do you listen to loads and loads and loads and loads of music and just every now and again just by chance it hits you and you hear something that makes you realise why you listen to loads and loads o

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or is it all good?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

try listening to THE TALK TALKS

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

for me it's all sheer transcendant beauty all the time.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Yes

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

ESTEBAN on the money.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

good oh nick not for me though. interesting yes. worthy yes. not criticising you or butthead no not for liking it lovong it no.

but no. not for me.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

nice.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

I think a day where I don't get at least a little of that transcendent moment is a day wasted.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

yr lucky

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Those transcendent moments SEEM like they are few and far between, but it helps to talk to lots of other music listeners to expand your chances of finding them. ILM is good for that, when people aren't being cocksmokers.
I'd say I hear one a week, if I'm lucky. I'd be wise to spend more time with the tried and true transcendent moments that i've cataloged in my transcendent music rolodex, but I'm a sucker for searching out new ones.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that happened to me today when listening to that part in The Glow pt 2 by the Microphones with the organs and "my heeeeeeart beats loudly"...

love them moments

― pppp, Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

One of the bleakest moments in a music fan's day to day life is when those magical transcendent moments are no longer transcendent. You listen to the same 10 second clip of a song over and over again, looking for that little thing in the singer's voice, that change in pitch or whatever it was that made it so amazing, but you just can't find it anymore. You probably end up going to Stylus or the used CD store, or maybe even eBay, looking for the next fix and despairing over your loss of innocence. It's like cumming inside a girl and suddenly realizing that you're no longer in love.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 24 November 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

No, and I'm beginning to wonder why I bother.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 24 November 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

There are loads of records that make me feel bigger, or happier than I am. As for transcendent beauty, that seems to come when you haven't engineered it. It can be found in a record, but it comes from the connection between the record and the listener.

I can find something that makes me feel good in most of the records I own, but that's not really what you're asking about, I don't think.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 24 November 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, to clarify, I rarely find something so mindblowing as what's described above, but that has nothing to do with the fact that I find music pleasurable and rewarding under most circumstances. Maybe listening to music as much as I do has me a bit more jaded than your average bear (although on ilm I'm probably a below-average bear as far as musical saturation goes) thus making it harder to reach those transcendental listener moments. But the more consistent stream of lower yet still substantial pleasure probably makes up for it.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 24 November 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

i had one of these last night when i was pretty soused. I think magnetic fields "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits" is one of the best songs ever.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 24 November 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

it's all good.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 24 November 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but it's a fuckin' drug. Songs move from infatuation and passion into appreciation and love, but I always want more more more of that infatuation too. Luckily, albums don't care that you cheat on them.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 24 November 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Buying CD's is the only reason I'm not addidcted to smack.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Thursday, 24 November 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

hah!

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Friday, 25 November 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

absolutely. last time that transcendental moment happened was boards of canada's dayvan cowboy. unfortunately that moment of bliss cannot be repeated infinitely. the track has already lost a lot of its initial charm now after i have listened to it 20 times or so. the most difficult part for me is not to listen too often to the music i love as after too many repeats i start hating it. or i don't care anymore.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 25 November 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

and you reach that point where you never listen to stuff you love cos you are afraid it will lose its charm.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 26 November 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

RIP Chris Whitley 1960-2005

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 26 November 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

Looking for transcendance in music is definitely a dangerous game.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 26 November 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

oh, yes. everything that i hear Leonard Cohen's "The Faith"

― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 26 November 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

i worry that cos these sublime moments seem so personal that i can't seem to get many even when (especially when???) things are recommended. its almost like things have to sneak up. if someone else recommends stuff and i am waiting waiting waiting for the moment...it rarely comes.

sometimes returning after a year or so to stuff people have sent me and i've forgotten why...it happens

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 26 November 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

go back to prefab sprout's steve mcqueen...leave it a year....go back to it.....leave it four.....go back to it.....listen again....repeat for two decades...I really dont think it gets any better.

― Duncan Prime, Sunday, 27 November 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

SUDDENLY, the idea of sex has become faintly repulsive...

Anyway, this thread needs reviving. It's FAR more interesting than that punk masturbation thread, which seems to have swallowed ILM up into its vast, inescapable maw (it started out as a DOM TROLL THREAD FFS).

I listen to music in the hope that the headfuck, the sheer transcendent beauty, will be present throughout. It's obviously an unfulfilled hope, but it's a hope I hold nonetheless. One day someone's gonna make it happen.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and the gateway to finding this thread was an ilx search for 'dayvan cowboy', the video for which I have obsessively watched and re-watched about 80 times in the past week. definitely some transcendental beauty being dropped (literally - ha!) there.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

SUDDENLY, the idea of sex has become faintly repulsive...
Anyway, this thread needs reviving. It's FAR more interesting than that punk masturbation thread, which seems to have swallowed ILM up into its vast, inescapable maw (it started out as a DOM TROLL THREAD FFS).

~~I listen to music in the hope that the headfuck, the sheer transcendent beauty, will be present throughout.~~ It's obviously an unfulfilled hope, but it's a hope I hold nonetheless. One day someone's gonna make it happen.

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

;-)

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

In answer to the original question: no. I don't listen to so much music just for some rare occurrence. I think I hit transcendent moments pretty frequently in my listening too. (Maybe my standards are just low.)

On the other hand I was just enjoying silence more over the weeked--but I welcome that development. I'd be happy to listen to music less.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

i think i know what music hits me in that manner so generally know where to look. i'm pretty sure, for example, i'm likely to get it out of weird folk or brazilian or techno and not the fallout boy album.

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed, although myself as a comparative newcomer to the wonderful world of modern music I'm still finding it possible to be completely blindsided by something I'd either dismissed in my immaturity or never even heard of. Appreciate the edit-job as well...

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Going back to something you dismissed years ago only to have it make your heart burst is really to be recommended.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

i find that hearing something out of context works rather well. i think it happened to me after being bored with '13' by blur and then a year later hearing 'coffee and tv' in a store and wondering what it was. i still get bored with '13' but that song is a keeper.

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Queue Louis.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Patrick Wolf is giving me lots of headfucks lately. And Acoustic Ladyland.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

i still get bored with '13'

;_;

xxpost: touche, Nick!

Is the second AL better than the first? I DO like Last Chance Disco.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Last Chance Disco is their second. The current is their third. Their first is straight-jazz, and very good too (interpretations vaqmping off hendrix tunes, not that you'd know). The current one knocks LCD into a cocked hat.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

hooray! I'll tell me dad; he's the one who introduced 'em to me...

My greatest 'This is shit' then 5 years on 'HANG ON A SEC' was probably Steve Harley's greatest hits. either that or GY!BE.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

The first Acoustic Ladyland is hard to find, but can be got for £8 delivered straight from the Babel Label website, with Paypal.

They oughtta pay me.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

omg Nick your review of the new AL! I WANT THIS ALBUM! NOW!

you had better be OTM... :P

and stop braking hart! the bizarre, cringing excesses of their second album, Six ;_;

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahahahaha!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

'This is shit' then 5 years on 'HANG ON A SEC'

lol this is the perfect way of describing this.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

gear OTM

― Bodyrox feat. Luciano Pavarotti (fandango), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

looking for the next fix and despairing over your loss of innocence. It's like cumming inside a girl and suddenly realizing that you're no longer in love.

Perhaps this is why they stopped doing analogies on the SAT?

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

kind of underrated, and something i've been thinking about a bunch lately: liking something pretty well for a long time; never doubting your appreciation; never having a gutbustingly transcendent moment with it; realizing that that's an experience of love.

― mike powell (mike powell), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

otm, I had this with Soft Machine's Moon In June in the car once. MUSIC SQUEE

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I think this happens to everyone who loves music and listens to a lot of it, especially after a certain point in life. I was listening to "Another Girl, Another Planet" the other day while walking home and almost couldn't stand the pain of greatness. Hadn't heard it in a while. "Coffee and TV" has the same effect.

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Mike Powell is a big softy.

Also both me and Emma (my better half) agree that Coffee & TV is k-rub.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

are all Blur fans such Nazi's?

― Bodyrox feat. Luciano Pavarotti (fandango), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

I get "personal headfuck moments of sheer squee transcendence" or whatevs when I'm on a bunch of pills and dancing around to the doof-doof. Other than that I just listen to music that I like and I enjoy it. I'm a simple man.

― jimn (jimnaseum), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Also, that Mickey comment is over a year old. Anyone want to take a guess at it's halflife?

Still funny in 5 years I'll wager.

― jimn (jimnaseum), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

lol sorry... I guess you have to hate it, it being the default Blur song almost everyone on the planet agrees is actually listenable ;-)

― Bodyrox feat. Luciano Pavarotti (fandango), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

it's halflife?
Sorry grammar godz.

― jimn (jimnaseum), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

not Blur again, please no... :-(

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Mike Powell is a big softy.

sure. anyway, i have moments of heartshredding transcendence all the time and wouldn't trade them for anything, but i also think there's value in recognizing the music that sorta quietly hangs at your side for years on end. either that, or music that doesn't necessarily prompt such gushing, i.e. i react very differently to kate bush than i do the coasters, but it doesn't feel quite right to value one of those experiences over the other (i probably listen to the coasters more, in the end).

― mike powell (mike powell), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - my feelings exactly Louis ;-)

― Bodyrox feat. Luciano Pavarotti (fandango), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

that GY!BE thread was a real lowlight of our sandbox sojourn...

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

gah, yeah, that was lame. retrospect, etc.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

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