Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
A brief monologue about music, its various roles in our lives, and the way it connects all of us, brought to you by an mp3 blogger (Everybody Cares) with a background in psychology and an obsession with music.
...and your show would be perfect to listen to on NPR while going down it! Well done entry, congrats!
Hi Chad,
Thanks for listening to my entry and for taking the time to leave the kind words. I get you! To this day, when I listen to Led Zeppelin, I feel like a teenager all over again and I can't NOT be happy when I hear Billy Joel's Only The Good Die Young.....but that has more to do with the song than me. Anyway, great show concept. You earned my vote. Good luck.
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Rachelle Atkins
Freelance Writer
I totally agree with you and know just what you mean. I'm fascinated by the same subject, how media/pop culture attach themselves to our narratives and shape us individually and as a culture.
"Life as a Highway" brings me to the van ride between overnight camp and a state park where our cabin was going to go hiking. We felt so free, leaving the grounds, using a vehicle that was not our feet, setting out for a new adventure... Then "This Used to Be Our Playground" by Madonna came on, and we sobered up.
Thanks for this great submission and good luck!
~laurel
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*A first kiss, a dental emergency, identifying the Big Man on Campus and talking back to Punky Brewster.
Dude, I've been living this show every day! Well done. And, for what it's worth, XO is on my Top 10. And should be on everyone's, right?
I'd have to put Either/Or slightly ahead of XO. But it's still a fantastic record.
Thanks for the kind words...
Either/Or is the record that changed my life, but I know a lot of people that swear by XO.
Anybody else obsessed with New Moon?
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"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy" - Spike Milligan
Where were you when you heard that he died?
I was driving down a country road on a beautiful fall day, returning from an improv show. It's when my fave station was still on the air WOXY from Cincy.
(By far THEE best indie station ever..."BAM!, the future of Rock and Roll")
The first thing I think when a station plays more than two songs in a row by an artist is that something has gone terribly wrong. That was the case. I just pulled the car over and got out in the field and sat on the fender with the radio on waiting for them to announce the inevitable. I was thinking, overdose-carwreck-freak accident. No way was I prepared for suicide by knife. That was just waaaay too weird. It took a while for me to get back in the car and drive on with that information. Chilling even today.
"Happiness is the best revenge!"
I've been freaking out for High Times, All Cleaned Out, Going Nowhere, the Big Star cover and the Either/Or track. Its just so heartbreaking listening to his castoffs, knowing what was still possible from him. And it hurts even worse knowing how mysterious the whole thing was...I don't want to start a thing on that, it wouldn't be appropriate to speculate in public really, but you know what I mean? Can't decide if its more or less sad than Kurt Cobain...sigh. Poor boys. Wish I could have helped in any way.
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy" - Spike Milligan
Excellent, Chad.
Consider this, there is another side to the musical coin, for as much as it can
connect us, it can also disconnect us. Music is such a personal thing.
My preference is towards song with lyrics that have a message. I love the singer song writer best. But that the poet and philosopher in me connecting to those element in music.
Steve
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
Oh, don't get me wrong Steve...I'm all for connecting with music through a song's lyrics - it's just that we don't always get the luxury of choosing which songs will be playing when important moments occur in our lives. I'd much rather have a catchy and intelligent song like Dylan's "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" remind me of the summer of 1992 (as I was also listening to a lot of Dylan at the time), but instead I end up with the Spin Doctors and this damned Tom Cochrane song.
Sometimes we get music, and sometimes music "gets" us.
Spin Doctors were the first band that wasn't The Beatles and wasn't Simon & Garfunkel that I became obsessed with.
Sigh.
And it wasn't even the hits that got me. Nope. It was the deep cut ballad "How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me)". Wow.
I had told my dad about a month previously, after MY DAD rented "Singles" and said "There's some really cool new bands on here, son. Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam" and I was like "Yeah, whatever, Dad. Nice band name, Nine Inch Nails. They don't have any MELodies?! Not like Simon & Garfunkel?!" Its true. And it took 'Weird' Al to get me to admit I liked Nirvana, which is a whole seperate post...
But I digress...
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"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy" - Spike Milligan
"Life is A Highway" reminds me my sister, who loved that song when she was 10 years old...and sang it (very off key) for WEEKS. Ahh!
It's probably more tolerable when sung off-key. :)
Isn't it strange how we all have memories around such a crappy song?
Let's just say, I would DEFINITELY listen to you! I couldn't agree with you more. Best of luck in the quest!
Nicely done! Totally nailed it on the funny thing that music does to memory.
I'm a Punk Knitter!
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Amazing! That song haunts ME too...it puts me at 12 years old at my grandparent's house in Witchita, KS, my cousin Andrew, who later robbed the same house to sell things to get money to buy drugs, was rocking OUT to that song the entire summer. I don't know, its a bad song, but at LEAST he's playing a natural finish Tele in the video. That helps a little bit.
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