The hip new tagging thing that's sweeping the world!
Yo. So I got tagged by firestarter713. Even though I have a lot of CDs, I only play the ones I really like, and play them with a vengeance.
SONGS I'VE ROCKED MY ASS OUT TO RECENTLY:
1. Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Honesty and sincerity which moves anyone to visualize--if only temporarily--the best of who they are and all of their potential. What else can music strive for? The CDs in a DVD player in New York. :(
2. Best of Velvet Underground CD
This is what I always imagined rock music to be, and felt every now and then when I listened to an exceptionally good rock song. The songs range from campy fun songs like Waiting for the man and Run Run Run. They then move onto more somber tones with Femme Fatale, I'll be your mirror, and climaxing with Pale Blue Eyes. They're songs about girls who are sick and tired with life, and are wishing to move on to something better.
(aside: something I see a lot in different genres and mediums(and I think it's the only thing i've done as well): Most songs about people feeling unfullfilled and finding fullfilling through music or some other type of venue seem to be done through the eyes of girls and not guys. Ignoring any sexist implications concerning the conclusion that can be arrived at: are girls then supposed to be the eternal fans, and the guys the eterntal musicians?(blah blah blah)-- I know that writing female characters in situations like that is done through some type of idealization of innocence, which leads further to an idealized view of male/female roles. There's more to this...)
These songs make me feel more grateful for the thing which taps into what my latent strength and hope needed to move forward with my goals/efforts/missions.
Jenny said, when she was just five years old
There was nothin' happening at all
Every time she puts on the radio
There was nothin' goin' down at all, not at all
Then, one fine mornin', she puts on a New York station
You know, she couldn't believe what she heard at all, no not at all
She started shakin' to that fine, fine music
You know, her life was saved by rock'n'roll, rock'n'roll
Despite all the amputations
You know, you could just go out
And dance to the rock'n'roll station
And it was all right
3. Modest Mouse - Lives
To a person who doesn't intentionally listen to the lyrics, the CD is something that you can move to, and feel like the people playing the music are saying something important, even if you can't tell what it really is. This song comes near the end and strips away a lot of the external, and makes you stop and listen to what they have to say, and makes sure it's said in a way you'll understand. It goes from gathering pieces of information that the musician sees to be true, and fills him with sadness--if not for himself, then for people that he has met who he can say feels this way or would act this way. He then, like a person who's doing a lot of important thinking, and reaching deeper into what makes him sad or angry or content or happy, comes up with a statement that summarizes what causes himself or other people to feel that way. Then, the song sinks low again into what he has said earlier. With the context of the lyrics during the epiphany stage of the song, the musician, goes full circle and presents the lyrics from the beginning. With the information given in the middle of the piece, the musician is now challenging you to face these two pieces of information, and come up with your own answer. And that answer is something you should always remember.
4. 13 and God - Soft Atlas
I don't know what any of the fucking lyrics mean. I personally don't want to. I'd rather interpret them my own way. Dose One's lyrics are better that way. You know what I mean, right? Dose One's value isn't necessarily what his words mean, they're it they way they are arranged and crafted. The problem with Dose One was that he didn't have the proper music to befit his throaty what-the-fuck-european accent-does-this-guy-have sound in his previous efforts. When he found the right music, he finally reached that growth point with a track on Boom Bip's Seed to Sun album--Mannequin Trapdoor which I remember, where he had well crafted and evolving music which was a match made in heaven for his lyrical style(not, you know, a simple rap beat, or electronic arragement). When I got a CD a year later, that was *gasp* a collabaration between the Notwist and Them(Dose One's lyrical supergroup(*'_'*)), I was stunned. This collabaration works magnificently, and you truly apprectiate the amount of care Dose One takes with word aesthetics and arrangement that would fit the music along with the Notwist's mastered atmospheric indie-rock(which culminated in Neon Golden); that the mood it creates is an innovative experience, that will trigger emotions in you that you'll be grateful for experiencing. You need to listen this while driving at night with a good sound system.
I gotta tag some peepz:
1. sullenfiend
2. iamadvil
3. starvedart
4. morganlight
5. legalstep
SONGS I'VE ROCKED MY ASS OUT TO RECENTLY:
1. Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Honesty and sincerity which moves anyone to visualize--if only temporarily--the best of who they are and all of their potential. What else can music strive for? The CDs in a DVD player in New York. :(
2. Best of Velvet Underground CD
This is what I always imagined rock music to be, and felt every now and then when I listened to an exceptionally good rock song. The songs range from campy fun songs like Waiting for the man and Run Run Run. They then move onto more somber tones with Femme Fatale, I'll be your mirror, and climaxing with Pale Blue Eyes. They're songs about girls who are sick and tired with life, and are wishing to move on to something better.
(aside: something I see a lot in different genres and mediums(and I think it's the only thing i've done as well): Most songs about people feeling unfullfilled and finding fullfilling through music or some other type of venue seem to be done through the eyes of girls and not guys. Ignoring any sexist implications concerning the conclusion that can be arrived at: are girls then supposed to be the eternal fans, and the guys the eterntal musicians?(blah blah blah)-- I know that writing female characters in situations like that is done through some type of idealization of innocence, which leads further to an idealized view of male/female roles. There's more to this...)
These songs make me feel more grateful for the thing which taps into what my latent strength and hope needed to move forward with my goals/efforts/missions.
Jenny said, when she was just five years old
There was nothin' happening at all
Every time she puts on the radio
There was nothin' goin' down at all, not at all
Then, one fine mornin', she puts on a New York station
You know, she couldn't believe what she heard at all, no not at all
She started shakin' to that fine, fine music
You know, her life was saved by rock'n'roll, rock'n'roll
Despite all the amputations
You know, you could just go out
And dance to the rock'n'roll station
And it was all right
3. Modest Mouse - Lives
To a person who doesn't intentionally listen to the lyrics, the CD is something that you can move to, and feel like the people playing the music are saying something important, even if you can't tell what it really is. This song comes near the end and strips away a lot of the external, and makes you stop and listen to what they have to say, and makes sure it's said in a way you'll understand. It goes from gathering pieces of information that the musician sees to be true, and fills him with sadness--if not for himself, then for people that he has met who he can say feels this way or would act this way. He then, like a person who's doing a lot of important thinking, and reaching deeper into what makes him sad or angry or content or happy, comes up with a statement that summarizes what causes himself or other people to feel that way. Then, the song sinks low again into what he has said earlier. With the context of the lyrics during the epiphany stage of the song, the musician, goes full circle and presents the lyrics from the beginning. With the information given in the middle of the piece, the musician is now challenging you to face these two pieces of information, and come up with your own answer. And that answer is something you should always remember.
4. 13 and God - Soft Atlas
I don't know what any of the fucking lyrics mean. I personally don't want to. I'd rather interpret them my own way. Dose One's lyrics are better that way. You know what I mean, right? Dose One's value isn't necessarily what his words mean, they're it they way they are arranged and crafted. The problem with Dose One was that he didn't have the proper music to befit his throaty what-the-fuck-european accent-does-this-guy-have sound in his previous efforts. When he found the right music, he finally reached that growth point with a track on Boom Bip's Seed to Sun album--Mannequin Trapdoor which I remember, where he had well crafted and evolving music which was a match made in heaven for his lyrical style(not, you know, a simple rap beat, or electronic arragement). When I got a CD a year later, that was *gasp* a collabaration between the Notwist and Them(Dose One's lyrical supergroup(*'_'*)), I was stunned. This collabaration works magnificently, and you truly apprectiate the amount of care Dose One takes with word aesthetics and arrangement that would fit the music along with the Notwist's mastered atmospheric indie-rock(which culminated in Neon Golden); that the mood it creates is an innovative experience, that will trigger emotions in you that you'll be grateful for experiencing. You need to listen this while driving at night with a good sound system.
I gotta tag some peepz:
1. sullenfiend
2. iamadvil
3. starvedart
4. morganlight
5. legalstep