Ceeboo wrote:That I listen to mostly country music - Unless it's between noon and 3pm, when I frequently listen to Prager ...
You reminded me of something with that comment.
I stream Pandora when not in a vehicle (been a happy listener for a decade) and have several different genres set up for stations, but C&W is not one of them. Get me on the road and on a long trip, though (in the ‘other’ vehicle, having a sound system that does not sound like listening to a crystal radio through a can on a string, like my daily driver), and I am all too happy to crank up the C&W as I speed on over the plains. There’s something about that genre that is so satisfying to listen to in that setting.
honorentheos wrote:I've thought it may influence the level of attention differently. I think it requires attention of a different kind, but maybe it doesn't compete with the subconscious brain activities that are largely keeping track of the other cars and really making driving the act it is? And music may conflict more with these subconscious processes? Don't know.
Perhaps. Maybe you just don't feel comfortable bopping to the beat in heavy traffic.
Could be. Office Space, man. ;)
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Doctor Steuss wrote:Morning commute is usually listening to NPR. On the ride home I will sometimes listen to 100.5, which is kind of a hip-hop “throw-back” station that plays a lot of RAP and R&B from the 80's through early 00's.
When I get a hankering for music though, I usually listen to something on Apple Music. I never thought I would subscribe to a streaming service, but ever since my wife got me an account as a present a year ago, I have fallen in love with it (and her, I reckon).
I'm 100% with you on the subscription service. When I moved to premium Spotify it was a huge quality of life improvement in my listening (no ads, whole albums available, endless skips) that makes music all that much more enjoyable. Now I don't know if I could go without it.
Infidels.
In all seriousness, I'm curious about this in large part because Steuss' music chops are top of the class. I started with Pandora way back in the mid-2000's when it was the Music Genome Project and did enjoy being introduced to new music through it. But it didn't take the place of wanting to listen through an album from an artist that interested me or the silly but personal enjoyment of setting up and listening to playlists for given settings. Now with my ancient 120 GB iPod, a big part of what I enjoy is setting it to shuffle all songs while working and get that jolt of pleasure that can come from having a song pop up unexpectedly that I might have listened to 10 or 20 years ago but kinda forgot about until then.
Whenever I talk to the kiddies at work who only listened to music via YouTube or streaming services their entire lives, their relationship to music seemed too foreign to me to make me give them another look. So, what's your elevator pitch for someone who grew up with albums rather than downloads?
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
honorentheos wrote:I've thought it may influence the level of attention differently. I think it requires attention of a different kind, but maybe it doesn't compete with the subconscious brain activities that are largely keeping track of the other cars and really making driving the act it is? And music may conflict more with these subconscious processes? Don't know.
Perhaps. Maybe you just don't feel comfortable bopping to the beat in heavy traffic.
I do think that what one craves listening to is tied to how one's subconscious is engaging with driving conditions in addition to other internal variables.
Automatic Processes Our subconscious minds helpfully take on a lot of repeated behaviours, to free up our conscious minds to attend to different (more important) things. Driving is an obvious example – when learning to drive, you have to pay attention to everything, and it can be very mentally exhausting. There isn’t much mental space for daydreaming or listening to the radio. When you’ve been driving a while, all these processes become automatic – subconscious – happening without you realising. Any coordinated activity of responses can become automatic, with practice – subconscious competence.
There are times I seriously just need to listen to certain types of music, regardless. But most of the time, driving in traffic goes best with some form of adult conversation taking place that I can focus forward in my mind while negotiating subconsciously with the other commuters over real estate at speed. But come time to leave work when it's late I almost always want to listen to music, usually loud at that.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
EAllusion wrote:I also occasionally listen to religious right talk radio stations, which are simply a horror show at this point that I think most people are either completely unaware of or deeply into with no room inbetween. I'm fascinated by how poisonous and deceptive it is.
I guess I am in the completely unaware camp. Risking the light hearted nature of the thread I am wondering if you can provide a little report. Is there some developing timely matter beyond the old send me money and claim all the blessing you are wishing for theme?
perhaps if EAllusion or anybody else checking out this sort of radio wants to update us on content it could be on separate thread not to derail this.
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canpakes wrote:.... listening to the Prager show. It’s not like that has no political content. ; )
Theres a big difference between: "One of the shows I listen in the car is the Prager show, what do you listen to when you're in the car?" and "This is the sort of thing that helps to define how these die-hard Trump fans live in an alternate reality of imaginary bogeymen and imaginary statistics. It explains a lot of Ceeboo’s ‘unbridgeable divide’."
But that sort of thing helps to define how these die-hard Democrats/Libs live in a bubble swollen with the fumes of their own arrogant farts as they complain about how roses are stinking up the place.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
honorentheos wrote:I've thought it may influence the level of attention differently. I think it requires attention of a different kind, but maybe it doesn't compete with the subconscious brain activities that are largely keeping track of the other cars and really making driving the act it is? And music may conflict more with these subconscious processes? Don't know.
Perhaps. Maybe you just don't feel comfortable bopping to the beat in heavy traffic.
honor wrote:Could be. Office Space, man. ;)
that scene in traffic is priceless.
One of the serious benefits of teaching is that I can set my class schedule to avoid that particularly heinous circle of hell known as NJ-NYC (insert hateful bridge of choice) rush hour. Music saved my life when I was a student making that commute as I would surely have killed someone (in rage, not with my car) if I hadn't been able to distract myself with the loudest, most intrusive music possible. Meatloaf comes to mind.
