Yeah, a random title. It's a line from a song. You will have noticed, no Pope Shug again tonight, he will be back on Tuesday. I would feel a bit disrespectful were I to post a parody of church workings at easter - I may not be religious, but that doesn't mean I don't respect those who do, so I feel the right thing to do, is save my (hopefully) funny story until after Easter.
So, dear reader, what will tonight's monologue be about. Know what, I've no idea. I think I want to keep it light and airy after the pseudo-psychoanalytical mumblings of last night, so tonight, I will wax lyrical on the subject of... Yeah, I still don't know. Music? To hell with it, that will do.
I'm a huge music fan. Rock and Metal mostly, but I'll listen to almost anything, other than Country (when I was 18/19 and lived with my parents, every Sunday I would wake up, usually hungover, to the strains of Patsy f**king Cline's "Crazy". I think my mother did it deliberately to punish me for getting drunk the night before), 99% of R'n'B, and Jazz. I don't know why, but I've always disliked jazz. Oh, reggae too. I don't mind pop, but I do have a real weakness for bootlegs and mashups. There just seems to be something about them which means that the whole (the remix) is more than the sum of it's parts (the songs being mashed up). If you are so inclined, take a look at www.bootiemashup.com where you can download free bootlegs and mashups. No, I'm not on commission.
My first musical love was Blondie. I don't remember when, but I clearly remember hearing 'Call Me' for the first time, it was the first song which made me stop and go "that is fantastic, who is it, where can I find it". Bear in mind, this was a pre-MP3 time where most of my music was obtained via taping from the radio. It was the radio too, which turned me into a rock fan. It was a Tuesday evening, I was lying in my room, twisting the tuner about, trying to find something decent to listen to, I'd have been about 14/15 and I came across a show called Edinburgh Rock, which was a weekly rock/metal show on a local radio station. Anyway, I happened to tune in just as a song called 2 Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden started playing. I was hooked, instantly. As it happened, I'd saved up a bit of pocket money, so that weekend I was straight down town into the local Our Price, walking out 5 minutes later with a copy of Poweslave in my grubby little mitts. That was it. After that, it was all metal, all the time. Maiden, Priest, Metallica, Van Halen, I was insatiable for new music, something which is still true today.
Actually, writing this has inspired me to pull out some of the vinyl I still have lying around (despite not having a record player any more - I really should buy one of those USB ones which convert the vinyl to MP3). A sampling will demonstrate how much of a metalhead I was:
Metallica - The $5.98 EP Garage Days Revisited
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Kill 'Em All picture disc
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Doctor Who: The Music
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Metallica - The Black Album
Bruce Dickinson - Tattooed Millionaire
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Journey - Escape (that must be my exes)
Adam and the Ants - Prince Charming
Smashed Gladys - Social Intercourse
Rush - Grace under Pressure (Import!!)
Wrathchild America - Climbin' the Walls
Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream
WASP - WASP
Roadrunner Presents - Stars on Thrash (a thrash metal compilation with the likes of Flotsam & Jetsam, DRI, Stormtroopers of Death, Hades, Sacred Reich etc etc)
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Warlock - Triumph and Agony
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying
Ozzy Osbourne - No Rest for the Wicked
Extreme - III Sides to Every Story
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Blondie - Blondie
Big Country - Steeltown
Doro - Doro (a confession here, I only bought it for the poster which came free with it)
Everything above here was part of my original post, this is now stuff I'm having to retype! I can remember the basic theme which is this... Music is universal. All over the planet, we speak different languages, but we can all recognise music, regardless of the country, culture or creed it comes from. It's no accident that music was added to the Voyager probes which are currently hurtling through the solar system on their way to the vastness of interstellar space. Music can make us smile, it can make us cry, it can remind us of people we love, it can evoke memories of those we miss, it can even be used as a weapon, such is the power of music.
I had written a ton more, but I'm not going to repeat it all, so I will leave you with tonight's Springer moment. Think of your favourite piece of music, and what it means to you, whether it's 'your song' with your partner, whether it is a favourite from your past, whatever it is, dig it out, listen to it, and most importantly, share it.
Rock on, my friends.
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