The point is very much that it's not just noise.
We hear sound all day long - but particular combinations of sounds elicit real physical and emotional responses. This is scientific fact. Of course some people will have stronger reactions than others, in the same way that some people eat merely to live, whereas others take great joy from the food they eat.

Personally, I believe an appreciation of such things as good food, music etc. to be a key marker of civilisation. You're being an oaf and you know it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:04, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Of course I'm being an oaf. I love music.
I just don't get upset when people don't like what I like or understand why I like it. I even agree with you about Bowie a bit. For all his songs I love there are 5 or so more that are shit. Hendrix does nothing for me at all and I find his music a bit dull but it doesn't mean I don't understand why people regard him as one of the greats. You're being stubborn and you know it.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:10, Reply)

I'm being a music Nazi and I know it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:18, Reply)

know fuckin' love
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:19, Reply)

Correct.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:35, Reply)

Right I'm off to listen to some Steps to calm down.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:20, Reply)

One theory I've heard
is that we spend nine months surrounded by our mum's heartbeat, so we become acclimatised to and comforted by rhythmic sounds. I would love to know how artificially gestated babies would differ from us if we just took away that one simple thing.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:11, Reply)

So would I.
That's an interesting idea.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:15, Reply)

But can you imagine, if it was true, people who just didn't get music? At all?
Not like Bobblehead here, or the type of person who only likes what's on the radio at the moment, but people who, as a whole, felt no affinity or need for the stuff, and would never individually come up with the idea? What else would this affect? Language acquisition? Physical skills (sense of rhythm reqd)?

Obviously, our love of music is not as simple as 'mum's heartbeat', but it's an interesting thought, because, as you said above, our biological relationship with music is extremely complex.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:21, Reply)