Is music good for one?

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
anyway music is only good for me because i have ears tuned to microtones and just intonation. but Simon was listening to too much music by 1998 he started rehabilitating da hool - meet her at the love parade out of misguided poptimism. and lager lout big beat. you'll never be forgiven for that. should have defended Oasis instead, even though they are the worst product of the 90s, they are still better than big beat.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
cancel music and cancel MDMA.

Only permit hard acid and lsd and darkcore and piano chipmunks, but only when they are psychotic 92 style, not mondo man 1998.

BigNob said:
Getting into trance this year, I realised that it had some of the same things I love in early hardcore: choonful melody-fragments, euphoria-inducing effects, and lots of riffs and vamps. And I'd be dishonest if I didn't admit the cheesiness has a purist-annoying trangressive edge which appeals.
Getting into trance... I never dreamed I'd write those words! It's an upshot of being a dance agnostic rather than a card-carrying junglist believer. Going to that London club and having a really good time, I realised the music had actually come along some ways since I last checked it out: it was pleasanter, more sensuous and feminized, than the harsh, monotonous, and coldly cosmic Teutonic trance I remember from 93-94. Going out of curiosity to check out Paul Oakenfold in New York a few weeks later, I was struck by what a great vibe was generated this incredibly cheesy, melodramatic music--scenes of blissed out abandon and orgiastic pan-sensuality the like of which I hadn't seen for years, people stroking each others's arms and faces, stroking their own bodies. It seems that in America, all the kids in the honeymoon stage of Ecstasy use gravitate to trance, cos it's the only dance music around that isn't grimly serious and dark, that's compatible with E. Then Paul Van Dyk DJ-ed in New York a week later and I got a high just off the sheer spangly clean energy of the sound.
 

entertainment

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"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"

Morrissey created a whole musical language around 'wallowing'. This debauched decadent dandyish posturing of misery.

But is he symptom or diagnose?
 
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