How do people live without music?

[Atticus]

I have just spent a couple of hours with some very special---no, AMAZING---people: some of their names are Joplin and Cocker and Mitchell and Mercury and Young and---

At times I soared; at times I sobbed. From the wistful pain of Joni's "Both Sides Now" to feeling the hair stand up on the back of my neck with Janis's "Ball and Chain", the music pried my heart open after weeks of closing it to the hate and strife and sadness of our world.

Beauty still lives. Love is real and at least as tangible as pain.

Pick your genre, plug in those earbuds and open your mind and your heart. Listening can heal.

And, to those who may judge this a foolish or flippant post---i am smiling as I type---"pax vobiscum".

[elleng]

1. I never DO,

it's always with me.

https://weta.org/listen-live

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. We listen to music probably 12-15 hours each day

essential. when I am out in the garden, it is the music of nature....birds!!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I can't live without it. It's on almost all the time.

I am (or maybe was) a member of a small vocal ensemble that performs mostly early music. We did a concert on Feb. 23, had another scheduled for April but of course that was canceled. If we can ever sing again it won't be for at least another year and probably more. We might have to disband altogether, since like most small performing arts organizations we rely a lot on grants and contributions, which will be hard to come by after the economy crashes. I'm so sad about this and about all the other musicians and groups who can't perform anymore, and especially those whose careers and livelihoods are lost. I'm deeply grateful for all the recordings that already exist (thank you, Thomas Edison) - but I'm really going to miss singing.

[Cartoonist]

4. Best thing I ever bought

A Bluetooth speaker. Portable great sounding music. I wish we had these back in the 60's instead of those cheap transistor radios.

[tblue37]

5. I almost never play music anymore. I like it, but since I am severely hearing impaired, I have

to turn up the volume loud enough to disturb my neighbor. I do play some music occasionally, but not often.

Here, though, is something musical & truly special, by the same artist who did the brilliant "This Land Is Mine" animation. Here is a concise Wikipedia description:

Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 American animated musical romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley. It intersperses events from the Ramayana, light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets, musical interludes voiced with tracks by Annette Hanshaw and scenes from the artist's own life. The ancient mythological and modern biographical plot are parallel tales, sharing numerous themes.

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Here is "This Land Is Mine," in case you've forgotten it:


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[OkSustainAg]

6. Play my guitar and my harmonica

On my big back porch for the goats and chickens wondering around.

[Keth]

7. Music is my life..

I don't own a television, but I do own a turntable and I have a Bose amplifier that I listen to my iTunes playlists through.. Music is my life. I would be lost without it. Music and beer. I love riding my bike down by the Mississippi River just listening to my shuffle..

Lately, my heavy rotation includes Miles Davis "Kind of Blue", Fleetwood Mac "Tusk", Bruce Springsteen "Western Stars", Harry Styles "Fine Line" (love, love the song "She&quot , U2 "Joshua Tree", Minnie Riperton "Perfect Angel", Elton John "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player", my Christine McVie before Lindsey and Stevie joined the band playlist ("Remember Me" and "Keep Going On&quot , Joni Mitchell "Blue" and Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life."

I'm lost without my music.

[lindysalsagal]

8. They have a word for it:

Prison.

[Stuart G]

9. I know that you have seen this, but my favorite piece of music is below.

I can listen over and over and over, (and I have). I really love this music. (please ignore this if that is what you desire to do.. 5 min 41 seconds

In college, 50 years ago, a friend was in a chorus, singing this. So, I started listening after I heard him sing live. . I still love this one part of the 9th Symphony..by you know who.. I got to add this: Everyone seems to be enjoying this music. Small kids, older people, the people playing this, all the listeners..and ME!!!

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[appalachiablue]

10. No music, no life. It's universal, life wouldn't be the same w/o it.

It's why I subscribe to and follow the *DU MUSIC APPRECIATION GROUP.*

And there's the dopamine and other reward and pleasure- producing brain chemicals released when we listen to music.

- "Dopamine modulates reward experiences elicited by music"

Science Daily, Date: January 24, 2019 Source: University of Barcelona Summary: A new study reveals a causal link between dopamine and human reward response to music listening.Researchers pharmacologically manipulated dopaminergic transmission of 27 participants while listening to music and showed causal link between dopamine and pleasure.

While levodopa increased hedonic experience and motivation, risperidone led to a reduction of both. These results shed light on neurobiology and neurochemistry underpinning reward responses, contributing to an open debate on human pleasures.

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveals a causal link between dopamine and the reward responses in humans when listening to music..
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190124110958.htm

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. Yesterday, I watched the movie "Yesterday."

It’s a fantasy/comedy.

The premise behind is that there’s a sudden worldwide power outage that somehow caused the entire world to forget the existance of The Beatles. Except for the main character, who just got out of a coma, and he rises to stardom singing the Beatles catalog as if he were the one to create them.

It was cute. Lighthearted fun. But it did seem to speak to the idea behind your post, which is that the world would be less without music, even if it were just one artist or band’s contribution.

[Ilsa]

14. The Beatles, Coca-Cola, and surprise ending...

Harry Potter!

Love that movie!

Hubby missed the brief reference to Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

[PETRUS]

12. I dunno.

Before I logged in to DU, I was playing my guitar. Even when I'm not practicing or listening, I often have tunes going through my head. Music is one of my favorite things in life.

[llmart]

13. I couldn't.

Music has and always will be a big part of my life. Books and music and nature/the outdoors. I need these things as much as I need the air I breathe. There's never been a time when I didn't love music. My father was a musician. All of his children except for one sister has musical talent. We were a large family and poor but my parents always managed to buy those of us who wanted to play a musical instrument the instrument of choice. What I listen to at any given time is dependent on the mood I'm in or the mood I want to be in. So these days it's uplifting Motown and a lot of the old songs from my youth (the 60's).

Joni's "Both Sides Now" was playing in my house just this morning. I can close my eyes and I'm back at 19 years old with my two roomies, having the times of our lives.

[Skittles]

15. easy

it's called MISOPHONIA

[Ilsa]

16. Et cum spiritu tuo.

Right back at 'cha.

Stevie Ray V has been on my mind lately. And in my car speakers.

[Atticus]

18. Always wanted one of those hats! Somehow, I doubt it would have looked so

cool on me.

[ornotna]

17. We don't

There's giant selection of music right here on DU

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1034

[madinmaryland]

19. To be honest, I do...

I can’t focus at work with something playing in my ears. White noise is fine, but music is just is an annoyance as is random conversations at work. When I come home, my wife and I just like having conversations and not music. Once in blue moon, we might listen to some music.

[Mendocino]

20. Copland and Bernstein

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[KY_EnviroGuy]

21. Damifino.

Been grooving with session guitar master Louie Shelton videos on YouTube today.

Absolutely amazing member of the Wrecking Crew: https://www.youtube.com/user/loujazz99/videos

AN INTRODUCTION

Over the past several decades you would have heard Louie Shelton’s signature guitar riffs and solos on more hit records than any other session guitarist in history. While there are too many to mention, some of his classics include, Boz Scaggs‘ “Low Down”, Lionel Richie’s “Hello”, Neil Diamond’s “Play Me”, The Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back”, “ABC” and “I’ll Be There, The Monkees’ “Last Train To Clarksville” and “Valerie”. Some of the other artists Louie recorded with include John Lennon, Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, The Carpenters, Joe Cocker, Kenny Rodgers, The Mamas & Papas, James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald and many others.

Not only did Louie play guitar on Seals & Crofts greatest hits, “Summer Breeze”, “Diamond Girl”, “We May Never Pass This Way Again” and “Get Closer”, he produced their many Gold and Platinum albums. Some of Louie’s other production credits include Art Garfunkle, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Dan Seals, Cory Wells (of Three Dog Night), Jane Oliver, The Southern Sons, Mother Hubbard and Nashville Guitars.

KY......

[spanone]

22. 3 and 1/2 years without a note out of the white house.

[kentuck]

23. I just listened to Ball and Chain also!

At Monterey.
I could not make it without music.

[Atticus]

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