My 3rd great passion

...is music =P
The 1st being physics/maths and the 2nd being card games XD

I have no idea what you're all gonna think of this post and I'm sure Baker is gonna disagree with things XD

Anywho I'm gonna tell yas all about me musical life becasue I have nothing to do for a few hours =P

The year is 1999, I'm 5 and am beginning to be aware of the music industry. My mum and dad like the generic pop thats in the charts (which back then was tolerable) and my bro was in love with Metallica and Iron Maiden. I got into the pop genre and was listening (non-religiously) to S Club 7, Steps, Westlife etc... hideous thought of me i know =P

Anyway...

This continued till one summer holiday. Every year my dad would make me and mah bro a cassette tape for the car journey. In 2003 when i was 9, we were going through my CDs and I rejected most of them. For me that was pretty astonishing to cast aside most of what i liked and ended up with a cassette with about 4 tracks on it =P. After this I had a hiatus for a couple of years where i didn't listen to much at all.

But that all changed...

In 2005 we got the game, Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition which is a racing game despite the name =P. These two tracks were on it and they completely changed my view on music.

I'd never thought electric guitars could be used to create such an atmorphere and i becan to appreciate them. At the time I didnt really like Metallica or Iron Maiden but i thought the style could be better. After playing FF IIV, I liked techno to a degree but didn't really want to persue that either. I began to listen to this American punk-rock/metal but didn't go much further then these two bands. =P

AND THEN GUITAR HERO 3 CAME OUT...
...in 2007 and I felt like I was on drugs XD. It introduced me into the more sort of generic and genre specific rock and metal such as Disturbed and . From hereon I listened to nothing but metal. I couldn't quite put me finger on it... it had a specific quality but most of the bands were touch and go... a majority of tracks didn't quench my thirst for metal. As we all know Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames was on GH3 and that was one of the most awesome tracks I'd ever heard and the power metal genre was the only one that grabbed me entirely, there was nothing I wouldn't listen to from it.

Then came GH World Tour in 2008... and that game's credits track:

I honsetly can't put into words how much awesome was thrown at my face in the space of 8 munites 14 seconds. THE MELODY, THE TECHNIQUE... EVERYTHING WAS AMAZING!!! This one track changed my life effectively =P

From then till now I've loved my prog metal. Becasue of this i have an endless need to search for new ideas and compositions. My absoulte favorite album of all time is Dreyelands - Rooms of Revelation. This album is about delving into the deepest, darkest parts of our minds and opening the doors to insanity that we all have (Mr Criticoss would be proud of me for that sentance). This also has the first track ever than made me go goosebumpy...

The varience, abnormality and expressionistic harmonies are seconded only to classical music. (sorry Rach =P). What the hell lets talk about classical music too =P

You should all know im a penis... I mean a pianist... and specifically love the baroque era of music which generically has broken chords in the left hand and the melody in the right. Now we get onto Ludovico Einaudi who I first heard on the way to shcool one morning and he just blew me away...

To me the solo piano i better than orchesteral pieces. Orchestras use violins far too much. I feel that with violins, violas and the like make you focus too much on the resonance of the strink rather than the note it plays... sounds wierd but i know what i mean =P. For me the piano doesn't do that, its simply press the key and you get a note... nothing else... clean and simple. Well thats about all i can dragon say about classical...

I want to say about society's music... it's shit and contributes nothing to the world...

I'm sure you all don't need this but here is a generic track... the horriffic thing it is has more likes than dislikes. In my mind that means that over half the population of youtube (which statistically must be a similar ratio but smaller population to a global market) likes it...  It's explicit I'll warn you now but if you have a brain you can come up with a better track in yer 'ead withought knowing how bad this is.

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Lets get that hideous musical abomination off the screen XD
And there ends my journey... lets ignore the last bit about society... that was me going off on a tangent =P

I have about 100 bands on my ipod still to listen to and moar bands will be recommended from them... I've got my work cut out =P

Stokachu =3