On the road so far

It’s my first note here but I would like to look retrospectively how it turned out that now I’m starting a blog about music. I guess it was 2006 when friend of mine showed me ‘American Idiot’ by Green Day and well, it blew my mind. Then I began exploration of music world on my own, firstly getting to know other stuff from Billy Joe Armstrong and company. There was short time spent on listening to metal (Metallica-like and heavier) but it didn’t take long until I realized that I should go for something different even if  then I could tell it’s really good music. It just wasn’t for me to listen on daily basis but from time to time why not?

Then I tried punk rock. On the beginning more locally, because Poland where I come from, as you may or may not know has great punk rock history. There were a few bands I would like to listen but maybe because I wasn’t all in punk subculture eventually I mostly gave up on it. Later I’d listen to some bands associated in that genre like Bad Religion, The Offspring or Rise Against and even up until now. Rise Against has the 2^nd highest score on my LastFM list.

A breakthrough point was for me discovering grunge. It all started from Nirvana but when I listened to them for the first time I had no idea what grunge was and I guess it could be even on the beginning of my journey. What I remember is that Nevermind was the first CD that was my own and it was like huge thing for me because then I favored buying music albums over anything else. Then I discovered other bands from Seattle grunge big four and in the end I chose Pearl Jam as my favorite band of all time.

And if you got up to this point, I’m almost at the end. Then I started to look for another bands and really opened my mind to new sounds, which I couldn’t be happier about because it let me enjoy music more and more. The artists which I mentioned before weren’t only ones important to me of course. I should mention Guns ‘n’ Roses, Foo Fighters, Incubus, Audioslave… and many, many more which I listened to countless times and influenced me like a lot.

Every time I think that I won’t find anything new what I would like to listen to, I discover it and then I can’t stop playing it over and over again. Last time it happened with Counting Crows, which resulted in over 1200 plays in 4 months, while listening to other artists of course.

And now I realized that I would like to share what I’m the most passionate about, which is music of course. In here I will post news as soon as I will find anything cool, my reflections about certain albums, which you’ll find in Reviews and other, on various subjects (like this one) in Notes and once upon a time I’ll share couple of songs with you. When I will participate in some music event I’ll try to report how it was (it’s coming soon). I hope that you will find something interesting on this page and I will surprise you somehow. I wish that it would keep on improving as the time passes and new features would appear. My name is Michał, this is The Sound Ball, let’s take a ride…