Music That's Bad For You?

You've been reading too many posts on that Christian site Tom!

shit, all of it...

After years of putting up with people moaning about my taste for what they saw as 'depressing' records (this even includes Belle & Sebastian), I finally found evidence of a direct causal link between a piece of music and a downturn in mood.

One night I was all set to go out when I thought I'd give my newly purchased Arab Strap album ('Philophobia') a listen before I left. An hour later and I was ringing my friends to stay I was staying in.

Also, 'The Slim Shady LP' makes me want to rape minors.

Was I unhappy because I didn't listen to pop music, or did I not listen to pop music because I was unhappy? In any case, getting the fuck over The Palace Brothers was probably one of the best things I've done for myself. Ever.

DMX makes me violent, B&S make me melancholic and determined to retreat into myself. Two incredibly obvious responses, I fear, but they work with me.

Green Day's "Dookie," which is the perfect summation of that Lookout! East Bay punk rock that was the soundtrack to much of my misspent youth (well, not really misspent -- I liked to *think* I was a rebel). And especially "When I Come Around," which reminds me of a girl. The album is liable to make me first intensely nostalgic, and then incredibly bitter, for no good reason.

Every time I listen to Bob Marley's later albums, I want to quit my job and just "chill out". Not necessarily go smoke pot, just umm.... "wake up and live, y'all". Not all reggae gives me that feeling, not even all Bob. Just certain albums. As soon as I hear the drum intro to "Coming in From the Cold", I might as well be off work the rest of the day!

13 years ago I bought The Guo Brothers and Shung Yian -'Yuan' - when the voice crept in halfway through I started to cry. To this day I don't know why which is a little scary.

Any decent record with 'Jump' in the title ... yep,you guessed it.

Odd you should mention Green Day, whenever I hear them it makes me want to go out and track every last fan down, beat them black and blue and shout obscene things about their mother in their face. Funny that.

There are Certain Bands that make me post incessantly about them online...

all punk 7"'s i have do nothing to effect me but put me at work and i'll start hitting walls when NSYNC and the horrible uncle kracker come on the musak station i am forced to listen to. *(hey, the side of the radio stations van actually said Musak...i thought that was slang for elevator music)

"I am very intimate with music I am so ashamed

My parents even gave me a dual cassette stereo system for memorizing Matthew 5-7.

"The music we used was rock music, of course!

After a while my body was so in tune with the music that it controlled me.

However, many of the tapes I ignorantly played caused sensual problems for me.

I feel Satan's control start to tighten.

This week I realized that I would have to give up 'contemporary- Christian music' if I was going to have victory over the giant of lust!"

It was only after confessing what I was doing to God and to my parents and thencutting off all rock music that I lost the desire to kill myself.

No.

the birthday party's live album makes me want to quit school, do heroin, and live in a junkyard.

Devo. Because I usually end up going around singing "I've got an uncontrollable urge".

sundar i agree. i havent got the live birthday partee, but ...ohhhh yeess..mutiny/the bad sad ep and junkyard of course haha, they send me into spasms. if i had been 20 in 1981 and not 2001..."fuckin wings burst out my bak!!!"...... but now that the skinnyasdeath-in-black-boots-and- burningwith-holyterror thing has been pretty much mapped out (ishenowfrozenwithholyterror?)it doesn't attract so much.

i wonder if christian rock kids like the new nick cave? hmmmm................... another "3 steps to winning a soul for satan" is in order i think: step 1. obtain malleable christian rock fan. step 2. place said fan in front of stereo. step 3. play Nick Cave's ouvre in its entirety, in reverse chronological order, on said stereo is there any difference between a christian and an inverted christian? they respond in unison: yes, one of us is going to hell

and plus my life is way cooler than cave's ever was: you can still have apocalyptic swagger of a stray dog walkin the railroad at dawn, without the heroin and without the misoginy and without Old Testament doom stuff. ok but at least a cigarette. you need a cigarette. and fuckin' tight as fuck pants. tight pants are key.

but i wanted wings.... :<

err..a correction: between 'stereo' and 'is' in the second paragraph, there should be a break (a long one. go get yourself soda pop maybe)

No no no! Not in 'reverse chronological order', in reverse! They'd love that.

Yeah, Nick Cave makes me get in fights with my boyfriend. Like "turn that shit off, and put on the *real* Leonard Cohen.

Heh. No, really. I can't think of music I like that *doesn't* affect me in some way, negative or positive. If it didn't affect me, why would I listen to it?