We Loved Every Second Of It

If you tried to describe me as a stubborn nostalgist who can't get over the past, I wouldn't disagree with you. I just like the way things were done when I grew up. I know I'm only 22, and I'm probably too young to say "back in my day," but I had a good childhood, and therefore like things that remind me of it.



Music has changed drastically in the past ten years. I was gettin' down to blink-182, Green Day, and Jimmy Eat World in high school, and that was considered weird. Now even the most obscure indie bands and metal bands have high budget MTV videos. Think about it; Underoath is on MTV. The Devil Wears Prada is on MTV. Now, Underoath is a far cry from like, Dying Fetus, or The Chariot, but most mommys and daddys would have called an exorcist if their kids were listening to Underoath in the 90s (even though there were already heavier alternatives like Desecration or Cannibal Corpse; however, they weren't on MTV). Now they pay for their kids' tattos and buy them expensive amps and guitars so they can start their own annoying, angsty, deathcore bands. It's not a bad thing that heavier music has become more accepted, though there are still those who call anything with throating "devil music," but what I'm saying is that in order for something to remain fresh and underground these days, it has to get more and more obscure. Some might say this is musical evolution, and in some ways it is, but in some extreme cases this "evolution" gets so "experimental" that it can't be recognized as music. Ambient recordings of crickets and electric bass mixed with someone smashing a TV with a hammer isn't music to me. People say, "you just don't get it". Whatever, neither do you. Those that "get it" are, more often than not, just pretending to.

Basically, all it really comes down to is this: I miss three-piece bands that have only one goal; rocking out. No obscure message, no crazy time signatures, no fancy haircuts, (though I still appreciate all those things minus the haircuts) just rockin' out. I've been in a lot of bands, (some good, most bad) and the most fun I ever had was in a crappy three piece pop punk band with my best friends called "Freedom451". I know, terrible name, and the music was worse, and the lyrics were even worse, but we loved every second of it.

www.myspace.com/freedom451punk