Ah, music to keep you together through it all. After having it in my head for the entire morning yesterday i finally got home and got to put on Mussorgsky. i think i enjoy Russian classical music so much because it's passionate, hard-ass, and always has an undertone of sadness. My favorite is the "Promenade" segments from "Pictures at an Exhibition".
Not only does it have all those great attributes of Russian music but it signifies the sensation, the feeling of walking. Walking from one picture to another in a museum or just walking in general, however you want to enjoy and use it. i so enjoy just wandering and this is the perfect piece for just that. Just walking can be equally as expressive as any piece of music or artwork. It can easily be tweaked to work for your mood.
Once the disc was done it switched, automatically, to the next disc in the player which happened to be the Descendents. Classical to punk, only separated by the grinding of gears. That's what keeps me going.
Today i got thinking about the recently reunited (for now) Rage Against the Machine. i remember seeing them for the first time opening up for Quicksand. What an amazing line-up, and on Halloween none the less. Everyone knows of Rage by now but too few know about the headliner Quicksand. If you don't know about them you should check them out. Most likely many of the bands you listen too today know who they are. Quite influential for their short existence.
The second time i saw Rage was when they were the opening act for Lollapalooza. Me and my friends made sure to make the big trek early so that we could see them play. Those of us there to witness them made up less than 1/8th of the audience that would later inhabit the old airfield that day. No more than half of us where cheering between songs. What a difference a decade makes.
Passionate music... that's the stuff for me. No matter the genre, no matter the tempo.
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