FUN album that makes me want to Live!
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Stories from Earth... more like stories from Planet Awesome!
I wake up depressed most of the time... I think "Wow, another day of my own inadequacies and toil." Then I get even more depressed because I don't have the courage to do anything about it. I've realised those bottles of sleeping tables and extra-strength painkillers I keep on my bedside tables will always probably remain just for show. Those bottles of sleeping tables and extra-strength painkillers I meditate on every night over whispered prayers "Please Jesus, don't let me wake up". Those bottles that mock my morning sighs. That mock the cowardice and very life within me.
And if that wasn't bad enough I then have put on my clothes and go to a job that hates me, where I just spend hours standing around, avoiding responsibility and fantasising about the illicit physical encounters I would be having with my with my co-workers if they weren't so repulsed by the potpourri of self pity and loathing that seems to emanate from my pores.
This Ablum is the opposite of that. This album makes me feel strong and worthy of living.
When I heard this album it reminded me about this girl in Secondary School. I really liked her but she didn't think we'd work as a couple. We would talk on the phone sometimes and sometimes I would just leave messages. Long messages. Lots of them. I once told her that being with her was like being in a natural disaster, but surviving it. That awesome feeling of get caught up in this amazing force of nature, like a tsunami, and getting swept to sea, and swimming with the dolphins and getting washed back to shore to find that the island that you lived on, and everything and everyone you knew was gone. But instead of being sad amongst the death and ruin you feel happy to at least have the memories of the adventure and the smell of kelp in your hair. I told her that being with her was like being in an adventure that I would destroy the world for. Whether I was just following her around school, following her home or staying up late to draw pictures of her in period costumes. These were our precious moments. Her name was Samantha and if I ever have a baby with anyone I would like to name it after her (or just Sam if it was a boy). I really did love her.
This album is called "Stories From Earth" but be warned, the songs aren't really about Earth, or at least the planet Earth I know and live on. The songs are fun and sound like the people doing the music have a really good time and possibly go to fun parties and have fun meeting new people and making friends (even Lonesome Story sounds fun!) and I find that whole thing unrealistic, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. There are plenty of things that happen in music that don't happen in real life that I would like to try. When Eazy-E sings about being reckless and shooting guns I think to myself, "I would like to shoot a gun." When Rod Stewart sing about holding a woman in his arms I think to myself, "I would like to hold a woman." When Hitchhikers of the Galaxy sings about dancing and having fun I think to myself, "That sounds nice, I might meet someone."
This album has a great jog-ability factor. Which means it's good to run to. It has great uplifting beats that i imagine could easily carry a runner over any terrain in any weather. I don't run myself but I do think about it. I often put my trainers on and lie on my floor and meditate about running while listening to this album, which I'm told almost burns as much calories as actual running. Sometimes when I get to a particularly great track (like Marzo Superstar and Jungle Love) I start meditating about dancing and what kind of dances I would do I would if I danced. I'd be beautiful.
Anyway, to summarise the album is all round great. Great to dance to. Great to run to. Great to wake up to. Great to commute to. And best when used to distract one from the pains and aching loneliness of the world.
I would give it more stars but they won't let me.
