BM Week

There have been 2 important events these last couple of days:

1) Oasis splitting up

2) Black Metal

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1) Noel Gallagher announced he left Oasis after a brawl with Liam... that’s not surprising at all, because they never got along.. But it’s still shocking and I would hate to see the end of one of my favourite bands ever.

The only thing that keeps me happy is that at least saw them once.. and it was one of the best concerts I’ve even been to.

I just hope they can mend things and if they don’t... Noel as a solo artist will be great.. I don’t know if Oasis would have the same fate, as Noel is the one with the anthems...

2) I have to admit that I first knew about it was in 2002.. but at the time I couldn’t listen to it without feeling disturbed and distressed. I couldn’t stand the screaming.. I was already screaming inside and I definitely didn’t nee anyone telling me what it was like.

However, last week I read about it. A lot. I checked Burzum’s site and when I read the biography, I realised it was written by Vikernes himself. “That’s interesting” I thought.. and I read, the whole thing..

This week was definitely “Norwegian Black Metal Week”.

And I liked it... My favourite so far is Aske.. but I still have to listen to Filosofem and the ones he did while in Jail (to compare, as everyone I’ve talked to about it has said those are not like his first works).

One of the most attractive things of Black Metal for me is Satanism... I don’t believe in God nor in Satan, so it’s even funny to see people so angry at an idea and to embrace another one that is as extreme as the other... But that would be another post maybe.

So, in my personal Metal Journey, I have arrived to this... I’m not saying that I don’t listen to anything else.. I couldn’t.. I realised that today yet again... In other words, as a friend of mine called me... I’M A HYBRID.

Always have been

Always will be

And fucking proud of it!

Song for today (I won't say anything about ti because I haven't got the time to interpret it..) is by Burzum..

The Head is a Head of a Serpent
From its Nostrils Mucus Trickles...
The Ears Are those of a Basilisk
His Horns Are Twisted into three Curls

Ea, lord of the depths........

The Body is a Sun Fish, Full of Stars
The Base of His Feet Are Claws
His Name Is Sassu Wunnu
A Sea Monster. A Form of Ea

Ea, lord of the depths......

Best Wishes

Why I Listen to Britpop

Cigarrettes and Alcohol by Oasis

Is it my imagination
Or have I finally found something worth living for?
I was looking for some action
But all I found was cigarettes and alcohol
You could wait for a lifetime
To spend your days in the sunshine
You might as well do the white line
Cos when it comes on top . . .
You gotta make it happen!

Is it worth the aggravation
To find yourself a job
when there's nothing worth working for?
It's a crazy situation
But all I need are cigarettes and alcohol!
You could wait for a lifetime
To spend your days in the sunshine
You might as well do the white line
Cos when it comes on top . . .
You gotta make it happen!

I was watching a documentary about indie music and britpop... for those who didn’t know, it is related.. the indie scene of the 80 was the beginning of the britpop scene of the 90s.

I’ve always listened to this kind of music and now I remembered why... indie and britpop was all about being different from the rest and not giving a fuck about it. People who considered themselves as indie, and in my case, britpopers, knew that they didn’t belong to the “mass”, knew they were different... maybe even rejected... and they didn’t care! And that’s why I like this music.. of course, when I first started listening... but I knew I wasn’t like the rest of my classmates, to give an example... I wasn’t into the things they were into, I didn’t have the same opinion as them.. in fact..I HAD an opinion, and so on...

After realising I really didn’t want to pretend anymore that I could belong to the group by forgetting who I really was, I embraced my true self (how emo this sounds.... I know XD) so fuck’em all... I didn’t need them, I certainly do not need them now.

So... after this brief introduction... many people have asked me what happened that I’m listening to metal music now...

Britpop is part of a darker stage of my life, it was with me through very tough times and I’ll always remember it for that. According to Alex James of Blur, the music you listen when you’re 16 will always be the best.

I know I won’t stop listening to it, but now, living better days, I want to keep investigating where metal will lead me... so far it’s been an interesting journey...

I’m sure I had already posted Cigarrettes and alcohol by Oasis... it’s a song that summarises the feeling of the indie youth... but I’ll finish with an even more clear example of it... if you feel identified, whatever you listen to, welcome to the pit!

Live Forever by Oasis

Maybe I dont really want to know
How your garden grows
I just want to fly
Lately did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks it to the bone

Maybe I just want to fly
I want to live I dont want to die
Maybe I just want to breath
Maybe I just dont believe
Maybe youre the same as me
We see things theyll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

Maybe I dont really want to know
How your garden grows
I just want to fly
Lately did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks it to the bone

Maybe I will never be
All the things that I want to be
But now is not the time to cry
Nows the time to find out why
I think youre the same as me
We see things theyll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
Were gonna live forever
Gonna live forever

Best wishes

Summary

The Masterplan

by Oasis

Take the time to make some sense

Of what you want to say

And cast your words away upon the waves

Bring them back with Acquiesce

On a ship of hope today

And as they fall upon the shore

Tell them not to fear no more

Say it loud and sing it proud

And they...

Will dance if they want to dance

Please brother take a chance

You know they're gonna go

Which way they wanna go

All we know is that we don't know

What is gonna be

Please brother let it be

Life on the other hand won't let you understand

Why we're all part of the masterplan

I'm not saying right is wrong

It's up to us to make

The best of all things that come our way

And all the things that came have past

The answer's in the looking glass

There's four and twenty million doors

Down life's endless corridor

Say it loud and sing it proud

And they...

Will dance if they want to dance

Please brother take a chance

You know they're gonna go

Which way they wanna go

All we know is that we don't know

What is gonna be

Please brother let it be

Life on the other hand won't let you understand

Why we're all part of the masterplan

Damn it.... another semester gone... loads of new things, conflicts, ideas, people and so on... I haven't written because there's so many things to do for that fuckin' course I'm in.. but hey... I'm enjoying it.. I just wish the day had a couple more hours to do everything I want...

About music, I haven't quit metal, of course... I haven't quit my roots either.. I think the Oasis gig was an essential point where I could make a closure with that stage of my life. I will always love britpop, but I also can't forget that too many things happened while I listened to it so I can't help remembering some things I might not want to remember.

The gig itself was a gift for all old fans... they didn't play too much of the new album, but a long list of classics. I never thought I would sing I am the Walrus, Slide Away and the one I'm posting today... The Masterplan.. that was fucking awesome.. I never thought they would play it... and starting with Rock n' roll star????? amazing...

really, I felt like it was a gift and now I can check that band from my "bands I have to see before I die" list.

What else?

I'm feeling awesome as well... waiting for the challenges the future might bring, hoping for the best and just enjoying the ride... I've just met a very cool group of people... I think it's so healthy talking to new people or getting to know new people, changing the air and everything...

I'll try to post more often... I had forgotten how liberating this was...

Best Wishes

xxxx

Back From the Edge

Back from the Edge

by Bruce Dickinson

A silent river flowing black

strange attractions no turning back

present danger I recall

that pins my senses to the wall

Back from the edge where the darkness has fled

and I'm swimming in light 

and I'm falling... 

falling from the edge...

back from the edge

I fell from grace and that's a fact

still have urges I fight back

cold decisions wear me thin

kill yourself begin again

back from the fear

that you're not worth a damn

throw yourself

into light and the rush as you

spin from the edge...

back from the edge...

now and then I wonder where the faces from my childhood have gone

like father like son your bones it lives on glowing shadows

back from the edge

I have to confess that I first listened to this song last week. Ive been hearing Bruce Dickinson's solo career since a bit before the Maiden concert. and I have to say that I like it very much. I think it was a necessary change of style between the first albums and where Iron Maiden was going at the moment.

but going to what matters today, if I had known this song last year, it would have been even cooler... as someone who had a rebirth, I feel this song very close to me and I can really appreciate the lyrics. Falling from grace is never easy, but it is also necessary  for the process to be complete... 

I also want to ddedicate it to all of you who had fallen... enjoy how everything feels so mcuh better afterwards...

Keep on rockin'

Best Wishes

Molks

xxx

New Change...

Hell, I never thought I could feel like this again…

I mean, I’m usually very good with feelings... but this... this has overwhelmed me.. and I do not feel the same sadness of last time. Today, I just want to experience it over and over again... I can’t wait to go to the next concert, and the nexdt one after that one... I can’t get enough of it. I dont want to be fed up with it.. and as I heard in the documentary, this is a feeling, and it’s a global feeling. It’s so much stronger that what I feel with britpop... this is so much better than that!... I definitely think that my life was marked and til the day I day, I’ll love britpop everyday... it was the first kind of music that I liked and obsessed about...

I’m definitely not quitting,... I couldn’t, even if I wanted... and I don’t want to.. it’s just that this thing I’m  feeling it’s so much stronger than everything I’ve felt before... I’d like to focus on this just a bit,.. of course, I’ve got the Oasis concert coming soon... which would be a very good reminder of my roots.

I still don’t know about my levels of obsession... I still believe it’s in a  “healthy” level... it’s so fun to feel like this! I don’t get to worry about stupid things, I’m happy everytday, just hoping, that someday I’ll be there again, or I’ll have a chance to meet them... 

So... having said all that, the new stage of this blog will be, as it was first intended, comment on songs that rock my life... the only difference will be that there will be metal songs and not Placebo...

Best Wishes

Molks xxx