Best Ever Albums

Re: Musical Epiphanies:

NowhereMan — Sun, 6 Jan 2019 17:29:51 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 01/06/2019 22:29

There is a good book I have buried away somewhere actually called Musical Epiphanies, I'll have to dig it out and re-read what it has to say again.

Thursday just gone I went to see yet again one of the leading Beatle tribute bands at the Cavern on Mathews Street, Liverpool with a friend equally obsessive as I am. It was, as ever, just a wonderful experience - too many pints fof Guinness and no voice.

Re: Musical Epiphanies:

Tha1ChiefRocka — Sun, 6 Jan 2019 12:22:30 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 01/06/2019 17:22

For me, it was probably something to do with Zappa.

Or, it was probably something like this. I think I heard this when I was about 12, and it was terrifying at first, but now I think it's great!

Link

Re: Musical Epiphanies:

Fischman — Sun, 6 Jan 2019 10:01:40 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 01/06/2019 15:01

Waaaaaaayyyyy too many to count or recall. It's like trying to answer "favorite guitar solo." I just can't do it.

Re: Musical Epiphanies:

craola — Sun, 6 Jan 2019 02:12:13 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 01/06/2019 07:12

Saw Sufjan during the Carrie and Lowell Your. During one of the songs, the entire theater got really dark sans a roaming spotlight as Sufjan repeated, “We’re all gonna die” over and over. That gave the chills all through my body. Like, something about how quiet the theater was and how dark it was had me unsettled enough, but that spotlight roaming almost felt like death himself seeking out each and every person in there to place his mark on their head. It weirds me out just thinking about it, and I’m gonna go hug someone after I post this.

I’ve got to agree with AfterHours though. I connect with so much of this stuff, which is why I’m so obsessed with music.

I think my favoritist memories, like Seth’s, are those times you’re playing music with people you love, and there’s just a connection between everyone and the music. Those times when nobody is calling the shots, and the music itself has taken control. Those are powerful experiences, and now I miss playing in bands.

Gonna go get that hug now.

Re: Musical Epiphanies:

RoundTheBend — Sun, 6 Jan 2019 01:21:07 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 01/06/2019 06:21

I'd have to say the greatest musical epiphanies I've had are more when I'm playing music. It's like I'm not even there and the music is in control. My subconscious takes over. This is increasingly amazing when the musicians you are playing with let loose as well and you connect on this subconscious level. It's easily one of the most beautiful things you can experience.

I think the same happens with listening to music - you don't cry or really fall for music, imo, as a conscious effort. It's subconscious. Sure you can be conscious about it eventually, but the real "epiphanies" aren't fabricated, forced, or even entirely logical.

In German philosophy/literature about in the 1800s was all about this subconscious/inspired by nature and not that of the learning from books/pure rationalism. Pure rationalism was the death of art. A great book that encapsulates this (aparently there's a wive's tale Napoleon had it on him at all times) is The Sorrows of Young Werther https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_(literature)

Re: Musical Epiphanies:

babyBlueSedan — Sun, 6 Jan 2019 00:46:04 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 01/06/2019 05:46

Yeah, if I didn't get these kinds of feelings from music I don't think I would keep listening to it. Last time I listened to Two Paintings by Nikolai Astrup I cried for basically all nine minutes.

On the other end of the spectrum, the moment at 2:38 where Everyday by The Field explodes is like pure joy in music form.

Re: Musical Epiphanies:

AfterHours — Sun, 6 Jan 2019 00:21:56 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 01/06/2019 05:21

Literally thousands of times. My "Greatest Albums" and "Greatest Classical" lists are practically nothing but (each album/Classical work in their own extraordinary way), consistently at the bottom, and then increasingly so the higher the rating.

The following happens every time I listen to any of the highest rated albums/Classical Works:

"At 9.3+, the work will seem like an utterly impossible achievement. An achievement so astonishing that, regardless of the type of emotional and conceptual content, it inspires awe comparable to a life-changing, miraculous religious experience, an elaborate series of mind-blowing epiphanies, or as if discovering, beholding and unraveling some very profound mysteries of existence. It will produce such effects thoroughly and in a manner so singular and exceptional that it will tend to completely revolutionize one's concept of what an artist and work of art are capable of expressing."

"At 9.8+, the work will be so beyond the generally perceived heights of human artistic capability that it is very difficult to adequately describe. It is a work that would be overwhelmingly miraculous, and would tend to leave one astounded, moved and struck by waves of epiphany throughout the experience towards a seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, staggering emotional depth and conceptual significance."

Re: Musical Epiphanies:

Sandinistar — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 21:49:11 GMT

Author: Sandinistar

Posted: 01/06/2019 02:49

The first 6 seconds of "Astral Weeks"

Re: Musical Epiphanies:

JOSweetHeart — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 21:03:55 GMT

Author: JOSweetHeart

Posted: 01/06/2019 02:03

I love to watch my late beautiful precious Steve Sanders of the Oak Ridge Boys sing here and here and here. Sadly them links are the only places to hear him sing the songs because his performances of the songs were never placed on any albums. 😢 😢 😢

God bless you and those who have loved him longer than me always!!!

Holly

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Antonio-Pedro — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 20:57:41 GMT

Author: Antonio-Pedro

Posted: 01/06/2019 01:57

lol do you guys remember the first time you heard I LOVE YOU JESUUUUUUS CHRIIIIIIIST?

Re: Musical Epiphanies:

NowhereMan — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 20:54:40 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 01/06/2019 01:54

Random one from me:

That bass at the end of Magical Mystery Tour combined with the piano. (song)

Scared the the senses out of me first time I heard it.

I almost always have an eargasm also as the piano jangles down towards the end of Surf’s Up.

Re: Musical Epiphanies:

Tap — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 20:49:29 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 01/06/2019 01:49

around 1:30 in Julia Holter - Everyday is an Emergency, in the right ear there's this little pitch bend that the moog does and I was like "holy shit I didn't even realize there was synth in this" and then was able to hear everything a lot clearer.

Musical Epiphanies:

NowhereMan — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 20:24:30 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 01/06/2019 01:24

Do any of you here have musical epiphanies?

It may not even be an entire song that really catches you, it might be the bridge in a song, a certain chord progression that lasts for albeit of 5 seconds

What special moments in your music listening each time you return to them really give you the feels and give you those watery pupils and makes your hair stand on end?