What IS it about music?

[monster_grrrl]

What is that quality that delights and seduces me and that totally changes my mood? I plugged my headphones into the computer and directed my web browser to www.seeqpod.com and now I'm happily listening to Andrew Bird (with some Mike Doughty and Regina Spektor and Rheostatics to come) and it's so lovely

Comments

[caillecha]

Me too! I hook my iPod into my computer speakers and jam all day long. I have a hard time in libraries though because for some reason the music has to be in the background - directly in my ears distracts me.

[monster_grrrl]

I much prefer music to be not right in my ears as well. I also don't like being held in place by speakers - I am a grrrl who needs to MOVE! Although I do sometimes like the amazing sound quality provided by headphones. All the subtleties you can then pick up on.

I think hearing music must stimulate certain parts of the brain in such wonderful ways. That's the only way I can explain it - like having a mental itch scratched, one that I keep reliving over and over.

[plangge]

I've long found that I can purposely manipulate my moods through my musical selections. I also work WAY better with music, because background noises are endlessly distracting to me in a way that music is not. Especially music that I can control/choose.

[subversivegrrl]

A friend asked me to put together some tunes for background music for an event she organized and I rediscovered a bunch of stuff I hadn't listened to in eons. I need to just do that sometimes, I think - randomly grab something and put it on. Hey, cool! I'd forgotten I even had this!