I prefer the 2000's and the 90's to the 2010's, I alredy talked about that on previous polls, but I am going to vote for 2016 because it is the year I voted for the 2010's and the year I voted for the other decades isn't on this round. So, as we vote for individual years, here goes my vote for 2016 with legends like Bowie, Cohen and Radiohead releasing fantastic albums.
1997 also produced one of my favorite bizarre music videos ever.
Discount Will Forte goes into a billboard portal advertising the country of Ecuador whilst being yelled at by an Ecuadorian man in a cowboy hat. While in Ecuador, the man gets lost in the desert, and is assaulted by bald eagles, vultures, and terrifying late 90's future ladies. At the end, we see that he is not the only one to have fallen for the cowboy's tricks, as there are more men wandering the desert drawn in by the woman's "sexy" dances. This was also made by a German and not someone from Ecuador. I rest my case for 1997.
I love all the input so far. The Third and final spot is still up for grabs and we'll have until some point on Tuesday to vote. _________________ Attention all planets of the solar federation: We have assumed control.
oh when I talked about what release decades I have given my attention to, that's just for the two years I've been keeping track. I've been listening to music for a lot longer than that.
I figured as much - I think we are on the same page - I briefly saw your statement, if you don't like old hats... and I see that as a similar thing... I'm finding from actually listening to about 150 2017 records at least once all the way through there are plenty of gems regardless of when they were released - you just have to find them and appreciate them for what they are.
I'm at least 50% sure that music is more or less like the pavlov's dog experiment.
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I'm at least 50% sure that music is more or less like the pavlov's dog experiment.
Care to expand on this thought just a bit? I'm interested.
Well at first, to be sure, I think the Pavlov's dog experiment was to reinforce behavior, right? Ring a bell and mouth salivated (because there was a reward of food).
I think about 50% of our musical experiences continue to get the bell rang because we received some kind of enjoyment/sustinance/etc out of them. I'm arbitrarily stating 50% of course. Some people like music because it rings their bell so to speak.
Whether that be because it socially agrees with them or reminds them of something or because it actually releases endorphins, etc.
We often don't return back to music that doesn't "ring our bell".
So another way to look at it is when we are "conditioning" ourselves by having an album "grow" on us or because of the x,y,z mental/social implications - I think we sometimes actually mentally condition ourselves to enjoy certain types of music. (if you keep listening to rock and get your rocks off with it and that's all you've done for 30 years, it's going to be hard to "rewire" your pleasure sensors).
I'm at least 50% sure that music is more or less like the pavlov's dog experiment.
Care to expand on this thought just a bit? I'm interested.
Well at first, to be sure, I think the Pavlov's dog experiment was to reinforce behavior, right? Ring a bell and mouth salivated (because there was a reward of food).
I think about 50% of our musical experiences continue to get the bell rang because we received some kind of enjoyment/sustinance/etc out of them. I'm arbitrarily stating 50% of course. Some people like music because it rings their bell so to speak.
Whether that be because it socially agrees with them or reminds them of something or because it actually releases endorphins, etc.
We often don't return back to music that doesn't "ring our bell".
So another way to look at it is when we are "conditioning" ourselves by having an album "grow" on us or because of the x,y,z mental/social implications - I think we sometimes actually mentally condition ourselves to enjoy certain types of music. (if you keep listening to rock and get your rocks off with it and that's all you've done for 30 years, it's going to be hard to "rewire" your pleasure sensors).
Makes a lot of sense. I didn't take into account the idea of conditioning by having a record grow on us. Makes perfect sense. Very cool analogy. _________________ Attention all planets of the solar federation: We have assumed control.
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