Is it normal to feel this way when i listen to certain music

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So I recently discovered a band and I can't stop listening to it and the emotions I feel when I listen to it are overwhelming. Like it makes me really happy but the happiness is so overwhelming that it makes me want to cry when I listen to it. and it feels like a mixture of emotions like happiness and sadness and I just feel like I could explode or something.

I felt this same exact way when I first discovered my favorite band and when I start listening to them again it comes back.

It's like a painful experience and it gets to points where I have to constantly be listening to them or I'm sad but then I listen to them and it's too overwhelming.

Are these feelings normal? Like do other people feel these extreme emotions when they listen to certain music?

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  • RoseIsabella
    10 years ago

    OMG! I spent the entirety of August 2006 listening to nothing but Shiny Toy Guns and She Wants Revenge.

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  • Who_Fan4Life
    10 years ago

    I understand what you're going through, mostly. However, I caution you against listening to them, or the album, too much. You don't want to ''burn yourself out'' from listening to it that often. I found myself doing that, and after listening to that piece of music months later, I found that I didn't enjoy the music as much.

    I dunno, just my take.

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    • kingofcarrotflowers
      10 years ago

      I've done that countless times :(

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    10 years ago

    I get that way with merle haggard

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  • kingofcarrotflowers
    10 years ago

    Shit. You have perfectly, perfectly! Summed up listening to and discovering my favorite album but you've said it better than I could.
    Hope you don't mind me asking but what band is it? The album I was talking. bout is in the aeroplane over the sea ( which I promise I will stop talking about IIN must be sick of my neutral milk hotel ramblings by now haha )

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      well my favorite band is mgmt and the band i just discovered is the strokes( yeah ik kinda late for me to just discover but whatever)
      neutral milk hotel is a good band (:

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      • kingofcarrotflowers
        10 years ago

        I made an mgmt playlist on spotify the other day, good band but I've only just heard them and yeah I love the strokes, is this it is such an amazing album. Happy listening :)

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          10 years ago

          haha yeah I just downloaded that one! (listening to it now actually). best mgmt album is congratulations, I highly recommend it! thanks.

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          • kingofcarrotflowers
            10 years ago

            Ah cool I've only heard their self titled release and oracular spectacular so I'll go give it a listen, cheers for the recommendation :)

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