Music aligning.

Ah!

Having a diversity with music fascinates me everytime.

Today I took one of those reflective walks with so much introspection going on. Well of course this was amidst listening to some of my classics.

You ever listen to a song so befitting a moment that you have to sigh, play it back and just bask in how aligning it is with everything?

Well, that happened to me again today.  Much as the magic was in the song, it’s how the moment left me feeling. So allow me tell you…

There I was listening to *”David Bowie’s The man who sold the world.”* And believe me when I tell you that I know this song intimately: it’s one of those ones. I can never get over the fact that David Bowie wrote this master piece at the age of 19. But then again what kind of problems was he facing then! Anyhoo…

…there I am avidly listening to the song and as per usual reflecting on how I have lost parts of myself but I am smiling ear to ear well cause I hadn’t listened to it in a while and also because I felt like I wasn’t fully lost and my self perception is not fully ruptured. So all in all, the song spoke to me as it always does.

I reached the bar, <<it was like 3pm, well the lad I was meeting seems to be an alcoholic in denial…>> So as I set myself up, I decided to re-listen to the song but from YouTube.

Well it was too early so it was just I and a Caucasian couple seated for a while so I close my eyes to bask in the beauty of the song. It ended and hear me say, what played next set me aback…

…I still kept my eyes shut, the beat seemed the same so I thought, oh it’s replaying. Tell me why I start hearing a guitar sound that’s a bit too funk but on the same song. I said okay, then waited for a few seconds only to hear the voice then boom. I was entrapped and thinking I am alone, I thought out loud and said, “I know this voice.” Very uncouth of me.

I spend close to 20 seconds trying to guess but to no avail and I couldn’t wait more so I open my eyes and boom….

…freakin’ Kurt Cobain. The smile I wore, I even forgot that I was waiting for someone. I didn’t want them to reach.

When Kurt Cobain was still in Nirvana, the band, he made a cover of the song so yes, there’s a *”The man who sold the world by Kurt Cobain”.*

A song I love, to have a cover that’s so epic by an artist whose guitar talent was arguably one of the most generic, it put a whole new meaning to the afternoon.  I drunk those cocktails with only one thing in mind…the freakin songs.

I walked back listening to both versions and the conflict on how they made me feel. David Bowie’s voice is so soft it has me nostalgic about those lost parts of myself then Kurt Cobain’s guitar skills are a reminder of how badass my capabilities are.

…gosh there’s beauty to music.