"Thank God I'm getting older and just learning who I am"
I never really saw my taste in music shift. But it happened. It was subtle and slow and took place over several years, but it happened.
Like all music geeks, I will never forget the first show that I spent my own money to go see. It was White Zombie @ the Newport Music Hall in Columbus,OH on Thanksgiving night, 1993. And I VIVIDLY remember excusing myself early from the family get together and the look on my aunt and uncle's faces when I told them I was leaving early to see White Zombie. I am almost positive that they had some sort of prayer session after I left, you know, in an attempt to save my everlasting soul or whatever. The show was great...at least my 18yr old male mind thought it so. There were cool biker looking guys drinking beer everywhere, scantily clad, slightly scary looking women, and even a fist fight!
Fast forward to 2008 and my Itunes is full of new folk and indie rock. Thank you college. Thank you internet. Thank you to the few eternally cool souls who have pointed me in the right musical direction over the years.
I say thank you because I have seen the dark side - or what happens when one does not evolve musically. My oldest brother suffers from this affliction. Apparently, whereas my musical tastes kept evolving and (i hate this word, but it's the first one that comes to mind) maturing, his got stuck in 1986. Don't get me wrong, every know and again I feel the need to revisit my youth and play a Bon Jovi or a Def Leperd tune, but I do not unwind with Lemme and Motorhead's 'Ace Of Spades' album. And it's not the genre that strikes me as so sad, but the fact that he doesn't even listen to new metal bands. For him, anything after 1986 is 'weird'...now, he has never said this, but it's true, whether he says so or not.
So...I think this entire ramble started because I found myself really digging the Langhorne Slim stuff that I FINALLY got around to listening to...so here is one of his songs, as well as the Tim Easton song that I borrowed the title of this post from.
15-ilovetodance.mp3
01DearOldSongAndDance.mp3
Like all music geeks, I will never forget the first show that I spent my own money to go see. It was White Zombie @ the Newport Music Hall in Columbus,OH on Thanksgiving night, 1993. And I VIVIDLY remember excusing myself early from the family get together and the look on my aunt and uncle's faces when I told them I was leaving early to see White Zombie. I am almost positive that they had some sort of prayer session after I left, you know, in an attempt to save my everlasting soul or whatever. The show was great...at least my 18yr old male mind thought it so. There were cool biker looking guys drinking beer everywhere, scantily clad, slightly scary looking women, and even a fist fight!
Fast forward to 2008 and my Itunes is full of new folk and indie rock. Thank you college. Thank you internet. Thank you to the few eternally cool souls who have pointed me in the right musical direction over the years.
I say thank you because I have seen the dark side - or what happens when one does not evolve musically. My oldest brother suffers from this affliction. Apparently, whereas my musical tastes kept evolving and (i hate this word, but it's the first one that comes to mind) maturing, his got stuck in 1986. Don't get me wrong, every know and again I feel the need to revisit my youth and play a Bon Jovi or a Def Leperd tune, but I do not unwind with Lemme and Motorhead's 'Ace Of Spades' album. And it's not the genre that strikes me as so sad, but the fact that he doesn't even listen to new metal bands. For him, anything after 1986 is 'weird'...now, he has never said this, but it's true, whether he says so or not.
So...I think this entire ramble started because I found myself really digging the Langhorne Slim stuff that I FINALLY got around to listening to...so here is one of his songs, as well as the Tim Easton song that I borrowed the title of this post from.
15-ilovetodance.mp3
01DearOldSongAndDance.mp3
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Langhorne Slim,
Tim Easton
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I'm totally hooked on your blog! I love it, thanks for posting such great tunes. Your writing's not bad at all either... :)
Thanks a lot!!
It's much appreciated :-)
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