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Too late to drop the drawbridge
Mar. 30th, 2012 11:01 amDay 11: Your top three favorite bands.
I'm going to cheat a little bit because I can't narrow it down to three, but can do so to four.
My favourite band in the history of the universe is Massive Attack. They've been my favourite band since I was 15, and I can't see that changing any time soon. I love them in particular for their clever lyrics, and for their careful blending of diamond-hard sharpness with soft darkness, for their ethereal vocals mixed with deep earthy music that you feel in your stomach.
For example:
I blog about them here.
My second-favourite band is The Knife. I love them again for the lyrics, for Karin Dreijer-Andersson's discordant vocals, for the way their cheerful, poppy sound belies the painful, disturbing nature of their words. See, for example:
Also:
My third-favourite band is a tie between Pendulum and Florence + The Machine. Pendulum indulges my love of bass. I listen to them when I write my thesis, when I clean, when I exercise. For some reason it just makes me want to get stuff done. Their music seems perfectly designed to work with the way I understand and react to music (that is, it tells me stories and shows me images). I blogged about Pendulum here.
Their music is, I think, best represented by this:
I was a latecomer to Florence + The Machine, but when I finally gave them a chance, wow! It wouldn't work without Florence Welch's voice, but I am a lyrics woman at heart, and what really sold it for me was those words. She sings the things I think but don't dare to articulate, even to myself. The truths she sings hurt me, they are so true. I blog about Florence + The Machine here
The songs of hers that mean the most to me personally are:
and:
Well, it looks like I've blogged about all my favourite music save The Knife. I guess that'll have to be remedied at some point.
Sometimes I think it's crazy, how much music means to me, how much I identify with it, but I just feel so much, so deeply, and am so affected by stuff in my life that I need these external things, these sad girls who sing darkly about my life, these heroines of literature and television whose stories I feel as if they are my own, in order to cope with the extremity of emotion. I know that sounds self-centred and adolescent, and it is, but I'm sick of feeling that it's something for which I should apologise. I feel. I am.
( the other days )
I'm going to cheat a little bit because I can't narrow it down to three, but can do so to four.
My favourite band in the history of the universe is Massive Attack. They've been my favourite band since I was 15, and I can't see that changing any time soon. I love them in particular for their clever lyrics, and for their careful blending of diamond-hard sharpness with soft darkness, for their ethereal vocals mixed with deep earthy music that you feel in your stomach.
For example:
I blog about them here.
My second-favourite band is The Knife. I love them again for the lyrics, for Karin Dreijer-Andersson's discordant vocals, for the way their cheerful, poppy sound belies the painful, disturbing nature of their words. See, for example:
Also:
My third-favourite band is a tie between Pendulum and Florence + The Machine. Pendulum indulges my love of bass. I listen to them when I write my thesis, when I clean, when I exercise. For some reason it just makes me want to get stuff done. Their music seems perfectly designed to work with the way I understand and react to music (that is, it tells me stories and shows me images). I blogged about Pendulum here.
Their music is, I think, best represented by this:
I was a latecomer to Florence + The Machine, but when I finally gave them a chance, wow! It wouldn't work without Florence Welch's voice, but I am a lyrics woman at heart, and what really sold it for me was those words. She sings the things I think but don't dare to articulate, even to myself. The truths she sings hurt me, they are so true. I blog about Florence + The Machine here
The songs of hers that mean the most to me personally are:
and:
Well, it looks like I've blogged about all my favourite music save The Knife. I guess that'll have to be remedied at some point.
Sometimes I think it's crazy, how much music means to me, how much I identify with it, but I just feel so much, so deeply, and am so affected by stuff in my life that I need these external things, these sad girls who sing darkly about my life, these heroines of literature and television whose stories I feel as if they are my own, in order to cope with the extremity of emotion. I know that sounds self-centred and adolescent, and it is, but I'm sick of feeling that it's something for which I should apologise. I feel. I am.
( the other days )