Heh. Actually they’ve been out once, but not by me. A friend of mine bought a longboard, tried it once and didn’t like it. After having the board for a few years laying around he posted it on facebook, if somebody would buy it off him for 20€. Naturally I was there when a 160€ board is for sale for 20€ and snatched it.
I myself haven’t had the time or the courage to take it out yet, but it’s a long corona-summer ahead of us. The last time I’ve skateboarded was 25 years ago, but for 20€ I’ll give it a try.
I love electronic music. I was a djay for 18 years. I just don’t care for techno or idm. I’m more of a hip hop, breakbeat, drum’n’bass, triphop, down tempo, ambient, noise, italo disco, big beat, chill wave, synth pop, nu-disco, balearic, industrial and house-music kind of a dude.
I get that people like techno and all, it’s just not for me and my aspirations have never been to make techno with my synths. Electronic music encapsulates a lot more than techno though.
I guess this really comes from childhood memories of family car journeys, but I’m a sucker for this stuff … but I find it also comes with a certain ‘emotional weight’ and tends to make me cry if not careful
And there’s nothing wrong with a little ‘Rocky Mountain High’
So I think it’s really worth taking time to read the lyrics of both songs, but particularly the John Denver song Rocky Mountain High … when a boy becomes a man, at the age of 27. Sounds like quite a trip up there in the hills
He was born in the summer of his 27th year
Coming home to a place he’d never been before
He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again
You might say he found a key for every door
Which neatly segues to this old Howlin’ Wolf classic, which totally does not belong in this thread because I feel no guilt lovin’ this … one of the definitive versions by Quicksilver Messenger Service
And a little Acapulco Gold never goes astray, either:
I don’t usually listen to this type of music but I feel like this song is probably the peak of what you can do with it and it definitely struck me back in the day…
There’s a lot of things I wanna forget about those hairmetal days, but Ratt isn’t one of those things. Great songwriting and Stephen Pearcy has a perfect voice for this type of stuff. I also have a (very) soft spot for Queensryche but that was always a bit more ambitious than the average hairmetal.
Loving this thread! I don’t feel the least bit guilty about loving country music or cheesy French synthpop, but I’d cringe if the neighbours heard me playing this one
