I don't know if music affects anyone else as it does me, but I suspect it does. As a young person from 9 into my middle 30s music was a very significant part of my life. There are many songs I listened to over and over growing up which still have a good affect on me today when I listen to them. Why is that? Because good, positive thoughts were associated with these songs and as a result good, positive emotions developed from the thoughts and the songs. Good, healthy thinking creates healthy emotions and the reverse is also true.

It amazes me how effortless it is to "feel good" when I listen to these songs. Wow, I am feeling soooo good tonight just listening to the music. Does anyone remember "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver? I'm getting a natural high just listening to the music. So, I would suggest that if you need an uplift, put on some music you enjoy, sit back, and "let the good times roll".

Hi Don,
Glad to see you're still around.
Sometimes I just like to blare rock music.
Or the oldies.
Music have always been a part of my life.

Hey Thief! Good to hear from you young man. How are you? What's happening in your life?

Well, I just turned 46, and it sounds good to be called a young man!
Im doing okay, the usual ups and downs, learning a little something each day.

Regarding music, I think that my all time favorite band was Jethro Tull.
They had a unique sound that I dont think anyone's been able to duplicate...there was something about thier music that just fit me so well.....

Have a good night!

You guys like music just like I do. I will soon be turning 49 and it sounds like we are out of the same "pod".

I have many of the old albums of alot of bands here along with my (console)record player. Some say, some of the sound producing qualities on the old equipment is BETTER than anything out there today. Now that may be biased a little but maybe not.

But, hey guys, lets face it. OUR generation created it all, right? We made some of the very *best* music.
Remember those high school dances? The bands? Muscle cars?
We had it ALL

But yes, John Denver was great and he DID make us feel good through his music.
Jethro Tull was great as well, who could play a flute better?

But to be honest I had a fetish for *Motown*. Yay

But let's not forget "Celebrate" by "Kool and the Gang", still very popular.
And how about Elton John? ALL High School favorites.

And guess what? A little later,OUR generation for the MOST part invented DISCO, a whole NOTHER brand of music.

Now if we go WAY back to when we were boys, The Beatles, The Monkeys, Paul Rever and the Raiders(remember them?) The Turtles.
I have some of these Albums.

And YES, good old Michael Jackson and Billie Jean?

We had it all guys, WE know that.

Oh, did I forget to mention the fight in the parking lot during a High School dance?

Yea, I remember my first high school dance as a freshman.
We had to wear socks in the gym.
They played "Smoke on the Water"....and I'm almost positive that they played "Stairway to Heaven"....if I hear that song one more time...
Once I was at a basketball game at our school...we were playing a rival team...the gym was packed.
A fight broke out on the floor, and both sides stood up and there was complete silence....
pretty creepy...
I seem to recall that they called the National Guard or something...but we all made it out alive.
When Disco came out it caused a division between the rockers and the guys who wore Angel Flight bell bottoms and Polyester suits...lol.

I like Frank Zappa's song, "Dancin' Fool"....
"I got it all together now, with my very own disco clothes, Hey! My shirt is open, to show you my chain, and the spoon for up my nose...
I am really somethin', that's what you probably say...so smoke your little smoke, drink your little drink, while I dance the night away!
I'm a dancin' fool!"

YEAH!
You got it! It just seems as though alot of music nowadays is not the same. Not at all.
Rap? Well , some rap is actually pretty good, but very little, in my opinion.

Stairway to Heaven? THAT song was probably played at EVERY High School dance in the country throughout the 70's for sure.
And then of course, there was Always the Rolling Stones on the heavier side of things, Creadence Clearwater revival, and on and on.

Things have really changed. And speaking of the fight in the gym where everyone stood up? We ALL knew it would NEVER get that far, didn't we??

I remember when the teacher would leave the room and we had a few minutes alone
One kid got hung out the window 2 stories up in a fight, but we ALL knew we would pull him up at the last second. I think??

I listen to Oldies ALOT. Its really the only music I like.

I think it helps me to feel the energy of hard rock and metal music.
I also like oldies once in awhile.....

Stuff like "In the summertime", by Mongo Jerry,

and "Incense and Peppermints", by Strawberry Alarm Clock.

Well, I go a little further back. I was in high school when the Beatles hit the scene. Some of my favorite bands then were CCR, Three Dog Night (from Texas), Neil
Diamond (came to my college when I was a freshman), Petula Clark, the Mamas and the Papas, and a few others. I like all kinds of music including current country.

My brother is 10 years older than I. He and a few others actually carried someone's VW bug up to the high school's entry steps and blocked entrance to the school. Kewl!!

There has been a lot of good music written over the years. What was that song that Tull sang? Run through the Jungle? That was a pretty good song. He had a unique sound. Oh well. Hope you are doing okay Thief. Good to hear from you.

Yea, that was Bungle in the Jungle.

I also like all the oldies music...

My very first 45 record was "After Midnight" by Eric Clapton.
The Mommas and The Pappas, The Byrds, etc.
I used to have the Abbey Road album.

Back then I remember buying a 16 ounce RC Cola and a bag of Doritos for 25 cents.
Then you could take the empty bottle back to the store and get a nickel, with which you could buy a candy bar!
The good old days.....

It's good to hear from the "over 40's and into 50's crowd". I have always found music to be instrumental, pardon the pun, in the realm of emotional feeling. I have a compilation of the Allman Bros. Band that I listen to often. I find it very relaxing, the old southern rock/blues ballads. I have this tape of whales communicating with a soothing background orchestrated theme that I love to relax to... everyone thinks it's weird, but it kind of puts me in a different place, if you know what I mean.
Scientific studies have been performed on animals and the findings are conclusive just how music can a alter behavior. It's powerful stuff. Ron