This weekend I bought this record again after I lost it 18 months ago. What a great display of production genius. Pity about the lyrics
. Anyway the guitars, loops, drumming, vocals and energy make it a compelling listening experience for me. Makes me want to drive really fast. Or smash a drum kit myself. [img]smile.gif[/img]
I initially owned this record during a period in my life when I was filled with rage. I had recently seperated from my wife of seven years, was in the middle of a destructive romantic relationship with a 'troubled artiste', had just left the colleges I was teaching at because I was not dealing with the emotional pressure. There were days when I was furious with God, furious with my ex-wife, furious with my girlfriend. I remember driving down a hill in Sydney's northern beaches ready to explode while listening to this record. I was surrounded by beauty but dark on the inside.
I eventually lost the record in Singapore. A place that changed my life.
Anyhow, it's interesting listening to music that meant something at a different time, and comparing it to how you are now. The record has totally different significance for me. Sometimes music has taken me back to particular times and places. There is a Chicane CD and a Donna Lewis CD I cannot listen to because they take me back to moments of despair and heartache I was feeling while listening to them initially.
But I'm listening to this one with a totally different headspace. I was listening to it as I drove up from Philadelphia on the weekend, with a close friend of mine. Now I'm associating it with that experience, and the inherant complexities of that experience.
Funny all that.
[ 01-28-2003, 03:14 PM: Message edited by: Yorick ]