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Originally posted by Frakkerface
I thought this thread was about something entirely different and was about to talk about how my girlfriend, not from the UK, thought that ice-cream van music sounded satanic
Originally posted by Frakkerface
Interesting. I think some people listen to different things in a song. As a musician, I am always listening and analysing the music and if I concentrate on the vocals it is to hear how the melody relates to the other instruments, almost never the lyrics. But then I also listen to a lot of music in languages that I don't understand so for me the voice has always been another instrument rather than a carrier for a message. There are exceptions of course but on the whole this is how it is.
I suppose it depends on what your focus in music is and where you hear emotion in it. I listen to a lot of instrumental north Hindustani music where, interestingly enough to this discussion, the instruments mimic the voice. For example, listen to this and tell me that words could express such beauty - .
Maybe if you are a musician you tend to listen to the music but if you have no musical background then words contain the expression that a musician sees in sounds?
Edit to say: how has your perception of that song changed since you started to listen to the lyrics? Do you like it less or more, has it changed the emotion that the song portrays to you?
Originally posted by Myendica
I would provide link, but my browser sketchy right now. though google, labrynth of the psychonaut. or i think www.labrynthofthepsychonaut.com good stuff relating to music and why we may listen,
Originally posted by franspeakfree
On a completely different note, I am a spiritual person (not religious) and I had an epiphany the other day and that is in order to change and wake up the sleeping masses I am convinced that MUSIC will be the key. For example more and more bands are starting to sing about real life and its those lyrics that people listen to whether it be subconsciously or consciously, and through music comes expression and awareness. I have been studying a little lately about shaminic rythmic dancing and song prose its very interesting indeed.
Originally posted by franspeakfree
reply to post by LiveForever8
I have never been a fan of the arctic monkeys (the music all sounds the same)
"I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and ah... and ah... heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies and the bodies and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it and give everything they have to it and it's a... it's a term that's based on contempt, it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism and everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll. I don't know Johnny Rotten but I'm sure... I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius, myself . And that music is so powerful that it's quite beyond my control and ah... when I'm in the grips of it I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever felt like that? When you just couldn't feel anything and you didn't want to either. You know? Like that? Do you understand what I'm saying sir?"