I have a very specific ritual before I listen to music, and it has to be exact. This is for the optimal listening experience. I've spent 3 years developing the mechanism of ritual to make sure my listening is at the highest frequency a human can experience. Take my ritual and do it yourself or don't, either way it's the best.
1. Room must be 69 degrees F.
2. Must be in completely white room to avoid distraction.
3. Can't listen to music until 6 months after release, to avoid any social hype placebo affect, for accurate analysis of song.
4. Can't listen to any artists with interchanging first letter of names, or chronilogical age differences, or alphabetical first letter of names.
Example:
I can't listen to Aaliyah and then listen to Barry White, because the first letter of their name is in alphabetical order and this can lead to brain seeing patterns.
If your brain sees a pattern, then it may like or dislike a song because of the pattern it's associating with.
5. Can't listen to any artist that's of the same genre of the previous artist I just listened to, to avoid guilt by association, or vise versa.
6. Can't listen to deathgrips. Ever.
7. Must interchange my listening experience with a The Young Turks video of any variety every time i've listened to 12 minutes or more of music. This doesn't mean I pause the song to watch a Young Turks video, this means after i've listened to 12 minutes I wait for the current song to end before I watch the TYT video.
