How music hijacked our brains

[gnosticheresy_2]

Well, thanks to all who made this about your personal taste in music and turned a discussion into a browser-buster. How ego hijacked a thread.

About as generous as making a mixtape for someone you want to boink, show-offs. 'See how soulful I am?'

[psynapz]

I think one of the lessons learned by the USG media mind managers during Vietnam war protests was that there was far too great a cognitive dissonance from the safe idealized world view spooks embedded in TV and movies and the fascist system of war and poverty. So they started shifting from John Wayne and White Hats to Dirty Harry and The Godfather. And now 24 and gore galore.

Desensitization works. And blunting the idealism of youth is a national security project.

Ooh, sigged! Thanks both to Hugh and to IandI.

Yeah, so here's what's eat, eat, eating my brain as of late, thanks to Pandora radio and a 1-year-old:



and yes...


also including this little slice of film (at least in my head when it comes on the radio -- maybe someday she'll understand):


...the brilliance of which the world hasn't seen in a movie since:


Bar none.

[8bitagent]

Nice collection 8bit, coincidentally I just watched that 'Sabrina' clip a couple a days ago, I suddenly rembered it from some years ago. The song is good but the clip is even better no? Supposedly about nazigermany looking in the mirror trying to look pretty. I never got that and it took youtube comments to spell that out for me.

My friend showed me the video several years ago, and mentioned he thought it represented modern Germans moving forward while struggling with their past.

Curious what videos you have to recommend:)

Love Beetlejuice, especially the ending "Shake Shake Senora" sequence. There's just an unbridled innocent fun magic appeal of 80's movies, be it Breakfast Club, Goonies, Never Ending Story, Back to the Future,
UHF, Howard the Duck, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, etc. I rarely if ever see that kind of imagination or fun these days in movies

And good to see other Peter Gabriel fans! I absolutely love his full body of work, but also appreciate his newer work. Loved the "OvO" album


@Norton Ash: Aw, sorry man. Well I for one love hearing everyone's recommend or favorite bands/songs. It reminds me that as much as people might disagree there's a shared body of music people can enjoy.
I think there can be a dual discussion of personal music and the thrust of what that book covers.

[Wombaticus Rex]

This is a great topic and I too wish it didn't crash Chrome. C'est la vie, though, this will only come up again.

[Searcher08]

Two things I have come across that are (presently) outside of the Hauntology Zone

First a description of music from Mu, the lost continent of the Pacific

The musicians of the ‘orchestra’, who numbered two hundred at least, played from stationary flying platforms located all around the gardens, the palace and the pyramid. On each platform, a group of musicians played together on indescribably strange instruments and in such a way that the sound was distributed as though through gigantic stereophonic speakers.
The ‘music’ was not at all the music we are familiar with. Apart from a type of
flute that produced notes of a very special frequency, the instruments all
modulated the sounds of nature; for example, the howling wind, the hum of bees
in the flowers, the songs of the birds, the sound of rain falling on to a lake or of
the waves crashing on a beach. It was all so skilfully arranged - the sound of a
wave might originate in the gardens, roll towards you, pass over your head and
finish by crashing on the steps of the Great Pyramid.
I never would have imagined that human beings, no matter how advanced, could accomplish such a feat as that orchestral arrangement.
The crowd, the nobles and the King seemed to ‘experience’ the music from within their souls, so entranced were they. I would have liked to stay too, to listen and listen more, to allow myself to be impregnated by this song of nature.

Second
Music inspired by the Iarga contact experience. Kinda Procyon Space Hip-Hop
Enjoy!

[seemslikeadream]

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going through all my posts for the last 3 years ...sorry I just liked this one