The perfect music has

[SLAAKMAN]

Daw
@Slaakman: in music (and many other fields as well) perfection is very much subjective

True. However Im curious as to who, what & where floats your boat (and which universe you occupy)? All of those selections, though only a tiny fraction of the tens of thousands of tracks Ive collected mean the universe to me. Im hoping that God allows me to take my music to Heaven!

 

[SLAAKMAN]

#8 - "This video is unavailable" But did you mean Ozzy's? No... And Europe's is no better while different. It must have been something else.

No, #8 is "Dreamer" by Supertramp. A glorious Lied indeed!

 

[SLAAKMAN]

#9 - Stopped at 1:16. I'm not saying it was bad, but what made you include it in this selection of 11? It sounds so... ordinary...

I included it because Chrissy's voice so sentimental and gorgeous & the beauty of the guitar rifts bring me to tears. That song reminds me of a Soulmate I lost in 1984. God will one day restore her to me. It takes me to other dimensions.

 

[SLAAKMAN]

#10 - Really good choice. You get me on your side with this one.

Agreed. Its nothing short of miraculous.

 

[SLAAKMAN]

#11 - And this one reminded me I've never been a fan of David's...

That one turned out to be a juxtaposed prophecy. She was only dancing with me. Sometimes I still wonder where she ended up. She had no idea how much I loved her. No greater anguish & all that...

 

[SLAAKMAN]

All the above is not to argue about anything, it's just that there's no such thing as universally perfect music, apparently.

Yes, very astute observation (not being sarcastic). Scientific American did a keenly important piece on preferences (I wanna say it was the august 1994 edition) regarding which range people choose. Americans in general choose the D octaves (I think I used that correctly but Im guessing) while the Brits choose G. I also prefer G even though Im a Yank.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Cattail Down--Mewithoutyou was pretty interesting; i'll look further at them.

 

[_random_]

Cattail Down--Mewithoutyou was pretty interesting; i'll look further at them.

My favorite band tbh. It's All Crazy, It's All False is an album a lot of their fans didn't care for, but if you liked that song you'd probably like the whole thing. I'd move into Ten Stories from there, and I can recommend you further listening order based on what you think from that.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Thanks.

 

[Daw]

However I'm curious as to who, what & where floats your boat (and which universe you occupy)?

I think when is a more important aspect than who, what & where, because those three seem to be different at different times.

I fact, I am wholeheartedly supportive of that thing Birdjaguar said:

As I see it, there needs to be some semblance of a story involved.

So, depending on the listener's mood and condition and prior experience and many other characteristics (some of which likely are too subtle to trace and pinpoint), the listener either hears the story the music tries to tell, or not. Whether or not the story is worth hearing is a separate issue though.

To satisfy you curiosity specifically, when I was occupying the X3 universe my boat was floated by that:

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But I can't say it's exactly my genre. It's just that this particular thing made my skin crawl under those particular circumstances, and it might have failed to cast that effect on me at a different moment.

BTW, movies help creating the right moment a lot. The story the music there tells is connected to the movie story or some particular moment/event/mood there, so it is a lot easier to grasp. Speaking of those, my favorite 3 are:

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Also, I guess I can perpetually (or short of that) listen to reels.

In all those things repetition is massive. So I think repetition as such is not a question really. What's being repeated is. And whether it fits the specific listener (or the listener fits it).

 

[Birdjaguar]

Perhaps music and our delight in repetitions has its origins quite close to home.

 

[Daw]

Most probably

Also, footsteps. Most marches are good to be marching with because their rhythms match footsteps. Which, in its turn, often matches heartbeat - unless the walker's health condition is questionable.

 

[SLAAKMAN]

Daw,
X3 - Reunion Soundtrack: The Reunion

That was very beautiful. Ill add it to my collection! Thanks!

Лестница в небо (из к/ф "Тот самый Мюнхгаузен")

Yes indeed! Another fine selection.

 

[Narz]

According to my most recent like on Pandora the perfect music has :

electronica roots
tremendous bass
danceable beats
unsyncopated ensemble rhythms
use of modal harmonies
a wet snare
emphasis on instrumental performance
a bumpin' kick sound
a synth bass riff
arpeggiated synths
effected synths
a highly synthetic sonority
subtle use of white noise
trippy soundscapes
thickly layered production

Though usually I prefer House roots & Four on the floor beats.

The perfect music is not "getting away" with anything but the clear answers is the least repetition possible, the higher the level of repetition the quicker your brain get used-to/tired of the song.

 

[SLAAKMAN]

According to my most recent like on Pandora the perfect music has :

electronica roots
tremendous bass
danceable beats
unsyncopated ensemble rhythms
use of modal harmonies
a wet snare
emphasis on instrumental performance
a bumpin' kick sound
a synth bass riff
arpeggiated synths
effected synths
a highly synthetic sonority
subtle use of white noise
trippy soundscapes
thickly layered production

Though usually I prefer House roots & Four on the floor beats.

The perfect music is not "getting away" with anything but the clear answers is the least repetition possible, the higher the level of repetition the quicker your brain get used-to/tired of the song.

Link to video.

 

[Narz]

Not bad, thanks for sharing bro!