controversy...
I uncovered my David Bowie "Singles Collection" this morning while hunting through my CD collection. It never fails to amaze me at how I forget how much I love an album or even just some of the musician's songs until I listen to the CD. It's like rediscovering a musician or band, and their talents all over again. You get that giddy feeling of hearing them for that very first time all over again, and that rush that comes from the connection you have with their music.
It happened to me with David Bowie this morning. 'Heroes', 'space oddity' and 'dancing in the streets' have always been personal Bowie favorites of mine. But I had forgotten how much 'beauty and the beast' makes me smile ridiculously, or how 'changes' and 'sorrow' just make me feel a little nostalgic.
It's a nice feeling to be able to listen to a band after such a long period, and feel all those emotions again. It shows me that I made the right choice in buying the CD in the first place.
The wrong choice is when you listen to a CD you haven't heard in a while, and think "What the hell was I thinking?"
I've had some of those moments. I've had moments when I've hated a CD the first time I've heard it, left it for a little while, played it again and loved it.
One of the things I truly love about music is that it is recycable. It can last forever simply because someone else will discard it only for someone else to discover it, and fall in madly in love.
I love the fact that no matter how long it's been since you heard a band or an album, listening to them again is like slipping into your favourite pair of jeans. They're a little tight, but they feel so right. They're a part of who you used to be, who you are, and who you will be.
Or at least that's what music is to me...
It happened to me with David Bowie this morning. 'Heroes', 'space oddity' and 'dancing in the streets' have always been personal Bowie favorites of mine. But I had forgotten how much 'beauty and the beast' makes me smile ridiculously, or how 'changes' and 'sorrow' just make me feel a little nostalgic.
It's a nice feeling to be able to listen to a band after such a long period, and feel all those emotions again. It shows me that I made the right choice in buying the CD in the first place.
The wrong choice is when you listen to a CD you haven't heard in a while, and think "What the hell was I thinking?"
I've had some of those moments. I've had moments when I've hated a CD the first time I've heard it, left it for a little while, played it again and loved it.
One of the things I truly love about music is that it is recycable. It can last forever simply because someone else will discard it only for someone else to discover it, and fall in madly in love.
I love the fact that no matter how long it's been since you heard a band or an album, listening to them again is like slipping into your favourite pair of jeans. They're a little tight, but they feel so right. They're a part of who you used to be, who you are, and who you will be.
Or at least that's what music is to me...