There are 6 reasons for listening to music.

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Please list and discuss.

― dleone (dleone), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

6. You can have sex to it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Number 1 ILM reason to listen to music: so you can pretend to like it in front of other people.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

re-assurance that you're not alone in feeling what you feel

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

That's why *not* to listen, hstencil.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

no, that's what a lot of people here claim motivates other people, so right or wrong it has to be on the list of why to listen to music, right?

― hstencil, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

My original post was a cop out, because when I was in college, I specifically remember reading about this. Unfortunately, I can't remember what the reasons were (one was for entertainment, and I believe another was to promote the values of society -- perhaps one was to protest?) - or who wrote them (could have been any number of music theorists we studied). Anyway, please carry on.

― dleone (dleone), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

it's fun?

― phil jones (interstar), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

To pretend no one else can hear you or so you can pretend you don't hear any other couples?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Because I'm addicted to it, to an extent that without music playing at all times, my life becomes a void entirely empty of emotion or action altogether?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris' #6 is the best answer to any question evah.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

5. Because it sounds nice.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

..you're no longer one of them.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

2. because as far as addictions go, records are better for your health than heroin.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

re-assurance that there's 'something else' out there

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Imagination.

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

For "crit cred".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

6. To drown out the voices. The terrible whispering voices.

― jot eff pe, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

4. Well what else was I going to be doing with my ears?Wiggling them?

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Sex, drugs & rock'n'roll are three of them, right?

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

To support the poor struggling members of the RIAA?

― El Jefe (js williams), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

reason has little to do with it

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

this question reminds me of:

"There are twelve people in the world
The rest are paste"

― gygax!, Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

1. It makes you smarter
2. It calms the beasties
3. It improves the effects of many popular drugs
4. It makes it possible to exercise and/or drive long distances, without going insane
5. It -WHAT? HUH? CAN'T HEAR YOU, MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS SORRY
6. It distracts you from old depressing shit

― Tom Millar (Millar), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Multiplex/Encapsulated Understanding-Metaphor
Sometimes it can mean something.....or many things at once.

2. Emotion-Metaphor
It sounds like something you can't quite say....or have never even thought of trying to.

3a. Sub-Cultural Identification System
Am I the kind of person who likes this sort of thing? (And why?)

3b. Cultural Barometer
Who are the people who make/like this sort of thing? (And why?)

4. Perceptual Information Processing
Patterning brain rewarded by structural sugarlumps - sequential geometries of sound => neurotransmitter spark-gaps....

5a. Compression/Rarefaction/Compression/Rarefaction
Back To Biology - Primitive & Ritualistic - Kinetic Energy Transfer

5b. Sonic Boom Boom
Biological Clock warped in strong Gravity Field

6. Intellectual Exercise
And what makes it all tick?

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 9 January 2003 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

1. To pass the time
2. To feel less lonely
3. To take your mind off your troubles
4. To hear that one amazing part again
5. Because you can't get it out of your head anyway
6. To write about it

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 9 January 2003 03:50 (twenty-three years ago)

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