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Does music ever make you spontaneously burst into flames? (Original Post) FSogol Feb 2018 OP
No, but sometimes it stimulates Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #1
Like a hairdresser on fire underpants Feb 2018 #2
No PJMcK Feb 2018 #3
Yep. Final movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5. Paladin Feb 2018 #4
LOL, the 1st movement's invasion theme is repeated 12 times, more and more loudly. FSogol Feb 2018 #5
So I make a good-faith post to your thread, and you insult my taste in music? Paladin Feb 2018 #6
LOL, I submit! Please don't play it again. FSogol Feb 2018 #8
Of course. That's why I keep water on my desk. n/t malthaussen Feb 2018 #7
I do not instantaneously combust, however Ferrets are Cool Feb 2018 #9
Not exactly FLAMES, but but but elleng Feb 2018 #10
Great Balls of Fire Ptah Feb 2018 #11
No, but I frequently burst spontaneously into song..... lastlib Feb 2018 #12
! Kali Feb 2018 #14
No; I was never a drummer for Spinal Tap. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #13

Paladin

(28,252 posts)
4. Yep. Final movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 10:58 AM
Feb 2018

Happens every freaking time. Nothing left of me but ashes and embers.

FSogol

(45,473 posts)
5. LOL, the 1st movement's invasion theme is repeated 12 times, more and more loudly.
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 11:22 AM
Feb 2018

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An example of how banal repetition can lull an audience into submission.

Paladin

(28,252 posts)
6. So I make a good-faith post to your thread, and you insult my taste in music?
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 12:08 PM
Feb 2018

I thought DU left that sort of bad manners behind, once Bernie Sanders was no longer a presidential candidate.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)
9. I do not instantaneously combust, however
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 12:17 PM
Feb 2018

I do burst into tears when listening to certain songs(many of them performed by Pat Metheny)....two of which are

Are you Going With Me?



and The First Circle

(sorry, there isnt a HD version that I can find)

lastlib

(23,208 posts)
12. No, but I frequently burst spontaneously into song.....
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 02:40 PM
Feb 2018

which gets me a lot of weird looks (with my voice, death stares, mostly...) from people around me. One guy told me once that he had a cow that sounded exactly like me--so he shot her. I have a host of friends!

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