NationStates Jolt Archive

Have you ever listened to a new album, or an old one you hadn't listened to in awhile, and realized "This is so good I want to throw up?"

Music, to me, is so powerful it can completely stun every sense in my body. Here are some recent spins that make me want to cheese my shorts:

Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
Knife Crazy - they have stuff on mySpace, but no "formal" recording
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (it gets me every time)

Just to name a few.

I am a big music fan. My cd's are separated by mood. There are times when I feel like the world is against me and I can listen to a cd and it seems all is right again. When I was a teenager I would lock myself in my room and crank up my cd player and just zone and listen for hours. It has gotten to the point that I can listen to a song and take myself back to what I identify that song with in my life. Some have photo albums or journals. I have my music collection.

When I was a teenager I would lock myself in my room and crank up my cd player and just zone and listen for hours. It has gotten to the point that I can listen to a song and take myself back to what I identify that song with in my life. Some have photo albums or journals. I have my music collection.

it's the same with me. there was a song i used to listen to over and over when my dog died, because i was so sad and everytime i hear it i cry.

it's the same with me. there was a song i used to listen to over and over when my dog died, because i was so sad and everytime i hear it i cry.

I think that this is the most important part of music. It is a container for emotions and memories. Like a audiological cue card that brings us back in time (or forward at times) to something we can't bear to lose or forget.

Yes. Just got 2 CDs in Ireland, and the song "Defender" makes me want to join a knightly order and ride around the countryside righting wrongs and suchlike. *starts crying*
"To help the helpless ones
Who all look up to you
And to defend them
To the end."
Nightwish can make me sad in a sort of lovey comfortable way… not quite sure how to describe it. It's not like me at all, really, being emotional. :gundge: It has gotten to the point that I can listen to a song and take myself back to what I identify that song with in my life. Same here, one song (which is actually really heavy In Flames metal) gives me an odd feeling… I listened to it a lot when I was very much… enamoured… with somebody.

Same here, one song (which is actually really heavy In Flames metal) gives me an odd feeling… I listened to it a lot when I was very much… enamoured… with somebody.

I have albums that remind me of those I was once "enamoured" with...Some even have songs I wrote about my feelings for those people. And there are even some songs I can't bear at all to listen to. But I force myself to do it to remember the pain...

I have albums that remind me of those I was once "enamoured" with...Some even have songs I wrote about my feelings for those people. And there are even some songs I can't bear at all to listen to. But I force myself to do it to remember the pain... I seem to remember you questioning my sanity once, but I don't go seeking pain. :eek:

You wrote songs about your feelings? That's very… romantic. No seriously, nothing wrong with that, although I'm not sure how you could put it to paper. I have a tendency to not let my emotions out. Bottle up, maybe.

As an artist and Animator (blacklisted 5 years now, thanks you pot-head, animation should be for children only libs!) I solely use music for inspiration for visualizing or when(was) i'm working at a studio. The music I like to listen to is mostly NON popular(Orchestral Music), the "Popular" stuff (anything with lyrics played endlessly on the radio) distracts me with over used simplistic beats and inane lyrics that make me want to laugh or puke depending who is singing. So its Classical or Film Scores for me as I rate this as the best music in the world, and orchestral music on a whole speaks(at least to me) on a purely emotional level.
Believe it or not those in the that "High School" mentality Click bullshit groupe that permeates many american companies actually look down their holyier then thou nose on people like me, one reason is that I sit with head phones on all day, and don't "Partake" in (one or many forms) of what they think is cool or they think i won't/can't conform to their way of doing something at that studio.
Simple observation of the Square Peg not fitting in the Round Hole of society, so its: "OKAY to destroy the bugger he's not one of us."

No I don't hate ALL Popular Music, bands on a whole in my opinion are moronic and are just doing it for the broads and cash,(especially hate them when they think they can get into Politics) but through out the history of the world there is a myriad of well produced well thought out songs that are just fun (can be any topic) to listen to.

Rich

I seem to remember you questioning my sanity once, but I don't go seeking pain. :eek:

I don't seek the pain so much as the rememberence (sic?) of the pain. Remembering a painful period is important, in order to avoid it in the future.

You wrote songs about your feelings? That's very… romantic. No seriously, nothing wrong with that, although I'm not sure how you could put it to paper. I have a tendency to not let my emotions out. Bottle up, maybe.

Not really romantic, more like a story of situations that evoke feelings. I bottle up as well, but in music, it comes out, either through lyrics or in the music itself.

As an artist and Animator (blacklisted 5 years now, thanks you pot-head, animation should be for children only libs!) I solely use music for inspiration for visualizing or when(was) i'm working at a studio. The music I like to listen to is mostly NON popular(Orchestral Music), the "Popular" stuff (anything with lyrics played endlessly on the radio) distracts me with over used simplistic beats and inane lyrics that make me want to laugh or puke depending who is singing. So its Classical or Film Scores for me as I rate this as the best music in the world, and orchestral music on a whole speaks(at least to me) on a purely emotional level.
Believe it or not those in the that "High School" mentality Click bullshit groupe that permeates many american companies actually look down their holyier then thou nose on people like me, one reason is that I sit with head phones on all day, and don't "Partake" in (one or many forms) of what they think is cool or they think i won't/can't conform to their way of doing something at that studio.
Simple observation of the Square Peg not fitting in the Round Hole of society, so its: "OKAY to destroy the bugger he's not one of us."

No I don't hate ALL Popular Music, bands on a whole in my opinion are moronic and are just doing it for the broads and cash,(especially hate them when they think they can get into Politics) but through out the history of the world there is a myriad of well produced well thought out songs that are just fun (can be any topic) to listen to.

Rich

Where I work we are very open with the music. If someone gets something new, they rip to a shared drive and hence everyone can sure and not judge. It's kinda nice since you get exposed to things you may not have picked up on yourself. We can compare things too. For example, the use orchestration in rock.

I don't seek the pain so much as the rememberence (sic?) of the pain. Remembering a painful period is important, in order to avoid it in the future.



Not really romantic, more like a story of situations that evoke feelings. I bottle up as well, but in music, it comes out, either through lyrics or in the music itself. I love making music to whatever mood I'm in. Hence the themes of my songs vary widely… here are the lyrics to one when my friends and I were in an "evil" mood…
We fight this crusade through the night
Not for gain; nor the vanity of pride
But to balance the injustice swung to your side
In the only currency we know: of death

Sacrificing the souls of millions
To appease the blood-debt owed
By the wrong committed by your kind
Exile to the bloody pit

(chorus: x2)
Before us you will live in fear
After us the ravens call
Adding one more mark to our banner
Along with your skulls
So, foolish mortals, feast well
The end is dawning
No man nor woman shall escape
Our scourging depredations

And they always try the same way out
Hiding in shelters or below the ground
They never escape their fate; always pleading for mercy
But we have none to give
Then the purifying begins
Wracked flesh heaped on wracked flesh; young and old
As the indifferent stars illuminate our vengeance
And the sky burns bright with fire

As jealous shades upon the edge, gazing on your empire
Knowing well what we forswore, sustained by bitter fire

Long have we waited, slowly smouldering
Embers stoked by envy and the bitter bile
Evil never sleeps as your empire mouldering
Receives the payment of decay

(chorus: x2)
Before us you will live in fear
After us the ravens call
Adding one more mark to our banner
Along with your skulls
So, foolish mortals, feast well
The end is dawning
No man nor woman shall escape
Our scourging depredations

Yeah, anyway… sorry about that… music is great. 'Tis uplifting and a great way to relax, although often it makes me emotional, and I find that uncomfortable!

Music can be very insparational, or insparation can cause music, or both simoultaneously. Music is great, and i love it. Although I don't think it has ever made me want to "Cheese my shorts" :confused: :headbang:

Surely thats why music was created?

It has the ability to invoke feelings which aren't neccessarily ones which would normally be evoked by the situation. I do wonder why they play songs about burning places in the supermarket though.. deeply fishy...

Music is a most wonderful way to control your emotions, and to create them.
I love my CD collection x)

Sadly not all parents have got to grips with the fact that music can possibly be ruined by being the creator of it... particularly when force-playing the cello is not what you had in mind anyway.

Have you ever listened to a new album, or an old one you hadn't listened to in awhile, and realized "This is so good I want to throw up?"

Yeah, but that's usually the beer talking.

Lisk...nice song...are you into metal? That songs seems to have Iron Maiden rock ballad written all over it.

Here's a sample of a song I co-wrote the lyrics and the music too, although the producer made it all acoustic guitar and voice, neither of which I was for this band. If you like I can e-mail you the mp3. It has been called one of the saddest songs ever written:

Star Fishin' by the Happy Dogs

Sad song on the radio plays loud
Like it has ten times before
Set it up alone inside your room
Up on a shelf behind closed doors

Pull the car to the shoulder of the road
Let me out and I will walk home
Heater in the front seat keep me warm
Watch the ceiling open on up

Sad song on the radio plays loud
I see your shoes and a face in the crowd
Sitting on the front steps hand in hand
Never was and never will again
Follow you home when I was scared to drive
Open up to me to hide
I don't really want to know
Everything you've shown

Sad song on the radio plays loud
Like a million times before
Strung about like sounds around your room
Turn it off I don't want anymore
What do the hands on the clock mean again
Time we've lost or time we'll spend
Nearly 4 years I've had to wait
And now it's over

Black flies to a back porch light
I see your shoes and my spirits die
Cause you were the one who was sitting there
With the beer in your hand and the bugs in your hair

You were the fairest one of all
You were the heartbreak you were the call
You were the name I could not judge
And even if I hate you now so what

You were the fairest one of all
You were the heartbreak you were the call
You pull the stars down from the sky
And leave them on the lawn to dry

You were the fairest one of all

You were the fairest one of all

You were the fairest one of all

/end/

This song was co-written by me and I found out (a couple years later) that it was also partially about me, which is interesting. Take it as you will.

Does anyone else have song lyrics to contribute (either their own or songs that inspire(d) you)?

This may seem lame, but when my friend brought round Vice City (I know, I'm too young to legally play it, but I hate age ratings) I turned into an 80s electropop enthusiast. And that has inspired me into aspirations of being involved in a major electropop revival.

(Actually, Vice City weaned me onto the 80s scene, it was San Andreas that turned me into an electropop enthusiast, with "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode. It's a long story...)

And then I found an old 1990s 70's tape and... became a 70s and 80s electropop enthusiast. And I was born in 1991! I have weird musical tastes...

There you go! Old music as inspiration!

PS: Lyrics in my case are irrelevant, it's rarely the lyrics that get me, it's the tune.