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Originally Posted by dor  ...classical can lift your soul and give you a sense of exhilaration, pop is like a fun carnival ride...classical (the right classical or anglican/choir hymns) are like gazing on a beautiful mountain range at sunset....am I making any sense? |
Definetly making sense! Although I've had some wild rides with classical music too. The length and time investment to listen to a whole symphony can be quite an experience and put you through all sorts of emotions if you let it take you.
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For pop, these days I almost exclusively listen to music from Indian Cinema "bollywood" the music has this unbelievable joy and optimism in it - that I think has been generally absent from western pop since the 60s (though new wave and ska had some of it too)
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Haven't gravitated to bollywood music and I'm all over the place with musical taste so I'll have to check some out. Ska rules!
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also we forget the joy of making musics and singing it - even if you aren't good - go to a church (even if you aren't religious ) that has a good choir and sing along - (Anglican churches are good for this) it really does lift you soul- i think there have been studies done that singing makes you happier too. There is a reason people used to sing while working in the fields and such...it's a shame that that's missing in society today.
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Mega echos on that!!! I was just reading about how non-creative society has become because everyone wants to be a star and we forget that it's not nessecary to be a star to be creative. It used to be common to have a piano in homes (before TV) and in the evening people would hang out and play and sing - what happened to us? I've sung in some choirs and amsolutely f#$%ng loved it! I didn't think I was good enough to do so but I am somewhat of a hacker musician so I can read music and play the piano parts to learn the singing parts. Then I found tenor voices are in demand so I was needed. On that note, music that moves me:
Verdi's requiem
Handel's messiah
Beethoven's symphonies (maybe the 5th mostly)
Otherwise, like I said, I'm all over the place - 311, Beatles, Gomez, Dead, Radio Head, Muse, Morphine, Johny Cash, Smiths, Led Zep, NIN, Moby, Chemical Brothers...