Shrimp
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Re: listening to music
Jan 20, 2003, 22:06
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ron ur a shining light
shake it baby shake it
amsterdam ha with me it was just overload of listening and needing to recharge and clean out some shit
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Howden
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Re: listening to music
Jan 20, 2003, 22:39
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Made me go back to my 'STOOL' for last week (Now that's something I won't be laying claim to that often!)
Noah House was listened to as soon as it arrived, then while on the computer, then while in the bath, and then on and off again over the next couple of days, in the background while I was getting dressed, cooking, that sort of thing. It influenced my mood, my movements, everything, while it was on... Truly a soundtrack to what I was doing.
The only stuff listened to while doing nothing else but listening was Camper Van and the compilation for the friend. (Also played Camper Van while out in my wife's car at the weekend.) Don't see a great deal of difference between either approach.
Listening to Suicide as I type... Haven't heard them in years but a beautiful fat parcel of CDs arrived this morning and this is the first one I wanted to play. Music is what is going on around me all the time (though not as much as I'd like.)
I take the weekly 'STOOL' post as meant to generate some discussion, or re-awaken some interest, or perhaps even inspire towards a discovery or two. It's one of the things about 'Unsung' I really enjoy.
It doesn't need intellectualising (?). Enjoy it at whatever level you want...
8o)
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Moon Cat
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Re: still listening to music
Jan 20, 2003, 22:43
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The context can be an external one; environment, mood, all sorts of things. It's what allows one to have a varying response to even the same record.
And the responses already on this thread seem to indicate that people are gonna listen to their music in differing ways. Some of us are even frivolous enough to listen for pleasure you know. A music experience can be a moment of pleasurable fluff or a moment of deep profundity and all points in between.
To wish to narrow it down to one particular experience, to wish to boil it down to the 'proper' way and assume that is the 'right' way seems to me to be wishing a denial of emotional responses not only to music, but to practically anything. It almost seems like a kind of self inflicted method of being emotionally stunted; avoid all variations to the path to the 'right' way. Hmmmm not for me I'm afraid.
I like being able to play a record and hear it in different ways, as well as enjoy the very thing that gave me the 'buzz' about in the first place.
If your process, or whatever, works for you Shrimp, then cool. But the thing is your questioning of people's listening experiences is also entering an area of unquantifiable expression. Like with a lot of art, after all the analyses and pontificating, when you're asked "why do you like so & so", sometimes "I just do" is the purest answer.
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Shrimp
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Re: listening to music
Jan 20, 2003, 22:47
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u listed quite a few others too
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Shrimp
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Re: listening to music
Jan 20, 2003, 22:51
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think ill just go for a walk and come back in another six months
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Moon Cat
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Re: listening to music
Jan 20, 2003, 22:56
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You asked, people answered. Seems fair to me.
Your choice dude.
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Shrimp
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Re: listening to music
Jan 20, 2003, 23:11
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yes u did and i welcome that
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Moon Cat
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Re: listening to music
Jan 20, 2003, 23:14
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s'what it's all about dude. No reason for exile I would hope. But you does whats you gotsta.
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Howden
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Re: listening to music
Jan 20, 2003, 23:20
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When Peter Perrett released his album with The One about 10 years back, I was really excited, and nervous too. Loved the single that came out before it, but was scared that my love for The Only Ones would be, in some ways, tarnished if the album was a duffer!
My first response was not good... Taped it for the car, and tried to get into it when going to and from work. Thing is, the tape would not eject (Fat labels after re-taping, I found out later when I finally took a knife to it) and the tape became the only thing I listened to in the car for a number of months (auto-reverse, or whatever, is a Godsend, isn't it?) I grew to really love that album as I got to know it better and better, though I never played it anywhere other than in the car.
A friend said that some music is like a Big Mac. It satisfies an immediate craving (?) but in the fullness of time, doesn't really feed you. Some music is like a meal you enjoy, with other immediate distractions like friends, family, whatever. This is the music that hits the soul!
I listen to some Big Macs and I listen to some right good dinners! Enjoy them both, but in different ways!
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Shrimp
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Re: listening to music
Jan 20, 2003, 23:31
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passion
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