Was This Song Good & Important?
- Thread starter luka
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Stormin. still brings a tear to my eye tbh.
Leo
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I was still paying attention to guitar bands at the time and recall this weird feeling when Kurt Cobain died. I liked nirvana but just immediately stopped listening to them, and have barely done so since. like finishing the last line in a novel, the closing credits on a film. I unconsciously didn't want to relive/rethink/overthink it, for fear that in retrospect it might not be as good as I pictured it in my mind. wanted to preserve it as a completed package.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
When Prince died I took that as my cue to start listening to Prince. Same thing with David Bowie.
Michael Jackson's death was the one that actually hit me quite hard, which was really weird because up until he'd died he'd been this figure of pity but also ridicule, and of course there were the accusations against him. But when he died it just seemed to cap off the tragedy of his life and make his best music (made when he was younger and blacker) even more poignant – and simultaneously (so it seemed) free at last of its linkage to a living problematic person. And of course this was all bound up with my own childhood when he'd been the coolest person in the world, and his massive place in everybody's cultural memories.
For a few days at least, even in the Oxfordshire backwater I live in, people were blasting his music out of their car windows, you'd hear his music in shops and pubs, etc.
Michael Jackson's death was the one that actually hit me quite hard, which was really weird because up until he'd died he'd been this figure of pity but also ridicule, and of course there were the accusations against him. But when he died it just seemed to cap off the tragedy of his life and make his best music (made when he was younger and blacker) even more poignant – and simultaneously (so it seemed) free at last of its linkage to a living problematic person. And of course this was all bound up with my own childhood when he'd been the coolest person in the world, and his massive place in everybody's cultural memories.
For a few days at least, even in the Oxfordshire backwater I live in, people were blasting his music out of their car windows, you'd hear his music in shops and pubs, etc.