The Album Review Club - *** Christmas Break Playlist (next album 7/1/26) ***

RobMCFC said:
Thread business. @journolud has asked to drop down the batting order so I want to bump the next four posters one week forward.

Please can the following posters let me know if the new dates are OK:-

@FogBlueInSanFran 31/7
@Mancitydoogle 7/8
@threespires 14/7
@LGWIO 21/7
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Slot me in again whenever convenient - happy to drop to the end of the list. After the current offering I’m sure a few will be happy to wait for my choice :)
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
Not for me — busiest two weeks of my year at work which is why I missed the Stanglers (I have thoughts, I did listen). Happy to do anytime after next week.
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No probs, thanks for letting me know.

We are going to need somebody to step in next week and everybody yet to nominate in this round to move up some places.

I’m sure we can work it out before next week.
 
GornikDaze said:
Slot me in again whenever convenient - happy to drop to the end of the list. After the current offering I’m sure a few will be happy to wait for my choice :)
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Sorry, I forgot you were on the tbd list - you can have next week if you want.
 
RobMCFC said:
The music side is just personal preference. It's all very bitty - no meaty riffs or solos or instrumental passages - but I appreciate that not everybody wants that or that it suits every type of music.
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I say this all the time, but it never ceases to fascinate me that we all listen to the same thing and yet hear something completely different. Had I been born into money I reckon I'd have probably tried to become a researcher into the relative roles of nature and nurture on musical preferences.

At the risk of sounding like a nutter, some of the experiments they've done with mice are really interesting, reversing stress induced depression (yes a mouse can have depression but not sure how ethical it is inducing it) through the playing of music at night; how mice react differently to metal compared to other genres etc. in humans there's all sorts of stuff, sound perception differences of left and right handers etc.
 
RobMCFC said:
No probs, thanks for letting me know.

We are going to need somebody to step in next week and everybody yet to nominate in this round to move up some places.

I’m sure we can work it out before next week.
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Sounds like you have Gornik all ready for next week, but if you are still looking for other weeks with the reshuffling, mine planned on 25/9 is ready to go whenever.
 
threespires said:
I say this all the time, but it never ceases to fascinate me that we all listen to the same thing and yet hear something completely different. Had I been born into money I reckon I'd have probably tried to become a researcher into the relative roles of nature and nurture on musical preferences.

At the risk of sounding like a nutter, some of the experiments they've done with mice are really interesting, reversing stress induced depression (yes a mouse can have depression but not sure how ethical it is inducing it) through the playing of music at night; how mice react differently to metal compared to other genres etc. in humans there's all sorts of stuff, sound perception differences of left and right handers etc.
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Does the research show that mice have a particular penchant for metal then, or am I reading too much into your thesis?
 
GornikDaze said:
Does the research show that mice have a particular penchant for metal then, or am I reading too much into your thesis?
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There's a famous experiment done by a high school senior who wanted to know if music had an impact on the ability of mice to learn. He had three groups, mice listening to classical music, mice listening to metal and a control group. He had to abandon the experiment because whilst the other mice were ok, the mice exposed to metal killed each other fairly early on in the experiment.

The following year he did the experiment again under much better scientific conditions including keeping all the mice alive. Relative to the control group, the mice exposed to Mozart day in day out became measurably smarter. The mice exposed to Anthrax day in day became measurably dumber to a greater degree than the Mozart mice got smarter and he had to take measures to avoid them harming each other!

However, studies of humans have shown that broadly speaking being a metalhead can be beneficial to mental health; the hypothesis being that the nature and strength of the community aspects of metal are more pronounced and valuable than other forms of music.

Btw - people in moshpits exhibit pretty much the same physical behaviour as gas atoms and they are using this research to model safer physical environments for people:-)
 
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FogBlueInSanFran said:
Fucking love that tune, love that record and still love her though she’s gone way squirrely.
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I take it that doesn't mean she's grown massive incisors and a bushy tail?

She'll be 50 next year, being a bit hatstand is clearly the secret to avoid aging.
 
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