Thank you, @dhyani for tagging me yet again for a post. Kisses and hugs @dhyani!
This was both very painful and ecstatic for me, as, like @dhyani, music is very, very personal to me. I don't live through music, but music makes me feel the most alive.
And I obsessed about this tag/request for a few days: "What is Rock ‘n’ Roll for you? “ Holy hell. That's really complicated for me!
My methodology included listening to many tracks that pump me up, make me want to dance (or at least wiggle), but that didn't narrow my selection enough. It didn't give me a way to differentiate between what I like to listen to from what impacted me more deeply.
So. I decided to think about what songs/albums (sorry for the youngsters that download a song at a time, but I still think about long format things like albums, lol) that have stayed with me over the years.
From those artists that have stayed with me, I narrowed it down to the top 14 bands that I've listened to most consistently over the years. To me, that meant thinking of those bands that stuck around for me--those bands that I listened to consistently over various phases of my life.
Like everyone, I've had several phases in my life that I've knitted together to define who I am today. I'm not proud of all of those phases in my life. But those 14 bands must be my favorites.
So today, I've decided to pick a band that I have listened to the most consistently over the last few decades.
I love those albums that give me more than I expected. Floater gives me a ton of variety on their albums. They deliver contrast between songs in their first two albums that leave me happy. They go from aggressive to acoustic, something that is also reflected in their touring when they have an acoustic night followed by a more "Rock" night.
My favorite song from them, and thus my favorite Rock & Roll song, is Floater's "Cinema":
Here are the lyrics:
"Flesh disolved in acid of light!"
"Nine hundred hours of hallucinitory intoxication."
"Nine hundred hours of hallucinitory intoxication."
(w/distortion)
*People are so full of infection!*
*People are so full of infection!*
*Gashing open their empty lives!*
*Slashing open their empty lives!*
*They lick the open wound, lick the open wound, lick the open wound*
*lick it! lick it!!*
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers goes
through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
in my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema,
in my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema.
The sun is touching me, sun is touching me so strange
sun is touching me, sun is touching me so...
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers goes
through my little fingers, I carry it beneath my tongue.
Yeah, yeah...
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers goes
through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
in my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema
in my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema.
The sun is touching me, sun is touching me so strange
sun is touching me, sun is touching me so...
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers goes
through my little fingers, I carry it beneath my...
It says, I welcome you to life.
It says, I help you up that tree.
I break the leash, you go mad and unchained, yeah.
Yeah, yeah!
Ohhhh....
...And if you follow me,
know the road will end.
But if you follow me,
break but never bend.
Break.
"We're all in this together."
"We've got to convince the others."
(THX 1138)
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers goes
through my little fingers, through my little fingers it goes
in my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema
in my eyes a cinema, in my eyes a cinema.
The sun is touching me, sun is touching me so strange
sun is touching me, sun is touching me so...
Through my little fingers, through my little fingers goes
through my little fingers, I carry it beneath my...
It says, I welcome you to life.
It says, I help you up that tree.
I break the leash, you go mad and unchained, yeah.
Yeah, yeah!
"You want the key?"
"You sure you want to be free?"
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..."
"You've been free already."
Just to be completely honest, I used to drop acid. Often. Floater is a band that I like to compare to Pink Floyd. The overlaps are there for folks that see it. For me, neither Floater or Pink Floyd were really "psychedelic" in the truest sense of the concept, but, ohh my gerrrrd, did floater's albums glyph and sink give me some fruitful trips. Just sayin :)
The whole album can be found here:
Glyph and Sink are the two albums from Floater that I can rec whole-heartedly. After those albums, I have problems. Lol.
I am tagging a few folks for this: @brujaja, @shalil, @layssa, @jubileegirl, and @asema.
Namaste, folks!
