yuri420

Sorry if this seems off-topic but i believe it is "on-topic", because it deals with stoned music writers and how marijuana's chemical and physiological makeup alters the way we percieve such music

I was chillin out with a friend(ok we were studying ) and i put on some of that really hardcore cypress hill stuff (the kinda stuff that feels so so so ) who has never smoked in her life and she started to look around the room, like 'what the hell...where are the voices coming from...omig-d' and started freakin out totally....as if it was her first time smokin n she had taken 20 hits of that government stuff..no jokes(with a HINT of exaggeration)! I was like wtf. I switched off the music 2 see what was wrong and she was fine after that. She said it was 'confusing' because it was one of those songs that had voices and stuff in the background.

In my early days of smoking, i remember only liking CH stuff like 'insane in the membrane', then it progressed to stuff like 'i wana get high', 'pigs', 'hits from da bong', etc and now i will listen to any cypress hill song and enjoy it. No feelings of paranoia or anything - even when im high. My question is that does marijuana alter our brains forever and one of those side affects is a different change in music taste? Also, is it that non-mj brains work in such a different way to mj brains that people who have never smoked trip out when listening to stoner music? She was still a little out of it for like 20 mins afta that....maybe shes crazy haha

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For me, a lot of hardcore stuff thats kind of creepy makes me frwak out and have a bad trip when I'm really high. I don't listen to much accept techno and oldies, stuff that makes you feel light and happy, because music makes me trip really easily. And yes, I think smoking weed can change your perseption perminantly because you relise stuff you cant relise when your sobre, then cant help but relise it when your sobre afterwards. <--- That didn't make much sence did it...

O.o Music that is really complex, like heavy metle and stuff where the music is just blaring and you can barely hear wtf the people are saying is what makes me start to trip. Next time try letting her listen to techno.... Try SandStorm by Darude.

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yuri420

I should mention that neither of us were actually smoking...she freaked out when she wasn't high - thats what was so weird about it!

Beatlejuice

Interesting topic. I agree that smoking pot will change a persons musical tastes over time. For me it resulted in a gradual mellowing of my tastes to the point where I really don't listen to much music with electric guitar in it anymore. I used to be into punk like NOFX, Pennywise, Rancid and stuff like that when I was about 13. Then I moved into what people often call 'stoner music' like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix and other greats from that era. I still listen to the 60's stuff on occassion but now my tastes are almost exclusively acoustic including the likes of Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Don Ross, John Martyn and many others.

I think it changes or tastes over time, however I don't think it changes how we perceive it from one day to the next. For example all the punk crap I listened to before I started smoking. I wouldn't hear that stuff any different now than I did when I was 13, but I just am not interested in that genre anymore. If that makes any sense.

I'm thinking this may get a better response if moved to the music forum.

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yuri420

For me, i used to listen to what some would call "gay" music at around 10/11 like savage garden(i was a fanatic haha) and to a lesser extent greenday. Hip-hop came and i guess i conformed but ~a year after i first started smoking i now appreciate all music(cept country haha)...i am also beginning to like that old savage garden stuff..not as intense as when i was a kid but the odd song ill listen 2 n enjoy it...i reckon its brought me back to what i really like, instead of what i was subconciously pressured into liking..

Well, especially after this post i dont think this forum is going the way i hoped it would....is there a noted difference between the music reactions to music like cypress hill between people with marijuana inside their bodies(not stoned tho) and people who have never smoked, and if so why(to the brain experts who know f*ck all anyway)? Doesn't this imply that marijuana permanently alters the brain..? Is this necessarily a bad thing though?

Psychedelilah

Yeah man listen to Pink Floyd...thats some trippy S**T