"You're the queen of sound..."
Damn. I just put Nada Surf's High/Low in my CD player (ok, computer) for the first time in ages. I bought this CD, at the recommendation of a friend whose musical taste stands at the very pinnacle of ...well, taste, during my junior/senior year in high school. I listened to it quite a bit think, until I got their second album, The Proximity Effect, my sophomore year of college. This CD includes the ever-irritating "Popular" (which annoys me solely because its popularity doomed the band to one-hit wonder status in the minds of the unenlightened).
The grungy*, angsty**, almost peppy (?!?!) sound just keeps striking me. Every song surprises the fuck out of me, really--though I've heard every song a score of times (at the very least), there is some magical component of the CD that strikes some chord within me--no horrible cliche/pun intended. It's a mixture, maybe, of alternative and punk. It has the driving force and energy of punk. It also has that dirty sound that I'll never cease to wallow in. God, what a wonderful feeling.
There is nothing that compares to being in a mosh pit at a really fantastic punk show. Damn. (I'm not usually one for the herd mentatilty, but I make an exception for punk/hardcore/whatever.)
It has the alternative thing going on, too--it's too melodic for punk, and has a brilliant lyricism that I just adore. When I say alternative, I'm certainly not referring to the Alanis Morrisett (sp?) shit. I'm thinking of The Catherine Wheel and all that.
Well, I've been struck by this quality of the music before--every time I've listened to it. The thing that strikes me this time is how damn sexy it is. It's relentless, thrums insistently and consistently, varies upon a theme... very much like sex. "Popular" breaks this up because it cracks me up... but then again, sex usually involves laughter with me. >.<
*grungy, but not like the genre
**angsty, but not in an obnoxious sense
I'm not really conveying what I want to with this post (sorry), but damn. damn. damn.
For those inclined to comment, are there any particular albums that have that sexiness factor for you? High/Low is undoubtedly the sexiest album I own (in my mind only, I'm sure). It's easy enough to list sexy songs ("Sleep" from this album, "For Dreaming" by The Catherine Wheel, "When the Levee Breaks" by the Zepp, etc. etc.), but a sexy album... it seems somewhat harder to find.
And ROUGE macabre (^.^) might appreciate this, but for some reason, I mentally connect the sexiest album that I own with Gene Wolfe. Hmmmmm... ;) Very bizarre.
The grungy*, angsty**, almost peppy (?!?!) sound just keeps striking me. Every song surprises the fuck out of me, really--though I've heard every song a score of times (at the very least), there is some magical component of the CD that strikes some chord within me--no horrible cliche/pun intended. It's a mixture, maybe, of alternative and punk. It has the driving force and energy of punk. It also has that dirty sound that I'll never cease to wallow in. God, what a wonderful feeling.
There is nothing that compares to being in a mosh pit at a really fantastic punk show. Damn. (I'm not usually one for the herd mentatilty, but I make an exception for punk/hardcore/whatever.)
It has the alternative thing going on, too--it's too melodic for punk, and has a brilliant lyricism that I just adore. When I say alternative, I'm certainly not referring to the Alanis Morrisett (sp?) shit. I'm thinking of The Catherine Wheel and all that.
Well, I've been struck by this quality of the music before--every time I've listened to it. The thing that strikes me this time is how damn sexy it is. It's relentless, thrums insistently and consistently, varies upon a theme... very much like sex. "Popular" breaks this up because it cracks me up... but then again, sex usually involves laughter with me. >.<
*grungy, but not like the genre
**angsty, but not in an obnoxious sense
I'm not really conveying what I want to with this post (sorry), but damn. damn. damn.
For those inclined to comment, are there any particular albums that have that sexiness factor for you? High/Low is undoubtedly the sexiest album I own (in my mind only, I'm sure). It's easy enough to list sexy songs ("Sleep" from this album, "For Dreaming" by The Catherine Wheel, "When the Levee Breaks" by the Zepp, etc. etc.), but a sexy album... it seems somewhat harder to find.
And ROUGE macabre (^.^) might appreciate this, but for some reason, I mentally connect the sexiest album that I own with Gene Wolfe. Hmmmmm... ;) Very bizarre.