Have you ever had one of those tracks you just keep circling back to? You know the ones I mean, tracks that inspire a profound feeling, make you feel deeply and which move you. I've got several. I may not play them every day or even every week but they still seem to impact upon me and take me places, emotionally.
Today I had one on repeat for a while as I was driving and I thought I'd share it.
Back a while, I used to write far more fiction on the blockchain than I do now. I still write it, I just don't share it on the blockchain much these days. Listening to the track I mentioned above made me think of a post I wrote around the feelings that that particular track brought me a couple years ago and the post it inspired me to write that day called, torturously splendid. The link will take you to it if you're interested.
I immersed myself in the feeling that track brought and applied some of my own memories to the fictional story and even now, a couple years later, on hearing the track I'm taken back to that fictional post, and the realities that permitted me to write it in the first place. That's kind of cool I think.
The track is called Ecstasy by ATB and, whilst quite simple in nature, fills me with really nice feelings of passion, happiness, thoughts of someone special and moments like I describe in the post I linked above. Music has such power over our emotions right?
I assume most of us have similar feelings when we hear certain tracks and, whether you read the linked post and listen to the track or not, I thought it would be cool if you'd like to share a single track in the comments below, one that makes you feel deep emotion.
Feel free to link to the YouTube video of the track and write a few words about it as well. Also, feel free to simply comment on the track I mention here or my linked fiction writing if you happen to read it.
Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default - Tomorrow isn't promised so be humble and kind
The image in this post is my own
Hey I know that track and love it. Had it on my iPod for years, have nice memories linked to it. I'm glad to know you like it too. How cool is that!
Not just emotions, but power and strength in general. I have a track that I listened to for 8 hours, continuously, before I had surgery and I got through it tolerating pain like crazy. The doctor said he has never seen anyone tolerating pain like I did. The funny thing is, the song may seem nothing special, it is from a stupid movie, but for some unexplained reason had this effect on me. Worked like a real drug and I'm glad for it. I'm going to listen to it again this year when I'll have another surgery. So yeah, music is power! And music is life.
Now I'm off to read that other post.
Yeah, Ecstasy is a great track for sure, and it's cool you like it too! That track you linked is pretty good also...I listened to it as I'm ironing some work shirts. Lol. (I'm an expert ironer.)
I hope you like that other post, just something I threw together.
I've just read the other post, the writing is good, very good. There's some lost talent there for sure.
Watch out, don't iron a brown pattern on your shirt. I mean abstract is in vogue, but still 😂
That's an Italian track that was created for the movie, the lady is a model and actor, but I like it.
Don't distract me, I'm ironing! Lol.
Yeah, I've written quite a few like that post, some others, war ones and all. I enjoy it.
Lol.
I really like almost every track on Gerald Trimble's album First Flight, and these tunes tend to trigger feelings of exploration and anticipation because one of the first "game mods" I ever attempted was just dropping the MP3 files into the exploration music folder for Morrowind.
More along the lines of your ... electronic ... preferences [scornful glance of derision], I suggest taking a look at tunes from the late Nathan Wills if you haven't already. It's essentially a catalog of creative commons, attribution license instrumentals of wildly varying moods.
I'm fortunate to have a very broad musical taste, I wrote about it some time back. I was exposed to a lot of music as a kid, probably because I was, and am, a musician.
Your track sounds very folk-musicy. I like that sort of music a lot, especially the Irish stuff.
I tend not to be too into electronic music, but there's a few tracks, like the one in this post, that resonate. I'll check out your suggestion.
Techno (is that even the right name for the genre?) isn't my usual style either, but my condescension was in jest. Some still lurks in my library.
We all have musical lurkers in our playlists somewhere...Some of them come out now and then. One-day I may do a #weekend-engagement topic on it...and might even own up to one or two of my own playlist lurkers.
Hmm. Should I dig up some Jewish Klezmer and Cajun Zydeco, or dive straight into some indie hip-hop?
🤣 I'm definitely doing this as a topic. It seems there's some excellent lurkers just waiting to be inflicted upon our ears!
I got no comment.
But Jackson Dean does.
And those comments/lyrics fit my mindset and place in this clown world today...
Don't Come Lookin'
I haven't heard that track before. But I went and listened to the entire thing before writing this. Wow, good groove there. I saved it and added it to my Apple Music list.
I kind of had a image in my head of one of those movie montages when someone is working on a problem over a period of time.
What tracks inspire me... Depends on my mood. It could be some 80s song (music of my youth). I can never not enjoy She Blinded Me with Science. Sometimes I'm in the mood for some 70s prog (I was on a dark side of the moon kick several times as a kid, listening to it front to back many times in a row. I fell into that a week of so ago after reading news of the 50th anniversary). Sometimes classical. I think Tchaikovsky's violin concerto Op 35 is just amazing and I fall into listening to that many times. Bach's Cello Suite No 2 in D minor is a constant favorite. My absolutely favorite classical suite is Beethoven's Archduke. Op97. Sometimes I fall into a funk and some blues helps be find my groove again. Jazz is another mainstay. There is something so expressive and free about jazz. The classics of course: Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Coltrane, etc, but others as well. There is some amazing Japanese jazz. Look up a guy called Ryo Fukui sometime. Dude taught himself piano and released his first jazz album not long after, and it is amazing! There are some great indie swing jazz bands these days that try to capture that sound of the 20s and 30s. And of course there are the Uber-inspirational songs like the Rocky theme or Eye of the Tiger. I always listen to those on repeat when I'm jogging or working out at the gym. There is also a lot of Japanese folk music that inspires me.
But anyway, you said one, so here's one. It's called Tank and it is one of the best uptempo bebop pieces you will hear.
That's the original version. They did a live one over zoom at the start of the pandemic that is really of note because the sax player is just killing it (even more than on the original recording). Here's that:
More than any of what I listed above in that brain dump paragraph, Tank can always work for me.
Anyway, sorry for the long comment. 😅 I can get a little excited about music...
You have a very broad musical interest which I think is good. I amhave the same. So many people confine themselves to a certain genre and I think they miss out on some great value by choosing not to broaden their horizons.
I think life is too short not to open up to different things and with music it's so easy to deal with if one doesn't like it, just don't listen again. Seems simple.
Absolutely. People get stuck in a certain genre and never explore out of it. We should explore everything. Then, as you say, if one doesn't resonate with us, just skip it and move on. But keep exploring.
This song is one of the best memories Galen I have and in fact, I use it a lot in closings, workshops, and personal growth and development courses because of the expectation of the good, the peace, the beauty of love that is not something that happens to you, it is a way of being alive.
I've seen Shania Twain in concert, which was very good. She was very dynamic on the stage, and a great singer. This is a good track, well worthy of being on the short list.
That's right Galen, they are all great and sing with soul, life, and heart, they transmit a lot of good energy, the kind that inspires, it makes me happy that you like it and keep it on your list of good music. 🎹
Loved the music on this one, it's surely doesn't belong to a genre I'm much familiar with, but I really did like this one, Ecstasy.
I keep coming back to a lot of songs; I seek refuge in some of them, some are there to remind of the good times, others are there to remind me of what once was, some for fun, just for the moment. There's a huge list, a list that I can't even remember too well; different languages, genres, multiple decades of music, you name it. I lose track all the time.
Recently I've been listening to this kid a lot, the kid has soul. He's fairly new, has quite an unique voice and style; it's actually tough to find such music in this new age of artists and songs.
Hmm, that's an interesting voice this chap has. It's a good song for sure, ai'll take a listen of some other tracks and see what I think.
Like you said, music has the ability to transport us to moments in outlr life, good and bad, and that's something special I think.
And it's probably only music that is capable of doing this. Any other form of "entertainment" does not provide the same feeling.
I agree, it is very powerful, and has been for many thousands of years.
I've already written a post on this topic heh heh!
Definitely the song I listen to the most and that always touches me deeply, I leave the link to the video...
when I listen to this song I always feel serene; I love every version and obviously my favorite is the original one but I also love this one that I put in the comment and it gives me so much energy.
Listening to this song I also think back to many good memories; in short, let's say that when I want to carve out 5 minutes of peace, serenity and maybe even reflection, I listen to this track and let my mind and heart go.
Yeah, I remember you saying about this track. It's a good one for sure. There's so many good tracks out there and ai like to expand my musical library by searching for them now and then. I have my good old faithfuls though, like most of us.
Yes I agree, I also love listening to new things but there are always traces that we carry with us for life😉🤗
Aal izz Well
I don’t know if everyone is familiar of the Bollywood Movie, 3 idiots! That is my ultimate favorite movie! It tackles about friendship, love, achieving dreams, and fighting for what is right. The movie depicted a lot of real problems in life, education, family, tradition and ambitions. And every time I am in a difficult situation, mostly overthinking, I always recall the music or track of the movie. And that reminds me that All will be well!.
I'm not familiar with any Bollywood movies although met an Australian actress that acts in some of them a few times back in the day when I was younger. Tania Zaetta is her name.
Thanks for sharing that music, it's great when music touches us a little more deeply than our ears huh?
I didn't know Tania Zaetta was in Bollywood films.
Yeah, didn't make it here really, so got a gig over there apparently although how they work her Australian accent in is a mystery. I've never seen a Bollywood film, and probably never will.
im not also very familiar if bollywood movies but amir khan's movie are really quality.
But yes, those musics that penetrate deep down are the best.
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