I am so old and basically love acid rock, Madonna, and sometimes Drake. But Tool just blows me away. I can't name a song to save my life, but I vividly remember the one video where it was some sort of animation where this entity was doing abusive things and basically rearranging this helpless entities insides. It was disturbing, but I absolutely loved it. I'm sure you know the one I mean, this childlike creature was on like an assembly line, and the evil dude just totally messed him up. I felt like society does that to all of us, and our individual families do as well, albeit with seemingly good intentions. Plus the music and the singer's voice were so different from anything I'd ever heard before. My bf is asleep right now, but I'm going to be checking out that Enema video. Thank you for reminding me about them - I've always wanted to learn more of their music, but life has a way of making you forget.
So since I'm so back in the day, I have to say the Fleetwood Mac song, "Landslide," always gets me. Stevie Nicks' voice wasn't destroyed at that point and still had that vulnerable, haunting quality to it. Plus she was struggling with getting too old to really be "discovered" in musical terms (27,) and she was doubting how much she loved her partner and the quality of their connection. I just always feel like you can hear the uncertainty in her voice, and that fear of getting too old to make her dream happen, and then having to settle for being an English teacher. It's interesting that when she and Lindsey Buckingham auditioned for Fleetwood Mac, they really didn't even want her. The male egos in the band never got over her popularity. I'm not crazy about every song she's ever written, but I kind of feel like the line about the landslide bringing her down was an unconscious desire to ctb.
Also, thanks everyone young here for giving me some new music to check out. I seriously believe listening to the same old stuff is the actual definition for being old.