Music and impact in life
It is really interesting how music starts influencing our lifes since the very first day.
Parents have been trying to calm down kids with lullabies and songs (some of them are dumb songs) when kids cry. Years later, parents buy music for their children, pretending that music made for kids will be of their likeness. In US music from Disney, Nickelodeon, game shows for kids and more horrendous stuff. In Latin America, music from kids shows like Hora del Lonchesito, Nubeluz, mexican and spanish "canned" shows: Chiquilladas, Parchis, Chabelo, Menudo and more.
Problems start when kids discover music. I mean music they start to like and that parents don't like or they 'think' is not appropiate for them. This is something that happend to me. Albums that caught my attention where the ones of KISS (Dynasty, Love Gun and Unmasked) and Iron Maiden (Killers, Number of the Beast and Powerslave) in the early 80's.
What I got from my family was "That music is not meant for kids". Here you are, listen to one of these Parchis albums or these Menudo albums. Later, I learned that they were concerned due to bad press stating that those groups, and specially Heavy Metal music were satanic.
Music videos started to appear on TV, and they caught most of my attention. Incredible performances and really good artistic display in some of these videos of Heavy Metal, drove me to appreciate more and more these genre. Videos such as "We are not gonna take it", "I wanna rock", "Breaking the law", "Jump", "Balls to the wall", "Come on feel the noize", and much more.
I also like the display of great rock videos, some movies soundtrack videos, 80's movies videos, ZZ Top is basic and Joe Satriani as well.
Now in the next century, thanks to video websites, I can live those moments again. There is still time to catch up with great 80's music, on video and on discs.
posted by Beto at 8:01 AM
3 Comments:
When my brother was 11 he bought a Metallica t-shirt. It had the Master of Puppets Album cover printed on it: A cemetery with crosses and stuff. My brother got to wear it only once because my mother didn't like it and splashed bleach on it.
8 years ago I borrowed a book about the history of Satanic Rock from my boss (he was a rock freak). I was surprised to find that I liked a lot of the stuff that was mentioned there. From the Beatles to Nine Inch Nails and Metallica. Not that I am satanic but I just happened to like that noise.
I remember that the first thing I bought when I got paid from my first job was a small stereo so I could listen to the music I enjoyed and not the Tangos and Boleros my father liked.
But to be honest I don't really think it is necessary to have lyrics like this:
"Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I rather die
to give you control..."
to make successful hard rock.
I prefer something like this:
"it was an evening i shared with the sun
to find out where we belong
from the earliest days
we were dancing in the shadows"
I'm not really a hard rock or heavy metall person (but I like some stuff), I rather am an indie or alternative freak. I like depressive music as some of my friends put it.
But anyway. I understand how you feel because for me it's been very hard to find people with a similar taste in music.
13/7/06 5:18 PM
Oh I forgot to ask. What kind of music would you like your children to listen to?
13/7/06 5:49 PM
That did not happen to me Pillen. I was lucky to find the music I really enjoyed when I was around 9 or 10 years old. Before that, I was open to listen to the crap that played back on the radio stations. My parents never pushed me to listen X artist or Y song, although I found out I was being pointed as the "weird guy" when my friends realized I listened mostly to elecontronic music. It needed to pass a decade for them to realize that it was indeed, a good genre.
26/7/06 10:10 PM
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