Music with AS

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I know what you mean about the driving bass beats. I have a shifted hearing spectrum, the first my audiologist had ever heard about, let alone seen. I don't hear low pitches, but I can hear high pitches that humans aren't supposed to be able to hear. When the bass hits me, I can't hear it, but it echos in my chest and I can't handle it. I can't breath!

I'm a folkie... I only listen to rock and roll from the protest years of the sixties and seventies and folk music. Only soft, lyrical stuff. (I will listen to certain songs by Evanescense and Rammstein.... the softer, more melodic stuff.)

The only exception to that rule is Revolution #9, by the Beatles, which isn't lyrical or anything. It's a soundscape and I find that it induces the only pleasant sensory overload I've ever had. It helps when I'm close to an overload to induce one and then feel sleepy as opposed to angry and irritable. Revolution #9 does this for me.

I've probable heard it too, I just can't think of it now. Anyways, one song that I can crank up and find myself getting totaly immersed in, or as you described it, a "pleasent sensory overload" is Pink Floyds "Us and Them".

had to butt in as music is my no.1 obsession... cue impassioned defence of rock music...

most of the music I like is guitar/bass dominated and rhythm driven. I love stuff full of feedback and white noise cos you can lose yourself in it, and many bands create soundscapes and textures which may not be apparent on first listen - the classic example being My Bloody Valentine's 1991 album 'Loveless', which never sounds quite the same twice (I highly recommend this album to anyone and everyone). By contrast, many post-punk bands such as Joy Division and The Cure circa 1980-82 make great atmospheric use of simple arrangements and a sparse echoing production style.

More textured, melodic rock such as Tool, Cocteau Twins or A Perfect Circle may also strike more of a chord with you (pardon the pun).

I must also agree with comments that heavy, angry rock music can be a great stress reliever after a bad day (Nirvana, Jack Off Jill, Amen or Dead Kennedys work a treat for me...)

In contrast I detest most chart music as vacuous sh*te and have been known to display violent disapproval when forced to endure it...

I'll shut up now, but I think you don't know what you are missing until you try it, I can't function without it.

dunc

I remember when I first heard the Pixies, I didn't like them when I first heard them either. For some reason I kept thinking of their music, and after listening again I started to like it.

The genius to the Pixies is that there is a very complex underlining structure to their music, but you have to listen more than once to get it. That is probably why it took them so long to be appreciated. I do not care for them live however.

I particularily like Dream-Pop (Slow Dive and Skywave) and Low fi- (Sebadoh. Belle and Sebastion)

I just love driving dance/pop beats like Beyonce and Britney, it simply puts me in a trance, especially when combined with video games or hypnotic music videos. Spice Girls- "Spice World" is especially good for this, as well as any of the later Nsync stuff. It's quite an indescribable feeling, it's as if I'm wrapped in the music, and it feels like I'm in a 'futuristic' or 'cybernetic' perfect alternate universe. The synthesizers and smooth production just suck me in the way no other music can.
Spice Girls- 'Spice' just makes me feel like I'm floating in air, dancing in a cloud. It just transports me.

That A.S. Is Indeed A Gift!!

I like music that is complex and tries to be different. Although, half of the music I listen to doesn't match up to that. I'm mostly into rock, but I listen to some rap. I just don't like very much music that isn't serious in some way.

I think, because I go in to music so much, most loses my interest after awhile. That's why when/if I make more music, I plan on making songs that do not repeat that many parts.