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Bliss List Item 8: Music

July 10, 2009 · 2 Comments

While I appreciate choral music and chants (as Kerro, Kate1975, and David have all blogged about recently), and even some classical music, for me, bliss usually comes from other types of music.

The songs that give me bliss aren’t all one type of music.  Sometimes it’s the music that gets me and other times it’s the lyrics, if there are lyrics, but they don’t have to apply directly to me or my life to affect me.  The songs don’t have to be new or current.  They just all have that something that makes me feel intense emotion, even when I can’t explain it, and makes me unable to resist turning the volume up so loud in the car that when I look in the rear-view mirror, I can watch the back window shake.

And here’s one of those:

Here is another:

And another, from the same album:

And a different one:
(I just noticed that embedding is disabled on this, but if you click on it, it will take you to the video on YouTube.)

There are more, but I’ll stop here.

Ooh.  I lied.  Here’s another one:

Ok.  Done for now.

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