Comments on: Music: The Gateway to the Mind https://nickgeek.com/music-the-gateway-to-the-mind/ A Husband, Father, Youth Pastor, Geek, and Jesus Freak Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:13:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nick the Geek https://nickgeek.com/music-the-gateway-to-the-mind/#comment-17299 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:13:05 +0000 http://nickgeek.com/?p=1393#comment-17299 In reply to Ron.

Thanks for the correction, I’ve updated the original content.

]]> By: Ron https://nickgeek.com/music-the-gateway-to-the-mind/#comment-17263 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:24:41 +0000 http://nickgeek.com/?p=1393#comment-17263 In reply to Ron.

you can listen to both on their respective wiki pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Bumblebee and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_of_the_Valkyries

]]> By: Ron https://nickgeek.com/music-the-gateway-to-the-mind/#comment-17262 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:23:38 +0000 http://nickgeek.com/?p=1393#comment-17262 I’ll read the rest of the article as soon as I hit the post button, but I could not go past “Flight of the Valkyrie (aka flight of the bumblebee)” without commenting that they are most definitely not the same piece of music. Valkyrie was composed by Richard Wagner and Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Sorry 🙂

]]> By: Helen https://nickgeek.com/music-the-gateway-to-the-mind/#comment-17198 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:41:23 +0000 http://nickgeek.com/?p=1393#comment-17198 In reply to Nick the Geek.

Ah… You mean songs like “The Christmas Shoes”… 😉 I forgot all about that one! 🙂

]]> By: Nick the Geek https://nickgeek.com/music-the-gateway-to-the-mind/#comment-17197 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:27:05 +0000 http://nickgeek.com/?p=1393#comment-17197 In reply to Helen.

I think that is a good reaction to music. I look at the Psalms and a lot of those are expressing real and painful emotion, but then turn it back to God. I think there is a difference in “depressing” songs that let you get on with life and music that leaves you worse than when it found you.

You are right about a lot of music talking about stuff we didn’t realize though.

]]> By: Helen https://nickgeek.com/music-the-gateway-to-the-mind/#comment-17193 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:02:48 +0000 http://nickgeek.com/?p=1393#comment-17193 I’m a “child of the eighties”. I was a grown married woman when I realized the meaning of some of the songs I liked. I went on a “secular music fast” that Lent. I leave that in quotation marks because that isn’t as easy as it sounds. Grocery stores used to play music. You can’t go to a friend’s house and say “Excuse me, I’m giving up secular music for Lent. Do you mind changing the station?” (Although I would ask if it could be turned down because I was “easily distracted lately)

Sometimes depressing songs actually make me feel better because I think to myself “See? ‘Every rose has it’s thorn… every cowboy sings a sad sad song… ‘ Everyone feels down once in a while. This will pass…” But then, I also find that sometimes rather than trying to cheer myself up, I find that crying it out for five minutes makes it over and I can have a normal day.

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