The sound of music (Music in General in general)

Member Name: mo79

Product:	Music in General in general
Date:	25/06/01 (43 review reads)
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Advantages: Many, it's all somewhere in my op

Disadvantages: Tha music that ain't got no soul

Music in General in general, is a weird category. But nevertheless I understand it.
It gives me a chance to freeform waffle about myself then, not that I don't ever.

Music. Music. Music. I love music. Many people like music, and a lot of people love music, I've yet to meet someone who doesn't like music, so long as they can appreciate it.
If there's one thing we're all agreed on, is that music is good, in general: we all have different tastes and paths in finding music; and it's important to argue and disagree, and to learn new sounds.

As with most kids (of the 80's), my first memorable experiences of music were via radio, TOTP, and The Chart Show, and just by finding out what my friends had got.
It was all popular stuff like (the king!) Michael Jackson, MC Hammer - no one disagreed, everyone just liked it, and it was good, the 80's pop climate wasn't as bad as it is now, though there were shameful signs even then.
The best thing in popular music culture then that particularly young kids could cling onto who sneered at most corporate cheese was rap music. It all met it's 80's demise once Vanilla Ice entered and the Beastie Boys came polite. Atleast Public Enemy carried the torch on for the next wave for a time.

Apart from that I'd also been subjected to stuff like The Beatles by my dad, ABBA by my mum, and an assortment of other things, that were both passable, good or cringey, or just not interesting. All I wanted was music that was cool - man.
I was never really a big music fan then, I just like the beats and the attitude of rap, but it never grasped my heart and squeezed any real passionate feeling until a bit later with the ideal music for me - vraoww!.

Later being not long after starting secondary school, and discovering Metallica, who had left a considerable impression in the charts (see, it wasn't all bad then) with their classic black album only a ye
ar and a half-so before. The first time I heard 'Enter Sandman', the sounds were burnt in my head. The gritty blues guitar, the pounding rhythms and a growler; and they kicked arse even visually, and name wise. Being a Metallifan even seemed like joining some worthy dark cult!
There was a considerable period before I bought the album, but nevertheless got it.
And then waited eons for the follow up which left me pretty baffled, but then accepted!

I never thought I'd be a metal fan (or more broadly a rock fan), but the Metallica album was the first album that I bought of my own will, and loved, and listened to religiously (despite older kids saying "nah, that stuff's soft sh*t!"), and so began the purchase of their back catalogue, other rock albums (but not Nirvana who were the bigger contenders in rock - I only owned, and still to this day only have copied tapes of the main albums), and this personal discovery was backed up when other kids started hanging out in a portion of the playground in heavy metal band shirts, and I joined in, and ever since then I turned from a Puma shellsuit wearing school starter to a somewhat odd looking rock fan - and with mild acne grazing my forehead and hair sprouting from my face.

Over time, I've discovered other bands, mainly due to major discontent with the majority of American rock since then, but still almost everything I like and purchase, subscribes to a rock ethic in some way, even if lightly. Basically, I just like heavy music. It doesn't have to rock. As long as it's dark, and more so appealingly fresh, I'd be willing to taste it before lapping it up. Maybe I've set myself a limit, but I'm happy with the mildly expanding taste that I've setup. I also can't afford to branch out too much.

Anyway, I don't really know where I'm going with this opinion, but I'd like to say that the more that I've experienced music, the mor
e and more I begin to understand why I love it, or importantly why I need it. I can't ever get too close to explaining why, but the fact is that all the music I like is moving in someway, and I find that experience both important and magical.

Emotions are a very important part of life, and we experience them throughout, and music can even help in pepping you up, bring you down (and inversely pepping you up), making you see things and realise different things, and take you to the extremes of your emotion.
Expression and emotion feed off eachother, and we *definetly* need outlets for them.

Popular music also incorporates words and visuals which turns into a multimedia sensory package, every piece of strand in that art inciting something, even at the smallest detail.

I could go on ages writing about this...And I'll go on for a bit longer, but basically I love music (I am a musician myself and in a band - that's currently in hiatus), many of you love music, and I'm in that brand of person where the devotion is almost nutty.
Most (not everything of course) of what I think and do is centred and around music. It's not sad as there are worse things to devote to.

Though, not a fan of the Brit Awards, Ben Elton once said on presenting (I have seen many) that "music is the soundtrack to life" or words to that effect, and that makes sense. Just like in films, if there's a sombre moment, violins creep in to emphasise it, and you can play some sombre music to bring your feelings right to the surface. You get what I mean? etc. etc.

You can go a bit messed in the head thinking why a combination of chords, notes, beats, words, sounds etc. can create something so moving, but at the end of it all we don't like to analyse that deep; we appreciate made music as is, there as it is, take it in, consume it, feel it and love it, and live it - all of us who like/love music.

There maybe rubbis
h in the charts (we all know it, atleast those of who us aren't taken in by manufactured *soulless* candy pop that's been recycled and rehashed over and over), but as long as there is good music out there, anywhere, everywhere, I will continue to listen, and also to create myself.

Hmm, I'm trying to think of more to add, but yes I think I've come to the end of my waffling. I may have forgotten things to add, or emphasised too much, or lost most of the plot, but something worthy is written in there, so I'll leave it as is.
I guess I'm just trying to say music/noise in general is good, very good, it's important.

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