How does your favorite music make you feel?
12-03-01, 03:51 PM
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How does your favorite music make you feel?
After looking at this thread: Recommend some happy music! , I was wondering how the music people listen makes them feel.
In general, REM's music makes me feel happy. Not really the perky kind, but that warm, calm type of happiness where you're at peace with the world. (especially the song Find the River, my fav)
Lush, Cibo Matto, and random anime music tends to make me feel rather perky.
Tori Amos makes me feel strong and happy.
The Beatles make me happy and cause me to think about lots of memories.
Radiohead makes me a spacy kind of happy.
Louder, more aggressive music makes me act louder/more obnoxious.
I don't really listen to anything that makes me feel sad- it all just seems to lead to different types of happy for me.
Anyone else want to share how their favorite music makes them feel?
In general, REM's music makes me feel happy. Not really the perky kind, but that warm, calm type of happiness where you're at peace with the world. (especially the song Find the River, my fav)
Lush, Cibo Matto, and random anime music tends to make me feel rather perky.
Tori Amos makes me feel strong and happy.
The Beatles make me happy and cause me to think about lots of memories.
Radiohead makes me a spacy kind of happy.
Louder, more aggressive music makes me act louder/more obnoxious.
I don't really listen to anything that makes me feel sad- it all just seems to lead to different types of happy for me.
Anyone else want to share how their favorite music makes them feel?
12-03-01, 05:06 PM
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Re: How does your favorite music make you feel?
Originally posted by hotaru_san
REM's music makes me feel happy
REM's music makes me feel happy
12-03-01, 05:45 PM
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Re: Re: How does your favorite music make you feel?
Originally posted by Eddie Norton
I don't know about anybody else, but Everybody Hurts makes me want to kill myself.
I don't know about anybody else, but Everybody Hurts makes me want to kill myself.
It doesn't usually cheer me up, but I think it's soothing.
12-03-01, 05:46 PM
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Bjork always makes me feel good.
I like...no...LOVE her stuff and she's THE ONLY artist than can make me tear up from just feeling so deeply emotional. I don't know why, but BJORK truly touches me.
Her latest cd, "VESPERTINE" has, IMHO, some very deep music with beautiful lyrics.
"PAGAN POETRY"
"AURORA"
Here's "HEIRLOOM":
"I have a recurrent dream
Everytime I lose my voice
I swallow little glowing lights
My mother and son baked for me"
I like...no...LOVE her stuff and she's THE ONLY artist than can make me tear up from just feeling so deeply emotional. I don't know why, but BJORK truly touches me.
Her latest cd, "VESPERTINE" has, IMHO, some very deep music with beautiful lyrics.
"PAGAN POETRY"
"AURORA"
Here's "HEIRLOOM":
"I have a recurrent dream
Everytime I lose my voice
I swallow little glowing lights
My mother and son baked for me"
12-03-01, 05:53 PM
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In general my favourite music makes me feel like crying, or at least can create a lump in my throat.
The songs I like are normally powerful and hearing them makes me emotional.
for Example U2 - One. And the new track Walk On.
I normally will equate a song with a situation and that will increase the emotion quotient. So right now a friend is in a bad relationship, and the Walk On Song gets me every time.
And I know it aches and your heart it breaks
You can only take so much
Walk on
Walk on
leave it behind,
You've got to leave it behind,
Music is the one thing I would not be able to live without, the range of emotions songs can bring is incredible.
I love music. Love love love it.
When I have a bad day, I jump in the car with some cd's and drive for an hour or so with the windows down, that's all it takes to get out of a mood for me.
The songs I like are normally powerful and hearing them makes me emotional.
for Example U2 - One. And the new track Walk On.
I normally will equate a song with a situation and that will increase the emotion quotient. So right now a friend is in a bad relationship, and the Walk On Song gets me every time.
And I know it aches and your heart it breaks
You can only take so much
Walk on
Walk on
leave it behind,
You've got to leave it behind,
Music is the one thing I would not be able to live without, the range of emotions songs can bring is incredible.
I love music. Love love love it.
When I have a bad day, I jump in the car with some cd's and drive for an hour or so with the windows down, that's all it takes to get out of a mood for me.
12-04-01, 11:43 AM
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See - I have this somewhat twisted theory that - each in their own peculiar way - "sex, drugs & rock n' roll" (thank you Ian Dury) are the closest I'll ever come to true transcendence - that "spiritual lift-off" that religious converts always rave on about endlessly, raising their palms to the air and closing their eyes with a beautific smile plastered on their face.
Music - the best music - especially the best live music - ought to simulate some aspect of ceremony or worship. With a "medium" on stage cast in flaming bright lights, posing with "sacred" instruments (a flaming "V" or vintage Strat), with the worshipful huddled at the rim of that stage, eyes drawn upward, raising their fist in time, letting the "message" wash over them in ringing power chords and base-drum reverberations that set the sternum thrumming.
If a band has got that nearly indescribable "it," you just know. You can sense "it." It's that buzzy feeling in the back of your head, where the hairs all stand up at attention and your mind goes blank, but bright, shining, like mainlining hope, love and the promise of a new day.
In those fleeting climactic moments, I always wonder if this is what those church-folk mean when they prattle on about "touching the face of God," when they speak about something being (in a hushed whisper) "holy." Because if it's not, then nuts to all that dogma and catechism. It just ain't for me.
All right, I'll 'fess up.
I saw U2 9 times in concert this past year.
No, Bono isn't God. He's not even Jesus. But - damn - for a non-believer like myself, Bono makes a helluva fine preacher.
I'd pretty much follow that man anywhere.
Music - the best music - especially the best live music - ought to simulate some aspect of ceremony or worship. With a "medium" on stage cast in flaming bright lights, posing with "sacred" instruments (a flaming "V" or vintage Strat), with the worshipful huddled at the rim of that stage, eyes drawn upward, raising their fist in time, letting the "message" wash over them in ringing power chords and base-drum reverberations that set the sternum thrumming.
If a band has got that nearly indescribable "it," you just know. You can sense "it." It's that buzzy feeling in the back of your head, where the hairs all stand up at attention and your mind goes blank, but bright, shining, like mainlining hope, love and the promise of a new day.
In those fleeting climactic moments, I always wonder if this is what those church-folk mean when they prattle on about "touching the face of God," when they speak about something being (in a hushed whisper) "holy." Because if it's not, then nuts to all that dogma and catechism. It just ain't for me.
All right, I'll 'fess up.
I saw U2 9 times in concert this past year.
No, Bono isn't God. He's not even Jesus. But - damn - for a non-believer like myself, Bono makes a helluva fine preacher.
I'd pretty much follow that man anywhere.
Last edited by grunter; 12-04-01 at 11:47 AM.
