YorkeDaddy

Think of, for a moment, a song or an album that means something to you.

It doesn't have to be your favorite album or song. It doesn't have to be something you often revisit.

If you're on this forum, that means you share a passion. Everyone has a passion or passions for something, and for all of us, music is a central dynamic in the roller-coaster ride that we call life. Some people are casual music listeners that just listen for enjoyment or because they like to dance, and there's nothing wrong with that. But then there's us. I personally feel a direct emotional and psychological connection with the music I truly love, to the point where people unlike me have trouble understanding what exactly it is I feel about some songs and why I even feel it.

That's why this is going to be a hard journal to write, but not one that I will get bored with. I could gush for days about what some songs mean to me, but it will never really come out right. These are relate-able works of art that have guided me through processing some of the deepest, most complex emotions that frankly no one in the history of mankind has been able to truly articulate. If you've ever truly been in love with someone, have you ever heard or read a definition that honestly encompasses the feelings that accompany such a powerful emotion? The answer is no, because it's impossible, but artists have come damn close to describing that feeling and dozens of other feelings, and those are the songs that touch me the most.

Enter August of 2012. Where am I at this point in my life? I'm driving three hours from my home to begin the most important chapter of my existence: I'm moving away from my parents and starting college. I'm on my own. I was scared and worried, but outside of my inner conscience I came across as excited and optimistic, so I guess I'm just a compulsive liar. What song could have possibly helped me relate to something as amazingly profound as finally leaving the comfort of your parents' protection and guidance?



Now, as a disclaimer, I am in no way, shape, or form a seventeen year-old girl. But what I am is a human being, and this song is one of the most raw displays of humanity that I've ever heard, which is why it's one of the most timelessly wonderful songs I will ever know. Frankly, I don't even know much about Broken Social Scene. I've listened to most of their stuff and I hardly even like any of it. But somehow, someway, way back in 2002 when they were working on "You Forgot It in People," they came up with something so powerful that it transcends what almost any other song has conveyed.

Now, you may not agree, but I am speaking from the heart. I would have this song on repeat for the next six months or so. I know every word because there's only a handful of them, and they are repeated over and over until the message is engrained in your brain until you will never forget them. "Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me", approximately eighteen times in a row for almost the entire 2/3 of the song. It sounds so silly but overwhelms me with emotion every time I hear it. Even today, playing this song, I flashback to those first few weeks, sitting at my laptop in my dorm room, realizing that a new chapter in my life has began and there's really no going back.

"Used to be one of the rotten ones and I like you for that/Now you're all gone, got your make-up on, and you're not coming back". Amidst feelings of being lost and not ready for the future, Broken Social Scene crafted something that hit all the right notes in my heart. While I'm no longer in such an emotional state, I still come back to this song to remember just what it was like. It's a nostalgic song, reminiscing of things passed while foreshadowing the future, and it's a song I'll never forget.

Thank you for reading, if you did. I plan on continuing this journal and each entry will be in a similar light, so if you really want to read about how music and a listener can really connect, this is the journal to follow.

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Woo-hoo! A new journal from Bryan! Delighted to see you back man and looking forward to reading about what moves you in the music you love. Will be following this closely.

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YorkeDaddy

Glad to see that I have at least one excited fan! I felt like this was the best route to go if I were to have a journal because it's a topic I'm the most likely to keep up with. I think there might be times I'll make an entry about something else entirely too, so hopefully this can be an enlightening and eclectic journal that sticks around for a long time!

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Writing An Album: Take 2


Creating an album is a daunting task, especially when you're doing all of it by yourself.

That means you have to not only write, but also create every note yourself. It's a painstaking process. Maybe I'm a masochist. I already hate winter enough, and then I decide on a whim to put enormous pressure on myself to create a cool album.

Maybe that's what drove me to make this. In a recent PM to Trollheart, I said something to the effect of, "I don't plan on making music like this anymore". And then right away I decided to compile an album.

A lot of the work was already done over the past few months when I made little tracks off and on. I love ambient electronic music, and making it myself is a blast. I worked tirelessly for several days to fix up some of the older tracks I had and make some new ones to bring the album together as a cohesive work.

I even finished sooner than I expected, and was more satisfied than I thought I would be with it. I didn't even take the easy way out like most ambient electronic producers do by just making a whole album out of a couple simple ideas. I took those couple simple ideas, and made it a two minute song rather than a ten minute song. There's a lot of unique content here that I worked hard on.

I think the album is a perfect representation of my peace of mind. It's a winter album. Cold, bare, minimalistic. Wistful. Constantly building up as it trudges through the deep snow and bitter cold that lay outside the warm doors of where we're most comfortable. I hope someone here grows to appreciate it the way I appreciate what I managed to create.

Everywhere and In Between | Daydream Society

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I've just downloaded this. Will take some time to soak in it and then let you have my opinion, maybe do a review. Be interesting to see what you created on your own...

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DRUNKEN RAMBLINGS WITH YORKEDADDY: SONGS THAT SUCK BUT ACTUALLY DON'T

Hello there, and welcome to Drunken Ramblings With Yorkedaddy, where I pick something and ramble about it whilst drunk. And today, I'm going to ramble about another one of my favorite songs ever and why it should be one of your favorite songs ever too even though it sucks.



First off, some history behind the band. Bombay Bicycle Club is a few British blokes that have released three albums so far, and all of them are absolutely awful. I mean frankly this is some seriously uninteresting attempts at indie folk and there's only three minutes and fifty-five seconds out of their whole catalog that has ever truly interested me, and it's this song right here.

Now I don't know how the hell stuff like this happens, and by stuff like this I mean crappy bands coming up with impeccable tunes. Maybe an actually good songwriter came up to them with the idea for this song and was like hey, do this. And then they did it, and I love the **** out of it.

The first few seconds you are greeted with the coolest bouncy piano riff I've ever heard, and it's frankly the crux of the song. The bridge fades it in along with some thick bass and it's just overwhelmingly cool for some reason, despite the fact that this band is ass in every other realm.

The lyrics are actually really cool. "Weight is coming off/Soaring high/Pleading you to stay/Come alive" is the opening verse which accompanies the piano riff. All of it just invokes feelings of pure joy and nostalgia in me. It just makes me want to bop my head and revel in everything in life that makes me happy, despite me having no idea what it's actually supposed to be about. Why is the song called "Shuffle"? I have no idea, because it makes no damn sense because the dudes in this band are not actually smart and they got lucky to make such a sweet ****ing song.

"Once you get the feeling, it/Wants you back for more/Says it's gonna heal it, but/You won't make the call/One step back you're leaving it/Now it's moving on/Why won't you believe in it/'till it's gone?"

I think these guys are talking about themselves here. Once you get the feeling it wants you back for more is referring to this song. I feel like I want to listen to this song all the damn time, and I keep thinking I'm going to actually like this band ("Says it's gonna heal it but you won't make the call"), but I never actually do like them ("One step back, you're leaving it, now it's moving on") and I refuse to accept that they actually deserve to take the credit for writing such a good song ("Why won't you believe in it"), but then I realize that maybe I'm taking such a wonderful tune for granted ("'till it's gone?") and then I give Bombay Bicycle Club the proper credit it deserves.

So kudos to you, Bombay Bicycle Club. Your track, "Shuffle," which is the sixth track on your album "A Different Kind of Fix," is one of my favorite songs I've ever heard. It's bouncy, joyous, and everything I love about music. I can close my eyes and listen to it and feel happy as that piano riff echoes through my brain.

But everything else you've made sucks dick.

#journaloftheyear2014

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Great jounal btw.

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Justin Bieber - Believe

2/10

I can't believe I agreed to listen to this.

The production is actually quite solid, but that doesn't change the fact that this is horribly bland songwriting and horribly off-putting attempts at R&B vocals.

I gave it a chance. I don't hate it just because it's Bieber, I hate it because it's not good.

And now I shall delete this album and never speak of it again. Blegh.

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So I don't feel like writing but I feel like I need some sort of semi-meaningful entry this week, so here's my 100 favorite albums:

Yeah, seriously:

100. Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
99. Deafheaven - Sunbather
98. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
97. The New Pornographers - Electric Version
96. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
95. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
94. Deerhunter- Microcastle
93. Efterklang - Tripper
92. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
91. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
90. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra
89. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
88. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
87. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
86. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
85. Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
84. The Books - Thought For Food
83. Crystal Castles - II
82. Red House Painters - Rollercoaster
81. Jeff Buckley - Grace
80. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
79. The Strokes - Is This It
78. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
77. Purity Ring - Shrines
76. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
75. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
74. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
73. The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger
72. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
71. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
70. Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
69. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
68. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
67. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
66. The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
65. Joy Division - Closer
64. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
63. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
62. David Bowie - Low
61. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
60. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
59. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
58. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
57. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
56. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
55. The National - Alligator
54. The Cure - Disintegration
53. Ride - Nowhere
52. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
51. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
50. The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
49. Nirvana - Nevermind
48. Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
47. These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
46. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
45. Radiohead - In Rainbows
44. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
43. Brian Eno - Another Green Worlds
42. Beach House - Bloom
41. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
40. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
39. Los Campesinos! - No Blues
38. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
37. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
36. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
35. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
34. Radiohead - The Bends
33. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
32. The Microphones - The Glow Pt 2
31. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
30. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
29. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
28. Arcade Fire - Funeral
27. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
26. Radiohead - OK Computer
25. The National - Alligator
24. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
23. The xx - xx
22. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
21. Lanterns on the Lake - Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
20. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
19. The National - High Violet
18. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
17. Yo La Tengo - I Can Feel the Heart Beating As One
16. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
15. The Olivia Tremor Control - Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle
14. Slowdive - Souvlaki
13. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
12. Last Dinosaurs - In a Million Years
11. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
10. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
9. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
8. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
7. Elliott Smith - XO
6. Radiohead - Kid A
5. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
4. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
3. The National - Boxer
2. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
1. The Antlers - Hospice

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