Listening to older melodic metal lately. I remember chatting with the long-haired guy down at the local metal store and buying all of these CDs. "What's your favorite Old Man's Child album?" he asks me. And I answer him, "Oh, you know . . ." And we say together, "The Pagan Prosperity!" And then we laugh. Of course, that's the answer. I guess "Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion" wasn't out yet, because that's its equal. The black lights and corpse paint are gone, the T-shirts too. The long-haired metal guy moved on. The store's been turned into a pot shop with a big green cross in the window. It's not like they didn't have paraphernalia in there before, but now there's sincere taxable product. Big bucks for the city. Probably more customers. (I can guarantee there are more customers.) The world drags its mass forward.
Thanks for the little round of Arch Enemy. I always forget about them for months or years at a time, but am pleasantly reminded I like them on each reemergence.
Mastodon is amazing, but I don't dig the demonic singing stuff, so I go for their instrumentals: Yeah ok, they're somewhat obsessed with the Elephant Man (Joseph Merrick was his real name). Makes for some great music though. And now for something completely different. I don't really know what or who it is. The mystery makes me like it more:
I don't know how many times I've listened to this. One of the few albums I've been listening as a child up to today. My father had bought the cassette when it was out and it was one of my favorites. Not that I had many to choose from, but yes, it helped me go to places, you know? Many of his tracks inspire me in scenes and it's easy to listen to when writing, because his albums, the way he connects one song to the next is like the progression of a fairytale. And the story finishes from where it starts.
2 songs I love mainly for the intro, done by studio musicians. Ironically, the actual band in each case can't play the complicated music when they're in concert. The one's kind of the opposite—a brief intro with vocals followed by a long instrumental. This entire song sounds as good as the 2 intros above (Mister Daniels was a studio musician himself, and everyone in the band was at that level):
The music I find most inspiring and evocative tends to be instrumental or largely so. And if there are lyrics, it's best for them to be poetic and surreal, like Yes lyrics. Otherwise the words tie you down to a concrete foundation of logic, since language is a left-brain phenomenon alongside logic and linear thinking. The right brain, accessed through pure Dionysian music without words (or with mysterious dreamlike words) is the home of creativity.
Listening to some classical music! I want to listen to some of your favorite music from what you've linked or send but the video is black and it put there "Oops, try watching this video in Youtube Kids" and I have no idea how I got Youtube Kids.
