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When i listen to music, nothing else matters
when i listen to music, my mind's no longer scattered

when i play a tune, nothing evil could tempt me
when i play a tune, you couldn't make me feel empty

when a song is sung, you feel at one with your brain
when i sing a song, theres no need to refrain

music's my life, musics my wife
take it from meee, take it frommm the
you'll meet my knife

That's very nice and poetic, but your answer is not really helpful. Could you answer according to the outline described in the first post?

Favourite 3 Genres

Metal, Classic Rock and......okay, I have two favs, but I listen to everything but country.


What attracts me to music

The sound. I really like heavy music so the heavier, the better. Good riffs, good singing, cool music and vocals.





Are you attracted to the same musical qualities now as then?

Somewhat. I have always liked heavy music, no matter what, but, as a teenager, I also liked a lot of hip hop and rap and pop. Now, I still don't mind SOME rap and hip hop but most pop music makes me want to die.

Favourite 3 genres:
Damn that's quite hard to answer as I listen to everything. Probably Metal and its never ending genres Reggae and Electronic music. This way I can encompass lot's of areas of music.

What attracts me to music
Honesty and sincerity although that is really difficult to elaborate upon. Somehow I can just feel if music is forced and only made for the sole intention of making money. This is not to say that I don't like commercial music. Far from it but making albums and always trying something a little different each time appeals a lot to me. I think 95% of musicians could make chart friendly pap if they really wanted too but then I contradict my own opinion in that I like a small number of bands that rarely change their formula and are quite happy to stick with it. However the bands are not always radio friendly in the first place.

I could say the usual cliched waffle about how music calms me or takes me somewhere else but if you are a serious music fan then this is a given really and if it doesn't illicit emotions in you then music is just something to listen to as background noise or something to dance to at the weekend etc

I guess music is a window into how someone feels and thinks and we are all interested what goes on in other peoples minds.

I am beginning to dislike youtube vid posting unless it's for a promotional thread for a band I like and music is personal and what one person adores is not always easily put into words. What I will do is post songs that elements of what attracts me to music. Here goes though.

Melt Banana

I love the raw energy from this track and the production is not overdubbed to oblivion yet despite having a seemingly chaotic sound, it has structure and melody. It is original, intense and buoyant. You can just tell that the band love to play music and enjoy it at the same time.

John Martyn

There may as well be no one in the room so focused is John in the music. He isn't sat there bemoaning life. He is celebrating it yet he is so ensconced in his own world it becomes quietly powerful and utterly believable. There have been thousands of artist who sit there with an acoustic guitar and 95% of them are boring, banal bleeding poets and there is the 5% who would sit and play for hours not giving two craps whether you liked it or not. This is their own release and fulfilment. Honesty and sincerity.

Slayer

Virtually any Metal band in the world can be noisier or heavier than the rest but it takes something special to be so intense yet clear, concise and meticulous. Although it's a cliched choice, this is still probably the finest example of intense Metal recorded that doesn't sound dated in the slightest (it is now 25 years old).

Underworld

I love monotonous Electronic riffs especially if they are not actually a riff but just a device that pulls a song along. It's not intrusive. It's subtle yet hypnotic. It should just exist bubbling under the track but not become the whole track or none of the track. In that I mean that you shouldn't really even notice and instead revel in the whole ambience of the track. This is not a dance track, it's not a by the numbers ambient track. It's fully formed with many aspects that suggests that the artist has an ear for music and many genres. This song is all about mood and appeals to may different moods that I feel.




Are you attracted to the same musical qualities now as then?
I grew up with Reggae and classic British bands but I got 'into' music through Heavy Metal and for a number of years in the mid - late 90's I barely listened to the genre(s) but over the last 10 years I have gone full circle and celebrate the fact that the music that formed who I am still has a resonance for me today.

I still love Reggae as the basslines still grab me today as they did way back then when I didn't understand what they were but knew that they had an earthy, honest and sensual sound to them.

The emotion is sets on the inside...so you kind of feel it in your gut and shoulders and arms and back.

Favourite 3 Genres
Drone and folk resonate the most with me. Folk is a general term, but I refer to the homey feeling of music, as folk music does mean 'music of the people'. Virtually anything that sounds culturally significant and is sort of stripped-down in terms of instrumentation gets my vote. A third would likely be (as a HUGE HUGE blanket statement) classical music. That alone covers so much terrain on its own.

What attracts me to music
Loneliness. I like music that, at some point in its duration, sounds fragile and near empty. Using silence, incorporating solos/solis into the repetoire, playing 'nostalgically', etc. I like loud/heavy music and all, but even the loudest music can serve that same purpose.

Loneliness transcends virtually everything. Representing that emotion somehow, whether it be directly or just through some other angular medium, is basically a necessity to the music I listen to. Even upbeat & optimistic music contains some allusion to it most of the time.

Don't really think any 'links' will help prove these points.

Are you attracted to the same musical qualities now as then?
2005 - Green Day
2011 - Drone/Folk Project #409,439

There is change, yes, but I look down upon the me of one year ago more than the me of six years ago. I was so self-righteous and pretentious a year back, and it's much better to look back upon my early adolescence when I was just a nice kid who would listen to nothing but pop-punk and System of a Down on the side. I don't listen to the same styles, but I still get the same awesome feeling when I hear something interesting/that inspires me.

Thanks for your replies Lee and clutnuckle :)

Usually the images it makes me think of, the emotional connection.

Wow!
If I didn't have my music on a daily basis, people would be getting hurt.
I can't imagine not being able to listen while working, driving, and every other moment in the day. Music is all I have left in this world, and that no one can mess with.

I just ... wow .. that was just so different ... I never expected that something like that could exist!!
:thumb:

+1
Besides, i don't differ music as genres anymore. they all kinda mixed up

I'm hoping to revive this thread as there were some really great things being said.

I am absolutely on board with your thoughts here. I usually find this is post-rock or ambient works but even some rock acts like the slowcore band, Low have pounded out some beautifully lonely dirges with their amps cranked up to eleven.

An outstanding track, as are so many from Rick & Karl's vast catalog. Thanks for your thoughts - I think you've hit it spot-on.

As for my own tastes -

Favourite 3 Genres
• Jazz (Bebop, Cool Jazz, & Hard Bop, Free Jazz, Third Stream, and Fusion)
• Downtempo / nu-jazz
• Ambient (kosmische musik / drone / space / psybient / contemporary classical)

What attracts me to music

Headspace. I enjoy sound art that creates a sonic environment for the listener. Whether the work is intellectually-engaging for active listening or, like ambient music, a heady atmosphere in which I can lose myself and escape the troubles of the world.

The original chill out room at The Land of Oz nights at Heaven achieved this brilliantly by wedding the pulse of house music with the blissful, sparse soundscapes of Manuel Gottsching and Pink Floyd. What I wouldn't give to have been there to experience it for myself!

Are you attracted to the same musical qualities now as then?

I graduated HS in 1999 at age 17. I escaped chart-toppers Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and Limp Bizkit by spinning Jethro Tull and other prog classics in my studio after class. That was also the year Napster launched so I spent the years that followed crate digging and file sharing to further broaden my musical sphere of knowledge.

The aim was the same then as it is now - a never-ending search for strange and beautiful new sounds.

Good thread. I like the format.


Favourite 3 Genres
1. Melodic Death Metal
2. Metalcore
3. Christian Rock

What attracts me to music
Music that elicits emotions is great. There's no better alternative to relieve my anger than heavy extreme metal. It is a form of entertainment. It can get me to be introspective. It can be motivating. It energizes me.
I can feel cool, I can feel bliss, I can feel dark, I can feel rebellious, the spectrum of emotions and the way the music enhances it does wonders.
Lately I've been more cognizant of lyrical content. It's plays a very small part of how I appreciate music because it needs to have a good beat in the first place, which speaks for itself, but it's icing on the cake if it adds something to it.
At this point in time, Norther holds a centerpiece in my musical diet. At first it was the nice solid beat, but the lyrics made it personal. The thoughts of being a serial killer has sprung up many times. I'm a dark person at heart. Norther did a fine job in giving me a handle to attach my thoughts into expression.



Are you attracted to the same musical qualities now as then?
No the musical qualities of music I listen to now are quite distinguishable from my childhood. When I was younger 16 and under, I just cared about a cool or dancable beat. Naturally, Nu Metal and Pop music was sufficient.

Now, I prefer music to be a reflection of me in some sense. That is not to say it has to match my every whim, I can definitely appreciate music that isn't the same basis as my thoughts. For instance, I really like Gothic metal, but it's a rather feminine genre. Although I do have a feminine side and relate to them for the most part, some aspects are strictly female. I can "empathize", if you want to call it that and "get" the music.

"energy" Music to Me is like the Sun is to Life, without Music life would lack the necessary ingredients for our civilization to thrive.

Everyone loves music, that's what's great about it, they're so many genres, artists, even if you're picky there is music for you!

Plus that music can bring even the most unlikely people together.