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30 day music challenge


kaini

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day 14 - a song that no one would expect you to love

 

 

My sister was listening to it around 2008, and I started to like it. It surprised me, but it's actually really good.

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jesus, troon, i was merely pointing out that it should be *one* song per day.

and now back to your regularly scheduled 30 day music challenge.

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day 15 - a song that describes you

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56yR-kK9gTI

 

Philip Glass - Music In Contrary Motion

 

 

When I say this track describes me, I'm talking about the actual construction of the track. 'Contrary Motion' has two main layers of melody, both playing up and down (like a wave) from A to E. The higher layer will always play the opposite of the lower layer, such that A will always counter E, B will always counter D, and C will counter C. As such, these layers appear to have symmetry, and they sound wonderful together. There is also a bass, which just plays a low A when a bar is played, and an even lower E when the melodic layers switch octaves and repeat.

 

For me, this track represents the violent clashing of two powerful, opposing forces: good and evil, black and white, love and fear, yin and yang. I have Manic Depression, and before I was treated, I used to have mood swings, switching from high to low, and anywhere in between. I know what it's like to live with that juxtaposition, to feel so many different states at once. This track embodies the duality of my life and, to some extent, everyone's.

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day 16 - a song that you used to love but now hate

 

 

When I was 9 I fell in love with this 13 year old girl on the bus, and she introduced me to her style of music: heavy metal, guitar, lyrics with lots of profanity etc.

 

This was a good song for us to listen to together, giggling at the swear words and enjoying something that resembles a decent electric guitar. Now that I'm older, I realise just how utterly shit this track is. Nothing but a bunch of glans-headed, shaft-necked twats screaming about how they're better than everyone else.

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