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Which is more significant, music or lyrics? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/09/2011, 4:33am PDT
I can remember a few times when the music of a song affected me much more strongly than the words.

Most of the time when I listen to a song, it's the words and the ideas expressed that I think of rather than the music. But it doesn't make the music irrelevant, though.

Probably the one song I most remember striking me by sound alone was the opening of Fleetwood Mac's Everywhere. There is like a trilling effect of a tone, that when I first heard it, I thought it was possibly the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard, it struck me that hard. And this was before I even heard the lyrics.



One of the first CDs that I heard on the radio that was strong enough to make me willing to buy it, was Martin Page's In the House of Stone and Light, and it was probably the words that affected me the most.

Will I let it
Show me my soul?
Tell me of that place
Where I must surely go?


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Which is more significant, music or lyrics? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/09/2011, 4:33am PDT NEW
    I guess it depends on what you're looking for. by Worm 10/09/2011, 3:22pm PDT NEW
    Which is more important in a painting: the lines or the colors? by Fullofkittens 10/11/2011, 8:12pm PDT NEW
        The lines! NT by Roop 10/11/2011, 9:32pm PDT NEW
        "If I had to paint a picture, I would use the finest colours.." - T. Pendergrass NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/12/2011, 5:55am PDT NEW
        The colors! NT by talby 10/12/2011, 8:52am PDT NEW
        The smell? NT by Sharpie Fanatic 10/12/2011, 11:15am PDT NEW
        The cheese? NT by Brendon 10/12/2011, 11:19am PDT NEW
            The SAUCE?? NT by Coach McGuirk 10/12/2011, 11:20am PDT NEW
                enjoy the sauce NT by up with pod people 10/12/2011, 11:23am PDT NEW
                    Don't *forget* to *enjoy the sauce* NT by The Orz 10/14/2011, 7:59pm PDT NEW
        You guys forgot the chrome bumper, the on-off switch and the garbage disposal NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/15/2011, 7:10am PDT NEW
 
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