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If I listen to music froma certain point in my life will it benefit me?

Jack Denfeld

16:48 / 10.04.05

If I start listening to the same music from when I was on top of my game will it put me in a mood where I'm at the top of my game or will I just be listening to old music trying to relive my glory years?

Mistoffelees

17:27 / 10.04.05

Sounds like nostalgia.

You should not listen to that music, probably gets you depressed. Find some new artists, or better yet, genres. In the last years, I discovered dub, stoner rock, and metal (scandinavian, not US metal).

When I read your post, all those nostalgic songs invaded my mind: "Those were the days, my friend" (Mary Hopkins), and those songs by bryan adams (summer of 69), don henley (boys of summer) and bruce springsteen (glory days). Have to flush them out now!

Alex's Grandma

20:27 / 10.04.05

Glory days, they just pass you by...

I don't know if the old music's going to help you here much Dangerfield. You need to get yourself back out there with a whole new approach, with fresh threads, a snappy haircut and - I'm picturing an updated version of Tony Curtis, Marcello Mastrianni or Robert Vaughan in the early Sixties - a spring in your step, dammnit.

Enough of this hiding out in your apartment listening to Korn ! Enough of the hookah pipe ! Those streets you can hear outside the window, those are your streets John - if you go out and own those mothers like you seriously mean it, then before you know it the game it used to feel like you were on top of will surely just seem like so much dust off the heels of your crocodiles.

Brigade du jour

21:55 / 10.04.05

Go ahead and listen to old music you listen to if you feel like you've changed a lot AS A PERSON (as opposed to what, a cheeseboard?) since you last listened to it.

For example, I listened to Led Zep as a teenager and just didn't get it. Now I love it so much because I've heard so much other sutff in the interim. It really can put a whole different perspective on what you think of as familiar.

Tryphena Absent

23:15 / 10.04.05

Well Denfumbler I think that the new fangled music for the kids, much like the new fangled felt tip pens are reprehensibly imperfect. And as a result of this thorough imperfection you should only listen to old music. I assure you, it will transport you to purer times, when the grass was greener and every field had a young virgin skipping through it.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:14 / 11.04.05

So there you have it. The Wicker Man soundtrack it is.

Interestingly, I just read an interview in today's Guardian with Deborah (widow of Ian) Curtis, in which she says "...Ian taught me that if you put a piece of music on you sit down and listen to it. You don't get up and do the washing-up or anything. You listen to it. So that's what I tend to do. And I can't put Joy Division on and not listen to it all the way through. And you end up putting yourself in the past when you should be getting on with now."

Not sure if that helps any, but it seemed relevant.

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