Music people

I have recently read a blog of a friend, giving his opinion on music. Yes i agree with him on saying that everyone taste of music is different. My opinion on what type of music is the best is there is no best genre. A music that fits in ears of yours is the best. Sometimes you listen to a slow song that relaxes your mind and you say it is the best. Next you listen for a rock music that raises your spirits and you also said 'wow this music is the best'. And this cycles keeps repeating until you categorized which type of song has so many great music and you will automatically say that genre is the best.

Enough about the opinion on your kind of music. Today i want to share about my music life. Before the very existence of digital format of music, people listen to music on cassette player. For kids on my age at that time, we are greatly influenced by what type of music our parents heard. And the remaining songs we listen it on the radio. For grown ups at that time, going to club is the easiest way to enjoy music. I think almost all kids about my age at the nineties, grow up with the pop and rock 'kapak' songs. Just like every people at that time i just take whatever good songs played whether on radio or on the tv and sings along with it. At that time i just never care who sang the song and even the title. So we go to school everyday until we are in the standard four where we encounter of first instrument music playing, the recorder. For your information, i take my music class seriously at that time. I even thought about the recorder's name at that time, why is it called recorder but it didnt records. Well its no use to think a lot at that time, so i just kept the question buried. In every music classes i learn everything new each day. At that time, i can even wrote song notes (which i remembered a little nowadays). At standard 6, i can even compose my own song by just only using recorder. I have also found so many songs and played it using the recorder but the recorder have limited tones. So i cant successfully played each.

Time goes by, and i was in secondary school. Living in a hostel life, make you want to keep yourself entertained. Since walkman or small radio was the only items legal at the hostel, i brought my palito mini radio bought for 10 ringgit at some street market. At that time, i already remebered some of good songs but the song i listened at that time was english (well u know, the backstreet boys, n sync, britney, j lo and so many other pop artistes at that age). I also listened to some of nasyids (this one influenced from my islamic school brothers and the popularity of raihan). Until at some age when first brought my first second-hand walkman from a friend, i started to listen back to malay songs and started to reconcile with some familiar old song in my kids age. At that time in kept some money to buy alleycats original cassettes for RM15. My favourite at that time was the alleycats and sudirman. As older i get, i started to listen to rock kapak which i still listened to this day. It was also at this time was my first encounter with the special music instrument, guitar. My first lesson begin when i follow one of my classmate to skip class and went straight to the dorm.When he played his guitar i was amazed and straightly asked him to teach me. Well, he did teach me but.. well maybe i will post another article about guitar. For now i continue my story. So when in the matriculation college, at that time digital music format was widely used while cassettes was slowly forgotten. So using the matriculation money, i managed to get myself an mp3 player at 256mb size for RM200++. Still can be considered cheap at that time. So this starts my journey to collect some old rock kapak songs. Also at this time, my new friends in matriculation was all kaki karaoke. So when we go outing, k-box was our destination. Envying my friends for having very good voices, i trained myself to sing at high pitch in my favourite place, the bathroom. Later in matriculation, i also started to hear various other songs like the guns and roses. Hearing the november rain's solos makes me started to get more interested in songs which have very good guitar playing. This is when one of my friends introduced me to Luca Turilli, an italian guitarist and composer.

After a long while after leaving matriculation, i started to look for luca turilli's song and that is when i found out that this guy is very awesome. All of his song have the medieval age theme and the genre can be considered symphony metal for the orchestra-like song. Amazed by turilli's guitar playing, i started to look for some other metal band like iron maiden which is also good. As for my cousin's recommendation, i also started to hear yngwie malmsteen, the godspeed guitarist that play songs majoritily from neo-classical genre. Neo-classical is songs that feels like a classical song but played at high speed using electrical guitar. Maybe that is why it is called neo-classical. I also happened to hear a song from the band stratovarius and started to look deeper into the band. Wow, that was my first word after hearing some songs from stratovarius. They have the same feeling with turilli's style but different. The genre is progressive metal. Timo Tolkki, the guitarist from stratovarius and also the composer was listed as one of the greatest guitar player.

As conclusion, my journey of music will never stop. I will also try to look for more new and old songs which makes your heart beat or keeps your head banging or relaxed songs. I dont know. As long as the song was good to me that is enough. I have also encountered some old rock kapak song that was still new to me. The journey of music of course will never stop. As for now im trying to look for buckethead songs which is still in exploration. So keep on rocking the free world.