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What do you love about listening to music?
Author: jdg on February 06 2007 Viewed 8413 times. 31 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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what part about music do you like to listen to, hear for, think about, etc?
what inspires you when you listen to others music?
esp electronic music
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tonearm
I think for me to really appreciate music I have to be able to relate to it in some way. It has to appeal to my aesthetic in some way, no matter how fucking wanky that sounds, or my emotions - be they happy or sad or comeptemplative. but never indifferent. I use music as a way to escape my troubles, lift my mood, as comptemplation, as inspiration to do something, but not necesarily my own music making. I rarely use music as background noise, though I like to listen top something unobtrusive like SND or some Vladislav Delay while I'm working.However I did once do an ep that was designed to be actively NOT listened to.
Music can such an emotional effect on me that if I hear something that I really don't like it can put me in a bad mood.
I listen to music in different ways. Sometimes it's cathartic, other times i'm listening to every note or tonal shift. It depends on what or who it is.
and sometimes I just prefer silence.
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Roshi
I used to be hooked on listening to the freshest latest stuff. Prefuse 73 and edIT really blew my mind.
Nowadays, it's really all whether the music can bend my perception...like make time seem slower or make me feel disoriented.
Also, really good pop tunes are good too.
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Roshi
Oh yeah, a lot of good bass helps, too.
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EsromCole
I listen to music in layers. I usually seek out the drums first, then bass, then samples/sound fx (if any) and so on. When I'm not just listening to something because I'm in the mood to hear it I like to kinda take it apart in my head. It helps me see how the individual parts work around each other, how they interact to make the sound as a whole. Lately I especially pay attention to the groove of a song and how it progresses beyond being just a set of loops triggering on a time line. This is something that I'm trying to instill in my music, a sense of it evolving for lack of a better term. As far as inspiration goes anything in a song could do it, a single hit, a vocal sample, lyrics, literally anything. That's why I like it so much, I cue up a song not knowing what exactly it'll prompt me to do. I may listen to 30 seconds and hear something that just DOES IT. Then fire up the sequencer or drum machine or whatever and get lost in it for 3 hours. Usually ending up with something I never would have written otherwise. I try not to rush things along just let it happen, though I do urge myself to finish what I've started. For me, music is my teacher, my muse, my therapist, my best and worst critics, and more. I love music, period.
This was a great idea for a blog man. I didn't mean to get all mushy and long winded. Shit happens. Thanks for giving a crap enough to ask. I'd like to hear your answer to your own questions here too.
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Adjective
honesty, whatever that means.
i think of marvin gaye doing that horn-like scatting on Inner City Blues around the 3:20 mark
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kidko
Since i started the laptop battles, I've listened for music with qualities that would go over well in a live setting. That usually means music with interesting beats that stay consistent enough to keep from alienating the audience. The eq is usually punchy and the mix is rarely if ever busy. These are especially great when a melodic element is catchy and singable. Ratatat falls into this category.
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bb01
I like music the way I like girls,no no no theres no sexist remark coming, like "fast and easy" or anything.
I mean; music that I can relate too, that makes me feel at home and still be intrigueing enought to keep me on my qui-vive, music that makes you think you've known it all your life, but still new and fresh.
Those are really the only considerations for me. That way, the list of my favourites has a wide range of aesthetics.
I liked what E Cole and tonearm were saying too.
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daswesen
I think I like especially catchy/weirdy melody/harmony stuff, and groove. Like stuff that really gets me everytime is stuff by Michael Brecker, or those Beatles songs, or Groundation, or Pastorius. I can't really nail it down, but sometimes just the harmony/melody/groove makes a *blip* weirdo effect and my heart goes BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM like when I fall in love. I basically fall in love with songs, and usually they have this melodic/harmonic thing going on.
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monty
I like hearing a wee bit o' fire in music. a vital spark.
I dont like things that sound show-boaty.
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mlbot
i like blends of consistancy and the unexpected.
i like blends of "OMG keep doing that!" with "OMG why did they do that!" and "OMG how did they do that" and "you can do that?"
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nagrom
Mode 1:
Music is euphoric. The melodies make my heart skip. The textures message my temples. The rhythms animate me.
I listen to music because it makes me happy.
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nagrom
Mode 2:
Music is therapeutic. It's the only way I can get myself experience emotions. It's a catalyst for release.
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nagrom
Mode 3:
Music is something to be analyzed. I listen to the individual parts and their interactions, connecting ideas and forming an aesthetic framework; making pictures in my head.
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Analog
it takes a lot for me to like something nowerdays. i used to just like nearly everything i heard, seek out the best in anythning. But now something small can really put me off. I find IDM / dance music easier not to dislike as there's often not much there to trigger your emotions / morals / whatever. it's about a groove or a feeling or a sense of doom or a big rhythmical kick in the guts.
what i find harder to like is music with lyrics, as they can so often make me really angry. Like most 'indie' music at the moment is entirely revolving around going out getting pissed, discos, getting layed, being in a band, wearing jeans or just generally being devoid of anything interesting to say. Or, for the love of khrist, 'living for the cash machine'... god i hate hard fi so much...
I've thought abut it. i'm not just an old man hating on the kids. When i was little nirvana sang songs like 'rape me' or pearl jam sang 'jeremy'. call it pretentious but at least it had something to say other than "i work in a shit job and i'm going out to get pissed". AAAAArrrrgggghhhh! it kills me!
Give me leonard cohen, give me neil young, give me the beatles, give me bob dylan, give me something to bite into for fucks sake.
And i hate when people say "That's a really good pop tune" like you can like something purile just, because. there is no excuse. Crazy frog is a "really good pop tune". loads of people bought it so it's really pop(ular). There's a difference between saying 'i like that shit pop tune cos it's really catchy' and 'i like that shit pop tune cos it's a really good pop tune'. Evidence includes the out there brothers and the worzels.
Then there's the 'pretentious' argument. the 'self indulgent' argument. all my favourite bands are self indulgent. if they were 'audience-indulgent' they'd be shit.
Fuck me, i fucking hate music.
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Squeal
I think I'll write a song titled:
"i work in a shit job and i'm going out to get pissed"
or maybe that could be the chorus.
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