Hymn

I'm over 40 and I found something that I like...but I'm not sure if I'm "allowed".

I've stumbled upon a band that was unfamiliar to me. I always get a little obsessive every time I discover new music, and I listen repeatedly to the newly discovered stuff -- you know just to make sure, heh. Normally I'm not too uptight about genres and styles; I can find something I like on almost any station on the radio dial. Even with the stuff I don't care for I can usually manage to find something noteworthy or valid about it that I can, at the very least, appreciate.
My first love is Rock and Roll and I thoroughly enjoy Classical; I relax to modern orchestral arrangements (like soundtracks for movies) and even like some Rap. The toughest field for me to mine is Country...but Sugarland kind of helps with that.

I never felt the constraint of propriety on my musical tastes .... Until today.

Following a thread completely unrelated to what I was doing (there was a little reference in someone's icon) I hit youtube and played several selections of music by a band called H.I.M. Anyone under the age of 21 knew (probably -- what do I know?) about this band five years ago, but being that I'm ancient I don't have the same leisure time to scout out the good music -- I just wait until the whipper-snappers mention it in their lj's.

Anyway... this band is usually categorized as .... goth. Oi. I can't even say it any "louder" than that! I'm ...embarrassed. I think...?

The lead singer/songwriter is young enough to be my son... (Okay -- if I gave birth at 12! Let's say...my S.O. if I was Demi Moore! Sounds cooler.)

The members of the band sport multiple tattoos, they cultivate a nappy, I-haven't-showered-or-shaved-in-three-days-and-just-stumbled-off-the-bus-drunk-to-play-this-gig look and did I mention that they are goth? But still -- good music is good music.

I sat down every time I took a little break between projects today, and listened to a different song. I can honestly say that while some of it didn't just whallup me in the solar plexis, a majority of it did.

If you're over 40, and like fresh music... check 'em out. Might I recommend "Love Said No" or "Killing Loneliness" or the acoustic version of "Funeral of Hearts"...?