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Your Inner Boombox

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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How many times have you ever heard one of your friends say, “I wish I had a soundtrack of my life?” For most of you probably a lot.  And, while in reality not all of us can physically have Muse’s “Supermassive Black Hole” playing every time we walk into a room, it’s nice to imagine it in our heads.  I mean seriously, it’s a great confidence booster just having your inner boombox playing it on repeat.

My Audio Bio is meant to capture moments like this – moments of your life to which songs are forever tied.  This site is more about linking genres to memories.  It’s about recreating the stories that go along with specific songs.  We all have those songs and albums we have worn to scraps because they helped us through a break-up, made you realize the love of your life, made you laugh, made you cry, or heck, because you just plain liked the music.  So much emotion is be driven by music, but often the connection it creates it never gets put on paper (or posted somewhere in the vast ether).

Even greater is the fact that songs can inspire different or even the same reactions in each of us.  My Audio Bio is also a place to bond with others based on similar stories and to hear from someone who may have a completely different perspective on a song.  Now we aren’t talking thinking that “Pour Some Sugar on Me” could be “Pour Some Shook Up Ramen.”  It’s more about personal interpretation.  Seeing how a song gets translated into each of our lives just shows how universal it is.

It’s these songs that play in our heads that create our soundtracks.  That inner boombox is a collection of music connected to certain times in your life.  My Audio Bio is a place for you to finally put what you love about a song in written form – a song that gives you the feeling you could take over the world, a song that alleviates fearu probably a lot.  And, while in reality not all of us can physically have Muse’s “Supermassive Black Hole” playing every time we walk into a room, it’s nice to imagine it in our heads.  I mean seriously, it’s a great confidence booster just having your inner boombox playing it on repeat.

My Audio Bio is meant to capture moments like this – moments of your life to which songs are forever tied.  This site is more about linking genres to memories.  It’s about recreating the stories that go along with specific songs.  We all have those songs and albums we have worn to scraps because they helped us through a break-up, made you realize the love of your life, made you laugh, made you cry, or heck, because you just plain liked the music.  So much emotion is be driven by music, but often the connection it creates it never gets put on paper (or posted somewhere in the vast ether).

Even greater is the fact that songs can inspire different or even the same reactions in each of us.  My Audio Bio is also a place to bond with others based on similar stories and to hear from someone who may have a completely different perspective on a song.  Now we aren’t talking thinking that “Pour Some Sugar on Me” could be “Pour Some Shook Up Ramen.”  Its more about personal interpretation.  Seeing how a song gets translated into each of our lives just shows how universal it is.

It’s these songs that play in our heads that create our soundtracks.  That inner boombox is a collection of music connected to certain times in your life.  My Audio Bio is a place for you to finally put what you love about a song in written form – a song that gives you the feeling you could take over the world.

Kevin

My Audio Bio

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
posted by: Kevin 2 Comments »

The new My Audio Bio is officially live! It’s sure to give avid and casual music lovers alike somewhere to arrange their musical collections not alphabetically, not chronologically, but “autobiographically.” It’s a place to share songs, albums, bands and specifically stories about them with your friends and others.

As part of the team I’ve been able to play around with MAB for a while, and I can say I’m stoked to see what users will do with this.  Music is inherently tied to emotion, the rhythm and the lyrics of a good song can make you feel something, and the power of a great song oftentimes becomes a part of your past memories, your story, and even who you are.  I have a feeling My Audio Bio will not only be a musical journal of sorts but a way to search out what some of your favorite music has done in the lives of other fans.

5cec228348a0240849d60110.LPersonally I have a lot of stories thinking back on my life tied to certain songs or specific concerts.  I’ll always remember my favorite concert experience with one of my lifetime-long favorite bands…311 baby.  Mixing hip-hop and reggae and throwing the guitar riffs and bass over the top, you can’t go wrong in my mind.  Even if you aren’t the biggest 311 fan, I’m sure you’ve heard of their self-titled or “Blue Album” released in 1995, featuring one of their biggest songs “Down.”

I remember I was still playing with Pogs when that album came out.  Anyone remember Pogs?  Nothing

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like sliding a stack of those bad boys out and playing for some “keeps” while throwing that weighted slammer down, and bobbing your head to the latest 311 jam.  Ah, nostalgic fads…

It wasn’t until nine years later and I’m about to graduate from high school that I actually got to see 311 in concert.   My buddies and I got pit tickets and just went insane.  We were close enough to nearly reach out and snag  P-Nut’s bass from him, and pumped up enough to singlehandedly start a mosh and get the whole pit involved.  We even got a specific shout out from the band itself; truly an epic experience.

The thing is none of these memories would be so vivid without the power of those songs backing them.  It’s like if you ever drive by one of your favorite places to eat, or come home and smell your mom cooking something you loved as a kid.  How those smells illicit fond memories, it’s the same when I hear Down find its way back on the radio.  Like I said before I can’t wait to hear and read about more life stories from music fans here soon, and I’m pumped to see if the bands themselves get involved.  I would love to read about the stories and memories that inspired the musicians themselves to write the songs we love, or what songs inspired them.  Either way looking forward to hearing “their music, your life” from everybody soon.  See you on the MAB

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