I am currently feeling extremely overwhelmed. One thing I like to do to try and escape reality is exactly what I have been doing for the past few hours - browsing music, reading wikipedia about bands, and eventually using up credits I have left on iTunes to buy music. Don't be mistaken though, I am not much of a new music guru, in fact I dont know very many good new songs. Tonight started out by making a new station on my Pandora account based on The Smiths, Morrissey, and Depeche Mode. That was cool for a while. Listening to Depeche Mode brought back memories of Front 242, Ministry, KMFDM, and a little My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult.
A few YouTube searches and there I was watching old videos of some of the songs I love from those artists. That led me then to search iTunes. That always leads to a few dollars less on my iTunes account. I already have some TKK songs, I have a few 242 cd's, what I miss are my old Ministry tapes. Why should I have to buy music I have already paid for? Anyway the winners tonight were three Ministry songs:
Stigmata from the album The Land of Rape and Honey,
Just one Fix from Psalm 69, and
Thieves from The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste.
It is amazing the memories that start flying through your head when triggered from songs.
Stigmata always reminds of the time I first heard it. I was with my oldest sister Beth. She was driving the "Merc" aka "Sex On Wheels" and she played a tape of songs that were played at some dance place at BYU. She must have been home for the summer or christmas break or something. I remember the cloth on the ceiling of that car was always coming down. So thanks Beth.
Just One Fix brings a day full of memories back into mind. The was Lollapolooza (1993?) and Ministry played. I remember noticing how often the guy (Al Jourgensen) went over to get a drink. They were so loud, and they had like a huge skeleton guy or something on stage. That was a fun day.
Thieves will forever be liked to snowboarding for me and my mind. I remember the song playing while getting my gear ready the night before. I remember jamming out to it on the way up to the slopes. I always wanted to play that song louder, but the speakers wouldn't oblige. One time I was driving home from working at the skate shop in the Omni. I had all the windows down and had this song cranked. I was stopped at a red light and this guy next to me was yelling at me to turn it down. It wasn't until I saw him out of the corner of my eye that I turned my head to see he was yelling something at me. I thought "Oh, crap. the Omni is leaking something again." I turned the stereo down only to hear him telling me to turn that crap down. As you might guess I turned away from him and returned the volume to highest it would go.
It was Lollapalooza 1992.
