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sinsd
09-23-08, 11:26 AM
Does any one else ever get the urge to listen to music WAY to loudly? Every now and then I get the urge to play some Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, or something similar and just crank it up. It seems to help me think.

four_a2002
09-23-08, 01:13 PM
Oh hell yes. I recently just got my first Rammstein cd and it needs to be played loud.

I don't do it very often, but, I agree that there are times that the right music does help me concentrate

Laurenzartsy
09-24-08, 12:01 AM
Sinsd,
Once in a while? All of my life, always when driving - loud banging rock and roll, hip hop now, changing stations, chomping gum and going 85 - at least in my mind.... i could do this all day long..... it wasn't until i startec on ritalin that i actually listened to music.....

WarPhalange
09-24-08, 11:10 PM
Hahaha! I'm a total Metal Head. It's all I listen to pretty much, and you can't listen to Metal quietly.

But it's lost its effectiveness. I thought playing Death Metal loud on the bus ride to school would wake me up, but I've just learned to sleep through it.

imsietze
09-27-08, 04:53 AM
Oh yea! I like to play it loud. That is a good and I would say normal thing. I like all sorts of music. Everything from DMX, Rehab, Buffalo Springfield, The Doors to my current favorities in country music. "When I hear that country music on my car radio I want to crank it up as loud as it will go". Travis Tritt or " I wair what I want to, overalls , work boots and crank my music up loud" Montgomery Gentry. It is as it should be. Unfortunately it is also a way to alienate and in other ways **** everyone around you off!

DeloresMelon
09-27-08, 07:30 AM
*interjects to mention this doesn't just apply to men.... ;)
DeloresMelon is a proud member of the hearing impaired due to excessive volume of the Foo Fighters and Alice in Chains

tocamexr2
09-27-08, 08:22 AM
All the time. High-tempo/speed stuff if the adderall has worn off and downtempo/chill-out music if it's giving me it's full effect. Everything just seems to slow down, like going into slow motion and I'm just a slug on the couch not wanting to move right when the adderall begins to work. But a few minutes later, I'm just normal. Sorry, I'm kind of new to this. I've gone undiagnosed my whole life until just a few months ago when my problems got out of hand.

ILADHD
09-27-08, 08:05 PM
I think it stimulates us better louder. My favorite bands are Depeche Mode and New Order, the electronic fast beats wake me up.

Mincan
09-27-08, 09:14 PM
Is there any other way to listen to Beethoven, Bach, or Queens of the Stone Age?

Rgi625
09-28-08, 03:36 PM
Nothing puts me in a better mood than cranking up Darude, Creed, Breaking Benjamin and Stone Temple Pilots.

chamaleon
09-28-08, 03:55 PM
All my music is played at the highest giggawatts!! :p

johnnyx
10-03-08, 10:49 PM
nope, don't want to damage the hairs in my ear. Only get two ears for my entire life so don't want to damage them when I'm young.

XTaC
10-05-08, 04:50 AM
I'm a new member my name is Luke, but hell yes i drive around with it at illegal levels just to help clear my head, I'm not diagnosed adhd but im fairly certain, sometimes i just drive for no real reason just so i can listen to some insanely loud music, hard techno, rnb, sometimes rock, just helps me think... when im at home i also turn it up extremily loud, i don't just like hear to the music i like to feel it.

it's like while im listening to it it sort of washes all the mental noise away :D

teky
10-08-08, 08:15 AM
I PLAY MY MUSIC ONLY @ HIGH VOLUME.. 140 BPMS baby

power to ya Luke we are similiar in the car my friend.

Terrah
10-08-08, 08:16 AM
Other ways to listen to Beethoven - Bach - QOTSA: Download a track called "Beethovens Virus by BanYa" download a copy of the Funtwo or JerryC version of Canon in D (its rock) and Try The UNKLE reconstruction of - No One Knows

GregAld
10-09-08, 09:35 AM
Totally i have been blasting the new Metallica CD a lot lately
load music makes me feel good

Malcontent
10-09-08, 04:35 PM
I highly recommend Nine Inch Nails. Whatever the mood...meds on board or not...NIN is awesome.

lis dexia
10-09-08, 05:09 PM
Tchaikovsky - yeah baby - turn it up loud.
Ambient music - depends on the mood.

I have noticed my brother (guitar player) is starting to say "what" in conversations more, and it worries me that my love of sitting in between the speakers will have me in a hearing aid before my time.

And Rage Against..... there is no way that one can listen to RATM at low volume. It just throws the vibe of the moment into a more elevated state of ecstasy.

Alfie
10-27-08, 03:09 AM
Yeah, i love my music at very dangerous levels and i work with live entertainment and i often enjoy standing right next to speaker stacks which is definitely not healthy, even with hearing protection. i quite often drive around with the music cranked (GF says she can hear me from 3 blocks away)

cont
10-27-08, 11:05 AM
Hello Everyone,

I'm an Adhd/add girl /woman(diagnosed very recently). I've been cranking up my stereo for as long as I can remember driving everyone insane while doing so.

Nothing relaxes me like driving at top speed in the middle of the night preferably on the high-way with insanely loud music on!

Sam French
11-02-08, 02:19 AM
Well I have been watching Queensryche Operation Live Crime DVD man I just can't get it
loud enough. Metal is all that I can listen to.

I hate it when I am watching/listening to metal then just shoot out of my chair to jump
up and down for a little while. Because I get so wound up. Dose anybody else do this
or is it just me ;)


lis dexia what dose Tchaikovsky sound like? I like violins and strong rythym sections.
Which of his music would you recommend? I LOVE the star wars track when DV would show up man the combo of the chello's and horn section sounds so good.

Speaking of the New Metallica CD how well are the songs written? I am really digging
the new Judas Priest

WarPhalange
11-02-08, 01:18 PM
Speaking of the New Metallica CD how well are the songs written?

Better than their last album, but not really that good. The first song starts okay... but that's about it. Meh...

Sam French
11-03-08, 11:00 AM
Thanks for the heads up War. I heard a song on the radio awhile back. It did'nt really
do anything for me.

It just seems the better I get managing ADHD Heavy Metal is all that I want to listen to.
Oh yes its NEVER loud enough.

So may I ask how many sets of speaker do you have hooked up to your computer?

I have 3

any takers?

aidy
11-03-08, 11:02 AM
maybe you guys should get musician's earplugs so as to not damage hearing while keeping the monstrous vibrations :P

DynamiteBritany
11-13-08, 07:45 PM
I listen to my music waaaay to loud... i can actually notice a difference in my hearing (not good!)... I'm only 23 but have always had a great system in my car and actually got a ticket for noise violation when I was 16... I can not drive a car without a good sub and amp, something about it really calms me down and helps me think more clearly. I will hopefully learn a new coping skill, if not my hearing is screwed! At least i've learned to keep my music low when I'm driving in a neighborhood! Funny you mentioned Rammstein, in high school I learned a decent amount of German just from listening to them!

DynamiteBritany
11-13-08, 07:51 PM
Thanks for the heads up War. I heard a song on the radio awhile back. It did'nt really
do anything for me.

It just seems the better I get managing ADHD Heavy Metal is all that I want to listen to.
Oh yes its NEVER loud enough.

So may I ask how many sets of speaker do you have hooked up to your computer?

I have 3

any takers?

thats pretty extreme! i thought i was nuts for having two subs and dozens of speakers hooked up to mine! I felt bad for any neighbors surrounding my apartment so I invested in some bad a*s headphones lol :)

GregAld
11-14-08, 12:30 PM
I can even do work better when having metal blasting in my ears. Although i come the the old school metal like Sabbath, Ozzy, Judas Priest etc...
I actually have a play list i call ZONE that really helps me focus when I need to get things done.
Here it is:

Sun Red Sun/Badlands
Day After Day/Def Leppard
Desert Song/Fractured Love/Def Leppard
Pearl of Euphoria/Def Leppard
Torn to Shreds/Def Leppard
From the Beginning/Dokken
Letter to Home/Dokken
Deep Waters/Dokken
Deep Inside A Shell/Iommi
I Go Insane/Iommi
Worth Fighting For/Judas Priest
Lochness/Judas Priest
Turbo Lover/Judas Priest
Locked In/Judas Priest
No Quarter/Led Zeppelin
Kashmir/Led Zeppelin
Ten Years Gone/Led Zeppelin
Ever Higher/Lynch/Pilson
Closer to None/Lynch/Pilson
Fire In The Sky/Ozzy Osbourne
Tea in the Sahara/The Police
The Zoo/Scorpions
We All Die Young/Steel Dragon
Feelin'/Van Halen

Louder Than Love
11-14-08, 12:44 PM
EW EW EW WE WEW

Im good at this.

In Flames / Come Clarity
Bullet For My Valentine / SCREAM.AIM.FIRE
Avenged Sevenfold / Self-titled, and City Of Evil
Tool / Lateralus
NIN / Most anything by him except Ghosts, and Year Zero.
Taproot / Our Long Road Home
All That Remains / The Fall of Ideals
Killswitch Engage / End of Heartache
and... not many people like these guys...

But ZAO / (song only ) The Rising End.
it's powerful.

Sam French
11-22-08, 08:21 PM
Britney funny you mentioned Rammstein the only song I remember is Du Haust Mich. Do you listen to any of the new stuff? I have heard its good. I need to replace some of my speakers maybe I should just replace the blown woofers in my stereo and run it through my PC again. Man Megadeth sounds awesome well thats what I was playing when they
let go. I am glad I live in a house. I could just imagine how long I would last in a apartment
when I start jumping up and down. I am surprised I have'nt landed in the basement yet. Lord knows how much noise I would make in a complex I am 6'1 and weigh 240 and change. Be careful with those headphones that can be worse and loud speakers because it is so focused and close to the ears.

What a awesome thread

Driver
11-22-08, 09:26 PM
Loud music with a strong beat is very stimulating - it stimulates the motion sensors in the ears and gives our bodies a sensation much like riding a rollercoaster.

That said, I love cranking up my Rammstein, Iron Maiden, etc up nice and loud...pity my sound system is cactus :(

chowmix
11-23-08, 12:41 AM
Love the loud music. Still do. I went to fillmore/winterland and lots of zepplin, tubes, the dead, who, king crimsom, hendrix, pink floyd, and other stuff in the late 60s, early 70s and keep seeking near the stage speaker stack stuff on into the 90s.

I loved it. But my hearing has become progressively worse and I have a constant hissing in my ears. The hearing loss never heals.

At the risk of sounding like everyone's dad, get some earplugs.

I got a pair of musicians earplugs (http://www.etymotic.com/) and keep them in my pocket. Also, real noise canceling earphones from the same company can block out enough external noise so you don't have to crank up our iPods to dangerous levels. (I get no kickback, just trying to save ya'll from some pain)

pADDyjay
11-23-08, 01:20 AM
the louder the better:) Ive been cranking up the volume as far back as I can remember, when Im alone, I start jumping and dancing around, great stress reliever for me:) I was even jumping around when I was pregnant :othat was 28yrs ago and my daughter must have liked it because she was 3wks late:rolleyes: and healthy. Loud music helps me concetrate on boring tasks, but it has to be 60s,70s,80s, or disco:o

dubs
11-28-08, 02:34 AM
Oh yes. I've loved loud music for as long as I can remember. It's a miracle I don't have hearing loss!

RedHairedWitch
11-28-08, 02:57 AM
Louder is better! Nightwish is my thing right now. And the Pixies.

whitedaikan
12-01-08, 06:05 PM
smashing pumpkins- the end is the beginning is the end- watchmen trailer mix- omfg I love this song and I can't wait to see this movie!

ADXP
12-02-08, 06:47 AM
Other ways to listen to Beethoven - Bach - QOTSA: Download a track called "Beethovens Virus by BanYa" download a copy of the Funtwo or JerryC version of Canon in D (its rock) and Try The UNKLE reconstruction of - No One Knows


Its funny I am the same . Love Bach too, YoYo Ma , Bartolli, Mozart. I was like that do before I got oficially diagnosed. I even like Pope John Paul sings even I don't understand the lyric.

I also like Opera. But I thought my mother is mezzo soprano so....

Yea I do love the kind of music loud ,as loud as it can be. Bob Marley songs energized me on the road.

wsmac
01-07-09, 07:02 AM
Although I have always enjoyed certain music turned way up, I found out a few years ago that it actually helps me concentrate on my school work.

I've taken that lesson to the lab I work in.. I work swing shift - night... and when I'm done seeing outpatients, I turn off the lights, turn on my little lamp, and crank up some Audioslave, or R.A.T.M., Offspring, Three Days Grace, Avenge Sevenfold, etc.

One of the Techs I work with at night (after 10pm, there's just the two of us) installed XM radio in his part of the lab and he cranks up the noise loud enough for people to hear it down the hall.

We're a weird crew :D

My ears have been ringing for many years now.
Of course, my damage has not only come from the music, but from operating machinery without plugs, and shooting firearms without plugs.
No to mention the double sirens we used to have mounted on top of our units when I worked in various EMS systems.

chris81
05-06-09, 07:50 PM
I have to listen to loud music to get any passable level of productivity going, i feel like when i lose the attention on what i'm doing my brain is forced to concentrate on the music, which somehow helps me work, because i'm only splitting my concentration between 2 things, rather than 10.

StoicNate
05-06-09, 09:24 PM
Hell yeah, Rammstein!
I put the volume up as much as it could go whenever I drive around.
It makes me feel indestructible and "in the zone".

firstdesserts
05-06-09, 09:37 PM
Is there any other way to listen to Beethoven, Bach, or Queens of the Stone Age?

Not even!

psychokitty
05-07-09, 06:40 AM
I have to listen to loud music to get any passable level of productivity going, i feel like when i lose the attention on what i'm doing my brain is forced to concentrate on the music, which somehow helps me work, because i'm only splitting my concentration between 2 things, rather than 10.

I really think this is what it is......

It`s like the music drowns out the "excessive noise" in my brain........I also feel the same with my head under the shower - I can finally think!

Addr68
05-07-09, 07:26 AM
I turn my tunes up and let it out!

I'm old school. AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplelin etc...

Dude, to crank up the volume and hear the sweet sound, gets my day going! Heck ya!

RacerX73
05-07-09, 07:15 PM
That's why I like to install car stereos...to kick it up a notch.

I find underground dancehall reggae, classical, upbeat and soulfully unpredictable jazz, not to mention Duran Duran from the 80's.

Must be driving to appreciate music, though.

Old School MBD
05-07-09, 07:34 PM
Does any one else ever get the urge to listen to music WAY to loudly? Every now and then I get the urge to play some Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, or something similar and just crank it up. It seems to help me think.


LOUD WHAT........let me turn the stereo down......oh you were asking about loud music!

Yes.....loud music will drown out all other distractions, allowing me to concentrate on what I am doing!

I only have one volume level for most music........FULL POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!

The stereo in my computer room to is pretty loud, but the granddaddy stereo in the living room is a 1977 Technics professional rack mount amp & pre amp.......

IT's ear ringing insanely LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With NO distortion!!!!!!!! (dont go full power on it very much any more!!!!) :cool:

gnbeg
05-08-09, 09:52 AM
I am a product of the 70's. Yes, I love to crank my tunes. Lez Zepplin, Van Halen, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith...

I hope my love for loud music won't result in fried hearing sooner rather than later. I should put a volume limit on my iPod. I really need to start (if it's not too late) being more careful - earplugs when mowing the yard, when riding my motorcycle, etc).

Old School MBD
05-08-09, 12:45 PM
As a teen I would go to sleep to blaring music, so that there was nothing in my mind (no racing thoughts).

Nothing but the music!

DISCLAMER: I am lucky in that I have not experienced SEVERE hearing loss.......Listen to loud music at a "reasonable" level.

firefly25
05-08-09, 05:15 PM
I like being lost in my music and definately prefer the more rockish genres. I think my music has to be loud for me to get into it. Like the louder it is the more feeling it has.

And then I'll think, this is a great song and I want to hear the lyrics. So I start the song over and then next I know the song ends and I'm thinking, dammit I missed the lyrics. So I start the song over and then next thing I know....

And then I'll realize I'm driving 85 miles an hour in a 60 zone. -_-

Old School MBD
05-08-09, 06:20 PM
I like being lost in my music and definately prefer the more rockish genres. I think my music has to be loud for me to get into it. Like the louder it is the more feeling it has.

And then I'll think, this is a great song and I want to hear the lyrics. So I start the song over and then next I know the song ends and I'm thinking, dammit I missed the lyrics. So I start the song over and then next thing I know....

And then I'll realize I'm driving 85 miles an hour in a 60 zone. -_-

Try driving to speed metal........then you are going 125 in a 60!

The faster the tempo, the faster i used to drive!

hsoJ
05-09-09, 09:01 PM
Not only do they make me concentrate on stuff better, but certain bands seem to have different effects on my mood; Van Halen makes me cheery and happy, Zeppelin makes me insightful and calm, Pink Floyd makes me zone OUT and relax, old Ozzy w/Randy makes me feel better about myself in general. Between the Buried and Me makes me proactive and angry at wrongdoers, Psyopus just makes me crazy; Through the Eyes of the Dead, Whitechapel, Rifles at Recess are all full of rage and whatnot. I listen to pretty much all music, but the fastest and heaviest of metals are pretty much my main diet.

And I generally giggle at the people who listen to HEAVY AS F*CK METAL a la AVENGED SEVENFOLD, KORN, DISTURBED, [insert more "we try really hard to be brutal but fail really hard" bands here]. Sorry, just needed to get that out. /rant When it comes to (death/speed/thrash)metal, I'm a purist/elitist of sorts.

Anyway! YES! Loud music, hoohah! But being a guitarist, I tend to get distracted from everything else and air guitar entire albums when I was supposed to be mowing the yard... mind you, I was on the mower while it was running -- just sitting there rockin' out. Why? \m/

danny1381
06-09-09, 12:37 PM
When I am stressed my number one calming technique is blasting rock music in my car... I never really conected it to my ADHD but it make sense

mitchck
06-17-09, 10:11 AM
Doesn't listening to loud heavy music give an adrenaline rush? and then the adrenaline can help you focus and since adrenaline can be addictive, playing music loud becomes a habit...? anyways thats my little theory. :rolleyes:

ddrumm5
07-17-09, 08:46 AM
I love to play it loud then I get a headache take tylenol and repeat!!! It kills the nargles in my head so to speak. Sorry about the Harry Potter reference just it clears the cobwebs from my mind.

Fraz_2006
07-17-09, 09:43 AM
I play my electrical Hardcore/trance type of music VERY loud.

I love the tickles the vibration of my headsets have on my ears when turned up.

And I love the vibrations of my bedroom wall when blasting it through my hifi system.

Night clubs just arent loud enough for me!! :D

Host
07-18-09, 07:00 PM
I am an audiophile 90% of the time. My car stereo is worth about 3x the car. :D and that is just the equipment. I didn't take my own labor into account.
I build this latest system to fulfill two very specific functions.

Function 1: Live concert reproduction

Function 2: Something ****ed me off and I need to kill a few cochlear hair cells

There is nothing I have found that can channel rage like loud music. I am usually so into it that I am exhausted by the time I finish. Much better than taking it out on someone else.

dixonge
08-26-09, 01:52 PM
From Van Halen in the 70's to 3oh!3 and LMFAO now, I've always tended to crank it. Unfortunately I may have caused myself some tinnitis along the way. But I still crank. My only concession to my age is that I have not yet put a sub in the hatch of my new little Kia. That's probably a good thing, but I hate not being able to blast my tunes halfway down the block.

Any way, that's how I roll....

dlester
10-01-09, 02:18 PM
Putting on a pair of ear goggles and turning up the volume totally helps me get in a zone! I've also found listening to different types of music influences what I'm working on and the final product looks a lot better. When I'm designing graphics or editing something like motor sports I listen to music that's hard and heavy. If it's a corporate video or something that needs to look clean and elegant I like listening to jazz or funk that's kinda mellow. Either way when it's loud it doesn't distract me, it helps me focus and build creativity.

But don't over do it!! I've worked around a lot of guys in their 30s and 40s that have spent most of their lives around race cars without ear protection and they're experiencing serious problems. If you want to keep turning it up, take a break and let your ears adjust to normal sounds then start listening again. (sorry to sound like mom, but thoughts of not being able to hear freak me out!)

firstdesserts
10-01-09, 03:35 PM
dlester,

I have the same fear of losing my hearing. Severe hearing problems run in my family, so I've been neurotic about protecting my ears since I was very young. I didn't work anywhere without bringing several types of ear protection (and usually eye protection too). I am fortunate. 50 plus years of playing really loud music (recorded and playing live) and most of that time in construction work hasn't noticeably affected my hearing.

Hmmm! That makes me realize that tonight when I play my guitar and visit our daughter, her husband, and grandson, I will be able to clearly hear what my dad and grandparents would largely miss. Yeah. I am fortunate.

Crazygirl79
10-01-09, 07:38 PM
I will play anything by Michael Jackson as loud as I can get it...I don't mind loud music as long it isn't sh*t..

Though I am careful not to have any music too loud to the point where it damages my hearing or hurts my ears.

Selena

sambo88
10-02-09, 05:06 PM
Yeah! I've just come off the SNRI venlafaxine - that stuff messed up my pleasure abilities - nothing really excited me for like a year!

Since i've been off that anti depressant and on Methylphenidate, loud music gets me peaking! You know what I mean?? I ain't had tingles like that since when I was a kid.... sadly

But guess what! I just redicovered the album Willenium by Will Smith, and its awesome! I remember listening to this **** when I was about 12.

Usually though, I listen to a broad spectrum of stuff, pretty much at least one artist out of every genre.... not just will smith :o

FunnyHead
10-02-09, 06:04 PM
Metallica,
Especially the old stuff, Master of Puppets,
I also read with a fan on, and the bus really helps (early in the morning before, everybody starts yapping), water running as well.
FunnyHead

nottheonlyone
10-21-09, 06:10 PM
Isn't music meant to be loud? (not other peoples though...lol). Spent years listening 2 my walkman way too loud, now my daughter accuses me of being deaf (maybe i'm just not listening). Love green day, offspring, ratm, pearl jam.......crank it up!!

nottheonlyone
10-21-09, 06:32 PM
oooh sorry just noticed this is for guys..feel like a interloper.....

wsmac
10-22-09, 05:42 AM
oooh sorry just noticed this is for guys..feel like a interloper.....

This is the ADDForums! Who's going to get on your case for not noticing the forum title when you're after the 'interesting subject title'! :D

Come back ANYTIME!:D:p

wsmac
10-22-09, 05:47 AM
Pandora Radio... Disturbed Channel and others... after I clock out at 11:30 pm! Close the door turn up the music and hang out by myself in my little hidden portion of the lab until I notice it's 3 a.m.!:eek:

I never knew I'd like Korn so much either... pretty good!

I love being almost 50 and discovering new music all the time! :D

Especially new study music!

ScottyMet
10-22-09, 09:27 AM
I definitely get this, and have for years. Lately it's "Uprising" by Muse that has me cranking the volume, both with my headphones and in the car. I've had it lots of times with other music, though, most commonly with me are certain movie score pieces... Star Trek, Star Wars, and Dances with Wolves are of particular note.

Oh, and I can't forget the classic rock. AC/DC in particular. :)

cgts18
10-22-09, 09:45 PM
I've always played my music loud, especially when driving. I'll even crank it way up when I have a killer headache. It's almost a habit, that's slooowly starting to fade.

river09
10-24-09, 03:49 AM
don't know, but when I listen to music I get in a bit of a trance and I kinda tingle sometimes when on meds.
always been infatuated with music though, and blasting it in my car is the best, but in a small town I feel the disapproving eyes with my being a mom in my 30's.

wsmac
10-24-09, 03:54 AM
Sometimes I will get into just one particular song and play that over-and-over... and over... and over...

Tonight it's Sober by Tool... endless loop with the headphones on and cranked up a bit too loud.:D

I love it when Maynard starts screaming... err, singing... "...why can't we start this over...":p

jumping
11-04-09, 02:26 PM
While driving a car, it sometimes relaxes to listen to the music as loud as possible.

PickMeUpRoadie
11-16-09, 10:07 PM
One major difference that I have noticed with ADHDers and the neuro-typical population is many ADHDers enjoy low frequencies at high dBs, while most NT people prefer an evenly spaced frequency spectrum as a whole.

As a music technology and psychology student, this greatly interests me. Is it the kinesthetic properties of the low frequency pulse in dance music? Not only does it make you want to dance, but you can FEEL the music. Is it because many of us have difficulty discerning "noise" from "sound" that we sometimes become euphoric when we get to hear music via a seperate sense?
These are questions to which I have pondered at long and hard, yet have not found much in the way of answers.

nelnehal
11-19-09, 02:37 AM
hey! yea i listen to loud music everyday for hours. It feels as though it energises me, something i can feel...especially when i cant express my self.....dont know how to really explain it. Now i have that loud noise in my ears.....constantly........and i got stop listening to music....my doctor says...which sucks....coz its one of those things that jus relaxes me

musicman64
11-19-09, 04:45 PM
If you gotta turn the music down, you're getting too old.

Brookeslost
11-19-09, 07:01 PM
A mom here too and in a small town....I dont really mind the disapproving looks (totally used to them!) with my WAY too loud Evans Blue, Disturbed, Breaking Benjamins, Taproot, NIN, ZZ Top or J Giles(I could sooo go on and on).... LOVE IT! I think its a way to drown out all other stimuli and focus on just that....when everything else is so overwhelming its a nice break :)

Asylum
11-22-09, 07:13 AM
In some countires, playing Rammie at a low volume is an offence punishable by being pelted with week-old lettuce in the town square. . . you've been warned!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpqUs-cVi9k

Spartan-121
11-22-09, 10:45 AM
I play 90% power metal and 10% metalcore whenever I'm at a computer or have my mp3 player with me. It's loud whenever others in the room can stand it. I have listened to power metal for 3 years now, and so far it is the one thing I engage in the most that I've never tired of. I've listened to every track from some and most from others of following bands- numerous times- and honestly have not tired at all of them. DragonForce, Heavenly, Blind Guardian, Powerglove, Sabaton, Dragonland, and Dark Moor. Of metalcore and heavy metal I usually listen to Trivium, Avenged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engage, and Stam1na. Any other power metal fans out there?

Linkx
11-24-09, 05:33 PM
I sometimes like loud music, but there are some types that I just cannot stand to hear at all...like my brother's (c)rap that he plays in full blast with just a ceiling between us.

Ignatz
12-07-09, 04:06 PM
I gotta admit, I like it loud! I'm pretty eclectic in my tastes: I'm as likely to blast Parliament/Funkadelic, the Bad Livers and the Skeletons as Yat-Kha, djBC and Steely Dan. And of course Spinal Tap, because they go to 11.

I was much more into metal in high school, but I've ventured from the fold, as it were.

BTW, anybody heard of Cookie Mongoloid? San Francisco speed-metal freaks who cover Sesame Street songs. The lead singer purports to be Cookie Monster's cousin, who has spent years fighting a chocolate-chip addiction. They're hilarious.

mpw123
12-09-09, 04:05 AM
Yeah, if it isn't loud my mind drifts away and I don't actually hear it.
Plus loud/fast music gets my pumped XD.

MacArt
12-09-09, 09:03 PM
Does any one else ever get the urge to listen to music WAY to loudly? Every now and then I get the urge to play some Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, or something similar and just crank it up. It seems to help me think.
Yes. I'm 50 years old. It's kind of embarassing anymore. I feel like I must do it in secret now. HA! I am uncomfortable going to concerts anymore because I look too old but I love the music. Saw RUSH and Metallica this year. I'm hoping my son gets his first pick of Germany as a foreign exchange student next year so I can plan a visit around a Rammstein gig! That's how I feel on the inside, I really try to keep it to myself and enjoy the hell out of driving alone. Sometimes I'll take the long way home so Ozzy can get my head on straight! Strange but true. PS I can do the same thing with Opera--I just discovered that a couple of years ago!

Lost Focus
12-21-09, 05:33 PM
Summer gear on my Jeep, doors off...it isn't very loud outside, but it is to me. I love crusing around town cranking Octane 20. At home, depending on what's playing I crank the receiver up and the walls shake from the powered sub tucked in the corner. Usually though, about a half-hour and I have to taper off the volume as the headache sets in, but music really gets me going.

whorton
12-24-09, 03:40 PM
I can play it a little too loud and was getting so hearing loss to I-pod usage. So I had my wife set the volume limit on my I-pod and set password for the volume limit so i don't blow my ears out.

Many use it for my Cardio Workout at the Gym. Too hard to use while listening to my Trainer and using free weights. Also helps thou with me that my trainer is also ADHD. We are in the same gear High.

Playlist for the gym kinda jumps around I like all kinds of music.
Are you Ready? -Creed
Yeah - Usher
Burn It to the Ground - nickel back
Crazy -Gnarls Barkley
Next Contestant - NB
Feel Good Inc-Gorillaz
American Badass -kid rock
Beautiful People - MM
Boom -POD
Back in Black -ac/dc
What I've done -Linkin Park
Nookie
Living after midnight- judas priest

that is just to name a few

wsmac
12-25-09, 01:12 AM
Yes. I'm 50 years old. It's kind of embarassing anymore. I feel like I must do it in secret now.

Oh... don't do that to yourself!
I'm 49 and I love rocking out to music.
My daughter grew up listening to American folk music, Appalachian, Bluegrass, European folk, Classical, and the only rock-n-roll was pretty much the 'Dead.

Once I moved out (divorce), I allowed myself to listen to the music I really wanted to listen to.... ROCK.. Heavy Metal Rock!

At first my daughter was all, "DAD! WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?!":D

She finally came around and listens to the same type of rock as well as classic rock, and all the other music... folk, classical...

She has well rounded musical tastes just like her old man!