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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
I liked Radiohead then because it gave me my own little world, where i didnt understand what any of it was about, but i knew that deep down it was about how i was feeling, and i didnt think anyone around me was feeling the same. Thats why (i think anyway) as you grow older and understand yourself more you feel the need to explore things you dont understand to find that another little world.
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music, in the terms of Joseph Campbell, is like a kind of liturgy for our own personal lives, it is a living mantra that breathes introvertive self-reflection and at the same time a frame-work to make sense of the world. Life is a mystery, and good music preserves that mysterious access, which is meant to be experienced far more than understood. To think you understand life is to make it boring and lifeless, where as to live in the realm of inspiration and ever-constant mystery is to truly live.. as them say "life is for man to live, so let man live life.."
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So in that sense, your man Chino from the Deftones had it right, which is why the Deftones are a good band and Korn are shit
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exactly, me and the deftones have grown up so much together, shit their last album was about Chi in that coma, and it came out when I was in the hospital nursing my dying and dearly close grandfather (who in fact raised me as a son) in his coma, those lyrics and vibe were potently close and hard-hitting, I still get sentimental about listening to them.. and it was not just the words to the lyrics, it was the entire tone and feeling of the music that carried these feelings..
deftones evolved with me from high school shit (adrenaline llyrics) through the mysteries of coping with love and drugs on the real world (around the fur) to navigating love and responsibility in the real world (white pony) to having mini-mid-life crises but staying grounded (self-titled) to accepting being an adult and thriving with it (Saturday Night Wrist) to coping with the realer losses and struggles of
real life family drama that eclipses the juvenille and selfish experiences of the highschool vibe ( Diamond Eyes) these albums are evolving over 16 plus years, just as we all are..
American Beauty was the same thing for the Dead, as the were burying their relatives which marks a potent sign post in the transitions of our lives from youth to adulthood to old age to the grave and starting again.. every dying we feed the flame
radiohead has also done this for me, but in less obvious and more sonically surreal ways..
so have sonic youth, where as other bands stay the same forever..