untitled ('cause i can't think of anything else)

it's no secret for anyone who reads this blog now and then that my favourite music bands are radiohead and muse. okay, i love a good metal mosh pit (waiting for july the nineth....), and find the seventies/eighties rather appealing. but muse and radiohead are definitely my favourite bands: muse being the best live band i'v ever seen in my life and radiohead... well, they are beyond comparison when it comes to writing and making songs.

and there is a reason for that. of course, i'm older now, so i actually know how to listen to other kinds of music. favourite bands of the past included oasis, linkin park, system of a down and smashing pumpkins. not by this order, mind you. and i still like all of them, even though none has made its way to my mp3 player so far. these are special. the first radiohead song i've heard was creep, of course (from their first album, pablo honey). and of course i loved the song, it was a personal favourite for years and years. i was a teenager by the end of the nineties - you know, that somewhat melancholic and depressive age - and songs like creep and karma police simply felt so right. then i got to listen to dollars and cents (which i hated at first), i might be wrong (same; only today i've found out how amazing that song truly is), knives out (which is my favourite since the very moment i've heard it on the radio, even though only in july i've found out the song's title). i've fucked while listening to no surprises, which as weird (or depressive) as it might sound, has changed both my musical and my sexual lives. but all i could listen from them was the scattered songs i had in my computer. until july, that is, when a co-worker gave me the entire radiohead discography for me to rip and copy. hail to the thief! - literally. will make up for that one day and buy all their albums and eps and merchandising, but right now i want to enjoy. and no i can explain why i like them so much, more each day: i listen to all their albums and even though my knowledge about music is quite limited, even i can notice the evolution. pablo honey was a very good album for a start. the bends was better. ok computer was better. and so on, and so on, until in rainbows, which - musically speaking - it better than any other, even though my favourite is still amnesiac. 

you can tell the same about muse if you listen to their albums carefully, from showbiz to black holes and revelations. there is a clear evolution there. but my relationship, so to speak, with muse is different. i saw them live in 2004 in a music festival (i was there to see linkin park, mind you), and if i remember correctly, i've surrendered myself as soon as they started the gig by playing apocalypse please. and had a sort of orgasm - musically speaking - with time is running out and butterflies and hurricanes. now that was impressive - i believe half the linkin park fans at the gig - if not more - found muse infinitely better. back then i only knew two songs, but it was a matter of time until i got to know them all. in the meanwhile, i have seen them live two more times. always amazing. i don't think those guys could make a bad gig, even if they tried. 

well. let's not challenge them, all right?

another thing i find funny about muse and their live performances is, it seems that whenever they are making an album, they write a song especially to start the gigs, and another to finish them. showbiz had uno and showbiz; origin of symmetry had newborn and plug in baby; absolution had apocalypse please and stockholme syndrome; and finally, black holes and revelations has take a bow and knights of cydonia (they inverted this order in their latest gigs, and it worked out pretty well).

unfortunately, i have not seen radiohead yet. the last time they came to portugal i wasn't still living in lisbon, i believe; thus i'm still waiting. anyway, i keep listening to them and everyday i find out something new: some brilliant music that i had not paid attention to before, some detail that i had missed, some lyrics that reall touch me. everyday. really, the happiest moments my life delivers nowadays are the two daily hours i spend in public transportations listening to thom yorke. and matthew bellamy. god bless them both.