When I was a kid, I only listened to the stuff on MTV or VH1 and my brother had a huge collection of music. All the amazing old stuff. He would also buy music online, or sometimes when people weren't selling there music commercially yet he would ask them if he could buy their stuff. Which is real nice thing to do if you ask me. Although he could do these things back then because he was earning. I, on the other hand am not yet, so I have to resort to sharing or downloading. So the kind of music I listened to then was mostly just a lot of Pop or Rap, or Hip Hop. Now I have nothing against this kind of music, but sometimes you don't know what you're missing out on when you haven't tasted the best. As a kid I didn't know why people were so crazy about a bunch of old music. May be because they're growing old I thought. This music in reality way older then them!
After my listen-to-everything-in-trend phase I jumped to hard rock, or metal. That was a huge leap. Why did I do that? I wanted to prove to someone really annoying that I listen to all sorts of music, when in reality I wasn't even close to it. Maybe I will never be. I listened to aggressive stuff because it helped me cope with things. Sometimes you need to increase the volumes outside to drown out the voices inside. After that suddenly, and I don't know why or how that happened but I shifted to really soft mellow acoustic indie stuff.
I met a guy in grey, from this random place that I never expected to meet him from. He told me about how much he liked Pink Floyd. Of course I'd heard of them but never actually heard them. Maybe once I'd heard Comfortably numb because my brother said it was a good song, but I didn't listen to it with my heart. The first song he shared with me was Smile-David Gilmour. After that night I couldn't stop listening to it! It felt like I was floating on the clouds. Like all my worries were going to melt away. Then the next song he suggested was Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. That was the time I asked myself how did I not listen to them until now? What could have been the reason for me to not listen to such amazing pieces?
Then the man in grey t-shirt told me that he liked the early Floyd more, the time when Syd Barrett was in the band. Since my first song was by David Gilmour I couldn't accept Syd much because Gilmour himself is a great guitar player. But every time I would look at a picture of Syd, it would remind me of the man in grey. Which was absurd, but it still happens. So this one day, I saw a documentary on Syd. Man, did I cry like a baby! Then I decided to download Syd's full discography. Maybe its not for everyone, I suggested it to some people but they don't like it as much. Although I think he was a lyrical genius.
After this something really awesome happened, I discovered NARNIA on Tumblr. I mean that Tumblr is Narnia for people who are part of a fandom. For me, Classic Rock had already chosen me. I discovered my love for Syd, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Who, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, King Crimson, Jimmy Hendrix and just too many more.
After my listen-to-everything-in-trend phase I jumped to hard rock, or metal. That was a huge leap. Why did I do that? I wanted to prove to someone really annoying that I listen to all sorts of music, when in reality I wasn't even close to it. Maybe I will never be. I listened to aggressive stuff because it helped me cope with things. Sometimes you need to increase the volumes outside to drown out the voices inside. After that suddenly, and I don't know why or how that happened but I shifted to really soft mellow acoustic indie stuff.
I met a guy in grey, from this random place that I never expected to meet him from. He told me about how much he liked Pink Floyd. Of course I'd heard of them but never actually heard them. Maybe once I'd heard Comfortably numb because my brother said it was a good song, but I didn't listen to it with my heart. The first song he shared with me was Smile-David Gilmour. After that night I couldn't stop listening to it! It felt like I was floating on the clouds. Like all my worries were going to melt away. Then the next song he suggested was Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. That was the time I asked myself how did I not listen to them until now? What could have been the reason for me to not listen to such amazing pieces?
Then the man in grey t-shirt told me that he liked the early Floyd more, the time when Syd Barrett was in the band. Since my first song was by David Gilmour I couldn't accept Syd much because Gilmour himself is a great guitar player. But every time I would look at a picture of Syd, it would remind me of the man in grey. Which was absurd, but it still happens. So this one day, I saw a documentary on Syd. Man, did I cry like a baby! Then I decided to download Syd's full discography. Maybe its not for everyone, I suggested it to some people but they don't like it as much. Although I think he was a lyrical genius.
After this something really awesome happened, I discovered NARNIA on Tumblr. I mean that Tumblr is Narnia for people who are part of a fandom. For me, Classic Rock had already chosen me. I discovered my love for Syd, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Who, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, King Crimson, Jimmy Hendrix and just too many more.
