OK, so I promised you an update-y post, and this is sort of it - but not really. This is just another whiny music post that I used to make thousands of 'back in the day'.
As you may've grasped (if you follow my Tumblr/Twitter), my music taste changes very rapidly, and eclectically. I get bored incredibly easily, and I need to switch things up from time to time. This can get quite annoying, as I'll spend £££ on CDs/iTunes buying stuff by a certain band/genre - only to discover a few months down the line I barely listen to them.
As 2011 rolled into 2012, I was in the middle of a prog daze. I was obsessed with Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP, Genesis, King Crimson, etc, and everything else was irrelevant. But then I started to get fed up with it. I simply didn't have the time for half-hour long organ solos anymore.
So I went back to my beloved Pulp (who are my all time favourite band if you didn't already know. And I'm 110% sure when I say 'all time favourite'.) I hadn't listened to them since September/October, and it felt good to be back with Jarvis and co. It was familiar,
But then something changed (unintentional Pulp reference, I'm sorry). I clicked on a Jesus and Mary Chain video. I'd attempted to listen to them before, but for some reason unbeknownst to me, I didn't like it or something. I can't remember why. But this time, something clicked. I LOVED it. Where had this band been all my life? Why had no-one told me about them before? I liked what I heard, so I explored deeper into their discography.
The rest is just a blur.
All I know is that I'm now in love with The Jesus and Mary Chain
I've lost track of what I was talking about now...
Yes, that's right, I remember.
If you'd asked me in November/December that in a few months I'd be listening to JAMC, and the other bands I'll mention later, I'd probably have laughed in your face and told you to get on your bike. Or not, I don't know.
That's what I like about my music taste, how varied it can be. I go through phases, I never like one thing for an extended period of time.
When I was listening to all this prog stuff, I did actually feel out of place amongst other fans. I wear mostly black, have short-ish fairly "wild" hair, and I never lusted after men with long hair (as a good 70% of the female prog fangirls on tumblr do...). I value these bands more musically than anything else, and listening to them has had a great impact on the music that I make, and how I view certain things.
It did make me feel like shit a lot though, as I gave up piano lessons after two yeas and no grades, and I'm not a fantastic musician at the best of times, and 'idolising' these musicians was making me want to cut my hands off.
But how I see it (however corny it may be), is that that was one chapter in my life, and now I'm onto another (I'm sorry this is so cheesy I'll be getting the pickle out in a minute), and an accumulation of all of these "chapters" (shoot me, please) will shape the person I'll become in the future. (fuck.)
Deep stuff, man.
But, yeah, that aside, here is a list of the bands that I'm listening to at the moment:
-The Jesus and Mary Chain
-Sonic Youth
-Echo & The Bunnymen
-Aztec Camera
-The Pastels
-The Cramps
And probably more that I can't remember.
This post got a little too deep at the end for my liking, so I'll leave it here and run out the door not to embarrass myself further. I never was any good at conclusions.
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