Music and your imagination

[Stormwatch]

Point taken, that was badly worded on my part, and it wasn't meant that way. This threads just for people to say whether or not they have any particular songs that have an imaginary effect, not saying its better or worse

Well I do! I posted two! But I get your point

 

[DE]

of course

 

[Hammer of Might]

DE opens up another angle of this actually - albums or songs that you connect with real life events or moments from the past! Not quite the same because it often has little to do with the moment itself, but that can still have powerful connections.

For example, Children of Bodom albums always remind me of being on a plane to Australia, because they were one of the first of the more "extreme" metal bands I discovered, and had on my music player at the time

 

[DE]

yah i edited my post because i totally misunderstood you

what i said is something that happens to pretty much everyone, but what you said is something very different

 

[Carcassian]

Different thread required for that discussion, methinks. Images conjured by the music are different to memories invoked by the music.

 

[Hammer of Might]

agreed

 

[unknown]

With that album, I get the last few people on earth after some sort of huge disaster just waiting for nature to finish them off. They know there are too few of them to survive, and time is going to finish them off - the wilderness waits at the edge of their camp, waiting for them to be weak enough to finally snuff them out.

I could totally see that

 

[Blinded By Blood]

I usually associate music with a certain time period when I listen to it

I get a sad, sorrowful feel from Bergtatt, something similar with Agalloch, and the song Not Saved by Ulver conjures up that exact feeling of being not saved. Isis has an oceanic feel to their music as well for some reason

 

[Manbient]

I actually made a thread on something similar in the Opeth forum a few days ago.

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=228618

if you're bored and want a read. In short, absolutely i associate music with images and places. There are entire genres of music which exist for the sole purpose of generating these images, and these styles have been my favorite for over 2 years now. I love when music makes me feel like i am somewhere else.

 

[Demilich]

I read somewhere they put forward masking in their music to promote alcohol use...I don't see it somehow.

that sounds like the most pathetic roundabout attempt to disguise the words "THEY ACTIVELY AND OPENLY PROMOTE ALCOHOL USE IN MOST IF NOT ALL OF THEIR SONGS!"

 

[cookiecutter]

A lot of music makes me imagine things.
If nothing else it makes me imagine the band playing the song, or the color of the album art.
Here are some of the more powerful one for me:
Hypocrisy-Slippin Away:Makes me think of a guy lying down stabbing himself with a knife
Vader-The Sea Came in at Last: Makes me think of a man standing alone in a surreal abandoned city as the sea slowly envelopes it.

 

[Susperia]

Hypocrisy-Slippin Away:Makes me think of a guy lying down stabbing himself with a knife
.

I kind of agree, but it's more than that. To me the song conveys the kind of desolate hopelessness, that when he actually does stab himself, it is a good thing. Like it's his realease and it's almost pleasureful. That's the impression/feeling I get.

 

[CF87]

I heard a hyprocrisy song where peter says something like 'fuck you don't judge me' and I turned it off because it sounded like slipknot and newer in flames.

It reminded me of when I was 13.

 

[Susperia]

That was off Catch 22. That album sucks... For some reason Tagtgren was actually trying to sound Nu-Metal.

 

[Under The Oak]

I heard a hyprocrisy song where peter says something like 'fuck you don't judge me' and I turned it off because it sounded like slipknot and newer in flames.

It reminded me of when I was 13.

Good metal is all about judgement and hating other people/races.

 

[Manbient]

I never did quite understand what was great about Hypocrisy. My loss i guess

Here's a song that gives me extremely vivid imagery. Every time i hear it, i feel like i am burning in hell... the pain is so severe that i don't move, i don't scream. I've been there burning and dying for a long long time, but i never die. I look around, and there are others like me. It's extremely dark, i can make out next to nothing except the figures of these other people, empty looks on their faces, melting, burning away, but never truly dying. They slowly move, just a little bit, looking around as i am. This song makes me see eternal damnation.

http://www.bumblelovesmusic.com/music/Hell.mp3

 

[CF87]

I've heard atleast 5 hyprocrisy cds. You know how much good music I could have checked out if I did not listen to a majority on a metalboard.

I've found bands with one cd 15 years ago that shit on Hypocrisy's hype and entire carrer. I did not have to waste time trying to get into them either since they have one cd . Majority of times when bands have a lot of albums I avoid them because i've been steered into shit so much by majority rules.

 

[WNxScythe]

Drudkh always makes me imagine things... it's pretty amazing how trance-inducing their music is.

Also, certain songs off of ATTWAD always send me pangs of despair/joy because at the time when I was first listening to it, I was on a trip with this beautiful girl I was (and still am) rediculously in love with. I always feel like I'm with her when I hear it. Sappy, but true.

Man... I'm listening to eternal turn of the wheel off Forgotten Legends right now - amazing!

Great thread btw Maiden!

 

[Freanan]

Actually all quality Black Metal lets me imagine scenes or landscapes.
Mostly it is forest or mountain scenes.. in some cases battles.

Morbid Angel, Liers in Wait and Mekong Delta make me see sunken civilisations or lovecraftian monsters...

 

[TylerTheNuke]

Tomhet evokes images of wintery fields and the deathof someone close, and that sort of numbness you feel, when you feel like you should be crying your ass of and instead you are just sort of meloncholy and empty.