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Originally Posted by roachboy
that folk are talking about billy fucking joel is kinda depressing.
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has alot more to do with contemporary classical music than does billy joel.
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Screw that attitude. Why, oh why, do self-prescribed musical elitists have to rain on everyone's parade?
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Originally Posted by any frustrated musical "genius"
It's written in a traditionalist style ergo it CANNOT be a viable musical piece. I have trained my ear to appreciate micro-scales and alternate modes and therefore you musical plebes can't begin to appreciate music at the same level as I. So go and listen to your boy bands and manufactured music while I indulge myself in the latest PURE form of music "Cacaphony for Brake Squealers and Fingernails on Chalkboard."
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Give me a break.
Someone mentioned Stevie Wonder and the OP had a problem with that:
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Originally Posted by sue
Huh. The combo of Stevie Wonder and classical music doesn't really appeal to me.... I mean, really? Stevie Wonder? I actually cringed at that thought.
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So I addressed it from the standpoint that pop musicians can do more than just simple pop. It may be the boring and trite pablum that you speak of but it's something more than pop.
Don't get me wrong ... I love dissonance and enharmonic tones. But I also really, really appreciate music for the sake of itself. The one thing I can't stand? When "musicians" try to impress each other with how different they can be.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by roachboy
that folk are talking about billy fucking joel is kinda depressing.
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has alot more to do with contemporary classical music than does billy joel.
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Screw that attitude. Why, oh why, do self-prescribed musical elitists have to rain on everyone's parade?
Quote:
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Originally Posted by any frustrated musical "genius"
It's written in a traditionalist style ergo it CANNOT be a viable musical piece. I have trained my ear to appreciate micro-scales and alternate modes and therefore you musical plebes can't begin to appreciate music at the same level as I. So go and listen to your boy bands and manufactured music while I indulge myself in the latest PURE form of music "Cacaphony for Brake Squealers and Fingernails on Chalkboard."
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Give me a break.
Someone mentioned Stevie Wonder and the OP had a problem with that:
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Originally Posted by sue
Huh. The combo of Stevie Wonder and classical music doesn't really appeal to me.... I mean, really? Stevie Wonder? I actually cringed at that thought.
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So I addressed it from the standpoint that pop musicians can do more than just simple pop. It may be the boring and trite pablum that you speak of but it's something more than pop.
Don't get me wrong ... I love dissonance and enharmonic tones. But I also really, really appreciate music for the sake of itself. If someone has put their heart and soul into a song then I'm all for it.
The one thing I can't stand? When "musicians" try to impress each other with how different they can be by throwing in all kinds of sounds and non-harmonic tones just for the sake of doing it.
If you find a cool rhythm or a nifty melodic structure in dissonance that's one thing ... but if it's just noise (to the point that it's almost white noise) then I have no desire for it. Most people really don't want to have to LISTEN to music ... there's nothing wrong with that. There's no need to shit on them for being human.