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What drives our musical choices?
What most, drives your love of music or specific songs?
While some songs I find to be bits of near perfection, like Radiohead's "Creep" is like something of an opera where by means of instruments, tempo changes, and lyrics all combine to tell an entire story inside of 3 minutes...but some songs just don't have all that, the lyrics are kinda bad, the melody is easy but just gotta sing along with anyway.
Some songs I don't find to be good songs at all, but...because of the time and place in my life when they were popular, there are attached memories to them, and so I do like them.
I think the attached memories thing has got to be the thing we have most in common? I know so many who practically go through a personality change when they listen to music from their high school days, know what I mean?
There are songs that get people through tough times, like break ups. I've known a few that anytime they've gone through a break up, will play the same music every time, to get them through it.
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| November 18, 2009, 12:22 |
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Re: What drives our musical choices?
Excellent point, music definitely puts a time-stamp on various sections of our lives, perhaps like nothing else we ever encounter. In some cases, it can remind us of a period of time, such as, as you said, High School, a break up, a new job, the loss of a loved one, your first crush, etc. And sometimes more specific things. Some songs can put me right back to a specific moment when I was listening to it; right down to some of the most intricate details such as what time of day it was, where I was when I was listening to it, what I was wearing, what I was eating or drinking and even aromas. I may have heard that song hundreds of times before, and maybe thousands of times after, but for some reason, it mattered to me the most at that simple moment.
As far as the types of music that spark me to like them? Its easier for me to categorize what I don't like. I don't like Rap, Disco, Classical and Opera. Meaning that if any song written in the style of those genres, I can say with 100% certainty that I don't like them.
However, I keep my options open. I never used to like Country, specifically Country Western. But the current Country to me, has kinda replaced Rock n Roll. With very few exceptions, I haven't heard a good Rock tune come out in years. And I blame the music industry for that because they seem to favor things that are more Pop flared. Rock seems to have had boundaries put on it, which is why you see so many Indie labels popping up. Country doesn't seem to have those industry ties put on it and that's why its the most popular radio format in the Nation.
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| November 18, 2009, 13:39 |
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Re: What drives our musical choices?
What drives our musical choices? Our HEART AND SOUL which is connected to our conscious with our memories and feelings equaling our blood, sweat and tears of our life. Our common bond is that we are all human! We're all different yet so similar... bring on the music!!   
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| November 18, 2009, 13:48 |
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Re: What drives our musical choices?
my musical choice changes depending on my mood, one day...i may love a song, listen to it for weeks on end...then suddenly i'll get sick of it, and wonder why i liked it in the first place...and find a new song...and a year later, i'll hear the first song and like it again.
some songs i hate the first time i hear it, and end up loving it.
it also depends on how much radio airplay it gets. to much, and it gets old...real fast.
right now, i'm stuck on "you take my breath away"...by Rex Smith.
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| November 18, 2009, 16:06 |
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Re: What drives our musical choices?
I can respect a song as "art" and the genius put into it, or I can just enjoy a piece of nonsense "pop" too.
I can appreciate a phenomena too...like Tom Jones, okay..."What's up Pussy Cat"....not a work of genius, when he toured and sang, he didn't matter what band or orchestra members backed him, or the songs had any meaning....the phenomena was the charisma of his "crooning" and his stage presence, a little something that he represented, the timing of his career...all things that drove women to throw panties at him.
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| November 18, 2009, 16:35 |
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Re: What drives our musical choices?
For me I'd say mostly the emotion, or feeling put into the playing or singing of a song. It can be a complicated song or a very simple one. It can be happy or sad, with or without lyrics. Secondly a musical performance that blows me away, whether it be a entire song, or a solo in the song. It can even be a part that is what I'd called meant to "Color or Enhance" that often might not be heard. There are bass lines within songs that amaze me. A vital part of a tune yet not the part in front, sometimes a certain drum riff...endless I guess.
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