Write Letters To Albums
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:52 pm
Dear Maggot Brain,
Thank you for blowing my mind. Thank you for making me cry and then dance and then laugh and then feel better about life. You are perfect. I'm sorry I listen to your first track about 4 times in a row before moving on to the rest of you--I still love all of you.
Dear Tago Mago,
Thank you for making insanity so beautiful. When I listened to you in the Dublin airport, shaking with insomnia and confusion and fear, you made me feel so destined to be completely lost in life. When I listened to you on the metro in Amsterdam, without money for fare or a ticket and with the harassed Dutch woman checking for tickets, the screaming on "Mushroomhead" came out of oblivion and smacked my ass into spatial and temporal transendence. You are an essential self-preservative measure.
Dear Pornography,
When I listen to you I feel like I am hearing the thoughts of the maniacal in some hysterical murder scene in a pitch black cave on some distant planet. Fine escapism, my friend. When I listened to you in that phone booth at 4 AM when I was hiding from the rain, I immersed myself in your desperation and felt better. Then I thought, "At least I'm not as miserable as Robert Smith," and I was elated. You are also essential sonic therapy.
Dear Goat and Bang,
You make me feel invincible.
Dear All Things Must Pass,
You are my best friend. I can just think about your title and feel immediate relief. Thanks for always being there for me. We've had some good times, and many more hard ones. Actually, you are much more a wise older brother than a best friend.
Dear Third/Sister Lover,
I just want to give you a hug. You can make it.
Dear Blonde on Blonde,
Where the fuck are you? I gave you plenty of attention. I expressed gratitude after every listen. Why did you leave? Is it because I invariably skipped your intro track? Well then why in the hell would you put a brass section on it that sounds like it is bleeding to death?
Dear Village Green,
I only discovered you a year ago--weird. I played you almost every day for that semester that made me re-evaluate my life's principles. I don't really think of you as a catalyst toward revelation, but really just an source of inexhaustible encouragement, a reminder that you can be as desperate and crazy as Ray Davies and still be twee as fuck.
Dear Funhouse and The Stooges,
The world needs more heroes like you.
Dear Here, My Dear,
Thanks for last night.
Dear Albert Ayler Live at Greenwich Village,
Thank you for being uncompromising. It took me a few tries, but I get it now.
Enough for today.
Thank you for blowing my mind. Thank you for making me cry and then dance and then laugh and then feel better about life. You are perfect. I'm sorry I listen to your first track about 4 times in a row before moving on to the rest of you--I still love all of you.
Dear Tago Mago,
Thank you for making insanity so beautiful. When I listened to you in the Dublin airport, shaking with insomnia and confusion and fear, you made me feel so destined to be completely lost in life. When I listened to you on the metro in Amsterdam, without money for fare or a ticket and with the harassed Dutch woman checking for tickets, the screaming on "Mushroomhead" came out of oblivion and smacked my ass into spatial and temporal transendence. You are an essential self-preservative measure.
Dear Pornography,
When I listen to you I feel like I am hearing the thoughts of the maniacal in some hysterical murder scene in a pitch black cave on some distant planet. Fine escapism, my friend. When I listened to you in that phone booth at 4 AM when I was hiding from the rain, I immersed myself in your desperation and felt better. Then I thought, "At least I'm not as miserable as Robert Smith," and I was elated. You are also essential sonic therapy.
Dear Goat and Bang,
You make me feel invincible.
Dear All Things Must Pass,
You are my best friend. I can just think about your title and feel immediate relief. Thanks for always being there for me. We've had some good times, and many more hard ones. Actually, you are much more a wise older brother than a best friend.
Dear Third/Sister Lover,
I just want to give you a hug. You can make it.
Dear Blonde on Blonde,
Where the fuck are you? I gave you plenty of attention. I expressed gratitude after every listen. Why did you leave? Is it because I invariably skipped your intro track? Well then why in the hell would you put a brass section on it that sounds like it is bleeding to death?
Dear Village Green,
I only discovered you a year ago--weird. I played you almost every day for that semester that made me re-evaluate my life's principles. I don't really think of you as a catalyst toward revelation, but really just an source of inexhaustible encouragement, a reminder that you can be as desperate and crazy as Ray Davies and still be twee as fuck.
Dear Funhouse and The Stooges,
The world needs more heroes like you.
Dear Here, My Dear,
Thanks for last night.
Dear Albert Ayler Live at Greenwich Village,
Thank you for being uncompromising. It took me a few tries, but I get it now.
Enough for today.