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Algernon:

--- Quote from: Gareth on 03 Apr 2013, 11:05 ---I really, really hate the idea of any music being somehow improved or even only being any good when you're high. I listened to Pink Floyd for years and years as a teetotaller, and them being a 'drugs band' when their musical inspiration (Syd era aside) was nowhere near as drugs related as The Beatles or many other bands' was pissed me off a lot.

The first time I got stoned, I listened to 'Breathe.' I had to know. I just had to. I think it sounded if anything, a little worse to me. Maybe it was the frame of mind.

If your music sucks without drugs or is designed to take drugs to, then your music just sucks.

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I dunno.  I agree that the designation of "music that's better when you're high" is pretty stupid and largely untrue, and if your music sucks without drugs, your music just sucks, but listening to music in an altered state of consciousness can also be fantastic.  Not better, as it's a totally different beast from sober-listening and comparing the two in that way is reductive and pointless, but pleasurable in its own way.

I find that when I listen to music stoned, I can't do anything else—I really focus my entire consciousness on the music and can perceive and distinguish different sounds / layers of the song more easily, but I have a harder time listening to the song as a whole comprised of those parts, if that makes any sense (probably not).  And when I listen to music on acid/shrooms/any kind of psychedelic, it's less about the sound itself than the atmosphere of the music, which completely determines my overall mood and colors my perception of my surroundings.

I'd say in general I prefer listening to music sober than listening to music with a drug in my system.  But I love music, and I like drugs, so of course I'm going to listen to music while on drugs and enjoy myself. *shrug*

Thrillho:
Seems to me like you're agreeing with me, champ.

Algernon:

--- Quote from: Gareth on 04 Apr 2013, 09:59 ---Seems to me like you're agreeing with me, champ.

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Yeah.  Turns out I lack basic reading comprehension skills.  Misinterpreted the first sentence as "I really, really hate the idea of any music being somehow improved or even being any good when you're high" and thought you were arguing that listening to music when you're high sucks.

Go me!

ajbbv.com:
anything Skerik touches is gold in my eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68x0n5iisuM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68x0n5iisuM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiQaI_3H_JM

blanktom:
I am going to post my top listened to songs too! I think there's around 25 here...

Thom Yorke – Atoms for Peace
Interpol – PDA
of Montreal – Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games
The Maccabees – Good Old Bill
Pearl Jam – Last Kiss
65daysofstatic – The Major Cities of the World Are Being Destroyed One by One by the Monsters
The Maccabees – First Love
Tokyo Police Club – Nature Of The Experiment
Explosions in the Sky – To West Texas
TV on the Radio – Province
Wild Beasts – All the Kings Men
The xx – Islands
Sigur Rσs – Von
Sigur Rσs – [Untitled Track]
Coheed and Cambria – Always & Never
Explosions in the Sky – A Slow Dance
Mystery Jets – You Can't Fool Me Dennis
Sigur Rσs – Starαlfur
Hot Chip – So Glad to See You
The Maccabees – Latchmere
Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
of Montreal – I Was Watching Your Eyes       
Kings of Leon – California Waiting
The Appleseed Cast – Forever Longing the Golden Sunsets

Funnily enough, my favourite band is probably Wild Beasts, which only appear on there once. I don't know how much of what I listen to on Spotify gets scrobbled properly!

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