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It's utterly brilliant isn't it?
My music is rock. I don't like 'R'n'B', dance, house, 'urban', trance, hip-hop (except for some Beastie Boys, if they count) or poppy stuff really etc etc etc. Don't give a toss if others do, fine by me as long as I'm not forced to listen to it, because that is the point of this rather pointless post. Yes.
Even in the genre of rock, there a are a million sub categories I'm not keen on. Death/Black metal is probably the main one I'm not so keen on, but I listen to punk, 'alternative', speed-metal, indie, pop-rock, glam-rock....ah forget it. The terms are meaningless. My favourite bands encompass emo-type stuff to hard good old rockin'. I can listen to Sunny Day Real Estate and Elliot and fall into songs that seem to be inside me as it were, songs that speak for me in a way, usually rather 'down' (although Elliott in particular is utterly utterly beautiful). That is usually when I'm feeling melancholy (stereotypical teenager of course - of course, the only people who aren't are white middle class men, but that's a different point). I can then listen to the Chillis or Rival Schools and just be happy at the melodic life I am in. Because it is full of music.
What I'm trying (I repeat, trying) to say is that music is like nothing else. That and the companionship of a girl are the only real things one needs in my opinion (don't say water and food etc). Music is the only medium that really encompasses people and joins them together. When you go to a gig or to a club or whatever, the music provides the power behind the feelings in the people. Films are highly powerful, artwork can somehow potentially shake someone, and poetry might be the easiest form of personal expression, and all these can be beautiful. But music is just the one that really is your life. This is partly because of its nature. It's accessible anywhere, it is short in terms of song lengths, and is easy to take in while doing something else. Once it bites past the casual listen, music will become a part of you.
I personally, in all seriousness, could not live without music. It has become so important to me that it is almost a part of who I am. To quote Friends - 'From now on, Nick - Comes with the music!' If you've seen it, you'll understand. Songs such as Stand Inside Your Love, I of the Mourning, To Sheila, With Every Light, Galapogos, Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Disarm, Soma and Hummer (and many more by the Smashing Pumpkins) and others by other bands, like Good Things (Rival Schools), Words (Doves), Drive On Me (Elliott) and many many more, I love because they represent the beauty in my life, what I want to feel and touch the whole time. I can listen to the endless melodic guitars at the end of Hummer and watch a sunset and be totally at peace - both need to be sensed to feel that perfection, nature and the pinnacle of man's creative acheivement (IMO of course..) joining.
Music is almost a soundtrack to ones life. Other songs are perfect for other reasons. Music can be a soundtrack or be a catalyst to my actions. I can listen to At The Drive In, Muse, Rage, Audioslave, Glassjaw, Dredg, Pumpkins and the Foos and Rival Schools and be immersed in the whole 'rockiness' of it. When the almost cataclysmic ending to the Pumpkins 'Silverfu*ck' kicks in, I always, always, always play air guitar. It's not because it's rocky-cool-cheesyness like the Darkness, it's because my body is practically consumed by the sheer power and passion in the interwining solos and drums and effects. It literally is irresistable. Half of Rage Against the Machines music is like that. Guerilla Radio, Know Your Enemy, Tire Me, People of the Sun, Ghost of Tom Joad, Kick Out the Jams, Testify, Ashes in the Fall, Sleep Now In The Fire - these songs literally explode me into action. One cannot help but move to them and to listen with straining ears to every last note and word and just plainly make it as loud as possible. When the chorus on 'Whoa Is Me' by Dredg crashes in, when the spiralling solo rises on 'Stand Inside Your Love' by the Pumpkins, when the intro to 'Testify' by Rage smashes into the room, when Silverfu*k, Mayonaise, Soma, Geek USA, Porcelina and the others by the Pumpkins reach the perfect creschendoes, when Jeff Buckley breathes in at the start of 'Hallelujah', when Nick Drake first plays the opening note of 'Know', when the cymbals crash at the start of 'Used for Glue' by Rival Schools, when the drum roll announces 'Cherub Rock', when these things kick in, my heart jumps and the music takes hold. Many songs do that to me. I cannot fully describe the joy it brings me.
So, music both drives and moves me. Many bands do both to me, some do one or the other very well. I can not really describe it better. I'm sure most people know what I'm on about. However, there is one band who I have said this about before, The Smashing Pumpkins. They encompass everything that I percieve to be in life. Joy, melancholy, utter despair, utter elation, love, peace, anger - almost anything. And they do know how to play a kickass solo or two that overrides all the emotion when they play and goes straight to the adrenal glands. They gave me this, and other bands have added music to my life. It is an understatement to say I love music.
And that, is why I love music. Anyone else?
My music is rock. I don't like 'R'n'B', dance, house, 'urban', trance, hip-hop (except for some Beastie Boys, if they count) or poppy stuff really etc etc etc. Don't give a toss if others do, fine by me as long as I'm not forced to listen to it, because that is the point of this rather pointless post. Yes.
Even in the genre of rock, there a are a million sub categories I'm not keen on. Death/Black metal is probably the main one I'm not so keen on, but I listen to punk, 'alternative', speed-metal, indie, pop-rock, glam-rock....ah forget it. The terms are meaningless. My favourite bands encompass emo-type stuff to hard good old rockin'. I can listen to Sunny Day Real Estate and Elliot and fall into songs that seem to be inside me as it were, songs that speak for me in a way, usually rather 'down' (although Elliott in particular is utterly utterly beautiful). That is usually when I'm feeling melancholy (stereotypical teenager of course - of course, the only people who aren't are white middle class men, but that's a different point). I can then listen to the Chillis or Rival Schools and just be happy at the melodic life I am in. Because it is full of music.
What I'm trying (I repeat, trying) to say is that music is like nothing else. That and the companionship of a girl are the only real things one needs in my opinion (don't say water and food etc). Music is the only medium that really encompasses people and joins them together. When you go to a gig or to a club or whatever, the music provides the power behind the feelings in the people. Films are highly powerful, artwork can somehow potentially shake someone, and poetry might be the easiest form of personal expression, and all these can be beautiful. But music is just the one that really is your life. This is partly because of its nature. It's accessible anywhere, it is short in terms of song lengths, and is easy to take in while doing something else. Once it bites past the casual listen, music will become a part of you.
I personally, in all seriousness, could not live without music. It has become so important to me that it is almost a part of who I am. To quote Friends - 'From now on, Nick - Comes with the music!' If you've seen it, you'll understand. Songs such as Stand Inside Your Love, I of the Mourning, To Sheila, With Every Light, Galapogos, Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Disarm, Soma and Hummer (and many more by the Smashing Pumpkins) and others by other bands, like Good Things (Rival Schools), Words (Doves), Drive On Me (Elliott) and many many more, I love because they represent the beauty in my life, what I want to feel and touch the whole time. I can listen to the endless melodic guitars at the end of Hummer and watch a sunset and be totally at peace - both need to be sensed to feel that perfection, nature and the pinnacle of man's creative acheivement (IMO of course..) joining.
Music is almost a soundtrack to ones life. Other songs are perfect for other reasons. Music can be a soundtrack or be a catalyst to my actions. I can listen to At The Drive In, Muse, Rage, Audioslave, Glassjaw, Dredg, Pumpkins and the Foos and Rival Schools and be immersed in the whole 'rockiness' of it. When the almost cataclysmic ending to the Pumpkins 'Silverfu*ck' kicks in, I always, always, always play air guitar. It's not because it's rocky-cool-cheesyness like the Darkness, it's because my body is practically consumed by the sheer power and passion in the interwining solos and drums and effects. It literally is irresistable. Half of Rage Against the Machines music is like that. Guerilla Radio, Know Your Enemy, Tire Me, People of the Sun, Ghost of Tom Joad, Kick Out the Jams, Testify, Ashes in the Fall, Sleep Now In The Fire - these songs literally explode me into action. One cannot help but move to them and to listen with straining ears to every last note and word and just plainly make it as loud as possible. When the chorus on 'Whoa Is Me' by Dredg crashes in, when the spiralling solo rises on 'Stand Inside Your Love' by the Pumpkins, when the intro to 'Testify' by Rage smashes into the room, when Silverfu*k, Mayonaise, Soma, Geek USA, Porcelina and the others by the Pumpkins reach the perfect creschendoes, when Jeff Buckley breathes in at the start of 'Hallelujah', when Nick Drake first plays the opening note of 'Know', when the cymbals crash at the start of 'Used for Glue' by Rival Schools, when the drum roll announces 'Cherub Rock', when these things kick in, my heart jumps and the music takes hold. Many songs do that to me. I cannot fully describe the joy it brings me.
So, music both drives and moves me. Many bands do both to me, some do one or the other very well. I can not really describe it better. I'm sure most people know what I'm on about. However, there is one band who I have said this about before, The Smashing Pumpkins. They encompass everything that I percieve to be in life. Joy, melancholy, utter despair, utter elation, love, peace, anger - almost anything. And they do know how to play a kickass solo or two that overrides all the emotion when they play and goes straight to the adrenal glands. They gave me this, and other bands have added music to my life. It is an understatement to say I love music.
And that, is why I love music. Anyone else?
hehe, 'growl'.
Thanks for replying.
Oh and Blank, Dredg have had an impact, but they certainly weren't the first... ;)
Thanks for replying.
Oh and Blank, Dredg have had an impact, but they certainly weren't the first... ;)
Difficult to say there's no line between them, but I suppose it's that death's all about death, satan and hell and that kind of stuff. Judging by the stuff I've heard; they differ in that death metal vocalists really growl a lot, black metal vocalists tend to growl too but not as much, making it difficult to catergorise. Death's for the real hardcore people, Black's easier listening but even so, it's heavy stuff.
It's difficult to describe really, I just picked it up from listening to Snakenet (http://www.snakenetmetalradio.com/) for a while. It's fairly easy to pick out the different styles after time.
There's really a lot of personal opinion in the defining points of the genres, and to someone who's never listened to much/any of it it'll be hard to tell any difference.
If you're interested enough you could 'acquire' a song called Dreaming Into Reality by Graveworm, which I personally would say was black, and a cover of Maiden's Wrathchild by Six Feet Under, which I say has a strong death sound to it. I think anyway... Been a long time since I heard it.
Like I say though, it's hard to define a difference.
It's difficult to describe really, I just picked it up from listening to Snakenet (http://www.snakenetmetalradio.com/) for a while. It's fairly easy to pick out the different styles after time.
There's really a lot of personal opinion in the defining points of the genres, and to someone who's never listened to much/any of it it'll be hard to tell any difference.
If you're interested enough you could 'acquire' a song called Dreaming Into Reality by Graveworm, which I personally would say was black, and a cover of Maiden's Wrathchild by Six Feet Under, which I say has a strong death sound to it. I think anyway... Been a long time since I heard it.
Like I say though, it's hard to define a difference.
What's the difference between black and death?
Black and Death metal takes some getting into. Well, a lot of getting into. I've been listening to a fair bit of black metal lately which I'm now thinking is the best stuff since sliced bread, although I'm still not overly keen on the death stuff. I can understand why you don't like it.
Yeah, I know what you mean about getting absolutely caught up in songs. I got a bass guitar at Xmas, and recnetly learnt to play 'New Noise' by Refused (amazing band, incredible song) and at first it was very difficult to play the riff right, but now whenever I play along to the song and reach the final chaotic ending it just kinda feels like I spasm into action. It just suddenly clicks and you get the biggest rush. The best songs in my opinion are those that give you that rush. They set your heart racing with adrenaline. I love that feeling. I love music :D
Nice to see Dredg have had an impact. They certainly have on me.
Good post but I got a bit bored half way through so I just skim read.
I also liove music loads. And it's totally true when you go to a gig that it brings everyone together. Everyone singing all at the same time at the tops of their voices and it's not embarrasing like if you were to do it by yourself infront of your friends. And when someone falls over or passes out in the crowd, everyone looks out for you and passes you to the top or picks you up.
Theres nothing like a good rock gig in my opinion, no world cup england finale could compare to 3 hours of Poison The Well or Thrice (10th February, London Astoria).
I also liove music loads. And it's totally true when you go to a gig that it brings everyone together. Everyone singing all at the same time at the tops of their voices and it's not embarrasing like if you were to do it by yourself infront of your friends. And when someone falls over or passes out in the crowd, everyone looks out for you and passes you to the top or picks you up.
Theres nothing like a good rock gig in my opinion, no world cup england finale could compare to 3 hours of Poison The Well or Thrice (10th February, London Astoria).
It's utterly brilliant isn't it?
My music is rock. I don't like 'R'n'B', dance, house, 'urban', trance, hip-hop (except for some Beastie Boys, if they count) or poppy stuff really etc etc etc. Don't give a toss if others do, fine by me as long as I'm not forced to listen to it, because that is the point of this rather pointless post. Yes.
Even in the genre of rock, there a are a million sub categories I'm not keen on. Death/Black metal is probably the main one I'm not so keen on, but I listen to punk, 'alternative', speed-metal, indie, pop-rock, glam-rock....ah forget it. The terms are meaningless. My favourite bands encompass emo-type stuff to hard good old rockin'. I can listen to Sunny Day Real Estate and Elliot and fall into songs that seem to be inside me as it were, songs that speak for me in a way, usually rather 'down' (although Elliott in particular is utterly utterly beautiful). That is usually when I'm feeling melancholy (stereotypical teenager of course - of course, the only people who aren't are white middle class men, but that's a different point). I can then listen to the Chillis or Rival Schools and just be happy at the melodic life I am in. Because it is full of music.
What I'm trying (I repeat, trying) to say is that music is like nothing else. That and the companionship of a girl are the only real things one needs in my opinion (don't say water and food etc). Music is the only medium that really encompasses people and joins them together. When you go to a gig or to a club or whatever, the music provides the power behind the feelings in the people. Films are highly powerful, artwork can somehow potentially shake someone, and poetry might be the easiest form of personal expression, and all these can be beautiful. But music is just the one that really is your life. This is partly because of its nature. It's accessible anywhere, it is short in terms of song lengths, and is easy to take in while doing something else. Once it bites past the casual listen, music will become a part of you.
I personally, in all seriousness, could not live without music. It has become so important to me that it is almost a part of who I am. To quote Friends - 'From now on, Nick - Comes with the music!' If you've seen it, you'll understand. Songs such as Stand Inside Your Love, I of the Mourning, To Sheila, With Every Light, Galapogos, Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Disarm, Soma and Hummer (and many more by the Smashing Pumpkins) and others by other bands, like Good Things (Rival Schools), Words (Doves), Drive On Me (Elliott) and many many more, I love because they represent the beauty in my life, what I want to feel and touch the whole time. I can listen to the endless melodic guitars at the end of Hummer and watch a sunset and be totally at peace - both need to be sensed to feel that perfection, nature and the pinnacle of man's creative acheivement (IMO of course..) joining.
Music is almost a soundtrack to ones life. Other songs are perfect for other reasons. Music can be a soundtrack or be a catalyst to my actions. I can listen to At The Drive In, Muse, Rage, Audioslave, Glassjaw, Dredg, Pumpkins and the Foos and Rival Schools and be immersed in the whole 'rockiness' of it. When the almost cataclysmic ending to the Pumpkins 'Silverfu*ck' kicks in, I always, always, always play air guitar. It's not because it's rocky-cool-cheesyness like the Darkness, it's because my body is practically consumed by the sheer power and passion in the interwining solos and drums and effects. It literally is irresistable. Half of Rage Against the Machines music is like that. Guerilla Radio, Know Your Enemy, Tire Me, People of the Sun, Ghost of Tom Joad, Kick Out the Jams, Testify, Ashes in the Fall, Sleep Now In The Fire - these songs literally explode me into action. One cannot help but move to them and to listen with straining ears to every last note and word and just plainly make it as loud as possible. When the chorus on 'Whoa Is Me' by Dredg crashes in, when the spiralling solo rises on 'Stand Inside Your Love' by the Pumpkins, when the intro to 'Testify' by Rage smashes into the room, when Silverfu*k, Mayonaise, Soma, Geek USA, Porcelina and the others by the Pumpkins reach the perfect creschendoes, when Jeff Buckley breathes in at the start of 'Hallelujah', when Nick Drake first plays the opening note of 'Know', when the cymbals crash at the start of 'Used for Glue' by Rival Schools, when the drum roll announces 'Cherub Rock', when these things kick in, my heart jumps and the music takes hold. Many songs do that to me. I cannot fully describe the joy it brings me.
So, music both drives and moves me. Many bands do both to me, some do one or the other very well. I can not really describe it better. I'm sure most people know what I'm on about. However, there is one band who I have said this about before, The Smashing Pumpkins. They encompass everything that I percieve to be in life. Joy, melancholy, utter despair, utter elation, love, peace, anger - almost anything. And they do know how to play a kickass solo or two that overrides all the emotion when they play and goes straight to the adrenal glands. They gave me this, and other bands have added music to my life. It is an understatement to say I love music.
And that, is why I love music. Anyone else?
My music is rock. I don't like 'R'n'B', dance, house, 'urban', trance, hip-hop (except for some Beastie Boys, if they count) or poppy stuff really etc etc etc. Don't give a toss if others do, fine by me as long as I'm not forced to listen to it, because that is the point of this rather pointless post. Yes.
Even in the genre of rock, there a are a million sub categories I'm not keen on. Death/Black metal is probably the main one I'm not so keen on, but I listen to punk, 'alternative', speed-metal, indie, pop-rock, glam-rock....ah forget it. The terms are meaningless. My favourite bands encompass emo-type stuff to hard good old rockin'. I can listen to Sunny Day Real Estate and Elliot and fall into songs that seem to be inside me as it were, songs that speak for me in a way, usually rather 'down' (although Elliott in particular is utterly utterly beautiful). That is usually when I'm feeling melancholy (stereotypical teenager of course - of course, the only people who aren't are white middle class men, but that's a different point). I can then listen to the Chillis or Rival Schools and just be happy at the melodic life I am in. Because it is full of music.
What I'm trying (I repeat, trying) to say is that music is like nothing else. That and the companionship of a girl are the only real things one needs in my opinion (don't say water and food etc). Music is the only medium that really encompasses people and joins them together. When you go to a gig or to a club or whatever, the music provides the power behind the feelings in the people. Films are highly powerful, artwork can somehow potentially shake someone, and poetry might be the easiest form of personal expression, and all these can be beautiful. But music is just the one that really is your life. This is partly because of its nature. It's accessible anywhere, it is short in terms of song lengths, and is easy to take in while doing something else. Once it bites past the casual listen, music will become a part of you.
I personally, in all seriousness, could not live without music. It has become so important to me that it is almost a part of who I am. To quote Friends - 'From now on, Nick - Comes with the music!' If you've seen it, you'll understand. Songs such as Stand Inside Your Love, I of the Mourning, To Sheila, With Every Light, Galapogos, Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Disarm, Soma and Hummer (and many more by the Smashing Pumpkins) and others by other bands, like Good Things (Rival Schools), Words (Doves), Drive On Me (Elliott) and many many more, I love because they represent the beauty in my life, what I want to feel and touch the whole time. I can listen to the endless melodic guitars at the end of Hummer and watch a sunset and be totally at peace - both need to be sensed to feel that perfection, nature and the pinnacle of man's creative acheivement (IMO of course..) joining.
Music is almost a soundtrack to ones life. Other songs are perfect for other reasons. Music can be a soundtrack or be a catalyst to my actions. I can listen to At The Drive In, Muse, Rage, Audioslave, Glassjaw, Dredg, Pumpkins and the Foos and Rival Schools and be immersed in the whole 'rockiness' of it. When the almost cataclysmic ending to the Pumpkins 'Silverfu*ck' kicks in, I always, always, always play air guitar. It's not because it's rocky-cool-cheesyness like the Darkness, it's because my body is practically consumed by the sheer power and passion in the interwining solos and drums and effects. It literally is irresistable. Half of Rage Against the Machines music is like that. Guerilla Radio, Know Your Enemy, Tire Me, People of the Sun, Ghost of Tom Joad, Kick Out the Jams, Testify, Ashes in the Fall, Sleep Now In The Fire - these songs literally explode me into action. One cannot help but move to them and to listen with straining ears to every last note and word and just plainly make it as loud as possible. When the chorus on 'Whoa Is Me' by Dredg crashes in, when the spiralling solo rises on 'Stand Inside Your Love' by the Pumpkins, when the intro to 'Testify' by Rage smashes into the room, when Silverfu*k, Mayonaise, Soma, Geek USA, Porcelina and the others by the Pumpkins reach the perfect creschendoes, when Jeff Buckley breathes in at the start of 'Hallelujah', when Nick Drake first plays the opening note of 'Know', when the cymbals crash at the start of 'Used for Glue' by Rival Schools, when the drum roll announces 'Cherub Rock', when these things kick in, my heart jumps and the music takes hold. Many songs do that to me. I cannot fully describe the joy it brings me.
So, music both drives and moves me. Many bands do both to me, some do one or the other very well. I can not really describe it better. I'm sure most people know what I'm on about. However, there is one band who I have said this about before, The Smashing Pumpkins. They encompass everything that I percieve to be in life. Joy, melancholy, utter despair, utter elation, love, peace, anger - almost anything. And they do know how to play a kickass solo or two that overrides all the emotion when they play and goes straight to the adrenal glands. They gave me this, and other bands have added music to my life. It is an understatement to say I love music.
And that, is why I love music. Anyone else?