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2006-10-19 18:19:19 · 4 answers · asked by araniella p 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
Music in the morning is different from music one would listen to throughout the remainder of the day. At work, one wants enjoyable music that is low-key, office appropriate, and generally popular as it will be shared with others around you. Music at dinner should be romantic or good for the digestion, calming. Music in clubs at night needs to be obstinant, almost pounding emotion through and out of you in a very physical sense. Music on a picnic needs to be memorable. Music one chooses to listen to during private and singular moments tends to be selections chosen mostly for mood and for enjoyment.
Morning music differs from all these. I believe it is a stagnant idea that morning music needs to be from the top 40 to WAKE PEOPLE UP. A whisper can wake a person up. An alarm can wake a person up. Music should not equate to little more than an alarm. Rather, I find music in the morning need be music that sets a tone for the day. Unlike music specifically chosen by indivuduals for mood, music that needs to set a tone really needs to create an atmosphere that might last the remainder of the day, even through other music choices. So, how does one set tone? Well, tone cannot truly be set through new releases. The new songs themselves, while artistic and creating memories across the board, are not yet old enough to have loads of sensations related to them. Hence, morning music should be selections from years past. They might also wish to be related as musical sets depending upon the tone one is trying to set. It might be easy for somebodty to say, THIS SET IS 80s or 50s, but a musical savant will detect similarities in songs from different epochs played back to back. For instance, a daytime tone set by playing Billy Joel's DOWNEASTER ALEXA, Depeche Mode's PERSONAL JESUS, Sting's DESERT ROSE, Ottis Redding's SITTIN' ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY, Stevie Wonder's DO I DO, and Squeeze's HOURGLASS would be highly different than a tone set by playing Shanice's I LOVE YOUR SMILE, Debbie Gibson's ELECTRIC YOUTH, Annie Lennox's LITTLE BIRD, Huey Lewis' HIP TO BE SQUARE, The Foundations' BUILD ME UP BUTTERCUP, Jackie Wilson's REET PETITE, and Jerry Reed's AMOS MOSES. The former sets an introspective feel-good tone while the latter accomplishes a cheesy, mindless feel-good tone that suspends disbelief.
Hint: When detecting themes in sets of songs, especially those from different epochs, do not look for a thru-line in the lyrics. Instead listen to the music, identify how it makes you feel, and then group similar pieces together to emphasize that feeling, setting a tone for the entire day. It's a tad subjective, but art always is. At least you'll know that you are focusing on the artistry of what made each piece popular in years past rather than the marketing numbers in a set of new releases or a set of similar words the lyrics almost coincidentally have in common.
2006-10-19 18:52:48 · answer #1 · answered by wolvensense 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mary's Prayer by Danny Wilson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVx2RtwoLIQ
They used to play it on KTWV a lot.
2006-10-20 01:27:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hard rock as well as some good ol classic to wake you up
2006-10-20 01:48:24 · answer #3 · answered by sp1nkxter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
,,, old time rock&roll.... it will wake you up and get you going
2006-10-20 01:30:33 · answer #4 · answered by MissMonk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋