Comments on: 9/11 Music

By: dbl

dbl — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:43:10 +0000

Howard Stern.

I had taken the train in that day, and needed a lift from work. A coworker lived near me, so took me home. He was a big Howard Stern fan (I’m not), and had him on while we were driving. It made an impact as Howard reported what was going on.

By: jmd

jmd — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:35:50 +0000

I also don’t remember much about music right after 9/11. I do remember two music events that followed though:
1) At the Super Bowl, U2 played and did a tribute to those who fell from 9/11.
2) Bruce Springtsteen’s “The Rising.” I found, and still do, that album immensely satisfying and rational. I’m not much for sensationalism based on 9/11 (I’m looking at you, 9/11 movies), but I think The Boss did it right.

By: IndigoRain

IndigoRain — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:25:14 +0000

That night my friend sent me “Dante’s Prayer” by Loreena McKennitt over AIM. Had never heard it before.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:39:03 +0000

I don’t remember any music. I just remember driving the next day. I was in the far Chicago ‘burbs, driving west, and there were no planes in the sky. It was creepy. Even creepier, riding along with my girlfriends a day later, because they wanted to see the military plane parked at the local airport. It was there to guard the nearby nuke plant.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:28:17 +0000

Oh I know one. I was into Voltaire that summer. I tried to go to a party he invited me to while I was in Manhattan just before 9/11. I played Almost Human a lot. Specifically Feathery Wings. *sigh* Fact.

By: FelliniBlank

FelliniBlank — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:09:42 +0000

Mainly cable news or silence or Glenn Gould, but I do remember spinning Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea a few times and finding it even more weirdly comforting than usual.

By: dw

dw — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:45:07 +0000

Huh. I’ve asked that question around here and most everyone has a song. Maybe I just have weird friends.

By: kangaroo

kangaroo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:23:25 +0000

I worked for NBC at the time and more or less moved into the office. I don’t remember playing any music.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:18:17 +0000

I don’t remember listening to anything in particular other than WNYC.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:07:26 +0000

Yeah, it was TV watching and WTFing.

By: Josh Millard

Josh Millard — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:04:19 +0000

I honestly can’t remember. I wasn’t being very musically adventurous around that time, so I’m not sure I have an answer beyond “the usual”, as dull as that is.

To be honest, I was more shell-shocked and feeling a generic dread about what would go on in the USm, in the period after the attacks, than I was tied up directly emotionally to the attack itself. Which is a big other conversation, but that may be part of why I don’t have any really resonant musical memories there.

By: iguana

iguana — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:16:01 +0000

Wow, nothing at all. Didn’t we all have the TV on for about 3 months straight after that?

By: dw

dw — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:15:28 +0000

Just to get mine out of the way:
“Revelator,” Gillian Welch
“We Float,” PJ Harvey