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Wednesday, November 10

Happy Happy Happy

I'll write about last week in a few minutes, but right now I'm as happy as a lark, and need to write about it, however briefly.

Why? 2 reasons:

1. It snowed last night! I'm such a big kid when it comes to snow, I love the stuff. I didn't know that it was supposed to snow here (I don't have a TV and always forget to check online), so it was very surprising to open my curtains this morning to see a veil of white on everything. It's been ages since I've seen snow like that. I think we had some one day back in February in London, but usually it's just one or two days each year in southern England.

And definitely never in the middle of November! Do I sound excited? I really am. I went up to the castle with my camera to take some photos of the town coated with icing sugar, which I'll get posted on the PhotoBlog today. It looked picturesque, just like a Christmas card, especially the woods on the hills surrrounding the town.

So that got me excited during the day. I've now returned home, got online, and found number:

2. My favourite mp3 downloading site, Allofmp3.com, has just added practically every NOW album from 1992 onwards! Remember back in the day when pop music was half-decent and the NOW albums were fantastic? I do, and I've been after all of the tunes of my childhood for ages.

Well, when I say "after", I mean that I would have liked to get hold of them, but couldn't really be arsed to hunt them down on Kazaa or torrent sites. And now they're in one easily accessible place. Unfortunately, my balance has just hit 0, so I'm going to have to top it up before I can get such classic songs as (random selection from NOW 23 to NOW 35):

I could easily carry on with this list for ages, I'm that enthralled with these albums and songs! This is the music that got me into music in the first place, and it has developed to the point where nowadays I simply can't do anything without music. I have tunes on from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed, and am always looking out for new stuff.

Yes, most of the above list is pop, but even before I knew what genres were I was leaning towards dance music. The pop end of it, definitely, but I then immersed myself in it fully over a few years. I still adore club music, preferably trancey stuff without vocals, but every so often there's a good dance tune which hits the mainstream charts. I can't think of any offhand, but you know what I mean.

I didn't start getting into metal music until I was about 15, when I bought my first Korn album. I loved the video for Freak On A Leash, and thought the song was brilliant too, so I picked up the album in a HMV sale (this was in the days before I discovered Napster, Audiogalaxy and everything that's come on the scene since then).

My first forays into metal were thus in the Nu-Metal genre, but once more I branched out and went deeper into the subgenres of metal. Now I prefer gothic stuff (Lacuna Coil, Tiamat, etc) and the ultra-harsh black / death-metal area (Dimmu Borgir, Cradle Of Filth, Opeth, etc). I still listen to all of my nu-metal albums, but I've gone off the genre a bit, especially since Linkin Park went all pop with their crap albums.

I've no idea where and when I discovered hip hop. It probably started with the odd tune and developed from there, as with the other music I'm into. Incidentally, the new Eminem album is pretty damn good. There's a couple of weak tunes on it, but mostly it's a great collection of songs. My favourites are Mosh (but it's better with the video), Crazy In Love and Toy Soldiers. Oh, and I love the girl's voice on Spend Some Time, if only because it's a little strange.

Recently (i.e. the last 6 months), I've been getting into some wider fields of music. I love Goldfrapp, Peaches, Lolita Storm, Chicks On Speed, Aphex Twin, Scissor Sisters (Comfortably Numb has just come on, loving it!), Lamb and Atari Teenage Riot, have rediscovered Bjork, and have decided that DJ Shadow is a genius. I'm also into Metallica at the moment, having got S&M a few months back and watched the MTV Icon show yesterday.

Oh, and the weirdest group I can think of in my mp3 collection is Rasputina. They're so different from what I usually listen to, but I love them. 3 female cellists, and that's about it in the group. The songs are weird, the lyrics are fucked up, but somehow it meshes together to be great music. Go get some of their tunes, Tourniquet being a personal recommendation.

OK, I need to stop talking about music whilst I still can. I get obsessive about the music I like, and can quite easily write a bucketload about it. As I have done, it seems. Dammit.

Sorry for seeming so chirpy and excited all the way through, I think it comes through in my writing a bit strong. I can't help it though, there's so many great tunes I have and want.

Such as Gloworm - Carry Me Home, which I just found on NOW 28. What a tune!
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