Anxiety said:

And, from what I have heard, the American versions do no justice for the original Hungarian version.

RazzBeret said:

Anyone who's fool enough to think that in death they'll be "caressin'" someone is probably doing the world a favor by checking-out.

2ndaccount said:

maybe you should write an answer song called "Lighten-Up Monday".

Anxiety said:

Everyone knows answer songs usually only achieve novelty status. Hardly worth the effort, don't you think?

Well, still, it proves that all music isn't about some fantasy love at first sight crapola, aside from the "caressin' you" part.

2ndaccount said:

yeah, but you could put a kid through school with it or something. market it into a licensing craze complete with t-shirts, bumper stickers, and a dumb-ass spin-off movie with david spade and tara reid, and you might be able to put two or three kids through school if you don't blow it all on drugs and bling first.

Anxiety said:

I'd copyright that idea if I were you...sounds stupid enough for someone to actually do.
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Anxiety said:

Put a kid through school with it? Not likely. Do you think if Weird Al Yankovic had had only one "hit", he'd have been able to put a kid through school with it? Come on! Be realistic.

2ndaccount said:

that's why you need to invest it early on, see.

it's clear you've never heard of the heirs to the 'pac-man fever' fortune.

superspaceboy said:

There are SO many..meditation, background, enjoyment etc.

Can't you meditate and, like, enjoy things without some tosser yelping and/or noodling around in the background?
Of course..and I said so later on in my post regarding ambient music...there's no yapping.


I think music expresses much of what it is through the sound not necessarily through words. Sure, you get feelings and understandings and different points of view from lyrical content, but I don't think most put them selves up against Music as an ideal...the same goes for TV, Movies and books.

Disagree with you there.
Why? Your argument is that people put music up as an ideal for their lives and that music is all pretty much false...it's other peoples thoughts and words and not our own and that we shouldn't mirror our lives against what we hear in music. I don't think that's true. If it was you might as well as do the same for the other things I mentioned. I think these mediums should inspire oneself not dictate oneself and with THAT thinking music is not an obstacle in my life...nor is it something I try to live up to.


I certainly have been enlighteded by lyrics and formed points of view becasue of some as well.

Can you share?
Sure, Music by Laurie ANderson is a fine example. By listening to her, one can discover lots of things about life. Some true, some funny, some insirational. She makes you think about things you normally wouldn't or paints images in ones mind and therefore plants seeds of knowledge and thinking. There are some artists who don't sing "Love me do" or "Greatest love of all".


But there was no ideal I was thinking of when I was down listening to the Cure's Disintegration. It wasn't telling me how to feel. But I felt the way I did when listening to it. It was a mood enhancer.

What is the point of a "mood enhancer"?
You know sometimes, when it rains or when you are feeling down, one may put on a Rainy day song or something. Or if you got the Blues...listening to the blues can actually make you happy. Or if you are in a good mood a band Like Dee lite and make it even happier. There is no point of a mood enhancer...other than enhancing the mood.

When you go on a date or want to get romantic with someone...don't you do anything to get in the mood. Isn't music sometimes part of that. It's not what the lyrics are saying, but I can put on Sade and make sweet love all night long and some of her songs are complete downers. But when one is getting it on...one aint listening to the lyrics...one feeling the grrove of the song.
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2ndaccount said:

Well you said...

A million different ways? Don't you think you're exagerrating just a tad there,Mr. Happy? Perhaps music can inspire you to rise above your current circumstances (but, ultimately, life is empty and meaningless anyway, so why bother?) and perhaps it can move you to have hopeless fantasies about "getting" the person you "love", or reuniting with the person who dumped your sorry ass (fat chance!). But move you in a million ways? Can you name some for me?

and my point is...maybe YOU read into lyrics and mirror them against your life...and maybe you shouldn't.

THAT's my point.

sounds like someone's in a little bit of an existentialist funk.

when i paint myself into that kind of a corner, i realize that when i make nothingness into the only thing that matters, i've kinda fucked up my whole perception of things. i'm all for existentialism, but it doesn't have to be a tool for nihilism.

Anxiety said:

Existentialism is important. It's partly how we can relate to each other.