Music

To me music is the most important thing outside of family and friends in the world.
Music is my best friend becasue it knows how to cheer me up when Im down, it knows how to make me dance, sing and laugh, it knows how to make me cry and more importantly it has helped me through the tough times in my life. Some songs hold such a special meaning that just the first few notes can send memories flooding back to me, some good, some bad but all precious and, thanks to the music, never to be forgotten.

My all time favorite song is True Faith my New Order, this was my 'coming out song' and I will always remember sitting in my bedroom when I was a teenager just singing it over and over again until I knew the words off by heart.

The only song I can never listen to is Take My Breath Away by Emma Bunton (camp I know) but this was mine and an exes song and six years on the song can still break my heart.

A Design For Life by The Manic Street Preachers also holds some very fond memories of my later teen years. I never had many friends at school, those I had were girls and the boys would pick on me call me 'queer', 'puff' whatever but once we got into sixth form and all the school idiots left or maybe grew up I gained alot more mates and there was a small group of us that would each hold a house party every weekend. Nick Edwards' where the best becasue his mom and dad used to go away alot and he had the biggest house. We would gather in his room and drink Hooch all night and then sing the forementioned song at the top of our lungs. Good times.

My all time favorite album is Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette. Buying that album in 1996 changed my musical taste forever. Before this I was into dance music, 2 Unlimited and other euro trance rubbish that was popular at the time. Head Over Feet was the first of her songs I ever listened too and I remember asking my dad what the words meants as it was normally head of heels, I cant remeber his reply but that weekend I rushed down to OurPrice and brought the album and it blew me away. To this day it is one of the only albums I can honestly say I love every track and I never get bored of listening to it.

I have thousands of CD's, mainly albums, and many more MP3's on my iTunes as well. I still get so excited when I buy a new CD, I know all the kids are buying MP3's now and thats 'the future', but I love having and holding the real thing, I like to read the booklet, look at the artwork, read the sleeve notes. For me thats what buying music is all about. Im dreading the day the CD dies altogether, it will be a great loss

I think thats all for today, I will come back to music again and again because it is such a big part of my life and for the song of the day I feel this is fitting;

I feel so extraordinary, Something's got a hold on me,

I get this feeling I'm in motion, A sudden sense of liberty

I don't care 'cause I'm not there,

And I don't care if I'm here tomorrow

Again and again I've taken too much

Of the things that cost you too much

I used to think that the day would never come

I'd see the light in the shade of the morning sun

My morning sun is the drug that brings me near

To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear

I used to think that the day would never come

That my life would depend on the morning sun.

When I was a very small boyVery small boys talked to me

Now that we've grown up together

They're afraid of what they see

That's the price that we all pay

Our valued destiny comes to nothing

I can't tell you where we're going

I guess there was just no way of knowing

I used to think that the day would never come

I'd see the light in the shade of the morning sun

My morning sun is the drug that brings me near

To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear

I used to think that the day would never come

That my life would depend on the morning sun.

I feel so extraordinary

Something's got a hold on me

I get this feeling I'm in motion

A sudden sense of liberty

The chances are we've gone too far

You took my time and you took my money

Now I fear you've left me standing

In a world that's so demanding

I used to think that the day would never come

I'd see the light in the shade of the morning sun

My morning sun is the drug that brings me near

To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear

I used to think that the day would never come

That my life would depend on the morning sun.

True Faith, New Order

TTFN