So, I was incredibly frustrated about stuff a couple days ago. I came home from work so wound up, and so incredibly agitated I was having trouble focusing on anything at all. I ended up searching through iTunes, looking for Big Beat – Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim – stuff like that.
I wondered, after a little while, why I was looking for that particular genre of music – I didn’t even find Vegas, the only other Crystal Method album I own, to be particularly exceptional. But there’s something very … I dunno – not really soothing – but sort of comforting about the regularity, the repetition, and the loudness of it all. I suppose maybe the reason is that essentially, the beat tells you what to do – you don’t have to really think about it, or contemplate the meaning of it all, or wonder how it’s going to upend itself from one minute to the next.
boom-chik-a-boom-ba-boom-chika, for six minutes on end, you can just turn your brain off, and feel the beat.
When I’m anything other than mentally beat, I find most Big Beat kind of boring – because there’s really not much to latch onto. But like Gatorade, it only tastes good when you need it.
Being a fan of the game I’m sure you already own it, or at least know about it, but the Rez soundtrack is actually pretty decent.
“But like Gatorade, it only tastes good when you need it.”
Madness! Gatorade is always good!
You must always be dehydrated.
What do you think happens when you drink a gallon of coffee a day?
My guess is that you become so paranoid that you won’t reveal your true identity to perfectly nice strangers!
Just because your paranoid and the people are perfectly nice doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.
Freakin Chad. Always ruins everything…
“you can just turn your brain off, and feel the beat.”
That’s why I love instrumental music. Vocals are good every once in a while, because it makes a good contrast to the repetition of the drum. However, it’s not so good when you’re sleepy and on the freeway. :O