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visceral responses to music - 8/27/2013 1:16:13 PM

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I heard Josh Grobin sing a song about "the next time I fall in love it will be forever" - and immediately started crying. I had to pull over into a parking lot because I was crying so hard.

It bought back memories of how deserted I felt when my Sir died, and how scared I was to love my sweetie.

I did the same thing at the beginning of the Phantom of the Opera, when I saw it in London. I was in LONDON, and seeing a show, something I had wanted to do since I was 10.

Since I don't think I'm the only one to react this way to music, I was interested in others reactions to music, and what may be behind the reactions. Do tell..............

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/27/2013 1:37:20 PM

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I heard a Lilly Allen song once and it was so bad that I shat myself, but that probably isn't what you're after with this thread.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/27/2013 2:00:51 PM

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quote:

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Since I don't think I'm the only one to react this way to music, I was interested in others reactions to music, and what may be behind the reactions. Do tell..............

A few days ago I had a strong emotional reaction. Carol and I are going through troubled times right now and it's not helpful that she's half a continent away. But man, when I heard the following lyrics on the radio:

"So this is what life feels like without your love."

It was an instant moment of perspective. I have it SOOOOOO good right now. I could have... well... those lyrics.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/27/2013 2:52:49 PM

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quote:

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I heard a Lilly Allen song once and it was so bad that I shat myself, but that probably isn't what you're after with this thread.

oh, I don't know......

sounds pretty visceral to me.

and it was an emotional response to music (or a fair imitation thereof).

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/27/2013 7:16:45 PM

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I have that problem with Amazing Grace, especially if played on bagpipes. His family is Irish and they play the pipes so they played the song at his funeral. To this day if I hear it I have to hold back from crying. When I'm told it's going to be playing somewhere I try to get as far away as possible so I don't have to hear it.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/28/2013 2:56:45 AM

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right after my ex told me he wanted a divorce, i was driving to work. "our" songs, "you're my best friend" by queen and "son of a preacher man" (he was the son of a pastor) by dusty springfield came on the radio, one after the other - i bawled all the way to work, wondering whether the universe really was laughing at me.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/28/2013 6:23:16 PM

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As a working musician, it's a hazard of the trade.

I've literally had to snuffle away tears during a performance when playing/singing tunes that trigger me. Most intense is when I'm randomly going about my business getting gas or something and hear songs I wrote/performed about saying goodbye to my mom, dad, cats, or other loved ones on the radio or internet line-up . It's an instant zinger.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/28/2013 6:35:12 PM

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I should add that there is a physical reason for the visceral/emotional response. Each of us responds to different frequencies. Say you were listening to a particular song in a particular key using particular voices/instrumentation while you were doing something highly pleasurable: making love, feeling peaceful and content, eating something delicious, feeling your heart swell with love while holding your child, your partner, your pet.

Those frequencies imprint on you as an integral part of the memory, so that hearing them again outside the memory activates it. Knowing this, the many methods of sound healing can be used to bring comfort and healing by reprogramming your frequencies in the present.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/29/2013 3:08:53 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: littlewonder

I have that problem with Amazing Grace, especially if played on bagpipes. His family is Irish and they play the pipes so they played the song at his funeral. To this day if I hear it I have to hold back from crying. When I'm told it's going to be playing somewhere I try to get as far away as possible so I don't have to hear it.

That is so funny - because I absolutely hate that song. It was used by a business that I worked for as the hold music, and I spent a lot of time on hold................. However, there are songs I sing at church that can have me in tears before the end of the first verse. Its rather embarrassing at church when I'm crying in the pew.

edited to add - my ex was a cop and he always said he wanted that song with bagpipes at his funeral. Now, if I could have stopped planning on putting him into a coffin, I might have done better........................... *sigh* Its hard to be evil when you are too busy to kill off your husband.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/29/2013 4:33:22 PM

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once i was standing in a mega-air-conditioned supermarket produce aisle on a scorching september day being sprayed by the fine mist they use to keep the baby spinach fresh when hey jealousy by the gin blossoms started playing and it reminded me of a girlfriend i'd had to dump when i was 16 and being shipped off to boarding school and i started shaking, weeping, sobbing openly right into a vat of pineapples while an elderly jewish couple looked on curiously and kibbitzed to each other.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/29/2013 5:58:17 PM

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music can move me in all different ways.

when i'm angry or upset i want it on loud with a lot of bass, and it has to be heavy rock, goth or some such.

there is one song that will make me cry every time i hear it. i dread hearing it in public places.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/29/2013 7:52:14 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: MistressDarkArt

I should add that there is a physical reason for the visceral/emotional response. Each of us responds to different frequencies. Say you were listening to a particular song in a particular key using particular voices/instrumentation while you were doing something highly pleasurable: making love, feeling peaceful and content, eating something delicious, feeling your heart swell with love while holding your child, your partner, your pet.

Those frequencies imprint on you as an integral part of the memory, so that hearing them again outside the memory activates it. Knowing this, the many methods of sound healing can be used to bring comfort and healing by reprogramming your frequencies in the present.

Very interesting! I can definitely see this.

Music does have a great effect on me. It can alter my mood in an extreme way so I usually use that to my advantage.

One song in particular that has ALWAYS made me cry, even as a kid, and I'm not sure why:
"Making Love Out Of Nothing At All" ~ Air Supply

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/29/2013 9:01:11 PM

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This one every time kills me. Reminds me of what I almost lost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1qxJPzjObI

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/29/2013 9:49:25 PM

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There's a Spanish classical song, "Concierto de Aranjuez" by Rodrigo, that is so moving to me it often makes me well up. I don't associate it with any memory or anything; it's always had that affect on me. Miles Davis did a version of it which was cool, but not the same.

Other songs - "Brand New Day" and "Into the Mystic" by Van Morrison gives me some of the warmest fuzzies ever.

"Hurt" - the version by Johnny Cash moves me to tears sometimes.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/30/2013 5:43:10 AM

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To me, music is the most incredible phenomenon and has always been my Mistress. Vaugn Williams Lark Ascending is perhaps one of the most moving pieces for me. I love a lots of the American music from the 60's too, Sam Cooke, Aretha, Al Green, Otis Redding, Art Blakey, Miles, etc. These are my modern day hero's of music and to my ear have not really been bettered. I saw Dave Brubeck about 10 years ago. He could hardly make it to the piano but when he got there...boy he was just immense !!

I am also a huge fan of a type of music called Deep House. It's electronic dance music but has it's roots is jazz, from the structure, revolving riffs and phrasing. It has been a niche thing for years, not so popular in the clubs because it was deemed to 'soft' but it is growing hugely in popularity now and event's dub themseves as deep house, even though they're not, just to sell tickets.

I was a semi pro years ago (drummer) but it wasn't how I wanted to spend my time so these days I just play the things I want and when am asked. Last band I was in was a touring reggae group. Did this for about 3 years, really good fun :) I do write music often in my small home studio and am slowly learning the craft of sound engineering and mastering (been doing this for 10 years now). Unless I'm in the middle of some sort of sub frenzy, then this is the main thing I do with my time other than work :)

Last time I cried to music was by a singer called Kenny Bobien at a concert. I remember thinking at the time that I'd probably have got a similar feeling if I'd ever had the chance to see the great Louis Armstrong.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/30/2013 6:08:12 AM

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My quality of life would be greatly effected if I didn't have music.

Music heals me, it covers daily distractions so I can get creative, it allows me to dance, which is great exercise, it soothes me, it activates me, the right kind of music at the right time is essential to my ability to enjoy life to the fullest. Music is up there with a great cup of tea, which is saying something !

Some fairly recent research:

According to an Italian study, Classical, Celtic, or Indian music can help lower blood pressure.

Relaxing at least 30 minutes a day lowered the stress hormone cortisol better than chilling out in silence, this according to Swedish researchers.

Deep breathing while listening to relaxing music eased anxiety as effectively as massage, this according to a study at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle.

Really tuning into a melody blunted sharp pain in a Univ of Utah study in which brave volunteers listened to tapes while receiving electric shocks.

A quote from Joke Bradt PhD and Assoc Professor at Drexel Univ (also a board certified music therapist):

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It's first processed in the brain's medulla, which controls basic functions like breathing and heart rate. That may explain the blood pressure and cardiac payoffs. Music also reduces activity in the amygdala, an area that regulates negative emotions, which acting on neural systems that stimulate pleasure, like the life you get from eating a wonderful piece of chocolate.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/30/2013 8:34:10 PM

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I do have that kind of reaction from time to time, the one song that I can think of, is "Spirit of Radio", by Rush. In particular, the lyric that goes, "all this machinery, making modern music, can still be open hearted".

I have a hard time putting my finger on why exactly that does that to me.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/30/2013 8:56:18 PM

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My quality of life would be greatly effected if I didn't have music.

Reminds me of a lyric by Shawn Colvin: "If there were no music, then I would not get through" (I don't know why)

Her album (CD) Polaroids could have been written about my divorce. I still get goose bumps.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/30/2013 9:36:48 PM

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There have been a few songs that hit me like a brick the first time I heard them:

Arriba del Cielo - made my heart ache of loneliness despite being in a room full of people (it was the music, not the words).

Sueno Mama (Roberto Poveda) - I hear that song, and I just want to drop my clothes and ... do stuff. I feel sexual and sensual and ready to slide all over whoever is next to me. (Add a shot of tequila, and woo!)

She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy (Kenny Chesney) - I was driving through ... Somewhere in the midwest... on a highway. I pulled over as soon as I could because I was laughing so hard.

How do You Like Me Now? (Toby Keith) - I was going through some hard stuff and fighting to let go of some old beliefs, and the words of it, just went BOOM into my psyche. It was the line "Do you still think I'm crazy Standin here today? I couldnt make you love me But I always dreamed about living in your radio How do you like me now?" I CAN succeed even if x, y, and z are true. History isn't destiny.

The story of Anache Gordon (Loreena McKennit) was played on the radio when I was living in Philadelphia. I put down what I was doing and got swept into the story and the sweeping vocals. I was in awe that something could be that beautiful.

Sarangha (Jong Hyun) makes me feel like a 14-year old girl with a crush on the cyoot boy in the class. I may have gotten up and started spinning around when I heard it.

And the one that makes me happy no matter what since the first time I heard it. Areum da oon naya saramah... Mind you, it's THIS version rather than the original, slow version - which is lovely but doesn't leave me with a big ole grin on my face. The song started to play on the bus one day, and i started singing along with it (yes, in Korean), and I got so many stares and smiles. :) And the show it comes from, My Lovely Kim Sam Soon is one of my favorite Korean shows of all time. (Every woman fell in love with Hyun Bin in it, and they all wanted to BE Kim Sun Ah, the actress who played Sam Soon!)

*edited to add: I forgot this one... Lakme, The Flower Duet. I first heard it on a car commercial, and it just wow... made me wish I could sing. I was good friends with a woman who was an opera singer at the time... Made me more attuned to opera.

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RE: visceral responses to music - 8/31/2013 4:18:16 AM

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My mother was evacuated to Wales, to a small mining town, during WW2. She loves Welsh male voice choirs so much that she actually can't listen to them - they make her too tearful.

Me, it's this: Pachelbel's Canon in D - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQLck. Grit in my eyes, every time.

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