Old music renewed

[billazilla]

I managed to gather the last few albums I was missing from my accumulation of music with regards to one group, the 80's dadaistic Art of Noise. In this last batch of music I restored my old AON collection with, there were also some albums I had not been able to get back when they were still on sale in Brick & Mortar stores. Being a European group, not everything they wrote made it to the US, or if it did, it certainly didn't make it to any city I lived in. It was this inaccessibility to uncommon ideas and sounds that first started driving me to want to leave the conservative, traditionalist side of society. The beauty of things different and non-standard and uncommon, the contrast of experimentation vs. standardization is, in my mind, what originally spawned my desire to be more than I exist as. Given that these songs are decades old, that I listened to them so much I can replay them, second for second, in my head, that they were distributed in wide-spread use for less idealistic settings, I imagined that with time and repetition they might lose their significance.

Of course not, silly me.

It's not that symbols lose their significance. It's that we lose our grasp on those tiny kernels of understanding that we grow from, the seeds of our adult selves. It's nothing new or original to understand how simple it is to lose sight of ideals in Daily Life, I know, but in the tiny corner that is a single person's universe, it's still a striking bit of understanding to be reminded of those ideals.

Unfortunately, I was never fond of operatic-style singing in any form of music outside an opera. Blech.