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Oct. 16th, 2007 05:03 pmHave you ever had a strong reaction to an artist (I suspect this could work in any field, art, music, writing, but I'm using this in the musician sense here), either positive or negative, that isn't based on their music, anything they've said or might have said, or context-specific to a time in your life?
I'm currently listening to Four Tet's Pause album on my iTunes. I loaded it up there when I installed iTunes on this computer, so around November 2005. Since that time I've never listened to it all the way through, just individual tracks when they came up on the party shuffle. I realised a few weeks back, when going through my iPod, looking for something to play, that I felt some emotion, difficult to pin down, but negative, when I would see either Four Tet's name, or that of the group he's a part of, Fridge, pop up on screen. For the life of me I can't think why. I can across Fridge on the late lamented 'Mixing It', and it was their session that made me buy EPH and Happiness and later, Pause. None of these albums will ever rank at the top of my lists of favouritest music ever, unless I have some strange accident that makes me forget a lot of other stuff, but it's decent. I've not read/heard any interviews with any of them so have no idea of whether their beliefs are compatible with mine and I don't recall listening to their albums at any time of emotional stress that would have caused them to be reimprinted in my mind in a negative way. Listening to Pause now or, indeed, at any time when their tracks come up in Party Shuffle, I never skip over them and never think "this is rubbish", indeed, I'm enjoying listening to this now, but there is that slight niggle at the back of my mind, and I don't know what it means.
Please tell me I'm not making any sense.
I'm currently listening to Four Tet's Pause album on my iTunes. I loaded it up there when I installed iTunes on this computer, so around November 2005. Since that time I've never listened to it all the way through, just individual tracks when they came up on the party shuffle. I realised a few weeks back, when going through my iPod, looking for something to play, that I felt some emotion, difficult to pin down, but negative, when I would see either Four Tet's name, or that of the group he's a part of, Fridge, pop up on screen. For the life of me I can't think why. I can across Fridge on the late lamented 'Mixing It', and it was their session that made me buy EPH and Happiness and later, Pause. None of these albums will ever rank at the top of my lists of favouritest music ever, unless I have some strange accident that makes me forget a lot of other stuff, but it's decent. I've not read/heard any interviews with any of them so have no idea of whether their beliefs are compatible with mine and I don't recall listening to their albums at any time of emotional stress that would have caused them to be reimprinted in my mind in a negative way. Listening to Pause now or, indeed, at any time when their tracks come up in Party Shuffle, I never skip over them and never think "this is rubbish", indeed, I'm enjoying listening to this now, but there is that slight niggle at the back of my mind, and I don't know what it means.
Please tell me I'm not making any sense.
