Music Overdose

Updated 29/5/2008 7.28 P.M.
In this post, nobody gets credited as Datuk, Tun, Tan Sri or whatever extra surname. I strictly believe in all man are created equal.nobody gets an extra piece of shit and nobody got less either.ISA will do the right stuff, they ain't gonna bust people with thoughts to share.
just push your fingers into your eyes if you don't like it.




All I've got is insane~


More on music appreciation.
During this period of working/slaving to earn enough dough for an electric guitar, coupled with some shortages, music is my sanctuary that keeps me from being absorbed into the mundane world.Lots of stuffs coming in - Mustaine throats, Morello effects, J-rockers, Bach and the baroque gang, metal cellos, the newage Bach- Jason Becker, Kevin Kern, Nobuo Uematsu, etc..



Thank you for saving me from the monsters.

This time I wanna talk about political expressions in music.
If you did rip through the news these few days, you'll know that Mahathir has quited UMNO, Karpal Singh firing others and gets an assassination threat, ppl are going against the PM, disputes over some stupid rocks off Singapore solved and more interesting stuffs like Lim Guan Eng taking economy class flight and eating char koay teow at New World Park which is very humble of him. I'm firmly sat on the gate between the Government and Opposition, both seriously got their own positive and negative buffs. Although i think its humble of the Penang CM to do what he did, it does not sum up my stance in politics.Its just a matter of human quality.


Okay. The first phrase or clause[forgotten my grammar] that comes into my mind when I' m thinking, reading or people talking about these politicians - Bulls On Parade

That's a title of a song from Rage Against The Machine focusing on the States 'indulgences' in war.I can't really make out the full meaning of the song, just got it a few days ago but from the lyrics i think its more to criticising politics and the war-based industries - typically arms and weapons.Just like Stark Industries in the Iron Man storyline. They were talking about how people are fed with fear of death, tricked into believing in terrorists are coming to kill them, how the industries persuade the government into using military action and why did the government resort to war when peace would work. So finally, the arms industries will get the better of mankind as while they profit, people got killed and all the aggression.So from my point of view RATM is putting a point on why do we have to succumb to these government agendas and also an anti-war message.

By the way, the song's got a really innovative guitar solo, check it out. courtesy of Tom Morello.

Moving on, though i don't think the song meaning's got anything to do with our politics scenes as we're not into war yet and Heckler & Koch's share ain't Malaysia's main income, I just had this feeling of connecting the words, Bulls On Parade to politicians.maybe because the words rhyme with Politicians On Masquerade, which i just came across and express as these ppl are sometimes pretentious, you'll never know what's behind their teeth and smiles. You can't trust every piece of shit they say as most of them are 'all talk, no cock'. As you can see from the past elections, why do they need campaigning during the period?come market shake hands with people and all that.but when the election period is over, where are they? bet you'll never see them till the next round. And as you can also see, they are just no goodies...when they lose their seats, they create some big fuss and says that Malaysia is no longer united as people are supporting different parties.[i'm using 'they' to describe politicians and parties so that my neutral stance remains]But ain't that suppose to happen?we are a democratic country, ain't we?

And i got a few dreams on these shits too, dunno why.A peculiar one is I'm in a Warcraft tower defense map and i see there were two towers attacking each other, one with Abdullah's head and another with Mahathir's.way damn funny, laugh out loud.This is an obvious influence of too much cc outings and the current headlines. and I was a hero in the dream, forgotten who...but could have been either a Tauren Chieftain or Blademaster.there were other towers along the borders and I'm hacking all of them down all the way. a sign of anti-politics?pro-peace?but i'm using agression.....Jared the Dream Guardian, decipher it.

Ladies and gentlemen,I present to you Bulls On Parade






Maybe after 50 years, finally democracy is working in Malaysia.maybe.

Tributes and salutes to musicians who projects political, peace, anti-war and activist messages through their works.there are too many but mainly, Rage Against The Machine, Megadeth, System Of A Down and Bob Marley.Come lets share more of them.



Peace Is Selling, So Lets Buy 'Em.

Let's Play. Let's Support. Let's Experience

Music. the best form of art, language, hobby that i have discovered in this world. I'm just so overwhelmed by how much music can express and conform to anything without words. it is indeed a language itself. Its the bridge that connects the life and the soul. It can be a stairway to heaven or even a highway to hell..

I'm writing this post with the accompaniment of pieces by Kevin Kern [thanks for the intro at Borders, Wheen]. This man is a virtuoso on the piano despite that he is partially blind, playing mostly new age music...yes, awesome stuffs, i can really feel the music engulfing the heart and i'll have goosebumps all over.the best feeling attained when listening to instrumentals.

Back. I'm 18 this year and don't think that i have listened enough. And lately I've been wondering if i play all the good music in this world back to back non-stop, will I finish enjoying them before i die...not likely, i came up with. so the best a person can do is to rip and get the best of the best before its too late. In fact, for me, I love music too much to just sit and listen...like many others, i have to get up and play, and create, and contribute to the scenes!!

To make it clear, I've gotta say I'm a fan of all types of good music, be it pop, rock, classical or metal. but I'm particularly interested in music with lots of guitars and drums...you know, band kind of music.there's really no need to segregate them into genres and all that, music is music as it is. all the genre words are just adjectives to classify them, not type or meaning. Two group of music i wanna discuss here are the Classical and the Metal...many compare them as the furthest possibilities that happened in music; classical is above in the heaven and metal is way below hell, they say.
But if you analyze carefully both have lots of similarities.
Both have great fans. after a few hundred years, people still listen to classical
Both love great musicians. people love composers and guitar virtuosos
Both got a lot of technicalities. the musicians are seriously well trained
Both kind of music are not created for commercial values.its the musicians expressing themselves

I give my utmost respect to musicians who had crossed both of this impossible genres into their works.mostly given new adjectives again - neo-classical, symphonic metal, etc. the one i see clearly is Yngwie Malmsteen - yeah, now he's the man. also to Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker and a lot more guitarist names I'll never finish mentioning. and a particular band too, Stratovarius. you can see from its name formed from the rock guitar Stratocaster and classical violin Stradivarius, hence Stratovarius.they play classical influenced metal and a lot more bands do.

Most radio music nowadays are mostly seriously overrated. if you look at the chart toppers, mostly are hip hop and rap and related kind of music. I'm not a genre-ist okay, I still think Eminem is the best rapper in the world. back few years ago radios are filled with really awesome stuffs, but now mostly are conquered by sounds, not music. as if they are currently the best music in the world...wtf Top 40 and all that. they are not real...u can listen from the fake drum beats, they are created on mixers by producers, studio people.no effort taken by the musicians to express themselves...lots of them are just for publicity and commercials sake.exploited.cash cows.

And these assholes are blocking the real talents from getting an audience.the ones that really deserve the radio plays are in the unknown. and I think thats what sprouted the DIY/Indie scenes.Musicians are just tired of record labels controlling and exploiting music...they freakin control the length of songs, amount of vulgarity and expressions. shit them.

Besides, talking about music scenes, i felt that our local scenes lack support for each other. The people on top don't support the people below because they are afraid they will be more successful than them.and people below doesn't want to support people above because they think they are cocky and overrated.so that's how its flowing now, people on top are degrading because of lack of support and people below can't go to the top. - thats briefly quoted from Kelvyn Yeang which i very much agree.


Support all type of music.
Support the local music scene.
Let's make a change.





Sorry if i have contradicted with anything, I'm just spontaneously opinionated.