I tend to listen to music, as opposed to let it be background buzz. It's not unusual for me to stop listening to whoever is talking to me in a nightclub if a song I love is laid down by the DJ. Music for me is an experience that I have to put effort into.
I should explain, listening to music to me is like reading a book or watching a talkie, it requires my attention. Sometimes I wish I was the kind of person who could sit down and write, read and listen to music at the same time but it simply doesn't work for me. I like to give it my full attention. There are plenty of people out there who sit on their laptops and PCs (or even Macs) and consider albums listened to when they've heard it while engaged in other things; that's not for me.
Friends of mine often criticise the fact that I have a very specific taste: I like some bands not others despite them sounding exactly the same (The Kooks and The View are perfect examples of this). However I don't think they appreciate sometimes the extent to which music listening is an event in itself for me.
I'm not a fan of listening to music in bed because I find I end up trying to analyse it when I really should be trying to sleep, the result is that it keeps me awake rather than sends me packing to the land of nod.
Now that that is done with, I suppose I should pick something.
Two versions for all you out there who say music is too full of profanity these days. I certainly wouldn't be sleeping to either of these, far too much going on musically. I'm such a nerd.
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