What music can you listen to regardless of what mood you are in?

[prémont]

I prefer not disapprove complete genres, excepting when they are notoriously infamous. But it's just me.

Maybe I generalized too much, but a generalized question asks for a generalized answer.

But in the course of time I have experienced that romantic music (even Brahms) does less and less for me, and I am as well as never in the mood to listen to it. It quite simply arouses less and less resonance in my mind. I am not accusing the music, but have to state, that this is the way I am.

PS:  I do not consider Beethoven a truely romantic composer, at least he does much for me.

[Mandryka]

No.  Whether I love a certain piece of music has nothing to do with the mood I'm in, and therefore I can listen to all of my perennial favorites regardless of my current mood.  . . .  If it's good, my mood will be good whatever it was before listening . . . .

Watch you don't just assert a vacuous tautology

What do you think's going on here?

I played this a few days ago and was bored.  Now I'm lovin' it

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You can either say it's just not perennial, which is true clearly for Mookalafalas  but maybe not very contentful. Or you can say that it's just not good music making, but the issue of mood and response remains.

Maybe you were just talking about your own experience, but nothing generalisable follows, either for other people or your future self.

[Jo498]

Whether I love a certain piece has nothing to do with the mood I am in. But that does not imply at all that I am always in a mood to listen to certain pieces. In fact, I am rarely in the mood to listen to some pieces that are huge favorites, like e.g. Bach's St. Matthew and not only because it is so long.

[vandermolen]

I forgot that I started this thread  . I have enjoyed reading the very varied replies about mood and music. Pettersson is an interesting choice which I can also relate to. I do not really try to use music to change my mood, although I may do sometimes but I am aware that if, for example, I am worried about something (not an unusual situation in my case  ) I can only usually listen to the music of Sibelius - I think that is because it has an elemental quality which is linked to nature and nature has a healing power. Just some rambling thoughts and thanks for all the replies.

[jochanaan]

...Maybe you were just talking about your own experience, but nothing generalisable follows, either for other people or your future self.

Bingo.

[Karl Henning]

I like a man who resists the urge to project his own experience as a generalization . . . .

[Mandryka]

I like a man who resists the urge to project his own experience as a generalization . . . .

Even to his future self

[Marc]

Whether I love a certain piece has nothing to do with the mood I am in. [...]

Same here.

But let's throw in some stuff.

Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge, Mozart's Jeunehomme concerto and The Beatles' Ticket To Ride.

[Mandryka]

Same here.

But let's throw in some stuff.

Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge, Mozart's Jeunehomme concerto and The Beatles' Ticket To Ride.

Just imagine I kidnapped you, tied you to a chair and made you non stop Art of Fugue for a few months. I think you may not like it quite so much.

[ritter]

Just imagine I kidnapped you, tied you to a chair and made you non stop Art of Fugue for a few months. I think you may not like it quite so much.

Well, he might still like the Art of the fugue, but he probably wouldn't like you very much as a result 

[Marc]

A few months only listening to Jeunehomme or Ticket might have the same effect, by the way, and maybe even more.

Die Kunst der Fuge is one of my returning listening favourites, you know, like a perpetuum mobile, or, to put it in other words: like a fugue by Bach. I love it. I love it. I love it ...