I am extremely sensitive to music and movies.
If I hear hard-core metal or rap, I become agitated to the point of being enraged.
If I hear classical music I want to close my eyes and visualize beautiful things.
Modern Jazz grates on my nerves, yet old-time Jazz and Blues pumps me up and makes me think about the good things in life.
Classic rock, swing, big-band, salsa, most 80's music, old country western, gospel, rhythm and blues, motown, and newer mainstream rock like Barenaked Ladies and Matchbox 20 all makes me happy.
If the song is sad, I feel the pain in it and cry, if it is happy, I am uplifted.
Do you feel music the same way? Does it reach a primitive side of you and control your emotions?
(if I'm sad and it's sad it makes it worse for awhile, if I'm happy and it's happy it makes it happier for awhile...etc. If my mood and the song's mood clash it's just annoying..)
Although classical *can* control my emotions extremely well at times. ^^
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Okay, so I'll explain better... [ 04-28-2002: Message edited by: Kloie ]
Music keeps me sane when the bad stuff's goin' down, ya got me? Parents are screaming themselves hoarse at each other again? Easy. Flip on the Kittie or Rancid or Weezer or Orgy or Korn or Veruca Salt or whatever. Sing-a-long, problem solved, I feel all better.
And if I am, say, going to be late for school, I switch to a fast Buckethead cd, must get my adrenaline going or something 
Deth and more silly-cerebral characters get songs like "Puttin on the Ritz" (reminds me of Young Frankenstein) and "Weird Science" (duh).
Silly romantics like Deth (and me in general) get to woo their lady loves by some bizarre tunes ("Build me up, Buttercup" and "Longest Time" to date, and Cher with Peter Cetera's "After all")
So I think the answer to the question is that I use music to sharpen a mood, or better define it.
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I love music. *sybars the music!*
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I can be calmed by heavy industrial music and energized by classical, and vice versa(SP) it depends on how I want that musical piece to effect me.
The Tea Party just sends me into my own little world, and there I am God, and it is good.
If I hear some really heavy metal or punk, or early 90's grunge or alternative... well, it makes me feel like all is right in the world. I can just sit back and float, and I am a rock goddess, and everything's OK.
Game music does STARANGE things to me.
