rokket opened this issue on Jul 11, 2022 ยท 723 posts
primorge posted Sun, 04 September 2022 at 3:36 PM
rokket posted at 2:50 PM Sun, 4 September 2022 - #4443930
I listen to a lot of Grindcore, Death Metal, Hardcore Punk stuff too. So yeah, I'm pretty familiar with "metal". I grew up in the Punk Rock scene in Philadelphia. But I like a lot of pop music, just not much contemporary pop music. I love from the 1950s up to probably the mid 2000s pop. And yes the late 60s through the 70s are particularly a favorite.primorge posted at 11:49 PM Sat, 3 September 2022 - #4443901
I wouldn't say that she looks tired so much as subdued. In the moment. She's good. Not totally my cup of tea, but I don't knock anyone trying to do what they love musically. There are genres that I avoid. "Gangsta Rap" comes to mind. Too much liberal use of the N word, too much bragging about the killing, drugs, disparaging women... I don't need that in my life.It's not my thing.
Not that I'm an atheist or anything. I think atheism is just as much an act of faith as being devout. I guess I'm agnostic. I find religion to be very interesting though, and religious art. I do, however, believe in the supernatural, which I guess is sort of contradictory. I try to be kind where it counts, when it's deserved. After observing the nature of someone's character. This goes for everyday real life. I find animals to be more appealing than people... especially as I get older. As far as these interactions go? It's the only interactions I make on the internet. I just to like to write, share my thoughts. I tend to go overboard, but whatever. I'm sure I annoy the hell of many people here, but I think most people are afraid to be themselves, either that or it's just a lack of forthrightness and imagination. But should anybody be themselves really? Probably prudence is the wisest course, but I'm woefully unwise about certain things relating to people. Or maybe I'm just a narcissistic (in a sense) goof lol. A talented goof though, or so I've been told my whole life. Talent goes not very far without ambition to succeed in the public arena. And luck.
As far as the singing goes, more power to ya man. I can't sing, or at least I don't have the balls to sing in public.
On the topic of music
I like a lot of music, I mean a lot of types across all genres. Some is pure noise, others very beautiful. You'll be hard pressed to find a genre I'm not at least familiar with.
I've been obsessed with this female songwriter for the past few years, Chelsea Wolfe. It's like folk/doom/goth/darkwave/noise stuff. It's not like she's a sort of sex symbol or anything, but her art makes her captivating to me. Very dark, but very haunting stuff. I saw her perform a few years ago, before I was a fan. I was really blown away by the presence. Like a lightning bolt. Then covid happened and I've been waiting for her to tour the east coast again. In that time my mother passed away and I ended a lingering, sort of codependent, difficult relationship. Both things happening almost simultaneously. There was a lot of regrets. So there was resonance.
Anyway, it's difficult to pick a certain album or performance, she genre skips alot. Her album Abyss is probably my favorite. Here's a decent performance, though she seems very tired here. I like all of her performances really, for different reasons, but this is as good as any to start...
Oh, and cheers. I quit drinking a few years ago.
I prefer the music of the mid-70's and early 80's to anything that I hear these days. And not the pop music of the 80's either. Michael and Madonna drove me nuts back then. I was a teen, and a closet rebel. Judas Priest, Krokus, and early Queensryche were my go to. I have mellowed some since then, but still prefer 70's and 80's to anything that came about after 1990.
I don't really pay much attention lately. Well to underground stuff I do. It happens as you get older. As far as hip hop goes I used to love it. I think the last hip hop artists I was really into was earlier Wu Tang and MF Doom. I work with younger people, it's all they listen to, contemporary Hip Hop and R&B, so I'm quite familiar with recent stuff in that genre. Most of it sounds like the basest conformist music in terms of topicality; Money, Sex. Some of the production is pretty good. I like Pop Smoke's sound. Or how he used to sound before he was murdered. Just the sound mind you, not the topics. I guess it's just a generational thing. Or rather being jaded by the years and not having the youthful enthusiasm to not question the meaning as much. I'm kind of looking forward to leaving this mortal coil. I think civilization, at least western, is on the decline. I don't like a lot of what I see, and rather than getting better many sociopolitical problems seem to be getting worse. But that is an age old cliche of course. I'm not afraid of leaving but I'd like to stick around a bit longer to finish some artworks, if only for myself (which is the really important part for me) ;)
You like hymns?
Here's one that's been in rotation in my playlist. Very fire and brimstone kinda, but cathartic and haunting too
Lingua Ignota, a very aquired taste. Much of her material is very horrorshow harrowing, maybe this too but in a different way.