Lyricalish
I’ve been conditioned to believe that human beings have been conditioned to believe there’s beauty in symmetry…
If anyone knows where that lyric comes from I’ll be very, very surprised (and impressed, but mostly surprised), partly because I can’t remember the exact album location myself. I’m not mentally or physically warmed up enough to go dredging through the acres of archived CDs (long live the MP3) hibernating in the upper aerie of my cupboard to work it out. Buuut… it was either a track by this guy or one of his associates:
This is particularly relevant to the topics on this blog because I hold these people responsible for prepping me into my classical music acceptance phase. This is because I absolutely *hated* one of their albums (the self-titled cLOUDDEAD, if you are interested). Initially anyway. I couldn’t stand it. I only bought it because a lot of the recommendations for new music which suited my taste were extracted from internet reviews that mentioned other groups I already owned — and this being the heady late nineties meant that the reviews frequently did not come with samples of the music, so it was all bought sound unheard.
I credit this with preparing me for classical because after initially dismissing this music, it later became my absolutely favorite album ever. I don’t think there are any blatantly obvious similarities in the musical style, it’s more an attitude issue. It brought right forward to the forefront that I could form an incredibly deep bond with music which not only didn’t make sense on initial listenings, but which actively turned me off.
As it turned out I had to pretty much rerealize this process when coming to classical, but I am pretty positive that this trial run primed certain mental circuits
PS - Ahhh, I remembered where that track came from, it was actually on “In The Shadow Of The Living Room” by Reaching Quiet. Here’s probably my favorite track from that album (in which almost all of the tracks are under 2 minutes):
They mostly used broken instruments to make the album, and apparently their sequencer also could not function for longer than a few minutes, hence the short length of the tracks.
I love it.
