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offline Narkotic from United States on 2002-05-16 17:21 [#00222513]
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simple question, complex answer. I'll have to admit it's
the nostalgia that gets me. When I listen to it it brings
back good/bad memories. What about you?


 

offline chapman from United Kingdom on 2002-05-16 17:23 [#00222518]
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its an addiction... but a very good one :)


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-05-16 17:27 [#00222523]
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I like it mainly as noise to drown out the backgound sounds
whilst I'm working.

I also like it as it makes painting minatures less boring.

And it can be quite emotional too, which is usually good.


 

offline hungrig from Sweden on 2002-05-16 17:28 [#00222526]
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music is my life. no more. no less. :)


 

offline supreme from Antwerp (Belgium) on 2002-05-16 17:28 [#00222527]
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same for me...Addiction.


 

offline plugexpert from Nijmegen (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-16 17:30 [#00222530]
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making music is better then listening to music,..at
least,....for me that is


 

offline map from mülligen (Switzerland) on 2002-05-16 17:31 [#00222532]
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music is a way of life, let you think more intensive about
various things. the most of peoples understand music under
alternation or/and relaxation, for dancing or singing and
thats the sad thing on the whole music scene...


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2002-05-16 17:33 [#00222535]
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im listening to chris clark right now.
anyone knows him?
album its called clarence park


 

offline map from mülligen (Switzerland) on 2002-05-16 17:37 [#00222537]
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really nice album, but to short IMO. i like au laugh with
hills, bricks, caveman lament and fossil paste,


 

offline MO2 from Minneapolis, MN (United States) on 2002-05-16 17:56 [#00222548]
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I feel bad for people who can't hear changes in pitch....so
music does not move them at all....


 

offline hepburnenthorpe from sydney (Australia) on 2002-05-16 18:06 [#00222551]
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man....thats a huge question. i like music for so many
reasons on so many levels.

i got into music at an early age, started with piano [6],
guitar [7], jioned bands at 14 just cause i hated sport. i
used to spend sport afternoons at school locked in the music
room with a couple of other like minded mates jamin.

it is a way of life. some people are just not into it.
others like music, but dont really appreciate it fully. a
like all aspects of it. i'll watch a doco on any musician or
anything related to the industry.

cant get enough!

thorpe


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-05-16 18:07 [#00222552]
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i listen to music to drown out the sound of the maniac
voices urging me to jump out the open window to my left


 

offline Loogie from Oxford (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-16 18:09 [#00222553]
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it's a chemical thing...
like sex i spose


 

offline jabizzy from St. Louis, Misery. Er, that's (United States) on 2002-05-16 18:10 [#00222554]
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1. music is like therapy
2. music is the most natural way to express myself, either
by making it, or some other way which i won't discuss
3. listening to other peoples' music is a good way to find
out what they're like inside (unless they're cheaters who
don't make their own music).


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-05-16 18:10 [#00222555]
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chemical sex? do you stick your cock into a baggie of
amphetamines of something?


 

offline joey from montréal (Canada) on 2002-05-16 19:10 [#00222598]
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There is no reason for me liking music. I just do, and I do
love music so.


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2002-05-16 19:16 [#00222611]
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Emotional ressonance is fun


 

offline Spookyluke from United States on 2002-05-16 20:04 [#00222677]
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Same reason people look at paintings or eat certain
foods--pleasurable sensation.


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-16 20:05 [#00222679]
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its like an extra way to feel emotion, and it just sounds
nice :-)


 

offline joakim from Norway on 2002-05-16 20:20 [#00222709]
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to me, music is a way of letting my thoughts and feelings
come out. it compliments my every day life, and i feel very
strongly about it. i love it...i love everything about it.
it's like when you're in love with some person and you're
asked "why do you love her/him ?" it's damn near impossible
to answer. you just love this person. everything about
him/her. i don't love music because it's got crunchy beats
or autechre make cool track titles; i love music for what it
is. you know, music as a whole, everything about it.

this reply refers to the music i like, not the crappy
mainstream mtv shite. i hate everything about that, and love
everything about the music i like...


 

offline Narkotic from United States on 2002-05-16 20:26 [#00222726]
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wow great answers guys... i would like at least one answer
from everyone on this board. that would be great

p


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-05-16 20:57 [#00222803]
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great topic...

for me music is coded spirit or emotion, an intuitive method
of communicating soul. listening to music feels good,
healthy, healing, peacful, ecstatic, horrible, painful,
inward, outward, colors, sensation of any sort, life,
flowers and birds, rocks, fire, demons, angels... gods and
goddesses. i listen to music to feel what i want to feel.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-05-17 02:51 [#00223025]
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I dunno, I really don't... but it is one of the most
important things in my life... I always have music
playing... I dunno, it makes me happy, sad, energetic, it
uplifts... I guess it's just theraputic... it helps me feel
emotions... but it's more then emotional, music also
expresses different ideas in lyrics... so, for me it
stimulates emotions, and my brain, which I guess really is
both in the brain, but I hope you get my drift... it
simulates my intellect, and my emotions... sometimes both,
sometimes separately...

nice topic by the way!!


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-17 03:04 [#00223032]
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entertainment, addiction, expression


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-05-17 03:07 [#00223035]
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I can't even put it into words... everything everybody else
above said, times ten! Music is all I really care about,
come to think of it... everything I do and love revolves
around it somehow...


 

offline steve from chicago on 2002-05-17 03:14 [#00223042]
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Life without music is boring. I, like others here, am
addicted, and proud of it. When I go for walks, drives,
rides, if there isn't music playing I get restless. It's
gotten to a point where I can't fuction properly without it.
When I listen to music I feel like i'm going with some kind
of flow, when it's off I feel like I'm stalled or something.
It's hard to explain.

I think Nietzsche said it best..

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Truer words have never been spoken.


 

offline license from out of nowhere on 2002-05-17 03:19 [#00223043]
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it helps me understand the world around me and more
importantly, myself, better.


 

offline license from out of nowhere on 2002-05-17 03:20 [#00223044]
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me too Ophecks, if I'm not listening to some music or making
some music, I have some in my head.


 

offline Apt_Zet from Afghanistan on 2002-05-17 03:50 [#00223057]
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Can't believe some people put down background music or to
drown something out. I listen to albumns like most people
watch TV shows.

I love the art, the imagination, and creativity, the
boundlessness and personal expression. The feelings and
utter passion that I hear conveyed so deeply, sometimes so
simply. It's the most amazing thing in my life. It's so
free. The simpilicity of making music allows almost everyone
to express these things.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-05-17 03:55 [#00223059]
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Yeah, I'm not a peripheral listener hardly at all.
Concentration on that one thing.


 

offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2002-05-17 03:55 [#00223060]
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i like supre beatz


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-05-17 04:05 [#00223061]
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I use it both ways... background, and forground music...


 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2002-05-17 06:43 [#00223094]
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music makes life more interesting.


 

offline MO2 from Minneapolis, MN (United States) on 2002-05-17 07:12 [#00223096]
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DOPAMINE


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-05-17 07:17 [#00223097]
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I know what you mean, many times the lights go out and I
just lie down and become absorbed in an album. On occasion
it becomes background, but that's usually if I have company
or whatever.

Narkotic: I think it would definitely be great to get a
response from everybody. Even if it's just a single
sentance or phrase. Everybody has to have something to add.


 

offline awt from kristianstad (Sweden) on 2002-05-17 07:23 [#00223098]
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It Makes Me Feel Good uuhm


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2002-05-17 08:57 [#00223116]
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jabizzy-"listening to other peoples' music is a good way to
find out what they're like inside "
nope....i make crap music, i could do better if i had the
time/equipment/money, but id really not want anyone to judge
me by my music.

background noise- yes that is a good reason for listening to
music, just so long as its not distracting, and i find most
is, unless its crap and then i wouldnt listen to it at all

Apt zet-"I listen to albumns like most people watch TV
shows."
i watch more tv shows than i listen to music, sure i like
hearing it and i usually have a tune in my head during the
day, but im amazed how much influence music has had on most
of you- it is not life! the world does not revolve around
it, there are other things in life!
Music is relaxing and entertaining, but so is a nice bath or
movie or whatever....the aquiring of cds can be addictive
and of cource we should have someone to aspire to ie atrists
whom can easily be immatated if you know how...but there is
more to life then that, you must get out of your bedrooms
and smell the world..or something like that



 

offline Wizard MaC from Amersfoort (Netherlands, The) on 2002-05-17 09:33 [#00223146]
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For me, music is about emotions.
Some music is to dance to; to express the music with your
body.
Other music gives emotions without the need to dance to it.

It's like some music of especially Aphex Twin woke up
emotions of myself I didn't know yet; that's the fascinating
thing of "experimental" music.



 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-05-17 09:39 [#00223151]
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To me music is just addiction. I need addictions and this is
cheaper than heroin. I prefer listening to music to having
to communicate with people.


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-05-17 09:39 [#00223152]
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Not exactly the answer you were looking for, I guess...


 

offline digital messiah on 2002-05-17 15:32 [#00223550]
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i like music because a friend from school told me i would be
cooler if i listen to music,and i would attract more girls..


 

offline Apt_Zet from Afghanistan on 2002-05-17 15:33 [#00223552]
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Bob Mcbob I think your taking the "addiction" descriptions a
litte to seriously.

I think of collecting music like some people collect stamps
or baseball cards. It doesn't mean someone doesn't have a
life or needs to get out. Your writing stuff in. Talking
excess, something different.

If you see a post someday that says "Help my wife left me
and I lost my job because I listened to too much music",
then you got your arguement.


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-05-17 15:34 [#00223553]
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so, was it true?


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2002-05-17 15:34 [#00223556]
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sorry if i sounded too harsh....didnt mean to


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-05-17 15:36 [#00223559]
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actually: bob is completelly right in my case. I am an
addict. I have to collect/ listen to the music even when I
don't really feel like it will change my life. Most of the
time it's just out of habit, rarely it's flashes of new
horizons. I get awithdrawal syndromes when separated etc...


 

offline manicminer from Paris (France) on 2002-05-17 15:37 [#00223560]
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I don't know. It can be incredibly infuriating. In fact, I
think the majority of music to me is infuriating, annoying,
dull or frustrating. But, very occasionally, I'll hear a
piece of music that is perfect, that really "hits the nail
on the head" and that I don't think could be improved in any
way.

Funnily enough, the last piece of music that I heard that
did that to me was AFX's Flow Coma. That track makes me
feel sick when I listen to it, it's just so damn DIRTY!!!


 

offline Nexus 6 from Netherlands, The on 2002-05-17 16:15 [#00223624]
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it's a way to extract feelings
it an addiction
it's pure
if there wasn't music there would've been more stress and
less emotions i guess.



 

offline nacmat on 2002-05-17 16:29 [#00223654]
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I dont know
I just love it


 

offline uzim on 2002-05-17 20:14 [#00223856]
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waves of feelings... most of the time, my feelings are more
according to the music i'm listening to or having in my head
than to what's actually happening in the reality... it makes
life more beautiful...


 

offline Thelonious Punk from *fap fap fap* on 2002-05-17 20:19 [#00223863]
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Sockpuppet Bill Gates says: "Its a good way to spend my
millions.. you know, so I get change and stoof."


 


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