Topic: The Music Thread

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@Ravix @GirlVersusGame @FuriousMachine and just like that! Something goes off in my head, like a light switch of sorts. As fast as bipolar, but in a positive sense. I have this craving to feed the side of me that loves synthwave music like this, or similar tunes that are far from metal as it gets. My ears, my mind and my soul are bound by nothing when it comes to music. Its liberating.

"Guilty pleasures" one would say? I say F you! "never feel guilty pleasures!" Cause who the F are you? If anything ,they are guilty. Guilty of being closed minded and binding themselves to how society thinks things should be labeled or categorized. Are they their own person? They can't be if they choose to be bound by something as simple as the act of listening to music.

I would love the diehard Slayer fan to be before me. Mocking me for playing air drums to "the crooked cross" one minute and then spending the next week listening to this! Go ahead, mock me. It just confirms that my spirit is free and you are bound by societies unwritten rules on structures, image and persona. You are the weak ones and we are strong and free. We are all human in the end, made up of the same compounds that form our flesh and blood. No matter our tastes, color, religious beliefs, age, orientation. All Indians, no chiefs! Unfortunately, most Indians choose to be bound by something in this world. Therefore, we do not all unite as one. Their loss....

I'm having a "get on top of a mountain and scream to the world how amazing all music is" moment and I tagged you guys because i know you can relate. I'm sure there are others here too, but I am new here. A shout out to those who I left out because I am green, not on purpose.

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@StitchJones I would love the diehard Slayer fan to be before me. Mocking me for playing air drums to "the crooked cross" one minute and then spending the next week listening to this!

• I know one or two of the ones you posted, you won't know mine. I haven't listened to any English music today. That last one is kind of Metal, but also not in English.

If you clicked any of those I did give a warning first, though maybe you like the first one it's kind of synth'y, even if you don't understand the words. I don't have guilty pleasures per-say, if it sounds good to my ears I just go for it, from a lot of classical (mostly all I listened to today) to jazz, then onto pop or rock, sometimes a little rap but rarely in English because I'm not sure what they are saying, a little techno, pretty much anything. I feel like I've head that first one you've posted, I'm not sure where.

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@StitchJones The first one is one of my favorite French songs, modern at least. That third one was my Britney Spears, then I actually heard Britney Spears and had one of those Inception moments, that happened a lot with Pop. I think with Rap it's the use of double meanings and slang, I know they are telling a story I just don't know what it is. Except maybe for some Eminem and and the Fudge the Police song by NWA, that lyric about having the authority to kill a minority was what made me actually look into that and sure enough there it was. So Rap definitely tells a story, I'm struggling to think of any others I've heard. The one with the Two Phones, that was good. Here's something random, my favorite non-Rammstein Metal Band. I'd be surprised if you've heard them before.

And one of my favorite Swiss Metal bands. Violins, Guitars, Harp, they've also had Bagpipes, Flutes, Fiddles, I like a lot of Metal bands that aren't afraid to do something different. Also Chrigel Glanzmann can really growl.

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@StitchJones YESSSSSSS! FOLLOW THE PIED PIPER OF NOT GIVING A SH** WHAT PEOPLE THINK INTO A MUSICAL AND SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION 😁😁😁 I can get behind that!

Weirdly, i'm not in the mood for any music tonight but I just clicked on the first track you posted and now I want to watch Drive. I don't know a lot about the style of music in terms of known artists and tracks as i'm usually zoned out when this kind of stuff is on, but I do know I like it!

Man, the track you posted it really reminds me of...

This music is actually quite dangerous as it makes me want to sip a large glass of hard liquor and just vibe and cuddle in a big pile of people 🥲

That French one is cool @GirlVersusGame and what is that? FinnishGogolBordelloMetal?

I think anything that combines legitimate folk elements in punk/rock/metal/hip-hop is really appealing.

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@Ravix Me not having seen Drive (I know) but knowing that song so very well, I've had that on my playlist for so long. I don't even know what Drives about, it's been on my must-see for a long time now.

The French one is just a regular enough French Symphonic Metal video. The theme is very normal for France, they are a lot more sexually liberated and the French culture values a lot of sensuality etc. They draw the line with dignity, if it's something the person willingly does in say advertising then it's seen as art, if it appears forced or non-consensual or if it objectifies the person then they'll censor. I like Paris for a reason, people are very open minded, it appeals to the libertine in me. I don't think you'd ever see a music video like that in England, it's a maybe, but in France that's normal enough. I remember seeing topless art in Euro Disney one year. They are always trying to crack down on sexism but as an art-form the human body generally doesn't cause many eyebrows to raise. I like how it actually tells a story, it reminds me a little of the Animals song. I think some of the best music videos tell a story, like Popular Monster too.

One of the funniest Youtube comments I've ever seen. I've been returning to that video for so long and that always makes me laugh.

@StitchJones I've heard the third one before that first one is going on the playlist, it feels like that singing shouldn't work with such a heavy beat but it does and really well.

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@GirlVersusGame I love me some Halsey. I love the chorus on the first one. The synth, paired with her voice/lyrics and the groove that is going on here hits me in the soul for some reason. Its melodic and angelic but very upbeat at the same time. Sometimes with music this magic happens in a song (individual to the listener of course) where the sounds created just "get you" in a good way.

Or here is an example of two songs in line on the same album, the way the first one fades into the other. The first aggressive nu-metal, then it fades into a ballad. Devil wears Prada are such a great band. This is track 9, then 10 on this album. They are just magic the way they flow into each other.

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@StitchJones That's the first time I heard Devil Wears Prada in years. A lot of the Halsey songs I like are from her Badlands album. It's one of those what I call perfect albums because I skip no songs and continue through the whole thing in one sitting. It's very mood specific though. Deeply meaningful but not what you'd want to listen to on a bad day. I think people naturally see parts of themselves in music, maybe it's something the mind does automatically. I just know my ears enjoy a band like Slayer but I've never been able to personally relate with those songs. I don't think God hates us all, and a song like Angel of Death absolutely tells a story. I've been to Auchwitz and after that I never listened to that song again. I tried but as it ramped up I felt my heart ramp up too. They are one of those bands that I don't have a favorite album of, more like a mix of a couple. I'm not being sexist but maybe it's an angry young man thing? Slayer says punch a wall and Halsey says punch a pillow. Melanie Martinez is similar, I'll listen but then sort of reel myself back in.

Meanings change with personal understanding too. I thought this one was about something else until I did look a little into faith. I still don't know the meaning of some of my favorite songs. Halsey is just very visceral in a way,

@GirlVersusGame I've seen a lot of bands in Dublin. The reason being a tour will usually end there. Most of the RoadRunner bands start in America, head through Europe, the UK then finish there. It's not that it's a party town (although I have stories, I can't share) logistically it makes sense to end there then head back across the Atlantic. For many bands I did that London to Dublin jump. There's an image of bands partying every night on tour, maybe years ago. Now so many of them are older and spend more time lifting weights than downing alcohol. City to city, country to country can destroy your sleep schedule etc very quickly. But when it came to Dublin people let loose. Do you know I've never seen Lacuna Coil live? Every time they played even at a festival I never made it to that stage. I discovered NightWish first. I listened to them when I wasn't even double digits, they had that storybook quality about them, I didn't know what Metal even was. They are one of my top ten favorite bands of all time, then Lacuna Coil, then Within Temptation. In that order.

I've probably listened to Comalies more than most other albums. After those three it was Leaves Eyes (like a tree leaf I always assumed) and then Arch Enemy. Eluveitie came much later, a tour manager kept telling me about them and hyping me up, he said not to listen to them online but to wait for the show. I waited three weeks, patiently, he was right. They absolutely blew me away, I don't know any other band who is that diverse in instruments and in range and in vocals. That's the great thing about European Metal there are so many cultural aspects and instruments, I never found that with something like Rock on the Range, Wacken is another world. Ghost is another band I keep missing live, every time something came up. That tour manager did the hype thing with another band, you won't know them but I'll share.

@ Ravix I'll get to Drive eventually, maybe after the barrage of really bad Christmas horror movies. I think some awful killer gingerbread man one is next. It's a romance movie? I thought he was a get-away driver or a fixer like The Transporter.

These songs feel like they mean a lot to you but I don't know if i'm reading between the lines, or just being slapped with a large fish (overthinking) but then you added a third and shared a joke so i'm maybe just tired.

• I think most music I listen to means something to me, sometimes lyrics say things people can't. That's how I looked at music from the start and maybe I got my wires crossed and should look at it in a different way but my attitude was always that music is always there for a person and people aren't. If you press play it's always there, you aren't overthinking you are absolutely correct. Except for that French Metal one, I don't want to ice-pick random French men. I didn't notice myself until I looked at a playlist with almost 500 songs and as I scrolled down it each title when put together actually formed sentences, it is what it is. Maybe cathartic would be the right term, it's not something I want it's something I need. Music is a kind of glue.