Music i liked but now i hate

Hi!

I am here after really long time. We were moving with my boyfried to a new flat and we didn't have internet connection here untill yesterday. I prepared this article few weeks ago and now im going to finally post it :) So enjoy!

Theese are my dark secrets and mostly I don't want to admit that I know any of following bands.

Arctic Monkeys

I was absolutely in love with Arctic Monkeys in 2010. I think they just recorded a new album at this time and they just started to be a bit more popular – but still not many people here knew about them. I also saw them live at summer 2010 and I was in the first line as a proper fan girl, hehe. Now I see them as a pop band for average teenage girls wearing „normal people scare me“ t-shirts. And maybe I need to admit that I was the same. But still... they were not so popular as now. 

lol and tumblr is full of theese "grunge aesthetic" pictures connected with arctic monkeys lyrics, I think it's cheap and i am so bored of this...

Nirvana

I loved them since my birth. I am 1994 kid and I was listening them even before I was born. But hey – i hate what it becomes thanks to society. Grunge is pop culture theese days, every shopping center is full of grunge fashion and cool grunge girls and famous smiley logo of nirvana is printed on everything. I also hate how every guy with guitar plays smells like teen spirit in every pub, trying to impress underaged girls. So yep – i like Nirvana as a band, but I don’t say it aloud. 

The XX

I found an article about them in music magazine when I was 14, eight years ago and it was the first music I’ve ever heard with such a calm atmoshpere. Now every hipster band has this dreamy voice and I am so fed up with it. 

The Pogues

I liked this irish rock genre before and I listened few more bands of this type. Now I hate it. I just can’t stand all theese happy flutes. Now the music is empty for me. Now I am able to listen some of it only when I am totally drunk. And maybee I’ll dance. 

 

Bob Dylan

I liked him because I thought that you need to know and like him to have an average knowledge about music. But noo, please, it’s not true. Bob Dylan might be an icon for many people, but his music is just folk and i fucking hate folk :D 

Ska-P

Seven years ago I was avarage teenager who had weed twice and thought this is my hymn and song of my life. I am so ashamed for this. I hate to hear it now. It’s okay if you’re same avarage teenager as me and you like it – but it’s not okay if youre an absolutely high adult who don’t want to admit that he’s too old for this and that weed is not just a funny game for him, but it’s an addiction. I also hate SKA so much for stupidly happy trumpets and fans and... just everything. I hate ska and I could write it 100x. I also hate reggae, but I have never listened reggae in my past, so it’s okay :D 

Emilie Autumn

I like her as a person, I like her fans, I like everything around her. Not as much as before, but I still need to admit that she was good icon for me – and still is. She has great opinions about politics and feminism, she has great interest in everything. I also really like her lyrics. But the music, oh my god, no. I don’t know why I was listening it. I hate musicals and it sounds like on of them. I hate girly pop voices and she has it. The only thing I like is the using of cemballo and viollins, but it sounds so cheap when you mix it with everything else. She uses synths so uncreatively as every pop band. Sometimes I try to listen some of her songs and I am in pain. I think many of her records are also badly mastered. And live concert? Don’t call it concert and it’s AWESOME show, but I expect live music from concert, not just obscesive singing and singing and than bad breathing. 

What are yours musical "sins"? Tell me your secret! :))

About communities and underground.

Hello.

I had a really lazy day today, I am a bit sick, so I slept for many many hours, and the rest of the day, I was watching some youtube videos from music documents throught harajuku fashion videos to goth youtubers and my head is full of thoughts...

I would like to start with the word community. Im not gonna tell you where and who, but I heard someone talking about "strega community" and it get my attention, cause I myslet think that it might be the community where I would love to have some friends and be part of it. But then I just realized that "community" probably means you're just followings other strega people on tumblr and they're following you and maybe youre liking or rebloging each others posts and thats it. They might know just your profile, not you, and if you will see them one day face to face, it's probably gonna be weird and tense? They might not be the same friends as they were online.
What community means today? I thought it's a group of people, they are connected, they want to help other members, they are on the same side, fighting together. But what I see is that today you're gonna write a label on your social media profile and that probably makes you part of the community...
I was trying to get into lolita comm few years ago. And I lost my interest soon. I was chilling with other lolitas in tearooms, but I was always the quiet one in the corner and I realized that fashion doesn't connect people and fashion meetings seems that they are organized because some group girls just wants to look good and have a pictures of themselfs. I've found some friends there, yes, one or two girls are still in my heart even if I havent seen them for ages, but they helped me a lot and that's the thing I'm looking for in community and in friendship. Support and help.
I tried to see what's happening in our goth community, cause it's probably much bigger than lolita or strega (I have to admith that strega certainly needs to be connceted via internet). Goth comm seems like it might be local thing almost everywhere. So there are some goths here in my city, but they're like 18 years old manson fans, experimenting with drugs, talking about satanism and reading books about manipulation and they are so selfish that even if it is some kind of local goth community, it can't really work as helpfull, calm and nice society I am looking for.
So I need to think about czech goth community in global and yes - it works. But it seems like there is just about 10 people at all. They are connected together, they're visiting concerts together, ordering LPs together, recommending music, organizing parties.. And on the parties, you can see so many other goths, but they are mostly lost, trying to find some stable status in community, but they ended up unseen and unimportant.


And it makes me think about us - modern generation. Our parents were living real underground. They wanted to fight with the system, my parents were aginst communism and my father was playing in forbidden hard core band. And it connected artists and free-minded people, community was created without any hard struggles and they had the same target in front of them - to destroy communism. We're just creating our perfect characters on social media, listening to music which was underground many years ago, but now it's just irrelevant (but of course still good) music. We need to move on somehow. Use the internet for informations and for organizing real events. We need to have a same goal and go for it together. Start with a little things with your friends and make it bigger and bigger.
I need the real underground!
so... my goal is to start with tattoing people as soon as it's possible and connect alternative people thru it. Make some money to run a club with my boyfriend and organize something like black saturdays to wake up the goth scene in our city. We need to fight the calmness of this stupid city, where all the alternative clubs are destroyed by higher politicians (they had to cancel so many antifa concerts last year, I was shocked).
I would love to connect all the strega lovers too, but I'm really not sure how. What could connect us? Just imagine the strega full moon meet up, it would be real witches ritual!  :D

Have nice day and don't forget to do today something that makes you happy :)
N.

Concerts of 2016

I told you about the music I was listening a lot last year. I have to tell you also about concerts I visited last year, cause some of the interprets started to be one of my favourites after the concert and I want to show you which ones.


I remember my trip to Prague. It was at March I guess? And it was magical experience.
Bestial Mouth 

One of the czech bands I saw at leat three times and was aslo forerunner for Bestial Mouth, but they played also in Hradec Králové and I think they are really great czech newborn band. 
Ba:zel

I don't even remember when, I think it was at spring or in summer?? I was on the concert of White Hills that everyone know from Jarmush's Only lovers left alive. I remember that I felt like in a dream and this glam awesome blonde playing bass was like an half devil half angel.

As a fan of synthesizers and czech undergound band Plastic People of the Universe, I was on concert of B4 - synth covers of PPU. The idea is something like.. "if PPU were from Germany". The concept is quite funny, but you need to know context. As music it's great!

Another great concert of MENU (they're organizing concerts in Hradec Králové) was again Ba:zel but with Julinko and I absolutely fell in love with them. The magical atmosphere that was in old factory where the concert was is written in my mind forever.

I was on Prague Gothic Treffen after 2 years of absence and the organization was pretty awesome. They added live bands, so it's not just goth discoteque, but real concert. Undertheskin were pretty good. Thanks Sancturary.cz for organization.

Autumn. One of the best unsuspected musical experience in Pardubice. It was in little music club called DUB. It was the day when I was depressed that Im not on the concert of Christian Death so I went there to listen at least something and it was really one of the best live musical experience of the last half yer.  
All Your Sisters. I bougth their LP!

MENU again organized concert of Xarah Dion and she is now in my cold wave playlists. It's such a great music and, as I like to say, it's my cup of tea and it's my blood type.

And that's all. I missed many concerts and I was sad about it, I was also on some bad concerts, but this is quite good number of concerts I really enjoyed last year.
Hope this year will be even better! I decided to spent most of my extra money for culture and LP's and I also want to finally do some minimal cold wave music by myself.

Have a nice day,

N.

My music of 2016

Hello!
Because music is always so important to me and reflects my life, i decided to do a post about what music accompanied me in last year.

So basically... I was desperetly searching for something. I had enough of happy hippie songs all my friends are into. So...At the beggining of the year I was listening a lot of atmospheric minimal experimental electro? I guess..

It wasn't enough dark for me. I'm post-punk by a heart and this has just too much sentimental. I love disharmony, deep dark bass..
I was listnening a lot of Lebanon Hanover, which is my favourite band, i guess, but you can't listen one band all the time, so I was searching for something...
The Soft Moon...

Okay... Never enough. I love magical womens in music. Cosmetics are great band, but it sounds more sexual than magical. I love them, but then I found my goddess... She's dark, she's smart, she has absolutely amazing voice... and she sings about things as it was about myself.
Linea Aspera /also in other bands... Zainas and Keluar.

That get me right into the todays dark wave, which uses awesome sound of synthesizers, automatical drum machines etc.. I fell in love with the sound.
Another thing I need to show you are November Növelet / Haus Arafna as another project. They are so dark and so depressive and so cold.. awww i love it.

So... I fell deep into the pit of modern goth music. I exchange my music with other goths that I know. Im checking our czech goth web about music, I'm searching and searching, I need and army of dark and cold wave bands in my youtube playlist.
She Past Away. They are here for longer time, but I discovered them this year. They are pretty "oldschool", which is not my cup of tea theese days, but still... It's the best todays but classical post-punk that I've heard in a long time.

Next...
Absolute Body Control. Oh my... I just need to visit their concert. I'm so in love with this band and the best thing.. my boyfriend loves them too!

 Hey.. than so many cold-wave bands that I know thanks to youtube, my friends and some articles... I can't talk ybout everything...

But what really gets me is... Vólkova. Goddess of dark atmosphere again. Bass that flows in my blood system.

 My newest discover is Buzz Kill.

So that's all about the music I was listening this year. I think I'm on really great way :D I need to write also about concert in 2016.

Do you have some tips for me? Cold waves, goddess singers, disharmony, dark bass pulse, nihilistic atmosphere?

Have a nice day,

N.

My music taste throught the times

Not sure how to start, but let’s take it chronological..
I’m 1994 kid and I was born in golden age of grunge. Kurt Cobain was freshly dead and his fame was rising even more thanks to this. I was born to  “underground” family, my father was famous hardcore bass player, my mum’s nickname was Patti Smith.
So that’s my start. I was raised in classic rock surroundings. When I was in uterus, my mum was listening Nirvana. The first music that I ever heard and even now, when I hear Nirvana, it’s for one hand too over-listened, but for another it’s still magical and usually when I sleep and dream about some music, it’s Nirvana.
Kid years are mostly about kids songs and what your parents listens. So basically they gave me great music basics. Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, The Doors, Alice in Chains, David Bowie, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joan Jett, Jefferson Airplane, …
When I was like.. 10 years old, I started to really like some music, that showed me my parents and I also started with finding something new by myself.
I became a big fan on Pixies, PJ Harvey and System of a Down. Especially PJ Harvey, I also infected my cousin :D

When I was 12, we had almost the same music taste with my cousin, so we were exchanging music that we like and it was almost like some competition “who will find better music”. We found that the music we like is called “alternative” and “indie”.
I loved Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arctic Monkeys, I remember that The XX was really unknown new band, The Kills and The Dead Weather, The Libertines and Pete Doherty…

Okay. I was 13-14, when I met metalhead guy and he was big inspiration for me. He was the only intelligent guy in my age that i knew. I was never metalhead, but at this period I found some awesome music that is connected with metal. Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, The Agonist, Deftones, more Serj Tankian..

Okay. Next. I was 15, dating 23 years old guy who liked “soft” music. I was still into all these old thing I was listening (when you start to like something, it’s all your life with you. You can’t throw away your “indie” period. It’s still with you.), but I was trying hard to find some music that we both can like. I also started to listen dark cabaret.
So the queen for me was Emilie Autumn, of course. Than Amanda Palmer, Birdeatsbaby, Nouvelle Vague, Vermilion Lies..

Soon I discovered Siouxsie and the Banshees. I was 16, maybe 17. And with Siouxsie, Bauhaus. My aunt was always listening Sisters of Mercy in car and I started to love it. I also remember listening Alien Sex Fiend, summer 2011, and my father who said “oh i was listening this when I was your age”. Joy Division. I was also more and more depressed and this music was just the right thing for me.

End of my first relationship. I was even more depressed, crying daily with Nick Cave’s music. I went to Finland for erasmus. Cure mania started. I tried to find some good post-punk and “goth” music. Cabaret Grey, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus and Mary Chain, Killing Joke, Savages, Sex Gang Children, Silent Scream,..
I started to be happy about this new “genre” i found for myself and my parents never told me about it /and they knew many of these bands!/ It was like… patch for my bleeding. I started to look ahead for my life.
I dated the sexiest punk boy from my city and I was so proud of it. We were listening punk mostly, but we both liked also post-punk and goth music. Again it was like competition - who will find better music. It was awesome period, but we were too stupid and like.. .”proud punk pair” that was together just thanks to alcohol. So we broke up. It gave me great music to listen! Misfits, I studied classical punk bands, also Tom Waits, Christian Death, Black Flag…
Okay. Than the short period with jazz lover. We were listening Nick Cave together and Morphine.

Again - too much alcohol in relationship.
Even shorter period of dating with awesome and sexy goth guy, but we started to date sooner then we could really know each others and i have to say that this person is great friend but I need a totally different kind of man. But he showed me some awesome bands and also he showed me how to “find” goth concert in czech republic and that’s it’s not so weird to visit them.
I'm listening Belgrado, Masquerade and Skeletal Family thanks to him.
Okay. I was 18 and my music taste was almost where it is right now. I was trying to find something calm but dark at she same time. Crystal Stilts, AKACOD, White Fence, Thee Oh Sees. Sonic Youth times. Something between alternative, dark atmosphere and jazzy sounds.
I started to date my current boyfriend when I was 19. I was listening my “dark” music, but he showed me jazz and I liked it. Typical Miles Davis.  Lou Donaldson, Herbie Hancock, Lonnie Smith. Than also calm music as Air, Can,..
But I was tired of all these stupidly “happy” sounds and I showed some of my music to my BF.
We together started to like more electronic music. I like electronic sounds in cold wave music, he is more into normal electro or techno.
Today I like dark electronic music. I like typical old rock legends. I like old goth legends. But now I’m examining cold wave and dark wave and I'm not so much into deathrock as I was.
So now… it’s all about Lebanon Hanover, Xmal Deutschland, She Past Away, Linea Aspera, Pleasure Symbols, Absolute Body Control, Beta Evers, The Soft Moon, Gazelle Twin, Haus Arafna, etc.

But still… you can’t throw away your old times. So sometimes I just need to listen something that I was listening while my punk period or indie period or metal period… :)
And I have to say THANK YOU to everyone who influenced me.

Have a nice day, 

N.  

Mori Girl 30 day challenge - day 11, 12, 13

11. Name 5 of your favorite mori girl style songs or musicians, even if they're not explicity "mori"
 Okay, mori music! The best day of challenge :D

The Tiny:

Gazelle Twin... for dark mori:

Esben and the witch. Dark mori:

Crystal Stilts... perfect with a cup of tea :) :

Nouvelle Vague. Great covers of great originals...:

12. Name 5 mori girl syle hobbies!
I think it's still the same questions :D
Books, creating, enjoying great tea/coffee/hot juice/..., nice walks, may be also occultism...


13. What films, if any, inspire your mori girl look and life?

Daisies

Valerie and her week of wonders

 Indian summer / Indiánské léto, czech movie.

Mononoke Hime

The year of the hare / finnish film :)

1- naturally, our first question is how did you get into mori girl?
2- Who is/are your mori girl idols? who inspires your fashion?
3- Have you ever lived in a rural environment? if you have, do you think it influenced your mori-ness? if you never have,  do you think living in a suburban or urban environment influenced your style any?
4- name 5 things you love about mori girl.
5- name 5 things you dislike about mori girl.
6- what sort of things, outside of fashion, do you consider to be part of a mori girl lifestyle?
7- are you also a lolita? I find a lot of mori girls do lolita as well! whether you are or aren’t a lolita, why do you think this is?
8- What is your favorite type of plant life? whether it be tree, bush, flower, fruit or vegetable? why is it so special to you?
9- list 10 words that remind you of mori girl or inspire your mori girl life.
10- What are your favorite books? do you think they’re mori or not?
11- name 5 of your favorite mori girl style songs or musicians, even if they’re not explicity “mori.”
12- name 5 mori girl style hobbies!
13- What films, if any, inspire your mori girl look and life? 
14- do you like to coordinate the colors in your outfits to match the seasons? what colors do you think are most appropriate for each season, and why, if you’d like to explain?
15- post a photo of your favorite personal mori girl coordinate.
16- post at least 5 photos that inspire you. They don’t necessarily have to be fashion!
17- What’s your favorite season and why?
18- Are you inspired by any foreign cultures other than Japanese? what about them inspires you?
19- Are you inspired by your own culture? if so, how do you encorporate it? 
20-  How do you feel about the fairly prevalent use of fur in mori girl?
21- Where do you get most of your mori girl closet?
22- What trends do you see taking the mori girl community by storm soon?
23- is your hair long or short? what’s your favorite hairstyle?
24- give us a mori girl inspired vignette! (a short, impressionistic scene that focus on one moment or gives a particular insight into a character, idea, or setting) Don’t fret too hard over it, we’re not all writers by trade, haha. 
25- What’s your favorite animal and why?
26- When you’re out in nature, where do you often find yourself? (in the woods, a lake, river, etc. what’s your favorite spot? describe it for us!)
27- What’s your favorite fairy tale or myth?
28- Has getting into mori girl changed your perspective on life or how you life at all? how so?
29-  What other fashions are you interested in, if any?
30- describe your ideal ‘mori girl day.’

Witchy music

Hello!
Last weeks I'm interested into witches and their history... Witch hunting and paganish crafts. And as music lover, I always need to find themed music. So, here we are:


1. Gazelle Twin - Obelisk
This music is so dark. I'm not fan of electronic music, but THIS!! It's so witchy. And I also love this video from Holly Mountain movie. 

2. The Smiths - How soon is now
Haha... Yep, and you know why? It's Charmes theme song!! When I was starting with listening The Smiths, I never realized that this is it. And it's magical.

3. Nico - Lawns od Dawns
Nico was a witch and this song is evidence!

4. Cocorosie - Werewolf
I think this is what I always imagine, when I think about witchy music. This is it, this is how witch sounds in modern age.

5. Metallic falcons - Four Hearts
Not actually my style, but I like it. You can feel the nature thourght theese electronic sounds. And I like this feeling.

6. Theme from Rosemary's baby (Sleep safe and warm)
Well, this is becouse of the movie, Rosemary's baby...

 

Do you have some witchy music for me?
I need more! I was looking for music with feeling of witchcraft, but everything I found is just some "witch house" and I just hate when electro is everything they can do.
So... give me your tips :)

Czech dark music

Hello!
I promised you to write about czech goth bands. Actually, there is not many goth bands here - and if yes, they are not very good. I'll write also about theese, which are not "true goth", but it has this important dark atmosphere and I think that it's good to know them. I don't like this "elite goth" bands that are stocked in one box of music (and sometimes fashion...).


1. Prouza
Old band from late 80's and early 90's.

2. Krch-off
If you are looking for some old-school postpunk/deathrock, this is not for you. A bit of viollin cliché, but theese lyrics!! And atmosphere of course!

3. Kazety
Modern way, lo-fi sound. Actually very minimalistic lyrics and everything. But I still think that this is very important band to know if you are goth in czech republic.

4. Psí vojáci
Yeah... Big boom of this band started last year when the singer died. Now everyone knows them and loves them and is one of theese old fans. But still it's important to know this band, I think. 

Than we have here some "true goth" bands. I don't like them so much, but I'm glad that we can have live music on our bat parties and that we can all just meet on their concerts.
for example... brand new band called THE CRYPT ...I would like to say a few words about them, but I just don't know. Im just happy that they are here now, but Im more guitar person and I miss this in their music. 
One day I found this band called TONGUE. I like the music, it's just this thing that I like, but... I think they don't play so much- maybe not anymore?
THE PROSTITUTES are also "something" like this. I don't like them so much... dont know why. I just... dont like something about them.
...and XIII. Století, I hate them :D


So... Yes, I have this strict opinion for pigeonholing music, I know. And also this strange opinion about czech goth community. They are just... in their corner, they are not open to something new which is not considered as "real goth". I think one day, I'll write some post about this. 

Have a nice days :) 
N.

My favourite goth music from different countries

Hello!
I'm in middle of my learning weeks before exams and I am so BORED of history of arts. And I didn't even start with technology, literature and english language. So I have to write something. Something about music.
If you like this typical oldschool goth music as The Cure, Bauhaus or Siouxsie, you may like it. There are my favourite post-punk bands which are not from US, UK or Czech Rep.:

1. Belgrado
I was on their concert for about half year ago and they are pretty good! They are form Spain and it was my first contact with living post-punk band from country like this. I always thought that they play just flamenco in Spain :D I also almost fall in love with the singer.

 

2. Paraf
Balcan post-punk from Croatia. I love them, especially their last album. Before this album its more punk rock, but this last album is just..... yummmi. It's just so strange that they can do such a dark atmospheric music in theese sunny countries. Listen the voice of this woman, I hope you will understand me.
But they are not playing anymore.

3. Musta Paraati
Okay, we are on the north so depressive atmosphere in music (and all kinds of art) is normal for me. I am finnish lover, so here we go, hyvaa yota...! (It's a bit like Killing Joke, isn't it?)

4. Cabaret Grey
Poland. They are still alive and still playing and I hope they will play here in Czech Republic one day. They are singing in english ans I hope they will record some polish song too.

5. Masquerade
Also finnish. And I'm going on their concert in two weeks!! Im so in love with this band last days.

Next time about our czech goth music.
Have a nice day :)
N.