James B Gill intones:
quoted 3 lines On 30 Jul 1996, Helen Adriaens wrote:> On 30 Jul 1996, Helen Adriaens wrote:
>
>> I can agree with 'Weathered Well' being somewhat dark and capable of
inducing
quoted 10 lines hefty nightmares. But 'Truth ...' ? I find this record is full of hope and>> hefty nightmares. But 'Truth ...' ? I find this record is full of hope and
>> longing (not dread), which to me can never be dark. So beautiful ... so
>> indescribably beautiful.
>
> what? "Full of hope" is not how I would describe this record. More like
> "Full of pins and needles in my body with ants crawling all over me and my
> ex girlfriend with a big butcher knife cutting me in places I'd rather not
> mention." This is _the_ darkest record I've heard in the Ambient genre; I
> find little "Hope" here, and upon listening to it for the first time, had
> to take 25 pills of Prozac just to feel halfway normal again.
(Leaping in to Helen's defense, not like she needs it mind you ... )
Some people are just wired differently. Ask 99% of people who have heard
Joy Division (Sherman, set the Wayback for ... ) to describe them and the
GCF (greatest common factor) will - guaranteed - be "depressing". Yet
the sensation I get from "Atmosphere", "Dead Souls", "I Remember Nothing",
"The Only Mistake", (aw heck, the whole bloody JD canon) is pure elation.
Different people have different emotional reactions to music. I can't ever
put a Dead Can Dance record on; the other half runs over to shut it off -
"it makes me depressed!". I never understood that kind of emotional reaction
to music (since it didn't happen to me). Three years ago when my father died,
we had a bagpiper play "Amazing Grace" at the end of the funeral. It turned
out to be not so good of an idea in a way, because a year and a half later, I
was in San Francisco's Moscone Center for Networld+InterOp. At the end
of the last day of vendor exhibits, the Hewlett-Packard booth started playing
a bagpipes' "Amazing Grace" really loudly right as I was walking by.
I literally ran screaming out of the building. (Funny thing, music ... )
OnNow: A Holmes mini-fan ("This room's hot, let's cool the CPU")
- Greg
P.S. Sorry for the non-IDM tangent. Any of y'all going to the Transatlantic
Move in Miami/Bahamas in late September? (9/27-9/29)