Is this when you have "arrived??"


Just had a guest leave my house after a quick early morning listening session.
Only 4 album sides, the last of them being Tales of Mystery and Imagination Alan Parsons.
Towards the end of the first part, he was making the couch shake. I looked over.

He was crying. (Not because his ears hurt)

He was ashamed. This is the second time this has happened to me, but the first time without "enhancements" being involved.

Have I arrived at true high end?
gumbydammit
Are you able to disclose the exact track?

I would like to try and recreate this experience at home, with myself, friends and family.
I've found myself teary during movies. I didn't particularly like the movie and I wasn't even paying attention. I was thinking about something else and the TV was just background noise. That detachment was the key. The right side of my brain independantly managed to associate with something about the movie. Don't ask me what. Couldn't even remember it.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is that analytical listening isn't very emotional. Congratulations if your system was so convincing that it managed a suspension of disbelief, to borrow a literary term, that led away from the analytical. On the other hand, it could have been just a distraction.
I find Suzanne Vega's Luka is a tear jerker...you really feel for the tough but physically weaker woman being victimized by the bigger man. Yet she has courage - "Don't ask me", she says - knowing probably that her children might suffer if she involves police/social workers...in essence a terrible trap where she endures abuse for fear of escalation of violence and to protect her children who may still love their Dad (as all kids do)...sadly it happens all the time.

The story in the news from a small Austrian town is utterly horrific and repulsive...and probably something only a man would be capable of!
It was tough to feel anything for the Luka song as it was often sandwiched between such classics as Cindy Laupers "Girls just wanna have fun" and Rockwells
"I always feel like somebodys watching me"

I have several Lp's of hers that are good Coffee house music but not that album....kinda thankfully!