Me and Music

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Since I don't know how else to start I figured I'd start posting by talking about one of my very favoritest things: music. I'm all about the music. The following is how I relate to music.

I have music playing all the time. If I can't listen to music (like at work) then I get antsy. Music soothes me. I don't necessarily have to be actively listening to music, but I'm still following it. If I can't listen to music (like at work) I get antsy.

I love music. I have a 3723 MP3 collection that is categorized, organized, properly tagged, and rated so I can easily find songs. It took a lot of effort and time to do that, but once I started I couldn't stop. Actually, when I started, I had over 10,000 songs, but after I rated all of them I got rid of the ones I didn't like.

I also like to play music loud. I want to feel it. This, of course, has led to some hearing loss, but, as they say, you can't take it with you so I don't really regret it. It drives me batty if music is playing and I can barely hear it.

I use the best audio equipment I can afford. For instance, I don't use regular computer speakers that plug into my soundcard. I have an audiophile grade soundcard that sends the signal to a class-T digital amplifier and then off to two sweet sounding JBL S38II three-way bookshelf speakers and a subwoofer that can go down to 25Hz, which isn't stellar, but it's a lot lower than the JBLs can go on their own. If I could, I'd have awesome speakers in every room of my house. Audio equipment is one of my special interests, but I had to tear myself away from it because it's just too expensive to be obsessed about.

I use music to ground myself to my childhood. While I listen to all sorts of music from varying eras, the songs and bands I listened to when I was a kid (8th and 9th grade), and the songs that were on the radio, are still my favorites. I do this because I was happy then and "belonged" to my social group. I haven't been happy or felt I belonged since then so the music helps to recapture that a bit.

Lastly, I taught myself to play guitar, not for the chicks or hopes of making it big, but because I love the sound. While my friends were busy trying to emulate Eddie Van Halen, I was concentrating on the tight, driving rhythm playing of Malcolm Young. To this day I can barely play a solo at all, but I'm pretty damn good at rhythm playing.

Anyone else freaky with music?

Different. I have had constant or near constant music periods, though currently less so. I use it to burrow into [analyze, see patterns, compare, analyze] AND to deal with emotiuons that I cannot express - let the myusic do it and I will watch, it isn't me, its the music. But it should not normally be loud - in fact, often nobody else should be able to hear, lest I be revealed.

You sound very similar to me. I had a collection of over 25000 tracks until the HD they resided on self-destructed. I cannot begin to explain how distraught I was.

More recently I had to give up my PC and audio equipment as I was unable to transport them when I moved house. £250 worth of sound card, many times more than that in speakers and amp. I still feel a major sense of loss whenever I think about it.

The substandard equipment I am using now fails to create sound of a quality I find acceptable. I doubt I will be content until I replace what I had to give up with something equal - or preferably better.

Like yourself, I find music to be a calming, soothing influence on me. Although I have learned to respect that other people don't like it played at the same volume levels as I do, I play it as loud as I can whenever I am able to.

I'm also a self-taught guitarist and have little interest in playing lead guitar, though I have picked up a few licks.

I've never really considered myself 'freaky' with music, but I have been lucky enough to know other people who view music as an integral part of their lives just as I do. Perhaps one of the best aspects of music for me as an aspie is the fact that so many NTs share my obsession for it, if perhaps in different or less extreme ways.

I have to have my music playing, at all times. There are some days that I stay home from my clubhouse, just so that I can listen to my music, all day. I have 100 LPs and 150 CDs. Music is my life. I've also taught myself to play the drums.

If I didn't have music, to be honest, I don't know. It's pretty much the only thing that keeps me sane.

I've taught myself how to play electric/acoustic guitar, bass guitar, keyboard/piano/synthesizer, violin, drums, and soon more as time goes on. Soon a tenor saxophone, and other instruments.

I over-analyze music... composition, audio waveform, lyrics, originality, expression, artistic intent, etc...

I listen to all types of music beyond that, though. All types of rock, Jazz, Classical, Electronic, Video Game Soundtrack, Blues, Latin, Ambient, Acoustic, Metal... you name it.

I began a CD collection about two years ago. I'm not completely sure of the amount, but it's around 90-100 right now. 10-20 of those I took from my parents. Not exactly theft, just they were comfortable with having the files on computer, and I like the full-quality physical copies, so... we agreed on that. I'm ordering five more CD's tomorrow.

I don't like it when music's not playing. It's why:

1.) I don't watch TV. For every minute the TV's on, that's a minute music's not playing!
2.) I still play video games but now mostly for the soundtracks.
3.) I have issues reading because I don't like having no music, but having music makes it harder for me to focus on reading.

So... yeah. I could go on forever. xD

30,000 + with some culling left to be done. Organized primarily by Year of Release, then Month of Peak Chart Activity on the Billboard Top 40 (Hot 100 if the song got scant radio play but was culturally significant for other reasons) - tagged with Highest Chart Position and title of Album on which they first appeared. Includes all songs to reach #1 on Billboard's Country charts.

Also includes non-charting tracks played on Album Rock (or Alternative) stations, now considered 'Classic Rock', assembled from over 30 years' experience as a Radio Disc Jockey and avid record collector (many digitally remastered from original vinyl, as they've been out-of-print for two decades or more). Each song personally checked for any digital glitches and digitally repaired if needed, and equalized for consistent volume levels.

That organization covers the entire 20th century and runs through 2003, only because that's the last year I have accurate chart data for. Pre-Billboard Top 40 chart (before 1954), still organized by month and year back to 1947, years before that are lumped into a single category as Jazz Age, although it of course also contains country and blues songs from the period as well. The earliest file I have is a recording of an old player piano roll actually made by the keyboarding of Scott Joplin himself in 1900.

I haven't figured out how I'm going to organize post 03 material yet, at the moment I'm still methodically hunting down album cover art for music released during the 60s. I've worked on this musical history project (I call it 'A Century of Noise') for so long, I don't know what I'm going to do with my life once its all finished.

Last edited by Willard on 17 Aug 2010, 3:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.

There will always be more music

I like organising my MP3 files, but a lot of the time listening to them is a mixture of annoying, emotionally confusing and overwhelming - which wasn't always the case. I think I have become worse with it over time. I certainly can't cope with having music on and trying to cook simultaneously any more - I end up in tears.

I'm very anal about my music. I have to have all my tags a certain way. I have over 30,000 songs on my computer cuz I can't stop collecting them. If I like only one or two songs on an album I still need the whole album because the whole cannot be taken apart. At my parents' house I have over 800 CDs which I bought in the past.

I don't need music on 24-7, but I DO need it if I leave the house and commute somewhere. Or go shopping. I always use in-ear headphones.

i never cared for the soundquality of the lions' share of MP3s, compared with the uncompressed sound of my physical music collection which fills a room. i have collected music since the late 60s and would not willingly part with any of it.

I absolutely love music. Through the years, I have purchased countless numbers of LPs, cassettes, CD, and now mostly downloads.

I have also taught myself to play the guitar and keyboards and I also learned the art of audio recording and engineering. I have become a recording guru, including building computers specifically for the purpose of audio recording. Now, however, I concentrate on making and listening to music.

I've had my music playing for three hours. It's 6:30AM, where I am. It's a good thing I have headphones.

I would hate to be your roommate.

I love music, but I like listening to my collection with good quality and in silence. I like calming classical music as I draw, or listening to music with inner headphones whilst commuting. I also love soundtracks and music accompanying film.
It really opens up the ability to think, and feel emotions. I need music to have passionate feelings, it almost seems.
Ear-splittingly loud music is no good though, and it rarely makes me want to dance.