Thursday, June 16, 2016

Random Thoughts For A Random Playlist

Fun idea! Hit the random button on a playlist and write about what songs pop up! Toots fun!

Song 1: Just a Girl - No Doubt

I'm trying to remember the first time I listened to this band. The exact time escapes me, but they were the one band that I listened to with a female singer at once point. I vaguely remember their Spiderwebs video, and it was their Don't Speak song that ended up playing some mornings while I was getting ready for high school.

The big part of me listening to my own kind of music happened after the big Divorce in the family. I used to get ready for school in my aunt's house we were staying at temporarily, while I took the city bus across town in order to stay at the high school on the west side of town that I was attending. We technically lived in the Bloomington side of town, and I should have transferred to District 87, but it was notorious for being the "bad" district. Is seeing the friends and people that I met later in life who went to that school, I very much could have found friends there and made it. Not sure what was so "bad" about it.

Song 2: Bulls on Parade - Rage Against the Machine

Now this was one I remember listening to at my cousin's house when I was 15. I remember the album, and I think I owned it at one point. I vaguely recall seeing the music video for this one, but I clearly remember the album cover for this one and for the self-titled album. I believe my cousin was the one who listened to them and got me hooked on them. I spent some time with him when I was 15 and he was 16. We traveled the town of Crestwood Missouri with his friends, singing songs like this one and Smashing Pumpkins.

At the time, I had a Dennis Rodman shirt that was his book cover when he was sitting naked on top of a motorcycle. I wore it one day while down there with his friends and they all pointed and didn't know what to say. Looking back, I was probably embarrassed, but I was the only one with balls to do it. The incident happened at a mall that is now dead, like most malls are these days.

I was a rebel, and Rage helped me with that small aspect.

Song 3: Inside Out by Eve 6

This is another song that I can't pinpoint when it came in to my life, but I remember it being the song that me and my friends listened to in the latter days of high school.

This might have been the first song that I learned all the words to from a band I didn't know by listening to it. That may sound weird for me to be almost 18 and appreciating music like that, but I didn't realize the poetry in the words of most bands. Admit tingly, I thought that all bands sort of screeched or made weird noises and would sing a chorus every now and then. I chalk that up to me not taking the time to listen to the music and appreciate the poetry. It is very different these days.

This might be a song I need to sing during some karaoke event, if that ever happens again in my life. I am tone deaf, and me trying to sing really flaunts this fact.

Song 4: This Is A Call - Foo Fighters

For the longest time I was all blah towards Foo Fighters. To me, they seemed like a pop version of Nirvana. What can I say, I damned Grohl for starting his own band after Nirvana. I've change my tune a bit in recent years, as I think they are actually more rock than most rock bands these days. I like to play them when I need something that just rocks that I haven't heard too much. They aren't too deep on the poetry level for me and they just play their fucking instruments.

Even now, I find it hard to type while listening to the music because I just want to go all Animal on a drum set. Instead, I'll post this and then just slam my hands in to the bed. I'll be careful of the one hand, it is still slightly damaged.

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