It's time for me to settle in, take an edible and listen to some music. That being said, it's always fun to share what I'm listening to and thus I think I might just do that now. I have weird tastes: grew up in a home where my father was a musician when he was younger and had a fairly popular band before he went into the Service and had tastes that ran from rock, pop, country and blues that I kind of attained through him. Grunge and heavy metal became my jam for most of my young life in the 90s and then I discovered rap... and it was an acquired taste, but now I love it. And even now I'm learning to love new things, bluegrass and jam bands being the most recent ones I've fallen in love with... and I say you give them a try even if you don't have the urge to now. Billy Strings and Umphrey's Mcgee are my two favorites in those genres respectively. And of course humor and parody music like Weird Al or Li'l Dicky.
And then there's my personal favorite that I still haven't seen in person - Nine Inch Nails (NIN).
If you don't know who the band is, it's really one man - Trent Reznor. And he provided me basically the soundtrack of my life from teenaged years through my time in the Army. He's a talent that's once in a generation... a man who pioneered how to create a sound on your own with no help from others, playing every instrument and even making up instruments (like the straw) while crafting deep bass riffs that just speak to your soul. The band has always been on the cutting edge of music... and he's gone on to score movies now and barely tours compared to what he used to.
That's enough of my hero worship for the man that literally put BDSM music on the map... and if you weren't in highschool in the mid-90s you'd never realize just how crazy teenaged girls of all persuasions went when Closer came on at the dance.
Enjoy one of my favorites from them:
With that, I wonder what other people enjoy that reminds them of their youth, whether it was 20 years ago like me, or yesterday. What makes you think of the lifestyle, or even just makes you feel good inside? Share. I'd love to hear it!
