Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Wednesday 16th Febuary 2011 Music Analysis

Well today has been just like any other day really, I woke up, got up, went to work, drove a bus for a bit and did some yard work, swept and mopped the floor, came home, thats my day in a nut shell. So, what can I go on about tonight.

Well how many of us, listen to music and use it as a theme for our lives, come on, we all know what we were doing when a particular song was in the charts. Music stimulates emotions, Some songs make us happy, and some make us sad. There are those songs, usually played over and over again, in the Disco's of those holiday concentration camps, or more commonly known as Butlins.

These songs are usually done by black lace or some other one hit wonder, and involve a dance, now in normal circumstance you would not dream of doing the dance, but in the camp it is law, "You VIL DO SA MACARENA OR YOU VIL BE SHOT". So what do you do when you get back off holiday, you go out and buy that song, in the hope that it will revive the memories, but all you really do is listen to it once, then put it in with the other cd's. One outcome is this rancid song is elevated to number one in the charts, so it is forced upon everyone. Yet there are people like me who want to shoot the TV, when the song appears on a music programme.

There must be 2 sides for the music industry, with the teen market, which dominates the charts, So spotty kids are going out buying records of other spotty kids, such as Justin Bieber,(arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh), Miley Cyrus,(please kill me), that by band lot. you get the gist,

I am one who has a select number of bands and groups I like, I will listen to older songs to revive memories, and new bands to give them a chance. I know what I like and I listen to that.

It is funny, that sometimes you find an album that discribes how you feel at a particular time, the said album, captures the mood of the time.
One album that does this for me is Third by Portishead, Now it is a very bleak, dark sounding album, full of cries for help, frustration, anguish and dispear. The voice of the singer, (Beth Gibbons), is truely haunting, with echos of Edith Piaff, Nina Simone Et al, mix this with trip hop and electronica and you get the full benefit. The album is now approach 3 year old. During its release, I was going through a relationship break up, and found the time hard going.
I had the other 2 portishead Albums, the last one had been released 11 years earlier, so naturally went and bought it. The entrie album spoke to me, and described how I felt at the time.

Now when it comes to Albums, I always tend to find track number 4 is usually the best track of the Album, right in the middle of the Album will be a very mediocre track, which you listen to once then skip after that. The last track is usually very good or very disapointing, depending on the group. I have a couple of albums I bought, played once then left for a while for that music to mature. I found this was the case with a Snow patrol album.

I use music to relax to, and have my tastes, which usually revolve round Indie british guitar bands. But I do listen to lots of other things, although the days of me avidly listening to the chart on a sunday afternoon are gone, I dont even care who is number one.

A mate of mine once said that for me to buy an album then it has to be good, well I buy my music for the long term, for my enjoyment.

So off the subject of toons,(tunes),. Next week is half term, in Nottingham the wheel is already in build, might go up in it this year, so once this is out the way, it will be the count down to easter, then before we know it, the summer will be here. time flys when you have fun, So on that note TTFN

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