Music and Life
**musical mood preference: Nirvana's Bleach Album**
In light of the new Nirvana box set, I feel compelled to spew out useless bits of my personal past for you all to read. Feel free to comment.
Music and Life
Growing up I listened to a lot of classical and traditional Irish music, mostly because of the great influence of my grandparents on my childhood. I still have a soft spot in my heart for both these types of music, but my tastes and musical interests have expanded.
Around the time I was 10 (yes, TEN YEARS OLD), I was exposed to gangsta rap (i.e. Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, NWA, etc.) and became enthralled with the extremely explicit lyrics that my mother so detested. B ut my dad let me buy whatever I wanted, so I took advantage of this parental conflict. I suppose it was my first expression of typically rebellious youthfulness.
My next stage was that of grunge, taking place around age 12. I still consider this type my all-time favourite and also the genre of music that had the most influence on me personally. Nirvana was the major sway during this period of my childhood and inspired me to attempt to play guitar and bass. Sadly, I was never terribly accomplished at either instrument, though I enjoyed and still enjoy playing. Amongst the other groups of grunge I was into were Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Sonic Youth, and Stone Temple Pilots, as well as many others.
Following my entry into "Junior High", I began what my best friends and family refer to as my "dark ages". Aptly titled, considering the music I started to listen to ... Most notably Marilyn Manson, but also White Zombie, KoRn, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Snot and Nine Inch Nails. This music made my parents very uncomfortable and I admit now to using that music as an expressive outlet for other problems in my life at the time.
During my "dark ages" I was dealing with a step-father who I hated and who hated me right back; this made for what was an obviously shitty home life. Pooled with the usual amount of teenage angst, this was enough to throw me into an emotional tumult. The "big-time" music I was listening to, combined with the local scene I was involved in, helped me to express my discontent with home life in a way that was safer than many of the alternatives.
And while I still participated in many of this less safe alternatives of rebellion, the music was my grip on reality and in combination with my friends, kept me relatively sane and grounded.
**More later, come on back now, will ya?
In light of the new Nirvana box set, I feel compelled to spew out useless bits of my personal past for you all to read. Feel free to comment.
Growing up I listened to a lot of classical and traditional Irish music, mostly because of the great influence of my grandparents on my childhood. I still have a soft spot in my heart for both these types of music, but my tastes and musical interests have expanded.
Around the time I was 10 (yes, TEN YEARS OLD), I was exposed to gangsta rap (i.e. Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, NWA, etc.) and became enthralled with the extremely explicit lyrics that my mother so detested. B ut my dad let me buy whatever I wanted, so I took advantage of this parental conflict. I suppose it was my first expression of typically rebellious youthfulness.
My next stage was that of grunge, taking place around age 12. I still consider this type my all-time favourite and also the genre of music that had the most influence on me personally. Nirvana was the major sway during this period of my childhood and inspired me to attempt to play guitar and bass. Sadly, I was never terribly accomplished at either instrument, though I enjoyed and still enjoy playing. Amongst the other groups of grunge I was into were Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Sonic Youth, and Stone Temple Pilots, as well as many others.
Following my entry into "Junior High", I began what my best friends and family refer to as my "dark ages". Aptly titled, considering the music I started to listen to ... Most notably Marilyn Manson, but also White Zombie, KoRn, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Snot and Nine Inch Nails. This music made my parents very uncomfortable and I admit now to using that music as an expressive outlet for other problems in my life at the time.
During my "dark ages" I was dealing with a step-father who I hated and who hated me right back; this made for what was an obviously shitty home life. Pooled with the usual amount of teenage angst, this was enough to throw me into an emotional tumult. The "big-time" music I was listening to, combined with the local scene I was involved in, helped me to express my discontent with home life in a way that was safer than many of the alternatives.
And while I still participated in many of this less safe alternatives of rebellion, the music was my grip on reality and in combination with my friends, kept me relatively sane and grounded.
**More later, come on back now, will ya?
posted by Brian at 4:33 a.m.
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