I came into our computer area to find my wife browsing itunes for the song "Institutionalized:" the Suicidal Tendencies song from 1984, featured In the Repo Man soundtrack. She found the lounge version, which came out in the swingin' nineties, and the ST version.
We listened to both versions, frankly, I like both. I heard the Original in about 85, 86. And, well, at the age of 15-16 I thought it was...(I'm not holding back) amazing. Then ten years later, after grunge and "alternative" became completely bland; the lounge version sounded refreshing.
I can't put my finger on why I still like the song, it isn't nostalgia.
The song ends, the wife looks at me and asks "should I buy the whole album?"
me: "Why?"
her: "I like the song, why not the album?"
me: "why do you find 'Institutionalized' so appealing?"
her: "It is soothing."
She bought the album. I asked her to put in on her ipod, so I could listen to it at work. I listened to it that same night and...I found it kind of disturbing and gory. I was glad I had Kate Wolf to listen to afterwards to bring me down.
She finds it soothing, who am I to argue; I like Joy Division when I want to wind down.
I have to admit, I am slightly disturbed, that a 37 year old mom and High School teacher is suddenly interested in early eighties hardcore. Now that I have written that I don't find it so odd. Maybe, I find it odd because I was listening to that stuff back when I was sixteen and...messy.
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2 comments:
aw shit! ST rules. The two follow-up albums aren't bad either but nothing beats that debut... it's a timeless classic.
The 80's are timeless. I have 60 gigs of music on our server - MOST of it is music from the 80's. Alternative, rock, pop... you name it, I probably have it.
Lovely stuff.
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