I have a shameless soundtrack.

I’ve just recently noticed how important the soundtrack to my life is to me.  You know what I’m talking about.  The songs that are always in your head.  The songs that make you feel something wherever you are.  Songs like “Reset” by MuteMath, or songs like “At Your Feet” by Jason Morant.  They play all the time and they give you a certain walk when you go somewhere.  

 

My soundtrack is shameless.  I BLARE music in my mind.  All the time.  Everywhere I go.  Sometimes it’s music of my own creation.  Never recorded.  Sometimes never even played.  But it exists in my head for God and I to enjoy.  Other times I’m looping a guitar part I’m working on for a song the band’s playing on Sunday.  For example I’m trying to conquer the guitar solo in “Walk the World” by Charlie Hall for this worship night we’re having on Friday.  The solo is GREAT but way above my level of guitar playing.  Today in Calc class my teacher was wearing a MuteMath shirt, so naturally the whole lecture I was re-playing MM shows I had been to in my head.  The intensity, the creativity, the light-smashing.

 

Music is better to me than any drug.  It’s a high that never goes away.  This is why it is imperative to listen to good, wholesome music that honors God and pushes the limits of human creativity and expression.  It becomes your soundtrack.  It becomes you.

All we have is our bones and they belong to the dirt.

My flesh has failed me, but the truth has saved me.

My flesh has failed me, but the truth has saved me!

 

The Riflemen is a local band around here.  They practice downstairs in our house because two of them live here.  They write and record some good, folky stuff.  We always whistle the tune of the song I quoted above and in the title of this post.  It’s called “Alone” and it’s one of the truest songs ever. Listen to it on their cheesy joke of a myspace?

 

For the record, I miss being in a real band.  Not that I don’t like worship music a lot more, but I long for the late nights in those little crowded local venues with awful sound guys and cheap lighting.  Cameron At Bay/Jesus Automatic/The Fallout was a fun time in my life.  Someday I would love to tour with a secular band.  Something with a sound like Mute Math, or even the Mars Volta if I ever get that good at guitar!.  A kind of music that pushed play  I feel like touring little local venues and living out of a van would be a good experience, even if I never actually “make it” in music.  I feel like God can still totally be honored by that kind of music, even if it’s received by drunks, metal kids, and drunk metal kids.  I know many of the readers of my blog were at one time in local bands that turned into worship circles.  Do you guys still feel the desire to write and record secular material?