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Yeah I know what you mean actually.
All music, for me, generates some picture in my mind, although it would be impossible for me to describe it. I don't actually "see" the music mind you, but I do have some visual image in my mind as an imagined representation of the music.
And some music stirs up a stronger sense of visual represtation in my mind than other types. For instance, for whatever reason, Sasha - Xpander illicits some pretty vivid images in my mind, although there is no way known I could describe it..... maybe like a layered curtain of music? Kinda. I mean, I can "see" Xpander in my mind now, I know exactly what the music looks like, it's left a very deep impression on my brain. But describing it, for a mere mortal like me, is impossible. 
I remember once doing a test on the internet a while back (may have been thespark.com or emode.com or something) on different types of thinkers. There are four or five different types of thinkers, including intuitive, sensible, aural...... actually I can't remember if they were actual categories, but something along those lines. Anyway, after doing the test, the program told me that I was a "visual" thinker. Now I can't remember exactly what that involves, but I've remembered it ever since. I always have some mental "depiction" of certain things, even things that don't lead themselves easily to depiction or conceptualisation - things like numbers and letters and so on. Anyway, I don't think it rings more true than the way I deal with music - I try to conceptualise it, picture it in my mind. Hard to explain, but that's just the kind of sub-conscious though process my brain goes through.
Even in a club or something, my brain is often quite sensitive - depending on the nature of the music - to the way lasers and lights are used. If the laser/light patterns and colours don't fit in with my mental depiction of the music then it kinda destroys the atmosphere for me.
And I think this whole "visual" method of learning explains exactly why it is that I like electronic music. I've read somehwere that electronic music is good for stimulating "imagination and creativity" as evidenced by the fact that many tribes (from different parts of the world) used music, with a strong, constant, dominant beat of the BPM 120-140 speed range, to illicit hallucinations in the dancers and anyone else taking part in the ritual. So, for whatever reason, "our" music seems to lend itself to visual thinkers, and I have noticed that it's only electronic music (particualrly trance and progressive) and classical music that stirs up these sort of "mental depictions" within me. I can't visualise pop music, rock music, or most other forms of music.
Anyway, without wishing to labour the point, I know exactly what you're talking about ali92. If anyone else knows anything about what I'm taking about here, please feel free to post about it here. 
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