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jackhammer · 07-08-2011, 06:43 PM

If I am walking down the local high street with my cans on then I automatically assume a 'cooler than thou' persona when I listen to something upbeat and bass heavy. I sort of exist in a bubble and pity those around me because they can't hear what I am hearing. Of course it is irrational and pathetically self serving but I have never been able to shake off that side of my ego that presumes I am the only person in the world that listens to certain music.

There are certain passages in music that I wish others would 'get' when I listen to them but you have to accept that one man's meat is another's poison and beating yourself up about it is pointless.

Songs that build rhythmically into big crescendo's really do it for me whatever genre. They feel like a catharsis; even a metamorphosis. You reside in one particular emotional state and emerge a different person. Uplifted, hopeful and revitalised.

I guess I (and most others I would imagine) use music as equilibrium by proxy. If someone else feels the way I do in the music they make then perhaps I am not as ****ed up as I think I am.

07-08-2011, 06:43 PM	#32 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	If I am walking down the local high street with my cans on then I automatically assume a 'cooler than thou' persona when I listen to something upbeat and bass heavy. I sort of exist in a bubble and pity those around me because they can't hear what I am hearing. Of course it is irrational and pathetically self serving but I have never been able to shake off that side of my ego that presumes I am the only person in the world that listens to certain music. There are certain passages in music that I wish others would 'get' when I listen to them but you have to accept that one man's meat is another's poison and beating yourself up about it is pointless. Songs that build rhythmically into big crescendo's really do it for me whatever genre. They feel like a catharsis; even a metamorphosis. You reside in one particular emotional state and emerge a different person. Uplifted, hopeful and revitalised. I guess I (and most others I would imagine) use music as equilibrium by proxy. If someone else feels the way I do in the music they make then perhaps I am not as ****ed up as I think I am. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”