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jackhammer · 09-21-2010, 06:40 PM

This song shares very little in common musically with your last post but the sentiments are hopefully the same.

Scratch all that new wave chic that people easily dismiss and delve into music that really clicks inside. It's not big and it's not clever. In fact it sounds akin to travel brochure music for the balmy resorts of the Mediterranean yet somehow it ticks every single box for me.

I am not a musician. I have never claimed to be and although one of the first things I look for in music is sincerity, I find originality, individualism and attitude all coming a close second but at the end of the day I still want music to take me somewhere else even for a brief moment.

A song that immediately transports you to a far away beach that you have no hope of reaching can be percieved as wistful folly but not for me. That's why the human brain has an exclusive area for music. It's designed to be an emotional fall back whether good or bad.

Looking upon the most intoxicating sunset and knowing peace is usually a pipe dream for the majority of us, so what is wrong with being there by proxy? This song takes me there for a few minutes and does it every time. Nothing else matters in this time and I feel like I'm the only person in the world when I hear this song.

This song could be attributed to a multitude of emotions- love, peace, melancholy, wistful sadness, hope or sadness but in the end it still means something to me at different times.

Your previous post is the sort of post that shows exactly what music means to people and the sort of post that still keeps me coming back to MB time and time again.

09-21-2010, 06:40 PM	#194 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	This song shares very little in common musically with your last post but the sentiments are hopefully the same. Scratch all that new wave chic that people easily dismiss and delve into music that really clicks inside. It's not big and it's not clever. In fact it sounds akin to travel brochure music for the balmy resorts of the Mediterranean yet somehow it ticks every single box for me. I am not a musician. I have never claimed to be and although one of the first things I look for in music is sincerity, I find originality, individualism and attitude all coming a close second but at the end of the day I still want music to take me somewhere else even for a brief moment. A song that immediately transports you to a far away beach that you have no hope of reaching can be percieved as wistful folly but not for me. That's why the human brain has an exclusive area for music. It's designed to be an emotional fall back whether good or bad. Looking upon the most intoxicating sunset and knowing peace is usually a pipe dream for the majority of us, so what is wrong with being there by proxy? This song takes me there for a few minutes and does it every time. Nothing else matters in this time and I feel like I'm the only person in the world when I hear this song. This song could be attributed to a multitude of emotions- love, peace, melancholy, wistful sadness, hope or sadness but in the end it still means something to me at different times. Your previous post is the sort of post that shows exactly what music means to people and the sort of post that still keeps me coming back to MB time and time again. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”