03-01-2005, 01:28 AM
I'm currently (at the time of posting) listening to Alice in Chain's 'Rooster'. No matter how many times I listen to and/or watch the clip, it really gets me, deep down inside. Without necesserely being my most favorite song of all time, it's the only one that has such a powerful effect on me.
For starters, I'm a music addict. Whenever I'm not listening to it, I still hear it in my head. The path the general music industry has taken the last deceny or so really disapoints me. Seems like there is no desire left whatsoever to create something original anymore. It's all for the money/fame. Everything resembles the last thing that you heard.
Ok, so you can still find some pretty good underground scenes that produce fairly good stuff, but I'm usually finding myselft listening to 10 years old CD's because simply nothing compares to it.
You may tell me "You're 23, you were young when that music was popular, that's why you cherish it so much", but that's not a valid statement. Back in the early 90's, I hardly listened to music, and if I did, it was more out of wanting to be popular and knowing about what band was 'in' and such...
It was not really until the last half of the 90's that I really got into music, and stopped caring about popularity and such superficial things. I was really diggin' old stuff from Aerosmith and such, and started to get interested in Ska before the late 90's commercial Ska wave.
After that, I discovered, through my growing taste for Drum an' Bass, Atari Teenage Riot, comprised of excellent underground independant revolutionnary minds, among which, Alec Empire, whose many manifesto-style writtings have further advanced me on the path of free-thinking.
The last few years, I have really gotten into Metal. Music in general, mostly metal and techno, is being categorized and labeled a lot in accordance to style. I for one am not the biggest fan of this. But for reference, I'm still gonna call what I listen to 'Black Metal', 'Technical Death Metal' and 'Symphonic/Medieval Metal'. After having listened to a lot of that, I find it to be very similar, structure-wise to Classical/Symphonic music, very complex arrangements, and the musicians are masters of their instrument like in not many other music styles.
Metal is pretty much the only genre out of which I still find recent productions to be worthy of being heard. 'Alternative' music can, once in a while, spit out something decent, Jazz/Blues is not something you hear from a lot, unfortunatly, and rap music..... it's true form died in the early 90's, what you hear today is only a deformed and grotesquely mutated ghost of a music that once meant something.
Basically, I'm just nostalgic of old music. Even if it was on the commercial scene, seems like there still was something to it, unlike today. I sort of whish I had been more into this musich back then. I'm speaking of bands such as Metallica, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and many others, too many to list.
Another rant of mine is that I find a lot of people to be very hypocritical about music. When I was in high scool, the rap scene was almost non-existant. There were two kids in my grade that litenened to it and dressed accordingly. Most others were spitting on rap music. I see those persons today, and they're all outfited like your common hip-hop cookie-cutter kid and blast it at 130dB's in their modified car stereo.
I don't think it is possible for ALL of them to have changed tastes so radically. They are just following the trend, in a most blind way. And a lot of them also deny ever having listenened to X or Y music style back then, as if they had always liked rap/hip-hop and nothing else.
I for one still like 99% of the music I have ever listened to. Even if a certain Collective Soul or REM tape cassette is gathering dust on a shelf, I still enjoy it from time to time, or am pleased to catch it on the airwaves.
Music is an art. I feel it has been (ab)used to wrong ends. I am wondering if if will ever recover.
Enough ramblings.... Sorry for the very, very long post :blush:
Please do tell me what you think about this, I want a confirmation that I'm not crazy!
-D
For starters, I'm a music addict. Whenever I'm not listening to it, I still hear it in my head. The path the general music industry has taken the last deceny or so really disapoints me. Seems like there is no desire left whatsoever to create something original anymore. It's all for the money/fame. Everything resembles the last thing that you heard.
Ok, so you can still find some pretty good underground scenes that produce fairly good stuff, but I'm usually finding myselft listening to 10 years old CD's because simply nothing compares to it.
You may tell me "You're 23, you were young when that music was popular, that's why you cherish it so much", but that's not a valid statement. Back in the early 90's, I hardly listened to music, and if I did, it was more out of wanting to be popular and knowing about what band was 'in' and such...
It was not really until the last half of the 90's that I really got into music, and stopped caring about popularity and such superficial things. I was really diggin' old stuff from Aerosmith and such, and started to get interested in Ska before the late 90's commercial Ska wave.
After that, I discovered, through my growing taste for Drum an' Bass, Atari Teenage Riot, comprised of excellent underground independant revolutionnary minds, among which, Alec Empire, whose many manifesto-style writtings have further advanced me on the path of free-thinking.
The last few years, I have really gotten into Metal. Music in general, mostly metal and techno, is being categorized and labeled a lot in accordance to style. I for one am not the biggest fan of this. But for reference, I'm still gonna call what I listen to 'Black Metal', 'Technical Death Metal' and 'Symphonic/Medieval Metal'. After having listened to a lot of that, I find it to be very similar, structure-wise to Classical/Symphonic music, very complex arrangements, and the musicians are masters of their instrument like in not many other music styles.
Metal is pretty much the only genre out of which I still find recent productions to be worthy of being heard. 'Alternative' music can, once in a while, spit out something decent, Jazz/Blues is not something you hear from a lot, unfortunatly, and rap music..... it's true form died in the early 90's, what you hear today is only a deformed and grotesquely mutated ghost of a music that once meant something.
Basically, I'm just nostalgic of old music. Even if it was on the commercial scene, seems like there still was something to it, unlike today. I sort of whish I had been more into this musich back then. I'm speaking of bands such as Metallica, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and many others, too many to list.
Another rant of mine is that I find a lot of people to be very hypocritical about music. When I was in high scool, the rap scene was almost non-existant. There were two kids in my grade that litenened to it and dressed accordingly. Most others were spitting on rap music. I see those persons today, and they're all outfited like your common hip-hop cookie-cutter kid and blast it at 130dB's in their modified car stereo.
I don't think it is possible for ALL of them to have changed tastes so radically. They are just following the trend, in a most blind way. And a lot of them also deny ever having listenened to X or Y music style back then, as if they had always liked rap/hip-hop and nothing else.
I for one still like 99% of the music I have ever listened to. Even if a certain Collective Soul or REM tape cassette is gathering dust on a shelf, I still enjoy it from time to time, or am pleased to catch it on the airwaves.
Music is an art. I feel it has been (ab)used to wrong ends. I am wondering if if will ever recover.
Enough ramblings.... Sorry for the very, very long post :blush:
Please do tell me what you think about this, I want a confirmation that I'm not crazy!
-D