100 Posts and Going Strong

Alright, my school year just ended today and quite ironically this is my 100th post. What makes this odd is that I started to blog right after my school year started after reading an article in Time magazine and figured that I love to voice my opinion regarding music so why not start up a blog of my own? For the first few weeks it was a bit discouraging because I didn’t really have anyone read my blog besides my friends who don’t comment anyway. Eventually I fell in love with the blogging community and I think it is such an amazing environment that there are people who actually will read my blog daily, especially when considering I’m writing about the thing I care about most and that is music. I always liked music but when I was in my summer of 8th grade I had fallen in love with music. I had realized that the music I was listening to was somewhat bland and eventually got boring, I rarely reached out towards music that wasn’t angry. My music collection consisted mainly of grunge and metal and very little else. One day I just decided to throw in a Pink Floyd CD my parents had recently bought and I happened to turn on the song “Wish You Were Here” and it immediately became the best song I ever heard. I swear, I probably had that song on repeat for three hours, and still to this day that song has not grown old. I evolved from just listening to the song “Wish You Were Here” to listening to all of “Dark Side of The Moon” which at first I didn’t understand but one day while just having it playing in the background it sunk in and boy did it ever sink in. When the album ended it struck me that you don’t listen to Pink Floyd for individual songs, you don’t listen to Pink Floyd for tiny three minute segments you don’t even listen to Pink Floyd period! You experience Floyd, when listening to them it is like taking a journey and that is what great music is about. The best music is music that takes you far beyond just listening but instead it takes you for a ride, it makes you want to sit and listen to the whole album from beginning to end because that is what its intentions are. I figured I would get a bit more intiment with my 100th post and I’m not even sure if what I said makes sense but in my mind I know what makes music great and I can easily differentiate classic music juxtaposed to sub par music. I hope everyone who reads my blog enjoys what they have been reading and hopefully on an even higher level takes the time to think about it and comment. Thank You to all of those who read and especially to those who comment because if I never received comments I can assure you that I would have stopped doing this a long time ago!