Sometimes I like to get bored and I'll go into clinically insane phases of listening to music. I'll listen to alot of something here and there, but then one day I'll just decide to become completely obsessed with Metallica for a few days, and then for some reason I'll decide the next day I'll decide that listening to R.E.M. is a good idea and I'll listen to everything R.E.M. has ever released for a week.
The other day I decided I don't listen to enough of the Beatles. I have been obsessively listening to every album, in order back to back. I admit that while I do appreciate the Beatles, I was never really that into their music. In my opinion, dispite their cultural influence and fame, I still always found them a bit overrated.
You can ease up now. Because I will clarify. I do not think the Beatles suck. While I do appreciate their music and their influence, I never sat down to listen to conciously listen to their music, they are just a band that I know their songs just like everyone else in the world, but there was so much better music that out in that era that I didn't have time to listen to them between band The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Who, and The Kinks.
After listening to all of this Beatles music, I am still in the oppinion that they're overrated. More so actually. Yet I have
The problem is, you have to realize; however, that Hendrix came out in '67 and by that time, the Stones had already done Satisfaction and Paint It Black and The Who was rocking harder. And that's when I realized why I never liked the Beatles as much. I like blues music too much. While many bands kept a bluesy influence to their music, the Beatles took a more folky and classical approach to their rock & roll. I like folk music and such, but not as much as I like blues music.
So the Beatles don't suck. But you have to admit, they are a little overrated. Their music just isn't that good.
What's your dream career?
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Professionally interesting.
I don't actually want a job. I just want to be one of those characters like Kramer or The Dude.
No one knows exactly what I do for a living, but I fall into money somehow and know crazy people you would probably never meet in real life (yet, in my experience, they exist).
There would be all kinds of things you found out about me that you never knew, and they only casually come up in conversation. Like referencing the book of poetry that I wrote and published. Or the album I released.
That would truly be the ultimate.
Why do we escape to music so much? Why do we find comfort in listening to something that uplifts are mood?
Simply, music is just music. It doesn't judge us and it takes us away from our hypocritical, judgemental, greedy world and puts us in a private utopuia in our minds.
There's is no real way to describe how it feels when you actually physically feel the music that comes out of speakers.
I want to make others feel the same way with my music. I know I have begun to do that already, not just to myself. When you create something that makes someone actually have a physical reaction to it, than you have created something more powerful than you really know.
Sometimes even words can create a physical reaction. Read the following:
"What happens in a meadow at dusk?"
Now think about it for the rest of the day.
I listen to everything. No really. Everything.
Have you ever met one of those people that says
they listen to everything, and while they have a pretty interesting
music collection and they may very well have various tastes in music,
they still come off as kind of a blow-hard? I'm not one of those.
When I say I listen to everything, I really do listen to everything. I will relax to Miles Davis and then rock out to Deftones. Scream with The Used and dance to VNV Nation. I'll get depressed with Elliott Smith and get psychadelic with Love.
Yes. It exists.
Then of course there's always the genre skip. You might listen to a lot of different things, but you don't listen to every genre. I listen
Rock, dance, new wave, goth, metal, psychadeleia, punk, grunge, synth-pop, rap, country, classical, surf, industrial, soul, funk. You name it.
I may listen to everything, but there is still music that I just can't listen to. I hate it and it forces blood to seep out of my ears. I'm elitist when it comes to music. If I don't like it than it sucks. There's too much music in my life to be concerned with shitty bands and their shitty music.
My biggest problem comes from when I tell someone I hate a band that everyone likes. I tell someone I hate U2 (Especially that pompus dick of a lead singer and their overrated guitar player) or that Pearl Jam can shove it and people look at me like I'm insane. "How could you not like U2!? They're great!". No. They aren't. Don't even get me started on Dave Matthews Band. God forbid I mention that I merely appreciate Pink Floyd (they're not THAT good people).
It's a real shame when the rest of the world listens to almost everything that I think sucks. Nothing that's popular these days is any good. All I hear is crappy bands with nothing interesting going on in their music. Shitty rap with annoyng, repetative beats with uninteresting awful lyrics (that more than likely dumb down society). If you're going to rap about stupid shit and ho's, at least do it over a beat that does something. The only musicians that are really doing anything right these days are the guys that have been around for at least a few years. With a few exceptions mind you. Wolfmother comes to mind, and even then they sound like Zeppelin and the Doors.
I guess that's what happens when corperations and "THEY" try to make money off of art. Corperations only know how things work with business plans and numbers. Art works off of risks and passion, pretty much the complete opposite. They've tried to turn art into business plans and numbers.
Either way. It's only wishful thinking. At least there's still SOME good music being made today, and different people like different things. I just don't think people actually listen to what they listen to. Unlike me.
I'll end here. I hope I've written enough to start some sort of discussions with the outside world. Maybe a heated debate. Until then I'm off to listen to something with depth, I just hope you don't listen to anything that sucks.
Oh. While I'm at it. Let me just recomend the new Deftones album "Saturday Night Wrist". Deftones keep getting better. And Incubus is great. Incubus is one of those bands that you don't actually realize how utterly amazing they are until you actually sit down to listen to them. I've been listening to them recently and I'm digging their shifting styles of music (psychadelic/metal/funk/rap). Really their music is completely insane, but somehow it works. Check it out.
