Enhancers

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In response to the spoilers thread:

Can you think of any instances where the atmosphere whilst hearing a record for the first time thoroughly enhanced the listening experience purely by accident? I'm not just talking about how much better Born Slippy sounds in a club here, I mean how a record can take you completely by surprise in that atmosphere, then every other time you listen to it in 'normal' circumstances it sounds as if the first time's quality has vanished.

Gen (Gen), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

My example being when I first heard Isn't Anything. I had a small table lamp lighting my room instead of the light bulb for some reason, and it seemed to bring all the sleaziness of the songs to the forefront of what I was hearing at the time.

Gen (Gen), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I once listened to the Monkees "Another Pleasant Valley Sunday" while high as a kite on grass. I had sneaked up to my bedroom, avoiding the parental units and turned on the radio, randomly selecting a station as I tried to find the bed in my spinning bedroom.

Every part of that song broke itself out into different emotions, the harmonies (duh, duh-duh duh etc.) and of course, the social message that is still relevant today (suburban lemmings living a life of quiet desperation with beautifully tended lawns)..trouble is, in the intervening 14 years or so, I've become the exact person this song was rebelling against.

Hmmm...maybe that ganja acted like a portal into my future and my dizzyness was a reaction to the truth of what I've become. Or maybe I'm just talking through my arse.

Like that never happens.

Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)


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