by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:48 pm
I shall listen to that song after I finish this post. LeBron James sucks. The early 90s was very difficult for me. I'll explain why.
I prefer songs that are catchy. Well, I prefer songs sung by Freddie Mercury, but they don't make those any more. I think what gives me the most enjoyment in a song is the quality of the singer's voice, and the inspiration of its melody. Or riff. Or riffs.
So grunge killed heavy metal, which was probably a genre that was in need of killing, but it killed everything. When I was sophomore or junior in high school, I can't remember which, I had a shitty job at the local grocery store. "Change of Season" by Hall & Oates came out. I understand that these days, that duo is regarded as a bit of a joke, but they wrote their own songs, they were melodically interesting, and Daryl Hall operates on a level I find pleasing. I mean, today you can't even find songs that fade out any more. The last minute of the average H&O song was Hall ad-libbing really well. I remember walking up to the Hilton Big M grocery store from high school, with a recording of "Change of Season" - the single "So Close" had just come out and it was playing at the Big M when my shift began. A few weeks or months later, the supermarket was probably the only place left in the world that wasn't playing grunge.
So I was a bit resentful at the time that grunge thrust me into a world I never wanted to be in. Since this was before the Internet, I couldn't discover the kind of bands I did like and simply plug myself into an iPod and tune out whatever the hell the rest of the world was obsessed to. I was a passenger along for a dark ride I did not care for. And Christ, Eddie Vedder has to have the worst voice ever put to tape.
I disliked Nirvana a lot at the time. Cobain sounds horrible as well. However, with the passage of time, I can say that I actually like a lot of their material. If you can't get excited for a playing of Smells Like Teen Spirit out of nowhere, you may not have a soul! (Or a very, very pure soul, which: same thing.)
Eventually I heard "Hit or Miss" by New Found Glory on the Fort Collins college station, and from there I got into programs like Napster, LimeWire and Soulseek. So I've never lacked for new music to listen to in the new genre that I like most. (Which, I understand, most people do not enjoy. That's fair.) But from about 1992 to 2001, I just did not care for music. Now, I'm plugged in while at work, and code with tunes playing. I like music enough now to realize that Alice in Chains did not feature, as a frontman, Alice Cooper.
I shall listen to that song after I finish this post. LeBron James sucks. The early 90s was very difficult for me. I'll explain why.
I prefer songs that are catchy. Well, I prefer songs sung by Freddie Mercury, but they don't make those any more. I think what gives me the most enjoyment in a song is the quality of the singer's voice, and the inspiration of its melody. Or riff. Or riffs.
So grunge killed heavy metal, which was probably a genre that was in need of killing, but it killed everything. When I was sophomore or junior in high school, I can't remember which, I had a shitty job at the local grocery store. "Change of Season" by Hall & Oates came out. I understand that these days, that duo is regarded as a bit of a joke, but they wrote their own songs, they were melodically interesting, and Daryl Hall operates on a level I find pleasing. I mean, today you can't even find songs that fade out any more. The last minute of the average H&O song was Hall ad-libbing really well. I remember walking up to the Hilton Big M grocery store from high school, with a recording of "Change of Season" - the single "So Close" had just come out and it was playing at the Big M when my shift began. A few weeks or months later, the supermarket was probably the only place left in the world that wasn't playing grunge.
So I was a bit resentful at the time that grunge thrust me into a world I never wanted to be in. Since this was before the Internet, I couldn't discover the kind of bands I did like and simply plug myself into an iPod and tune out whatever the hell the rest of the world was obsessed to. I was a passenger along for a dark ride I did not care for. And Christ, Eddie Vedder has to have the worst voice ever put to tape.
I disliked Nirvana a lot at the time. Cobain sounds horrible as well. However, with the passage of time, I can say that I actually like a lot of their material. If you can't get excited for a playing of Smells Like Teen Spirit out of nowhere, you may not have a soul! (Or a very, very pure soul, which: same thing.)
Eventually I heard "Hit or Miss" by New Found Glory on the Fort Collins college station, and from there I got into programs like Napster, LimeWire and Soulseek. So I've never lacked for new music to listen to in the new genre that I like most. (Which, I understand, most people do not enjoy. That's fair.) But from about 1992 to 2001, I just did not care for music. Now, I'm plugged in while at work, and code with tunes playing. I like music enough now to realize that Alice in Chains did not feature, as a frontman, Alice Cooper.