Musiktheorie

Original Post Date - August 6, 2007

I met a girl the other day who had no interest in music whatsoever. She didn't have a favorite song, no favorite band or genre.. no nothing. I thought I'd heard everything. I don't know how all you feel about your music, kiddos, but I would imagine that you're at least somewhat knowledgeable, at least have a concept that it's out there. I, on the other hand, am completely passionate about mine. It's funny, in spite of not learning a damn thing academically at University, I remember a first year philosophy prof saying that music is the most difficult thing for a philosopher to define. It is, he said, nothing but memories and anticipation, as each note comes and goes so quickly that we're either waiting for the next, or remembering the last. Interesting, don't you think? There's an interesting line in Music & Lyrics with Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant that goes like this: "Melody is like seeing someone for the first time - physical attraction, sex. Then, as you get to know the person, those are the lyrics - their story, who they are underneath. It's the combination of the two that makes it magic.". It's really cornball, but about right.

If nothing else, music provides an outlet to amplify a particular mood you might be in, to pull you up when you're down, to remind you of a particular time/person in your life, or to help understand things that are otherwise outside of our understanding/experience. That being said, I think that at the end of each week I'll start posting the top 10 tracks from my iTunes.. maybe it might stir conversation, or open someone up to something they've never heard before. Very cool idea, I think.

1] A Single Explosion - Matthew Good - Hospital Music, playcount: 6
2] Pretty Girls (The Mover) - Against Me! - Searching for a Former Clarity, playcount: 5
3] When You Were Young - The Killers - Sams Town, playcount: 5
4] Sonne - Rammstein - Mutter, playcount: 5
5] Thousands Are Sailing - The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God, playcount: 5
6] Bricks - Rise Against - The Sufferer and The Witness, playcount: 4
7] Johnny Come Lately - Steve Earle - Copperhead Road, playcount: 4
8] Civil Sin - Boy Kill Boy - Civilian, playcount: 4
9] Nothing In My Way - Keane - Under the Iron Sea, playcount: 4
10] Fifteen Years - The Levellers - Levelling the Land, playcount: 3

Cheers. //