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Last Active 09-20-22 6:48 pm
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| 100th Album
I feel l the need to talk symbolically as this is my 100th album. Being sprung out at the end of grunge and a peaking point of nu-metal, the age of noise and disruption was as crisp as ever. If I'd had a radio as a baby, who knows what kind of things would be playing...but I didn't. Instead, what I had was my dad.
My dad was my radio for the first 8 years of my life. In his tight, green Mini Cooper he'd blast Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Creed, Cheap Trick, The Police, and Rush. It was this amalgamation of performers that made me believe in music. But they were nothing like U2.
Post-punk? Maybe. Alternative? Sure. But U2 had a sound of beauty and of sparkling mysticality. Specifically, the Joshua Tree with how it aligned into my identity. I would imagine myself in fields alone and gazing at things I had never seen. Gazing into the unknown but somehow I knew I'd eventually be shown what those unknowns were like. It was a need that drew from music and for my desire to listen to more music. Without U2, I don't think my musical taste would develop in the way it is now. I'm finding more unknowns than ever and filling in those shapeless gaps of my youth daydreams.
Listening to Boy just the other day was a reflective experience. Ignoring reviews, ignoring distraction, and ignoring looking back at Joshua tree, I just listened. What I got out were delightful little poems of childhood. Perhaps they have to do with a little Irish boy's childhood. I fully believe they do. U2 songs can be a lot of things at once. I also believe it's my childhood and what I've come to be. A boy who still listens to Van Halen because his dad drilled "Jump" so far into his brain it can't possibly leave. A boy who is giddy when he sees a rockstar in person. A boy who isn't afraid to belt out the lyrics to "Stop This Game." A boy who found Muse because he loved Queen. A boy who picked up a guitar because he wants to play, can't play, but is fine with just owning one. | | 1 |  | U2
Boy
a boy that picked "Without or Without You" as a homage to his family. Maybe I'm still this boy, but a different version of him. But I love every second of being this verison. | |
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11.07.18 | nice. to many more! and keep writing, you're good at it! :) |
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