Rediscovering my favorite band.
So last night I decided to spend some quality time with my new mp3 player (a creative zen touch). I ripped almost all of my dad's cds that I want to have and put them on it. It took a little while but I have my favorite pieces of my dad's collection now in my player and am quite happy with what is in there now.
When it was time to go to bed I was enjoying listening to the music to much to actually just go to sleep so I just decided to lay in bed listening to music. I came upon Less Than Jake's album "Losing Streak" and decided I would go to sleep while listening to it. As I lay there though I connected with the music more than I have ever conected to music before. It is the closest thing that I have had to a spirutual experiance with music.
I meant to use it to calm me down but instead it made my heart pump with all of the things that I heard for the first time in an album that I have probably listened to 30 times all the way through. Not to count the times I have heard each song. It is really a great album and I got a lot out of listening to it. I might have to start listening to songs in the same conditions again.
Why did Less Than Jake have to change so much? Is it unfair for me as a fan to expect the same quality of music that they put out on Losing Streak for every album? It just seems that as time goes on their lyrics get softer, they lose their ska edge, and they become complacent with the group of people that they used to shun. "Johnny Quest" is probably the greatest anti-sellout song ever done and now it seems like he was in fact right. Do you keep the prices of your shows low when you are on the Projekt Revolution(Or however rediculous way it is spelled) Tour where I have to pay 30 dollars to see you?
Mabye I am being melodramatic and unfair but it seems that in a perfect universe they could have changed their music without being so rash and poppy, and that I could still see them for a decent price. I feel betrayed when I think of having to pay so much to see them, and depressed when I listen to the new singles that they put out. If you want to hear the saddest song ever download "I'm getting nuttin' for christmas" which they recently did for a Christmas album. It is the first song that I have ever hated by them.
I know most people could care less about the music that I like, but with this new mp3 player I am really enjoying it again. I am noticing so much more on albums that I never heard, and respecting every band on my mp3 player that much more for the albums that they have put out. Ska music is what I love, and it is the first music that I have known a fair amount about and really really been into. I love everything about it and am always trying to find more. It is a beautiful thing, and thankfully I have friends that are more than welcome to listen to the bands that I ask them to and go to shows with me. Of course there is Robby too that always stays up on the newest in the music scene and gets great new stuff for me to listen to as well.
As a closing there will be two concerts exactly one month apart from each other that I will be attending. This might be the only time that I put this in my journal so if you don't read it now, sorry!! I will probably be able to drive and house some people as long as the number does not get to big. Sorry if I can not provide these services for you.
Jan. 22nd - Against me! and some other bands that no one cares about will be playing at the masqurade in tampa. It is a sat. so I will probably come down for the weekend. Against me! is a great mix of punk and folk music that I am not sure that all will like but I am sure as hell going to be there.
Feb 22nd - The ska is dead tour II featuring Streetlight Manifesto, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and Mu330. it is on a tuesday so I will probably drive down on tues afternoon stay here the night and return on wednesday morning. It will be a hella awesome concert.
Both concerts will be 10 dollars and I will probably buy both in advance. Like I said I will only be able to transport and house a few people, so all are invited to come but space to chill at my place will be limited. It will be a musical next few months.
When it was time to go to bed I was enjoying listening to the music to much to actually just go to sleep so I just decided to lay in bed listening to music. I came upon Less Than Jake's album "Losing Streak" and decided I would go to sleep while listening to it. As I lay there though I connected with the music more than I have ever conected to music before. It is the closest thing that I have had to a spirutual experiance with music.
I meant to use it to calm me down but instead it made my heart pump with all of the things that I heard for the first time in an album that I have probably listened to 30 times all the way through. Not to count the times I have heard each song. It is really a great album and I got a lot out of listening to it. I might have to start listening to songs in the same conditions again.
Why did Less Than Jake have to change so much? Is it unfair for me as a fan to expect the same quality of music that they put out on Losing Streak for every album? It just seems that as time goes on their lyrics get softer, they lose their ska edge, and they become complacent with the group of people that they used to shun. "Johnny Quest" is probably the greatest anti-sellout song ever done and now it seems like he was in fact right. Do you keep the prices of your shows low when you are on the Projekt Revolution(Or however rediculous way it is spelled) Tour where I have to pay 30 dollars to see you?
Mabye I am being melodramatic and unfair but it seems that in a perfect universe they could have changed their music without being so rash and poppy, and that I could still see them for a decent price. I feel betrayed when I think of having to pay so much to see them, and depressed when I listen to the new singles that they put out. If you want to hear the saddest song ever download "I'm getting nuttin' for christmas" which they recently did for a Christmas album. It is the first song that I have ever hated by them.
I know most people could care less about the music that I like, but with this new mp3 player I am really enjoying it again. I am noticing so much more on albums that I never heard, and respecting every band on my mp3 player that much more for the albums that they have put out. Ska music is what I love, and it is the first music that I have known a fair amount about and really really been into. I love everything about it and am always trying to find more. It is a beautiful thing, and thankfully I have friends that are more than welcome to listen to the bands that I ask them to and go to shows with me. Of course there is Robby too that always stays up on the newest in the music scene and gets great new stuff for me to listen to as well.
As a closing there will be two concerts exactly one month apart from each other that I will be attending. This might be the only time that I put this in my journal so if you don't read it now, sorry!! I will probably be able to drive and house some people as long as the number does not get to big. Sorry if I can not provide these services for you.
Jan. 22nd - Against me! and some other bands that no one cares about will be playing at the masqurade in tampa. It is a sat. so I will probably come down for the weekend. Against me! is a great mix of punk and folk music that I am not sure that all will like but I am sure as hell going to be there.
Feb 22nd - The ska is dead tour II featuring Streetlight Manifesto, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and Mu330. it is on a tuesday so I will probably drive down on tues afternoon stay here the night and return on wednesday morning. It will be a hella awesome concert.
Both concerts will be 10 dollars and I will probably buy both in advance. Like I said I will only be able to transport and house a few people, so all are invited to come but space to chill at my place will be limited. It will be a musical next few months.