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    Don't Close Your Eyes When Listening To Scary Music
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    Image of Killa_Charlie Killa_Charlie
    07/29/09

    In reply to Don't Close Your Eyes When Listening To Scary Music
    All scary music?
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    Edited by Killa_Charlie at 07/29/09 10:19 PM Killa_Charlie was starred Killa_Charlie was unstarred
    Image of Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies
    07/29/09

    In reply to Don't Close Your Eyes When Listening To Scary Music
    Now this begs the question...what defines unsettling music?

    Is the occasional minor chord, bad 80s synth action or a scored recording of babies crying?

    How did the scientists even agree on which music was unarguably unsettling?

    And isn't it all relative? Sigur Ros sounds desolate to me while millions of others hear hope in it. Cannibal Corpse and Deicide sound cheesy to me while my father seriously (seriously) believes it channels evil. I smile when I listen to Radiohead while my roomate says it makes him want to die.

    I think maybe these people were more unsettled by a group of "neuroscientists" telling them to close their eyes and trust them.
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    Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. promoted this comment Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies was starred Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies was unstarred
    Image of Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
    07/29/09

    @Dr.Quatermass:

    Now this begs the question...what defines unsettling music?

    I don't know about scientists, but this is a good enough definition for me:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies
    07/29/09

    @Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me...: Are you kidding me? That sounds about as relaxing as relaxing can get.
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    Image of bamboompvk bamboompvk
    07/29/09

    @Dr.Quatermass:

    In medieval music, the tri-tone (agumented 4th/diminished 5th) was known as the devil's interval. It wasn't allowed in music because its dissonance was so unsettling. However, in today's music, it is the foundation for al lot of the power chords in rock music.

    I think that "scary" music is all in the ear of the beholder.
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies
    07/30/09

    @bamboompvk: The Devil's Mode. Anthony Burgess was obsessed with it.
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    Image of prunus prunus
    07/29/09

    In reply to Don't Close Your Eyes When Listening To Scary Music
    "I suspect if we had music that was positive, we would get a similar effect."

    mmm she suspects...
    Whos wants to be the music czar you guys?

    s.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/29/09

    In reply to Don't Close Your Eyes When Listening To Scary Music
    This explains why when I close my eyes while listening to Nickelback, my mild nausea rockets up to projectile vomiting.
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies
    07/29/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I have this awesome image of someone on a bus vomiting loudly every time he/she blinks.
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    Pope John Peeps II promoted this comment Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies was starred Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies was unstarred
    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/29/09

    @Dr.Quatermass: A quick blink and you only dry heave.

    "This is how you remind me of w--- *blink**HRRUULUGH*"
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/29/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Hmph, we may have given the world Nickelback, but you gave us, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park...

    need I continue?
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/29/09

    @alphanumeric1971: Uh. I'm Canadian.
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    Pope John Peeps II was starred Pope John Peeps II was unstarred
    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/29/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Really? Well, I gotta heart you for that then.
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    Edited by alphanumeric1971 at 07/29/09 10:11 PM alphanumeric1971 was starred alphanumeric1971 was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/29/09

    @alphanumeric1971:I'm still sore at you guys for producing Gordon Lightfoot and Rush. And would you please take back Neil Young? He keeps rooting through my trashcans. It's creepy.
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/30/09

    @Grey_Area: I'm sorry Neil who?

    (We don't want him either...)
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