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Why do you like what you like?
lastclearchance:
--- Quote from: mechorg ---"Why do you like what you like?"
because i do
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Why do they call it Apple Jacks if it doesn't taste like apples?
Kanno:
Because I don't know of anything else offhand that is as infinitely interesting or cool as music. I don't think I could explain why I like music.
I think it spawns from the first time I ever saw someone play a drumset, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. After that, I began playing all sorts of instruments, and once you start playing, you never stop.
I love the feeling of listening to a new album that just knocks me on my ass.
Clara:
--- Quote from: saturnine1979 ---"Stars And Sons". mmmmmmmm
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Mmmmm, Broken Social Scene.
zekterellium:
because sometimes it's windy but then other times it's sunny.
Drewbacca:
And here's one I prepared earlier .. oddly enough, inspired by reading QC.
--- Quote from: Drewbacca's LJ ---Mostly due to reading Questionable Content I have been thinking a bit about musical tastes recently. For most people it seems easy to place them into fairly well defined groups based on their listening tastes. Some will be predominently Goth, others will be into Heavy Metal, while others will be into Dance/Trance/etc. Sometimes, these tastes will overlap with someone like two, three, or more different groups. When it came time to classify myself, however, I ran into a snag. While I liked individual songs, I did not styles of music as much. For instance, I like Rammstein, but not German music in general; I like a couple of songs by Muse, but the rest of Indie music does nothing for me. In fact, a look through my average playlist showed a smattering of techno, some classical, a touch of 60's and 70's tracks with a little pop and rock thrown in for good measure. The thing that really stood was the one thing that almost all of these tracks had in common. They were all either played in a movie, or part of a movie soundtrack.
Intrigued by this I dug a little deeper. One of my favourite artists, "Weird" Al Yankvich, I discovered thanks to the soundtrack for The Flintstones movie. It was from there I went and bought his Alapalooza album, which featured the track 'Jurassic Park'. Most of the songs I own I have for this, or very similar reasons. The one that is a little different from the rest is the two tracks I like from Muse, 'Time is Running Out' and 'Stockholm Syndrome'. The first time I heard 'Time' was when I saw the video on tv. I instantly recognized the set as an homage to the War Room from 'Dr Strangelove' [whether this was deliberate or not is another matter] and was hooked. Later I discovered 'Stockholm' and got a mental flashback to 'The World Is Not Enough' where it was mentioned and used as part of the plot [the syndrome, not the song].
It is due to this investigation I have come to the realisation that I am a fan of movie music. Not just scores and compositions, but music that is used in, linked to, or has reference to movies and tv. Even songs used in trailers - like 'Ready, Steady, Go' by Paul Oakenfield - have not escaped my grasped. I can now look upon my soundtrack-filled cd collection and understand what it is that I am. I have transcended being a mere movie geek, and become something else entirely. If this is for the best or not I am yet to decide, but if you'll excuse me now, 'Axel F' has come up on my playlist and I'll leave you now and sink into a haze of keyboards and synthesizers.
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Yeah, I may be just a little messed up.
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