Great Music

The day you become an adult is the day where your perception of music changes. I don’t know mine is in what year but I just notice of a major change of mine recently. Well, not recently, guess about five years ago, the year we got married, methinks.

Young bloke, cute face, tricky dance step, love mentioned at least 7 times and a hit would be the song I fallen in love before.

But those no longer give me satisfaction.

I wanna hear song that’ll give me full meaning. That will make me stop my world for a moment and listen hard to the lyrics and try to find any resemblance in my life or people’s around me. That will make me imagine the video clips that might be produced from the song or the mega concert the band / singer will hold. I can almost hear people shout ‘for more’. That will make me swim around between piano, violin and great unique voice. Combination of piano and violin will always bring me down to my knees. They are my favorites.

And a good song, that kind of good song, always come with the package: the whole album. I hardly find any album that has only one good song, unlike Malaysian’s. Call me unpatriotic or whatsoever.

Evanescene – the piano really kills me, really takes my heart away. It is both beautiful and furious. My favorite of the first album was My Immortal (the video clip was fantastic) and the second album was Lithium. No one, no one except Amy Lee of Evanescene who could describe properly a feeling of depression, both in lyrics and in melody in Lithium. The combination of rapid piano and hard-bang drum is just perfect. She went slow and hard intermittently, making you feel exactly like what a depression would feel, a life full of rollercoaster ride.

James Blunt – this is what I called a perfect album. You see, I never know that James Blunt was an army officer before but listening to his songs made me understand the situation of a war and how actually the soldiers are suffering inside. We keep blaming the war parties but have we ever thought on how it actually feels killing? Looking at the concert, I am mesmerized and stunned for the whole hour. And I still feel the same each time I look at it, as if it is the first time I see it.

Linkin Park – if I am a teenager and feeling mad to my parents, this is the album that I will listen to. All the anger and frustrations are channeled in between Shinoda’s rap and Chester’s strong voice. You may also scream together with them for the album allows a few good space to do so.

You see, when you combine the words satisfaction with the RM you come out when you buy an Album, you can hardly see any Local that would do that to you. You’d just feel that RM better well spent at a nice cafe who plays video clips.