Sunday, July 17, 2011

2006 was a GREAT year in music!

So, I got into the music scene a little later than most folks. I remember one day in my high school freshman Engineering period a fellow classmate asked me what type of music I was into. At that point, I wasn't into anything except the adult contemporary my parents played on the car radio (and that was passive listening). So I just blurted out something random: techno. Needless to say, said fellow classmate never spoke to me again...

In any case, that summer (2005), I visited Nicaragua with my aunt and cousin for two weeks. Around the second day, I met my cousin's cousins (my second cousins?) whom were teens like us. When I entered their room, I saw "Be Yourself" playing on the TV. I ended up spending the majority of the trip making up for lost time alongside MTV Latin America.

Not too long afterwards, I saved up the earnings of my 15th birthday and went to Best Buy to purchase a cheap Durabrand CD player, From Under the Cork Tree, American Idiot and Demon Days. And now, almost 6 years later, I'm here updating a blog about my not-so-secret passion.

Because it's so close to when I first began engrossing myself in music, I have to say that my favorite year in music is 2006. When I started out, I watched music videos like it was nobody's business. But after a few months of that, I got tired of just singles and delved into the albums of my favorite artists, discovering the gems no one cared to search for. Below are a few of my top picks...

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#10 - Panda - Amantes Sunt Amantes

A young, lonely, pop-punk listening Hispanic teenage boy was eventually going to come across this CD. It was one random day at my other cousin's house that I saw the video for "Narcisita Por Excelencia" on MTV Tr3s. I was instantly hooked by the sound and energy, and I also had an ear catered to "emotional" music. When I picked up Amantes Sunt Amantes, I became a fan overnight. What I liked most about the album (and still do) was the unconventionality of the composition, characteristic of post-hardcore. I wouldn't know it until later, but their previous release, Para Ti Con Desprecio, was the product of heavy plagerism. Panda writes some pretty catchy tunes, but sadly these are songs to slit your wrists to (and unfortunately the band doesn't make that a subtle point =///).

"Los Malaventurados No Lloran" by Panda


Saturday, July 2, 2011

How did that get up there?

So I've created a YouTube account associated with this blog. I had one before, but I wanted to change the username and thus had to create a new account (the videos from the old account are now gone with the wind...).

I don't have much on there now, but I will be uploading more vids as the future becomes the present.

Link to the account page "NocturnalInvestment"
[http://www.youtube.com/user/NocturnalInvestment]

Link to the song "Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Cover)"
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcUv13c-jsg]

Link to the song "Green Day - When I Come Around (Cover)"
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BFe5B-aHQ0]

Link to the playlist "Love IX"
[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL722E8CCAC5217B72]

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle,
Kelvin