Yes; roadtrips are fantastic because there's so much room for quiet when you're in the car and aren't required to be doing anything; I can listen to music for three hours, and music is the best instigator for thought of which I know. (And I do the picking-apart thing, too. I once played around with my headphone plug because if I put it in just right, the sound came through in a weird way through just one side, and I could hear this very unusual harmony vocal I hadn't noticed before.)
the love of instrumental layers must be why we both like Dreaming so much. (Did you pick up the accordion bit in it? It's lovely.) Oh, blimey, yes. And it's not only layered--it's layered well. I've heard some songs that had only two or three instruments in them and they sounded crowded, and I've heard great hosts of instruments that all fit together like patchwork. This may come from listening almost solely to movie scores (namely LotR) for about six to eight months of my life--I love having three melodies going at once on different instruments.
And yes, the accordion is lovely. Accordions are an instrument that needs more exposure; I listen to so much traditionally based folk music that I didn't realise they were so ignored by the rest of the music world (they're a staple in the most average of traditional Celtic bands!), and then I started hearing accordions here and there occasionally--Patrick Wolf's got one, which made me SO HAPPY--and thought, oooh, now there's an instrument with potential. (Had never heard a creepy, watery-sounding accordion until 'Pontchartrain', which may be the singular most atmospheric song I have heard in a six months, maybe a year.)
Hee, I talk to my books and other media also. I have paused movies to pace around the room and talk. And, er, I can directly trace the Evangeline story to a pacing session I had after a book I'd read made me so angry that I had to monologue about it for fifteen minutes before I was satisfied. (Only some of this was out loud.) I also threw The Two Towers across a picnic table. Ruddy cliffhangers. Especially when your mother's friends tease you about them. :p
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Date: 2007-01-31 04:42 am (UTC)the love of instrumental layers must be why we both like Dreaming so much. (Did you pick up the accordion bit in it? It's lovely.)
Oh, blimey, yes. And it's not only layered--it's layered well. I've heard some songs that had only two or three instruments in them and they sounded crowded, and I've heard great hosts of instruments that all fit together like patchwork. This may come from listening almost solely to movie scores (namely LotR) for about six to eight months of my life--I love having three melodies going at once on different instruments.
And yes, the accordion is lovely. Accordions are an instrument that needs more exposure; I listen to so much traditionally based folk music that I didn't realise they were so ignored by the rest of the music world (they're a staple in the most average of traditional Celtic bands!), and then I started hearing accordions here and there occasionally--Patrick Wolf's got one, which made me SO HAPPY--and thought, oooh, now there's an instrument with potential. (Had never heard a creepy, watery-sounding accordion until 'Pontchartrain', which may be the singular most atmospheric song I have heard in a six months, maybe a year.)
Hee, I talk to my books and other media also.
I have paused movies to pace around the room and talk. And, er, I can directly trace the Evangeline story to a pacing session I had after a book I'd read made me so angry that I had to monologue about it for fifteen minutes before I was satisfied. (Only some of this was out loud.) I also threw The Two Towers across a picnic table. Ruddy cliffhangers. Especially when your mother's friends tease you about them. :p