musical escape

Maybe it’s just me but do certain songs ever make you feel like you’re in a movie? I’ll be listening to some stirring tune such as Let Go by Frou Frou and suddenly I’m picturing myself being filmed on a train, staring out the window, my expression speaking a thousand words. Then there’s Snow Patrol’s Chocolate that transports me to New York where I’m a high-flying magazine editor, wearing the latest designer fashions and drinking a latte as I stride along the side-walk towards work.
At this point I really hope someone is reading this and agreeing with me otherwise I’m just admitting that I’m a bit of a weirdo.
Music really has the ability to arouse emotion. Like this morning on the bus when the boys on the back seat had the courtesy to share their gangster rap with everyone else on the bus. My emotion = anger. So, to counteract this negativity bubbling into what could potentially have become bus-rage, I shoved my earphones in and pumped up One Republic. It was as if the world disappeared and “all I needed was the air I breathe” = restoration of peace and calm. This city can really get to me with it’s unreliable public transport, delinquent youths and less than desirable weather. However, I’ve found that I can just shut the world off by hitting shuffle on the iPod and I have some of my favourite tunes to reinstate my sanity. So perhaps I’m a bit odd and my methods of distraction are unconventional but as I approach my five year anniversary of my time in this big city, sometimes I just have to do what I have to do to remind me that there is always a bit of good to be found.

pushing the senses

Earlier this week I bought the 'Feeder' album, Pushing the Senses. This album is a self-confessed, rock chick's delight. As I listened to the title track, while walking along the platform at Earl's Court station yesterday (pity it was so busy cause I had this voracious urge to sing), I wondered to myself how long it will be until I find another song that I will savour equally. Can it get any better than this? Will we reach a time when all the good songs are finally written? Imagine a day when we will never again revel in the joy of finding a tune so pleasing to the ear that it instantaneously transforms your mood.
I think of my grandfather and how he mumbles that today's music is "just noise" and reminisces about the days "when you could actually hear what they were singing about".
So while we can all appreciate a bit of 'Sinatra' now and again, there don't seem to be too many 50's style hits emerging in the Top 10 these days. It's a vanishing genre and one day the rock music that I get lost in could one day 'dry-up' in a similar manner.
It may still be early days, but when the masses change allegiances I pledge to forever 'Rock On'!