i like so many others cant hardly imagine a world without the sounds and wonderful lyrics of a artist to make life not only more enhanced,but sometimes it seems ...the only thing ,you catch a line,the feeling of a melody,is enough to make you make it thru the day..I started off so very young as a music lover,i moved from the uk to america in 78 and i remember having my sex pistols 45's with me and how when i made friends in america at sleep over their was lil mark,trying to squeeze in a play of 'anarchy in the uk@ in between the journey,the toto,the music that made other feel,just for me,it had to have energy,from their im embaressed to say i became a huge adam and the ants fan,i was so very into them and alot of my older BMX homies would allow me to play stand and deliver and ant musick in between their screaming for vengence and iron maiden albums,later id take pleasure from these same spandex wearing bands i thought were so shit,i must also say that the clash were absolutely crucial to my tastes forming as were the damned and other early british punk and theni discovered well first it was husker du,the ferocity and raw emotion displayed,id never heard guitars played that sounded like this,or lyrics about tolerance,freedom and being true to yourself,from their it was minor threat,whom i loved for all the reasons i loved husker du,man they fucking meant every word,every song played as if their life depended on it,i look back and laugh because at the same time i was listening to ratt and motley crue et al,just being a teenage boy i suppose ,although at party,after ac/dc's back in black and led zepplin had been played to death,id slip in the pistols or early black flag which most people their because i was a popular kreep in high school,not hanging with the smart arty types who i was,i was just a stupid football player who happened to love hardcore,umm music,but hell i liked porn to,what young man didnt,,,,hmm,i forgot were i was for a sec.so yes.all the california punk bands of the day ,circle jerks,fear,black flag,X..i loved and lived all this music as my friends would play along and let me play my songs,but really,it was only me getting off.
so that takes us thru high school ,i found metallicas album kill em all a mix of the energy of the hardcore of punk yet played at twice the speed with bleak lyrics about death and despair,suicide.the only other noteable band from that era was slayer who were just plain heavier,faster,more evil and more scary than any other band id known before.the album south of heaven was a masterpiece of the genre.and the it happened,well first i saw janes addiction play and was completely transfixed,from their it was nirvana ,mudhoney,soungarden then anything with the label sub pop on it,i bought because i knew what id get loud aggressive sounds,guitars that buzzed like lawn mowers and the same lyrics of alienation and unsatisfaction at were we were as a species and lone pain and empathy a la kurdt cobain.so yea a became a label snob,any band on SST from lawndale ,ca...any band on twin tone ,from minneapolis.any band on matador ,from NYC...AND ON AND ON ..I FOUND SO MANY GREAT BANDS AND THROUGH THE HELL THAT BECAME MY FUTURE MUSIC HAS BONDED ME THRU TO FRIENDS AND LOVERS THRU SHARED SOUNDS,ITS HAPPENING STILL.woops sorry bout caps...and spelling...and the fact i find punctuation a pain in the ass,mark putting the punk back into punktuation,oh i know,im hilarious....so anyway the last decade produced wonderful sounds,bands songs,ill list a few,so you know were im coming from.....cat power,the shins,the decemberists,boss hog,jenny lewis,modest mouse,pj harvey,band of horses,the hold steady!,the thermals(hi rosa baby)sleater-kinney,pavement,rilo kiley,sonic youth(still)LCD soundsystem,peaches,kasabian and on and on .plus before that and they have meant so much burt i forgot so RUN DMC,beasties,public enemy,NWA,ice cube,ice T ,to the greatest of em all biggie ,2 pac,jay Z, kanye,common,dizzee rascal and on and on.so here is a tribute to music.all the days its helped us get thru .........and to represent,ill play sleater-kinney,i hope some of youll appreciate it and if not,i promise you there will be more to come.
so that takes us thru high school ,i found metallicas album kill em all a mix of the energy of the hardcore of punk yet played at twice the speed with bleak lyrics about death and despair,suicide.the only other noteable band from that era was slayer who were just plain heavier,faster,more evil and more scary than any other band id known before.the album south of heaven was a masterpiece of the genre.and the it happened,well first i saw janes addiction play and was completely transfixed,from their it was nirvana ,mudhoney,soungarden then anything with the label sub pop on it,i bought because i knew what id get loud aggressive sounds,guitars that buzzed like lawn mowers and the same lyrics of alienation and unsatisfaction at were we were as a species and lone pain and empathy a la kurdt cobain.so yea a became a label snob,any band on SST from lawndale ,ca...any band on twin tone ,from minneapolis.any band on matador ,from NYC...AND ON AND ON ..I FOUND SO MANY GREAT BANDS AND THROUGH THE HELL THAT BECAME MY FUTURE MUSIC HAS BONDED ME THRU TO FRIENDS AND LOVERS THRU SHARED SOUNDS,ITS HAPPENING STILL.woops sorry bout caps...and spelling...and the fact i find punctuation a pain in the ass,mark putting the punk back into punktuation,oh i know,im hilarious....so anyway the last decade produced wonderful sounds,bands songs,ill list a few,so you know were im coming from.....cat power,the shins,the decemberists,boss hog,jenny lewis,modest mouse,pj harvey,band of horses,the hold steady!,the thermals(hi rosa baby)sleater-kinney,pavement,rilo kiley,sonic youth(still)LCD soundsystem,peaches,kasabian and on and on .plus before that and they have meant so much burt i forgot so RUN DMC,beasties,public enemy,NWA,ice cube,ice T ,to the greatest of em all biggie ,2 pac,jay Z, kanye,common,dizzee rascal and on and on.so here is a tribute to music.all the days its helped us get thru .........and to represent,ill play sleater-kinney,i hope some of youll appreciate it and if not,i promise you there will be more to come.
mark halliwell 2011
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