Posts by Jackie Clark
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Wow. That takes me back. And there's my boy. Sad.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to James Butler,
See, I love hymns and I'm a nonbeliever. Even when I went to Marsden, an Anglican school where church/chapel was a part of every day life and where I became an atheist (not one anymore, but that's a different discussion), I wouldn't kneel to pray, but I always stood to sing. I mean what's not to love about this song?
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Oh Geoff, that is beautiful. Thank you! Next pay day, I am getting that album. Her voice is just gorgeous.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Russell Brown,
How can anyone not love Aretha Franklin. I consider her one of my original peeps. Oh, yeah, when I say my peeps, I mean it. Her, and Bette Midler, and Elton John. My peeps.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I don’t quite get Tom waits, although I accept that he is a great musical renegade.
Ah, see I don’t love him because of that. I love his voice. It twangs my heart strings in a really lovely way. I used to aspire to have that gravelly well worn voice. It says so much about him.
And you will be reassured to know that The Ship Song is possibly the only one of Cave’s works that I like. -
Can we talk about Nick Cave? Can we? I am aware that many find him brilliant. I just find his music dirgey. In the extreme. And yet, I love Tom Waits.
Ah, me. That voice.
And while we're at it, I don't get Richard Thompson, and I never was a fan of the Flying Nun thing, and when I was in my 20's everyone was nutty for Darcy Clay. Not to mention Straitjacket Fits. I am a philistine. -
Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
I don't really do live bands either, Lucy. And I know that we may be in a minority of some sort. I have a shitload of friends who are always at gigs of some sort. It does make me somewhat sad that I don't get it - because the very few gigs I have been to in pub surroundings, I have enjoyed - but it's the noise that gets to me. It's so loud, and the gigs often run so late, that it just becomes an unpleasurable experience. So I pick and choose very carefully - I think I've been to 2 pub gigs in about 10 years.
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Honestly, a little piece of me dies every time someone hates something that I love. My brother sends me vast quantities of music I've never heard of from time to time. I love that he does that but most of it just isn't for me. My tastes for music seem to be firmly in two or three camps. I'm a big nostalgia geek, so what I grew up listening to and enjoying, I still enjoy for the most part. I also seem to be very artist-centric. Once again, if I loved an artist while I was young, I mostly love them today. And someone else mentioned that music is about context - of course it is! I hear Bob Marley, and I'm 14 again (all music loved 12-16, my context is boarding school, Wellington) lying outside sunbathing. Most of the "dreck" from the 70's? Same place, same sort of feeling. Headbanging to the JJ Geils band. Or Black Betty. You get the picture. Then there's the music that I hear and instantly love - many of the modern artists have some songs I like, but it's mostly true that I won't like all their work. I am struck by Adele, for example, because she has just an astonishing voice, and I've seen her interviewed a couple of times, and I really like what she has to say. Emma kindly introduced me yesterday to a song by Mary J Blige that I instantly fell in love with. This music is stuff that speaks to the heart, and resonates with us for whatever reason. I would include the song "Sound Advice" by Breaks Co-op in that category. I never liked it when I first heard it. It was my brother's band but I didn't care. None of that first album was for me. And then, after my Dad died, Breaks Co-op did a theatre tour with Goldenhorse, and Hamish performed Sound Advice, and for the first time, I listened to the chorus, and it blew me away. "You'll never know, how much I miss you....." and that was it for me. From then on, the song was associated with my Dad, and all my love for him.
And then there's music I like to dance/workout to. I don't care whether it's new or old, if it has a good beat, I'm in.
There are whole genres I don't like - like Country (sorry Danielle xxx), or heavy metal, or Christian anything, or Drum and Bass. I don't think any of it's dreck , particularly. I just don't find it pleasant to listen to. What I have found most disturbing about this thread - don't get me wrong, don't stop! because mostly it's amusing - is the people_ hating. I don't care if you don't like a song, or a genre of music, but don't make stupid generalisations about the people who listen to it. We all like different things from each other, doesn't make us any lesser than. -
Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to TracyMac,
I don't understand the phrase "guilty pleasure". In my book, if something pleases you, then there is no guilt attached. Ever. At least not as far as music/tv/cinema/art goes.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
I don't think good music should be anything but. I'm not ever sure why people think they have to try to like something. It's so visceral, our response to music, like all art. And Van, is the man.