JudasMyGuide
The resident reactionary recalcitrant
So, anyway, me and @Midnight were talking in the Now Playing thread about how certain songs evoke certain colors. And although it was mostly in jest, I wondered if this was an interesting topic to talk about.
Like I mentioned in the aforementioned thread, there is actually a medical condition called synesthesia which in certain its incarnations can make people "see" sounds as having colors - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff (or those two guys Rimsky and Korsakoff as the joke goes) was one of its famous "proponents"/"sufferers", but I guess this is not the case of us here, so this is more about admittedly subjective "feels" towards certain music.
For example, to me both Piece of Mind and Powerslave are the quintessential "yellow" albums for me - I always felt the sound and the atmoshpere is this really dry, "sandy", hot one (I admit a lot of that might be also because of the guitar tones and the "theme" of PS, To Tame a Land being about Dune and the general abundance of yellow on both album covers, but I guess it still counts).
So, anyone else?
Like I mentioned in the aforementioned thread, there is actually a medical condition called synesthesia which in certain its incarnations can make people "see" sounds as having colors - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff (or those two guys Rimsky and Korsakoff as the joke goes) was one of its famous "proponents"/"sufferers", but I guess this is not the case of us here, so this is more about admittedly subjective "feels" towards certain music.
For example, to me both Piece of Mind and Powerslave are the quintessential "yellow" albums for me - I always felt the sound and the atmoshpere is this really dry, "sandy", hot one (I admit a lot of that might be also because of the guitar tones and the "theme" of PS, To Tame a Land being about Dune and the general abundance of yellow on both album covers, but I guess it still counts).
So, anyone else?
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