What Makes You Love Music?

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APART FROM the actual music!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 September 2002 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

apathy.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 16 September 2002 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Cute boys.

Especially cute drummers.

Especially cute drummer boys with floppy hair french kissing other boys with floppy hair.

Good haircuts and good shoes. This is all that is really important in life.

― kate, Monday, 16 September 2002 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

kate, please don't be offended if i quote you in the "what makes you hate music" thread.

(cute boys/girls, however, are urgent & key in general, yes.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 16 September 2002 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Transcendence.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 September 2002 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

The feeling that my life has changed for the better leaving a show sweaty, smelling like smoke, probably tipsy and tired.
Watching someone who has at least a passing knowledge of their tool and still pulling some life out of it that even they didn't know existed.
The wonderful world it can create in my mind.
And also the the healing that can come from the saddest of sad songs to the burning spirit of punk.

(fuck, he did it again. What Ned said.)

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 16 September 2002 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

everything that I love abt life.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 16 September 2002 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheap communion.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 16 September 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Violence. Hate.

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Monday, 16 September 2002 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

fuck, he did it again

La Brit will likely start singing it that way soon enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 September 2002 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

likable losers.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 16 September 2002 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

When it doesn't get airplay on radio, MTV or a mention in Rolling Stone, Spin, etc..

When I find it on my own.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 September 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Overheard conversations about it.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 September 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

It provides a place to focus energy re what I like & dislike about the world.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 16 September 2002 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

A wilfull disregard for popular convention. A healthy dollop of cynicism. A robust disdain for "the industry."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 September 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

lyrics like:

"Drive by body piercing!"

"Her hands became her feet,
her belly button was her mouth,
which meant she tasted what she'd speak
But the funny thing is what happened to her nose
It grew until it reached all of her toes
Now when people say her feet smell, they mean her nose"

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 16 September 2002 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

My friends, actually.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 September 2002 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

The reason I like the other things I obsess over: It makes me understand myself/others. Music is a relationship.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 16 September 2002 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't do better than Ned... music is not a way to escape banality but to transcend it. (funny that a genuinely good film can merely be escapist rather than transcendent, though)

― Aaron A., Monday, 16 September 2002 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Post-gig euphoria. Having lengthy conversations with people at gigs who I'll never meet again. The feeling you get when the DJ trails your favourite band's new single.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 16 September 2002 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi-NRG mixes with techno-diva-vocals laid in.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 16 September 2002 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't relate to 90% of the people in this world, music helps.

― Juan Marquez, Monday, 16 September 2002 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The fact that I don't really get it.

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 16 September 2002 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

The myth. The mystique. The legend(s) surrounding artists, records, production, concerts, connections, whatever. Wardrobes. Riots. Interviews. Whether true or false, bogus or earnest, I dont care. I dont care about the truth. I want beautiful stories. Primal Scream on a US tour. Bowie and Eno in the studio. Nikki Sudden's black velvet jacket. The way "This Must be the Place (Naive Melody)" kicks off at the end of "Wall Street". Nick Cave talking about John Lee Hooker. The Rolling Stones' logo.

― Simon, Monday, 16 September 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

it's purity and the way it makes my bones vibrate.

― angelo (angelo), Monday, 16 September 2002 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Sympathetic resonance.

― Ray M (rdmanston), Monday, 16 September 2002 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

It can be both relaxing and stimulating, thus it is the perfect recreational activity. The creation of music never stops, so you can never get too bored with it. It's an endless source of fascinating debate, too.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 16 September 2002 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone I've ever met.

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 16 September 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

My answer was going to be the same as Mark S (nearly verbatim), but then I realized that I DO understand it, at least a lot more than several other forms of art that I enjoy less. So I guess, really, it's just my connection to The World of Art (Expression & Beyond--HUZZAH!), how I express myself, etc. But what do I love ABOUT music? Not understanding it!

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Monday, 16 September 2002 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll go even further.The eternal persuit of trying to understand music. Thinking I finally do understand music then hearing soemthing that blows my mind and shows that I will never really understand "it"

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 16 September 2002 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

when you want to get home so that you can listen to that album again and again. the anticipation of a new release. playing it loud with the windows rolled down.

― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 02:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I stand by my answer coz even though it is music itself, hearing it makes me love ALL music!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

The colors.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 04:16 (twenty-three years ago)

pot.

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 08:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Memories - past and future, which is why I keep listening to new things, to capture moments.

― Rob M, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Mythology. Magic. Madness. Love. Forgetfulness. Nostalgia. I am alive.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The alternative.

― the pinefox (the pinefox), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 10:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Like Rob, associations/memories. It's funny quite how many of these involve listening to the radio on school coach trips...

― Jez, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The alternative to being alive, PF?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to have a fairly clear notion of how to answer this question. I don't know any more. I've lost direction.

― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

The alternative to music.

― the pinefox (the pinefox), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

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