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Relax! Eighties pop is the best genre for reducing anxiety - but techno can make you MORE worried, study reveals
Daily Mail ^ | 15 February 2021 | Jonathan Chadwick

Posted on 02/15/2021 9:51:25 AM PST by nickcarraway

Eighties pop is the best musical genre for reducing blood pressure, due to its 'positive nostalgia', researchers have found.

Turkish researchers hooked up 1,540 volunteers aged between 18 and 65 to blood pressure and heart rate monitors and played them a variety of music on Spotify.

Music from the hit TV series It's a Sin, which is heavy with tunes from the likes of Eighties legends Wham!, Pet Shop Boys and Duran Duran, were more effective at reducing blood pressure – an indicator of low anxiety – than 10 other genres.

Other genres effective at decreasing blood pressure were Noughties pop, like Kylie Minogue and Rihanna, and heavy metal, like Black Sabbath.

Meanwhile, techno, dubstep and Seventies rock anthems were found to be the most likely to raise blood pressure – an indicator of anxiety.

The research was conducted by Vera Clinic, a Turkish hair transplant company, which wanted to look into the connection between music, stress and hair loss.

'The results may seem surprising on first inspection but medically they make a lot of sense,' said Vera Clinic doctor Ömer Avlanmış told Metal Sucks.

'1980s pop hits could have positive nostalgia attached to them for many people, and their upbeat, party-like sounds can induce the release of endorphins and serotonin in the brain, both increasing feelings of happiness and calm.

Angry music like metal, meanwhile, can help listeners 'process their feelings and as a result lead to greater well-being', Avlanmış said.

For the experiments, Vera Clinic tasked the participants to complete non-verbal reasoning tests, which were specifically designed to produce low levels of stress.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Music/Entertainment; Science
KEYWORDS: bloodpressure; music; songs; stress
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To: PIF

Turkish researchers ... well there it is. Turks, muslims who cares about their BP?

Why did Constantinople get the works?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo0X77OBJUg


41 posted on 02/15/2021 10:54:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tell It Right

Amen!!!!


42 posted on 02/15/2021 11:00:12 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism. )
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To: nickcarraway

43 posted on 02/15/2021 11:01:42 AM PST by cschroe (Veritas est lux)
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To: Kazan
For me the 1980s were an incredible time to be alive in America. Not that I've done too shabbily since but that decade was what made me what I am today. I was 17 when they started and 27 when they ended.

I really haven't changed much since I was 27. The course of my life was set in those 1980s.

44 posted on 02/15/2021 11:02:31 AM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: SamAdams76; gibsonguy
And I'll add "Life In A Northern Town" by the Dream Academy.

Very underrated tune, for sure.

And I'm not even a Def Leppard fan, but here's THE best 1980s tune of them all (hat tip to GibsonGuy on this one):

Def Leppard -- Hysteria

45 posted on 02/15/2021 11:05:05 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: nickcarraway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9QZhLSKEps

Squeeze - Black Coffee in Bed 1981


46 posted on 02/15/2021 11:07:06 AM PST by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: SamAdams76
One of the most underrated rock tunes of all time:

Cars -- It's All I Can Do

I consider it an 80s tune even though it was actually released in late 1979.

I've even taken this opportunity to change my tagline! :-)

47 posted on 02/15/2021 11:08:40 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: nickcarraway
Look at that band playing with Debbie Harry.

Blondie -- Heart Of Glass

These guys were inspirations for dweebs like me ... like maybe we had a chance with the hottest girls in high school after all! LOL.

48 posted on 02/15/2021 11:12:26 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Alberta's Child
100% agree!

"It's All I Can Do" was on the 1979 Candy-O album. Definitely one of their greatest songs.

I can still smell fried clams (from Kelly's Roast Beef in Revere, MA) when I hear that song today. Though I liked "Nightspots" and "Since I Held You" almost as much.

During the summer of 1979, I was 16 years old and had just gotten my driver's license. I'd borrow my father's Chrysler Newport and tool up and down the beaches from Winthrop to Lynn, listening to that fabulous album, with a box of fried clams right beside me (and sometimes a girl). Also the Supertramp "Breakfast In America" and that Knack record were big that summer.

49 posted on 02/15/2021 11:13:56 AM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: nickcarraway
They fail to define the subgenres of techno, and they mention dubstep, which is an obnoxious 138+ BPM genre that modern teens love to blast out their shitty car speakers.

Progressive trance, deep house, and melodic EDM are all excellent genres of modern electronic music and songs such as Marconi Union's Weightless have been scientifically proven to reduce anxiety and promote relaxation to the point that they issued a warning about driving while playing it.

50 posted on 02/15/2021 11:16:33 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: nickcarraway

Cats puking to techno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qhsUxifVQ


51 posted on 02/15/2021 11:17:58 AM PST by Clay Moore (Mega prayers, Rush )
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To: SamAdams76
This wasn't my favorite Bob Seger tune, but it was one of his best. And it's only right that his signature #MAGA tune -- an anthem to the American spirit -- was from the 1980s:

Bob Seger -- Like A Rock

52 posted on 02/15/2021 11:21:39 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Thanks for the ping. Life in a Northern town is great yet nearly lost song.


53 posted on 02/15/2021 11:37:28 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: SamAdams76
For me the 1980s were an incredible time to be alive in America.

It was. And, it was reflected in the music of the decade. Songs like "Walking on Sunshine" to the "Future's So Bright (I've Gotta Wear Shades) and even upbeat, good-time hard rock of big hair metal bands.

It's not surprising it all happened when Ronald Reagan was President.

54 posted on 02/15/2021 11:42:26 AM PST by Kazan
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To: nickcarraway

I love me some Boy George, George Michael, and Michael Jackson. Throw in some Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. Whenever I hear “Do you Really Want to Hurt Me,” I scream yes.


55 posted on 02/15/2021 11:52:08 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: cyclotic
1980's Petra is like Sunday school class led by rock n' rollers. LOL


I still have a problem with the Aussie invasion of the 1990's converting a majority of new CCM into highly repetitive and boring "worship" music with predictable crescendos. LOL

56 posted on 02/15/2021 12:00:49 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: nickcarraway
I was comparing 80s and 90s videos on MTV classics the other night to get a sense of the music and the times and the progression of things from decade to decade. It made me miss the 80s.

Compared to the 90s, the 80s were better in every way and, maybe it was just the videos they showed that night but, I couldn’t get very far into the 90s before I had to turn it off.

Bad music, disturbing videos and horrible fashion statements, all with nothing good to say about anything.

Music is important. If you want to know the health of a person or a society, first look at their music.

Some say that society comes first, that society makes the music, but I think it’s probably the other way around ... the music comes first.

Music soothes the savage beast or creates one.

If you want to “fix” a person or a society, first change the music.

57 posted on 02/15/2021 12:22:56 PM PST by GBA (Endeavor to persevere)
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To: SamAdams76

Two great songs.

My friends and I were huge “Duranies’. We went to pieces every time they appeared on TV. My bedroom walls were saturated with Duran Duran posters.

Ironically, IMHO, their best song was was released in the 90’s.

“Ordinary World”- Duran Duran

https://youtu.be/FqIACCH20JU


58 posted on 02/15/2021 12:42:19 PM PST by CrimsonTidegirl (“The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools”-King Crimson)
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To: nickcarraway

I enjoy MANY types of Music. I grew up with Rock & Roll. The Everly Brothers, Ricky Nelson, The Ventures, The Beau Brummels, Jefferson Airplane, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, Jay and the Americans, Pat Benetar, Steppenwolf, The Yardbirds, ZZ Top.....

Then, Southern Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jackson Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Marshall Tucker Band, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Eagles, ....

Then, (in addition) The New Country (and some traditional) Martina McBride, Brooks & Dunn, Toby Keith, Suzy Boggess, Shania Twain, Dwight Yokum....

Then, Contemporary Christian Music, Sara Groves, Steven Curtis Chapman, Keith Green, Bebo Norman, Jaci Velasquez, Greg Long, Fernando Ortega...

Then, Modern (don’t know what it’s called) Chvrches, Emeli Sande, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Kodaline, Lissie, Paramore, The Killers, The Stereophonics, Poliça, Thirty Seconds To Mars...

Then, New Age (to the point of the article, RELAX), Direct TV channel 856 MCNA, playing right NOW)

David Arkenstone, 2002, Fiona Joy Hawkins, Secret Garden, Ron Korb, Constance Demby, Jim Brickman, Enya, The Piano Guys, Ryan Farish, Deuter, Tangerine Dream....

Beautiful, soothing, mostly instrumentals, beautiful piano, cello, violin, gorgeous! Some upbeat tunes also that I enjoy.

Just background music or with headphones this music “tickles my brain” as in almost a spiritual level.

Chanel 856 does repeat the same songs (not in the same order), its like they have a playlist of the very best songs and add some and drop some over time.

If you enjoyed today’s songs, you’ll enjoy tomorrow’s songs as well.

Don’t see “NEW AGE” and SHRIEK! It’s NOT what you imagine. It’s BEAUTIFUL.

Right now it is Stern and Stern by Deuter, just beautiful.


59 posted on 02/15/2021 1:08:13 PM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: SamAdams76

Can’t forget Miami Vice (and all of the music they threw in there, besides Jan Hammer).


60 posted on 02/15/2021 1:32:20 PM PST by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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