...at monster music and movies in west ashley across from target, in the shopping center with bed, bath, and beyond. it should be an amazing day full of great live music and great sales. support your local independent record stores. please.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Sunday, April 05, 2009
'cause i love 'em, that's why - installment 2
for the second installment of my ''cause i love 'em, that's why' series, i will write a bit about bjork's album debut. i bought this album when it was released in 1993 based on hearing the song 'human behaviour' and seeing the video on mtv at ron r's house. we both fell in love with her quirky lyrics and voice, and loved her accent. and it certainly helped that she was so easy on the eyes.
her music was a lot different than other things i was listening to at the time. less loud rock sounds, more dancy beats, with a few tear-jerking ballads in there as well. i spent a lot of my time sitting alone in my room listening to this album that year. i also got my first car that year, so i dubbed the cd to tape and cruised around town with the windows down, speakers blaring. i included a few songs from the album on mixed tapes as well, whether for myself or for some lady friend (at age 15, i made lots of mixed tapes). this particular album opened my eyes to a different kind of music, added more to my musical intellect, let me feel that there was amazing music out there that could be made without distorted guitars. which led, i am sure, to me seeking out bands like cibo matto or portishead or morcheeba years later.
songs like 'violently happy', 'crying', 'venus as a boy', 'come to me', hell, everyone of them mean something to me for that time in my life. and everytime i hear these songs, it takes me back to those days. no matter how down i felt back then as a teenager living in goose creek, sc, this music always made me happy. not to say that this album has only nostalgic value to me. if i were to hear it for the first time today, i know it would sound equally as amazing to me as it sounded 16 years ago.
when i talk about my respect for bjork as an artist and how much i love her music, most people refer to videos they have seen where she is talking about how her tv broadcasts images through to her mind or that music awards show where she was wearing the swan thing around her neck, and just talk about how they can't stand her because of how weird she is. i find it hard to believe that many of these people have ever sat down and actually listened to her music. to me, all of the 'crazy' things she does makes her that much more endearing to me. she is a unique artist, and is not afraid to stand out as an individual.
now, i am not writing this to try to convince anyone to like her music. if you've made up your mind, ok, good. i am writing this to let anyone who reads this know that i (and my wife, coincidentally) love her music, and this album got me started on a whole new world of music, including her future albums. so there you have it. more installments to come in the near future, so if you give a crap, and read this blog occasionally, keep coming back, because this will hopefully bring me back here to write a little more often than usual.
her music was a lot different than other things i was listening to at the time. less loud rock sounds, more dancy beats, with a few tear-jerking ballads in there as well. i spent a lot of my time sitting alone in my room listening to this album that year. i also got my first car that year, so i dubbed the cd to tape and cruised around town with the windows down, speakers blaring. i included a few songs from the album on mixed tapes as well, whether for myself or for some lady friend (at age 15, i made lots of mixed tapes). this particular album opened my eyes to a different kind of music, added more to my musical intellect, let me feel that there was amazing music out there that could be made without distorted guitars. which led, i am sure, to me seeking out bands like cibo matto or portishead or morcheeba years later.
songs like 'violently happy', 'crying', 'venus as a boy', 'come to me', hell, everyone of them mean something to me for that time in my life. and everytime i hear these songs, it takes me back to those days. no matter how down i felt back then as a teenager living in goose creek, sc, this music always made me happy. not to say that this album has only nostalgic value to me. if i were to hear it for the first time today, i know it would sound equally as amazing to me as it sounded 16 years ago.
when i talk about my respect for bjork as an artist and how much i love her music, most people refer to videos they have seen where she is talking about how her tv broadcasts images through to her mind or that music awards show where she was wearing the swan thing around her neck, and just talk about how they can't stand her because of how weird she is. i find it hard to believe that many of these people have ever sat down and actually listened to her music. to me, all of the 'crazy' things she does makes her that much more endearing to me. she is a unique artist, and is not afraid to stand out as an individual.
now, i am not writing this to try to convince anyone to like her music. if you've made up your mind, ok, good. i am writing this to let anyone who reads this know that i (and my wife, coincidentally) love her music, and this album got me started on a whole new world of music, including her future albums. so there you have it. more installments to come in the near future, so if you give a crap, and read this blog occasionally, keep coming back, because this will hopefully bring me back here to write a little more often than usual.
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