The amount of time it spent on the Billboard 200 was enough to raise my interest so that I decided to do as I did back when I was little. To my amazement the album didn’t sound like the what I had listened from Spotify at all!ĭid you know that this album spent 741 on the Billboard 200 list since its release in 1973? Let’s take it again and bit slower it stayed there every week for 741 weeks from 1973 until 1988! Since then it has made several comebacks to the list and some time ago the list-week total was up to 917. I wasn’t too excited as I had heard it before and it was everything but a pleasant experience. We completed the first session day and sat down on the listening room sofa to dig the record Matti gave me. Both posters and one of the stickers was in mint condition and the record itself despite the age was scratch-free. My dear guitar-playing friend Mr Matti Hovi arrived to Astia-studio for a tape recording session and brought a 1977 pressing of the Pink Floyd’s legendary Dark Side of the Moon as a present. Now me and the bands I work with listen one vinyl record during breakfast, 1.5 at lunch and usually after a 10-hour studio day one more. After the vinyl-record-bug bit me, that changed dramatically. So, I wasn’t listening to any music outside the control room for over 15 years. My only defence is that back then I didn’t know any better and I was just glad that I hadn’t wasted any more time listening to such crappy music. Please hold your tongue before you curse me into the abyss. This way at least stuff would be both in tune and rhythmically accurate. The anger about how anyone could consider these as classic albums! I wish they’d given their tracks to me for editing. I was devastated and the only emotion I felt after listening to those so called classics was anger. My first thought was: “Horrible crap! How can anyone say this detuned and rhythmically sloppy blues for geezers is what they call the classic albums?!?” The listening medium of choice was the simple and easy Spotify. So just a decade ago I decided to dig into Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix for the first time. I never had a big brother or a father to guide me to listen to the classic albums. This was something music hadn’t done in almost 15 years. Sure I knew the song by heart and how awesome it was, yet I wasn’t prepared to have such a powerful emotional reaction. While listening the song I made a strange observation in addition to the chills there was a tear in my eye and not only once but twice! I was amazed. We had heard it dozens of times before, but never from a vinyl record. By that I meant the title track of Brothers In Arms. I dragged my girlfriend to the listening room and promised to play one of the most beautiful song of all times. Among the records was the touching Dire Straits‘ album Brothers In Arms. When it comes to those headlines, I am sorry to tell you that you are not so special after all.Ī bit over 3 years ago we had just bought our first turntable and I wanted to buy a pile of classic albums to my girlfriend for her bday. I agree to a point, yet it depends a lot on the format you listen the music from. It’s not rare at all to bump into news about a study that says “ If music gives you goosebumps your brain might be special“. A simple change made a huge improvement and I now enjoy music on a daily basis with maximum emotion. It is so awesome to get to share with you how to restore that lost spark. Even when listening to them for some 20 seconds was enough and music no longer touched me. I often wondered how such empty and cold sounding music was once giving me goosebumps. That once the most dearest thing in the world had lost its grip and no longer had any emotional effect on me.Įven the most favourite albums from the teenage years felt lame. If you are a member of the Astia-studio’s innercircle or have read my blog you might remember how for 15 years I couldn’t listen to any music outside the studio A control room. Isn’t music giving you goosebumps either? But when was the last time you were listening to music while forgetting everything else around you? Isn’t music giving you goosebumps either? I hope my writing will help you too to get excited about music again. While listening you only could only study the lyrics along with the cover art and all its symbols. Do you recall the time when you gave your full concentration to the album you just bought? The music was the only thing you focused on and no mobile phones were involved.
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