Pearl Jam with toast please...click link below post.

Today, I found a cassette tape in some boxes i am downsizing. On this tape, i heard sounds of the past. The Cure, Pearl Jam and Peter Gabriel on one tape. Oh, and a little Alan Jackson thrown in .

I got lost for a brief second in those moments when upon entering a huge house party in Panama City Beach, one would hear the exciting sounds of Nirvana and Pearl Jam. At that time, the bands from the PNW were a world apart from the 80's hair bands that radio fed us daily. By the summer of 1993 (many of us graduating in 92 so therefor we were out of parent's home)...ahem.. many of us would venture out for festivals that would include the best sounds of the decade, such as Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Primus (loved them live), Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, and many others. The thump of their darker more edgy bass and their multi- layered guitars made many in journalism dub some of those rock bands "grunge" but most of those bands were only one word- Awesome.

Many of those bands survived in different forms (Foo Fighters) and Pearl Jam is still with us. I tired of them early on, simply due to the repetitious playing of them at every single party and car I would enter for about 5 years.

My ears needed a rest, and like most of us, I kept searching for new sounds my ears would thank me for, like Fiona Apple. Thank God, there was always my Tori Amos to check up on too..her new album is just as incredible as her first. But we always can fall back in love with our favorite singer songwriters and bands. They are like our favorite childhood backyard climbing trees, waiting for us to remember them when we need a moment alone with our thoughts.

In the end, music doesn't define our life moments like some cute indie movie. Rather it is like a fine cold morning brew- bringing the low notes of distant riffs, the misty reminders that we are getting older, and the thrill of resurrecting a favorite habit, whenever we want.
Thanks old cassette tape!

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