Zach216

Pretty casually into music... For the first time ever I am open to recommendations so shoot some out if you think they make sense to go along with my bland taste.

100,000th Track - Paula Cole "Second Chance"

"I'll see better when the smoke clears, when the smoke clears inside my head and I can listen when the screaming doesn't repeat everything I've said. All that remains is me and who I am at the end of the day, and this happens everyday" - Toby Lightman

I got a 772/1000 super-eclectic score which is incredible. ;)


(I read these things in a book...)
"Groove is that quality that moves the song forward, the musical equivalent to a book that you can't out down. When a song has a good groove, it invites us into a sonic world that we don't want to leave. Although we are aware of the pulse of the song, external time seems to stand still, and we don't want the song to ever end." - Daniel Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music)

"Real conversations between people, real pleas of forgiveness, expressions of anger, courtship, storytelling, planning, and parenting don't occur at the precise clips of a machine. To the extent that music is reflecting the dynamics of our emotional lives, and our interpersonal interactions, it needs to swell and contract, to speed up and slow down, to pause and reflect." - DL







How Singing Improves Your Health (Even if other people shouldn't hear you singing!)

http://www.personalitypage.com/INTP_per.html
http://www.personalitypage.com/INTP_rel.html


"...he was the MOST IMPORTANT GUITAR PLAYER of our generation... anybody can play lead but not anybody can do SOLOS THAT REACH YOU... he was a prodigy... he was a vehicle between something massive and the guitar he was playing, so BRUTAL and HARDCORE but FLAWLESS. Listen to every band that is out there today ... he was one of the major ingredients that influenced everything you're hearing today. He catered to everyone, but mainly BLUE-COLLAR AMERICA, which NEEDED A CHAMPION in music at a time in the 1990s when grunge and some real spirit-killing music were out there. There's nothing wrong with that kind of music, but you don't have to look at your toes all the time. Instead, let's have fun and get some aggression out through music... Dime made you feel strength--- and EMPOWERED"




"Preferences begin with exposure and each of us has our own "adventuresomeness" quotient for how far out of our musical safety zone we are willing to go at any given time. Some of us are more open to experimentation than others in all aspects of our lives, including music; and at various times in our life we may seek or avoid experimentation.
Generally, the times we find ourselves bored are those when we seek new experiences."

"My favorite people have a nice comfortable blend of anima and animus, to use Jungian terms — the inner feminine energy and the inner masculine energy. I find I like men who have some healthy anima to them and I like women who have some healthy animus to them . I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don’t mind cooking dinner." - Paula Cole


Say What?! Musicians Hear Better

"If everybody loves your band right off the bat there is something wrong. You're not breaking the mold. You're just being easily digestible." - Nick Hexum


"...music is organized sound, but the organization has to involve some element of the unexpected or it is emotionally flat and robotic." - Daniel Levitin

"Another area of interest common to INTPs, where Sensing has a strong influence, is Music. INTPs are usually fascinated by music and may have deep and wide-ranging tastes. Indeed, each of their three main functions (Thinking, Intuition, Sensing) plays a role in the enjoyment of music, and indeed music is a key interest for bringing out the feeling shadow of the INTP. Sensing itself brings a fascination for mood and atmosphere in music as well as for a strong sense of personal nostalgia. INTPs are therefore often keen on melancolic minor-key music in which an introspective and/or esoteric mood is conveyed. Equally, INTPs enjoy hearing music that they heard and enjoyed when younger (provided they can still appreciate it now) and yearn for the sense of nostalgia that it yields. INTPs are also drawn to complexly structured music, thanks to their Thinking core. An appreciation of modern classical music, as well as perhaps contemporary jazz, is therefore common with them. Such music types are usually too complex to be understood after a single hearing, which hence provides excellent material for analysis, exciting the INTP no end. Once the basic developmental structure of the music has been assessed, Intuition provides the impetus to derive a general meaning of the piece. What does the composer wish to convey, for example? Why was that particular development chosen? Indeed, the Ne is usually hard at work during listening sessions, trying to grasp the meanings behind the often fascinating combination's of sound-world evocations, structural developments and nostalgic impressions." - Paul James