It felt wonderful. To just spill my thoughts into text. I felt this wonderful flow. A connection. Like I opened a faucet and the ideas flowed with almost no resistance. This usually isn't the case so that's why I couldn't let it go away. I sometimes get this feeling when I'm experimenting on the guitar. When I finish, I always hate the fact I didn't record it. But I also feel as if I won't get that flow if I know I'm being recorded. And everything I'll play will be final. Written in stone. I should've made another post for all of this too. Oh well.
Anyway, the reason I chose to join these posts was because they are, in my opinion, too short to be independent posts. Not worthy of their own entry. I guess this is what bands like GY!BE feel. As in, they create a few short ideas and decide to combine them. Only they do it much better than me. I simply cram it all together and hope its intelligible enough for you readers.
I probably had 4 mindstorms at this point. This is great.
Now I see the benefit of blogging. I'm much more connected to my brain. It's much easier to pry in my head and get the ideas that I wanted to discuss.
It's great to write all of this. I missed this feeling. I remember I used to have this kind of thought freedom when I was younger. I missed it!
Make that 5, heh.
This is rather weird. At first, I just wanted to write about something else, and then all these other ideas popped and took control of my attention. I had to write about them.
I wanted to write about my weird sleeping rhythms. But I'll save it for another time. I must finish this post first...
On with the posts:
I gave a few listens to Porcupine Tree's Lightbulb Sun at the recommendation of a friend.
He listened to the entire PT discography and came to the conclusion that LS is their best album and best one to start at.
Wikipedia and RYM lists this album as Progressive Rock.
Now when I think about progrock, the bands that most resonate with it are King Crimson, Yes, maybe even The Mars Volta.
This sounds nothing like those bands. As a matter of fact, compliant music is more fitting.Uninteresting, unchallenging. Experimental music for those who dislike experimentation.
The musicians involved with this albums indeed possess skill. They know how to play. It's just that they show it off in the most bland way possible. Kind of like Rush.
I may be a little bit harsh on this, though. I did kind of target it and there is worse music out there. Much worse. I just found this so dreadfully boring. It invoked almost no emotion.
...And I'm kind of pissed off that I spent time trying to figure this album out while there was nothing special to "get".
And the other one:
I love Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
More specifically, I love their album "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!".
The album flows so well that it literally paints a picture in my mind.
The rise and triumph of the hard working "good guys" (whoever those may be).
Giving their best to achieve the goal, the one that ensures a better future for us all. (I really didn't intend for that to rhyme haha)
Like almost a film.
Yeah, I just thought about making a film based on this album. But wouldn't that be a horrible idea?
Imagine, trying to somehow translate the music to a visual.
Sure, it could work with simpler music, or music made specifically for the film. But not with Skinny Fists.
(I don't know what exactly did I intend to convey with this. Maybe I'll expand on it in some other post)
Now listening to: Portishead - Third grabbety
We all know Portishead as part of the big three trip-hop bands, 2nd most associated with the trip-hop style.
That band that makes slow, downy, beat based electronic music.
Well, as it appears, Geoff Barrow one day decided to change Portishead's musical direction.
They started to experiment more, and almost dropped the trip-hop direction completely, showing more krautrock, folktronica and overall experiment sides.
And of course, Beth Gibbons's voice would make anything great.
Again, started hearing another album now.
Slint - Spiderland
Ah, Spiderland. What can be said any more about this masterpiece of an album. I know, I'll tell a story.
I think of Slint as a type of very smart kid. But this kid was born into a very violent surrounding. The kid adapted to his surrounding, let the violence be his way of life.
He makes a record named Tweez. It's a typical, very angry punk record.
But wait, you notice at certain parts, that he doesn't make the same kind of the typical, angry punk music everyone else does. You sense something else. Intelligence.
So, you give this kid a chance.
You take him away from his surrounding. Get him in a nice, loving family, a good school, warm food, a place to stay in, you treat him like a normal human being.
He's confused, he doesn't know what to say. But he still continues to make music.
He realizes at what situation he was and how he's still silent and he feels much better than he did back then.
But the mark his surrounding left on him won't heal. And its showing in his music. And it's the best thing you've ever heard in your life.
But then the kid dies. His ghost made toured a bit in 07 but hes generally dead. The End.
Ok, I'm not a good (I absolutely suck at this) storyteller. I still need to better the way I translate my ideas into text.
This album is a wonderful, angry, atmospheric work. hear it if you still haven't. Highly recommended.
This post took waaaaaay too much time.
(Sorry if it's completely unintelligible. I'm not sure I know what exactly did I write. I don't plan to go over this any time soon so just, um, deal with it.)
