Year of the Rat Music Project

1.	music	3112 up, 259 down
	Ruined by MTV We must save music by Shaq Nov 7, 2003 email it permalink: del.icio.us Send to a friend your email: their email: send me the word of the day (it’s free)
2.	Music	1615 up, 152 down
	Mankinds Grestest Acheviment. Music is perfection. by Red Hot Chili Pepper Sep 9, 2003 email it
3.	Music	1346 up, 90 down
	Something the world would be lost without. Music is life. by Matt Apr 16, 2004 email it 4. Music 930 up, 74 down   Indefinable by words alone. It is not only something you hear but what you feel. It is something your soul can reach out and touch. It originates from all over the world since time began. Complex or simple, fast or slow, loud or soft. It is what you feel, or it could be your method of escape or it could just keep you alive.All music is miraculous. “That’s the beauty of music. They can’t take that away from you.” ~Red~ -The Shawshank Redemption by Friendless Dec 10, 2004 email it 5. Music 811 up, 94 down   It’s not something that you can just record and manufacture onto a CD and sell for $21.99. by yup Jul 22, 2003 email it 6. music 571 up, 56 down   the one language spoken by all cultures,sex’s,races,and anything else that at one time or another in history has had a hard time purely because of belief white guy:i’m white i like led zeppelin black guy:i’m black me too by Chalkie Feb 27, 2005 email it 7. music 606 up, 102 down   The life force I would cease to breathe without music. by anonymous Jun 10, 2003 email it

8.	music	300 up, 93 down
	music is oxygen if there was music life would be even more worthless by charlie Mar 21, 2004 email it permalink: del.icio.us Send to a friend your email: their email: send me the word of the day (it’s free)
9.	music	241 up, 36 down
	Good stuff, man. Without music, life would be a mistake. by Peach Apr 20, 2003 email it
10.	music	141 up, 11 down
	a drug ingested via the ears. different kinds of music have different effects. rock, country, electronic, rap, dance, and classical are just a few genres by John Apr 1, 2005 email it
11.	music	190 up, 111 down
	Music is just sequences of sounds and sometimes vocals put together.Now, it has become categories in which today’s people has put themselves in express to the world what they represent or what they want to represent. Categories like gangstas,punk rockers, ravers, ginos, metal rockers, etc. What I don’t understand is why these categories constantly attack each other and their taste, most of the people who actually truly align themselves into a single demographic (most noticable are the “gangstas”, but rockers are catching up…) Actually got into that music because it was the fad at the time. This saying that people aren’t truly expressing themselves, but are just emulating what’s on TV or what their older friends do. Music is music. All music is related to each other so make fun of one genre and you will make fun of every genre. Background music of Rap -> Simple generalized electronic music -> Disco -> “Funky type rock” -> Regular rock -> Country -> Vocals -> Operas(classical singing sorta thing) -> poetry -> rap by Yourname Apr 16, 2004 email it
12.	music	81 up, 11 down
	Noise that is pleasing to the ears. “I listened to some music the other day and it was quite pleasing to my ears.” by Jason A Lutherville, MD Jun 1, 2005 email it
13.	music	89 up, 31 down
	A work of art, containing words that eventually may tell us something, moving in a catchy rhythm. Long story short, its “fucking your ears with noises, catchy noises”. There are many times of music, starting from quite possibly the very beginning of humanity, or at the least when homo-sapiens stopped picking their noses and stood up, hooting wildly and beating each other in the head with dinosaur bones. This is how music began, don’t object me, I know I’m right.Eventually this “music” evolved into a leisure hobby that has lived to this modern day. There are many types of music, but apparantly corruption in the RIAA, a money-oinking recording industry began a organized legal-war against the sharing of .mp3s, the main format for music we distribute through websites and gnutella networks. The RIAA’s victory against napster proved to be a failure, other file sharing networks sprouted out like mushrooms and cleverly evaded the law by claiming “We arn’t distributing the ‘illegal files’, its the users themselves that choose what they want to distribute, we arn’t controlling anything”. Nonetheless, recently RIAA and even some governments threatened to sue those who are found to be “pirating” music. It ain’t pirating damnit, all we just do is buy CDs from the mall, use our cd-burner software to extract and convert the music, and hand it out to moneyless bums on the internet. If the RIAA was so damn smart, then maybe they would at least make it harder for us to do so. Music is basically sounds that you enjoy, unlike the farting your lard-stuffed dad makes. by Chang Tan Jan 2, 2004 email it
14.	Music	94 up, 49 down
	The food for the soul, can ease any pain. Rock, R&B and rap are the greatest forms of music. by phattest of the phat Apr 26, 2005 email it

From the Oxford English Dictionary

A. n.

I. Musical art, performance, or composition.

1. a. The art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds to produce beauty of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, expressive content, etc.; musical composition, performance, analysis, etc., as a subject of study; the occupation or profession of musicians.
The word has often been used specifically to denote the art of musical performance, sometimes with particular reference to instrumental performance, although contextually it can denote other branches, as composition, musicology, etc.

b. Chiefly poet. With capital initial. This art personified.

2. a. The vocal or instrumental sound produced by practical exercise of the art of music (whether live, pre-recorded, etc.). in (good, true) music: in tune (obs.).
broken music: see BROKEN adj. 16. music of the spheres: see SPHERE n. 2b.

b. Usually with defining word or phrase: a particular style, genre, or tradition of musical performance or composition; (also) the work of a particular composer or writer. Often treated as a count noun in later use.
For established compounds see the first element.

c. Vocal or instrumental sounds put together in melodic, harmonic, or rhythmical combination, as by a composer; a composed musical setting (freq. including both melody and accompaniment) to which a poem, etc., may be sung; (also) the musical accompaniment to a ballet, play, etc.

3. A musical instrument. Formerly esp. in to play on music (also in pl.). regional in later use.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 3 Esd. v. 2 ei broten hem in to ierusalem..with musikis & tymbres & trumpis. c1400 Apocalypse St. John: B Version (Harl. 171) 96 Neuere aftir schal be herd in hir voice of harpis, neiir of musikis, neiir of pipers, [etc.]. 1556 in F. R. Raines Hist. Chantries Lancaster (1862) II. 262 He was grave and chaste, could play on the musiques, and was noe typler nor dyce man. 1656 DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE True Relation in Life of Duke (1886) 280 Tutors..for all sorts of virtues, as singing, dancing, playing on music, reading, writing, working, and the like. 1671 A. BEHN Amorous Prince III. iii. 46 An Artist I vow; canst play on any Musick? c1693 Player’s Trag. 6 He was Handsom, cou’d Sing, Dance, and Play on the Musick. 1752 W. HALFPENNY & J. HALFPENNY Rural Archit. in Chinese Taste I. 6 A Room, wherein Musicians may be secreted (and play on soft Musick to the agreeable Surprize of Strangers). 1785 C. MACKLIN Man of World V. 58 He made love verses upon her in praise of her virtue, and her playing upon the music. a1800 S. PEGGE Anecd. Eng. Lang. (1814) 147 A fond Mother..will exultingly tell you that Miss ‘learned herself to play upon the Musick’. 1875 W. D. PARISH Dict. Sussex Dial. 78 Music, any musical instrument. a1903 R. BARRETT in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 211/1 [Sussex] Let me go fetch my music. 1929 Amer. Speech 5 19 An old lady said to a man carrying a guitar: ‘Fetch yore music inter th’ houseth’ dew’ll warp it.’

4. As a count noun: a musical composition or performance. Now arch. and hist.

5. a. A company of musicians (in early use also in pl. in same sense). In later use chiefly Mil.: that component of a military force charged with sounding signals on musical instruments (cf. sense A. 5b). Now chiefly hist.
In the later 20th cent. revived (usually in form Musick) in the names of a number of ensembles devoted to the performance of early music.
Master of the (King’s, Queen’s) Music: see MASTER n.¹ 23a.

b. U.S. Mil. In the U.S. Marines: a soldier responsible for sounding signals on a musical instrument; (now) spec. a trumpeter, a bugler.

1915 L. B. WILLSON Sailor’s Prayer in Our Navy (U.S.) Aug. 29/1 So, Lord, find out where ‘music’ swings, And stuff his horn with spuds and things, And lash him in his ‘bloomin’ hay’ So he won’t sound his ‘roundelay’. 1917 Marines Mag. Jan. 27 Sentry! Sentry! Take this music out and hang himyes, hang him. 1922 Leatherneck 22 Apr. 4 It was a mere boy in forestry green flourishing a shiny buglea Marine ‘music’. 1984 J. R. ELTING et al. Dict. Soldier Talk 205/2 Music, an infantry bugler or cavalry trumpeter. In the Marines music is a shortened version of company musicianoriginally drummers, later a bugler. Like their Army counterparts, they sounded the daily calls in peacetime routine or combat.

6. The written or printed score of a musical composition; such scores collectively; musical composition as represented by conventional graphic symbols.
sheet music: see SHEET n.¹ 13d.

7. Each of the short keys, now usually black, on the keyboard of an organ. Obs. rare.

II. Extended uses.

8. a. Sound produced naturally which is likened to music in being rhythmical or pleasing to the ear, as the song of birds, the sound of running water, etc. (occas. used ironically).

c1460 LYDGATE Minor Poems (1934) II. 781 Iayes in musyk haue smal experyence. 1590 SPENSER Faerie Queene II. vi. 25 She, more sweete then any bird on bough, Would..strive to passe..Their native musicke by her skilful art. ?1593 G. FLETCHER Licia xiv. 15 My love lay sleeping, where birdes musicke made. 1597 A. MONTGOMERY Cherrie & Slae 86 To heir the startling streames cleire, I thocht it musike to the eire. 1617 F. MORYSON Itinerary III. 28 Clashing of swords was then daily musicke in every street. 1751 JOHNSON Rambler No. 88 7 Milton, whose ear had been accustomed..to the music of the ancient tongues. 1785 W. COWPER Task VI. 141 These naked shoots, Barren as lances, among which the wind Makes wintry music. 1825 Lancet 17 Sept. 365/2 The music of the loom, the roar of the furnace, and the explosion of the mine, were the moral thunders by which a government could best disperse the clouds. 1836 W. IRVING Astoria III. 25 Musquitoes, which, with their stings and their music, set all sleep at defiance. 1877 L. MORRIS Epic Hades II. 145 Streams Laughed with a rippling music. 1947 P. KAVANAGH Soul for Sale 13 When we put our ears to the pailing-post The music that came out was magical. 1987 W. MCPHERSON Sargasso Sea (1988) v. 329 The pianist was taking a break, the only music now the chirping of the tree frogs.

b. The cries of a pack of hounds on seeing the chase.

1600 SHAKESPEARE Midsummer Night’s Dream IV. i. 105 My loue shall heare the musicke of my hounds. 1615 G. MARKHAM Country Contentm. I. i. 7 With these three parts of musique you shall make your cry perfect. 1655 I. WALTON Compl. Angler (ed. 2) i. 23 What musick doth a pack of Dogs then make. 1749 H. FIELDING Tom Jones XVI. ii, I had rather hear thy voice than the musick of the best pack of dogs in England. 1808 F. SKURRAY Bidcombe Hill 9 The cheerful music of the opening hounds. 1885 Field 7 Feb. 148/2 The music of the pack as they settled to the line. 1930 G. R. MOTT in C. Frederick et al. Foxhunting xxvii. 266 The sterling hunting qualities of this pack, together with their superb music, have brought them to the notice of the finest hound breeders in the land. 1991 Sports Illustr. 14 Jan. 5/3 Now the beagles are in ‘full cry’the yelping, howling racket known as the ‘music of the hounds’.

c. slang (chiefly Mil.). The sound of gunfire.

9. a. Chiefly in fig. context. Something likened to music by virtue of its beauty or charm, or the pleasure which it produces. Freq. in music to one’s ears: something which it is gratifying to hear, pleasant news (see also quot. 1597 at sense A. 8a).
In quot. 1699 in negative context, applied to bad news.

b. to step music: to step with rhythmical grace. Obs. rare.

c. euphem.to make (beautiful) music (together): to have sexual intercourse.

[1930 M. LAING Make Music, Baby (MS song), Make music, Baby, make some music for me.] 1936 S. J. PERELMAN in New Yorker 26 Dec. 18/1, I tell you, it’s like gall in my mouth two young people shouldn’t have a room where they could make great music. 1967 F. MULLALLY Prizewinner vii. 117 He could say good-bye to any hope of making music later on with the Swede. 1967 ‘E. QUEEN’ Face to Face xviii. 84 Glory didn’t like Gouchshe used to say they didn’t make music together. 1969 H. NIELSEN Darkest Hour xxi. 238 You and Buddy can make beautiful music together. 1972 C. SHORT Naked Skier xxi. 115, I think we should make music together. 1995 Village Voice (N.Y.) 7 Mar. 13/1 He’d like to make beautiful music with..a former three-term town supervisor of East Hampton.

10. slang. A band of highwaymen or similar robbers. Esp. in the music’s paid (see quot. 1699). Obs.
In quot. a1627 app. with a more general allusion to sense A. 5.

11. a. Pleasure, amusement. Obs. rare.

b. U.S. colloq. Originally: liveliness; excitement; fun, sport; (also) sense of the ridiculous (now rare). Later: trouble, disturbance. Cf. MUSICAL adj. 6. See also to face the music at FACE v. 4a.

12. Entomol. The light arches moth, Apamea lithoxylaea, a pale European noctuid moth with obscure markings on the forewings (perh. from the resemblance of its markings to written music). Obs. rare.

13. Golf. Flexibility or give in the shaft of a golf club. rare.

1890 H. G. HUTCHINSON Golf iii. 57 A heavy head may bring just the right amount of lifeof what Tom Morris calls ‘music’out of a very stiff shaft. 1903 W. J. TRAVIS Pract. Golf (rev. ed.) ix. 111 The man with a less rapid swing will get equally as long a ball by using a more supple shaft. The more ‘music’ there is in the shaft, however, the greater is the liability to slice or pull.

B. adj. (attrib.). = MUSICAL adj.
Found mainly in contexts where musical would disrupt a poetic metre.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Psalms Prol. 10 is booc..is also seid a sawteer, e whiche name it tooc of a Musik instrument at ebruly is clepid nablum, greekly a sawteer. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Ecclus. xliv. 5 Preise we glorious men..in er wisdam sechinge e musik maneris [a1425 L.V. maneres of musik; L. modos musicos] & telling e dites of scriptures. 1571 T. WHYTHORNE Songes III. f. 30, The musicke tunes of voyce or sound, doth helpe the eares, and doth expell, al sorowes that ye hart doth wound. 1579 (c1501) G. DOUGLAS Palice of Honour (Edinb.) 522 in Shorter Poems (1967) 41 Thair Musick tones [?1553 London musik, tones] war mair cleir And dulcer than the mouing of the Spheir Or Orpheus’ Harp of Thrace. 1605 1st Pt. Ieronimo II. iv. 35 Clap a siluer tongue Within this pallat, that..I may..Haue euery sillable a musick stop. a1616 SHAKESPEARE Hamlet (1623) III. i. 159, I..That suck’d the Honie of his Musicke [1604 musickt] Vowes. 1657 G. THORNLEY tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 142 Her Singing Limbs. The Earth buried them, preserving to them still their musick-property. 1669 T. GALE Court Gentiles I. II. iii. 30 Many music Instruments had obteined a Barbaric name. 1851 Judge I. iii. 26 Love’s music voice will never greet your ear, Affection’s eye will never meet your gaze. a1880 J. VERY Compl. Poems (1993) 159 Another than thyself Will be seen within to have come, and bringing Music tones from other spheres to have made Thee ever the harp of hidden minstrelsy.