“Judith” – A Perfect Circle

Stevie Ray Vaughn instrumental cover of Little Wing… intoxicating is the best word to to describe what that songs does to me…

Oops, you posted a video of Beethoven’s 9th instead of Clair de Lune :)
On a side note, I completely understand Clair de Lune being on this list… I play it on the piano (although it hurts my brain), and it’s not just a gorgeous piece to hear, but to play it with your own fingers- it’s just amazing.

whoa, my husband played them all at the same time, and overdosed. ambulance is on its way. i am going to sue this website.

OMG I listen to Le Moulin all the time when I feel like I need comfort. No wonder.

Infected Mushroom LOL

ACADEMIA GONE WILD!! – Clicking on your “published a study” link, yields a mind numbing study that attempts to quantify what we already know: music makes ya feel really really good. (See Taliban etc – you’re only supposed to feel good their way). But click anyway – charts! graphs! anatomy! lots of footnotes! strange words! numbers! so that makes it science, right? super neat-o! But – no Marvin Gaye? Count Basie? Aretha? Brother Ray? Boogie Woogie? Chopin? Hmmm – - . None the less thanks for the info – keep it coming. I click on you guys every day you post.

Fail. How about Jean Luc Ponty? Stevie Ray Vaughan. Ray Charles. Fail.

10,000 Days – Tool

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Storm. That’s so true actually

binge and purge – clutch

As a psychologist and a researcher, I must object. The study describes Tiesto as techno which is clearly incorrect. His opus is mainly progressive trance, as any fule kno.

That’s the first time I ever played Clair de Lune and thought of the Huntley-Brinkley Report.

There’s an album from the late 70s out there by the name of PYTHAGORON that was created to simulate this exact experience.

Um. No. If you are going to report on a study, you better read it first.

There is nothing special about the songs on this list and the study DOES NOT say that there is.

This is an awesome study… but the only things that make these songs special is that they were submitted by the subjects of the study themselves.

From the paper…
“First, individuals provided ten pieces of instrumental music to which they experience intense pleasure and “chills” without restrictions to the genre of music, which included classical, folk, jazz, electronica, rock, punk, techno and tango (see http://www.zlab.mcgill.ca/supplements/supplements_intro.html for samples).”

But then, “control stimuli were selected for each individual using a paradigm where one individual’s pleasurable music is used as another person’s neutral music.”

So its not that these songs are special in and of themselves…. for one subject they might have used Zeppelin as “pleasurable” and Beethoven as indifferent and for another subject visa versa.

@ALLEN, you are right, we already know that music that we like (remember, the subjects chose the music themselves) is pleasurable and there is no need to do a study to test it. What is unique is in the title of the study: “Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music”. In other words, there are a number of parts of the brain that we already know are involved in pleasure, reward, and addiction. What this study shows is the way that different parts of this reward system are active during different parts of a song that we like… specifically, that there are different parts active when we are almost at the emotional peak and when we are experiencing the emotional high.

Was gonna say what neuromusic said – the study was about anticipation and reward, and the only thing that’s different about these songs is that volunteers in the study were familiar with them, and chose to listen to them. Not that they are the only 10 songs that can get you high according to science. So yeah… great news and critique there.

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so playing all 10 of these songs at once… shouldn’t i have OD’d by now. fucking retarded

i played them 1 at a time nothing all together nothing not diffident at all not high or fuzzy weed meth durgs they all suck none will ever work on me and it sucks

i just got a badass headache

Dopamine is also released when you laugh. Sooooo common of a feeling. Not interested. Unless it produces an automatic, unascapable, or, how should I put this…? “Sensual” pleasure, I ain’t interested. Like w/ that guy on 1,000 ways 2 die.

Shirley, you are a retard. Overdosing is too much of one substance that causes problems in your body. Music doesnt do that -_-

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Played them all and it just sounded like music. I didn’t feel high or nothin’ man.

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Strobe- Deadmau5
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Ocean- Slightly Stoopid
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Chillstep anyone?? Check out phaeleh – lament, blackmill (any song), enigma, rameses b, etc.. and your welcome.