music & emotional response?

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Bazz, if you like changes in time signatures (and sometimes just plain odd time signatures), I'd like to recommend one of my favorite bands, Rush. (I don't really understand what time signatures are, but I asked a friend who had majored in music about it - he described most of the song "Red Barchetta" as being played in 2/3 time, which he said was basically 3/4 played in triplets, whatever that means.)

It's a good band for eliciting emotional response from me, too - it's still hard to listen to "Everyday Glory" without choking up, and "Beneath Between and Behind", even though it was recorded in 1976 and aimed at another administration altogether, gets me even more annoyed with Bush...

Red Barchetta:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndNo4TOTuAk[/youtube]

Everyday Glory:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IivVlIotHAQ[/youtube]

Beneath Between and Behind:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjAlW4r9mAg[/youtube]

Countless songs from the '70s and early '80s remind me of houses we lived in, either from records my father played, or when they were hits on the radio.

Right now I'm listening to Blur's Parklife album. It always reminds me of my first trip to Katoomba, NSW in October '03. That was just after I'd found out I had AS, and was conversing with and meeting fellow Aspies for the first time. Why Parklife? After all, it deals with life in suburbia, which I was escaping from! Well, it was the last CD I'd bought, just a couple of days before embarking on this trip.

A friend of mine who lived in Katoomba at the time offered to put me up for a few nights. I fell in love with the town immediately, and over my two nights' stay felt quite at home there. Katoomba has a charming, bohemian feel, and I felt relaxed and free to be myself - a stark contrast to soulless, conformist Brisbane. Hence that album conjures up fond memories quite vividly.

I can noty help but get sad when I listen to "Brothers"