Music Mix - Freaky Folk
Dec. 2nd, 2004 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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We're all freaks. Every last human being is a weird motherfucker. Anyone who thinks they are normal is lying to themselves. And perhaps inconsequentially lying to you, because you know better.
We live in a world gone mad in the throws of it's own progress. A great many conformists head toward a new type of conservatism. One that labels their fellow men and women into great slabs to be managed. Liberals, fags, commies, bums, dykes, bitches, frogs and so forth and so on. These labels are impersonal and false. Relics of old one dimensional ways of thinking. They eschew the great leaps and bounds our society has made in favour of their own petty protection.
It is only in the acknowledge of our differences as a fundamental mode of being that we move on and find our future. A great many advances have been made quickly in the history of our great society. The greatest culture to have ever existed on earth.
Such a pretentious preamble to what is just a mix CD. But in my life music is a huge inspiration and the background to most all of my thoughts. In light of the disappointing election results and increasingly backwards steps taken in the field of civil liberties, our natural world and civic unity this is what I've been listening to.
This music is supposed to be a reminder of human innocence. That beyond the effigies and postures of politics and religion we share the same fundamental human needs. Much of it is in a modern folk mode that screams from the gut, beats on a drum or hums sweetly like a maternal voice. Technology is still ever-present in all these songs. However it exists simply to aid rather than dominate and alienate the listener from what is a rejoicing in humanity.
Very presumptuous, I know. I hope you enjoy.
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Date: 2004-12-02 06:55 am (UTC)One benefit of working at an internet company? Downloaded 58 megs in about 27 seconds.
Will listen on the way home.
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Date: 2004-12-02 11:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-02 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-02 04:17 pm (UTC)(For further details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/)
P.S. Where's that mail, mister? :-P
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Date: 2004-12-02 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-02 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-02 02:10 pm (UTC)folk you
Date: 2004-12-02 03:33 pm (UTC)A great collection of songs - with a nice mixture of bands I know and don't know, and songs I mostly don't.
Thank you, my friend in Canadia. You just made my day.
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Date: 2004-12-02 03:46 pm (UTC)This is a cool collection of music and I can't wait to explore some of the other stuff by these artists.
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Date: 2004-12-02 04:42 pm (UTC)(p.s. "throes" of progress!)
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Date: 2004-12-02 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-02 11:51 pm (UTC)Fun
Date: 2004-12-03 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-03 04:36 am (UTC)I'm not in love with all this music as such, but it's definitely a great document on what's obviously an emerging aesthetic, and one I was only vaguely aware of previously.
Have you heard the Momus track, "Life of the Fields"? It definitely fits in this genre.
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Date: 2004-12-07 05:19 pm (UTC)I am glad that you and a lot of people share their experiences here, So We share & learn from each other and sometimes found some answers to questions in our heads.
A while back I learned that I can trust your musical taste, good stuff! Tnx!
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Date: 2004-12-10 10:02 pm (UTC)