Do you ever turn off the music?

Greetings Fellow Music Lovers:

Given the numerous "Name Your Favorite Tune" threads that are posted here on JWN, it appears that none of us can live without la belle musique. Often my CD player runs through the night. I turned it off a few minutes ago ... silence. Silence....

Sometimes - like NOW - I want as near total silence as I can get, not just from the more irritating forms of noise pollution, but even the beautiful "noise."

You?

Thanks,

CoCo

poker face by lady gaga is my fav du jour. mostly becuase i know that the JW's would hate it, and that there will probably be conusel soon from the GB not to listen to her.

but yes i love classical too. Rachmanivov being a favorite

I have tinnitus.  Noise masks it.  Any noise.  I have even taken to walking with one of those ipod thingies.  Not always music.  Audio books and pre TV radio comedies and stories.  I turn it off when I hear birds.  I heard one today that is not from around here.  Tuis have local dialects.  I heard this one about ten miles away from here six months ago.  He wouldn't talk to me.  Our local one does.  I wonder if he will be here tomorrow.  I will call both of them in the morning and see what happens.

Cheers

Chris

My wife always turns it off. She is afraid that she might not be getting my full attention. I live an almost musicless life, other than in the car going to work.

Yes dear CoCo, sometimes I have that intense need for silence!

To the extent that I yelled at a 'rabbiting' work colleague to "shut the F$*k up!!!" three days ago because they were disturbing a very rare quiet period 

Sometimes I have to turn the music of at home, especially if I'm trying to write and the music is good - I am good at multi-tasking but it doesn't extend to singing along and thinking AND typing at the same time!

I don't really listen to music at home, but that may be due to the lack of sound on my laptop. Otherwise I don't leave the house without my iPod rockin. Between that and my gf's penchant for music in her car (I'm sans coche at the mo), there's rarely a time away from home that doesn't involve audio stimulation. In the past I had a car without a stereo and it drove me absolutely crazy!

Up until I was 30 I had the music going constantly. Then I got married and the ex hated my taste in music, and I didn't care for hers either. Now I'm alone again and never really regained my interest in music. I can take it or leave it. Most of the time I leave it.

Besides, Rocco makes plenty of sounds to entertain me.

W

Good Morning Coco!..

                                  The are times when "Silence is Golden"..

                                                                                 ................. ...OUTLAW

I have tinnitus.  Noise masks it.  Any noise.

Oh a big ME TOO on this one.  As a child, I had super-sensitive hearing and would easily get overloaded by sudden noise and I'd hear all sorts of background sound (particularly high-pitched sounds from electrical devices) and my own tinnitus.  I finally went to an ear specialist in the '90s to have my tinnitus checked out, as people say that you hear it when you lose your hearing; it turns out that my hearing was superior to average and he said I was probably hearing the electrical activity in my own brain. I always went to bed with the radio on so that I wouldn't hear that hum while trying to sleep. I think it is better now, less tinnitus overall, and I sleep without music (tho my bf's snore helps me sleep), so I think my hearing now is less acute as it used to be.

Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. :)

Yes, I like to turn off the music, the TV, the radio.  What's even better is turning off the noise of the mind - ahhh ... silence, blessed silence.

I was actually just thinking the other day about one thing I missed from the dub days. It was the few minutes alone in the dark early on Saturday morning before I met up for the laudromat circuit. Something about the dark and quiet was very peaceful to me. It's not something I've thought about or taken part in for several years and I've been considering a little "alone in the dark time". . .

Something about the dark and quiet was very peaceful to me. It's not something I've thought about or taken part in for several years and I've been considering a little "alone in the dark time". . .

Go for it - those quiet times reveal reality.  Let go of the noise and busyness of the mind and you will discover something wonderful - you as you truly are.

Hate to quote scripture but there is a "time for everything". I love total silence on occasion. I also make time to turn the stereo up when the mood is right. 

Thank you, dear lovers of music and silence.

Yes, a time for everything. And Rocco, too! Tinnitus - new thoughts for me on how one deals with it. I am also sans coche, but the car's radio ne was working pas anyway. And differing tastes in music. So many reasons ...

Great thoughts, all. To think that my original perspective was "I want silence!"

Many thanks.

CoCo

I have to admint there are still a couple of JW tunes that pop into my head regularly, but my fav music is, but not bcoz they would be like really coarse sandpaper on the bare backs of the jws, but bcoz purely  the great sound & that's the Red Hot Chili Peppers, could listen all day every day , well almost!

We have music on all day which we enjoy,but it is nice sometimes to have a bit of quiet,maybe relaxing in the garden on a sunny day,or observing a clear starry night and watching for shooting stars. It's amazing that no sound at all comes from them,when you see them on TV programmes there is always a 'wooshing' noise.

Interesting about RHCP and whooshing stars, finally and four. Some new thoughts there for me ... I only just discovered Pink Floyd on Sunday. Boy, am I late to the party!

Thanks!

CoCo

I think I first listened to A Saucer Full of Secrets on a portable record player on a sandy riverbank after consuming a cow pat worth of mushrooms with some good mates some time in 1970.  I still have my original LP.

Chris

interesting question I used to listen to music constantly!!! I figured out that it was because I couldn't handle dealing with my thoughts. It helped me mask emotions. Now that I've worked through some things I find that I Naturally listen to music less. I do have to be conscious of what my current favorite distractions are. I still have that tendency to want to shut down my brain when I feel I can't handle life.

I love music though. I sang all through school and my family was pretty musical.

side point...sometimes I get stupid songs stuck in my head and they bother me when I'm trying to sleep. Hate that!

~fmy