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[MomentsHaveYou]

Hello you wonderful Frusciante fans,

For about 2 weeks now I've found myself checking the invisible-movement home page at least 5 times a day - no particular reason or trigger, just have. It made me realise how, in hope and anticipation of new solo music, I'd begun to neglect that which exists already.

Of course, I listen to John Frusciante's music almost daily even when my concerns have drifted towards other things... But it makes me sad that the music that seemed so vibrant, alive and important to me when I first discovered JF kind of washes past me lately. This is nothing to do with the music itself, more the traps of lazy listening that I (and I'm sure others) fall into.

So, although news is quiet and sparse and there seems to be fewer people around, I'd like to impulsively pick 10 tracks right now and try to rediscover those feelings and images that set my soul frantic and excited when first I heard the music of John Frusciante. I am aware the forum is possibly rife with 'My Top 10' lists and maybe exhausted of them; so I hope to bring some kind of freshness by describing my personal sensual experience of the music - I don't usually write on forums, especially about this ineffable music.
(I feel exposed.) Here goes.

'Anne' from Curtains
Trapped in an exciting nightmare. Feels Ancient Greek to me. Creeping round an enchanted city, homeless but
not alone. Soft panic, tragic and fateful.

'With Love' from From the Sounds Inside
Sunlight through leaves. Warm on the skin and an overpowering smell of Spring. Fertility, thick air. Moments before flowers bloom.

'Carvel' from Shadows Collide With People
Night and day at the same time. The wind blows my hair, it's strong, like leaning out of a car window, takes my breath away and
replaces it with the world's air. I feel looked after.

'Away and Anywhere' from To Record Only Water for Ten Days
Africa. Night time. Very dark. On a very long journey. All alone, distant animal calls. Memories of lost people keep me awake.

'Wishing' from The Will to Death
Dazed and lying in bed. Stroked by cool water. Feeling like nothing has existed before now.

'The Afterglow' from A Sphere in the Heart of Silence
In a factory, green somehow. My consciousness is maintained by reliable machines, when they fail so will I.

'Fallout' from From the Sounds Inside
Blue. Touching cold glass. Feeling the details of one life slide away and out the head. A blank starting. Experience.

'Going Inside' from To Record Only Water for Ten Days
Actually flying. Transforming into objects. 360-degree vision. Very fluid, lucid. Like dreaming.

'As Can Be' from Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt
Waking up. Living in one room. Everything you invested in being utterly destroyed. So free and clean and joyful.

'Inside A Break' from Inside of Emptiness
Gaining bad power. Desperate in a maze, trying to control what you shouldn't.

So there we go. I'd love to read anybody else's core emotional reactions/visions to some of John Frusciante's songs. Also, I'd just urge you to take some time to listen closely to a playlist of your favourites if (like me) you found you began to lose that special connection to the music. It works.

Thanks for reading, hope it's not too weird, and love to everybody.

[orangevarld]

MomentsHaveYou, on 12 June 2011 - 02:50 AM, said:

For about 2 weeks now I've found myself checking the invisible-movement home page at least 5 times a day - no particular reason or trigger, just have.

Good to see I'm not alone

About your playlist, mine would also include some of those songs, but I don't associate them with visualizations, I don't know why. Maybe I associate them more with thoughts than images. I'll try to see.

[Nimi]

It was really interesting to read your thoughts. Thank you.

When I am listening to music, I don't want to see anything. I just "float” in the song. But this might be because I am a visual thinker to begin with, so the images I see are "just" my thoughts running on top of the music and I don't necessarily want them to do so. Actually I want them to stop, but at least that canvas of dreams rolls down very easily.

What is it then to "just" be in a song? I don't know and I can't explain it in any way. It's thinking without thinking. There really are no words, no images or visuals or nothing to grab. The music in itself is the "thing" and the "thinking".

There are still some things for me too that are more explainable and linked to a particular song. They are mainly sensory based feelings and impressions. For example "Central" causes a bodily feeling of falling in me - a very pleasant feeling in my stomach. Like something to do with the gravity. It happens every time I listen to the song.

Music to me is ultimately... shaking that head, shaking that ass, feeling good, jumping around in sweat, laughing, crying like a babee... Right now I am pretty much doing all of that at the same time, while listening to John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. Nah well, it doesn’t make me cry, since I am not a man, whose evil woman left and took that blues train while the male is having a bit of a drinking problem and is on his way to jail... realizing: Iiii'm aloooone.

[Iva]

I actually adore this. Would you allow me to share it with people on Tumblr and Facebook and, perhaps, allow them to add their own responses, too?

[MomentsHaveYou]

Of course Post the links

[Ganphra]

This song has always blown my mind
Untitled/Unknown from VRPO Interview ('94)
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5yhUy87plI

There are many others, but the other ones most of people already have heard.

[AzteC]

The songs that truly blew my mind and still do.

The Slaughter.. One of my favorite endings to a song
The First Season
Central

[meh]

Nice read man. I got so many that narrowing it down to ten is difficult, this is goin to take some thinking.

[bobthecow]

I will say that these are the feelings you get from music when you are on a LSD trip. Just saying

[MomentsHaveYou]

Fair enough, but I felt them without hallucinogens I assure you.

Does anyone else experience any JF music in a similar way? I'm interested in particularly sensual feelings. Like a feeling of colour or temperature or flashes of a visual nature? I elaborated slightly in my first post, sometimes building up my initial experiences into scenarios that I don't necessarily see fully in my head like a movie. But there is a unique atmosphere I sense from some of the songs that seem to cross into something other than he sonic world and that is what I'm trying to explain.

[bobthecow]

MomentsHaveYou, on 22 July 2011 - 10:34 PM, said:

Fair enough, but I felt them without hallucinogens I assure you.

Does anyone else experience any JF music in a similar way? I'm interested in particularly sensual feelings. Like a feeling of colour or temperature or flashes of a visual nature? I elaborated slightly in my first post, sometimes building up my initial experiences into scenarios that I don't necessarily see fully in my head like a movie. But there is a unique atmosphere I sense from some of the songs that seem to cross into something other than he sonic world and that is what I'm trying to explain.

Well, as I alluded to in my previous post, if I am tripping really hard I get these sorts of sensations. I can feel music, as if I am in a wave pool that is in a rhythmic pattern with with song I am listening to. Especially happened with Shadows and Empyrean because of the synth saturation in those albums. When I close my eyes I can see music, almost as though it is one of the effects that you would see on the windows media player background... like a kaliedascope. The colors I see most are orange and purple and green.

Another thing, if I could record what was in my head during a trip, I think that I would be a millionaire right now. Funny thing is, alot of the stuff that I have in my head while tripping sounds alot like Before the Beginning and Carvel.

[~JIMMY~]

Wow. When I listen to Afterglow the colour green also comes to mind for the whole song, I feel like road tripping when i hear it.

[dreampeppers99]

I agree with the tens first you presented. But lately I must say that Of Before rock me out.