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Points: 415 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2010 at 01:23
I'd agree- some music needs your full attention to appreciate. 

This morning I was reading a book while playing Rush Snakes and Arrows live. The video and audio barely intruded on my concentration of the book. Then I put on Opeth's Roundhouse tapes and I had to put the book down and give Opeth my full attention. Does this mean Rush's music has less depth than Opeth's- definitely!

Some music demands your full attention and most don't- that's why we have radio, so you can feel happy while working. Most music is shallow on purpose! Any one song wonder band has probably made more money out of pop than Opeth will make from their full career, but that's not going to stop me from appreciating Opeth more.

And Rush fans- I am not saying Rush produces shallow music, just that I can read a book while listening to them.
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Points: 9869 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2010 at 01:27
Originally posted by cobb2 cobb2 wrote:

I'd agree- some music needs your full attention to appreciate. 



But I suppose giving your full attention to it IS listening. If you just let it play in the background and do something else, you aren't REALLY listening, are you?  I thought the OP addressed something more than that...that is, even giving full attention may not sometimes give immediate results in prog.
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rogerthat: The brain will always hear what is going on around, no matter what you are doing- something to with evolutionary survival instincts or somesuch...

Maybe what I was saying was my brain stopped me from reading and made me focus on the music- perhaps something to do with pleasure centres and endorphins. Perhaps this is what makes us progheads- we are always on the search for those songs with the huge build up that release those pleasureable shivers down you spine at the crescendo

Yeah, you're right- too much sexual inuendo there!


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Points: 9869 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2010 at 01:40
Originally posted by cobb2 cobb2 wrote:

rogerthat: The brain will always hear what is going on around, no what you are doing- something to with evolutionary survival instincts or somesuch...

Maybe what I was saying was my brain stopped me from reading and made me focus on the music- perhaps something to do with pleasure centres and endorphins


I agree with that, but I was trying to say that listening in any case means to give something your full attention and I don't think the OP necessarily addressed just that. 
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Originally posted by cobb2 cobb2 wrote:

I'd agree- some music needs your full attention to appreciate. 

This morning I was reading a book while playing Rush Snakes and Arrows live. The video and audio barely intruded on my concentration of the book. Then I put on Opeth's Roundhouse tapes and I had to put the book down and give Opeth my full attention. Does this mean Rush's music has less depth than Opeth's- definitely!

Some music demands your full attention and most don't- that's why we have radio, so you can feel happy while working. Most music is shallow on purpose! Any one song wonder band has probably made more money out of pop than Opeth will make from their full career, but that's not going to stop me from appreciating Opeth more.

And Rush fans- I am not saying Rush produces shallow music, just that I can read a book while listening to them.
 
I wouldn't be able to read while listening to Rush. There are some instrumental bands I can't listen to, either. I just wind up getting too into the music.
 
I think it depends on who/what you're a fan of. I'm not a fan of Opeth, so if somebody put them on in the background while I was reading something, I wouldn't have any trouble tuning them out.
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I live it
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Points: 2506 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2010 at 11:55
Yeah and cheese is green on tuesdays...
Just get over it.
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Points: 66 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2010 at 02:23
I "hear" musak and do not  apprechiate it, but I "listen" to Prog to apprechiate it!
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If one wanted to hear a prog album... and went into a record store (if there are any...) and asked the expert shop staff for a recommended progressive rock album... I wonder what the reply will be.

Yes, Of course I listen to it. Mind you I'll listen to anything that captures my imagination or interest. Which reminds me, I finally heard (owing to the fact I left the DVD running) a rap song I like. The tune over the credits of the Kurt Russell pic Dark Blue is not a bad piece at all. It has instruments. a tune (more or less) and it grooves and rocks (unlike most hop hop and rap which lurches badly through banal obscenity and appalingly dull drum samples.) Just had to netion this almost unique episode of hearing a diamond in the rough.

Unlike prog which is roughly all diamonds.

So I hear, I listen and hopefully forget so I  can - play the favourites constanly and hear them as new again. Bring on the Alzheimers.... (Bad taste I know. Sorry.)


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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

How could I appreciate something I don't listen to? Or why would I listen to something I don't appreciate? Confused

Now, that's deep.Smile
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Points: 85 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 07 2010 at 11:43
Sometimes I wish I didn't listen to prog......
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Originally posted by LastDaysofParadise LastDaysofParadise wrote:

I'm not necessarily talking about the physical act of listening to the music, I'm just saying that it's a genre that must be appreciated not just listened to casually.
 
I'm going to listen to Lazurus by Porcupine Tree now, and I'm going to do it very casually. Tongue
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