#365songs (126 / 365)

I mentioned this song in a previous entry for a harsh, abrasive track inspired (?) by asthma, but I had to come back to it.

I'm such a devoted album listener that I'm not much of a "skip song" person. But "Ventolin," ear-splittingly plonked as it is right in the middle of the generally chill ...I Care Because You Do, I just couldn't hang with when I was originally getting into Aphex Twin. Now that I've acquainted myself with a wider variety of Music That Sounds Bad On Purpose, "Ventolin" doesn't seem quite so extreme, but that high-pitched ringing sound sustained through the whole damn track does really just drill into your skull like almost nothing else.

Wait, is this a noise track? I think it might be a noise track, though still identifiably Aphex Twin in the unsettling melody burbling underneath the carnage. So too, appropriately, the first track I ever encountered that had me consistently nope out due to its sheer sonic unpleasantness.