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Mercury wrote:

Big respect for this post. Beautifully said and very much the same for me. I find it hard to express how fond I am of music. It's something so basic and elemental to me. It's a cliche, but it really is a part of me. I just absolutely love the feeling of connection I feel when I find a song or sound or album or artist I really connect with. Music can be of almost earth-shattering importance to me and it can be one if the nicest friends to have around, one of the best comforts to find in bad times or, really, any times at all. Music wraps itself up in all my memories and all the eras of my life. And the aesthetics and attitudes and culture of the sounds I love pervade my whole lifetime so far as far back as I can remember.

When I talk about music or specific artists or albums I am speaking about a whole package, not just the very material and shallow physical characteristics, but all the realizations, insights into life, new understandings, all the loves and even animosities and hates stirred up by the music, I am speaking of all my dreams and nightmares all there preserved and remembered in music. It forms almost the fabric of my experiences. I just love it.

When I speak to other, non-music-obsessed, people they don't seem to get it. They see music perhaps as simply and only a nice form of entertainment. Or they see it as something they like but don't get too into. My reality and my viewpoint on it is so very different. This is also one of the reasons I really love coming here and dealing with you guys. Many of you seem to share the same passion I have. In "the real world" that I live in, I don't see that in many people.

Hallelujah!

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I like the way it can make me feel invincible. There are a handful of songs that never fail to make me feel great about myself. It's also very fascinating the way something that seems so simple on paper can be so transcendental in reality.

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Music in many ways is both art and fashion. Putting on a unique kind of album isn't any different than putting on a special hat or shirt. Except that, while clothing can only change the external, music transforms your whole being.

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an_outlaw wrote:

... is that I can use it as a way to express myself. 😄 Does this simple statement ring true for you too?

Yes it does. It's not why I listen to so much music to begin with, but of course listening to (not making, mind) all this music is in itself a mode of expressing who I am. Well at least it does tell a lot about me, whether I want it to or not.

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I only listen to a few songs right now. 🫢

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