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A couple years ago I was at the radio station (KUNM) with Jason. He was hosting Music to Soothe the Savage Beast, and I took the time to look through some CDs in the music library. New CDs are kept on a shelf in the studio itself, but the vast majority of CDs and records are stored in the room next door. It was around midnight, and the place was very quiet. Besides the janitorial staff, we were the only ones in the building.
All of the albums sentenced to death row are placed in piles toward the back of the library. They are doomed to be given away or thrown in the trash. Usually, these albums don't hold great quality music; they're the bottom of the barrel. On a whim, I flipped through them, looking to see if I recognized any names. I didn't. However, this cover and the album title (Dignity and Shame) caught my eye. I snatched it up and took it to the stereo in the music library for a quick listen just to assuage my curiosity.
Typically, when scanning through a CD, I'll listen to the first twenty or thirty seconds of a song, skip through to the one and a half or two minute mark, listen a bit more, and then move on to the next track. Surprisingly, it was a decent album. Then I came along the fifth track. It was called "Destroyer", and I loved it immediately.
There are hundreds of songs I love. Some I like better than others, some I don't know how I'd live without, some can bring me to tears, and some can make me smile no matter how bad I feel. I've never felt as if any one of them was the sound of my soul until I came across "Destroyer". I know that sounds rather silly, but it's the honest truth. Between 0:27 and 1:10, this song plays what I swear I would sound like if I were music.
If you're the least bit curious, I've uploaded the song to EvilShare.com. Click on the link, type the confirmation code (so they know you aren't a bot), and you can download the song. The entire five-minute song is gorgeous, but that first minute kills me.
(Download "Destroyer")
All of the albums sentenced to death row are placed in piles toward the back of the library. They are doomed to be given away or thrown in the trash. Usually, these albums don't hold great quality music; they're the bottom of the barrel. On a whim, I flipped through them, looking to see if I recognized any names. I didn't. However, this cover and the album title (Dignity and Shame) caught my eye. I snatched it up and took it to the stereo in the music library for a quick listen just to assuage my curiosity.
Typically, when scanning through a CD, I'll listen to the first twenty or thirty seconds of a song, skip through to the one and a half or two minute mark, listen a bit more, and then move on to the next track. Surprisingly, it was a decent album. Then I came along the fifth track. It was called "Destroyer", and I loved it immediately.
There are hundreds of songs I love. Some I like better than others, some I don't know how I'd live without, some can bring me to tears, and some can make me smile no matter how bad I feel. I've never felt as if any one of them was the sound of my soul until I came across "Destroyer". I know that sounds rather silly, but it's the honest truth. Between 0:27 and 1:10, this song plays what I swear I would sound like if I were music.
If you're the least bit curious, I've uploaded the song to EvilShare.com. Click on the link, type the confirmation code (so they know you aren't a bot), and you can download the song. The entire five-minute song is gorgeous, but that first minute kills me.
(Download "Destroyer")
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