YES! YES! YES! …. to your beautiful open acceptance of ALL music! We human beings are all so uniquely different, it only makes sense that our music is as diverse as we are.

I don’t have one particular song or group that I come back to each time I need a boost of nourishment for my soul. The Universe sends me the perfect song each time … whether it be Mad World or House of the Rising Sun by the Animals or Not Ready to make Nice by the Dixie Chicks. Any music is fair game to my soul, though I do often tend to go for really deep and dark stuff. But what I do find – every single time – is that I need to hear this same song over and over and over and over until I’ve sucked up every bit of this song’s nourishing energy that my soul needs.

Now here’s something I’m beginning to notice … is that there is a holistic element to each song – soul byte … meaning it is not just either the words or the music or the tone or the beat … but it is a combination of ALL those elements which come together in perfection. It’s like a recipe where if one ingredient was off by even a smidge, the whole thing would taste different.

I’ve also noticed that, for me, there is something about the sound of the artists voice that reaches deep into my spirit. So during the time I am replaying the same song over and over and over, I might also be as nourished by another song or 2 or 3 by the same artist. Don’t know if anyone else has had this same experience … just something I noticed myself.

thanks for that fun insight into the spirit of music!

all good things,

Smadar

@Monica – Right on! Every single type of music and musician you named seems so totally spiritual to me. And that people miss that because they limit what spiritual music means bums me out. Hope you dug the biggie sizing stuff too. It really is a kind of wacky magic.

@Ken – …from Count Basie to AC/DC. You got it. There’s magic and goodness and great big oh-wow-ness to all of it. And that’s why I love music in ways I can’t even explain. Thanks for gettin’ it and diggin’ it.

@Pace – Totally glad to share it. Thanks for the support. I appreciate it tons.

@Kelly – The B-52s…. LOVE THEM! It is totally impossible to be in a bad mood after listening to them. And the Dance of Shiva to the B-52s? Oh. My. God. You are now officially my hero.

Thanks for your awesomesauce comments. You’ve made me one happy puppy.

Long live the Sex Pistols!

I would not have made it through high school without the B-52s’ Rock Lobster and Detour Through Your Mind, alternating with Smells Like Teen Spirit.

I would listen to the B-52s when things were truly, desperately bad. It’s impossible to be in a bad mood while listening to the B-52s. Impossible. And then I would listen to Nirvana at top volume when I needed to tap into my anger.

Now I’m wondering, are you saying I could do Dance of Shiva to the B-52s????

Oh, wow. This is going to open up a new universe for me…

I’ve been uplifted by everything from a flute to a cello to a screaming electric guitar.

From Mozart to Metallica, from Count Basie to AC/DC.
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thanks for sharing who you are with the world – it encourages others to do the same!
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For me? Tori. Motherloving. Amos.

Got into her years later than the other girls, cause that’s how I roll (also with the late blog comments. Yeah!). And cause that’s when I needed her. Helped me on the way out of the hardest, most terrifying time of my life. On a really bad day I’d BLAST Boys for Pele and clean the whole house. Incredibly healing.

@Tatty – I hadn’t heard of Solace. Thanks for turning me on to them. I love that they list both Siouxsie and Missy Elliot among their influences. How cool!

nothing gets me going like the right music at the right time.

i am particular addicted to a band called Solace (http://www.soundsofsolace.com/solace/). And another band called Wilco.

And I love middle-eastern music. And I love spiritual music too. It all depends on the mood
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