Music is my Life (literally)

[schmeankman]

When I'm feeling less-than-happy-as-a-clown, music can get me back up to clown status. Rarely do I go without music. I wake up to it, I fall asleep to it, and I plan on basing my life around it. Without it, life would be one long Monday. It hasn't made me have an epihany (sp?) or anything, but in a world sans-music, I'd have a completley different view on life, religeon, people, and everything else.

[Alright_Computer]

Listening to music helps me get by (Beck's Sea Change has helped me through many a breakup) but I try my best to not write any music on breakups or other letdowns to avoid making clichés. I figure there's enough depressing music in the world already. I like my music and lyrics to be as neutral as possible; they could move a happy person to tears or cheer a depressed person up depending on the listener's state of mind.

[Ultimatum]

Not to be a **** or rain on the parade or anything, but ending your life over a relationship is silly.

Anyways, music is pretty much what I'm completely dedicated to. I'm constantly looking at things in the context of how I could apply that to music. Hell, I've even tried converting some of my Scantrons into notation before just to see how it works.

[Hungryfreak]

One of my pastimes is thinking of ways to innovate music or to develop a new subgenre. I went through a short time where I was focusing on ambience in particular and I just listened to the sounds of nature and society, figuring out how they would work musically, or building a sound around the ambience in my mind to form a song. I usually fall back into that mood after injecting myself with a heavy dose of drone, electronic and/or ambient music.

[MronoC]

One of my pastimes is thinking of ways to innovate music or to develop a new subgenre. I went through a short time where I was focusing on ambience in particular and I just listened to the sounds of nature and society, figuring out how they would work musically, or building a sound around the ambience in my mind to form a song. I usually fall back into that mood after injecting myself with a heavy dose of drone, electronic and/or ambient music.

I really don't take the time to listen to the wind often enough ...sigh...

Anyway, in addition to the typical "socially maladjusted kid growing up in the suburbs with divorced parents channels frustrations through Slipknot, Lamb of God, and similarly unremarkable metal bands" story, the musical "Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim was pivotal in shaping my views on morality from a very early age.

[Kasil]

May I ask what Rise Against song? Just wondering. I really like the new album and the singles have been decent.

[Hungryfreak]

I really don't take the time to listen to the wind often enough ...sigh...

It's always quite cool. It just tantalizes me, though, since I don't have the ability to write down or musically express the results of my mental experimentations, haha.

[supernova1324]

May I ask what Rise Against song? Just wondering. I really like the new album and the singles have been decent.

If I had to guess it was probably either Survive or Swing Life Away.

[Quinarvy]

Coma by GNR saved my life last year when I slipped into a deep depression (suicidal thoughts at Disney World=biggest mix of two unmixable things ever).

Coincidentally, when I listen to it now, old feelings re-emerge and get my blood flowing. Perfect for sporting events.

[thedoorsdk]

I think a lot of people stumble across the right band at exactly the right time, and it feels like every song they write is written about your own personal experiences.
First time I got my heart broken I was a freshman in college, and I started listening to the Allman Brothers Band (like, really listening, outside of the singles). I honestly couldn't believe how applicable songs like Whippin' Post, Trouble No More, and Black Hearted Woman were to the way I felt.
And yeah, I know those songs convey pretty generic feelings, but they still connected with me on a pretty deep level.