Reading majic's journal

When I wanna get all sentimental and teary eyed about life and memories and all that mushy stuff... I put on some Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet, 1986... OMG, and the bad thing is, I got it when it came out that year... 11 years old, may GOD bless my soul, I was living in England on a US Air Force base at the time and I'd play that tape everynight to go to sleep by. Damn did that for years it'd seemed... That tape is highly ingrained into my brain. Haha... Damn and the music when I play it, it takes me back, fuck. No I am not drinking, unless Dr. Pepper counts. Just thought I'd clarify that.

Which reminds me, I need another Dr. Pepper...

Ok, where was I? Oh yeah, music and it's ability to take us back to places and times in our lives. The Bon Jovi memories are great, I was young, dumb, naive, still am, well not young, yeah fuck 30 is still young damnit. I had alot of fun, the kids there, the school dances and the memories of 5th and 6th grade.. Haha

Another cd that takes me back is Ian Van Dahl - Lost and Found. Pure female vocal trance goodness, takes me back to Hawaii 2004. Damn her voice, the beach, the warm air and that crystal clear water. The mountains that were 800 feet tall directly behind you as you stood on the beach thinking life cannot be this damn good. Yeah that's what it does, everytime I play a track. I can taste the air, feel the fight of those barracuda's pull my fishing line as I wade in the 3 foot surf at Kaneohe Bay... I can see Shelby running up and down the beach but scared to death of the waves. Yeah, that was fun and I can go back in an instant... the thoughts of the view after I climbed one of those 800 feet mountains and looked down on the island below, timeless, I definitely had to snap a pic of that.

Oh my, my heart is fluttering...

Not only music but photo's can do the same thing...

Another cd that does this to me is Kenny Chesney - When The Sun Goes Down... still takes me back to Hawaii but this time it reminds me of a friend I met there named Gary. We were driving in his Ford Expidition around the island and I popped in this cd and he instantly fell in love with it. I can hear him humming the words to "There Goes My Life"... Is there a door around here? Is there a way to travel in time... I wanna go back, just for an instant... I promise. Oh, life would be nothing without our memories and the things that'll take us back.

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Blessid Union of Souls - Ooh Virginia - takes me back to Virginia where I became a man, playing around in the country, fishing, living life and growing up.

Sara Evans - No Place That Far - Christmas 1998, Virginia, family, doin what families do...

Brad Paisley - Who Needs Pictures - 1999, Fayetteville, North Carolina, he gave a free concert at a little park and we all sat on the lawn and listened to this budding country star, how little did we know how big he'd become!

Candlebox - Sometimes - Oct, 1998, death of my best friend Kurt... My last memory of him was from August of the same year, we were in the Rappahannock river, wading (it's very shallow where we were) fishing, his fishing reel fucked up, screws came out and I helped him fix it... We talked about life stuff, he had just joined the Air Force and I was a PFC in the US Army... He had been to Airborne school (jumping from airplanes).. I promised him I'd do the same thing, I actually lived up to that promise. This song takes me back, puts me back in that same fishing hole, having fun, laughing, telling jokes.

breathing deep sighs! Shit.

Counting Crows - A Murder of One, Round Here - 1994 - 1995, back to Virginia I go, hanging out with Tim and Kenny. Doing all the normal friend shit, playing video games, basketball and pissing away all our money on music and other shit...

"In between the moon and you, angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right"

White Lion - When the Children Cry - 1995, reminds me of my girlfriend (who'd become my wife December of the next year) and the fragile times when you start a new relationship, yeah they were delicate but I had kid gloves and it all worked out. This song is with me, I play this one the piano almost everytime I sit down and play and escape to a musical world where pain does not reside...

Robert Miles - Children - My love of trance came to fruition during my year in Seoul, South Korea from Sept 2003 - Sept 2004... DJ Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold and Robert Miles come to immediate mind when I think about that time... It's like I'm right there again talking to my roommate about what ho's he's pimping... Damn he could play the game, he'd make any man jealous. He had new ho's like I changed my socks. He'd fuck'em and dump'em and move on. What a crazy d00d he was. *smiles* He loved Robert Miles - Children, only black d00d I ever met that listend to trance. God I love him! Haha.

Let's add my own music memories to this ;)

Kraftwerk - Die Roboter / The Robots - first listened to this sound around 1985 - 1986, when I was a child, starting to abuse the radio of my grandmother for this and other reasons - eg. irreparabely crashing the 'record'-button for the tape set. After that issue my parents gave me an own radio + tape recorder (MC player, whatever it's called anyway). That thing is still alive, although it probably fell down 1000s of times :D

The MC player is called Grundig RR 125 and if I'm very lucky I'll be able to find a picture of it on the net. Google didnt return anything, but I havent tried Dogpile and MetaGER yet.

The album this song belongs to of course is "Mensch-Maschine" from 1978 (two years before I was born). Another famous song of this album is called "Das Modell" / "The Model", later on covered by several bands including Rammstein.

Alice Cooper - Poison + Judas Priest - Painkiller - was on my very first own heavy metal CD, a sampler (around 1993 - 1994), some introduction to Heavy Metal. Also I was listing to this CD when I've started playing 3d-shooters like Wolfenstein 3D, Blakestone and Doom. Gave it a more hellish look than any sound card could do back then. ;)

Guns'N'Roses - Nighttrain - found on a tape I got from my father, recorded by the daughter of his new girlfriend back then, around 1992/1993. Originally from the "Appetite For Destruction"-album. My first encounter with hard rock and heavy metal. After that, I went straight on with AC/DC, Pantera, Sepultura, etc.

The Seer - Across The Border/Water - visited their free show at the "19. Bardentreffen" in Nurenberg (probably 1993-1994) with my father, bought one of their two tapes - "Winter '92" - and he bought the other one, "Land of Legends". That was my first start into fandome. Sadly they let me somewhat down with their last release, because on this one they didnt sound as supposes to be but just like 'yet another 08/15 standard scheme rock band'. Very dissappointing. Their former sound was very much influenced by The Hooters and similar irish and scottish folk, playing a different but also very impressing style of folk rock.

Sepultura - Chaos B.C. - first listened to on FM4 back then in 1994 - my first approach to IDM - Industrial(ized) Death Metal. To be found on the "Chaos A.D."-album.

Faith No More - The Last to Know - finally got that album 2 years after it got released, but have been listening to some tape recordings till then. Times of pain, times of grief, times of terror. I've started to sing to these songs a lot. Pro'ly helped to improve my voice. Now I 'simply' have to find proper folks to finally form a band with.

Fear Factory - Remanufacture - another step into IDM. Title track of the album with the same name. Been a fan of FF since then.

Eisregen - Krebskolonie - from the now on the german index (= official German black list) set album with the same name. Strange: if it's in german, everyone looks at the texts, but if its somebody spitting around in english, nobody gives a fuck about, even if it's about slaughter, murder and rape (eg. Cannibal Corpse). Narrow-minded idiots.

This song was one of several others which were nearly always played on Totentanz - in a row, together with Burzum's Dunkelheit from the "Filosofem"-album and some 1-2 additional songs to fade over and back from the usual gothic-stuff and later on mostly EBM crap they started to play before the sudden end of this fine event around February 2005.

Slipknot - Inside my shell - reminds me of me listening to this album all the time when I made a short visit to The Netherlands around 2000 / 2001. First slip into Nu-Metal, back then we didnt call it that way.

Summoning - The Passing Of The Grey Company - reminds me of my time in Göppingen when I tried (and failed) to study Wirtschaftsinformatik. This CD was one of the albums I listened regulary to. It's put into a very own sub-genre called 'Tolkien Metal'. I'd be very happy if somebody tries to replace the classic music used in LOTR with this stuff. It was great, is great and gonna stays great. I remember the evenings when it went dark outside, I was sitting on the small balcony, my face lit only by the few red grave candles I used to lit and listening to this sound while the city came to rest.

The Excrementory Grindfuckers - Fertig machen, Szene putzen! - the whole album. We like it very much. We, that's me and my beloved one. Released 2004, first listened to a few weeks before my birthday this year (17th of September 2005). Prefered songs out of this album are e.g.: "Ganz In Grind", "Grindcore Joe", "Mexicore", "Karamba, Karacho, Ein Grindcore" and of course the uber-song "Im Graben Vor Mir" ;)

cu, w0lf.

NP: Nokturnal Mortum - The Funeral Wind Born In Oriana (yet another piece of remembrance :D)

Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign for a diseased mind!

This post was edited by ginsterbusch on Nov 24, 2005.