Why Do You Listen To Music?

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  1. Zekiel

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    *cough* Coming from the guy with a Greenday avatar.
     
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    Sure is. Hell, Dookie was the first CD I ever owned. If it wasn't for Green Day, I probably wouldn't have ever picked up a guitar. I listen to all kinds of music now, Rap, Rock, Punk, Country, Blues, Metal... Just depends on what I want to hear.
     
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    Greenday are under-rated purely because of American Idiot.
     
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    Disillusion I agree with you, I'll listen to anything if I like the lyrics or can relate them to something in my life. Plus, good music that sounds good with my bass set-up is awesome :D haha.
     
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    If you want poetry, stop listening to music.

    Music is doing things lyrics alone can't. Lyrics is just simplistic poetry, poetry. At its worst and mediocre and meaninglessl form, actually (Aside from very very few exceptions).

    I listen to music for its musical value. The ideas that come out of the sound, the meaning of the sound, the sound itself. A Jim O'Rourke guitar melody on the album Bad Timing carries more emotion than Slipknot can ever carry. The sounds Jeromes Dream, Pageninetynine, Swing Kids, etc. alone annihilate Bring Me the Horizon. Musical technicality mixed in with atmospheric prowess that generates genuine meaning is what makes me love music more and more.

    The endless originality that music can have, but is never exemplified through morons who think lyrics mean a lot. You don't need lyrics to make it mean a lot. Again, music is doing what lyrics alone can't. That is what makes music.

    This is why some people say I "hate everything". Which I don't, however people's worlds musically are so secluded to the most pathetic of musicians whom even lyrically carry lying garbage that doesn't mean a thing. There's a lot of it, that's the problem. The reason music cannot formulate new genres and new ideas in today's generation is because of this USELESS and MEANINGLESS attatchment to lyrical ideas. Music is not poetry. Music is music, poetry is poetry. Lyrics can be implemented instrumentally (vocals are instruments, y'know), however not one single instrument period, whether guitar or bass or saxophone or whatever, should take priority in the ENTIRE era of music. Music is the diversity of sounds, never the concentration on one particular sound (lol vocals).

    Bring Me the Horizon, literally, made me throw up. I am not lying to you. I listened to simply one album I ran to the bathroom, and my 20 pounds-underweight body threw up for about 5 minutes. It was that awful.

    People are idiots, always looking for something to relate to their life, yet however if you look outside you'll realize that millions of people alone relate your own pathetic teenage situations. You don't need music to relate to your problems, just get friends, and leave music alone to stop being corrupted by pathetic lyrics by artists WHO JUST WANT YOUR MONEY.

    Oh and NIN is AWFUL industrial music. Tool is boring, pretentious and pathetic progressive rock music, Slipknot is Sh!tsnot and Faith No More RIP-OFFs, and Bring Me the Horizon made me vomit...literally.
     
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    ^This post sums up why I listen to music. I don't agree with you musical-taste wise but the reasons behind listening to the music are the same.

    A lot of my favourite albums are purely instrumental tbh. I enjoy music so much more when I just completely ignore the lyrics and listen to the actual song.
     
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    Quick examples that popped in my head first, really. XD I'm excruciatingly diverse, so I'm pretty sure our tastes don't fall too far off from each other. And yes, instrumental albums are godly, especially when they have a sense of atmosphere musically. Love it.
     
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    Listen to music because i enjoy what i'm hearing, i listen to anything that sounds good to me. I hate the new metal ---- because it's unoriginal, boring and done thousands of times by other bands much better. Modern day crap like soulja boy is killing music itself; writing music a 5th grader could write and getting paid millions for it is a disgrace. SO far the only genres i know that are still alive and well are drone, ambient, noise, and neofolk.
     
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    lately while reading to my exams I have been listening to anime serie opening and ending theme songs. even though their on Japanese the sound is relaxing and it keeps me from beeing distracted. easier to be distracted while reading and listening to english songs as you get easily cough up in the text.

    exept from that I listen to music because I enjoy listening. especially while in not doing anything particular like taking the bus, waiting, browsing the web, maging signature etc. makes it much more enjoyable.
     
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    Is Japanese a new kind of drug?
     
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    Yeah man, I got totally ------ed up on Japanese last night and watched A Night at the Roxbury 12 times!
     
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    what did you think when people mentioned rolling a J?
     
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    Sorry. My ignorance has dishonored my name and all those who bear it. Forgive me.
     






  14. @On-topic: I listen to music to amplify the emotions in my current state of mind. Bands like Slipknot fuel my anger and energy, while bands like Secondhand Serenade touch my heart and make me think about love. It's quite amazing the power that music has over myself.
     
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    *vomits*

    Oh and the best Japanese music is beyond the anime crap and diving into the noise/drone/experimental/some metal scene that is abundant throughout. Boredoms, Boris, Merzbow, Acid Mothers Temple, Ruins, Sigh, High Rise, etc. etc.
     

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