Ha. Funnily enough, I wrote my dissertation on music and moods. Well, it was a bit more sophisticated than that, but y'know. It's all to do with how music alludes to a Kantian sublime/ aesthetics, but is inclined towards the psychological edifices we create around it.

I'm finding, to my horror, that a lot of elevator/ light/ easy listening type stuff is actually really good. Herb Alpert. Someone out there must also love this man.

Well,sorry to burst your bubble mate but that isn't even worth a pantomine script.Of course music is mood enhancer.

god damn interesting. before dropping out of my phd program, i had in mind this dissertation that linked musical pleasure with the linguistic centers of the brain that are responsible for the... "musical" aspect of language... very far-fetched, all i wanted to prove was that aesthetics has a physical reality and it's not some invention of the hegemonic capitalistic empire or whatever it is that post-stalinists postmodern want to argue to rob us of our delights.

anyway, for example, the relations of the system of musical notation and how the brain parses syllables in order to make sense of what it hears... and the effect of cadence in meaning, for example. no, it would require many beers and a proper bar to discuss this shit with any sort of cogency. this place is by far too inadequate to sustain such type of dialogue with any manner of intelletual honesty.

Word. Check yr PMs.

A lot of people listen to happy music when they're in a bad mood, but I can't stand doing that. It makes me feel worse because the ARTIST is HAPPY and I'm not, so it's as if they're all in your face about it to me. I match up my moods. When I'm sad, nirvana, khanate, sunn0))), and some of the sadder material by Belle & Sebastian. When I'm sself confident it's often Dr.Dre, NaS, or other hip hop artists. When I feel like a pompous musical asshole, often excepter, Sun City Girls, Sun Ra, Funkadelic, etc...

right now i'm kind of pissy and i don't want to hear anything.

I'm listening to the radio right now. It's the Late Junction. Everyone should listen to it. Really, you owe it to yourselves. [BBC Radio 3, you can stream it online. Although this programme finished in about 3 minutes. But do the listen again thing. Yes. Well done.]

How appropiately do you choose the music that suits your mood?

Playlist Shuffle.

I actually go through long periods of time in which I never listen to Rather Ripped.

I'm very aware that everything I do dictates how I feel. So I do everything according to my mood or the mood that I want, this stretches further than music.

oh, behave. i'm usually not in a sour mood, i just like to be a meanie.

Very well. I'm good at fitting music to moods. Then again, I'm not a fucking moron. I don't know how well it comes to you guys.

I'm more likely to avoid certain musics according to my mood than to pick certain types. If I'm feeling down in the dumps, the last thing I'm going to listen to is doomy depressing alt-country or black metal. I'm far more likely to be able to appreciate that sort of stuff when I'm in a good mood.

The only exception to this rule is classical-style post-rock, which can always put me in a good mood with its beauty, no matter how melancholy it may sound.