Music and emotion

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Music has all kinds of sensory feedback for me. Colour, shape, and sometimes tactual feedback as well. Some songs blind me, some just give me feelings of sadness or happiness or ecstasy or foreboding or dread or nostalgia or longing etc. Some music touches me very little or not at all. Some damn near incapacitates me. Music is probably the most communicative of all stimuli for me.

Where I live people listen to salsa and related music to lift their mood. Oddly enough, I find salsa extremely depressing and disgusting. My favorite music (Celtic) is depressing according to their standards, but to me it's glorious.

>.< How can Celtic music be depressing?!? Plaintive, perhaps, but certainly not depressing. I love Celtic music, it has so many different faces. ^.^

Needless to say, it's my favourite, too.

Welcome to the club.

What artists do you dig? We can compare notes, perhaps. ^.^

My memory is not good for this, so I'll copy and paste the Celtic artists I've tagged at my Yahoo radio station (in no particular order):

Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill
Solas
Scottish National Pipe & Drum
Mary Jane Lamond
Máire Breatnach
Scottish Pipe Band
Hevia
The Highland Bagpipes
The Chieftains
The Corrs
Altan
Enya
James Galway
Alasdair Fraser
Anúna
Bill Whelan
Moya Brennan

From this list my personal favorites are Hevia, Anúna, Altan, The Chieftains, The Corrs, and Enya.

The reason why most of the rest are included is that anything with a bagpipe and/or a fiddle will catch my attention.

If you're into Yahoo, you can browse my radio station by searching for my username: carturo222.

Yes, I feel more emotion than normal (for me) when listening to music.

Me too!

For example, the original version of "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen always brings me to spiritual ecstasy, especially at the chorus, while the cover by Rufus Wainwright brings me to tears.

On the other hand there is a song by Nine Inch Nails, "Eraser", that gives me horrible visuals and the sensation of flies crawling all over my skin.

All songs have colors and some of them have a bit of touch too, but the overwhelming thing for me is always the emotion. I listen to songs when I am grieving sometimes because they are the only thing that can express it.

I get a similar feeling when listening to Eraser. The noises in that song bother me. The Downward Spiral (by NIN) also really bothers me.

Exactly. The Downward Spiral is brilliant music, too, so I feel kind of guilty for not being able to enjoy it. Except for 'Closer,' which is all red and I find sickly passionate.
Maybe Eraser is just an evil song, lol. My mom felt the same way I did when she heard it. But then I had my NT fiance listen to it and he was like, 'I don't see what the problem is.'

I'm going with the cockney reject on this one. I agree with everything he said.
I've always been a low energy person. I'm always trying to conserve my strength.. except when there's music I like playing.
I started out in the entertainment industry partly because of the energy I could extract from the music.
(The fact you're often around drunk women was another incentive... but let's not digress)
And the types of music I like relate to their energy levels.... A thrash puppy at heart.

Oddly enough... if there are people around a tune can make me hyper.. the same tune played alone can make me cry (regardless of lyric content)

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just listen to Anxiety and it will do that