimes i find new songs and make new meanings (for example, the cure's doing the unstuck is so very liberating and i have been doing the unstuck for a while now i think)
but i can't listen to music at work, because i get too absorbed in the tunes. (if i do listen to music at work, it is jazz (of the mingus/mobley/coltrane variety) or trance (goa trance (for example, infected mushroom) is my favourite of that kind of variety)
the funny thing is that i have been spending my time and money buying jazz and world music cd's over the last two years. i am totally out of touch with popular music and i am totally ok with that.
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