yes, but if I think about it, I don't want the answer to be discussed on the forum.

if you really want to know, in my game where I am france, germany is about to go CD

take over and ask me in a more private setting

Spike the Beloved Entertainer by Elvis Costello

@Akroma - I promise, for my part, to not make fun of you for it.

Being a musician, I just can't conceive of a world without sound that I find pleasing to the ear. Whether it be a crackling fire with some form of classical music in the background (usually Mozart for me) or a drive in the rain through the city at night with some smooth jazz playing, or an open air run through the country with the top down and some classic and/or hard rock playing, music provides the soundtrack to my life.

So it would be interesting to hear another perspective on it.

@Draugnar: Which are your favourite hard rock bands?

as I said, private setting only

@Jamie - mostly of a classic hard rock or alt rock nature: Aerosmith, Rush, Scorpions, Metallica, Nickleback (Silver Side Up in particular), Evanescence, Staind, Puddle of Mud, Garbage, and Linkin Park (more alt than rock).

@Akroma - my email is in my profile. Your game where you are France, Germany just made a move so he isn't gonna CD after all. I'd drop you a line, but you remail isn't in your profile. Go ahead and drop me a note so we can discuss. I respect your desire for privacy and promise not to be a dick and not to reports anything you say here. I am truly interested in your perspective.

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=12081

no way germany just made a move. He hasn't ben logged in since friday, and the round will be over in less than 24 hours.
he is totaly going CD this turn

Feel free to email me too Akroma, I'm just as interested in your comments as Draug, and we can't _both_ takeover the same CD in your game.

@Draug: Linkin Park, Nickleback, Staind and Puddle of Mudd all stink, but the first four bands you mention rule.

no, the point is to find a replacement for the CD before it even happens, and not to tell it to as many people as possible.

I hate games with CDs

musics my life, i couldnt live without listening to music or playing guitar

Oh Akroma, crafty way to get someone to immediately take over a CD I suppose. =P

"If you think about it is kind of weird that we like music so much."

Spyman, we're like the same person. I think about this ALL the time. It's one of the most intriguing facets of humanity for me. Why on Earth should we be attracted to music in such a way that it's a multi-billion dollar industry, and in a way that I can't help but tap my foot to a good song, at the very least.

Classically, it's seen as a sort of peacock's tail, in that it shows a genuine investment of the brains creative resources in a field that is not classically seen as "productive" (ie. conducive to survival) and broadcasts brain fitness to the opposite sex. This is usually backed up by anecdotal evidence that artists and musicians have more sex than say, engineers.

Steven Pinker chalks it up to numerous by-products. It's the sort of cheesecake of language and movement, in that it's a superstimuli of the small stimuli that give us pleasure. He reckons that rhythm is important for your brain's inner sense of timing and co-ordinating movements, whether in playing an instrument or dancing to the music. He reckons that the sounds that we like represent superstimuli of spoken word and perhaps more ancient and emotional vocalizations.

I wonder if people are going to get on my case for trying to apply science to music, as if it somehow diminishes the appreciation for musical beauty.

I, for one, appreciate the application of science to anything and everything.

Most recent album today: The Gaslight Anthem - Sink or Swim

Chrispminis I am going to make up an answer to this - I haven't research this at all but a few things come to mind.
1. We can discern differences in pitch and timing.
2. We have an inate tendancy to perceive patterns.
3.We think often think in analogies. (Such as our ability to make metaphors). So things may represent something they are not.
4. We communicate with each other. Not just in a literal sense either - we are incredibly about perceptive about other humans emotional states (mirror neurons?)
Put this altogether and we heare combinations of sounds, perceive defintie patterns, apply some kind of anagolous thinking, then communicate these too each other.
One more thing the ability to do all of these things have a variety of benefits for us - not just music creation (of course). The ability to demonstrate skill at activities such as music is attractive to the oppostie sex as it shows that a whole range of mental facalities are working well.

yeah chrispminis, but you on the other hand know my explanation already, and why I dislike it being discussed on the forum

@Akroma: The more you say that, the more we all want to know what your reason is!!

I am now listening to "Third Stage" by the awesome BOSTON.

Just got a nice collection from Putumayo - http://www.putumayo.com/ - some really nice stuff there.

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@Jamiet99UK
I think we should respect Akroma on this one.

@Akroma - You mean you DON"T worship The Indigo Girls and Ani DiFranco? I thought that was part of the "rules", like being a vegetarian and getting a buzz cut.

Stupid me.....

if you are so curious, only a few hours to go until the CD

I am not at all curious. Get over yourself.

not you but jamiet

I am not talking to you, get over yourself

Learn how to communicate properly in the Forum, partner, and these misunderstandings will not occur.

Poxy Boggars: Liver Let Die.

The Bravery - The Bravery

not the biggest fan of when artists make their cd names the same as there band name, but a great cd just the same.

Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow

Today I am mostly listening to Foreigner and Journey.