Random Discussion - Music

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A thread to share random thoughts and chat about all things related to music.

I wasn’t allowed to have CDs with explicit lyrics when I was growing up.

we would go over and hang out at each others place to listen to albums, so we bought different albums,
also i had a radio-cassette, with that you could record music from the radio

back then we studied the lyrics- from those cheap lyrics books you could buy in London

I made myself mixed tapes when I was a kid. I often preferred listening to them over the radio because I didn’t have a lot of options when it came to radio stations in different places where I lived.

When I moved or my friends moved, it greatly limited the music I had access to. Fundie kid stuff.

I paid very little attention to music until I was 17 or 18. I was more interested in comedy but then there was a radio show I used to listen to between 10pm and 12pm on weekday nights.

I started listening to it because the presenters were funny but they also gave me an education in music and I started hearing things that I liked and developed my own taste.

The trouble with radio for me is that it's ephemeral. I used to like to watch/listen to things over and over but a radio show you'll never hear it again, unless you tape it.

I had a tape of that show a long time ago but it's long lost now. I'd love to hear it again.

Love that I can find any song or album I want to hear on Youtube today (especially Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin). No longer need to buy anything music related. Saves a lot of space in the house also

I bought my first Lee Oskar brand harmonica last week. I was looking at the oddly-shaped case just now and saw it has like these rails and grooves built into the front and back -

- you can slot the cases together. Oh. Oh no. They just found my weakness.

The harmonica itself is in D flat. I have a habit of learning songs in C, capoing up a fret on guitar to fit my voice better, and then complaining that I can't do a harmonica solo any more. Hopefully this should fix that.

Haha, you're going to have to collect 'em all now.

I've become obsessive about German music and things over the past 10 years. It's almost like the way that The Kinks became more English as the 60s went on.

There's just something about the structure of the song Golden Brown by The Stranglers that sticks with me.



The soft rising of the vocals and the almost, well, not quite manic music seemingly fading in and out of focus...it's like the music is floating. Disjointed? I don't know how to describe it. The chord progression intrigues me but I lack the musical knowledge to understand why.

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Then there's Lent by Autoheart.



If Golden Brown is floating, I'd say Lent is like the consistent grooves on a tyre. The sentences are short, sharp but they also flow and crash into each other like messy thoughts. It makes me think of the wrap function in Excel. The words layer over each other and the overall sound scratches my brain just right. Especially the pack it in take it out to the bin part. Oddly satisfying.

Me neither, not that it stopped me.

I was more compliant with their stupid rules than I should’ve been despite being the black sheep of the family.

I've never been someone for arbitrary rules, I'd usually just blatantly ignore them, get punished, then get sneakier.

I would go through spurts where I would break the rules and be sneaky, but then I’d feel guilty about it and try to be a good cult member. My teenage years in a nutshell.

I was fairly rebellious from 12-14, but after that, I mostly tried to do what I was supposed to. As far as music goes, I channeled my teenage angst into hippie songs from the 60s and 70s. It replaced what I had listened to previously.

This was my theme song when I was 15:



My favorite lines were:

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me



Geez, I was such a dork. Well, I still am, but that’s not the point.

I was a little s**t.

I'd be told I couldn't buy a certain album on CD, so I'd buy it on tape.
I was told to get rid of a certain tape, I lent it out for awhile.
I had CDs taken away, I took CDs owned by my parents hostage and eventually negotiated their return.
I downloaded all sorts of stuff from Napster (and similar) that they wouldn't have allowed me to buy.

Things came full circle when they bought me Holywood for my birthday. Marilyn Manson had gone from totally off-limits to acceptable as a gift.

Probably because they knew I already had way worse.

I’m impressed.

I couldn’t even buy Jagged Little Pill.

JFC. f**k?

f**k. f**k. f**k. f**k. f**k. f**k. f**k.

Sorry, it just needed to be said.

I thought Marilyn Manson was scary when I was a kid. My friends who borrowed his CDs from friends would keep them in their backpacks on the front porch of their houses at night to keep demons from getting in the house. You know how it is. I think NIN was treated similarly for a while given their levitational tendencies and stuff life that. My memory is a bit rusty at this point.