Hello! Here is another Music Tuesday post! I’m not sure how well these posts will do, since they are just general posts about the music that I’m listening to, but I really enjoy writing them, so I’m going to keep putting them out.
Please let me know what you think in the comments below. I read and respond to all of the comments that I get, and I really love interacting with you guys.
These posts do remind me a little bit of the first kind of Music Tuesday posts that I used to make. Those posts were me taking a week (not a long time) to listen to every single song that a certain band. That turned out to be way too much work for a single week, and I quickly burned out on that.
This reminds me of that because I am still trying to listen to certain bands before I make another post. It’s another responsibility that I have, but I do think that this way is a lot more manageable than the first way I was doing it.
I also think doing these posts this way, with a couple bands in mind that I want to listen to, creates more motivation to listen to more music. It’s always been hard for me to find the motivation to listen to new music, so I suppose that is a good thing.
Anyhow, I will get onto the music part of this music post now haha.
Kiss – I’ve known about this band for a very long time, but I had never really listened to much of their music. I knew all of the mainstream songs and all that, but didn’t know anything about them besides that. So, what do I think of them?
Overall, a lot of their music sounds very similar. I know this is a lot of bands, but I kind of expected the hits and the other songs to sound a bit different. I found a few songs that I really like, but didn’t feel very moved by most of it.
I am really excited to see them later this year, but I probably won’t know every word to every song. There is also a mini golf place in Vegas that is Kiss themed which I have been to a few times, and I really like that. Maybe after listening to them, I’ll have to go again and see if I can recognize any more of their music.
Also, my dad mentioned that they do not sound like they dress, and I can agree with that. I feel like today, they would maybe be considered rock/pop rock. The Internet says that their genre is rock/blues, and I am not sure I agree with the blues part at all haha.
Overall, I do like them, but I don’t love them. I do think I will be listening to a couple of their songs frequently, but nothing past that.
Mastodon – Out of honesty I do have to tell you guys that I did not listen to Mastodon purely because I just wanted to, but I mainly listened to them because I was going to a concert where they were going to be headlining and I wanted to know more of their music.
I do like the music, but this is another case of me liking a band, but not loving them. I don’t think I would listen to any of their music frequently, but it is good to vibe with every once in a while. They definitely are rock, maybe even metal.
If I’m being accurate, the Internet says that Mastodon’s genre is progressive metal/sludge metal. I actually saw a lot of genres, but progressive metal seems right and I like how sludge metal sounds when I say it in my head. I do really like some of their songs live, but none of them really caught me while I listened to them.
I would definitely go to another one of their shows, but I would have to brush up on their music before I did so. I really liked the atmosphere at the concert, and I really appreciate that. There are definitely some bands that do not have a great vibe at their concerts, which is not attractice to me as a concert-goer at all.
Overall, I like them, but do not think I will be listening to them without a reason any time soon.
Khemmis – Khemmis was opening for Mastodon, so I also only listened to them to learn the music for the concert. I did end up liking them a bit better than Mastodon at first, but after the concert, I think I like both of them equally.
They did seem a little bit more grindy when listening to them at first, but Mastodon turned out to have the same vibe. They do sound a little bit similar to Mastodon now that I’m thinking of it, but I do think Khemmis is more grindy metal than Mastodon, which, if you know me, I really like.
According to the Internet, Khemmis’s genre is heavy metal. I do think that this describes them well, but I think it’s a little disappointing that Mastodon gets so many descriptors, and Khemmis gets one, maybe two. I do think they deserve more recognition, and I know that just having one genre descriptor is being well known or not, but I do think they deserve to be a bit more popular.
Overall, there are some songs of theirs I would really like to listen to frequently, and I would definitely go see them live.
Yellowcard – This is a bit of a different band than the past 3, in terms of genre. I’ve known about this band for a long time, but I had only heard their most popular song, Ocean Avenue. I was pretty excited to listen to more of their music, but I was a bit nervous that it would be completely different than that one song.
However, I found out that most of it was pretty similar, which I really liked. The main genre for this band is alternative/indie, but I would agree more with the indie part of that. I would really like to get to know this band and their music more, since I really like a lot of their music.
I did not listen to them a whole lot these past weeks, so I would like to listen to them some more to really get a better feel of how much I like their music and how frequently I might listen to them in the future. This band makes me feel really good when I listen to them, especially their most popular song.
Overall, I would really like to listen to this band more, and I already have been listening to their most popular song for about 5 years at this point.
Those are the main bands I listened to this past couple of weeks, and I really hope you guys enjoyed reading about them. If you have any comments, want to share what you are listening to, or have any suggestions for what bands I should listen to in the future, please leave me a comment letting me know!
Also, just in case you were wondering, I will be making a post about the Khemmis/Mastodon concert, but not for a while. I have a lot of other Music Tuesday posts planned that will be coming before that, but I promise it is coming.
Thank you all so much for reading my blog post and supporting my journey! Every time you read one of these, I really do appreciate it, and I do have some very exciting things coming!
VitalVan 