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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDoes music ever make you spontaneously burst into flames?
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Does music ever make you spontaneously burst into flames? (Original Post)
FSogol
Feb 2018
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Yonnie3
(19,228 posts)1. No, but sometimes it stimulates
my appetite.
underpants
(195,065 posts)2. Like a hairdresser on fire
But there were these drummers in this weird band...
Paladin
(32,316 posts)4. Yep. Final movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.
Happens every freaking time. Nothing left of me but ashes and embers.
FSogol
(47,531 posts)5. LOL, the 1st movement's invasion theme is repeated 12 times, more and more loudly.
Last edited Tue Feb 20, 2018, 11:12 AM - Edit history (1)
An example of how banal repetition can lull an audience into submission.
Paladin
(32,316 posts)6. So I make a good-faith post to your thread, and you insult my taste in music?
I thought DU left that sort of bad manners behind, once Bernie Sanders was no longer a presidential candidate.
FSogol
(47,531 posts)8. LOL, I submit! Please don't play it again.
malthaussen
(18,415 posts)7. Of course. That's why I keep water on my desk. n/t
Ferrets are Cool
(22,539 posts)9. I do not instantaneously combust, however
I do burst into tears when listening to certain songs(many of them performed by Pat Metheny)....two of which are
Are you Going With Me?
and The First Circle
(sorry, there isnt a HD version that I can find)
elleng
(141,926 posts)10. Not exactly FLAMES, but but but
And by the master HIMSELF!
Ptah
(34,002 posts)11. Great Balls of Fire
lastlib
(27,593 posts)12. No, but I frequently burst spontaneously into song.....
which gets me a lot of weird looks (with my voice, death stares, mostly...) from people around me. One guy told me once that he had a cow that sounded exactly like me--so he shot her. I have a host of friends!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(129,223 posts)13. No; I was never a drummer for Spinal Tap.