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Jag är full av infall och stora planer jag vill förverkliga. Det är allt från idéer till filmer, ett nytt intresse för att bli rik snabbt, en obskyr artist som skall upptäckas eller en leksaksserie jag måste samla ihop. Nu har jag en ny idé, en spontan tanke slog mig, som de ofta gör. Denna gången har jag dock ansträngt mig för att göra koncept till realitet. Det började för två veckor sedan, då jag satte mig ned vid datorn och skapade en ny spellista på Spotify. Så har ett nytt projekt sett dagens ljus. Låt mig introducera: Onsdagslistan!
Vad är "Onsdagslistan?"
Enkelt och kort är det en spellista på Spotify, vilken är under ständig förändring. För att ge en mer detaljerad beskrivning handlar det om att jag vill lära mig mer om musik, riktigt fördjupa mig i olika artisters och gruppers historia, stil och bidrag till musikhistorian. På köpet vill jag dessutom öppna dina ögon för musik som kanske går dig förbi, eller kanske bara belysa något som du inte visste om musik du redan lyssnar på. Hur som helst går processen till så att jag lyssnar genom allt eller nästan allt som finns att finna om en artist eller grupp och sedan väljer ut en liten del av alla de låtar jag lyssnat på. Sedan arrangerar jag låtarna i listan till en behaglig mix och bjuder dig på hela kalaset!
Så du väljer ut det bästa? Har vi inte "Popularity"-sorteringen till det?
Nej, jag väljer inte ut det bästa, då hade det varit lätt att göra en lista på 20 låtar. Bara ta de 20 mest populära. Nej, jag lyssnar genom allt jag orkar av gruppen/artisten och väljer noga ut låtar från hela tiden hon/han/de varit aktiva, som kan representerar deras karriär bra och som jag tycker är riktigt bra låtar! Det tar lång tid men på så sätt får jag tag i översedda pärlor och de där låtarna som kanske inte är något mästerverk men ändå värt att nämna. Dessutom kan det hända att jag utlämnar några av artistens/gruppens allra populäraste låtar. Kom ihåg, Onsdagslistan handlar om att lära oss nya saker om intressant musik och du kanske inte behöver höra den där radioplågan en gång till för det. ![]()
Varför ska jag lyssna på din lista?
Du ska inte bara lyssna på listan, du ska prenumerera. Detta kommer bli en lista som förnyas hela tiden. Optimalt kommer en ny lista varje onsdag (därav namnet) men min första lista tog två veckor att göra, så måhända blir det varannan vecka. Det betyder att du kommer få chansen att upptäcka ny musik minst två gånger per månad! Och jag tror inte jag pratar för stort när jag påstår att min musikkunskap har en del att erbjuda även dig (ja, du vet vem du är). Dessutom uppmuntrar jag alla som vill lyssna och prenumerera, att skicka in förslag till framtida listor. Jag har inget krav för en lista, förutom att jag måste ha ett eget intresse att lära mig mer om ämnet i fråga. Det kan vara allt från en specifik artist, ett årtionde, en sångares karriär genom olika band eller en musikgenres uppgång (och fall, i vissa fall).
Så ditt "projekt" är en bunt låtar som du delar varje onsdag? Hur lär jag mig något på det?
Du har rätt och fel. Onsdagslistan är en samling låtar som mycket riktigt uppdateras varje eller varannan vecka (jag ska försöka lägga mig kring 20 låtar per lista eller färre, så det blir överskådligt och lätt att lyssna på). Men jag slutar inte där. Jag läser på om ämnet som jag fokuserar på, för att verkligen lära mig något nytt och inte bara lyssna på ny, skön musik. Då får jag både bra musik och barkgrunden till hur den komponerades och av vem och varför. När jag publicerar en ny lista så görs det alltid med en kort sammanfattad historia om ämnet i fokus. Den publiceras bl.a. här, så du också får lära dig nytt och nyttigt om musik! Skoj, vad?!
Nåja. Det låter väl ganska bra och jag är ju musikintresserad... men jag vill ha variation!
Det ska du få. Jag anser mig själv ha ett brett spektra av musik i min smak. Jag kan gå så långt bak som klassisk musik, så långt fram som Lady Gaga, så djupt som experimentell jazz eller så grunt som Absolute Music 69! Jag gillar inte allt, det kan jag inte säga, men jag är redo att prova det mesta.
Men jag vill bara snöa in mig på en enda genre/artist/grupp/tidsepok!
Ja, då får du väl ta och skriva och tipsa mig om dina önskemål, så får du kanske något att se fram emot. Under tiden du väntar på att få din vilja igenom, ta och lyssna på de listor jag lägger upp så kanske du lär dig uppskatta något mer än ditt favoritband från 80-talet. ![]()
Okej, nu prenumererar jag på din dumma spellista. Vad händer härnäst?
Utmärkt! Härnäst? Lyssna och njut och ta till dig ny kunskap. Kom med förslag, feedback, utmaningar, glåpord eller en stämningsansökan (om jag stal din idé). Allt du gör för att visa intresse och engagemang är uppskattat!
Den första listan fokuserar på Roy Orbinson. Den har officiell premiär nästa onsdag, därför skriver jag inte något om gamle Roy förrän den sjätte oktober. Du kan dock redan nu passa på att prenumerera och tjuvlyssna på listan. Tyck till redan idag, så får jag veta om det finns intresse.
Tack, så hörs vi snart igen!
travis DG edna
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Music might be the most important piece of culture through history. No other media has the power to engage or influence people like music do. It empowers our greatest moments, it comforts us when we cry over lost love, it helps us channel anger and it just makes us want to move our body to its rhythm. Music is in us, even as our surrounding is completely quiet. I think music works best when it is used as a mean to enhance an emotion. This is of course the whole purpose of music: To enhance/emote a feeling. That is why we make music and that is why we listen to it.
Something I really like is discovering a great song that I never heard before. It doesn't need to be newly written or anything, just new to me. I often pick up these new songs on the radio, on Spotify or iTunes but the place where I have discovered most of the new truly great songs is in the movies. It happens once, maybe twice a year: I visit the cinema or rent a DVD and halfway through the movie, an amazing song starts playing that fully encapsulate the scene and emotion that the film is aiming for. A perfect choice. Many of my favourite movies has introduced a song to me that really made me shudder out of pleasure. So I thought I'd make a Top five songs introduced to me in movies. The rule I follow here is that I mustn't have heard the song before I saw the film it was featured in. These are not just good songs, but they're featured in really good movies. So go and see the movie, as well!
Number five: The Promise by When in Rome (Napoleon Dynamite)
I was late to discover Napoleon Dynamite. The buzz about this low-budget nerd-comedy had already been going on for some time before I rented the film on DVD. I really liked it but I wasn't blown away by it. I saw it a couple of times and it grew on me. Especially the ending is a nice scene with Napoleon, the protagonist, and Deb, his love interest, playing a game of tether ball together. It's a scene of future promises and possibilities. This is where "The Promise" kicks in and really cements the feeling of true faithful love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOyyrB1wj04
Number four: Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis (The Butterfly Effect)
I first saw The Butterfly Effect sometime during my second year in high school and by then it was a few years old, I think. I remember being totally sucked in into the plot and I really cared about the characters. Aside from the most obvious message, for me, the film is about a love that we yearn for so very, very hard in our hearts but can't reach. I felt touched by it and felt sorrow deep down, as if I were in the same situation. "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" is played right at the ending and sums up all those feelings of loss and lost love that the film contains. A very strong ending to a great movie and it was after seeing this movie that I really started listening to Oasis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BjQ3LrmkTY
Number three: Extreme Ways by Moby (The Bourne Identity)
"Extreme Ways" is featured in all of the three films in the Bourne-trilogy but it was in the first mind blowing part where I first discovered it. I had heard a lot of praise for the Bourne-films and I bought The Bourne Identity and Supremacy on PSP UMD for a cheap price. At the time, Ultimatum hadn't reached the cinemas yet. I saw the first movie while travelling by train and though I had a hard time hearing the voices in the film (due to the weak sound of the PSP) I still quickly discovered a new favourite film. The Bourne-films were a whole new level of action and displayed some really amazing skills in editing fighting scenes. After seeing the movie, my heart beat quickly and I felt as in ecstasy and this is when "Extreme Ways" kicks in. Yes, just like number four and five this is the credit song of the movie but it was so fitting to end an action packed adrenaline rush as The Bourne Identity with this soothing techno song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOuPqeHXMzQ
Number two: Love Reign O'er Me by Pearl Jam (Reign Over Me)
Yes, this is originally a song by The Who and yes, the original Who-version is also featured in the movie. BUT the Pearl Jam-version is played earlier in the movie and it is specifically covered by Pearl Jam just for this movie and, dear lord, is it good? Yes, yes, it is. It is fantastic, amazing, incredible and f-ing AWESOME! The emotions caused by listening to this song cannot be described. Oh, I mustn't forget to mention the movie because I think that everyone who has an interest in movies, especially GOOD ones, should see this. If I tell you Adam Sandler is one of the main character you might think of some of the other films he's been in but no, this is nothing like that. This movie is an emotional powerhouse and the relationship between the different characters really feels real and honest. It's a nice change to the usual Hollywood formula of making movies. See it sometime. And listen to the unbelievably good song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663L-GWQdws
Number one: Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes by Beck (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Where do I begin to describe what this movie means to me? It is significant in so many ways that it may well be a definition of who I am. The movie is about love but not as you might think and it wouldn't be fair of me to define what Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind really centres around. For me, the most important aspect of this movie is how it reflects upon our memories and how utterly important some of our memories are. It may be all we have in the end. I won't go on with this incoherent review of this masterpiece of a movie but let me just say that the one thing that really made me fall in love with it was when Beck's "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes" began playing for the first time in the movie. I don't remember but I think I cried. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind will forever stand as one of my personal favourites, a movie dear to the heart and Beck's melancholy song is the very best song I ever discovered while watching a movie.
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This is the first Aegidrom's Monthly Music, and it will be all about Michael Jackson.
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Well, I've been thinking of doing some kind of regular presentation of different bands and musicians that I think should be recognized, or just sharing some great music with the world. So, I'm changing dream to reality, and putting it all to the works. Monthly may be too long, but I'm not sure that I can keep up with a weekly update. Perhaps in the future. But for now, it's "Aegidrom's Monthly Presention of Musicians". (Please, help me with the name!)
AMPM or AMPoM (Again, please help me!) will be starting later this month with my favorite musician, and in my opinion the greatest musician of all time. I will put great effort to research whatever I'm presenting, and I will cover the topics I find important, or just write whatever I feel like. The reviewing and evaluation of the musicians or bands will all be personal, as with anything in this site, so don't expect no Wikipedia out of all of this (though that is a very good site). While this site primarly focuses on video games, we should be able to fit in a little music once a month, for sure. I'm looking forward to this, as a music lover, and you can be sure, this project is being made for music lovers.
Regards,
Aegi
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It's time to say howdy to your favourite undersea peanut, Aegidrom. To this day I've been letting Travis and Pata get all the fun posting action here on MSE, while I am pushing myself harder, better, faster and stronger in terms of homework. I haven't been able to post anything due to lack of time! But now things are getting a little out of hand, as five posts already shines on this wonderful page, without my name under 'em. Heck, I still haven't got any time, but I'm posting anyway.
So, christmas time is here once again. Time to spend it all on wonderful video games, right? WRONG! The line must be drawn here! We can't let our money run out by buying games to other people, we must make them buy games for us! Make your wish list big this year, and get as many pre-orders as you can on next year's games. We got sequels to Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Mafia and Starcraft coming up; we got a new Legend of Zelda, Metal Gear Solid and Metroid approaching; we'll get the third Rock Band, Skate and World of Warcraft expansion set next year; plus I am greatly excited about Alan Wake, a game I think Pata will love.
Of course christmas is about much more than video games (it's hard to imagine) and I think we all need to keep in mind that christmases are getting greener and greener (that's bad). Try to keep your consumption to a minimum and we'll get ourselves a jollier earth, ey mate? Do you know what I do when I don't buy games for christmas? I listen to good music. Now, I know everyone is all jittery about Spotify, but personally the app annoys me with the constant ads. So I'll just go ahead and promote what I'm using: Grooveshark. It's free of charge, free of audio commercials, free of apps, free of invites... It is great, and you should check out this playlist to change that sceptic frown into an awesome smile.
Merry Christmas now everybody!
Regards,
Aegi.