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Truly and simply… I’m sorry…
You took it all, every little bit. Every memory is now just a waste. You took every last drop, took it down brick by brick, and what for? To build something that has no use for anyone who lives where I live. All those things that happened. I can picture them so clearly, but they don’t exist anymore. They are just a faint illusion of what I had… What we had… The cold water running over my hand just brings back the feeling I had, but all it really does is feed back the energy I lost. I will never fall off that path again. I will never feel the floor beneath my feet, the sense of power that you only get from being completely under. And now I look down at the bottle of water, mocking me, simply staring, knowing that it is only boosting the memory. There’s nowhere left that I can go. Nowhere that would feel like that. I didn’t even get to say goodbye…
…Forgive me, Dad … I can’t swim across the sea…
As you maybe able to tell I am something of a perfectionist when it comes to music. Something that I have been feeling lately is that a lot of the top British music, in the top 40 etc, seems to have such low production values, if you know what I mean. It seems to occur more in the indie music than anything else. Before anyone suddenly thinks this is because I don’t like indie music that’s not true. I am a huge Britpop fan, and enjoy a lot of the American Indie music such as “Five for Fighting”. I just feel there is a Grand Canyon size gap between for example Oasis and Blur in comparison to bands like the Arctic Monkeys and The Kooks. I don’t know if they are trying to make it sound like it was recorded in a garage and in a rush but I feel it ruins potentially good songs. I’m not saying that all songs need orchestral backing but just they need to be finished. Songs like The Masterplan, Bittersweet Symphony and The Universal are all examples of the orchestral style finish. And I feel it is unfair to compare these because they are so different, but one that I think CAN be used as an example is On Your Own by Blur. That song is meant to sound rough as iron nails but it still has a quality that some of the Arctic Monkeys music lacks.
…Take off your shoes, take off yourself, take off your rented mental health, take off your raincoat , settle down; Take off your nightmare and your frown. There is a place for you to go, to see another ringer in a rock show. Take my pretense for a time, cause I wanted to say it to you…
The reason that I feel upset about this sort of thing is because this is what I call “Next Big Thing” syndrome. It seems that the public today overlook the best things in search for the next big thing. The next fad, the next years famous thing. It annoys me because some of the most talented artists (and don’t ever think I consider myself in that category) are not getting the recognition they deserve. The “Next Big Thing” syndrome isn’t just in music, you can see it in films, TV, games, even football teams (and I consider it responsible for the England teams downfall… Peter Crouch? When you have Rooney, Owen, Smith, and Defoe?). Anyway, that’s not the point for today. Just I feel that next time you go to buy an album, or download legally a song (and this obviously can’t apply to illegal downloads) think “I’m paying £10+ for this album, did the artist work hard enough to deserve the money… Has the music been thought out and made to sound the best it possibly can. Or has it just been a first take roll out because they know you’ll buy it anyway?” I just feel sorry for the artists who spend 10 years writing an album losing out to the crazy frog and garage bands that can only play power chords and couldn’t tell you how they’d managed to write their song. (I know I’m making a wild assumption that probably only applies to 1 out of 100 of them, but I’m trying to make a point by using the extreme cases).
…Where nothing is left, everything is gained…
And do you know what…
…Sometimes Good’s better than Bad and sometimes you’re better than me…
Have you ever sat there and felt so underachieved, so left behind. As though the moments were ticking by and you really weren’t doing what you were meant to be doing. I’ve had far too many of them, so now I’ve decided to start doing something about that. I’m a musician and all I think about, probably 15-20 hours a day, is writing something amazing. But then I get around to it and I have no inspiration and the words just won’t come. They just sound so “blah” and that’s not what I need to make. This is an experiment, to see if by writing my feelings and my thoughts down, that maybe the words will come when they are needed. I have a writing style that some will find nice, but others will find stupid. It’s inspired by the Nightwatch trilogy (which I love) and uses lyrics from songs to reinforce the point I’m trying to make. You’ll see as we go. Hope people find what I write atleast interesting, but I hope to create some sort of discussion. I don’t really know how this site works, or what to expect, but here we go!
