cravings

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why the feeling was so striking, but for the last couple of days I've felt this almost visceral need to hear some Talking Heads (before any of you ask "who are they?" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads).

I have a lot of admiration for them at a critical level, but I wouldn't say I was particularly a huge fan. Most importantly, I'm sure I probably haven't listened to more than a couple of songs over the last few years. And hear suddenly I *needed* to hear them, and it wasn't that feeling of "Oh, 'Naive Melody' is a great song, I want to hear it again." It was as if something was missing in my diet.

Anybody else know what I mean?

Comments

[koganbot]

So this question is "what is missing from modern music that one's synapses occasionally find necessary."

Good punk, e.g., "Search and Destroy" and "Sonic Reducer" and "Violet." Occasionally, a current act will pull this off for a track or two (Black Angel's "Never Got Over You" and A.R.E. Weapon's "Have You Ever?" and Ashlee Simpson's "I Am Me") but never with any consistency. Of course there are things that don't sound like punk but emotionally work like it for me, for instance whole chunks of Britney's Blackout. But Britney's not getting the music to jam your face to the floor in the specific way that Rocket From The Tombs once did, so she's not creating that specific visceral feel. I think that the meaning of the electric guitar and of "punk" has changed so that someone who picks up that instrument and that genre isn't likely to make that music (with a couple of exceptions mentioned above), which is why outsiders like Shanks 'n' Ashlee can pull it off as a one-shot at least as well as the people who don the punk symbols.

just a sidenote

[pony-meat.livejournal.com]

i thought raw powerthe stooges and funhouse.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Actually, no, that wasn't the question at all. I just put that second comment in after having wondered for a while why I felt this particular KIND of compulsion. (Most of us like to scale up their personal thoughts and insights into grand schemes, I think. But in this case I really just asking about the particular feeling, and I don't think it's at all the same as "Oh I really want to hear some punk" or jazz or whatever. Although maybe it is.

to edit my last post -

[pony-meat.livejournal.com]

i thought raw power was a slide from the stooges and funhouse.