First of all, I'm with you on BNL as an early influence; you're right about their lyrics. They're playful, and I think clever and really smart sometimes.
Music to me? Wow, that's a huge question. It's a connection? To a person, a memory, an experience, a present feeling.
DShan
· 2 months ago
Yeah, huge question, with a lot of answers that change daily.
lfar
· 2 months ago
Oh, you're welcome for BNL. Love Canada.
I did a project on them in grade 8. Every year you have to do a project on somebody Canadian. It's great!
Anyway, I grew up with my older siblings music- a lot of Greenday and Queen- and then I would have to say Avril Lavigne was my first real love. Also the Josie and the Pussycats album. Like, the soundtrack to the movie. Yeah. I went through a punk phase with Billy Talent-ish stuff in mid high school but it was going to university that changed everything. We had res-net, so I could view and play music from anybody's iTunes if their computer was on. Everybody in the residence. And then we found hacks that would allow us to download each other's music. It was great. The Decemberists I think were the first band that I really "discovered," like just happened to overhear and knew I loved it. I think they, with Rilo Kiley, were my introduction to the non-mainstream. A lot of Canadian stuff is also really great, and university introduced me to some smaller and bigger Canadian artists, like Hawksley Workman (the most beautiful lyricist ever- try him) and The Weakerthans. I've since grown to have a pretty expanded taste... hip hoppish electronica (The Black Kids) to folk (Jenny Lewis) to anti-folk (The Moldy Peaches) to twee (Mates of State) and everything all over and in between.
I also will forever love musical theatre. I know that makes me sound like a 14 year old girl, or gay man.
I love music a whole heck of a lot.
DShan
· 2 months ago
I love music a whole heck of a lot too...your trajectory through music's quite a unique one. Anti-folk. Twee. MUSICAL THEATER. :)
nicopolitan
· 2 months ago
My hunt began when I saw my first live show of my cousin's band and a handful of unknowns in Hollywood's Sunset Strip, thinking "Wow! This sounds so different than the radio or TV! .... and I LIKE it."
My hunt started in the LA underground. And then, when the internet opened up everyone's libraries, it was time to explore everyone else's underground. And it was good.
DShan
· 2 months ago
You're lucky; LA underground adds quite a pop to your 'where my music started' answer. Some of us were in St. Charles, Illinois with the cornfields.
Tankboy
· 2 months ago
It was a Mexican flea market in south Texas -- I must have been 8 or so -- and I stumbled across the Ace Frehly picture disc and The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club band LP.
And then I was off.
DShan
· 2 months ago
You were certainly off on quite a journey.
Andhari Sidharta
· 2 months ago
Basically my life, D. I do a lot of things but it's the one thing that sticks with me all this time.
You should download my song:)
DShan
· 2 months ago
You're a talent! I will download...I missed the free window, but maybe I'll get one of your songs on my mixtape!
foiledcupcakes
· 2 months ago
i *love* this: "a love affair with the hunt."
no walls, no barriers, no prejudices. perfect.
DShan
· 2 months ago
Thanks:) Maybe I should blog more.
emily
· 2 months ago
I have this not so secret love affair with music. I've blogged about my love for it. This is a quote from a post I wrote that was devoted to the love of my life:
"i love music. not just a small crush, but the kind of deep love that radiates through your body and sends shock waves through the universe. music moves me. quite often, literally. my body moves to music and so does my life."
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Music to me? Wow, that's a huge question. It's a connection? To a person, a memory, an experience, a present feeling.
I did a project on them in grade 8. Every year you have to do a project on somebody Canadian. It's great!
Anyway, I grew up with my older siblings music- a lot of Greenday and Queen- and then I would have to say Avril Lavigne was my first real love. Also the Josie and the Pussycats album. Like, the soundtrack to the movie. Yeah. I went through a punk phase with Billy Talent-ish stuff in mid high school but it was going to university that changed everything. We had res-net, so I could view and play music from anybody's iTunes if their computer was on. Everybody in the residence. And then we found hacks that would allow us to download each other's music. It was great. The Decemberists I think were the first band that I really "discovered," like just happened to overhear and knew I loved it. I think they, with Rilo Kiley, were my introduction to the non-mainstream. A lot of Canadian stuff is also really great, and university introduced me to some smaller and bigger Canadian artists, like Hawksley Workman (the most beautiful lyricist ever- try him) and The Weakerthans. I've since grown to have a pretty expanded taste... hip hoppish electronica (The Black Kids) to folk (Jenny Lewis) to anti-folk (The Moldy Peaches) to twee (Mates of State) and everything all over and in between.
I also will forever love musical theatre. I know that makes me sound like a 14 year old girl, or gay man.
I love music a whole heck of a lot.
My hunt started in the LA underground. And then, when the internet opened up everyone's libraries, it was time to explore everyone else's underground. And it was good.
And then I was off.
You should download my song:)
get one of your songs on my mixtape!
no walls, no barriers, no prejudices. perfect.
"i love music. not just a small crush, but the kind of deep love that radiates through your body and sends shock waves through the universe. music moves me. quite often, literally. my body moves to music and so does my life."