Pieces everyone else likes but you

New music that's associated with the so-called "New Spirituality" movement, i.e., the music by the likes of P

Wow, you really like to write huge chunks of material off as crappy.

My personal dislike is Eric Whitacre right now actually - specifically his two "lazy" pieces: "This Marriage" and "A Boy and A Girl." It's like he's saying, "Screw melody - I'm just going to write a bunch of root-position major triads with non-chord tones added." And then I die of boredom.

New music that's associated with the so-called "New Spirituality" movement, i.e., the music by the likes of P

No, we're just not sheeple. Have fun conforming with the masses, bahhhhh. :P

The pieces mentioned in my post are of very diverse styles. That means I 'conform with the masses'?

New music that's associated with the so-called "New Spirituality" movement, i.e., the music by the likes of P

Anything by Sibelius and Ralph Vaughan Williams (two completely uninteresting and incompetent composers).

BLASPHEMER!

New music that's associated with the so-called "New Spirituality" movement, i.e., the music by the likes of P

lol. somewhere deep inside i agree with you, but im not gonna show it because i know i would get stabbed by people.

Good call... Agreeing with Gianluca is basically an open invitation for stabbings 'round here. I have a special dagger exclusively for that purpose...it was given to me by an Afghan Emir who had used it to usurp his title from an evil old man who had used all his money to build a palace entirely out of coffee beans.

Needless to say, I'm pleased you chose not to express your agreement ... especially concerning the "all pop music" segment...although, there's no need to bring THAT up again...

;)

Basically you hate anything that sounds good.

No, that's a wrong inference. Basically, I hate any music that seriously lacks substance, originality, invention and depth. (And by the way, I have outgrown the phase of being concerned about being popular.)

I hate any music that seriously lacks substance, originality, invention and depth.

I guess I have to start seeing Britten and co. in this light. I've been so foolish.

...by the way, I have outgrown the phase of being concerned about being popular.

Yes...because your perspective is so mature.

;)

Pachelbel wrote some really nice music; too bad we just remember him for that cheesy canon. :(

"In the Mood"

"Sing Sing Sing"

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Pachelbel wrote some really nice music; too bad we just remember him for that cheesy canon. :(

QFT.

Pachelbel wrote some amazing music, and I like the god-damned canon.

In fact a lot of the scraggy people say here they hate I actually like, yay! Save Mahler, I actively don't like Mahler's music regardless of it's academic importance. Or Bruckner, but there's a couple of things by Mahler and Bruckner which I find OK too, so, eh.

Also, Peteris Vasks mention FTW... Mentioned by Gianluca FTL. :<

Hopefuly he'll keep posting so this turns loltastic +1.

Eh, I agree with Gianluca for parts too... but "De gustibus non est disputandum..." or whatever. 7 years of latin down the drain, there.

Basically, I hate any music that seriously lacks substance, originality, invention and depth.

So, you're saying that most of the pieces by all the composers you mention lack that stuff? In that case, you are, from an objective point-of-view, wrong.

Woops. :blush:

I declare mark to be drunk. :P

oh, pieces with long long tones, long long static harmony and yeah, those kinda where the whole piece is a few thousand bars long and one tone lasts more than 4 bars.

without erm, any shorter melodic material.

i admitt i dont like a lot of music that you guys sem to like......

but i love you guys! :)

Pachelbel wrote some really nice music; too bad we just remember him for that cheesy canon. :(

The people who listen to Pachelbel's canon hours on end and enjoy it are probably the same people that listen to Fur Elise, the Turkish rondo, and a condensed version of Ode to Joy (because the actual movement is too "long") and NOTHING else in the classical music realm. Yet they claim to "love" classical music.

Pachelbel wrote some pretty nice pieces for the organ.

Here's one of them.

so much rock music based on pachebel's canon......

I believe this thread was created for the sole intent of making me repeatedly say out loud, "Really?!"

really?

I hate eggplant.

i admitt i dont like a lot of music that you guys sem to like......

but i love you guys! :)

I'm the other way around...I DO like a lot of music other people seem to dislike.

;)