mr dave

Good enough. Let me know what you think in regards to those albums, what particular elements, if not full songs, stood out the most and we'll go from there.

What's your current favourite film soundtrack?

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jackhammer

What Urban said has a valid point, throwing tons of music vids at someone who has a hard time understanding music and how it makes them feel is not going to change their way of thinking so maybe throw something like this at you:



Does the film resonate more with you with the music? Does the marriage of audio and visual mediums bother you or do you welcome it?

You state you are a film fan and I am not disputing that but many modern films (at least 1970 onwards) use contemporary music to accentuate the images presented and are often action/dialogue free so if you can still enjoy a film that employs this method then music does work for you even if it is subconsciously. Please bear in mind that I mean CONTEMPORARY music (that is music pre recorded and not scored for a movie) and therefore if you watch a movie and it excites your senses even if it's just on a visual level you are taking in the audio element whether conscious or not and you are a music fan but just don't know it yet

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Alfred

Perhaps you should try some more minimalist music. I'm thinking ambient, drone or post-rock/post-metal would be ideal.



How does this strike you?

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Alfred

These were great. Do you have a link by any chance?

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Key

I'll add to this by saying that Tunnel Blanket is an incredible album. Definitely worth checking out.

The Bullet

Dude, these were awesome. I hate to be the second guy in a row to ask for links, but it took me until now to listen through that.

sopsych

Try classical music or (this won't impress music snobs) new age music.

Paedantic Basterd

There's really no polite way to ask this, but I've read that people who suffer from asperger's or other forms of autism don't appreciate music emotionally. They admire its technical components and may find it structurally beautiful, but are unable to build an emotional connection with a piece because they do not empathize as most people do.

Do you have asperger's syndrome? Do we have any members with it who would be willing to come forwards and relate their experience with music?

Blarobbarg

My younger brother has asperger's and is a musician. A really, really good musician. Like, amazing. Interestingly, he actually does seem to enjoy the technicality much more than the emotion of a song, as you said. He always appreciates more difficult complex music over simple, more emotional music. Thus, he listens to and plays mainly jazz, prog rock, and fast, technical metal. He talks all the time about how one of his favorite parts of music is actually the tone and sound of the individual instruments.

Don't know if that has anything to do with anything, but throwing it out there.

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Guybrush

Bloody hells, what about one music suggestion per post and then you just make several posts with a proper introduction to each suggestion? That's just way too much youtube for one post in my opinion.

edit :

Ehr, referring to The Bullet's post on page 1.

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