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I think you can tell a lot about someone's personality based on their musical preferences. If that's so, then I'd like to introduce you to me, May 26, 2001.
This is a momentous day since that was the day I burned my first mix cd. I was in grade 11 and fairly musically obsessive if new to it. This is around the time I started to learn about music that you wouldn't hear on the radio, the internet was proving to be very useful. I was really excited about my new cd burner and took forever putting together what at the time was the perfect mix.
Anyway, here is the track listing: 1. (Hed) PE - Hey Bartender 2. Gob - Paint It Black 3. Garbage - Hammering In My Head 4. BTK - Peppyrock 5. Goldfinger - Here In Your Bedroom 6. Weezer - Say It Ain't So 7. I Mother Earth - Used To Be Alright 8. Wide Mouth Mason - Midnight Rain 9. Green Day - When I Come Around 10. Scratching Post - Sleepwalking 11. Lostprophets - Kobrakai 12. Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In LA 13. The Romantics - What I Like About You 14. Hi Standard - Pink Panther Theme 15. Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline 16. Sugar Ray - RPM 17. Bif Naked - I Died 18. Gandharvas - The First Day Of Spring 19. Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons 20. 311 - Down
Analysis: I have to say while some of these songs aren't favourites, I do like every track on here. I was smart enough to stay away from the popular music fads of the moment because, after all, a first mix cd should have some longevity. It shows the happy pop side of youth mixed with that wonderful teenage angst that only hard rock can properly express. My only regret- why did I put on two Goldfinger songs? That's like, totally illegal when it comes to good mixes.
I think my current self would totally get along with my former self.
There's a lot of diversity at Mog but something we all have in common is an obsession with music and a desire to discover new music. Enter Musicovery.
My friend passed this site along to me and basically it allows you to choose a genre and select how positive/dark energetic/calm you feel or select the tempo and how "dancy" you want the music to be. The interface needs some work and the selection isn't broad enough for my liking- I found I knew most of the music in the genres I know well but it was good for finding new music in genres I haven't thoroughly explored. You can also select what decade you want your music to be from.
While it needs some work and the interface take some getting used to, I had a lot of fun playing around with it. All you music addicts with some time on your hands, check it out.
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Tomorrow I have to submit an assignment and write a midterm and oh I'm so behind. This is of course why I feel the need to Mog.
I've been thinking a lot about Our Lady Peace lately and in particular, whether it's okay to swallow your pride and admit to liking a band you tossed aside as rubbish.
They were one of my first favourite bands back in '97. Clumsy had just come out and while at this time I was not a "music person" at all, I got to listen to it from classmates who would play it during art class.
At first, I didn't understand it. To quote one of my friends "If you listened to this stuff all the time you'd go crazy". Yes, we were bubblegum pop teenybopper types and rock just didn't make a lot of sense to us. However, after a while I fell in love with the combination of great musicianship and Raine's warbling vocals. This may have been the first time I actually really liked rock music.
That Christmas, I got both Clumsy and Naveed making them some of the first cds that I ever owned. Clumsy became an instant classic- I played it constantly. Naveed took some time to grow on me since it was, well, different. It didn't have the familiar songs and it was more about the crazy guitar riffs. Looking back, it's now my favourite OLP album by far and I would say the best Canadian album of the 90s. Seriously, go listen to it.
Fast-forward to 1999. OLP were releasing a new album (Happiness...) and being a new superfan, I picked it up the day it was released and how I was disappointed. Gone were the guitar riffs in favour of incredibly slow, mellow music. I tried to console myself by thinking at least I can fall asleep to this.
Since then, I've completely written off the band. They went from absolutely amazing songs like Starseed to mediocre crap like Innocent, a song that makes me want to rip my ears off.
However, a few months ago I heard their song "Angels/Losing/Sleep" on the radio and oh I found myself secretly liking it after trashing the band. I considered it a fluke (every band tends to have at least one likeable song) and always felt shameful listening to it. Just yesterday, I heard another new OLP song on the radio (which one I don't know) and I was completely struck by how not-bad it was. It might even be considered good.
Now I feel like I've been unfair and should give them a chance again as much as it pains me. When I take a stand on bands I like to stick to it but they just keep making me go back.
Has anyone else experience this sort of thing before, where you publicly proclaim to dislike a band and then they end up surprising you? Is it okay to go back on what you said and like a band or does it just make you a hypocrite?
Whatever the case, I think I should listen to Healthy In Paranoid Times to see if they have in fact stopped sucking.
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Hmmmm... I haven't listened to anything they made after Happiness. I really loved Naveed, and loved Clumsy (but not as much as Naveed). I owned Happiness but lost it and haven't listened in a while, but I know I don't like it as much as Clumsy... But the other stuff I've heard on the radio was just awful. Let me know if Healthy is any good, because I'm skeptical. Just like you. :)
I'm glad someone else agrees that they were great and then started to suck. My personal theory is that it's all Chantal Kreviazuk's fault.
Also, if anyone can send me some songs off of HIPT that'd be awesome since there's no way I'm buying this thing without listening to it first.
Never let a run of bad ablums/songs make you completely write off a band. You can write it off 99% but save that 1% in case they come back strong. Plus you could be missing out on good tunes if you want to stubbornly stick to a position based on their bad works and not their entire work.
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Dude, if I met the me of 5 years ago I would totally bitch slap her. That's when I went on a very long music hiatus that I am recovering from.
This minute of nostalgia made me take a look back on MY first ever burnt mix cd: 1/Triple H theme music 2/Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang 3/Mope - " " 4/3.14 - " " 5/Lets Ride - Choclair 6/Chris Jericho theme music (wrestling had some good songs then) 7/Bring Your Whole Crew - DMX 8/Forgot about Dre - Dr. Dre feat Eminem 9/Still DRE - Dr Dre feat Snoop Dogg 10/My name is - Eminem 11/Snap your fingers, snap your neck - Grinspoon 12/Bawitaba - Kid Rock 13/Walk - Kilgore (Pantera cover) 14/N 2 Gether Now - Limp Bizkit feat Method Man 15/Comeout and play - The Offspring 16/Du Hast - Rammstein 17/Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
I have no clue what it says of my past self. I do know that as time went on I didnt go nuts with adding whatever songs happened to be in my head at the time. This was obviously an attempt to get a cd with songs from the tv/radio.