OK I know v.little abt drugs directly since i bin straight edge most of my life BUT nate p. asks for pick-up music better than cocaine and i DO know that cocaine's up precedes a down blah blah
so if there's music that gets you high ON ITS OWN, is there a down sometimes
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 26 September 2002 08:18 (twenty-three years ago)
I go mad, simply mad, when I hear a yodel
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:47 (twenty-three years ago)
Interesting. What is 'a high' then Mark?
For myself, there is very little in listening to music which is comparable to the 'high' of a drug induced stimulation. And the only downs I experince are really related to my perceptions of the wider cultural ramifications of specific musical phenomena or my perception that the music has been recorded cynically.
Mood-wise, I am wont to be made sombre listening to stuff like Cohen and sometimes Dylan, Young's Tonight's the Night - mostly stuff where I can relate the music to the context in which it has been made. And I get elated by... probably by enthusiasm more than anything else I think - like listening to stuff with friends and all babbling about how stroke why is is great stroke not great and everything in between. Like two days ago, me and some others were spinning Randy California's Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds and getting ridiculously into it and all talking at each other about great guitarists, linking California to McCabe, how Mitchell is the don, compiling top 3 drummer lists, you know how it goes - a million conversational tangents. And all those moments of excitement, agreement, disagreement, negotiation etc are [some of] what really get me off I think.
Actually, I also get elated attempting to link music to the context, like listening to Streetfighting Man and imagining hearing it back then. Fucking hell - the rush of that when it was freshhh. I am a naive romantic.
As a footnote: Mark - just had a thought about the corrolation between brain patterns and the reactions of clubbers on a night out. In my experience, regular ecstacy users experience seratonine rushes when they hear that first drum roll as they walk in through the door almost as an instinctive anticipation of the self-same simulated stimulation which will follow later.
ps: Try some drugs Mark.
― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)
I think that Roger Fascist may represent some kind of new British Fascism. (I don't know why - I think it's something to do with his name.)
― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)