Day 6 – What music is most important to you?

the question states: what band/musician is most important to you?

that changes too.  i was six the first time i heard "yes, jesus loves me".  that day, a bunch of us little kids were loved on and told over and over that indeed he did.  we were special because jesus loved the little children.  all of them, all across the world.  i made quit an impression on me.  i felt loved and safe until we sent and sat out with the grownups for the preacher’s sermon.  the sermon was scary.  i went home  full of scary news from the father of the man who said he would keep us safe and happy. 

i gave that up and listened around a little more.i found radio a couple of years later.  i loved the top 40, but my dad would not let me listen to that "devil worshipping shit".  i could get a little of it from time to time outside of the house.

i fell in with country music and began singing out loud.  i was eleven or so.  tanya something tucker…. she sang girliechic songs.  like a cross between the dixie chicks and enya.  after i got the taste of all her music out of my mouth, i switched over to janis joplin as much as i could.  i even got my dad to learn the cords so i could sing "house of the rising sun".  i immersed me into the words.  singing my fantasies out as much as i could.  the words were perfect for me because i would shape my thinking and feeling to match the world of the lyrics. 

when i would want to fall down inside my sadness, i began to hear and feel pink floyd.  i listened hard for the space that i fit into with their music and lyrics.  always found it too.  yeah…. it always fit.

then tom waits wandered by with his big ol balls.  i like him in little black meals.  i love the crash test dummies.  they sing with a huge clowny smiley face on, but they still mean what they sing.  and they are singing to adore him….. our lord.
i love the celts.  the celtic women.  i could give a rat’s butt about history and wars and fueds.

to this end, i must saY, there is too much noise in my life already for me to be able to include very much music into it when i am awake and trying to listen to anything around me.  it conflicts with other noise.  so does any background noise.  it annoys people.

i’m leaving a whole lot of important music out, but i have chores to do.  and i need to pee.  that one wins.