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Offline romdrums

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Re: Is there anybody on this forum who doesn't experience "frisson"?
« Reply #35 on: September 21, 2017, 07:57:47 AM »
Yes, but it goes away after I've heard the song a few times.

Does it ever come back?   I know for me, if I don't hear it for a while, I'll listen to the 3SL medley (especially in the car) and it'll hit me like it was new.   I love that.

That still gets me as well, and I've been listening to that medley for over 30 years.  Listening to 3SL is one of my earliest musical memories.
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Re: Is there anybody on this forum who doesn't experience "frisson"?
« Reply #36 on: September 22, 2017, 08:58:20 AM »

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Re: Is there anybody on this forum who doesn't experience "frisson"?
« Reply #37 on: September 22, 2017, 07:46:15 PM »
I used to get it more frequent but these days it's pretty rare that a song will get me to a state like that. I LOVE when it happens though, at those times I appreciate how powerful and wonderful music can be that can convey a feeling like that.

What's interesting is what actually makes you get that feeling and for me it's very random and can be everything from a section in a song, a certain melody, a chord progression or just hearing vocal harmonies in a band setting or A cappella in some form. Just hearing someone with a beautiful voice can be enough for me.
I do think that for the most part that feeling comes from harmonies, chord progressions and melodies that you've heard before or feels familiar in some ways even if it's a song you've never heard before you can still get it because when you hear it you get a feeling of comfort and pleasure. As someone mentioned nostalgia can also a big part, I think.

To mention some random occasions, crank this up and you might get a few goosebumps like I did the first time I heard it, make sure to stick until the end. Hearing my country's national anthem or a nice arrangement of Star Spangled Banner like this or when a giant crowd sings Rule Britannia. I think the most recent was when I heard this wonderful rendition of Nessun Dorma by Jonas Kaufman.
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Re: Is there anybody on this forum who doesn't experience "frisson"?
« Reply #38 on: September 24, 2017, 11:19:53 AM »
I don't experience frission. My block of uranium is not Enriched so it can't maintain a frission reaction.
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Re: Is there anybody on this forum who doesn't experience "frisson"?
« Reply #39 on: September 25, 2017, 08:42:15 AM »
I only experience fussion.

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Re: Is there anybody on this forum who doesn't experience "frisson"?
« Reply #40 on: September 27, 2017, 06:17:12 AM »
"Frisson" is the shiver down the spine, with goosebumps, you sometimes get when you listen to exciting music. Apparently there are people who don't experience it, but on this forum I kinda assume everybody gets it.

I get this all the time.

The staff at JB Hifi get it when you walk in too  ;D

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Re: Is there anybody on this forum who doesn't experience "frisson"?
« Reply #41 on: September 27, 2017, 07:42:25 AM »
The first time I heard Alex's solo on The Garden I got a case so bad I thought I was paralyzed.
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Re: Is there anybody on this forum who doesn't experience "frisson"?
« Reply #42 on: September 28, 2017, 08:55:13 PM »
Yeah, I mainly get it with lyrics that really hit home. I get it whenever I hear Comfortably Numb during the chorus, especially the lines:
"Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am"

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"I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone"


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Re: Is there anybody on this forum who doesn't experience "frisson"?
« Reply #43 on: September 29, 2017, 06:26:30 AM »
So I was at work yesterday and the kids put on The Lion King. I got shivers when Circle of Life played at the beginning  :hefdaddy

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