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Maybe change is a strong way of putting it. But there's definitely been periods in my life where music played an important part, helping me get through, or at least greatly defining my memories of, what was happening at the time.
In the late nineties I was going through a lot, or so it seemed to me. I went away to college. Then I dropped out of college. I moved back home, where I felt very uninvited. Not long after I moved again, for a job in the next state. That put me in shooting distance of Boston, a city that helped me find a whole new part of myself as well as bring in yet more complications.
And then my dad died.
There was a lot of music helping me deal with that, but among the handful of CDs I remember wearing out at the time, a couple were from the Belgian band K's Choice. Not an Addict, Dad, and especially Believe from their newly released (at the time) Cocoon Crash were among the songs that helped me from being overwhelmed by grief, let me keep going to work, maintain my connection with friends and family so the loneliness couldn't creep in. When I think back to that time, Sarah Bettens' vocals are usually ringing in my ears.
In the late nineties I was going through a lot, or so it seemed to me. I went away to college. Then I dropped out of college. I moved back home, where I felt very uninvited. Not long after I moved again, for a job in the next state. That put me in shooting distance of Boston, a city that helped me find a whole new part of myself as well as bring in yet more complications.
And then my dad died.
There was a lot of music helping me deal with that, but among the handful of CDs I remember wearing out at the time, a couple were from the Belgian band K's Choice. Not an Addict, Dad, and especially Believe from their newly released (at the time) Cocoon Crash were among the songs that helped me from being overwhelmed by grief, let me keep going to work, maintain my connection with friends and family so the loneliness couldn't creep in. When I think back to that time, Sarah Bettens' vocals are usually ringing in my ears.