| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 12/28/2006 9:52:14 AM | Just like the thread title asks, how do you choose a favorite song?
Is it based on it's popularity?
The bass line?
The lyrics?
What you were doing at the moment you heard the song? | |
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| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 12/28/2006 11:42:13 AM | Thanks Yan!
Took alot of hard work, but the maintenance will be much easier now that I actually know what I am doing...lol
Now, how does the song choose you???
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| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 12/30/2006 5:19:18 AM | Personally, I'm a sucker for a well turned phrase, lyrically. Unfortunately, my hearing isn't the best ever, so initially, it's a pure, visceral reaction to the music. If it makes me feel anything, and it's not too repetitive, then I like the song enough to hear it a few dozen times.
By that time, I know the words, and if the lyrics are trite, or too pretentious or whatever, I usually get annoyed enough to not like the song anymore. It's a convoluted system, but it's mine. | |
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| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 12/31/2006 11:04:36 AM | Well... it has to "strike a chord" (no pun intended) within me. Kinda like in that high school physics class when you hit one tuning fork and another similar one next to it vibrates
To me, the lyrics are or contain the message the songwriter wishes to convey and the melody is the wavelength/vibe.
A popular song may get heard more but it still needs to accomplish the above in a person. It has to catch a person first (the hook or hook line they call it?) and then they get the message... hey I can relate to that/ that's what I want/ that's the way things oughta be, etc... and the beat lifts you up... 
Then again. some tunes just don't make much sense , but have such a catchy beat or phrase that they're unforgettable... that ol' "tuning fork" again...
And... commercials/ jingles... one could start a thread on favourite jingles...
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| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 12/31/2006 11:54:27 AM | the songs that captivate and take hold of me actually have some substance to them. the artist put some actual effort into writing and producing a track instead of spitting out what a group of others had written up for them.
if its not on any top 40 radio, chances are i like it. but, isn't most top 40 just rap junk now?
SOS means your career is already in distress. | |
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| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 3/7/2007 10:58:26 AM | the lyrics certainly play a part, and how tight the band is. Originality, interest. The range of the singer and whether he/she sounds like he's singing out of his ass (nose, throat). I really dislike screechy stuff like Celine Dion and Whitney Houston's old stuff.
I tend to follow the bass and drums. It's easier to define what bugs me about a song than it is to put my finger on what attracts me about my favorites.
Often it's because I relate to the topic. Some songs are so predictable I have to turn them off before I scream.... it's like picking your favorite movie. The typical action American thousands of bullets flying and the hero doesn't get hit ?? 
But throw in a twist of plot, a drummer that does something besides 1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4,and you're on to something. An effortless voice like Ella Fitzgerald, for eg, can sing anything and sound good. | |
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| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 3/7/2007 11:35:07 AM | | for me its gotta have a nice "hook" and sometimes a good "bassline" doesnt hurt.An up-tempo beat gets me pumped,and i play piano.....so when i'm not feeling well i just play sad stuff.......it depends on who will listen to your music! is all i can say about it | |
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| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 3/8/2007 9:22:12 PM | When you hear it, you know, simple as that. You don't have to think of something in your memory to attach it to, that song will scream that moment when you hear it.
granted the above is easier said then done i guess | |
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| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 3/14/2007 2:16:07 PM | I think it just speaks to me somehow... through the words or the music.
Music can be so powerful.
Sometimes I have favorite songs that are related to an event or memory too.... | |
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| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 3/15/2007 4:54:52 PM | Music does choose you. You can't learn to love something... either you do or you don't. I can appreciate different forms but my taste has always been the same and the songs I enjoyed as a kid are still the ones I like today. Most people stay true to their formative years soundtrack. At about age 12, music begins to serve a social bonding function and we use it to distinguish our social group from others.  This is the kind of music people like me listen to, that music is for us. 
As young teens, our musical tastes are further refined by what our friends are listening to. Most of us base our adult musical tastes on what we liked when we were 12 to 16. You can expand your musical tastes as an adult but if you had relatively narrow tastes in your developing years it is more difficult to do because you lack the basic tools to process and ultimately understand new musical forms. | |
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| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 4/29/2007 5:54:48 PM | Music with spritual energy to it is the best of all.
That covers everything from Enigma to Enya, Gregorian Chants, Arabic religious music, or even George Thorgood 
Music is defnitely a way to communicate to the soul. | |
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| How do you choose a favorite song?
Posted: 4/29/2007 7:16:06 PM | It's the way the song is sung for me...
A guitar riff, or bass line catches my attention but it is always the singer that makes it happen for you..
previous post mentioned George Thorogood, would anyone pay attention to "I drink Alone" if it wasn't the way Thorogood sings (sort of) it, or Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, the Pogues...I mean they ain't great singers, but the way they sing a song makes it...
Even singers with range and tone are only great singers when they add that extra something that brings the lyrics to life.... | |
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