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I'm going to try and write 100 posts about... music.
Let's see how that works.
If there's ever a band I should start with, and if there's ever a song I should start with, it's Kula Shaker and Tattva.
They're not the best band in the world, nor are they the most original and unique. And Tattva isn't their best song. But in a way, everything I listen to today is because of that random day I opened MTV and there was this strange strange band on with 60s haircuts and 60s inspired music singing in Sanskrit.
The first song of theirs I actually heard was Grateful When You're Dead, when it was released in... April 1996 I think. It actually made it to the top 40 (35!) and I caught it once or twice. It registered enough that I would know it was Grateful later on, but it didn't register any more than that.
And then in July Tattva was released. And this mixture of psychedelia (both music and the extremely odd video) with the added bonus of strange lyrics... sort of got me. I think I finally got K only after Govinda was out, but by then I'd been a fan head over heals. I'm not as big a fan of theirs now as I was 16 years ago (OMG this can't possibly be the number of years!!! I feel old). But almost everything I listen to today, I can probably trace back to KS, whether it was wanting to listen to their influences, opening up my mind about 60s music, 70s music and non-Western music, the influences on those bands, or music I got to know through other KS fans. The only thing I can't give KS credit for in some way is classical music, which I have been playing since early on so most of that came from my Russian piano teacher.
So yeah. I don't listen to Kula Shaker a lot these days (definitely not compared to how much I used to), and I haven't listened to K in months, at least. But I owe my extensive knowledge, extensive interest and extensive love of music (and about 40gb of music on my harddrive, not to mention the stuff I have on tapes and couldn't convert to mp3!) to that day I heard Tattva.
( So here it is. )
Let's see how that works.
If there's ever a band I should start with, and if there's ever a song I should start with, it's Kula Shaker and Tattva.
They're not the best band in the world, nor are they the most original and unique. And Tattva isn't their best song. But in a way, everything I listen to today is because of that random day I opened MTV and there was this strange strange band on with 60s haircuts and 60s inspired music singing in Sanskrit.
The first song of theirs I actually heard was Grateful When You're Dead, when it was released in... April 1996 I think. It actually made it to the top 40 (35!) and I caught it once or twice. It registered enough that I would know it was Grateful later on, but it didn't register any more than that.
And then in July Tattva was released. And this mixture of psychedelia (both music and the extremely odd video) with the added bonus of strange lyrics... sort of got me. I think I finally got K only after Govinda was out, but by then I'd been a fan head over heals. I'm not as big a fan of theirs now as I was 16 years ago (OMG this can't possibly be the number of years!!! I feel old). But almost everything I listen to today, I can probably trace back to KS, whether it was wanting to listen to their influences, opening up my mind about 60s music, 70s music and non-Western music, the influences on those bands, or music I got to know through other KS fans. The only thing I can't give KS credit for in some way is classical music, which I have been playing since early on so most of that came from my Russian piano teacher.
So yeah. I don't listen to Kula Shaker a lot these days (definitely not compared to how much I used to), and I haven't listened to K in months, at least. But I owe my extensive knowledge, extensive interest and extensive love of music (and about 40gb of music on my harddrive, not to mention the stuff I have on tapes and couldn't convert to mp3!) to that day I heard Tattva.
( So here it is. )