Music

So I'm starting my blog, I'm probably gonna screw something up but who cares.

I had to post something about music, it had to be what my first post was about. Actually I'm gonna have a hard time not writing long posts about music, it could go on forever.

Anyway music is my saviour, it's my food, it's always been important to me when I was a young kid, it was something I turned to when I was pissed or hurt or sad or happy. It's something I desperately miss when it's not surrounding me. I used to sleep with music on, that's how bad I needed it back then. It secured me I guess. But it also made me wanna learn english, it made me wanna play music, it made me wanna buy tons of albums. I think a day without music would be pure torture, I'm addicted to it so I would probably go cold turkey if I didn't hear any music for too long.

Where should I start? What was the first band/artist that did it for me?

I have two older brothers so obviously they kinda made me discovered many artists when I was a kid. I used to wait till they were out and I'd put their LPs on the turntable. I LOVED Pink Floyd's ''Dark side of the moon'' what a fabulous album that was for a kid that was hearing new sounds. I kept on listening to ''Time''which is still one of my favourite Pink Floyd song ever.

Then I would play David Bowie. My bro had a greatest hits album but heck it didn't have ''Station to Station'' on it, how could that be? But Bowie and Pink Floyd made me wanna discover more bands. Although both were important to me it was Blondie that was my favourite icon back then. She was afterall the leader of a band. She was in control, she was talented, she looked pretty good. Most of all her voice and the music did it for me.

But my dad died when I was young, Elvis Presley's music was in at that period. The last gift I got from my dad was a week before he died, he gave me this 7 LPs box-set that had 7 posters in it. It was a pricy gift back then. But I was young, I used to destroy the covers litteraly, I would put them on the walls so the LPs had no covers. Basically I ruined my collection by the age of 11. What a shame. Elvis always reminds me of my dad, ALWAYS. I overgrew my Elvis passion and went on to listening to Classic Rock and other style of music. I loved most of it, I've always had an aversion for techno music simply because I love the rich sound of real musical instruments.

Anyway a few years ago I had this urge to rebuilt my Elvis collection. Just because it reminded me of my dad and I needed to do it. It took some time but I managed to find many LPs I had before I destroyed them all. I even found some original versions of Elvis' first LP or mono versions that dates back to the late 50's, early 60's and some rare issues along the way.

But Elvis is simply a reminded of my childhood life. The music that I truly love with a passion is what plays today. I'll get back to that next time.