WHY MUSIC LIFTS one UP ?

Hearing is just the ability of our ears to discern sound vibrations touching our body (ear drums). That's important when you start to consider music. Music literally touches our bodies, so listening to music isn't just an intellectual process. Music literally makes you feel good, because music vibrations are bouncing off your body as you listen.

That's why the sounds of music are so much more important to me than musical lyrics. To me, it's the sound that makes music so different than most other forms of art. If I want a good story, I can read a book. If I want to hear words put in a pleasing fashion, I can read poetry out loud. So it's the sound of music that sets it apart, and it's the sensual soundwaves associated with music (and not the intellectual connection we have to the lyrics) which is going to improve our mood.

I'm making a generalization, of course. I have a good friend who loves the stories that songs tells. You give him a musician with a six-string and a few funny lyrics and he's instantly in a better mood. That's every bit as legitimate of a reason for listening to music. It's just not how music affects me.

The point being, music has different effects on people. I'm arguing, though, that if you want music to put you in a good mood quickly, you're probably better off finding the most pleasing sounds and most interesting patterns of sounds, and the above genres of music are what I personally have found to be the best music.

Any music suggestions?

Yes, music should work without words!
Music is in fact one of the most "redundant" thing on earth, but so uplifting... It refers to deep order in nature.
Check my flag :)

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flag checked = very nice .)

I read that singing opens your heart chakra...

Music always puts me in a better mood.

Music is subjective, what inspires each one of us is different.





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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats - Albert Schweitzer.

YES!

i would add DOGs
is that ok ?

Yeah, I'd include puppehs too.

Here's my happy song:



Or anything by Louis Jordan.

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Build me up buttercup.



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Last Edited by D. Bunker on 05/17/2010 08:05 AM

and then... i hear a tune taking my whole being away for a while.. (sometimes i must wait for the sync with my vibration) but the result is always the same

those are seconds an i am again full of energy and determination

:jggdrde:

So true!

I love it because it happens so..
without effort,
takes over my mind and emotions so gently and completely
for that small while
although sometimes the song stays and becomes the only sound my mind makes for days
:)

YES!
it is almost magic

Clint Mansell
John Murphy
Michael Nyman
Michael Kamen

definitely try Leftfield !
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this will melt you very quickly

listen, even if you are victorious
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Almost magic, for sure :)

Leftfield does it for me, too
although I haven't listened to them for years
(can't get your music Funney, from your link)

U2 most definitely, stronger and stronger in these days,
this one has stayed in my psyche for weeks:

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I can look at a beautifull painting, read a lovely poem, marvel at exqusite architecture, but none of those will ever make me want to tap my foot.

U2 are a must ! :D
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Music Changes Perception, Research Shows
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+not many of us are really "open"
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just wait

yeah, that's why I LOVE creating it. My 3D space-time self melts into the cosmos and I'm in a timeless state of bliss.

you are living so close to it..

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Funny thing happens at work when I put on my headphones with spiritual music to drowned out the chaos...

A constant stream of my archon-possessed "colleagues" come by to interrupt and get me to take off my headphones.

Apparently there's something about the brainwaves that result from listening to uplifting music that pisses off whatever is controlling this matrix.

you know my friend!
perhaps the "structure" is made of sound
on frequencies we can accumulate (address inside of us)
but cant hear them with our outside senses

Yess true. But there is a lot of music today that makes me feel realy bad.
These days i prefere old music, clasical or old jazz from the 20s country from the god ol days.Ive worked as a dj for over 20 years and have a couple of tousen records and 9 different formats of music (cd's vinyl dat minidisc and so on)
Teckno was once new and fresh now it infesting almost all musicforms
There is getting fewer and fewer people that can realy play a instrument.
Listen to: Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe - Munch if you want to reach higher levels, its music who actualy will raise your vibrations instead of making you more stupid as most modern music will do.

yep my friend from sweden
i had also my nostalgic return to old ones