music & personal association
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timepiececlockThe artist/band "Bright Eyes" was ruined for me for over a year, especially the song "Lover I Don’t Have to Love", which I'll happily never listen to again. Or at least not for five or six years. Anyway, Bright Eyes was ruined for me because I was introduced to their songs by my first university dorm roommate. She was crazy. (Not the cute, fun kind of crazy where there are penguins and oddly put together sentences; the paranoid nasty kind of crazy. I was so put off by her craziness that even after she moved out and I got a new roommate (who was a lovely person and NOT crazy), I still went all the way till the end of the school year before refering to her as a "psycho bitch" to people who asked. Now that it's been over half a year since I lived in that dorm house, I feel quite happy refering to her as the psycho bitch without an LJ friends-lock, thankyouverymuch. My inbred courtesy for not speaking poorly about others behind their backs (to people who's business its not) has a statute of limitations.)
Anyway, she played this Bright Eyes CD, especially that song, ALL THE TIME. I've only once before had a song so negatively associated with a personal experience that I couldn't stand to hear it (the song "Crash Into Me" by Dave Mathews Band, for a mortifyingly embarassing moment with an older crush), and that lasted about three years. Then, like nothing, one day my negative association with the song was just gone. *POOF!* No more embarassment, it just stopped. Now I love "Crash Into Me."
I still have no desire to hear "Lover I Don’t Have to Love" (which I doubt I'd like anyway even if not for her because it had the sound of emo indie pretentious acoustic stuff that doesn't come off as "raw", just as something with no effort put into it), but I have recently thought about hearing other Bright Eyes songs, seeing if I like them. I think I've heard a few on the radio this year with more interesting instrumentals, but I don't normally listen to the radio so I don't remember much.
What are your favorite Bright Eyes songs? Do you like them/him at all?
Anyway, she played this Bright Eyes CD, especially that song, ALL THE TIME. I've only once before had a song so negatively associated with a personal experience that I couldn't stand to hear it (the song "Crash Into Me" by Dave Mathews Band, for a mortifyingly embarassing moment with an older crush), and that lasted about three years. Then, like nothing, one day my negative association with the song was just gone. *POOF!* No more embarassment, it just stopped. Now I love "Crash Into Me."
I still have no desire to hear "Lover I Don’t Have to Love" (which I doubt I'd like anyway even if not for her because it had the sound of emo indie pretentious acoustic stuff that doesn't come off as "raw", just as something with no effort put into it), but I have recently thought about hearing other Bright Eyes songs, seeing if I like them. I think I've heard a few on the radio this year with more interesting instrumentals, but I don't normally listen to the radio so I don't remember much.
What are your favorite Bright Eyes songs? Do you like them/him at all?
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Re: Garbage Songs.
Date: 2006-02-19 11:00 am (UTC)I don't have time to listen to this mashup tonight, but it's now on my iPod for tomorrow's consumption! Mash-ups are touch and go for me. Most of them I only listen to a few times until the novelty wears off, but occasionally one works really well and I love it.
I'm curious about "Wings of Steel" and "Let It Go", if the offer still stands!
Re: Garbage Songs.
Date: 2006-02-20 06:09 am (UTC)"Let It Go" - The Clarks: s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2RM30SJI5GWM11H0GL5NDG3ZP0
"Ode to Joy" - Ludwig von Beethoven: s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1M9CF3FDHL4583IPSQQ59H9DVB
(The "Ode to Joy" is 23 minutes long. It's from the full 9th which I have on CD. So, if it takes a while to DL, don't be alarmed.)
A few more recommendations, that I believe you'd like.
"white rabbit" - Collide: s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2C2G06STW2IRZ1BDG4JCHRP8GJ
Interesting cover of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit".
"Life in Mono" - Mono: s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3IQB1FYU27CHA29KOLURYJ0X7A
One hit wonder. Was featured in the Ethan Hawke, Gwenyth Paltrow remake of Great Expectations in ... I want to say '97? Beautiful voice, beautiful music.
"She Will Have Her Way" - Neil Finn: s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2SJPBNZTZEGNB1JD7LCZ7ITOD1
I heard this in an episode of the criminally short-lived series Sports Night. I used to have more music by NF, but it went the way of a lot of music of mine. Into the abyss. :( Very easy-listening, and since I know you listen to similar sounding artists, you'd dig it. Great track all around.
"In The Name of the Father" - Bono, Gavin Friday: s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1QH3FKIE24RFK2ZMUGETQE3SCE
Prefaced, of course, the fantastic 1993 Daniel Day-Lewis film of the same name. I love the mixture of Irish music and more contemporary stuff. If you listen to the lyrics, they tell the story the movie was about.
"Full Moon, Empty Heart" - Belly: s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3EJX3JIZWMYB40IVIB46JLJ7QF
Heard this song in an early episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. It's so freaking sad. I've seen many people debate the meaning of the lyrics, but I'm pretty convinced it's a woman singing about the loss of a child and how it has affected her.
Oh, and I wanted to ask - were you interested in getting ahold of the new Placebo?
Re: Garbage Songs.
Date: 2006-02-20 06:12 am (UTC)Thanks particularly for the full version of Ode To Joy; I like complete songs over abridged versions, always.
I have the Placebo greatest hits CD, is that the one you mean? I got it last year, so it's not really new... "Twenty Years" is sooooooo my Gungrave song.
Re: Garbage Songs.
Date: 2006-02-20 06:16 am (UTC)The Placebo? Oh, no. It's not the Greatest Hits. It's the upcoming, hasn't-been-titled-yet album. I obtained it from a super sekrit source.
Re: Garbage Songs.
Date: 2006-02-20 06:21 am (UTC)You've got my curiosity up.
Re: Garbage Songs.
Date: 2006-02-20 06:30 am (UTC)I'm wondering when the movie is going to take place? Within the anime, like Bebop? Or will it be post-series? Our SSS hasn't found out anything, has she?
Re: Garbage Songs.
Date: 2006-02-20 06:46 am (UTC)Your wacky logic is not wacky at all. Just send it to enemygateisdown@gmail.com .
I'm wondering when the movie is going to take place? Within the anime, like Bebop? Or will it be post-series? Our SSS hasn't found out anything, has she?
I've got no idea, and I've been neglecting my flist lately so it's possible I might have missed the news if she had found out anything.
I kind of want it to be mid-series, a self-contained storyline. 1, because I am greedy and want more Wolfwood. 2, I really like the complete open-endedness of the anime's ending. We have no idea what's going to happen from here on out, but that's perfect because that's what Vash's life is at that moment. He's going to make his own destiny now, no longer driven by guilt over Rem or fear/responsibility from Knives. He's got his brother and he's got his blank ticket to the future and who knows what may come to pass? I loved the symmetry of that ending and would hate to lose it.
I also worry that if it was post-series, it might be rushed, like trying to make an entire sequel series worth of plots fit into a single movie. In contrast, a mid-series movie would allow for a better written and more focused plot, with more attention to characters and less running from fight to fight.
Or it could do the Escaflowne thing-- be a condensed remake of the series. Who knows how that would turn out.
On the other hand... a post-series movie WOULD be cool because it means finding out what happens next. Do Vash and Meryl ever get together? Do Meryl and Milly break up? What does Vash do with Knives? With a single movie entire years worth of post-series fanfiction would be jossed.
Re: Garbage Songs.
Date: 2006-02-20 07:02 am (UTC)I'd love to see them keep with the anime canon, honestly. Trigun's anime was rather strong in representing Nightow's ideas and plans for characters. He's just taking his freakin' time about it, but the great thing about that is everything and everyone is fleshed out. I never completely understood what was going on in Trigun's anime until I started with the manga. I found a place online with Maximum scans, which I'm so glad, because he's up to Volume 11 and I'm dyin' to know what he's doing now.
As for where in the anime, it'd be interesting to cover what everyone was doing in that two year time gap. However, the downside of that is ... the four "main" characters wouldn't interact.
Post-series, I'm with you. I'm not that hot on the idea, but I AM curious as to what happened to everybody. You know Nightow will be closely invovled with any movie and I bet he'll drop in some good bits. Vash and Knives aren't immortal, and I wonder if a post-series movie would reveal that? Then again, I don't want to watch a damn movie and have them die at the end. That would suck. Blah.
More Garbage - the GOOD Garbage. :D
Date: 2006-02-20 07:35 am (UTC)Beautiful Garbage: s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2S5VJVHPJBZ0J2D9RUYILGGP5U