Music Appreciation

You got the touch! Dun dun, dun dunn- You got the Power..... Yeah!

That's pretty much all the lyrics I know from that song, and it's also everything I know about the song, except that it's from the early 80s at the latest.

I think of two things when that song comes to mind - and by coming to mind I mean I suddenly think or sing those exact lyrics to myself for no reason. The first is AMV Hell, which had an Evangelion themed AMV to the song using footage from The End of Evangelion. It's the part where people turn to goo. It's pretty good since those are also the only lines the quick snippet-sized AMV uses.

The second is the 1986 Transformers Movie, the original cartoon one with Omnicron and whatnot. Now, I know almost nothing about Transformers, I'm pretty sure that the series was popular when I was born, and though I had an Optimus Prime at some point I watched more Beast Wars than anything else related to it.

Now, I have no taste for music. I don't know genres at all. When I'm asked for a favorite band one of the names that comes to my head is Fire Bomber, a pretty much fictitious band from Macross 7 (Though I do listen to the band's songs). What is weird though is that I have no problem burrowing away lyrics and musics from many, many songs.

When I take a butterknife out of the drawer to make a sandwich, I tap it with my fingernail rhythmically. To myself and probably myself alone, it sounds like the opening to Rush's YYZ. I will then often 'sing' the sounds of the song to myself, as it lacks lyrics. Recently, I found myself singing a lot because I had to house to myself. I am perfectly content to sit around and never make a single sound for hours, yet sometimes I just have to sing songs to myself to talk to my cats or sing songs to my cats where I make up most of the lyrics on the spot.

This is probably going way too far back into my past, but I used to be quite a skilled singer when I was younger. I was one of the few boys in my school choir, and I was actually quite proud of myself. It ended in ruins of course. Now, I feel like I've completely erased real singing from myself, to the point where my voice probably can't do it either.

This isn't really something that I talk about much. It was just something I did as a kid. Now, it's just kind of funny. A joke. Singing, that is. I have a thing I do for a close friend where I sing her name like it was part of rock song. Think Limozeen. She normally laughs and then shuts my mouth for me. Hilarity.

I really don't know what else to say about this love/hate situation I have with music. I hate it because I don't get it. I don't like criticism about music because I won't understand, and even 'good' stuff often sounds bad. I once found myself enjoying country music, which I know many people revile. But when the contemporary rap comes on, I turn it off. I can't stand anything about it, from the music to the lyrics to the image. I saw 'contemporary rap' because with my genre-blindness I'm sure I've listened to and enjoyed rap at some point.

So while my winamp is filled with songs I don't really enjoy anymore, and is weighed down with Fire Bomber and OSTs from The Slayers and animes opening themes, it doesn't mean that I don't like other musics. Since I don't 'like' music. It's all just kind of par for the course for me. Unless I hate it.

Does that make sense?

Have a good weekend, all.