letting y'all know that this exists because i literally just died while listening to this and my soul is going to the music and emotional heaven bye
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One of my toxic traits is that I think those over the top pop punk/pop metal covers of pop songs fuck really hard.
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Listening to The Who a bunch for the first time since I was a young teen has been an Experience.
I spent my college years feeling kinda embarrassed over the obsession I'd had with them when I was like 13. I felt like it was so cringe because other 13 year olds had made me feel like my love of classic rock was cringe, and I had also since fully moved on and started exploring music that wasn't just the music my parents had raised me on or my favourite film soundtracks. I wanted to distance myself from my parents and the person I was as a teen and bury myself in alt rock, metal, and post-punk.
Now here I am in my late-20's, going back and listening to that old music for various reasons, and I'm like oh no 13 year old me was right. The Who fuck severely. And I can also see now how formative listening to them was for me. I recently read that they're considered proto-punk by music historians and I started connecting dots in my head like holy shit that explains so much of why my musical taste evolved the way it did. The edgy subject matter. The intense sound. The dramatic vocals. Of course I went on to be very into bands like Evanescence, Halestorm, Green Day, The Offspring, My Chemical Romance, In This Moment, and even Florence + The Machine.
And I think that shit influenced me beyond just music taste. I think it made me way more comfortable talking about difficult social topics than my peers in some ways, which in turn made me an even more pretentious teen than I otherwise would have been lol. I also only just recently realized that one of the many reasons why The Who, out of all the classic rock bands in my dad's LP collection, probably appealed to me the greatest was because their music isn't mostly about sex or attraction, and my tiny unaware ace ass was naturally drawn to that.
Additionally, shoutout to Pete Townshend for inspiring me so much as a musician and songwriter at that age, but also a big thanks to his slightly pitchy ass for giving me the completely unearned confidence to be the lead singer in a band as a teen. My tiny self heard Pete Townshend sing in some of The Who's songs and was subconsciously like "if this is the bar for professionals, I'm fine". I mean that with complete sincerity and love. Being able to get myself to sing in front of other people did a lot for me psychologically at 13, I think. Sure, I later I came to look back and cringe at how bad I was, but being oblivious to myself was very important in making sure I got to do some of the things I wanted to do at the time.
Perhaps most importantly after all this introspection and trips down memory lane, I find myself wanting to pick up my guitar and write music again for the first time in more than 10 years. I still have the custom black and tortoiseshell Gibson SG I got specifically because Pete Townshend used to play SGs (in hindsight, I should have stuffed my idolatry, made the smart choice, and gotten a Stratocaster- SGs are stupidly neck-heavy- but teen me was like I Need Townshend's Guitar, Dad). The truss rod probably needs some serious adjustment by now, but that's probably doable. I just need to set aside the time and get myself to overcome the hurdle of opening that dusty ass gig bag (ADHD Task Difficulty: Moderate-Severe).
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Listening to whatever Halestorm did to that guitar to make it sound like that in their cover of Bad Romance is better than any sex you could ever have
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after seeing that awesome colored 17!morg art, i decided to add more songs to the playlist i made for her
yes the first song is bad romance shut up look it's a good cover just keep going
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last fm is great because you can see in real time me listening to one song 40 times in a row because im either drawing or imagining an amv/animatic i wish i could make set to it
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“Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover”
Original by Sophie B. Hawkins
Covered by Halestorm
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I WANT YOUR UGLY, I WANT YOUR DISEASE
I WANT YOUR EVERYTHING AS LONG AS IT'S FREE, I WAMT YOUR LOVE
I WANT YOUR DRAMA, THE TOICH OF YOUR HAAAND
I WANT YOUR LEATHER-STUDDED KISS IN THE SAND, I WANT YOUR LOVE
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