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Funnily enough, in the 10 or so pages that cover this sub-forum, not one refers to this.
I have to confess I only started thinking about this recently. I've realised there are only two types of music. "Negative Music" and "Positive Music". But in all the myriad plethora of sub-genres, not once do you see these mentioned.
So I think it's important to take a few minutes to explain these genres and thereby adding a small quantitiy of knowledge into this ocean of data called GTPlanet.
Negative Music works like this: You'll hear a song on the radio and immediately think "I like that song; it's one of the catchiest tunes I've heard in years!", so the first chance you get you buy a copy. The second time you hear it, you still like it but somehow the song doesn't seem as fresh. The third time you hear it, you notice that it really is kind of a formula song. The fourth time, you notice that it actually is a very repetitive formula song. The fifth time you hear it, you notice it is very similar to the other 39 songs that they play on the top 40 radio stations. The 10th-89th time you hear it (because they're playing it all the time on the radio and you can't change radio stations fast enough) you really begin to despise the song.
That's how Negative Music works; even though not one of the song's digital image changes, every time you hear it, the song gets progressively worse, until finally, hearing the opening notes of the song is aking to the sound of fingernails scraping the blackboard.
Positive Music is, of course, just the opposite. You'll listen to a song only because they stuck it on a CD with some other music that you already like, and you're too lazy to hit the skip button and go around it. The first time you hear this song, you think "Oh, that's one of those mediocre songs that they use to fill up CDs." The second time you hear it, you notice there are some subtle things going on that you completely missed the first time. The third time, you notice even more details that you missed before. The fourth time you realise that the melody, while not immediately catchy, is growing on you.
The eighth time you hear it, you notice you are still finding new things to like about this song. The eleventh time you hear it, you begin to think that this could become one of your all time favourite tunes. The twentieth time you hear it, you get all excited about the song, so you grab your CD, rush over to a friend's house and say "Man, you GOTTA hear this!", and after you play it, your friend says "I think that's one of those mediocre songs they use to fill up CDs" and you go "What?! Are you freakin' DEAF??!!", and then...
But you get the idea. Positive Music somehow gets better every single time you hear it.
Share your experiences with negative and positive music.
I think one of my worst experiences with Negative Music was with Apollo440's Stop The Rock, to the point that I can't listen to it nowadays. Best with Positive Music was definitely Metallica's Disposable Heroes.
I have to confess I only started thinking about this recently. I've realised there are only two types of music. "Negative Music" and "Positive Music". But in all the myriad plethora of sub-genres, not once do you see these mentioned.
So I think it's important to take a few minutes to explain these genres and thereby adding a small quantitiy of knowledge into this ocean of data called GTPlanet.
Negative Music works like this: You'll hear a song on the radio and immediately think "I like that song; it's one of the catchiest tunes I've heard in years!", so the first chance you get you buy a copy. The second time you hear it, you still like it but somehow the song doesn't seem as fresh. The third time you hear it, you notice that it really is kind of a formula song. The fourth time, you notice that it actually is a very repetitive formula song. The fifth time you hear it, you notice it is very similar to the other 39 songs that they play on the top 40 radio stations. The 10th-89th time you hear it (because they're playing it all the time on the radio and you can't change radio stations fast enough) you really begin to despise the song.
That's how Negative Music works; even though not one of the song's digital image changes, every time you hear it, the song gets progressively worse, until finally, hearing the opening notes of the song is aking to the sound of fingernails scraping the blackboard.
Positive Music is, of course, just the opposite. You'll listen to a song only because they stuck it on a CD with some other music that you already like, and you're too lazy to hit the skip button and go around it. The first time you hear this song, you think "Oh, that's one of those mediocre songs that they use to fill up CDs." The second time you hear it, you notice there are some subtle things going on that you completely missed the first time. The third time, you notice even more details that you missed before. The fourth time you realise that the melody, while not immediately catchy, is growing on you.
The eighth time you hear it, you notice you are still finding new things to like about this song. The eleventh time you hear it, you begin to think that this could become one of your all time favourite tunes. The twentieth time you hear it, you get all excited about the song, so you grab your CD, rush over to a friend's house and say "Man, you GOTTA hear this!", and after you play it, your friend says "I think that's one of those mediocre songs they use to fill up CDs" and you go "What?! Are you freakin' DEAF??!!", and then...
But you get the idea. Positive Music somehow gets better every single time you hear it.
Share your experiences with negative and positive music.
I think one of my worst experiences with Negative Music was with Apollo440's Stop The Rock, to the point that I can't listen to it nowadays. Best with Positive Music was definitely Metallica's Disposable Heroes.
