So I guess I've got no choice but to sit here and blog like a social shut-in troll with nothing better to do than be ignored by people putting hand sanitizer on their hands.
(Granted I've got a big final coming up in college algebra, but I'm not feeling Donna's study guides much at the moment.) Hence, I'm blogging.
I've got a couple music posts in my feed, looks like this week's assignment is about music. I know I'm supposed to be done with Hell's Angels by now, but let's be honest, as brilliant as Dr. T is, he's a bit hard to get through. So I'll save my second quarter book review until later this week.
Music, music, where am I supposed to start. Being stereotyped as a hipster I listen to bands you've probably never heard of, ie. Father John Misty, the Head and the Heart, War on Drugs, POLIÇA, Tame Impala, Animal Collective and Atlas Sound and then probably the more popular alternative groups you have heard of, ie. Florence + the Machine, Mumford and Sons, the xx, the Black Keys, MGMT (not Electric Feel or Kids), and no, I don't think Neon Trees is alternative, although I do enjoy Everybody Talks. Also the Shins. If you don't listen to the Shins then who the hell are you?
Lately and excessively I've been listening to a lot of EDM (I hate Skrillex), like Gemini and the M Machine and Feed Me (and you probably won't know them unless you're Will or Orville or awesome). But I've not always been a huge EDM fan, and although I'm getting into it right now, it's not my absolute favorite. Yet.
This is tough, because I haven't exactly got an all-time favorite song or all-time favorite band. Led Zeppelin is probably one of my favorites, along with the M Machine, FJM, Metric, Flo+ and MGMT, but I've got favorite songs for specific instances.
For example, the song Don't Think Twice, It's Alright by Bob Dylan has always been and will always be my ultimate break-up song. Immigrants and Immigrant Song and Kiss Off by the M Machine, Led Zep and the Violent Femmes will always be rage songs. Never Let Me Go by Flo+ off Ceremonials will forever and always be the most romantic song I've ever heard.
The song that keeps coming up in my head as a favorite though is actually two songs. The first one I found on my own, and although it's off Time to Pretend, it's, in my opinion, true MGMT. The song is called Indie Rokkers and it's pure gold.
The chorus goes, and I have this memorized, I found blood and I saw stars/all in the backseat of your car/and I told you it was love/but you don't wanna know the truth/I'm a young man in my prime/but my heart's still filled with fear/and it goes on bleedin'. I really really REALLY enjoy this song, don't know why, but it's not really like any other songs I've heard and certainly has a more grunge-ish sound to it than the rest of their stuff.
The second song is called Oh Lord by an artist called Foxy Shazam and it was actually on a CD burned for me by Brogan. This song is basically my entire life story. To get past the beginning of the music video you can't get creeped by his message to his kid, but once you do, I promise you will be hopelessly sexually attracted to every member of the band and I don't understand why this happens to me EVERY TIME.
Anyway, I fell in love with the song before I even saw the music video because the chorus really gets to me. It has a naughty word in it but what the hell.
'Cause there is always a wrong to your right
and there will always be a war somewhere to fight
and God knows I've had some rough f*ckin' years
oooh, I'm alive, I'm alive,
keep on keepin' on.
I identify so much to this song it's insane. (I can also identify very well to Indie Rokkers, but let's not go there.) The lyrics are basically my life, after being diagnosed with a mood disorder and other super personal stuff, but hey, I'm alive.
Kids, just remember-- the hardest thing you will ever do is walk.
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