I've been going through what history will no doubt regard as a dark time in my music loving past. My taste in music somehow made a shift, I want to say, sometime back in November or so. All of a sudden I realized how exhausted I become with alot music I had been listening to. This issue has made me feel uneasy, as though the floor had shifted beneath my feet. Now this is a multi-faceted problem, however the main thing is that nothing I was listening to was loud or raw enough. It was also around this time that I honestly started listening to songs for the music, completely regardless of the lyrics, contrary to what I had ever done in the past. So the tough part here, was that I was unsatisfied with alot of what I already owned, and didn't really know what I wanted to listen to. Nothing was striking me at all. Really, i'd just turn on my ipod and listen to it on shuffle, and just skip, skip, skip...oh the horror!
Then a few different musically inclined friends supplied me with some new stuff I'd never heard of, and there were some things I really liked alot, and could apprecitiate for the music from this new perspective. What one friend in particular gave me, got me through the last few months and I think helped me get though to this new place with regards to my perspective of music.
But over the last few days, I've been thinking I need to research the root of my taste. Much of what grabs me is very blues based, very guitar heavy and musically strong. Where lyrics used to reach out and touch me, it's now the sounds that just grab me and don't let go.
At my sister's house last weekend, I discovered a radio show called "The Many moods of Ben Vaughn", he played alot of blues, old school rock like the kinks, and a raw, fascinating mix of music that I needed to hear more of.
Since then I've been streaming his past shows almost exclusively, and it feels like I'm at some kind of buffet. Some things I've heard before and like, some I don't. But most of it I've never heard before and really like.
I feel like I'm traveling in a new land, and I like it.
2 comments:
Ben Vaughn is such a neat guy...I had no idea he had a radio show, I'll have to check it out.
I have had a similar shift, though I can't place when it began, where lyrics often have no significance, 'cept for the sounds the vocals add to the music. Sometimes folks will mention a line from a song that I love, but I won't recognize it.
I never thought it would happen. It was a bit unsettling at first but making more sense nowadays. I really used to listen to music for emotional reasons. Now I don't wanna hear any whining or sad bastard crap. I want it to be more creative/efficient if it's gonna be about feelings.
You should TOTALLY listen to his radio show, its awesome!
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