Music

[Exo-Slayer]

I listen to a very eclectic collection of music. My music collection has grown substantially in the last few months since my job has changed. I sit around for 8-10 hours running reports while I get to listen to music.

I enjoy a lot of classics, Pink Floyd, Queen, Rolling Stones, Police, Beatles, Pixies, Bowie, Might be Giants.
More recent stuff, The Mountain Goats, Muse, Sigur Ros, Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, Placebo, DeVotchKa, OTEP, SOAD and the many off shoots.


Funny enough I'm going to see this concert next month in Southwest Florida.

My personal top band at the moment is Flyleaf. They are playing in the area this month and I'd really like to go. The concerts are Flyleaf, Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin. Really should be one great show.

 

[Exo-Slayer]

As a follow up to my previous post The Mountain Goats is an interesting and little known band. I mention them here because they put out a new album that is almost in my mind a Christian album while they are a secular band. Titled the Life of the world to come, each song on the new album is titled after a verse of the bible and has something to do with the song itself.

With Lyrics like “I won't get better, but someday I'll be free / 'Cause I am not this body that imprisons me”. It’s a really sad album inspired by a death in his family and while not all of it is something you would hear on Christian radio it definitely has a deep connection with Christianity. Theres a pretty good article about it here.

I guess the obvious question is going to be: "John, have you had some sort of religious awakening?" and while I guess lots of people might want to be coy about answering that, that's never really been my style, so: no. It's not like that. It's not some heavy-narrative-distance deal either, though, and it's not a screed. It's twelve new songs: twelve hard lessons the Bible taught me, kind of.