All those groups you mentioned were the songs of my childhood, I came of age with Judas, Ozzy, ACDC and Blue Oyster Cult to name but a few. I almost stood to clap when you wrote about the Talking Heads. YES! Next level awesome.
You can picture a group of 16 year olds driving through northern Alberta, 5+ hours, doing things we never should have been doing while driving, to get to the Judas Priest concert. How we were ever rented a hotel room is beyond me but we it happened. It was awesome!
fuck yeah Donna! I didn't mention BOC because they weren't in my personal top ten but a highlight for me was seeing them play in a cornfield near Ludington, Michigan in the summer of 1992 with like... two or three hundred other people. Totally random. Godzilla!
I CAN picture a group of 16 year old driving through Northern Alberta.. but I'd love to hear your version of it. Write that please!
btw, Rob Halford's memoir is outstanding -- it's in my list of favorites. He holds a special place in my heart as a native San Franciscan, for being a full on leather-man hard-core homosexual. Having grown up in SF, all of us knew exactly what he was up to, long, long before he came out. There is a very very sweet story in his book about how he met his lifelong partner as one of their shows.
I was right there with ya in industrial gray Cleveland in the 1980s; played Sabbath-level heavy metal all through the "glam years", lol. Done a lotta music since then, but being in the room for some crushing heavy shit still gets my blood up. And it always will.
Well this is interesting! We have quite the opposite experience of music. But after this well-written piece I can totally understand where you're coming from.
I naturally gravitate towards what you'd call happy music, and I definitely avoid anything that sounds angry. My go-to artists are pop star gay icons, female rappers, and R&B singers, and my favorite genre is probably Caribbean soca.
But I was also raised on folk music from around the world, so I have a special connection to a lot of songs the lyrics of which I can't understand.
I also have a recurring experience of hearing a song designed to by happy as deeply melancholic, and vice versa. Dunno what that's about.
nice to hear from you Peter. I mean, of course, this was me expressing one point of view, a moment in time that I was—and am—feeling. I love jazz, classical music, Spanish guitar, disco, Madonna, Jay-Z, uh, U2, Britney Spears (ssssh, lol), Elton John, Missy Elliott, Brazilian bachata, Mexican norteño, you name it... although I don't really know soca. I'll have to look that up. I can certainly dig happy music! I love foreign folk music too -- not to mention Bulgarian nightclub music, Turkish dervish howls, Tibetian chanting, Moroccon oud, and that little chinese single-string street violin.
Tell us how you really feel. 😉
Fuck that Pumped up Kicks song...100%
fuck that song!
seriously! fuck that song!!!
All those groups you mentioned were the songs of my childhood, I came of age with Judas, Ozzy, ACDC and Blue Oyster Cult to name but a few. I almost stood to clap when you wrote about the Talking Heads. YES! Next level awesome.
You can picture a group of 16 year olds driving through northern Alberta, 5+ hours, doing things we never should have been doing while driving, to get to the Judas Priest concert. How we were ever rented a hotel room is beyond me but we it happened. It was awesome!
fuck yeah Donna! I didn't mention BOC because they weren't in my personal top ten but a highlight for me was seeing them play in a cornfield near Ludington, Michigan in the summer of 1992 with like... two or three hundred other people. Totally random. Godzilla!
I CAN picture a group of 16 year old driving through Northern Alberta.. but I'd love to hear your version of it. Write that please!
btw, Rob Halford's memoir is outstanding -- it's in my list of favorites. He holds a special place in my heart as a native San Franciscan, for being a full on leather-man hard-core homosexual. Having grown up in SF, all of us knew exactly what he was up to, long, long before he came out. There is a very very sweet story in his book about how he met his lifelong partner as one of their shows.
https://bowendwelle.substack.com/p/43-favorite-memoirs-youve-never-heard
Thanks for the shouout, brotha!
SABBATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
check out that footage from Paris. Fucking JACKED
I was right there with ya in industrial gray Cleveland in the 1980s; played Sabbath-level heavy metal all through the "glam years", lol. Done a lotta music since then, but being in the room for some crushing heavy shit still gets my blood up. And it always will.
fuck yeah dude
Well this is interesting! We have quite the opposite experience of music. But after this well-written piece I can totally understand where you're coming from.
I naturally gravitate towards what you'd call happy music, and I definitely avoid anything that sounds angry. My go-to artists are pop star gay icons, female rappers, and R&B singers, and my favorite genre is probably Caribbean soca.
But I was also raised on folk music from around the world, so I have a special connection to a lot of songs the lyrics of which I can't understand.
I also have a recurring experience of hearing a song designed to by happy as deeply melancholic, and vice versa. Dunno what that's about.
nice to hear from you Peter. I mean, of course, this was me expressing one point of view, a moment in time that I was—and am—feeling. I love jazz, classical music, Spanish guitar, disco, Madonna, Jay-Z, uh, U2, Britney Spears (ssssh, lol), Elton John, Missy Elliott, Brazilian bachata, Mexican norteño, you name it... although I don't really know soca. I'll have to look that up. I can certainly dig happy music! I love foreign folk music too -- not to mention Bulgarian nightclub music, Turkish dervish howls, Tibetian chanting, Moroccon oud, and that little chinese single-string street violin.
Send me some links! thanks for writing in!
Whoa that's whole smorgasbord! Ok, lemme get back to you with some links then, a bit later...
Okay I have some links!
Caribbean soca intro:
- Alison Hinds, Faluma/Makelele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qysStCooZNg
- Tallpree's Jab Jab Nation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqPFT_ptItI
- Farmer Nappy's De Ting It Start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAmI2yC9BAU
More powerful/haunting songs, in descending order from hardest to softest instrumentation:
- Kerli's Zero Gravity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEkS_mQ0GlI
- Simi's Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udnkr-pMRa8
- SZA's Good Days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p3zZoraK9g
- Yebba's My Mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXwE1G7_U9M