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Baptised by Fire
It's rather often on here I have to answer the question,
"Paloma, what do you even listen to?" You all know that my favorite band is the Clash and that I love Lady Gaga but there has to be more than that, right?So now I'm starting a journal to show you all what I really listen to, and what I really love. I will also probably be filling this journal with my playlists, because I have a tendency to make playlists for everything, from rain to exboyfriends to various drugs. So onward! |
Oh yay. I'm rather excited. Even though I don't listen to this type of music often I'm excited for you and a your way with words too :D Good luck Boaby ;)
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Awesome, looking forward to this.
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I know a little more about your music taste than that but this will be interesting none the less. Looking forward to it!
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Will you be presenting some Falco ?
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^If there isn't Falco, why is this even here?
But anyways... this should be cool. I always enjoy some good ol playlists, particularly other people's that I can play and act like I know about. |
Very excited about this.
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So finally an update! I'm currently obsessing over so many things right now, so I'll list them and tell some about them Family Fodder I've been absolutely crazy about Family Fodder ever since Cold Wars came onto my recommendations radio, and I've passed along their albums whenever I had the chance, so I've made it known on here about them...but ANYWAY Cool story really, listen to this: At 29 seconds in, comes a lyric that took me ****ing ages to work out. Hugo and I (Unchained Ballad to you dudes) had been trying to work out the lyrics to the song for, like I said ages. I mean, I was totally sure it was "nuclear ferret". Come to find out, lead singer Alig Fodder has a myspace, so I befriended him in hopes I could pluck up the courage to ask him what the **** he's saying.....so eventually I DO! I finally message him, telling him about our confusion and asking what the hell nuclear ferrets are. He responds within a DAY, laughing about nuclear ferrets and telling me about how he's in vaca in Greece and that he'll be thinking of it when he goes back home. And to my surprise, he actually DOES! Come to find out, it's nuke deferrent. I was dumbfounded at how goddamn nice he was! I mean, the singer of a band you're obsessing over, being so kind as to find out the lyrics to a song he wrote before you were even born? ****ing win. Oh, not only that I found this today: http://i35.tinypic.com/2zsv2qg.jpg Not giving a **** someone's just putting his stuff out like that on a blogspot, just giving a **** cause he thinks All Styles sucks (it doesn't) what a cool mother****er. Essential Logic Seriously, goddamn. Essential Logic is ****ing amazing. I can't even explain why or how much I love them. Lora Logic, the saxophonist/lead singer was in X Ray Spex, but Essential Logic is so much better Seriously. That's all I got for now Palomadeus out! |
Awesome bands.
And that Alig Fodder sounds truly rad. You really should post your LadyPunx comp on here. |
I'm gonna have to check out Essential Logic. Chick's got a nice voice.
WRITE MOAR! You've got amazing taste. :love: |
Essential Logic is my favorite early punk band. The female singer & saxophonist, Lora Logic, was the co-founder of X-Ray Spex along with Polly Styrene. Essential Logic's recent compilation Fanfare in the Garden should be in every early punk music fan's collection. I don't think I've ever heard a mention of Essential Logic in MB, so she gets a thumbs up from me for selecting such a great band.
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So there's been a bit of ruckus over this "I'm not too fond of female vocalists", and frankly it bothers me. This is a journal that's supposed to inform you of what I listen to, so I think it's time to come out of the dark and show you, dear readers, the light. Most people know that I grew up listen to punk, and I consider it one of the most female friendly genres. In the past few years I have been delving more into female-fronted and all female bands, after coming upon the bands I mentioned in my first entry. I have found a wealth that makes me wonder why I'd never touched the vast lands that my fellow women have created. It smashes all preconcieved notions of women in music. The "women in rock" of our times have nothing on the ones I have discovered. But this has been a long time coming, I have now only realised the profound influence of estrogen flavoured punk on my life. Here is where my journey begins: I would count this as my first female oriented band: The Distillers. Just imagine my thirteen year old self, with my Johnny Rotten hair cut,"Oh my god, my mom will hate this!" (She did). Obviously I didn't know much, but I stumbled on a little taste of greatness. Coral Fang, their final album, will always be my go-to break up album. And yeah, she doesn't need to be sweet sounding, so **** you. The Distillers may have been my first, but the Slits will always be my best loved. I remember hearing it for the first time on my copy of No Thanks! The Punk Rebellion collection, sitting on my yellow shag carpet with the stereo cranked up so I could feel the bass bounce off my skin. "What the **** is this weird ****?" I remember thinking when the choppy guitar starts and then, some girl (A GIRL) comes in with "Don't create, don't rebel" in her wonderful sarcastic way. The Slits were my type of women, and Typical Girls was my sneering "I've got all my sisters and me" anthem. X may only have one lady in the band,but who the **** cares. Exene Cervenka is a powerhouse; a brilliant songwriter/poet & babymama to Viggo Mortensen (srsly). Exene is who I aspire to be in life, she is just so cool. Vi Subversa is another one of my heroes. A former housewife, at 40something she basically said "fuck this" and formed what would become Crass's sister band, Poison Girls to voice her disgust with how women are treated. How cool is she? Dominique Levillain has one of the sexiest voices I've ever heard, not to mention I love her sarcasm and self deprecation. but you probably already know these already, but if you don't, you suck. Anyway! Recently, I've discovered some real gems. Like the Long Blondes, for example. So resonant of all the things I loved as a young girl, but a little bit more tailored to well read broads. Ipso Facto. I love their creepiness, and the singer's voice is beautiful. KASMs! So hopefully, if you have read this, you've come out of it with a little bit more knowledge of both what I listen to, and how diverse the output of women in music is. Until next time one of you assholes pisses me off: Bye bye! |
So I haven't posted in a while, but a recent catalyst in my life has almost forced me to have an outlet for expressing myself better, and being more honest so here I am. Since I've finally begun listening to music again instead of the same thing over and over, I guess it's time to share what I was listen to in those periods:
Today's lesson: Britpop & Happiness I have a majour hard on for British things in general, their culture has always fascinated me for some reason, especially in finding something to relate to growing up. I live in a small town and have hardly any connection with locals, so music, books, writing have always been my escape. This week I'm really feeling these. I'm sure everyone is familiar with this one, but it's always been of my favourite Stone Roses songs in general. It's so beautiful and creepy and enigmatic. The Stone Roses are a band I often forget about though, when my life gets all flip turned upside down (;) ) I have to listen to things that complement my mood, much like a crazy person takes pills. I Wanna Be Adored is perfectly mirroring me lately, I've grown up thinking that I didn't have to be "normal" like everyone else, I was already born a weirdo. And that was totally okay, I mean, I didn't have to "sell my soul" to become something I wasn't and if someone else was writing and playing it in a popular song, I must not be so alone in the world. :) Bye Bye Badman has been stuck with me for years, I've always considered it a break up song (it isn't) but again I interpret things as personal because that truly is the purpose of any artistic endeavour. To me it reflects my struggles with fuckboys that I constantly go through and again, the aformentioned weirdness that I always think scares them away. So I throw stones at them, hoping to make them bleed, all I want is my revenge, my pound of flesh so to speak. But I'm getting better. Which brings me to: My personal favourite, Waterfall. Whenever I've been down and needed to be bring myself back up, I listen to Waterfall. It reminds me of how many awful things I've been through I have the strength within me to figure them out, no matter what. "She'll carry on through it all, she's a waterfall". Plus it's just a pretty song. It just reflects to me that I don't need to do stupid **** to pick myself up, but the next song teaches me to forgive myself for the things I've done and makes me better understand myself: After all my hard work, I've finally found what I've been waiting for in life and finished the puzzle, for now. This is everything I've been waiting for, and I'm finally ready to move on to bigger and better things, what with my big move to San Fran coming up and everything. Until next time :) |
I have yet to listen to every song there. But I wanted to comment on something. I was also born a 'weirdo'. I know we criticize ourselves with these labels. But seriously I was always alienated from everyone else just for being who I am. I could do nothing to change the person I was. And it depressed me over the long run because I started to believe what everyone else believed. That something was wrong with me (just for the sake of being me and no other reason). I started to hate myself and feel like life was not worth living. Or that if life was worth living I'd never have anything to offer it and I'd never be accepted.
I won't patronize you and say 'hang in there champ'. But I will say to you that while I may not understand everything going on in your life (because it's your life and not mine)...there are many of us out here that feel similar or the same. So.....thanks for the music weirdo. I mean buddy...pal......weirdo....(damn I said it again).... Now I'll listen to the songs! And oh I also distract myself with writing and other things that people would consider 'weird'. I love RPGs and games. I like making up my own games. I've been revisiting the idea of M.U.D.s or text based only games. You know...pick your name, race, gender, profession... So I escape too when I can, just like you ;) |
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Bye Bye Badman used to be my favourite. I always connected with the concept/theme of the song ('68 student riots in Paris) and the way the song develops.
The demo is awesome. |
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