Music

It's funny as at the new year, Spotify did a round up of the music you listen to, and due to his tastes, he got 43!(He's 11, and he got bang in between his father and me). Yeah it's a different sound between Chester and Emily, and listening back you can hear how real the lyrics are to him, though she has brought something in a good way too. 

I remember when they came out, but at the time they were too 'nu metal' for me and I was into a lot heavier. Now it's on in the house nearly constantly as the kids and husband all listen, and I don't mind it at all, I think it's grown on me! (And is an improvement of the previous playlist they were listening too, which was most annoying songs). 

I kinda became aware of Linkin Park at some point after Hybrid Theory came out. I guess I'm supposed to be too old (55) for them to be in my era. The loss of Chester did change the way I felt about lot of their music, it took on a greater meaning in some way? The new stuff with Emily obviously isn't the same but I still enjoy it. She seems share or at least projects a lot of the same emotion vulnerability as Chester did.

I don't remember an awful lot of my childhood but I do recall that music was very rarely played. My dad had LPs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as well as comedy ones by Billy Connolly. It wasn't until I was in my early teens that I developed this love for music. This was the early 80s so music by the  likes of Peter Gabriel, Howard Jones, New Order were ever present. Watching Whistle test re-runs introduced me to Led Zeppelin, Joy Division and so many more. Music just seems to connect me emotionally to the world and has a massive effect on my emotional wellbeing.

Thanks for the video, it was brilliant.

My kids are really into Linkin Park, my son, knows everything about them as they became a special interest, and listens to them all the time. He wanted to read their book, but my husband thought it best he quickly read it first to check for content, but I don't think it's anything he doesn't know about them already.

For his talent competition at school just before Easter, he rapped/sang to an obscure one from a demo album -he is quiet with a stutter, so I think he surprised the teacher!

I think you can lose your worries in music, and a special interest in a particular kind and pull you to do things you wouldn't be able to normally!

I am listening to Handel’s opera Arminio right now. Its one of his Italian operas, and the fact I don’t understand the vocal language enables me to concentrate just on the sounds and musical language of the orchestra and soloists, I can pick out the counterpoint and structure more easily when there isn’t the distraction of simultaneously hearing a message in understandable words.

Music is a powerful an effector on me, it can sustain a good or bad mood, change a mood up or down if choose to deliberately, but within reason. It cannot help when things are dreadful but in my quiet home it is usually very powerful. 

Ive listened to classical music all my life, it was encouraged by my mum and dad, our family, a neighbour in our street who introduced me to the conductor Karajan. Eventually Id a sense of classical music of all eras and would try everything at least once. My favourites though are predominantly the great baroque and classical composers plus those who sit at the cusp between those two great era. eg: Vivaldi, J.S.Bach, Handel, G.P.Telemann, J.C.Bach, Carl Abel, the music of the Mannheim and Darmstadt “schools”, Haydn, Mozart, and their contemporaries. Beyond these I find much small group and solo French 19C music incredibly calming, eg: the Chopin Nocturnes, some Ravel and Debussy and Faure’s chamber music. 

I no longer attend concerts as the crowds, the having to sit still in a chair hemmed in by others for a long time is intolerable for me. I used to attend concerts in Manchester a lot, Free Trade Hall then Bridgwater Hall plus the RNCM, but since appreciating my sensory issues am much happier just enjoying it at home. 

Although I can read music and have a knowledge of musical history I can’t play any instruments due to my lack of fine motor skills but used to sing in a big choral society, we were based in the north west but got to sing in the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s South Bank once many years ago. I no longer sing, again the sensory problems of being with a host of other humans. 

AnA

They will? Are you sure? Are there no other musical influences allowed?

When I was younger, it was always are you into the Stones or the Beatles, I was into neither.

Music has always been a part of my life since I first heard The Beatles when I was 9, back in 2005. I knew then I wanted to be a musician. If you ask any musician, they will for sure say they got into music because of The Beatles. 

Go for it, take singing lessons, I didn't know these existed until to late, join a choir, another thing I didn't know existed outside of churches. I think people have so many more opportunities now to make music than I did when younger, computer software seems to make it so easy, in my day, if you weren't pretty enough to be the lead singer/guitarists girlfriend it didn't matter how good you were, you just weren't decorative enough

I'm loving listening to the KPop Demon Hunter soundtrack at moment!

I like to think I have a good singing voice (am 25) so I'll take that advice into account lol - thanks!

Trance music, dance and edm are some of my most favourite genres

I absolutely love music ever since I was little, I can’t go a day without listening to music I’m In  My headphones all day long

Thanks for your reply. I'm sure we'll get through to the other side but it's really tough at the moment. I had a Linkin Park morning at work yesterday, it just helps with the motivation but some of them really strike a chord. One more light or the the stripped back live version of Crawling just break me.

youtu.be/sjN-NGsRg9g

you're not weird at all, my friend. i too have a deep connection to music. recently i've been listening to good luck, babe by chappell roan on repeat, even though my usual go-tos when it comes to music are mainly rock or metal songs, such as disappearing boy by green day, or disenchanted by my chemical romance, or one step closer by linkin park. i do enjoy singing and playing guitar, and there are many songs that are relevant to my life. one that will always give me the feels is tomorrow by avril lavigne.

quote, "and i wanna believe you / when you'll tell me that it'll be okay"

right now i'm not doing okay, i'm dealing with a lot of complicated emotions, and this song is like a warm hug, a sign that honestly i'm not really alone.

or at least, it feels that way.

Thank you for your concern Marianne and Prof, but it really is OK and I was able to work through a lot in therapy and I had the chance to talk to my Dad about it all before he died and he was the one who started the conversations.

I think the thing thats stopped me enjoying music more than anything else is losing my singing voice, I never knew what I had until it was nearly gone and that really saddens me, I loved singing along with some really complex vocals, now I end up making a nasty nasal noise, so I often prefer to listen to instrumental music.

TheCatWoman said:

bad bad stuff

I had abusive parents too, so I'm very sorry to read this and that it spoiled your enjoyment of music. I changed both names -first and surnames - and recently gave myself a new birthday date and that really helps. 

Thank you, how incredible and to be there awesome. Thanks again Herge. 

This is just a little clip, I'd love to see the full thing, still wonderful though. youtu.be/HiHfXUXk1DI

I have Marta Deyanova's recording of the sonata. A charity shop discovery. 

I agree about Let it Go, it really helped me in a very bad time of life. Thanks for reminding me.