Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-1496755-20190813211803

An interesting story indeed. We both passed through many different phases and changes, constantly building up and refining. And we tend to gravitate towards "darker" and "heavier" stuff, probably due to being outcasts. Which means no one to discuss music with (in real life), since most other people are not into our kind of stuff. You are most definitely the first person with whom I exchange such chronicles of musical tastes over they years.

When I started at the translation agency, I was lucky enough to share the room with a colleague who enjoys rock. It's not metal, for sure, but still better than the popular crap msot radios play. So we were listening to a rock radio, which plays a lot of different stuff, though it seems to play Iron Maiden a bit more often than everything else. We were having fun by "greeting" people with various songs. For example, this one was the official greeting for our boss. Yeah, we weren't very fond of him, apparently. Havign something ncie to listen to was good - it eased the stress. And there was plenty of stress to go around, especially in 2014, when I was really starting to hate that place and yearned to quit and go somewhere else.

Oh, I didn't mention game soundtracks - I like those as well. The ones that stand out for me are Blizzard's and the works of Frank Klepacki - the composer for a large part of the Command & Conquer series (and Westwood's Dune games). I have much of these in my playlists since they are enjoyable. Something cool they did in Emperor: Battle for Dune - they gave each faction its own soundtrack. The good guys get classical-sounding music, the neither-good-nor-evil creeps get electronic music, and the bad guys (the ones that are officially evil) get heavier rock/metal-like music. Which is just one more reason to play as them.

So, August is exactly as boring as I expected it to be. Some days I am all alone on the floor... which means I can get some music playing - there won't be anyone to hear it and complain :P