Hello Friends,
As I sit here and start this blog once again, I'm not doing a review on a movie or a book or a new album I have heard. Again I'm doing another blog about music, (me and my damn music..). As I was starting to say, as I sit here, I am listening to music and for once in my life realizing how much music has an effect on everyone. Forgive me if I'd said this before in my last post about music. But it's a true statement. I don't know about all of you but I listen to music from Spotify, Pandora or even dare I say the radio. I know some of you are trying to remember what the hell is radio? Well it's what music use to play on before there was computers and internet and downloading and dare I say Napster?!
You know what I hear people say more than anything with music? "Oh man, you still listen to the same stuff? You should try something new!". I will say that sometimes hearing a new song, a new band, a new cord, new beat is always interesting and something fun to look forward to. But you know what? That's not always fun, sometimes the fun in music lies in the songs you grew up listening to in your house, watching your parents sing it and dance to it, or the music that deeply touched your soul the first time you heard. We all have that one song or that one band that hit us and we understood what the big deal was about music at that very moment. I can still remember my moment, mine was being five years old in the living room with my older brothers watching MTV (when they use to play music videos, not reality television.) and seeing the world premiere of Nirvana "Smells like teen spirit". I can still remember being confused about the music video but enjoying it and hearing the guitar and the drums and Kurt Cobain's voice, and then it all made sense. Music was this outcry of what people felt, and I can even remember then hearing a pain in Cobain's voice and this darkness and mystery about him and who he was. I do have to say, my brother's had some pretty good taste in music. I understand where you might be seeing this a little different and seeing that "Well yeah, almost everyone in the early nineties loved Nirvana, Pearl Jam and anything that was alternative." But you know it wasn't just the grunge era, it was the metal era, it was the political music, the classics. And then there was my parents who I thought were just so old school about everything. But then again, as I got older it hit me, it made sense why they liked The Band, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Motown music. As I have grown into a young adult woman, I have collected over the years, quite the variety of musical taste. I love classic rock, heavy metal, grunge, alternative, classical, blues, old country music, and even some pop and electronica. When I usually tell people about my musical taste, I always get this look like, "What the fuck that is the most random selection of musicians to put into a room." But you know what, it's what I like. It's what I like to call home. Every song holds a memory, good, bad, ugly, sad, happy it doesn't matter. If you could put a playlist together of your life from birth until your present age or even death; that playlist isn't going to be the happiest playlist in the world. It will be the most honest, the most hurtful, the most raw thing you have ever accomplished in your life. And you wanna know why? Because the music that you pick some of the lyrics or songs that you pick are telling your life story. It's showing people what you feel on the inside. It's how you truly feel about your relationships, friendships, love, and how you even feel about yourself.
My friends I leave you with some of the best songs I can remember from childhood, teenage times, and young adult hood....
As I sit here and start this blog once again, I'm not doing a review on a movie or a book or a new album I have heard. Again I'm doing another blog about music, (me and my damn music..). As I was starting to say, as I sit here, I am listening to music and for once in my life realizing how much music has an effect on everyone. Forgive me if I'd said this before in my last post about music. But it's a true statement. I don't know about all of you but I listen to music from Spotify, Pandora or even dare I say the radio. I know some of you are trying to remember what the hell is radio? Well it's what music use to play on before there was computers and internet and downloading and dare I say Napster?!
You know what I hear people say more than anything with music? "Oh man, you still listen to the same stuff? You should try something new!". I will say that sometimes hearing a new song, a new band, a new cord, new beat is always interesting and something fun to look forward to. But you know what? That's not always fun, sometimes the fun in music lies in the songs you grew up listening to in your house, watching your parents sing it and dance to it, or the music that deeply touched your soul the first time you heard. We all have that one song or that one band that hit us and we understood what the big deal was about music at that very moment. I can still remember my moment, mine was being five years old in the living room with my older brothers watching MTV (when they use to play music videos, not reality television.) and seeing the world premiere of Nirvana "Smells like teen spirit". I can still remember being confused about the music video but enjoying it and hearing the guitar and the drums and Kurt Cobain's voice, and then it all made sense. Music was this outcry of what people felt, and I can even remember then hearing a pain in Cobain's voice and this darkness and mystery about him and who he was. I do have to say, my brother's had some pretty good taste in music. I understand where you might be seeing this a little different and seeing that "Well yeah, almost everyone in the early nineties loved Nirvana, Pearl Jam and anything that was alternative." But you know it wasn't just the grunge era, it was the metal era, it was the political music, the classics. And then there was my parents who I thought were just so old school about everything. But then again, as I got older it hit me, it made sense why they liked The Band, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Motown music. As I have grown into a young adult woman, I have collected over the years, quite the variety of musical taste. I love classic rock, heavy metal, grunge, alternative, classical, blues, old country music, and even some pop and electronica. When I usually tell people about my musical taste, I always get this look like, "What the fuck that is the most random selection of musicians to put into a room." But you know what, it's what I like. It's what I like to call home. Every song holds a memory, good, bad, ugly, sad, happy it doesn't matter. If you could put a playlist together of your life from birth until your present age or even death; that playlist isn't going to be the happiest playlist in the world. It will be the most honest, the most hurtful, the most raw thing you have ever accomplished in your life. And you wanna know why? Because the music that you pick some of the lyrics or songs that you pick are telling your life story. It's showing people what you feel on the inside. It's how you truly feel about your relationships, friendships, love, and how you even feel about yourself.
Enjoy my friends and remember
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