4 posts tagged “music”

It's dedication time.  What song are you sending out, and who is it dedicated to?

Harrowdown Hill - Thom Yorke.
Love that song.

Especially these words:

I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes

We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it

Just change that last sentence to 'We just cant do anything about it...yet but we will'

This one goes out to mr F. Hope you find your home soon.

 

Ah, another 'Song of the week'.

I just love this song: The Editor's 'Munich'.

I'm so glad I've found this
I'm so glad I did
People are fragile things, you should know by now
Be careful what you put them through

There's so much good music on right now, still adore Trentemoller's Moan. Also discovered a band called Sunrise Avenue's with the song 'Fairytale gone bad'. I like it, nice voice. 

This week, as I was driving back from the gym, after another class of soca, salsa and hiphop, they played a live track from Iron Maiden on the radio. Ha, it took me back to my first 'big heavy metal' concert: Iron Maiden and WASP in Forest, Brussels. My friend Ann and me were so excited, so naieve, so young. I couldn't move my neck for a week after being too enthousiast at headbanging.

It made me think back to all the different stages in my life, all the different kinds of people that have been in my life so far. All so different, all with their own stories. This only makes the future even more exciting, who else is going to cross my path. Who will stay on it. Life's just so full of surprises, can't say it enough really. I have put my life on a hold for a while. Not anymore now. I'm ready for new surprises, challenges, discoveries.

Some people make an impression on you for the rest of your life. Some people I will be grateful for for the rest of my life. Some people I don't want to miss in my life never ever. Those people should know by now what they mean to me.

The right time, the right place, the right people. Is it destiny?

I know I have said/wrote it before, music is extremely important in my life.

As a little kid I remember listening to the 8-tracks of my parents in the car when we travelled. I loved it, still know all those songs by heart. I grew up with music, always music everywhere. I remember getting my first walkman, it poured rain that night but I didn't care, put on my walkman and went for a walk cause that was what you were supposed to do with it, walk.

I remember my first 'stereo', a little single player, you could only fit singles in there, not long players. I still have my first singles. I remember stealing my parents records. Dancing in front of the mirror, playbacking. Was crazy about Kim Wilde, so wanted to be like her when I was younger. And I was so convinced I was going to marry John Taylor, Duran Duran's bassplayer.

Then I somehow developed a love for the heavier music, then blues, then jazz, then dance, and so on.... my record/cd collection is so varied, I wonder what that says about one's personality? I believe that variety is the spice of life.

I went to so many concerts, danced, stagedived, pogo'ed, you name it. Even dated a bassplayer for over a decade...
At that time I was crazy about bands called Nuclear Assault, Mucky Pup, Sacred Reich (Surf Nicaragua rules!)... you get the picture ;-) Went to musician's trade fairs all over Europe to see virtuosos perform live. Met with the 'great' ones: Doug Wimbuish, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Dean Castranovo, George Lynch, Stuart Hamm, Vinnie Collaiutta, so many more, can't remember all those names, can only remember the great memories.

Back to today, let's see what's the song of the day?
I downloaded Bob Sinclair's 'World hold on' today, one of his older songs. I heard it in the Bauhaus earlier this week. It's such a good dance song! Danced to it this morning while doing dishes.

Song of the week: definitely Trentemoller's Moan. 'Constantly thinking about you....' couldn't have said it better. I just love that song!

Back to cleaning my house and dancing while doing so.... have a great weekend y'all ;-)

Rez, the song by Underworld. I remember the day I discovered this song. At Nini and Erik's house, after I picked them up from the airport. We played this song all night, we danced to it all night, just the 3 of us. We had so much to drink that night. My friends might not remember it but hey they poured that vile Pisang Ambon over our icecreams just to possibly get even more booze in our system. Yes, it did happen and no don't argue with me, we've been having this discussion since 1998 you two! Ok, maybe it was Baileys.

So right now, I'm listening to that song again, thinking about all that has happened since that day. To me, to the people around me, my family, to the world. I guess this is one of those times when you pause and just think for a while, wondering, remembering, evaluating... Where am I in my life? I have no idea, feel pretty clueless actually. Clueless but happy, smiling and very curious about the future. No, my life hasn't always turned up as I expected it to. But, most of the time it hasn't been boring at all, oh no, and I mean in a good way. Some say I'm a bit crazy and should start being a bit more serious, some envy me, some just don't get it at all...but I've given up trying to please everyone. You simply can't. I can only be me and not allow other to try and change me, too much. Et voila!

The song is over, now Faithless's Bombs is playing.

'So much heaven, so much hell.
So much love, so much pain.
So much more than I thought this world could ever contain.'

God, I love music and the memories and thoughts it can bring with it.