Okay, that's just unfair. I happened to notice that the next CD in my case is Ricky Martin, and now I'm earwormed with it without even listening to it yet...
And yes I for one will admit the Ricky Martin CD - Heck I'll admit to my ABBA, Pat Boone (In a Metal Mood), Glen Campbell, Ann Murray, Muppets, asstd Disney and gatuitous amounts of Duran Duran - I have little musical shame.
What's shameful about the Muppets? We watched the Phyllis Diller and the Vincent Price episodes just last night, and I had the following conversation with my housemate:
Me: The episode I'd really like to watch is the Diana Rigg episode. Alexx: I don't have a Diana Rigg episode. Me: Yeah, I know.
Nothing, but there are those unenlightened souls out there (many of them are relatives of mine) who feel that a fascination/appreciation for "childish" things is inappropriate for a woman of 38. Particularly when she doesn't have kids.
Sher -- while it may be almost the platonic opposite of "deep", the self-named album has a lot of seriously fun, kicky road music. I don't demand more than that...
Heh. I think of it as "seriously fun must-dance music". So yeah. :)
(Although...I do think of it as "deep", just in an utterly different sense than the "meaningful / intellectual" way that I think you meant. It's music I can lose myself in, in movement and sound..."deep" in an experiential way, if that makes any sense. Which is, now that I think about it, very much the opposite of what you were talking about. So again - yeah. :)
One of these days, we must compare eclectic music collections. I was asked today what my favorite sorts of music tends to be - what I actually buy. I had to think for a little bit, then answered, "Er...electronica/dance, classical, movie scores, celtic-inspired, euphonious scandinavian death metal, plus the occasional punk, classic rock, j-pop, new age, and various world/ethnic stuff?"
Admittedly, I don't have as much as I'd like of many types of music; but this is more due to budget constraints than anything else. :)
Sounds familiar. My collection is deeper in some of those categories than others (only a couple of albums of j-pop at this point, for instance), but I've got some of pretty much all of it...
From some stuff I've read recently, listening to it might actually help. Apparently there's a theory that earworms are the result of your brain getting stuck on an incomplete memory (I've certainly had plenty of times where the worm is only part of the song), and by listening all the way through it can let go. (And not get more stuck, as our "common sense" interpretation would have it.)
Considering that a lot of mental processes are cause by focus on things to be completed, whether there's anything you can do about them at present or not, it makes a lot of sense.
You keep being surprised by my music collection -- you really need to come over some time, just to blow your illusions away. I listen to *everything*, and the louder the better as a rule of thumb...
I know a guy at work who has an insane digital music collection. He ripped everything he has. Lets put it this way, he has several RAIDs full of music. Terabytes. And no Ricky Martin :)
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Date: 2006-03-24 08:31 pm (UTC)(I admit that part of the reason for this comment was Gratuitious Icon Use)
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Date: 2006-03-24 08:33 pm (UTC)And yes I for one will admit the Ricky Martin CD - Heck I'll admit to my ABBA, Pat Boone (In a Metal Mood), Glen Campbell, Ann Murray, Muppets, asstd Disney and gatuitous amounts of Duran Duran - I have little musical shame.
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Date: 2006-03-24 09:01 pm (UTC)Me: The episode I'd really like to watch is the Diana Rigg episode.
Alexx: I don't have a Diana Rigg episode.
Me: Yeah, I know.
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Date: 2006-03-24 09:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-24 10:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-26 02:24 am (UTC)(Although...I do think of it as "deep", just in an utterly different sense than the "meaningful / intellectual" way that I think you meant. It's music I can lose myself in, in movement and sound..."deep" in an experiential way, if that makes any sense. Which is, now that I think about it, very much the opposite of what you were talking about. So again - yeah. :)
One of these days, we must compare eclectic music collections. I was asked today what my favorite sorts of music tends to be - what I actually buy. I had to think for a little bit, then answered, "Er...electronica/dance, classical, movie scores, celtic-inspired, euphonious scandinavian death metal, plus the occasional punk, classic rock, j-pop, new age, and various world/ethnic stuff?"
Admittedly, I don't have as much as I'd like of many types of music; but this is more due to budget constraints than anything else. :)
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Date: 2006-03-26 05:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-24 08:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-24 09:56 pm (UTC)Considering that a lot of mental processes are cause by focus on things to be completed, whether there's anything you can do about them at present or not, it makes a lot of sense.
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