...Would have to be Terria.
Last summer was the worst summer of my life. My dad offered me a job painting his girlfriend's house for quite a decent amount of money. I figured, it's more money than I could make in a summer working at a grocery store or whatever, and it was physical labor, so I wouldn't have to deal with customers getting all indignant on me when something they don't like happens. The catch: the house is in a little town called Leominster, about an hour away from my house, and I don't drive. I have to sleep there and I only get to spend the weekends with my friends at my house.
Leominster is the whitest, upper-middle-classest, calmest suburb I've ever seen. It was a nice place to live if you happen to be dead.
And that's just what this place was. Dead.
It was that summer that I purchased the Terria album. I had a pirated copy, but it had proven to be my favorite Townsend album to date either way. So I went out and bought it (Actually, I had also pirated Infinity and Ocean Machine, and purchased them at later dates). I listened to Dev's audio commentary, and he talked a lot about how personal the album was for him, and how it had a lot to do with growing up. It really spoke to me, especially since I had decided that summer that it was time for me to draw the line, and stop being a teenager and start being an adult (summer between freshman and sophomore years in college).
Many of the songs themselves spoke to me, too, on an almost eerily esoteric level. "Deep Peace" comforted me when I was feeling like total shit and just had to cry, "Canada" spoke to me about my relationship with my dad, him being a businessman and me being an art student (all the time I needed your approval to be me), "Nobody's Here" and "Tiny Tears" were simply very comforting songs, and "Stagnant" summed up everything. Especially how "it's beautiful, the way it's meant to be, beautiful, but it don't do shit for me" was exactly how I would describe the town of Leominster.
To sum it up, "Terria" was the most important record in my life as of yet. It was like Devin came up to me, put his hand on my shoulder, and said "my friend, shit gets tough sometimes. We've all gotta deal with it. You'll make it through this, and you'll be stronger and more grown up because of it."
Anyone else feel especially connected to Terria? Or any other of his albums, in fact?
Last summer was the worst summer of my life. My dad offered me a job painting his girlfriend's house for quite a decent amount of money. I figured, it's more money than I could make in a summer working at a grocery store or whatever, and it was physical labor, so I wouldn't have to deal with customers getting all indignant on me when something they don't like happens. The catch: the house is in a little town called Leominster, about an hour away from my house, and I don't drive. I have to sleep there and I only get to spend the weekends with my friends at my house.
Leominster is the whitest, upper-middle-classest, calmest suburb I've ever seen. It was a nice place to live if you happen to be dead.
And that's just what this place was. Dead.
It was that summer that I purchased the Terria album. I had a pirated copy, but it had proven to be my favorite Townsend album to date either way. So I went out and bought it (Actually, I had also pirated Infinity and Ocean Machine, and purchased them at later dates). I listened to Dev's audio commentary, and he talked a lot about how personal the album was for him, and how it had a lot to do with growing up. It really spoke to me, especially since I had decided that summer that it was time for me to draw the line, and stop being a teenager and start being an adult (summer between freshman and sophomore years in college).
Many of the songs themselves spoke to me, too, on an almost eerily esoteric level. "Deep Peace" comforted me when I was feeling like total shit and just had to cry, "Canada" spoke to me about my relationship with my dad, him being a businessman and me being an art student (all the time I needed your approval to be me), "Nobody's Here" and "Tiny Tears" were simply very comforting songs, and "Stagnant" summed up everything. Especially how "it's beautiful, the way it's meant to be, beautiful, but it don't do shit for me" was exactly how I would describe the town of Leominster.
To sum it up, "Terria" was the most important record in my life as of yet. It was like Devin came up to me, put his hand on my shoulder, and said "my friend, shit gets tough sometimes. We've all gotta deal with it. You'll make it through this, and you'll be stronger and more grown up because of it."
Anyone else feel especially connected to Terria? Or any other of his albums, in fact?
