Contest # 1: What Music Means to You

This post is going to stay up at the top of the page for the next month, but there is lots of new stuff going on down below so check it out!

We're featuring our first ever contest on Voices to hear and boy are we excited! We don't get a lot of comments so I'm hoping that this contest motivates some of you out there to talk to us. In keeping with the theme of Sunday, which is the group Assembly of Dust, this contest was conceived from an answer that Reid Genauer gave to a question. His answer is

I know this is a potentially controversial thing to say but I believe music is like religion for many people. It’s not an either or decision (although for some it is) but it gives us hope, something to believe in, something to inspire us, somewhere to hide when the day beating you down, something to belong to. I think it is a powerful part of our culture

This parallels some of my own thoughts on music. Back when I was talking about Bruce Springsteen's appearance at the first Jazz Fest after Hurricane Katrina I had this to say.

I'm not a religious person and I have never gotten what such a person gets from going to church, until this show. This might be the closest I have come to finding my religion. I've always thought music was the closest I've come to following a religion and today I was in church.

So the topic of this contest is: What does music mean to you? Is it something to just act as background noise to your life or does it mean more to you than that. I have a feeling if you're reading this site music means something important to you. So in the comments leave a post as long or as short as you want and tell us what music means to you. I'll pick, I won't say the best, because in this case there isn't a best or worst, it's what moves you, but I'll pick the post that moves me the most and the winner will receive Assembly of Dust's newest album Some Assembly Required. It's a great album so it's worth taking the time and commenting. We'll let the contest run for the next month, so don't make me look dumb here and not have any comments, tell me what you think.