Sir Mustapha
Group: Musicians
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Posted: April 16 2005, 13:49 |
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Well, would you look at that. Discussion has reached a... somewhat peaceful tone, at last. Something must have happened as this discussion went along, but my feelings were taken the wrong way. I guess one post negates the previous one, and an explanation can completely shift the focus to something different. I come to points when I completely forget what I was trying to explain, on first place. But this is a timeline of what, more or less, I think happened here:
1) T4 and AlanD say that Amarok is fantastic, but one bit of Margaret Thatcher impersonation completely ruins a powerful experience;
2) I say I don't understand that what kind of powerful, larger-than-life experience can be completely ruined by a lightweight joke that, to me, is an essential part of the work;
3) People argue nobody is forced to like the Thatcher bit because I say it's important to the album;
4) I agree, and say that I still can't understand what kind of powerful experience one can get from music, because to me, music overall is all about fun, and isn't anything crucial to me, but I occupy myself with it because I like it;
5) People say that music isn't just fun, and that it's about feeling, emotion, enlightenment, and that it shouldn't be a mere chore or occupation;
And then's where I said that music isn't about emotion to me. Well, it isn't. I don't go out to the second-hand store and buy an LP to get emotion to it. I did it because I find it lots of fun to listen to new music, to discover new things, and to enjoy it. Just look at me now, as I'm blankly typing on the computer, with The Cranberries playing on my PC speakers. I'm doing this for fun, because I like it. Yes, I love the Cranberries, but this is all just fun. I'm not being flooded with emotions or anything.
Emotion does come, eventually, but it's always unexpected to me. It gets me by surprise, just like Tubular Bells did when I started to listen to it (it happened just two years ago, and I'm getting extremely nostalgic about it, btw... Geez, I'm getting OLD! . Lots of albums/songs do affect me many times, but that comes as an extra reward, a bonus for me being so dedicated to music. "Turn Of The Century" by Yes had a big impact on me a few times, but if I put it now, it will go off as a nice, pretty song. It won't cause a huge emotional impact, but I don't bother. It's fun. It was also very affecting when I finished recording "Buses", and seeing the entire waveform on the screen. Do I get affected by it now? Not as much, but I still love it.
The danger of being emotionally moved by music makes the ride more fun, in fact. But it's just that: fun. Amarok isn't like eating lettuce. Eating is important to me, I need it, and a caterpillar on my lettuce will make me cringe. Music isn't like eating, or breathing. It's just fun, and Amarok - while it does affect me big time sometimes - is just fun. So there's no danger of an inane, deranged speech screwing up something "big" and "important" to me, because it wasn't.
I may be getting something wrong here, but this is what I was trying to express all the time. I hope it's clearer now. I love music, I don't feel under pressure of that "chore", and I do it for fun. Like I said, sometimes the "fun" isn't the proverbial kind of fun, but it's a pleasing, stimulating brain activity, even if it's The Cure's 'Pornography' that I'm listening. It's all fun, nothing to get so worked up about.
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But like some say, it's better to be nostalgic than to have nothing to be nostalgic of.
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