Music is my Life (literally)

[Lolicat]

Anyway, in addition to the typical "socially maladjusted kid growing up in the suburbs with divorced parents channels frustrations through Slipknot, Lamb of God, and similarly unremarkable metal bands" story, the musical "Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim was pivotal in shaping my views on morality from a very early age.

My problems as a young teenager were non-existent, to be honest. My family have always been fair and I've never had much to rebel against. So, other than an uneasy guilt in relation to the crap family structures of friends at the time, I was ok.
Once I came to university, all sorts of bad **** went down, and I guess you could track my obssession with all pop and party music back into post-punk and beyond through that. Nick Cave verbalised my misery.

[MronoC]

My problems as a young teenager were non-existent, to be honest. My family have always been fair and I've never had much to rebel against. So, other than an uneasy guilt in relation to the crap family structures of friends at the time, I was ok.
Once I came to university, all sorts of bad **** went down, and I guess you could track my obssession with all pop and party music back into post-punk and beyond through that. Nick Cave verbalised my misery.

I really didn't have any problems, either. No real problems, anyway. My parents have always been supportive and considerate, and the divorce didn't really bother me that much. What kind of sent me down the "angry, generic, suburban metalhead" path was when they both go remarried, especially when my dad got married to a women with nine kids whom he had only known for a few months, and really, that had more to do with me not having my own room, anymore. I kind of go crazy if there's no where I can go to isolate myself.

[Lolicat]

I kind of go crazy if there's no where I can go to isolate myself.

Hear hear, and music is a part of that too.

[Soror_YZBL]

Music ruined my life.

[Lolicat]

Life should be a musical.

[Ultimatum]

I honestly can't listen to Nick Cave right now because I just go together with someone on the 13th.

I really dig his voice though, reminds me a lot of how mine can sound.

[TheCrimsonSaint]

I think a lot of people stumble across the right band at exactly the right time, and it feels like every song they write is written about your own personal experiences.
First time I got my heart broken I was a freshman in college, and I started listening to the Allman Brothers Band (like, really listening, outside of the singles). I honestly couldn't believe how applicable songs like Whippin' Post, Trouble No More, and Black Hearted Woman were to the way I felt.
And yeah, I know those songs convey pretty generic feelings, but they still connected with me on a pretty deep level.

This about sums up my discovery of St. Anger. Odds are, if my summer had gone differently, I would hate that album just like everyone else.

[DasKonstruct]

for me its a harsh mistress. I love music and I love making music.

My problem is I've been knee deep in music for so long that I've heard a lot repetition in bands and composition. I'm always having to look for new sounds and its getting rarer and rarer. So I find myself getting very bored about the hot new thing or the supposed legends of music when I've already listened to their inspirations and see where it comes from.

What drives me nuts is running into writers block as well as spending 3 hours getting something to sound perfect. Since all I use is audio mixing software with no real board it takes longer than normal to turn fake knobs and sitting there for 20 minutes while audio is rendering and then doesn't sound like I expected it would then looking at the clock and its 5 in the morning.

Music is awesome and I love it but damn it can be a double edged knife.

[Ultimatum]

I find that my writing ends up better if I don't force it.

[King_Nuthin]

I tend to get mostly positive energy from music, and it has helped me during some bad stretches (never serious).

It must also be said that my less than mainstream taste in music has lead me to social alienation at periods in my life (a year spent at boarding school in particular) that helped put me into those bad places.