Taking "trips" while listening to music.

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Taking "trips" while listening to music.

Postby Ph1l2007 » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:53 am

Ok, I have to ask this because I want to feel a little less weird about doing this...

But yes, does anyone take "trips" whenever you listen to your favorite tunes? I'm not necessarily talking about using drugs to do so, but almost all the time when I turn on some of my favorite tunes, the music prompts me to conjure up all sorts of different imagery, like scenes from my favorite anime, or even picturesque images of distant landscapes or fantasy worlds. It's just something about the mood of some tunes that seriously take me someplace else, and it gives me goosebumps. I mean, it's like I can be at my desk at work, and this tune comes on, and next thing I know I am seeing like, an abandoned city street on a dark rainy night or something.

But recently I have forced myself to stop "tripping out" because I feel like I am a weirdo for doing it, and I'm into a certain style of music that a lot of people consider wierd. I dunno, I guess I have this inferiority complex I have to deal with. But I imagine that since people here are into making amv's that some people would know what I am talking about.
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Postby LivingFlame » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:12 am

All the freaking time. I guess I'm an escapist like that. It's fun, though. :up:
Just be careful when you're driving. x:
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Postby Ijexis » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:14 am

I do that a bit. Especially if I plan on making an AMV with the song, then scenes from suitable anime starts flashing in my head and I try to fit them to the song coherently. Shame you're forcing yourself to stop doing it...
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Postby Ph1l2007 » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:34 am

LivingFlame wrote:All the freaking time. I guess I'm an escapist like that. It's fun, though. :up:
Just be careful when you're driving. x:
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Escapist. I like that term :) Yeah, I know there is a time and a place for it, driving is def. not the time lol.
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Postby Immorrel » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:51 am

Ijexis wrote:I do that a bit. Especially if I plan on making an AMV with the song, then scenes from suitable anime starts flashing in my head and I try to fit them to the song coherently. Shame you're forcing yourself to stop doing it...


Ditto the above. Whenever I'm actively listening to music, I'm almost always seeing something. If the song doesn't pull something by itself, my brain starts running through all of anime I know trying to find something that might fit.

A bit of a digression now. Does anyone's mood get affected by the music you listen to? If my day is bad, I'll plug in a song I know will make me feel better. If I'm driving, I put something in that goes the speed I want to drive, or a fast song comes on the radio and my foot gets heavier. Any others out there, or am I my own special kind of weird?
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Postby LivingFlame » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:24 pm

Immorrel wrote:A bit of a digression now. Does anyone's mood get affected by the music you listen to? If my day is bad, I'll plug in a song I know will make me feel better. If I'm driving, I put something in that goes the speed I want to drive, or a fast song comes on the radio and my foot gets heavier. Any others out there, or am I my own special kind of weird?


I'm also like this. I guess I'm just really affected by music sometimes. Not to the point that it ever changes how I think about things, really, but I definitely listen to music based on how I'm feeling a lot of the time.
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Postby Ijexis » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:56 pm

Immorrel wrote:A bit of a digression now. Does anyone's mood get affected by the music you listen to?

Do I? Man, once I was feeling all tired and a bit gloomy then suddenly a Maximum the Hormone song came on and I just got all this energy back and started doing random karate chops around the place with a huge grin on my face, good thing I was by myself or people would have looked at me funny XD
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Postby Ph1l2007 » Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:18 pm

Immorrel wrote:
Ijexis wrote:[color=darkred]
Ditto the above. Whenever I'm actively listening to music, I'm almost always seeing something. If the song doesn't pull something by itself, my brain starts running through all of anime I know trying to find something that might fit.


That pretty much sums me up.
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Postby Kevmaster » Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:48 pm

Infact, this is exactly why I listen to music O_o
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Postby CodeZTM » Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:35 pm

Kevmaster wrote:Infact, this is exactly why I listen to music O_o


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Postby Ph1l2007 » Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:15 pm

Kevmaster wrote:Infact, this is exactly why I listen to music O_o


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Postby Sukunai » Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:41 pm

I like a lot of "old" music from my younger years.

90% of the music I listen to now though I only listen to, because it was employed in an amv creation.

I have zero interest in the radio, and even less interest in what's on tv in videos or mainstream.
I have simply no use for it.

I like that a lot of amvs make the ability to bugger off into an imaginary experience possible. Sure I like the humour creations and the dancy stuff too.
But my fav amvs have been the ones that allow you to escape the ordinary.

The songs I like the most, are the ones with the intensely romantic lyrics. It has to be positive, clearly sung, and beautiful.
I went through the 90s emotionally damaged. I have been using song to repair all the harm.

I sure ain't listening to hostile negative crap (also known as rap music).
Or harsh loud painful music (also known as anything-metal).
Anime, one of the few things about the internet that doesn't make me hate the internet.
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Postby 76 » Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:07 am

Ph1l2007 wrote:
Kevmaster wrote:Infact, this is exactly why I listen to music O_o


:D


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Postby Scott Green » Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:49 am

Ijexis wrote:
Immorrel wrote:A bit of a digression now. Does anyone's mood get affected by the music you listen to?

Do I? Man, once I was feeling all tired and a bit gloomy then suddenly a Maximum the Hormone song came on and I just got all this energy back and started doing random karate chops around the place with a huge grin on my face, good thing I was by myself or people would have looked at me funny XD

NO, I would have joined you with some headbanging xD

There are various bits I enjoy my music:

Adrenaline: I guess that's self-explaining, I listen to some sort of hard rock, industrial, metal thing that makes sitting silent really hard mostly I'm picking these songs out of my collection and make a playlist or something.
Example: Mostly a playlist with metal songs and stuff like that..

Moody: Mostly those are the slow songs, majority of it is instrumental, like soundtracks or something. I'm connecting to the music much and definetly see stuff in my mind! (but seeing an adobe premiere timeline is horrible, happend a lot some month ago)
Best Example: Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV on a rainy train ride..

Trippy: Kinda like moody with the exception that it can be any song or style, it's like really switching of my brain and it's kinda like falling asleep without the sleeping part... mostly I do that on weekends when it's like 1-4 am or something. Mostly I'm listening one album a few times on repeat, just cause I don't realise that the album is already over .-. (note: trippy doesn't last long when there is daylight outside)
Best Example: A Place To Bury Strangers Self-Titled album at like 2 am

Most of the time these three mix up cause I like to listen to full albums and albums are well multisided

zomg Mr. Green gave an insight in his music habits o_O
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Postby Pas » Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:11 am

Immorrel wrote:A bit of a digression now. Does anyone's mood get affected by the music you listen to? If my day is bad, I'll plug in a song I know will make me feel better. If I'm driving, I put something in that goes the speed I want to drive, or a fast song comes on the radio and my foot gets heavier. Any others out there, or am I my own special kind of weird?


Funnily enough, there have been a number of times when the reverse has happened for me.

For example, If I'm feeling depressed and am listening to some upbeat music, the next time I hear that same song I might feel some traces of the emotions I felt when I first listened to that song.

In that sense, how I see music is often dependent on the mood I was in when I first heard it.
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