Category: Jam Session
Well, I'm writing just to assure myself I hope. Anyway, this might sound really cheesey, but music has always been something I love to talk about, and I don't have anyone to do it with. I listen to almost everything except for like death metal and hard rap. I love to analyze music something if something really hits me, like how a song sounds or this harmony was really pretty, stuff like that. I just wish I had someone to share it with or talk about it. I guess people around here are either too busy, or just see music as a background thing, but not me. Once, I got grounded from music, but I snuck into my sister's room and put on headphones and taped an oldies station when I was about 14, and my mom caught me but I got in bigger trouble, lol. So I guess music is me, all around. Sorry if that soundds really cheesey and it probably does, but oh well. Anyway, if anyone feels the same way about music like I do, you can reply. I just wonder if I'm really alone out here sometimes.
My partner knew a guy who talked about nothing but music..have you ever thought of advertising for like minded people to share your passion..in the same way that book groups have taken off in britain.
Give it a go
You have nothing to lose but frustration.
Well, let's see. I'm the guy who always listened to the musaac in resturaunts and shopping malls. I'd sometimes get upset when I was taken off hold because of listening to the radio stations in a different city. I'm fascinated by the sounds tires make on the roads and the musicalness some surfaces make. Any questions?
Lou
Hello as for me I like songs with interesting lyrics. Something like poetry. Or something that sounds nice mellodically. Usually when I'm listening I often wonder what that person ment when they said that.
Lou, your a nut but we love you anyway! I think it depends on how deep you want to go. I am a bass player as well as a production engineer and depending on who I am with the conversation can go from either that was a great song to talk about particulare ways of producing and recording thinkgs to chord structures, what processors might be used to geenerate a particular sound and so on. Music is a universal language and I have no doubt that everyone is talking about it. Hmm, so how did they get that thumping sound in we will rock you by queen? Roomer has it that they all stood on a piano and stampped there feet. Any thoughts?
Music has been a part of my life since birth, really! I can remember far back to when I was a little baby. I was left alone a lot at night and not cared for, so to entertain myself, I would make up melodies and I'd do the rhythm by lying on my belly, folding my arms in front of me, and bouncing my head on my arms. As I learned to talk, I also learned to sing and refined my natural singing talent by getting singing lessons when I was eight. I've been exposed to probably ever kind of music and then some since I hear new things every day. I like to talk about music in the sense of the emotions behind the song or sometimes I'll tell people if I notice something is out of tune, but I'm not overly critical of music like some people I've talked with. I'm also into the recommending bands and getting band recommendations type of talk.
Interesting post. While my parents never left me alone much, the piano was my baby sitter. My mother tells me of putting my playpen in front of the piano, and I'd stand there and play the songs my brothers learned in school. I like talking about most aspects of music from arrangements to chords to music trivia.
Lou
Well, it can be hard for me to find people to talk about music with. Most of what I like isn't current, so talking to a lot of folks younger than me is out unless they have no problem appreciating a great variety of stuff and music from before their time. These days I'm more into the kind of stuff that people find in thrift shops. Lots of exotica, budget-label rip-off records, kiddie records that tied into TV shows or cartoons, early electronic music and lots of cheesy and obscure things. Then I like classic ska and rocksteady and reggae, some Celtic stuff, lots of progressive and psychedelic rock, some classical, some experimental music, mostly minimalism like Philip Glass and others, found sound stuff like Negativland, and a lot of stuff that's just unusual and hard to categorize. I tend towards the unusual and the humorous myself far as lyrics go, as love songs or related material is a dime a dozen. Not sure how technical I can be about music, but I'd say I've got quite a good ear for both the musical and recording aspects of it and can recognize many of the effects that were used, especially back before the Eighties.
Wow, I didn't think this topic would get hardly any replies, but I guess this is for talking about music. Anyway, everyone seems to have good points about themselves wich makes everyone unique. I personally like listening to music I've never heard before. Like there's a music website called EMusic that I download from and they've got mostly independent artists, but not all of them are. There's some karaoke and popular stuff on there to. So I go on there and I'm like, hmm, what interesting stuff can I find today. It's kind of fun to explore music other than the popular stuff that's out now or before. So anyway, if anyone is up for trading music or something, let me know. I'd be interested in hearing what you guys like. Who knows, I might like it to. lol.
Talk later.