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dotinthesky) wrote2008-01-14 09:02 am
dotinthesky) wrote2008-01-14 09:02 am
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Desert Island Drowners
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It would have to be Suede's first album. This was the album that changed my entire taste in music when I was 17 years old. Up until that point I was happy to hop around from one genre to the next - one day listening to The Clash, the next happily spinning around to Madonna's Immaculate Collection. But nothing ever meant anything to me, or who I wanted to be, as much as Suede. They were the ones responsible for plunging me head first into indie music, in particular Britpop.
I was still in the closet at this stage, living in Singapore with my family. "Animal Nitrate", the third single from the album, was a big hit - perhaps because it hinted at gay life in a country where homosexuality was illegal, where young Singaporeans had to create codes in order to show each other they were "that way". When "So Young", the fourth single, was released I went to a CD store on Orchard Road and bought the album.
In life, I'm a fairly laid back, slightly melancholic character. It takes extra energy for me to get excited about things, and perhaps that matches perfectly the mood of the album. A few songs stomp their boots, like "The Drowners" and "Metal Mickey", but the whole affair is in general a very dreamy, romantic haze - my ideal state of being. It was thanks to Suede that I discovered Morrissey (they named their band after his single "Suedehead"). I investigated this character called Morrissey, who had inspired such a great album, and discovered that one of my childhood songs "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" was by his band The Smiths. Cupid had added extra poison to his arrows that day; I was a step away from an obsession.
It would have to be Suede's first album. This was the album that changed my entire taste in music when I was 17 years old. Up until that point I was happy to hop around from one genre to the next - one day listening to The Clash, the next happily spinning around to Madonna's Immaculate Collection. But nothing ever meant anything to me, or who I wanted to be, as much as Suede. They were the ones responsible for plunging me head first into indie music, in particular Britpop.
I was still in the closet at this stage, living in Singapore with my family. "Animal Nitrate", the third single from the album, was a big hit - perhaps because it hinted at gay life in a country where homosexuality was illegal, where young Singaporeans had to create codes in order to show each other they were "that way". When "So Young", the fourth single, was released I went to a CD store on Orchard Road and bought the album.
In life, I'm a fairly laid back, slightly melancholic character. It takes extra energy for me to get excited about things, and perhaps that matches perfectly the mood of the album. A few songs stomp their boots, like "The Drowners" and "Metal Mickey", but the whole affair is in general a very dreamy, romantic haze - my ideal state of being. It was thanks to Suede that I discovered Morrissey (they named their band after his single "Suedehead"). I investigated this character called Morrissey, who had inspired such a great album, and discovered that one of my childhood songs "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" was by his band The Smiths. Cupid had added extra poison to his arrows that day; I was a step away from an obsession.
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I had a big thing for the 80s stuff; I'm really eclectic with music, mind you, and I'm passionate about bands more than genres. My favourites are Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos, Cure, New Model Army, Pulp, Smiths, Current 93, Guns N Roses, Dresden Dolls, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Dead Kennedys, Levellers, Nick Cave (SOB), Baebes (of course), I used to be really big on Nine Inch Nails and I love a lot of classical music as well (although I grew up playing it on various instruments, so one does learn to appreciate and love what they're learning and playing). I like jazz, some metal, some EMB/darkwave, some country - I think the only genre I don't like anything from is Christian Rock. ;) My cd collection was HUGE and music was kind of my life.
I hated Hootie. HATE. Green Day are another I've never liked (although Basket Case makes me giggle), although I like Offspring and always did, they were far more PUNK than their counterparts at the time.
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Thumbs up for the other bands/singers you mentioned. :-)
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My favourite album of theirs is Thunder Perfect Mind, but All The Pretty Little Horses and Soft Black Stars are both wonderful as well. Hell, their latest album, Black Ships Eat The Sky, is really quite beautiful as well. He wrote a song called Idumaea and he has something like five versions of it on the album, where he wrote the words, but each of the different performers doing a version writes their own music for it. There's Marc Almond opening the album and it's so, so lovely.
They're very strange and dramatic - not to everyone's liking, I suppose, but I love them.
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Have a look here (ftp://deadpetals.co.uk/Music/C93-NatOrg).
The pass is 24ruled1 (I didn't set it and I don't know how to reset it or add other passwords for users and AAARGH). You can download a few songs from there if you like and see what you think. Definitely download Nature and Organisation's To You (David Tibet is Current 93, but he works with loads of other artists on other projects and N&O is one of them), as it is probably the most beautiful song I've ever heard. Like, weepingly beautiful, YOU WILL GET A TEAR IN YOUR EYE beautiful.