h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This may seem realy strange but I've just downloaded a track called Semicharmed life, by third eye blind, and on listening to it my scalp started to contract and I started bopping. This happens whenever I hear a track which realy grabs me. Has anyone else experienced this?
I guess it's an adrenalin rush but I don't know why it happens when listening to music.

it also causes me to bounce of the walls and become annoyingly happy.

I know EXACTLY what you mean, and I'm glad that someone's brought this to the public's attention. It really is wonderful when you hear a song that makes you feel glad to be alive in this way. This happened to me most notably one day when I was in Edinburgh mincing around and I popped into HMV for a look around. It was the day when Radiohead released Paranoid Android (hey! Irony or what!). They were playing it on in-store radio, and just as it lept into its first wild guitar solo, my heart missed a beat and I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Then I remembered what my then girlfriend look like and I hurtled back to Earth with a judder.

C'est la vie.

I had a similar experience with a song called 'Tequila' by Terrorvision. I'm usually in to more metally stuff, so my response suprised me. I started imagining that i was at some sort of party, really enjoying myself, dancing the night away. Show me a Metallica song that does that.

I've seen Paranoid Android (as well as other songs) live. My heart missed around 10 beats. Especially on 'Fade out'.

i'm glad to know i'm not the only one !
what's my age again by blink 182, song 2 by blur and the kids aren't alright by the offspring are among others.

A couple of songs do that to me by Metallica. Probably the strongest happy-type reaction I have is to Unforgiven II. Blind Melon's tune No Rain always seems to make the day so much sunnier for me.

If 'what's my age again' makes you go oooh; Adam's song will make you go awwh....
I just started jamming with a new group of guys and it's amazing to find the variety of songs that'll give different people a woodie...
trying to decide which songs to cover has been a colossal kick in the crotch...StevieRay,Metallica,MuddyWaters,Pistols,Everclear,Floyd,Stones,Clash, Johnny Cash who knows?
We did play "All the small things" by Blink 182 at a bar gig Thursday night and I think it was probably the best received of the night...if not, believe it or not, a half-pissed version of a song by the Monks from 1979 called "Nice Legs, Shame about her face" which we didn't know how to play but nobody remembered well enough to get upset!
Anyhow, about a week ago this guitar player brought over "I Mother Earth" and played a tune called "One More Astronaut" and that was the first time in AGES (and keep in mind we'd been trying to choose covers to do and everybody had been bringing new stuff every day)
that I had that spine-tingling, " hang on, back up, what was THAT; play that again, it's awesome" thing
Me & Hoppa kinda play a game about this response: you get a new release and pick which songs will be hits; or the next single; or ought-to-be-hits-and-why-has-Britney-Hemispheres-got-a-second-album-instead-that-generic-drivel....
Since November we've been listening to Californication by the Chili Peppers and it DOES NOT WEAR OFF! Better every time... I only can name about six other albums on earth that I can listen to over & over and love it every time (if you count all Van Halen as one package) Do you have some of those "no matter how many times I hear it, I love it" ones?
I use that "feel" when trying to write, too. It's a genuine physical feeling. Sometimes a guitar player (for example) comes out with a riff that just GRABS me, I just LOVE it; and then I wail and whine for a month because I'm not nearly talented enough to do it justice, unworthy swine that I am. But after all, beer drinkin' & hell raisin' is art with a capital 'F'... it ain't pretty, but it sure is ugly!
Anyway, PLT, I feel better now, man. Mick

Why does that look too'wide' to read?

The Memory Remains, also.

Happens to me when I'm listening to good psychedelic trance... like Cosmosis' Alien Disco, Gift of the Gods and Key to the Innerverse. And Ultrabeat's Tiara and Phantasmagoria.

That sensation, for me, usually heralds the imminent failure of my pacemaker's battery, although something very similar also occurs when listening to the slow movement of Beethoven's fifth piano concerto.

Walter of Colne