Chris Smart

What explains the magic of Adele's song? Though personal experience and culture play into individual reactions, researchers have found that certain features
of music are consistently associated with producing strong emotions in listeners. Combined with heartfelt lyrics and a powerhouse voice, these structures
can send reward signals to our brains that rival any other pleasure.
Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs that reliably
set off a physical reaction, such as tears or goose bumps. Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analyzed their properties,
a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an "appoggiatura."

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Saturday Night Live Skit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aFMC8ARVms

 

So, be honest people. What songs make you get close to loosing it?

 

For me it's some of Jeff Beck's quieter stuff, or Gorecki's Symphony No. 3, especially the first movement.

 

Watermellon In Easter Hay as well...

 

 

 
 

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Tommy Quirk

I don't think you'd get the entire picture of 'Fat junkie Elvis' if you 'narrowed your vision' ;) lol

Vile and Pernicious

@Tommy - I don't know. Maybe not from across the room,... but if he was gazing into my eyes singing me sweet nothings, he might be looking pretty d**n sexy. It's amazing how good things can look when you narrow your vision.

Tommy Quirk

@VileĀ  - are you saying that 'fat junkie Elvis' wasn't sexy ??

Chris Smart

hey I appreciate Scotty Moore's guitar playing, if that helps any.

Vile and Pernicious

You are missing out...You've gotta open your mind.

You've gotta wipe the bloated rhinestone studded version out of your mind and realize that he was a bit of a trail blazer.