Does music soothe your loneliness?

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Thanks for asking.

I used to play Bach's Anna Magdalena notebook for the piano. That was the best: expressing what I felt for each note.

I like mostly anthing of BB King's, Stevie Ray Vaughn's, and Count Basie's. I like Eminem's Lose Yourself, Verdi's arias, Ridi Pagliacci and Si Puo from Il Pagliacci, Some gospel (the old style classics, not rhythm and blues). I like some country, like Garth Brook's The Dance and I've Got Friends in Low Places (I think that would have been a great song for Henry V to have sung about Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry V). I like the Mavericks, almost the whole album with Oh What a Cryin Shame on it. I'm a dancer, so I like swing music that really swings. I like Frank Sinatra and Count Basie's Fly Me to the Moon. I like Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. I like some hip hop, but don't know it much, but some of it is great to dance to. Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Charlie Parker. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.....

I would like to know more alternative music. I think I would like a lot of that. I catch some sometimes on the radio that is really promising.

How about you, Preludeman, what do you like? Is that Prelude as in music, or prelude to what?

I find that a wide variety of music sooths my loneliness. I find that the more punkish it is, the more it helps.

yeah but other times it goes the other way and makes me feel worse

Music is one of my obsessions also. I love to get stuck into the twisting patterns of Bach's cello pieces on my electric bass.

But when it comes to getting stuck inside of beautiful, symmetrical, twisting patterns of repetitive music, there's none better to listen to than Philip Glass. I'd highly recommend his Metamorphisis I-V.

I too connect emotionally with music and often find myself laughing/crying along with instrumental pieces.

Radiohead, Lali Puna, Notwist, Spiritualized, etc. etc.

I really like Autumn Leaves by Miles Davis. By the way how do I post a YouTube video on here?

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Me too.

I use to listen to Leonard Cohen when I was depressed, till my sister said "oh, Music to slit your wrists by", I haven't listened to him since, If I am mad or agitated I listen to something fast, death metal, or if I am in a weird mood, I listen to Mr Bungle or Secret Chiefs, some classical music tends to put me to sleep or depresses me. I do love some jazz, I have Wes Montgomery's Straight, no chaser which is fun to listen to

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Music does seem to help. What other music do you like Wonder Woman?


Thanks for asking.

I used to play Bach's Anna Magdalena notebook for the piano. That was the best: expressing what I felt for each note.

I like mostly anthing of BB King's, Stevie Ray Vaughn's, and Count Basie's. I like Eminem's Lose Yourself, Verdi's arias, Ridi Pagliacci and Si Puo from Il Pagliacci, Some gospel (the old style classics, not rhythm and blues). I like some country, like Garth Brook's The Dance and I've Got Friends in Low Places (I think that would have been a great song for Henry V to have sung about Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry V). I like the Mavericks, almost the whole album with Oh What a Cryin Shame on it. I'm a dancer, so I like swing music that really swings. I like Frank Sinatra and Count Basie's Fly Me to the Moon. I like Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. I like some hip hop, but don't know it much, but some of it is great to dance to. Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Charlie Parker. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.....

I would like to know more alternative music. I think I would like a lot of that. I catch some sometimes on the radio that is really promising.

How about you, Preludeman, what do you like? Is that Prelude as in music, or prelude to what?
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Well Wonder Woman my user name comes from the fact I owned a Honda Prelude.
I think we have the same taste in music. I read where you liked Miles Davis , and I have his Spanish album and Greatest Hits. I also like Blues, Rock,and Opera. I have Caruso on CD, and I like Big Band. I happen to be a music fan.

Sounds like we do. I like classic rock some times. It's the music I grew up with. I was Jimmy Hendrix live, The Who, Cream (Eric Clapton, of course), Muddy Waters (well, that's blues), Janis Joplin. Jimmy Hendrix is the best. Mozart would have liked him. I Led Zeppelin.

You might like the bartone Ettore Bastianini, you can search a video of Il Travatore's Il balen del suo sorriso.

I really enjoy going from "high class" stuff to "low class." They are so much the same.

I have a friend who got a Honda, because he believes that chics dig Hondas. A paid-for Honda kept clean would impress me.

Thank you I will try to look for him. I do not understand opera I just like it.

Sometimes music soothes my loneliness, sometimes it doesn't.

So true.

A great deal. Certain music and songs can be very beautiful and uplifting.

I enjoy a genre of music that is not very popular at all and I rarely find other people who like it. It's called uplifting trance music and it's an electronic music genre, which a lot of people immediately regard as crap or "not real music". But it always seems to lift my spirits and make me feel better

It does that sometimes, other times it helps my deal with frustration. But when I was young with little social life, pre internet plenty of time to listen to music. Now with you tube I can see those groups I only heard

I always have to have music on, can't stand silence.