Skipping foward now to 2007 and the beginning of the new era. I just started college with Callum and we soon established that some people who shared some musical tastes similiar to ours. He then one day lent me "The Odyssey" by Symphony X, oh boy what an album! I saw the 24 minute epic that was on it, listened and almost died of joy, it was such a techincal piece of music and such a wonder to listen to. i must thank Callum Wimhurst for getting me into some bands around that time, this also the time when I found Nile, damn they are heavy!
i have missed a bit out here I have realised, back in 2006 when I did my work experience, I was based at Sound Control, I heard a song called "Midlife Crisis" I immediately got the artist's name and went home that night and downloaded that song. I played that song SO MANY TIMES it was untrue, Faith No More were a part of my life now.
This now leads me onto the next section, the biggest part. Shortly after starting college and I got a weekend job working at Sound Control, I was ecstatic because I loved it there and the people were so cool as well. Mainly Simon and Glen haha, these two got me where I am today. One day in the back office Glen had "I" on by Meshuggah, I wrote this down on a piece of paper the moment he told me who they were, him and Simon then told me about another band called SikTh, which I proceeded to write down aswell. I went home once again that night, downloaded "I" and "Death of a Dead Day" and oh my god! This was it, I had found my musical taste, math metal/mathcore was now my way foward. "Bland Street Bloom" then became the most played song on my iTunes and still is to this day, it was such an immensely crafted song. I hadn't even begun yet! Another time when talking to Glen in the back office he had another CD on, this time it was Porcupine Tree with "Shallow" and oh my god did this song get stuck in my head!
Now, one more band was to be stumbled upon that made, probably, the biggest impact of my musical taste so far, thanks to Simon. I was shown complex polyrhythms within their songs, lyrics that shouldn't of been able to be put within a sentence but there anyway, how some songs were linked into the tree of life and spiritual drum setups and that one of their song's syallables are based on the fibonacci sequence of numbers. I was HOOKED instantly after this, I studied this band so hard it began to take over everything else. I am of course talking of the band, no the FORCE that is Tool.
Thankyou Simon for showing me them, so very much.
And the rest they say is history, I know have a well-crafted musical taste and wouldn't change a thing about it! Thanks for reading, even if you did probably get bored :)
Goodbye everyone.
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Music and me #2
Now KoRn were my new band of choice I started to find the roots of metal. I did not slip straight into the stream of metal, I listened to KoRn with my current choice of music for a while, I cannot remember the next KoRn album I purchased, I think it was either their Greatest Hits or Issues. They became quite popular on Kerrang at this point and me and my brother grew accustomed to a few of their songs. Now around this time I had learnt the art of downloading music from odd and random websites, so I was picking up single songs from everywhere and then one day whilst looking on the front page of my favourite site to get music I noticed a song. "Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth" intriguing I thought, through my youth I had heard serveral bands labelled as "Heavy" and had heard of NIN before and I thought "Wow they are well heavy let's see if I like it or not." Well, yes, I did like it. So much so the next time I went into town I stepped into my local HMV and saw that NIN's latest album "With Teeth" was being promoted in the first rack of albums when you entered the store, I immediatly grabbed a copy and brought it.
Over the next week I listened to this album non-stop and devloped a distinct liking to the track: "The Hand That Feeds." This song was listened to about 250 times at the end of my first iTunes library. With this I brought more and more KoRn albums and borrowed a few more metal albums off my friends and it wasn't before too long I was into the lighter side of metal, thinking Slipknot was the heaviest band out there. Oh boy was I wrong....
Part 3 soon
Over the next week I listened to this album non-stop and devloped a distinct liking to the track: "The Hand That Feeds." This song was listened to about 250 times at the end of my first iTunes library. With this I brought more and more KoRn albums and borrowed a few more metal albums off my friends and it wasn't before too long I was into the lighter side of metal, thinking Slipknot was the heaviest band out there. Oh boy was I wrong....
Part 3 soon
Music and me
"Music is an art form whose medium is sound" is music's definition on Wikipedia, i agree entirely, it is what I get from this sound that is why I am writing this blog. a homage to the music that has enchanced my life in every single way, I would not be this person I am today if it weren't for my music.
I will outline my favourite genres, bands, albums and songs by these specific bands. The genres I will speak about will be the main genres that tie together my main interest.
Growing up I was exposed to a massive spectrum of music, I apparently used to go mental in my mum's tum when she was pregnant with me when The Prodigy came on, this was obviously a sign of my love for music, well I hope at least, haha. The vivid memories of some muiscal influences are listening to a Nirvana cassette tape in my mum's car, Shakespeare's Sister and Eurthymics CD's, Madness 's videos on VHS and Metallica's Black Album. Most of these were listened on the way down to our caravan site in Wales. This really started the process of planting the seeds of bands, lyrics and genres in my mind that would later grow until the fruits I cherish now.
Through years 7-9 in secondary school I was all over the place with my music tastes, ranging from MCR to Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake, I was literally picking up anything anyone was talking about. In year 9 I got Re-animation, the remixed Linkin Park album of Hybrid Theory (Which still remains one of my all time favourite albums) so I was getting slightly heavier. The beginning of year 10 was when a few chain of events set off a metal explosion in my mind. The first being a science lesson where the teacher foolishly let us on the PCs to do work and a good friend told me to listen to this, it was Davidian by Machine Head. I didn't pay much attention to it at the start then it stayed with me for a few weeks. My next one was when another friend showed me the video to the newly found band "Dragonforce" Through the Fire and the Flames had just hit the internet and Britain and was creating a storm. My final and probably the major major one that set me off was when a mate lent me a copy of KoRn - Follow The Leader. I remember listening to it and instantly liking every single minute of it, I played Freak on A Leash so many times it was unture, something like 90 times in 2 days. I then knew which I had to go.
Part 2 soon
I will outline my favourite genres, bands, albums and songs by these specific bands. The genres I will speak about will be the main genres that tie together my main interest.
Growing up I was exposed to a massive spectrum of music, I apparently used to go mental in my mum's tum when she was pregnant with me when The Prodigy came on, this was obviously a sign of my love for music, well I hope at least, haha. The vivid memories of some muiscal influences are listening to a Nirvana cassette tape in my mum's car, Shakespeare's Sister and Eurthymics CD's, Madness 's videos on VHS and Metallica's Black Album. Most of these were listened on the way down to our caravan site in Wales. This really started the process of planting the seeds of bands, lyrics and genres in my mind that would later grow until the fruits I cherish now.
Through years 7-9 in secondary school I was all over the place with my music tastes, ranging from MCR to Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake, I was literally picking up anything anyone was talking about. In year 9 I got Re-animation, the remixed Linkin Park album of Hybrid Theory (Which still remains one of my all time favourite albums) so I was getting slightly heavier. The beginning of year 10 was when a few chain of events set off a metal explosion in my mind. The first being a science lesson where the teacher foolishly let us on the PCs to do work and a good friend told me to listen to this, it was Davidian by Machine Head. I didn't pay much attention to it at the start then it stayed with me for a few weeks. My next one was when another friend showed me the video to the newly found band "Dragonforce" Through the Fire and the Flames had just hit the internet and Britain and was creating a storm. My final and probably the major major one that set me off was when a mate lent me a copy of KoRn - Follow The Leader. I remember listening to it and instantly liking every single minute of it, I played Freak on A Leash so many times it was unture, something like 90 times in 2 days. I then knew which I had to go.
Part 2 soon
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