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July 10th, 2019, 2:12 AM
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Listening Group Week 2: Love Ire & Song by Frank Turner
There's not a lot when it comes to music that I avoid. I'll happily listen to the latest pop song, I've got well into country in the past 6 months or so and I spent my uni years in a 12 bed house filled with my rap and hip hop obsessed mates picking up a love for Nas, Biggie and more recent stuff but I'm an indie boy at heart and was lucky enough to be at uni during the big indie bubble of the late 00s. Those years are uni were both brilliant and horrible for me, going out with my mates, drinking, smoking and meeting girls but all the while I was battling and coming to terms with the mental health issues I was experiencing at the time. So the music of the time is really closely linked in my head with a surge of both positive and negative feelings with some songs pretty much being unlistenable whilst others take me back to a place where I was accepted and beginning to accept myself. This album comes from a good place though and carried me through my last two years at uni giving me the right amount of story telling and the faux angst a lot of 20 somethings get when they think they can change things.
Frank Turner comes from just up the road from where I went to uni and did a lot of local gigs during my first year of uni before hitting it 'big' with this album in 2008 and going on to play at festivals and bigger venues. I've seen him a handful of times and he's great live. I can't pretend he's got the best voice but his songs mean something to me and I think they likely always will. I toyed with picking a Gregory Porter album here and even started writing this about a Paolo Nutini album as another album that meant something and part of that was because I wanted to keep this album just for me. But I plumped for it to see what the general consensus is; is this album a sentimental set of records that fit a part of my life or is there a genuine feeling that these songs have a real value?
I love almost every song on the album and hopefully someone can get something from it too. I'm especially interested to see what the Americans on the board think as I imagine Turner is quite British in style and tone of the youth during the late 00s. Its one of my favourite albums and whilst I wanted to see what people thought, I also wanted to share a little bit of me and what contributed to me growing as a person over my time on the boards here.
I hope you enjoy.
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July 10th, 2019, 2:49 AM
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I kind of went into this thinking that i'd get some insight into some of you guys and the kind of music that speaks to you, and get some perspective on some new genres. Finding a new artist that I really like was secondary, but i'm thrilled to have been put on to this album.
It's not the most amazing album of all time, but it's the kind of driving minimalist indy rock that I loved so much in my early 00s college days. Big time nostalgia. Enjoyed it tons.
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July 10th, 2019, 3:04 AM
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