Music

It's easy to misjudge someone based on the things or events in their life that they have been through. It's funny how something like musical taste can define the events and things a human being has been through. By this correlation, people generally tend to choose music that defines their feelings towards the past and current events that have/are going on in their lives. For example, I love hardcore rock for the basis of its abrasive yet true lyrical content. Most of the hardcore rock (or rock in general) is laden with lyrics of introspection, renunciation and even abdication. The general age of the bands that I listen to are within my age range of 18-30 years old therefore it is a bit analeptic to know that there are people that feel the same way I do. It is reassuring that there are people in this world that can have the strength to display all of their insecurities for the world to see through the medium of music and not feel a sense of self-mutilation while doing so. I tend to pick music that I can most relate to; as do you. Yes, the brunt of my musical taste is music that is absorbed with lyrics of disservice and slovenliness and with heavily maniacal guitar and percussion play, but it helps define bits of me.


Thursday


Circle Takes The Square


As Cities Burn

Hardcore rock

It's not very hard to sit here and write with Josh Scogin of The Chariot screaming in my ears with my headphones in. As hard as it is for most people to comprehend what hardcore rock bands lyrics are, for me, it isn't that hard to understand exactly what they are saying through their low death groans and high screeching yells. In the beginning when I first start listening to metal, I used to find myself looking up the lyrics via Internet to understand exactly what the hell the singer from these various bands were trying to convey through the screams. After reading the lyrics of a few songs, you start to realize that metal is more than "a handful of white boys screaming their lungs out" (like an average Black man would say). You start to realize that these lyrics are deeper than most of the radio-friendly rock bands' songs that you are saturated with on a daily basis.

The Chariot


The Number 12 Looks Like You


Norma Jean



As Cities Burn


Every Time I Die




Sevendust

Pilot Speed

"Barely Listening" by Pilot Speed

I saw this music video on a local college TV station and I was a little blown away how the singer from this band, Pilot Speed sounds exactly like the front man from the Muse. This band from Ontario is definitely something to look out for.

People In Planes

I am writing again; I am listening to "Falling By The Wayside" by a hell of a great band from the UK, People in Planes. I bought their LP "As Far As The Eye Can See" back in January at the best indie record store in the world, Amoeba Records in San Francisco and haven't been able to stop playing it since. Whether you like rock or not, this LP is one of those albums that even the most close-minded music fan might be able to enjoy. It's just pure rock music. The sense of simple baselines and a front man that can actually sing his ass off is something that is hard to find in a rock band nowadays. I would hella recommend you to buy this LP when you get a chance.

Overall Album Grade-85 percent...hella good!

People In Planes - Falling By The Wayside
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Radio Video

Radio lyrics - Pitty Sing lyrics

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"Radio" by Pitty Sing

This band's self-titled album is great!

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Sid Vicious

"My Way (Frank Sinatra Cover)"



He was 22 years old when we died of an overdose in 1979. He was known as the innovator of punk rock.

Afro Punk

Afro Punk was a documentary that was meant to display the subculture of punk rock fans and the blacks that were infatuated in its predominantly White fan base. The documentary was used to display the pitfalls of being a person of Black descent whom was consumed with the punk rock culture and the oppression that they felt from Whites and also Blacks for doing so.

The documentary eventually became a message board for Black punk rock lovers to express themselves through the mediums of particular issues such as religion, race, self-awareness, regional location, musical taste, etc. There are thousands of members on Afro Punk and I have recently noticed that with very great idea (such as Afro Punk as a documentary or website), there will always be a a part of its audience that isn't depicted in a great way. In this documentary, the focus group is definitely blacks whom love the punk rock culture, but the audience of this film was meant for those of a middle-class upbringing and status quo. The film follows and documents the lives of several different kids that grew up consumed by the punk rock subculture, but it is evident that the kids in the documentary were from "suburbia." Within the first few minutes of the film, these kids were complaining and whining about how hard it was for them to grow up being the only black kid in their neighborhood or the only black kid at the rock show. They continued to grumble about how other black kids would ridicule them for listening to rock music.

My point is this, there is a much greater difference for a black person to be from a predominantly White neighborhood and a black person from the inner city whom have the same similarity in loving rock music. It is much more difficult for someone from an inner city upbringing to love rock and get ridiculed by a lot more people than some kid from suburbia. The suburban kids have someone to confide in when it comes to their love of rock music where as the inner city kids are generally surrounded by other people whom don't generally listen to rock music and have usually no one near them to share their appreciation of rock with.

There are two types of blacks in America: black rich and black poor. You can have blacks that may have the same interests and similarities, but it's sad how something as unsubstantial as status quo can effect their interaction. But, hey...that's how they programmed us.