Which music do you think works as an opiate?

Why are they not good for the soul? Queen always 'lifts me'

RHCP and Oasis do nothing for me, but I'm sure they make some folk happy.

My goodness you're spouting bollocks on this one.

Guldbamsen wrote: So basically this is just a euphemism for 'popular mainstream acts are crap' because I don't like/get them. 'Why don't people listen to REAL music with REAL artistry behind?' Please do yourself a favour and leave the musical snobbery to elderly folks who stopped giving new music a chance somewhere around 1980.

I'm confused with this thread 

Alright then. I don't really understand where you're coming from but the above should most likely have been included in your OP as if not to turn this into a guessing game a la Nostradamus.
A part of me still thinks you're making these polls in order to make yourself look intelligent and worldly wise. As it is though it is working counterproductively.
Try doing a search the next time you're about to make a thread. Chances are there is at least a couple of already existing ones that deal with the subject.
I know this feels like I am out to get you, and I am to some extent, but you continue to make these halfbaked threads, where you, the OP, feel as lost as the rest of us.
My advice would be to post in threads that are already here - start conversations with other members instead of merely starting subjects that nobody understands or perhaps more succinctly nobody feels make sense.

Yet another part of me feels like a piece of sh*t for saying this to you as you seem a little fragile emotionally (yes we do read your posts), but I fear things are only going to get worse if you continue down this road. The internet is a savage place...even friendly sites like this can turn against you if you don't hault and test the waters. Granted the more you get to know the other people around you the easier they'll understand you...also the stuff that currently seems to be out of our intellectual reach.

Edited by Guldbamsen - January 22 2018 at 12:37

I feel like starting a thread called The Opium Den.

Electronic music, and various Krautrock and psyche, can have opiate-like qualities for me in a good way. It can be a soporific (I have terrible insomonia). It can both soothe and stupefy me. The Motorik beat in certain Kosmische music can produce a trance like state in me.

My Norman family name is de Masse, and I like to say that music is the opiate de la Masses (of the Masse's).

And now without trepidation, I give to you Opium:



And discussion is good for the soul, so I also suggest responding to to other people's topics and post more responses. Thinking about and caring about what other people are saying and feeling can be beneficial to one's mental state. I'm glad to see you posting responses (you certainly can be articulate) -- one thing one will find is that people will be less likely to want to put effort into responding to someone if he/she doesn't seem to show interest in what other people are writing. Depressed or not, happy posting.

By the way, I wrote a long response in you mental health thread, I have my problems, but it felt too self-indulgent and a little sanctimonious so I opted not to post. I was raised to try to keep a stiff upper lip and to keep my pecker up (problem is Xanax doesn't mix well with Viagra).





Edited by Logan - January 22 2018 at 13:19

I've been reading through Plato's The Republic recently, and I'm strongly reminded here of the section where Socrates dictates which kinds of music should and should not be allowed among the populace, especially the military. I'm not sure that arguments for certain music being improper for personal/mental/social/spiritual/intellectual development have really improved since then. I've met dumbasses into classical and fantastically intelligent PhD holding individuals hugely fascinated by Rihanna. It's how you work with the music, not the music itself, that matters.

mechanicalflattery wrote: I've been reading through Plato's The Republic recently, and I'm strongly reminded here of the section where Socrates dictates which kinds of music should and should not be allowed among the populace, especially the military. I'm not sure that arguments for certain music being improper for personal/mental/social/spiritual/intellectual development have really improved since then. I've met dumbasses into classical and fantastically intelligent PhD holding individuals hugely fascinated by Rihanna. It's how you work with the music, not the music itself, that matters.

For this come into my mind that lots of heavy artists were accused by their lyrics in the eighties. I think some adolescent was said to be listened Paranoid an committed suicide after that and Ozzy was accused (although I think it´s Geezer´s lyrics). Then there was PMRC to add stickers to the album covers (I believe they just increased those albums sellings). Hope we don´t see those times again, although I think in the US there are again same kind of thinking.

"Heroin, it´s my wife and it´s my life"

Can - Future Days
classic Tangerine Dream