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Home Sweet Home - Mötley Crüe
In a small studio apartment in Northwest Phoenix during the early fall of 1989, I found myself sitting at a quaint café-style table against a kitchen wall, with two neatly stacked cassette covers on top of a thin book to the right of my plate.
The top cover belonged to Bauhaus’ “The Sky’s Gone Out…” We had been listening to it the night before while “Attendance Girl” sat at her desk focused on her homework while I quietly reclined on her futon across the room completely immersed in the hypnotizing and haunting sounds of "Swing the Heartache” as it delicately and slowly weaved through her apartment like a curious, hungry snake. The cassette beneath it was turned around and I couldn’t see the sleeve. Out of curiosity, I picked it up to see what was under it, and with a surprised look on my face, thought, “Motley Crue… Theater of Pain?” I yelled towards the opened bathroom door,
“I didn’t know you liked Motley Crue?”
She came to the opening, one hand on the door frame and an eyeliner pencil in the other and simply said,
“Home Sweet Home?!” As if I should've already intuitively known.
I was like, “Yeah?” Not getting it.
She looked right at me and said,
“Well, you know the part where it says, ‘My heart’s like an open book, for the whole world to read?’”
Again I said, ”Yeah?” (Thinking to myself, Please!! I’ve heard that song literally 100’s and 100's of times).
And then she said,
“Well, that line really moves me… It, it means something to me…” Then, she looked away for a brief moment, as if she were looking into nothingness, and disappeared back into the bathroom...
Isn't it crazy how a song can bring back such vivid memories?… Sometimes I wonder… do OTHERS who were there remember those same things, too?
Mötley Crüe - Home Sweet Home
https://youtu.be/MyByixMoCKE?si=oojgBBzmlA_CXYBU
Bauhaus - Swing the Heartache
https://youtu.be/RZNhjZFP0Y0?si=28_Ty9N6y7YInqMx
This is an incredible song! Listen to all the SOUNDS in this, and Peter Murphy's voice is PERFECT for this genre of music! When he sings, "And she wants to be a better singer..." Man, for some reason that is that just so haunting mesmerizing, and ominous sounding to me...
**All background music was created in Garage Band. I played the piano sections using my M32 Komplete Kontrol MIDI keyboard. As I've mentioned before, my goal is to try to make music and sounds to add an extra layer of emotion or atmosphere to the video. While it's not great, and I'm not a musician, I thoroughly enjoy the process behind it and I think it's better than having just my voice there.
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In a small studio apartment in Northwest Phoenix during the early fall of 1989, I found myself sitting at a quaint café-style table against a kitchen wall, with two neatly stacked cassette covers on top of a thin book to the right of my plate.
The top cover belonged to Bauhaus’ “The Sky’s Gone Out…” We had been listening to it the night before while “Attendance Girl” sat at her desk focused on her homework while I quietly reclined on her futon across the room completely immersed in the hypnotizing and haunting sounds of "Swing the Heartache” as it delicately and slowly weaved through her apartment like a curious, hungry snake. The cassette beneath it was turned around and I couldn’t see the sleeve. Out of curiosity, I picked it up to see what was under it, and with a surprised look on my face, thought, “Motley Crue… Theater of Pain?” I yelled towards the opened bathroom door,
“I didn’t know you liked Motley Crue?”
She came to the opening, one hand on the door frame and an eyeliner pencil in the other and simply said,
“Home Sweet Home?!” As if I should've already intuitively known.
I was like, “Yeah?” Not getting it.
She looked right at me and said,
“Well, you know the part where it says, ‘My heart’s like an open book, for the whole world to read?’”
Again I said, ”Yeah?” (Thinking to myself, Please!! I’ve heard that song literally 100’s and 100's of times).
And then she said,
“Well, that line really moves me… It, it means something to me…” Then, she looked away for a brief moment, as if she were looking into nothingness, and disappeared back into the bathroom...
Isn't it crazy how a song can bring back such vivid memories?… Sometimes I wonder… do OTHERS who were there remember those same things, too?
Mötley Crüe - Home Sweet Home
https://youtu.be/MyByixMoCKE?si=oojgBBzmlA_CXYBU
Bauhaus - Swing the Heartache
https://youtu.be/RZNhjZFP0Y0?si=28_Ty9N6y7YInqMx
This is an incredible song! Listen to all the SOUNDS in this, and Peter Murphy's voice is PERFECT for this genre of music! When he sings, "And she wants to be a better singer..." Man, for some reason that is that just so haunting mesmerizing, and ominous sounding to me...
**All background music was created in Garage Band. I played the piano sections using my M32 Komplete Kontrol MIDI keyboard. As I've mentioned before, my goal is to try to make music and sounds to add an extra layer of emotion or atmosphere to the video. While it's not great, and I'm not a musician, I thoroughly enjoy the process behind it and I think it's better than having just my voice there.