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!
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.
Tell us how you really feel. 😉
Fuck that Pumped up Kicks song...100%
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!
Thanks for the shouout, brotha!
SABBATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.