Who is into listening to music?
By that I mean really taking it all in. Wife walks in and I've been home alone with the dogs all evening. Pink Floyd is jamming on the stereo and I'm sitting in my lazyboy, in the dark.
Wife: "What are you doing?"
Me: "listening to music."
Wife: "And? That's it? Nothing else? You're just sitting here in the dark listening to music? Not doing anything while it's playing?"
Me: "Yeah, I'm doing something... I'm listening to the music."
Now she is 6 years younger that I but still, a woman of her age, (late 40s) you'd think would remember sitting around listening to records. The younger crowd like our kids (both in college) never did anything like that. I'm just wondering if INGO people out there just play music in the background, or really listen to every little subtle detail of the song when it's on. If there is a song playing that I like... shut up. Sure, sometimes you just want to rock out to Kiss or AC/DC, but I'm talking about real musical, or complicated stuff like Pink Floyd. Off the wall stuff with a lot of detail, time change, different instruments, sounds... Vocals in harmony can be real cool too.
Pink Floyd
Electric Light Orchestra
Alan Parsons Project
Eagles (great vocals)
Led Zeppelin (really listen... not just rock)
Styx
Symphony music. Classics like Beethoven, Wagner, Tchaikovsky
Andrew LLoyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera
I also have to have a quality sound system. Can't stand cheap sounding speakers and such. I like loud, but it doesn't have to be loud all the time. It DOES, however, have to sound good. Strong tight bottom end, (not the mushy boomy crap like the ported boxes you hear in the ghetto blasting cars) with warm mids, and crisp (but not harsh) highs. When I was a young Private in West Germany in 1981, a lot of us spent all out money on albums and fancy stereos... Now, even my laptop has Bose speakers.
By that I mean really taking it all in. Wife walks in and I've been home alone with the dogs all evening. Pink Floyd is jamming on the stereo and I'm sitting in my lazyboy, in the dark.
Wife: "What are you doing?"
Me: "listening to music."
Wife: "And? That's it? Nothing else? You're just sitting here in the dark listening to music? Not doing anything while it's playing?"
Me: "Yeah, I'm doing something... I'm listening to the music."
Now she is 6 years younger that I but still, a woman of her age, (late 40s) you'd think would remember sitting around listening to records. The younger crowd like our kids (both in college) never did anything like that. I'm just wondering if INGO people out there just play music in the background, or really listen to every little subtle detail of the song when it's on. If there is a song playing that I like... shut up. Sure, sometimes you just want to rock out to Kiss or AC/DC, but I'm talking about real musical, or complicated stuff like Pink Floyd. Off the wall stuff with a lot of detail, time change, different instruments, sounds... Vocals in harmony can be real cool too.
Pink Floyd
Electric Light Orchestra
Alan Parsons Project
Eagles (great vocals)
Led Zeppelin (really listen... not just rock)
Styx
Symphony music. Classics like Beethoven, Wagner, Tchaikovsky
Andrew LLoyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera
I also have to have a quality sound system. Can't stand cheap sounding speakers and such. I like loud, but it doesn't have to be loud all the time. It DOES, however, have to sound good. Strong tight bottom end, (not the mushy boomy crap like the ported boxes you hear in the ghetto blasting cars) with warm mids, and crisp (but not harsh) highs. When I was a young Private in West Germany in 1981, a lot of us spent all out money on albums and fancy stereos... Now, even my laptop has Bose speakers.
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