What appeals to you about Music?

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i love to think about the beat and invision a 3D pic... weaving the beats together like a weaving basket, but it's a basket w/o a lid or bottom-just a tube kind of... yet it is very pliable, like a "chinese-finger-trap" and it constricts and expands along the length of it... all to the beat of the music. i can easily keep track of 6-10 beats and watch them wrap around each other.

it just writhes with the music... i think of it like those PC screen savers... cept in my head.

i also love meandering beats that i can imagine myself playing the piano to... as i used to take lessons, i guess. it's a real physical tie-in that is soothing to me when i find a beat that suits this purpose.

i like all genres of music except most rap*... and most country*



*for those who like this genre of music... there is SOME that is ok... gimme a break!

I really like electronic music too, especially that which came out back in the 70's when a lot of artists were doing electronic versions of classical music scores.

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I like a great variety of music, from Classical to Classic Rock and Roll of the 1950s and 1960s. I also have some unusual musical tastes. I have a tape of national anthems of various countries, which I used to play when I exercised on a ski machine. I enjoy showtunes as well, especially Andrew Lloyd Weber. Evita and Cats (naturally) are my favorites.

My cat, Samantha, shared my musical tastes. My current cats aren't interested in music at all. I love music because it reminds me of time spent with Samantha.

I don't like 'proper' music, so I have no opinion.

Check these out, they are my favourite Youtube videos. It is Glenn Gould's two handed transcription of Ravel's La Valse. This is definately one of my favourite pieces of music and if you are a Gould fan; it is not the kind of thing he was mostly associated with so you may enjoy the novelty.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-7fbHBvOY
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTgus9CfwKcI just love the so called 'danse macabre' ending 4:45 (onwards in the second video) I must admit then when I watch that I often rewind back to that point at the end to hear that part again. One of the great thing about Gould's transcription is that he doesn't try and play the glissandi at that part (4:45) as he has said that he doesn't believe in using them on piano as they sound too ugly...I agree with him to an extent (although I think that they can sound good in some contexts such as rythym and blues piano etc.)

what appeals to you about music..

EVERYTHING. I wouldn't even know where to begin to explain..

I have always been obsessed with music, musical sound and the poetic waxing of language within music and also the passion and emotion within it. I've always been more obsessed and passionate about music than I've ever been about any person, EVER.

Ditto. Piano is my absolute favorite.

I get into the beat and appreciate a talented musician who can coordinate his talents well. I'm obsessed with all types of music. It's a shame that I never took up an instrument because I've always had the feeling I could play well if I learned.

i love the piano (I love the electric guitar at least as much though).
Tori Amos and Kate Bush are two of my faves!
I also am enchanted by the harpsichord.

Music makes me analyze things a lot!

Everything.. but mostely the drums, the drums is what gives the music its rythum

The lyrics do matter, to me... if it's singing something I can't philosophically jive with, I can't listen to it.

Other than that... the complexity, the emotion behind the music...

Complexity-wise, music like Beethoven, or fusion jazz, or dixieland, when you've got countermelodies playing behind the melody, competing against each other, sometimes half a dozen of them, yet all perfectly blending and harmonizing. Hearing that and seeing all the melody lines in my mind. That's bliss.

And it really rankles me when someone "dumbs down" a song. For instance, they took the Mission Impossible theme, written in 5/4 time... and for the new movie, made it 4/4 (what, couldn't handle that extra beat per measure?), and then added insult to injury by adding rap to it.

And Manilow. I could never get into Barry Manilow's songs. Because they're just... I dunno, grating. He'll set up a musical theme, and you think you'll know where he's going with it and be right there with him... and then he'll do something completely illogical, change key at an odd place or such. (Sorry, all you Manilow-lovers...)

As far as the emotion, for instance, you can tell if someone's just playing the notes, and if they're actually feeling the music as they play it. At least, I can.

i do this too... i how i remember the meaning of a lot of words and across a lot of languages.. cause they have a situational feel/emotion associated with them

Music has always been a very important part of my life. Whenever I move to a new location, the first thing that get unpacked in the HiFi and the records (or CD's and DVD's nowadays!).

I like ballads and classical music. Whenever I feel down or anxious, I just listen to some music. It is better than any medication! My wife sometimes complain that the music I listen to is too dark.

When I listen to music, I like to transform the music to a mental image in my mind.

I can mildly relate to this, although I often like the lyrics - rarely for what they mean but as an individual instrument.

Yes, indeed. I don't really care what lyrics are about but I do like lyrics that sound right. Actually I often prefer more cryptic lyrics, rather than lyrics that are like a narrative, because they just become part of the music.

I agree that you can tell if music has feeling in it, or passion as I call it..

I can only listen to music that has great emotional depth and feeling. I listen to so many different types and sounds, but they all have that in common: passion, depth, meaning

Some music just feels so flat and dead ...