musical janglings
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quietannOn music: I just replaced two long-gone tapes with CDs: Tom Petty's Wildflowers, and Soundgarden's SuperUnknown. And Ben gave me Green Day's American Idiot in December. So. I like Man Music, the stuff that goes down better loud.
Wildflowers is just a little bit of wonderfulness... the title track is gorgeous, "You Wreck Me" was sort of a theme song for when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cgull_ and I were dating, and there are some other songs that were themes 12 years ago when I was dating the Sociopath, and couldn't stop. Those songs have southern Californian references, things that make my heart ache a little bit, and this underlying sense of evil things going on, things that cannot be said.
SuperUnknown is really, really good played extra loud. "My Wave" is the perfect surfer punk song, and "Black Hole Sun" is *the* lament, and "Limo Wreck" just rocks. I wish Soundgarden had stayed together, and done more like this. My brother Alan turned me on to them when they were still a Seattle-local band, by playing "Big Dumb Sex" from Louder Than Love until I had tears running down my face, I was laughing so hard. My time in the Pacific Northwest ended just before the "grunge" era, but Alan was up there for it, and peripherally a part of it all. He had a band, and seeing my normally quiet and contained brother up on a stage singing his heart out about our parents while wearing a huge fuzzy orange sweater and his girlfriend's gigantic hoop earrings was... good. Very good.
American Idiot was Green Day's attempt at a "rock opera" with a political (anti-Bush) slant. It doesn't quite work (probably because the libretto doesn't tell enough of an obvious story, although with each listen I am filling in what needs to be filled in). But the thing as a whole and as individual pieces is fun and punky and yet another thing to play really, really loud. And it has those Southern California references, yet again, since Green Day are an Orange County band, and that's where I was when they were getting their start. I mean, I can picture the "Jesus of Suburbia" in his native habitat, and I know that the city referred to in "Are We the Waiting" is Los Angeles ("This dirty town was burning down in my dreams, Lost and found city bound in my dreams..."). And Green Day uses the word "faggot" in two songs, as a way of poking at the stupid idiots who are running this country, and hey, I have to like that, 'cause, I mean, how many singers will call themselves "faggot" to make a political statement?
"Black Hole Sun, won't you come, and wash away the rain...
Black Hole Sun, won't you come, won't you come..."
Wildflowers is just a little bit of wonderfulness... the title track is gorgeous, "You Wreck Me" was sort of a theme song for when
cgull_ and I were dating, and there are some other songs that were themes 12 years ago when I was dating the Sociopath, and couldn't stop. Those songs have southern Californian references, things that make my heart ache a little bit, and this underlying sense of evil things going on, things that cannot be said.SuperUnknown is really, really good played extra loud. "My Wave" is the perfect surfer punk song, and "Black Hole Sun" is *the* lament, and "Limo Wreck" just rocks. I wish Soundgarden had stayed together, and done more like this. My brother Alan turned me on to them when they were still a Seattle-local band, by playing "Big Dumb Sex" from Louder Than Love until I had tears running down my face, I was laughing so hard. My time in the Pacific Northwest ended just before the "grunge" era, but Alan was up there for it, and peripherally a part of it all. He had a band, and seeing my normally quiet and contained brother up on a stage singing his heart out about our parents while wearing a huge fuzzy orange sweater and his girlfriend's gigantic hoop earrings was... good. Very good.
American Idiot was Green Day's attempt at a "rock opera" with a political (anti-Bush) slant. It doesn't quite work (probably because the libretto doesn't tell enough of an obvious story, although with each listen I am filling in what needs to be filled in). But the thing as a whole and as individual pieces is fun and punky and yet another thing to play really, really loud. And it has those Southern California references, yet again, since Green Day are an Orange County band, and that's where I was when they were getting their start. I mean, I can picture the "Jesus of Suburbia" in his native habitat, and I know that the city referred to in "Are We the Waiting" is Los Angeles ("This dirty town was burning down in my dreams, Lost and found city bound in my dreams..."). And Green Day uses the word "faggot" in two songs, as a way of poking at the stupid idiots who are running this country, and hey, I have to like that, 'cause, I mean, how many singers will call themselves "faggot" to make a political statement?
"Black Hole Sun, won't you come, and wash away the rain...
Black Hole Sun, won't you come, won't you come..."
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Date: 2006-01-29 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-29 03:31 pm (UTC)Have you gone to pandora.com ? They are a site that makes you a "radio station" based on a song or an artist. You can provide feedback on each song you like or don't like in that station. I think you can only have up to 100 stations. . . but it's pretty good for finding music, if that's your thing.