The Music Thread (Page 8 of 22)

forget to mention the Death in Vegas song 'I Spy' from Dead Elvis....but at this point I'm just like buy the whole damn CD! 

Sounds cool, morningsun76, thanks for providing links, I'll be sure to check that out.

You reminded me of some other music I can recommend....okay, it's "mainstream", but some of it has the India influence going on.   Anybody hear ever listen to Britain's Kula Shaker?  I REALLY like their 1996 disc, "K".   It's a 60's psychedelia meets the Far East.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 … oding=UTF8

I stumbled across Kula Shaker at the Tower Records listening station in SoCal, and usually the listening station stuff isn't all that great.  So I wasn't expecting much.  But as soon as I started listening I perked up, like, Wow!  Cool!  And couldn't stop listening.  So I just went and bought the CD.    And I'm not a big CD buyer, so, there you go!  haha

.....which leads to my all time favorite Oasis song, 'Fade In-Out.'  Many aspects of the song sound like what you'll hear on some of Kula's disc....turns out Kula's came out in October 1996, while Oasis' came out in August of 1997.  So, possibly Oasis was influenced by Kula's stuff. 

I also still REALLY enjoy The Verve's "Urban Hymns" disc, from 1997.  Particularly 'The Rolling People', 'Weeping Willow', 'Lucky Man', and yes, their big radio hit 'Bittersweet Symphony.'    Although the other songs are just as good, if not better.  This is one of those discs where it's worth it to buy the whole CD.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 … amp;n=5174

(ps sidenote:  I just realized that the four CD's / bands I recommended:  Death in Vegas, Kula Shaker, Oasis and The Verve were all from England, and all four discs mentioned came out during the same 1996-1997 time period.  !   They know how to make good music across the pond.    Better than here!)

Okay, pps edit....I guess it also explains my owning the 1996 (british) Chemical Brothers disc, "Exit Planet Dust," and the 1997 (british) Fat Boy Slim disc "Better Living Through Chemistry."  !!  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 … oding=UTF8

That's a bit freaky.....But it's a good disc, highly recommend. 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!   My memory of this song was when I was working at my second job at "Linens N Things" in SoCal during *Christmas time*, and it was after closing, and this song was playing on the store's sound system - sounded really good too, btw - and some of the lights were off, and the place was empty, and it was just random employees straightening up.  I just remember walking down one of the big empty aisles, looking at all those material goods and holiday crap stacked on shelves going up to the ceiling, most of them completely useless, with that song just cranking overhead, and thinking about how the words really matched my life at that point. 

'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life
Try to make ends meet
You're a slave to money then you die....

Emusic seems like a good deal to me. I've got the free version of Mercora music, which is a filesharing thing, which was new to me when I signed up a couple months ago. But I forget to use it!  Thanks for that idea, Morningsun.

Lyra, that song fit my life "to a T" at the time as well. My trees looked the best, and I managed to create from all that junk something a bit "more". Even when I had retail jobs neatening shirts, etc., or in restuarants folding napkins...I used the music to take me to another level, and I knew that if I put mindfulness into the mindless, it would become a meditation, and ASAP or eventually, things would be
much better for me and much more interesting.  And so it has proved to be...a now more sweet sym-pho--ny, albeit with alot of kinks to work out, but if not the case, horrid boredom would rapidly ensue.

Auendove, my smiley was supposed to be the big grin one, but it didn't happen when I tried both symbols.

That's exactly how it seems to me.  Every once in awhile there will be one song, only one, that I connect too and the lyrics are usually speaking about my current life situation and my actual feelings, and/or they will be speaking to me directly showing my different aspects of myself.

Montalk, I listened to those first few songs that you posted and for some reason I enjoyed them, and it inspired me to download some of the bands you listed previously in this thread.

Now the reason it surprised me what because of my previous "encounter" with metal.  I used to play music with a very good friend of mine, and over the years both of our musical tastes changed dramatically.  During our up and coming "teen years" my freind was attracted to metal music while I started to like underground rock and punk.  So that made it a little difficult for playing music, since our tastes were both different.  I never liked the sound of metal and the screaming, it was just too -- blah! I couldn't take it and most of all I didn't understand how my friend could like it.  Some he ended up introducing me to the band In Flames and I ended up liking them, and then went through a mild metal phase when I was in a state of depression, confusion and all that stuff before I began to awaken to the unlimited possibilities of life.  So after that short period of time I stopped listening to metal, and then just kinda shut the door off to that kind of music -- until tonight. 

After reading your comments on the subject it has opened me up to this type of music.  So thanks! That's a great read.

But anyways, back to that quote!  Does anyone else experience this?  For me it resonates most with the lyrics, for example, here are my two previous favorite songs, seemingly dealing with my feelings towards myself and life.

The Jealous Sound - For Once In Your Life

The decks just build and break
Everybody takes
Here I stand waiting to be moved

Just a problem solved
Slowly it dissovles
The crowd that I'm passing through

It feels so good to feel
There's nothing here that's real

For once in your life
Are you part of this machine
Are you living in this dream
Are you at where I'm at

Everyone is fixed
And callings to the sky
From 2am to 6
A candy-coated high

In the dawn it was clear
You were lost in the night
In the calm that was here
As you're washed in the light

And glad it feels so good to feel
There is nothing here that's real

For once in your life
Do you honestly believe
You could ever leave
Any time that you want

Did you find something deeper
Something profound
It's hard to make sense
Kids sprawled on the ground

Is your new god in front of you
This electrical storm
Is your new god in front of you
Are you dead or reborn

Did you find something deeper
Something profound
The sun's coming up
As we're coming down

In the dawn it was clear
You were lost in the night
In the calm that was here
As you're washed in the light

Feels so good to feel
There's nothing here that's real
For once in your life

I was most attracted to this song when I really, really started to understand what was happening to me.

30 Seconds To Mars - R-Evolve

A revolution has begun today for me inside
The ultimate defence is to pretend
Revolve around yourself just like an ordinary man
The only other option is to forget

Does it feel like we've never been alive?
Does it seem like we've only just begun?

Defy yourself just to look inside the wreckage of your past
To lose all you have to do is lie
The policy is set and we are never turning back
It's time for execution; time to execute
Time for execution; time to execute!

Does it feel like we've never been alive?
Does it seem like it's only just begun?
Does it feel like we've never been alive inside?
Does it seem it's only just begun?
It's only just begun

The evolution is coming!
A revolution has begun!
The evolution is coming!
A revolution has, yeah!

The evolution is coming!
A revolution has begun!
(Yeah, yeah!)
The evolution is coming!
A revolution has, yeah!
Revolution...

And this song is pretty self explanatory!  

All in all, music has been the most influencial aspect of my life, and its amazing really, because there are so many bands which contain some Truth in their songs, from Tool, to Incubus to Bob Marley. 

I have always wondered that musicians just channel music.  When I play guitar, sometimes my hands will just move on its own and I'll hear the music inside my head before its ever played.  So maybe music is hear to spead the message of truth, love and unity -- unless of course you're listening to Britney Spears, then thats a different matter.

bands i recommend highly:
ulver, nick cave and the bad seeds, coil, front line assembly, enslaved, aphex twin, autechre, squarepusher, amon tobin, slotek, burzum, and anything involving Bill Laswell.

. . . [OH!] . . and so . . . wow! . . uhmm what are the lyrics?

and but so like what, UFOs? going into the sun-portal? I knew they were an aware group but . . could it be . . oh christ you got me thinking about the danmed sun-portal/timecube bit again! LOL!!