Sound:Art: Sublime - Are you a bad fish too?

If you have simply everything, you couldn't be happier, and flush it all down the drain and yourself with it, does that follow any logic?

The story of Bradley Nowell adds a whole different intensity to the music of Sublime, the sunny californian lifestyle ... and it's downside.

Sublime were different, took a totally different turn on the mixture of punk and reggae and Bradley wrote songs which definitely took you somewhere away from where you are right now, and even more so considering his person and the story behind. It's a tragic story. The story of the genius true musician in the league with others who do not need to be mentioned here, but shared his destiny. He was real, talented, so committed to his music, that he sucked at basically everything else, especially life itself. An outstanding fragile guy, over-challenged and overwhelmed by life and who finally gave in to the final temptation. It seems that when you're genius at a certain thing, you're a total fail at another one. The greater, the worse.

His story and the story of his band are hard to believe. As described by his friends and family he was intelligent and understood the danger to nothing less than his life by the drug he was dealing with. This is sadly well described by himself in the song 'Pool Shark', in which he faces his addition and paints a dark picture for himself:

"Lyin' in my plastic bed

thinkin' how things weren't so cool to me

my baby likes to shoot pool

I like lyin' naked in my bedroom

tying on the dinosaur tonight

it used to be so cool to...

But now i've got the needle

and i can shake but i can't breathe

i take it away

but i want more, and more

one day i'm gonna lose the war"

Take the time and watch this documentary from the series 'VH1 -Behind the music' and find out more behind the band Sublime, what made them who they were and what evantually killed them.










Rest in peace, Bradley Nowell, thank you for the music!

Sound.Art: How the music works...

Getting back to the blogs, I found a nice documentary describing in an intersting and scientific way how music works. I think it's hard and not exactly necessary to describe something that emotional in rational and scientific terms. However, the product is really cool and definitely worth being seen and checked out. 

"This is the ultimate series for anyone with even a passing interest in music. Prepare to have your mind blown as the structures underlying the creation and experience of music are laid bare.

“Why do some rhythms get our toes tapping, while others make us feel mellow? How does a love song bring tears to our eyes? What links African drumming to J S Bach?

In this new four-part series composer Howard Goodall strips music down to its essential parts to find out how music works."

is what the original producer Channel 4 has to say about it. 

So how does the music work now? Have a look: