What do you do when the music’s not speaking to you?

It's called the "pantywad effect." Unwad your panties by any means colorful and distracting.

When the music won't listen and I am not really listening to my wife either she advises me to get my panties out of a wad by suggesting that I "take a hike" - not in the colloquial sense but in the literal meaning of the expression which I do. I have a hike right out my back door that takes me up steep hills and back down on the return flight. After that I am properly oxygenated and full of endorphins, ready for anything of beauty.

My relationship to music listening often reminds me of my relationship to people, but not, however, to my relationship with dogs which seems never to fatigue.