The Child Who Loved to Groove

At the age of seven, I remember picking up a copy of an interesting CD off the side. It had a rounded metal guitar on it. It intrigued me, to say the least. My mum had just brought a new CD player with four disc trays, and a banging sound system. I took full advantage. This particular band were of course Dire Straits, not that I knew that at the time, I just liked the songs. In fact, it wasn’t just Dire Straits. One night, our long suffering neighbour, ended up banging on the door, someone was playing Oasis at eleven O’ clock at night. My neighbour was confused and angry. My baby sitter too was shocked, she was in bed! Imagine how surprised they both were to find a seven year old Joseph Turner grooving away to Wonderwall in the living room. The third album I loved was Nirvana’s Nevermind with the picture of the naked baby on the front. Whilst on holiday in Malta, they had it on a jukebox, I put it on over and over again. I loved Come as you Are. However, like that baby in the picture (I saw a news report on him a couple of months ago) I am now grown up.

My taste in music has grown up too. I tried to be cool, which meant sticking with one genre, but I loved everything. Every time I tried, new music from a different genre would always slip into my collection and wreck my dream of being trendy.  At present, there are roughly one hundred and thirty bands on my Spotify. A lot more if you count the compilations. The latest editions to my music collection include Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto, and Enter Shikari’s, a flash Flood of colour. Both exceptional albums, but on totally different spectrums to each other. One has elements of the Verve, the other sounds like the techno, you'd imagine The Jetsons would listen to. Many things have changed, but one thing hasn’t; like that little boy who used to blast out to Dire Straits on full volume, I still have exceptional taste in music. If you are wondering what my favourite album is, I would say at this moment, Sound of Melodies by Leeland. It continues to speak to me in a powerful way about the Grace of God. Of course, any album that starts “we are called to be your people, struggling sinners and thieves” is gonna chime with me. I highly recommend listening to it. It should be available on Youtube.