Music
Listening to Bare Naked Ladies, "Live in Red Rock". Hadn't ever really listened to them before. Just heard a song or two of theirs on the radio and it never really clicked as to who they were or what songs were theirs. I really suck at remembering band or album or song names.
Anyways, fun to listen to new music around the house. Been so long since I really got new music that the only really new music I ever heard was occasionally MP3s snagged from friends or VH1 on those days I am up early enough they are playing music or listening lately to the Cape Radio.
Find music tends to organize my thoughts while listening to it. I know from past projects that it tends to affect my coding and writing style. Both in tempo and I suppose in the pacing or arrangement of whatever the 'stuff' I am working on is.
Not as much the idea of some music being more appropriate for the 'mood' of what I am working on, but more of how I'll write code differently while listening to Wagner then I would whlie listening to Razed in Black's re-mix album that was done at a freakishly high BPM for what was essentially a very dark / gothic album.
Okay, a little sleepy so that came out weirdly but I think the point got across.
Still unpacking my music collection. Lived here for, uh, three years now and not unpacked yet. Will need to repack soon since my landlord is making sounds about selling the place.
My music collection reminds me of 'High Fidelity'. I can very much track my music collection by date or who I was in a relationship with.
The last couple years I haven't gotten any new music, or been dating.
My stuff from my time in hell, er NC, was really random and was me trying to fit in and listen to music people I hung out with had. It is stuff like AddNtoX.
Before that was a very eclectic period with Loreena McKennit alongside strange bands like Snog, the one from the teacher I dated one summer she was in town on a seminar. and the others from strange friends I had who went out of the way to find weird stuff.
I have a couple pop cds like Bush, Eve 6 and Stabbing Westword from when I dated a girl who was doing research on cultural movements at the time.
Lots of instrumental and orchestral from when I dated a cellist.
NIN and KMFDM from a girl who pretty thoroughly shattered my heart, but who I went to a lot of very noisy very dark concerts with while dating.
Don't really own any music from before that, if I did it would be on cassette tape and I think all of those got used for weird 3d art projects ages ago.
I need to catalog all my cds again. I have everything from before I moved to NC as MP3s so I can at least find out how many cds the ex-gf nicked from me that I owned before that.
posted by Hythian at 9:13:00 pm
8 Comments:
If you like them you would LOVE The Dave Matthews Band.
Fri Jan 20, 09:52:00 pm GMT-8
Actually I've heard the Dave Matthews Band play in Portland at waterfront music festivals. For some reason their behavior on stage just really turned me off of them.
I do like Dave Matthews solo stuff though.
Fri Jan 20, 09:53:00 pm GMT-8
I think that's one of the best things about meeting new people -- learning about their musical tastes, finding new bands that you like that you'd never have found on your own. And the proliferation of MP3 trading has really just helped in that.
Sat Jan 21, 01:37:00 pm GMT-8
My musical tastes didn't change based on who I was dating, I still have some things I like that I've never dated anyone who also liked it ( New Wave: Talking Heads, Information Society, New Order, etc. ), but I'd end up buying music based on the recommendations or nagging of the person I was with at the time.
In some cases that meant being introduced to new things that I'd like ( Loreena McKennit ) and at other times it resulted in cds I haven't listened to since breaking up ( Eve 6 ).
What I actually tend to like the most these days is something with a fast enough beat to keep me awake and interested, and not have so much squaking and grinding that it gives me a headache.
I have some electronica that I like that I just won't listen to right now as I tend to put one album on and just have it repeat all evening and I know I'll get annoyed at it mid-way through the second time through.
But yeah, always looking for suggestions of new bands to look up or listen too. Maybe I like them, maybe not, but it is at least a few minutes of new noise to broaden my musical surroundings.
Sat Jan 21, 06:09:00 pm GMT-8
You can't go wrong with my boys from Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. If you like swing, that is. And I do!
Sat Jan 21, 09:12:00 pm GMT-8
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy...
I am going to have to find some mp3s of them just for the name because that is craaaa-zy sounding.
Sat Jan 21, 10:53:00 pm GMT-8
Thats an interesting theory about the difference between 'Big Band' and 'Swing' music. Might have to research that a little. Kind of a funny little idea in the whole 'old is new again' vein of things.
My closest theory to that is that most 'country' music is bad 80s pop ballads re-done with a nasal twang. ( By 'country' I mean pop-country and not the traditional 'folk' or 'bluegrass' country. )
Sun Jan 22, 05:45:00 pm GMT-8
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is much fun and cool music from the little bit I've heard now.
Also it helps answer that question I had of what exactly 'swing' music was.
Puts me in mind of a Bogart mobster club scene. The lady on stage singing with the band behind her and the black band leader on a trumpet who'd play some triumphant riff on the horn during the climactic scene.
Sun Jan 22, 10:47:00 pm GMT-8
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