Kimmo
People Against Ignorant Fools
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Reply 15 of 21 (Originally posted on: 06-29-05 12:09:12 PM)
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Sure, it's about the music, first. But there's a lot of good music around that has the power to change or complement your mood. What makes a song special to me, is if it can change the way you think. Excellent lyrics can even change the way you hear a song.
For example, the first time I heard the Dead Kennedys, I thought, yuck. What a jangly, aggro mess. But then, after I'd had time to appreciate where Jello and the boys were coming from, the sound made perfect sense, and really spoke to me on that raw angry young man wavelength.
So you can have a song where you can't imagine the music being any better, and I'll probably really like it, even if it's lyrically just another nondescript love song. But I'd prefer a track that says something I really feel, preferably something political, that engages my emotions via my cortex - and even if that track has music that could be better, I'll probably prefer it to the pretty but hollow fluff.
I think music can be a very powerful medium to communicate more than just mere inarticulate musical ideas, but that faculty seems quite neglected in our apathetic consumerist world, driven by relentless demand for unchallenging homogenised pap.
In a nutshell, I figure if you're going to open your mouth, you should take the opportunity to say something.
Watch this space
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