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Kelvin said:
>Grad School - Sinead O'Connor, Indigo Girls, k.d. lang (I suppose those
were
>the lesbian years, huh?, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel.
Wait a second? Are you trying to tell me that Peter Gabriel is a
lesbian?
I'm so confused.
Also. Who's Fleetwood Mac? Isn't that the band John Schlitt sang for
before Petra? Didn't they sing Crocodile Rock and Dancing Queen and
Stayin' Alive?
Once again, I have nothing of value to say. :p
I started listening to music a lot in about 1987. 7th-8th grade. I've
determined two epiphany moments. #1) Sitting in a car with some people
my age I didnn't know very well and listening to them sing all the pop
songs together; that's when I knew music had some sort of power to bind
people, and I wanted to understand. #2) Hanging out in the bandroom
after school one day and hearing a couple of guys play "Jump" by Van
Halen on keyboard and drums. I remember smiling unconntrollably, because
this music was just happening right there in front of me and around me.
Maybe now I wish it had been a better song. :) But at 12-13 I thought
Jump was the stuff, so oh well.
Now. 1987 was not a great time to start trying to work one's way through
popular music. Thus we begin with Def Leppard (I still love "Hysteria,"
dangit), Bon Jovi (I always think that someday Jon will write a great
songwriter album, but I'm still waiting), Van Halen. Then second and
third wave hairbands of which we shall not speak. Anybody else know
where the down boys go? It was a long, cold winter, indeed. Metal
health will drive us all mad.
Gradually I found out about better bands . .. .
But I also spent a lot of this time thinking really hard about what
lyrics and ideas I let into my head. And so I was always looking for
Christian bands, but I think I didn't find any really good ones until
college. Lotta Petra in high school, y'all. Old Newsboys. Pakaderm
records nonsense.
One day I discovered Chaggal Guevarra by accident in the Christian
bookstore. Prolly the only copy they sold. That was a good day. One
day the little ol' lady running the store looked at me and said, "Do you
like this alternative music? We just got this tape you might like." And
it was the Blonde Vinyl collection that they put out right before they
(bv) tanked. That was a good day, also.
Not that I spent a lot of time in the Christian Bookstore. That would be
creepy.
U2 was the first really great band that I loved.
Now what? I think my really-good-bands list is more respectable: the
Clash, Jeff Buckley, Michael Penn, REM, U-freakin-2 (new Eno/Lanois
produced album in Oct, y'all), Mike Knott, OtR, Pearl Jam, Nirvana,
Counting Crows, radiohead, Tom Waits, the Eels.
I've been listening to a lot of Hole this summer. And Ani Difranco.
Um. Other stuff. It's too hard. "What kinda music you listen to?"
"Uh, you know . . . lotsa stuff."
fred
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