My definitions of a “top list”
This time i’m gonna take you through simple things that makes me happy. that’s the question i’ve been ask lately by my therapist. it’s not much, but the majority of it, comes from music. Listening to music has been a habit of mine since i was at the very young age, it helps me create distractions towards the noisy world and take me away somewhere else, where it stimulates each spectrum of emotions inside of me.
I’m not much of a talker when it comes to what i feel, but music help me to recognize and describes what i’m feeling at the time, all i can say i grew up along side of music and learn things.
What makes me want to write about this because the other day someone ask me what my“top” list are, i find it hard to answer right away because it’s a sentimenal piece to me.
Anyway, behind those question there’s another following question that should be considered. well, in my perspectives when someone ask regarding the top list thingy, in which context that you want to hear? is it the back story that compliments their long list or is it just something you want to relate with in terms of music taste to understand their music preference?
Because for me, asking one top list is about understanding their personality, life perspective, and other personal things be it music, series or even movie. To simplify, top music list questions is not about the objects but the subjects because people perspective behind it that matters more (well yea in my opinion obviously). i’m write this perspective in the context of “getting know each other phase” in building deeper relationship (friends, family, romance), not just sudden occurance where you meet new people and start to talk with each other in a party or bar, that’ll be different of course.
so it’s a bit challenging for me to define my top list because it meant more for me.
Let me take you down to 5 Top-song tracks as an examples
1. Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral') Op. 125 - Molto vivace
i’m always fascinated with classical music since i was young (i’m failed to analyze where is it coming from because my father loves Bee Gees and love to play it all the time when he was home). But for me classical music really special, there’s just layers of instruments with no lyrics but it tells you story. especially Symphony No. 9 from Beethoven, when i hear it i got so energized and felt some kind of power from it. The instruments felt like it takes you into the journey of a fight to freedom, that the real fact about the song but i felt like it even before i google what’s the meaning behind this song. i mean, the instrument is so powerful to bring its own narratives into mine.
4. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Well i guess this might feels like its a cheesy song after they make movie after Queen music journey. But let forget about that, for me this dong is quite similar like classical music, the difference is classical got layers of instruments that please your ears and bring its own narratives to you but this one takes you to 4 mixed of music theme in one go. The lyrics, vocals and the instruments compliments each others makes you felt the pain and the struggles that the singer tells you. If i could describe it well, it almost like you finished reading a book about an existential questions in mans life.
Bon Iver’s songs is a sentimental piece for me, i go through the hardest time in my life accompanied by his words. But as i grew older and also changes in his music especially i,i album, RaBi is one the tracks that got me. Maybe it’s because i listened to all of his albums and this song especially tells a story about acceptance and there’s this kind of parity with mine.
I guess this one might a lil bit far from a layered instrument in a track, but the the lyrics in tender is so beautiful for me. It’s somehow describes how we as human have this delicate feeling called love, a feelings that i’ve seen as an abstract form but you can feel your body react to it but you can’t locate where it is from it is from your heart, brain, or even a butterfly in ur tummy and tender is the right word to describe it and this song nailed it. This song able to give the narrative of love and how it feels like. Thats the reason why this song is one of my favorite, i think It will be on number one in my top love song tracks.
This song describes a rock bottom moment of mine, the beautiful words of Vernon tells a story about a grieve and how he try to cure it with something that destroys him that somehow want to make him immune with all the pain he felt. Every time i hear this track, even when i’m in a happy mood, i could absorb his grieve into mine. It’s one of Bon Iver track that i would avoid to hear these day’s cause its too powerful to take me back to the lowest point of my life. But yeah it’s still, it should be on my top track list.
I love how intimate a song would impact in ourselves in any moment in our life and somehow we can relate or even re-imagine the meanings.
so when your about to ask someone their top-list, don’t just go ahead asking that, give context!
because you can tell a person from their playlist right?
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