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Post by albert on Mar 12, 2006 16:43:32 GMT -5
Why is it that when that the lyrics these guys sing touch the very core of who you are.
How can they so encompass the feelings of loss and hurt when the person you love chooses another.
AKUS, there for the good times, a guiding light through the tough times.
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Post by akusgal41790 on Mar 12, 2006 17:06:55 GMT -5
I have often wondered that myself. Being young, I haven't experienced love loss too much, but AKUS songs really do have such an impact on so much of who I am. I think it just shows how fabulous of musicians they are. It's exactly like you said. It isn't just a song when AKUS plays a tune, it's what gets you through a hard time and what joins you in the greatest times of life. Each of them put so much into just one 3 minute section of time, and it's easy to tell that they have felt that loss or that joy before. But that still doesn't completely answer it. Although we can say all of that, it still doesn't explain HOW EXACTLY you can be so deeply moved when the lyrics, instrumentation, and passion for music mix in a song done by Alison and Union Station.
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Post by fogcitygal on Mar 13, 2006 4:50:40 GMT -5
I think you have to remember that, with few exceptions, most AKUS songs are written by other people. Alison supposedly selects most of them and has said it is her favorite part of being in the band. She is probably drawn to these selections for the same reasons you are. Typically, it is music wriltten with a lot of unresolved chords, minor keys, etc., that produces emotions of sadness, loss, hurt, etc. I don't know much about music theory, but for a wonderful explanation go to the following site and click on "science of music" and then "questions". The last item explains why sad music is sad. www.exploratorium.edu/
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Post by fogcitygal on Mar 13, 2006 5:13:25 GMT -5
I recently heard a wonderful anecdote about how much music can effect mood: The famous composer, Wolfgang Mozart, had several students. To drive their teacher a little crazy, the students would stamd under his window at night playing unresolved chords on their instruments. Mozart had such a finely tuned ear that he would lilterally get totally crazy hearing these unresolved chords. It would effect him so much, he would have to get dressed and run downstairs to his instruments and resolve all the chords on them before he could get back to sleep. You're not the only ones effected by music! P.S. I undersand Alison, too, has a finely tuned ear. I hope her son never learns what Mozart's students did or he could drive his mother batty. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by msgeiger on Mar 13, 2006 19:57:37 GMT -5
Great anecdote fogcitygal. Sounds like Mozart was human like the rest of us. I wonder how he would react to Alison's "perfect" voice?
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Post by msgeiger on Mar 13, 2006 20:02:16 GMT -5
Also thanks for the link to the exploratoreum (spelling?). I was fascinated by the science of music stuff and some of the other things available at the site. I wish we had a place like that here, my kids would love it. Sounds like I'll have to get my family to San Francisco soon.
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Post by houseghost on Mar 14, 2006 6:02:57 GMT -5
My thoughts on music---- It shows how all of us are alike-- we are human. When someone I don't know , from somewhere I've never heard of, can write a song that expresses my feelings (whether saddness or joy) ,it tells me we are fundamentally alike. How else could that person know exactaly how I felt at a certain time. And then to have Alison deliver that emotion; sometimes it is actually too disturbing! Music affects us all , no matter who we are
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Post by lovakus on Mar 15, 2006 9:35:16 GMT -5
Music is life the very essence of life and as crazy as i think i am i would be totally out of it if it werent for music and those who make their life revolve around procucing such wonderful life i love them as musicians as other people but most of all i love them as life savers (yummy) no but really when things are good or bad i can turn to music and it is always there no matter what and it just keeps going and they are talking (singing) and at the same time it feels like there listening to my cares and halping me through the day music is life KRAZY KATE
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