The other day my friend Rik* and I ended up in a drunken conversation with two young whippersnappers about musical taste. One of said whippersnappers only listens to death metal, and this left me with several questions. When he sits back and chills after a tiring day, does he throw on some relaxing death metal to unwind? How about background music if he were to have a dinner party - a little light death metal perhaps? And what if he’s trying to get a chick in the mood for love, does he dim the lights and seduce her with the soothing strains of some sexy death metal?
Anyway each to his own and all that, but my point was that the older I get the more I want to listen to more varied types of music depending on my mood. Recently I’ve found myself veering between new music and stuff that I listened to when I first got interested in music (the first album I ever actually bought was Johnny Hates Jazz, but I bought it off my brother for 50p so let’s ignore that and focus on the fact that the second album was MJ’s ‘Off The Wall’ which makes me pretty cool). In the spirit of that, here are a couple of songs I’m digging a lot at the moment, one new and one old. First up we have Random Axe with a track that seems to me about as close as it gets to a 2011 version of one of the classic Wu-bangers from ‘36 Chambers’. Secondly, we have The Pixies with ‘Planet of Sound’, which is actually kind of similar in terms of the driving drums and guitars. The Pixies also have one of my favourite first lines of a song ever: “Pioneer of aerodynamics…”.
* Previously that day I’d had to watch Rik spend 40 minutes trying to convince a woman he’d never met that she would be dead in a month as a result of mood-altering mind control drugs, and that he knew this because he had read a newspaper article given to him by a time-traveller. He was sober. True story.
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