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offline Anus_Presley on 2004-06-16 06:25 [#01242575]
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forrget it


 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2004-06-16 06:26 [#01242577]
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yeah, it's really easy to learn Drunken Mastah real name...


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 06:27 [#01242578]
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hehe.. except for an un-roman character, of course...


 

offline Doomed Puppy from on and off and on and off and on 2004-06-16 06:30 [#01242580]
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You're young.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2004-06-16 06:34 [#01242586]
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Orr he could have just told me, now that's rreal easy.



 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 06:36 [#01242587]
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I'd still like to know why first.. I can't really think of a
reason...


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 06:36 [#01242588]
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you're [unknown]


 

offline uzim on 2004-06-16 06:40 [#01242593]
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Anus_Presley > funny, i made a topic about this problem too
on another board a few days ago! i was wondering if "too
much music could kill the music"... i have less joy and
impatience now when i receive a package of CDs, and there
are some albums i loved but didn't listen to them more than
two or three times, which is a shame... still, i love
listening to music as much as i always did.

try to dig out some albums among your favourites you got
some years ago but which you haven't listened to for a long
time, and listen to them quietly in your bed, while not
doing anything else... it helped me : )

as for not giving enough tries for difficult albums, i don't
know - i got Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His
Magic Band a few days ago, and my initial reaction was "?"
(not really negative, but really "?".) then i gave it
another try but it was still "?". i stopped meanwhile and
listened to another album instead. i'll force myself to give
it other tries though, seeing how much people find it to be
a masterpiece!
but i'm not sure this is because i have too much other music
to listen to, i remember my first listens to Coil and
Radiohead were difficult too and i did gave up with them for
a few months (or even years with Radiohead), i felt like i
feel with Captain Beefheart now... i know now that giving up
isn't a good idea.

maybe you can "train" yourself to get used to some kind of
difficult music, even if it's pretty limited... after
getting used to Autechre, my first listen to Confield was
the best, i didn't need much time to get into this one since
i knew Autechre already. this said, it's still pretty
limited, knowing Frank Zappa or The Residents aren't helping
me much for the Captain and Coil only helped me a little
getting into NWW.


 

offline Doomed Puppy from on and off and on and off and on 2004-06-16 06:43 [#01242597]
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I'm 23. A/S/L?


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 06:43 [#01242599]
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" i'll force myself to give
it other tries though, seeing how much people find it to be

a masterpiece!
"

that's the problem right there. fuck everyone else.. if you
don't like it, you don't like it.. everyone else may like
it, but it just isn't an album for you.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 06:44 [#01242600]
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i'm 19. the rest is obvious.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2004-06-16 06:44 [#01242601]
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It's just morre perrsonal than Drunken Mastah, that's all.


 

offline Doomed Puppy from on and off and on and off and on 2004-06-16 06:47 [#01242606]
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Jesus Christ you're all serious today Bjorn (is that what
your friends call you?).


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2004-06-16 06:48 [#01242607]
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Trout Mask Replica is a harrd album to get into because it
doesn't gel, orr at least it doesn't seem to, but it does,
it just takes yourr brrain a good few trries to put it
togetherr.

So arre you saying Uzim should give up, Drunken Mastah, not
allow his brrain time to put the puzzle togetherr? Sometimes
you have to rread a complicated sentence twice, but it
doesn't mean you should thrrow the book away.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 06:48 [#01242608]
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anus: in that case: Torbjørn.

puppy: Tobben, mostly.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 06:50 [#01242610]
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music has nothing to do with the brain. it's emotions. it's
spontane (spelling?) and instant. it'll hit you, or it'll
fly through your ears (like pop-music through my ears) and
straight out the other side.


 

offline uzim on 2004-06-16 06:52 [#01242614]
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Drunken Mastah > many of my favourite albums now are ones i
didn't like that much on first listens, actually! and there
are some i loved on first listen and that i don't find
that good now... it depends, really. on the music,
and a lot on the listener, too... the behaviour towards
"difficult" music, and also which music is perceived as
"difficult" (i have more trouble getting into Lou Reed than
i had getting into Aphex Twin).

now you're probably right, at least to some extent: for the
albums i didn't like on first listen, but that i love now,
it rarely took more than two, three, or four listens.
but i don't think the first listen matters that much
- if you give an album many tries, i think (i hope!) it's
because you have the feeling/intuition that there is
"something" in it that's growing... even a little
"something", if i feel it and feel that it's growing, i'll
keep trying. if not, if the "something" remains small,
doesn't grow or just a little with the mood then gets small
again, i'll give up after some listens - i did with
Geogaddi, Venetian Snares or ep7.

for Trout Mask Replica, i'll still give it a few tries, if
after 6 or 7 listens it still doesn't grow, i think i'll
give up.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2004-06-16 06:53 [#01242615]
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emotions arre all forrmed in the brrain.


 

offline gack from the middle of nowhere (Germany) on 2004-06-16 06:54 [#01242616]
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your post does not refer to anything i said. do you really
think that emotions cannot be learned?


 

offline gack from the middle of nowhere (Germany) on 2004-06-16 06:57 [#01242621]
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and, btw... a musical experience is always influenced by the
setting in which it takes place. first listening to trout
mask replica while skateboarding will propably give you a
very different first taste than listening to it first at a
friends funeral.

(p.s.: one of the must overrated albums ever).


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-06-16 06:57 [#01242622]
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I think as you get older, well as I get older, I lose a bit
of enthusiasm for music. I used to go to loads of gigs and
then, the last 5 or 6 years, nearly none. The music I listen
to now is mainly from my old "classic" favourites that I
never get bored of, I like some new music but even if I
really like it, i quickly bore of it. That said, I always
like Bowie's new albums....


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2004-06-16 06:57 [#01242623]
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Look, when you meet a girrl in a pub you don't love herr do
you... no... something attrracts you to herr so you get to
know herr then you fall in love.
I know people a couple who hated each otherr to begin with,
they went to school togetherr, now they arre marrrried
happily with childrren.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-16 06:58 [#01242625]
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not at all, most albums and songs that i like at first are
usualy the ones I get bored of quickly.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 07:12 [#01242635]
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nothing is formed in the brain. the brain is a central
nerve-system. i find it impossible to believe that electric
currents in a grey mass can genrate such complex things as
feelings and thoughts.

I'm being bombastic, and I know it, but still... where would
we be if people weren't bombastic?


 

offline gack from the middle of nowhere (Germany) on 2004-06-16 07:16 [#01242639]
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pretty esoteric, isn´t it?


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2004-06-16 07:17 [#01242641]
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I'm Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic touch me in my back she
says I'm MrRo...mantic

I'm Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic touch me in my back she
says boom
boom
boom

I'm Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic touch me in my back she
says I'm MrRo...mantic

I'm Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic touch me in my back she
says boom
boom
boom


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 07:18 [#01242643]
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how is what I said there esoteric?


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2004-06-16 07:18 [#01242644]
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you're like really getting on my nerves with this thread...
goodness man, just because you can't get into music if you
don't like it on the first listen doesn't mean other people
don't... how can you be so all-consuming with your "theory"
here... it's bullshit... music is about understanding,
feeling, thought, everything... a song with lyrics mighten
become emotional to you until you understand the background
of where the story came from, or what inspired the lyrics...
like really, this is bullshit cause I know myself that I've
absolutely hated albums with the first listen, and now love
them... do you think I'm trying to convince myself I love
them because I'll be cool? Do you not think I really love
them or something? I don't understand what the hell you're
talking about here...


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 07:19 [#01242645]
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exactly.


 

offline Doomed Puppy from on and off and on and off and on 2004-06-16 07:22 [#01242647]
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The brain is extremely complex. Reductionists have located
specific regions responsible for "feelings". A human's
personality is the projection of his brain to his body.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 07:24 [#01242650]
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"I don't understand what the hell you're talking about
here...
"

clearly (said in a snobby way).



that was jesting. now, to the point.

an artist may keep his original work and its meaning, but it
is only his work and it only has his meaning as long as he
is the only one that hears it. interpretation of the work
(inerpretation is not necessarily a cognitive process) is up
to each individual reciever. the artist looses the
possibility to control his work once the work has been
introduced to the world. other peoples feelings ("thoughts")
about something should not affect YOUR thoughts about it,
and that is what it does.. why else would you spend hours
"getting into" an album? what do you think you get from it?
you should spend more time finding albums you DO like and
less time bothering with crappy shit albums you hate.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 07:27 [#01242654]
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they have located areas that become active when it
comes to certain feelings.. not necesseraily
responsible for them... those are two different
things.. if you think like that, pain doesn't come from
anywhere but inside the brain.. when someone pokes you with
a needle, the pain doesn't come from the needle piercing the
skin and disrupting nerve-thingies, it comes from within the
brain, and the process to create the pain started a loooong
time before the needle even broke your skin. In that case,
our brain must have the ability to look into the future. The
brain doesn't think.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2004-06-16 07:27 [#01242655]
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huh, can you please quit telling me the reasons for why I
spend my time listening to music? I listen to music that I
might not adore on the first listen because I realize that
good music takes time... and why wouldn't it? You say that
you get used to it, but you don't feel it... that's
bullshit... you need to understand the music before you can
feel it...

I just don't like the way you're saying "Ok guys, this is
the way it is, so go fuck off"... cause it's obviously not
the way it is... basically everyone here but you are saying
that good music takes time to get into... but we're all
wrong, and you're right...


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2004-06-16 07:28 [#01242656]
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Do you use first impressions to judge only music? Or do you
apply this rule to everything? Also, have you ever turned
sour on something you previously loved? Theres albums I
adored when I first heard them; not I wonder what I was
thinking when I bought them.



 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 07:30 [#01242658]
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well.. think about it.. where does the notion that there is
"more to this" come from? did you think it up on your own? i
sincerely doubt that, 'cause when you experience something
you don't like (like torture), the initial reply is NOT to
think "ahh.. there must be more here. I'll endure it."

you HAVE been told SOMEHOW that "there must be more here."


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 07:32 [#01242660]
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I use first impressions for everything (except for math and
other science-ish things that require cognitivie processes..
I hate them, but I can understand them).

turned sour: yep, but mostly songs that I've ever only
listened to while drunk.


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2004-06-16 07:36 [#01242665]
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Man this a very complicated subject. I'm having this chain
reaction of thoughts but can't define them enough to put
them in words... oh well


 

offline Doomed Puppy from on and off and on and off and on 2004-06-16 07:40 [#01242667]
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You are wrong. Neural transmitions are extremely fast. The
needle doesn't cause pain. Pain comes from the triggering of
certain "pain receptors" in the skin. They are extensions of
the brain. In that manner feelings emerge from the brain.
They are a response to a certain stimulus always
biochemical. The stimulus may come from the brain : for
example opiates like endorphin, or from social conditioning
that again results to biochemical responses(it's a matter of
time before all of this is unravelled).


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-06-16 07:41 [#01242669]
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I think, before the Internet where you can get any music
instantly, and before kids had credit cards, you did have to
actually listen to the music either before you made
the decision to buy it, or when you had bought it because
you didn't have 10GB of ambient glitch to wade through.

Music has been cheapened.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2004-06-16 07:42 [#01242670]
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I still don't see any value to your arguements... how can
you explain how I've begun liking albums that after one
listen I hated? That has happened, so you're obviously wrong
here...


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2004-06-16 07:43 [#01242672]
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it really has nothing to do with why one chooses to keep
listening to an album they dislike at first... the fact of
the matter is that after continueing to listen, I HAVE
gotten into many albums...


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-06-16 07:45 [#01242675]
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I havnt read this whole thread.

I just wanted to say to anus:

take a break. Listen to absolutely no music for a week. Or
longer. See how long you can go, until it drives you nuts.

the music you hear will be the sweetest sound ever, after
that.

if this has already been said, well, fuck it, its worth
saying again.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-06-16 07:45 [#01242676]
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well.. you put much more faith in that grey dot up there
than I do. It is a computer.. it doesn't act on its own, it
needs instructions.

but i've got to go run to catch the bus now. will be
back tomorrow or something...


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-16 07:51 [#01242684]
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I hated 'boys for pele' when i first heard it and thought it
was her weakest album, after a while i thought i'd give it
another chance and now its my favourite album of hers.

and what 'about is this desire' by pj harvey, lots of people
hated it at first and now its most peoples favourite album
of hers...

etc etc, most of the best albums are ones that are not so
easy to get into, that are challenging, that need a little
time...

if i threw away albums i didn't like at first i'd probably
be missing out on 80% of the amazing music i own.



 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-16 07:52 [#01242686]
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'boys for pele' by Tori Amos btw

i hate it when this message board tells me to relax, i feel
like throwing the computer out of the window!!!


 

offline morge from United Kingdom on 2004-06-16 07:55 [#01242690]
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this argument is very interesting.
drunken mastah, if the brain does not think i'd like to know
what it does do


 

offline Doomed Puppy from on and off and on and off and on 2004-06-16 07:59 [#01242697]
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Well it's always gambling anyway. It's just that from my
supposed studies I've gotten to see how people can change
from a simple chemical irregularity. I guess it's a matter
of faith or gambling but it works so far. The whole debate
about whether there is a soul or there is a false self
awareness of the brain is very difficult because nothing has
been proven. Either way I'm not articulate enough to write
my thoughts down in english.


 

offline gack from the middle of nowhere (Germany) on 2004-06-16 08:00 [#01242699]
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and: what is thinking instead. - that´s what i meant when i
said "esoteric".


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2004-06-16 08:09 [#01242709]
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right, judging by your first impression is always stupid...
you can never know the intimate details of something just by
one viewing, or listening, or meeting, or whatever... it
takes time to get to know someone... it takes time to get
into a book and figure out the plot... and it takes time
sometimes to really get into a good album... who knows how
it works and why you like certain albums? It's about
emotion, but also about understanding, and everything works
together... shrug, as the old saying goes, don't judge a
book by it's cover!


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2004-06-16 08:16 [#01242721]
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Great topic guys, nice read, but I got to say, is there
really a place named Dildo? That's wacked out


 


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