There is one type of music that totally distracts me from anything I'm doing. That would be music of the heavy variety. If Slayer is playing I am completely incapable of doing anything but banging my head and getting sucked into the pounding that they drop on me (with a bit of hand pumping to boot). I can't help it there is just something about those metal riffs that get me. Maybe all of those fundies were right about the hypnotic power of metal. Although I don't quite feel that way when I listen to Karp and they were freakin' heavy as well but in a different way. Karp has a totally different effect on me even though they fully made use of metal in their work. I just want to bounce around the room and fall down when I listen to them.
In all honesty, I can't listen to that heavier stuff like I used to be able to. These days I prefer my noise in a slower tempo. Maybe that's just part of getting older and what not. I still enjoy metal, don't get me wrong but instead of a fast tempo I'd rather here something discordant. Like Labradford or the more famous Sonic Youth. True noise is where I am some nights. A sonic landscape if you will as opposed to a sonic assault. And of course there are the nights I just want something nice and mellow.
I don't even know where I was going with this. Stupid headphones.
2 comments:
I'm with you, man! My Bloody Valentine sums that up for me, whereas Iron Maiden used to hit the spot.
Sigur Ros? I still don't totally get them, but they may be in there with the spacey noisesters.
Sigur Ros rocks. The fact that they made a whole allbum without song titles, in a made up language, so people would get out of it what they wanted, is awesome.
There is a whole live show you can stream at NPR.org in the all songs considered section. Check it out.
Cheers,
JJ
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