Music that makes a difference... with a small dose of science.

[ThagSimmons]

I am ADHD out the wazoo, which means quite a lot of things, one of which was I had an awesome childhood, well... until I got caught doing "stuff" it was awesome. Walking in the kitchen and having your mother just look at you and say... "YOU!" And of the 400 things you have done wrong that week, which one did she know about? No bloody wonder that I got anxiety, lol!


Ok, where was I?
At about age 10 I discovered Pink Floyd, and at age 11 saved my pocket money and bought Dark Side of the Moon about a month after it was released. And I never really understood why, but that album has been a staple for over 50 years.

I recently started researching why. 
OK, going to hang out my shingle here. 

DISCLAIMER: - This is one man's highly inflated opinion and should be taken with a grain of salt as in all probability he has absolutely no clue what he is talking about and no serious background knowledge in the subject other than what he would of read off the back of a cereal packet as a child.

That said, my favourite website is Google Scholar, and I read a lot of peer reviewed stuff from people with lots of letters after their name. 

It has taken me a while to piece this all together, but basically ADHD has a kryptonite!
And it is spatially fluctuating noises.

Let me explain, all your senses are dumped in a small ummm, wallnut sized part of your brain called the Thalmus. All except your sense of smell for some weird reason. And stimulants like Ritalin etc hype up the thalmus enough to ensure the person is getting enough sensory input to feel normal, and not all dead inside and needing to just... "do something".

Apparently sticking a set of earbuds in someone's ears and bouncing noises all around their head has the same effect. I will have to take the experts word on this, I don't have a MRI machine at my disposal to check like they do.

But I do know listening to Pink Floyd gave me and still gives me an inner peace, even after over 50 years of flogging it to death.

And an honourable mention to @tyme  for linking Tubthumping, awesome! Love that song.

My link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr0-7Ds79zo

Feel free to share a link for any music that has been special for you.
I'm curious what other people listen to.

[zvornu]

Yeah i like pink floyd also

[AuntGlow]

Ah, love this @ThagSimmons!! 

You have so much personality and I can tell you are super creative too. More music discussions would be an absolute vibe. 💅✨

My music stimulus changes all the time - but big sounds and lots of layers are my thing. Really into artists like Aurora right now. You might enjoy this, I think it's stunning:

https://youtu.be/vc6lQumV-I0?si=fhAvmQ5nfQNhuWkD

[Appleblossom]

Metoo

@ThagSimmons @zvornu  re the Floyd. My brother wanted the album so bought it for me in the 70s. Classic.

Mostly in our family we only listened to the other types of classic; Bach and Beethoven etc. so it was my first introduction to rock. I do music as medicine… helps with physical pain and social

https://youtu.be/v4azbl96BJY 

[ThagSimmons]

@AuntGlow , that's the sort of stuff I mean.
Awesome clip from Aurora, didn't know it existed, I do now and it's in the playlist.
The whole "big sounds and lots of layers" thing as you call it. It was poking my Thalamus [sp?] with a big stick, I wasn't looking out the window at anything, I was "there" for a moment.

And still there now, it is like you have just taken a very fast acting drug @AuntGlow , a drug that, depending on the circumstances, can give you a lift and just make you feel alive enough inside to stay focused and not seem to have a need for more outside stimulation for a while.

Which makes me wonder @zvornu whether you had any control over liking Pink Floyd? I have always reckoned if music was a drug, Pink Floyd was crack. And from what I have read lately it is soooo true!
@zvornu ever considered you might have a musical crack addiction?
I do! I got it out the wazoo! It is an actual physical reaction you can feel to a stimulant, it's a bloody addictive drug!
AND THEYRE SELLING IT TO OUR KIDS!!! lol.
You see them in the playground in small furtive groups, sharing earbuds and getting a hit at lunchtime... I'm onto them! Out there getting their eargasms so they can make it through double maths that afternoon.

*I think I just invented a new word... "eargasm", meaning to hear something pleasurable.

And @Appleblossom, a bit jealous here, all I got was Country AND Western when Dad got drunk enough.
I don't think *twitches*... I don't think *twitch* it affected me *shudders*... much.
Tammy Wynette is right up there with clowns for me, lol.(see note on clowns down the bottom) Oh... my... god... it just drains the life and soul out of me, and all the time it is droning on and on and on in a monotonous drone about someone's dog and a divorce my brain is screaming at me to get some Motorhead into it before I start having major organ failure.

Classical music is just good rock music unplugged.
Honourable mention to Beethoven's 9th, The European Unions national anthem, yep, the clever buggers chose Ode to Joy.
But this, this is just special, don't ever look up the lyrics though, it's pretty disturbing written by an obviously very disturbed man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qATbf5-D8bU

*clowns are just wrong, but that is a whole post in itself. (later) I intend to investigate the experiment in Darwinism that was my childhood. Lawn darts? Seriously, trampoline, wtf? if you didn't like me why didn't you tell me? lol.

[Appleblossom]

Yep @ThagSimmons when my girlfriend was carrying on about some well known person from some well known band I would look on with mild interest. I didn’t get all the hype. In a way I was lucky. We were not rich. My dad bought mum a piano before he died. She hammered away at it. 

I have performed O Fortuna, so yep am aware of the lyrics. lol. Did it in Beechworth. First remembered listening to Carmina Burana as a teenager but NOT with my mother.

Had a beautiful concert yesterday, with a music community. We played 4 items. Grateful but still struggling. I need a lot of music to keep going with all the stuff life throws at me.

https://youtu.be/ukhlt9efylE

[ThagSimmons]

ok @Appleblossom , first off, you are evil, coffee shot out my nose when I read this!
"listening to Carmina Burana as a teenager but NOT with my mother".
🤣😂🤣
Yeah, some of those medieval poems poke at some ummm, interesting subjects.
Still giggling now...

Listening to your link was interesting, I tried to pay attention to what was happening in my head.
Instantly all 6 bored bits of my brain fired up, it was like a pack of dogs seeing a squirrel, instant attention, music.
Bit 1 counted the 25 members and commenced to keep an eye on all of them for movement.
Bit 2 asked, "where's the French horn, and went looking.

Bit 3 was checking out the possible hotties at the back on the right that Bit 1 pointed out to him.
Bit 4 was fascinated that there was only 4 bald blokes there. And then went looking for other statistical anomalies it should tell me about...
Bits 5 & 6 were tapping their feet waiting for the music to start.
Then the music started after 7 seconds, and it got real busy in my head from there on in.

There was a lot happen in there in a very short time.

If I could describe music as some imaginary place your mind wanders to, the distinct feeling was I could, with very little imagination, be in a forest listening to the background ambience and hearing occasional "calls" from different birds etc, and trying to work out where they were coming from. I kept watching for movement, people taking a breath, the conductor doing something different, I had to know who was making what noise and was looking for clues, it had 100% of my attention.

It's actually a little bit weird to sit down an analyse your own head.

Ok, my effort this time.
I am going to ask everyone to hop out of their comfort zone and listen to some Mongolian throat singing accompanied by Latvian bagpipes. (seriously, you couldn't make this stuff up)

But first, honourable mention to the Can Can chorus, awesome bit of music, but I am going to link this.
I think this bloke is pretty big in the Throat singing universe.
@AuntGlow  and @zvornu , linking you in on this too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vztRqe_CHC0

[Appleblossom]

Wow! What a combo: Mongolian throat singing and Latvian bagpipes. Fabulous music and backdrop! I love fusion and intercultural stuff. 

@ThagSimmons your way with words is exuberant…. Thanks.

Just tagging a few more people. Come listen and look at this….thread.

@zvornu @AuntGlow @Sparky79 @Till23 @Dimity @Eve7 @Zoe7 @Faith-and-Hope @Shaz51 @avant-garde @Dreamy @ArraDreaming @Oaktree @outlander @Sophia1 @Bunniekins @Blackcloud 

on a personal note, I was living with my aunt and uncle at the time and I think there was an aspect of him radicalising me, when he showed me his Carmina Burana album.  Mother was dogmatic Catholic, note big C , not little c. Given a lot of family history…pretty important for me to connect the dots…thanks again.

[Appleblossom]

Wow! What a combo: Mongolian throat singing and Latvian bagpipes. Fabulous music and backdrop! I love fusion and intercultural stuff. 

@ThagSimmons your way with words is exuberant…. Thanks.

Just tagging a few more people. Come listen and look at this….thread.

@zvornu @AuntGlow @Sparky79 @Till23 @Dimity @Eve7 @Zoe7 @Faith-and-Hope @Shaz51 @avant-garde @Dreamy @ArraDreaming @Oaktree @outlander @Sophia1 @Bunniekins @Blackcloud 

on a personal note, I was living with my aunt and uncle at the time and I think there was an aspect of him radicalising me, when he showed me his Carmina Burana album.  Mother was dogmatic Catholic, note big C , not little c. Given a lot of family history…pretty important for me to connect the dots…thanks again.

[Shaz51]

Wow @ThagSimmons , @zvornu , @AuntGlow 

Thanks for the tag @Appleblossom 😊