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Originally Posted by PgUpPgDown
As far as listening to classical music is concerned, I recognize that classical music is "classier" etc, it might even be more "thought out", but sorry, I can't listen to it. It leaves me completely uninterested. It too grandiose, too pompous, too unrelated to my life, it has no lyrics, it has no message, it can't replace bands like Tool or A Perfect Circle or Anathema, because it just doesn't fulfill my emotion-venting needs  |
Well, I could go on and on about how there is as much or more diversity in classical music than there is in all other types of music listed on this thread combined, so that, if you don't like classical music, it is very likely that you just haven't heard the right classical music. That, however, was not the point I wanted to make.
It feels a bit, I don't know, odd? icky? sad? to me that it seems I need cynicism, pathos, or irony to really enjoy a song, and I was merely noting that my listening to something that stood purely on he merits of its sound, like Mozart might be a way to counteract that. (JS Bach would be even better, but what Mozart I have is happier, and Bach, for all his 23 children, is kind of juiceless.) Not that the cynicism, pathos, and irony aren't there in Mozart, just that my ear isn't trained enough to pick them out.