nick123
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Interesting you should put it that way. One of my own migraine triggers is modern -- as in rock-era -- music. I have a visceral reaction to it and go to great lengths to avoid hearing it because an actual throbbing-pain-and-projectile-vomiting migraine will often be the result if I'm exposed to it for too long. I can tolerate sixties folk-type music, but anything with a loud electric guitar or an emphatic bass line literally makes me sick. When we have concerts or movies at work featuring this type of music I shut off the monitor or close the doors so I can't hear it, and tune in something on the radio in my office to block it out.
I can't agree entirely there. Most modern rock music gives me a major headache too, however I find great solace in late 50s-mid 60s rock n roll. Not sure if it would be classified as modern on the historical timeline. It wasn't until about 1967 where the heavily distorted/amplified "rock" sound as we know it today became fashionable. That cool little period from about '59-half of '66ish was often quite mellow, and a bunch of it not at all hard on the ears. There was a true art to that stuff and the bassists back then understood dynamics and finesse/how the bass was the platform that held the band up, rather than simply playing with them. The drummers too. You'll hear a lot of subtle notes being played in between the main snare drum beats. Some of it may have been a carryover from the jazz/big band era. If you can get past the fuzz and buzz, that jazz intelligence was still happening within as late as early psychedelic stuff. That craft is gone from today's rock music.
But good to know I'm not the only person who gets literally ill from certain things like this. Nobody believes me. They thing I'm only whining. lol
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