I think I've figured out why classical music is so boring

[Buck Birdseed]

'Cause like, you've got all these bands, right, and they're all doing f*cking covers all the time. And they're not, like, interesting covers either, you don't get Reggae versions of Tchaikovsky's paino concerto No. 1 or anything, it's all the same mixing, the same instrumentation, the same arrangements even. How do they ever expect to gain respect from real musicians if they're all a bunch of Tribute Bands?

Plus you can't dance to it properly.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

I thought it was because they were always sitting down, and hiding being sheets of music. Zero charisma.

Now, if the lead violinist windmilled his/her bow prior to a solo, and then set fire to the violin on the stage... then we'd have something.

[Asher]

It's boring because there's no vocals.
Opera is boring because there's no coherent vocals.

It always comes off as pompous and rigid too.

[Skanky Burns]

Boris arriving in 3,2,1...

[monolith94]

Oh lord... not this again...

[Dis]

I don't think vocals are it. I like instrumentals in heavy metal and such.

I also like classical music. Well some of it. I like the heavier stuff. It's difficult to describe heavy classical music, But you know it when you hear it. I do like some light instruments though. It's all a matter of timing. But usually I like the thunderous stuff.

[Skanky Burns]

I like "In The Hall of the Mountain King", for instance. But then again, that doesn't follow Snap's rules. There is a techno cover of it.
Ditto "Fur Elise"

[KrazyHorse]

You find classical music boring because you've had your brain twisted by overstated music.

Next question.

[Al B. Sure!]

i got a question...

what was the music of the common people in the 18th century like? was it less boring?

It seems that when the music of the common people (instead of that of the rich) become marketed (at the turn of the century but especially with the emergence of jazz) music became a lot more active and more expressive.


thanks

[Wraith]

--"And they're not, like, interesting covers either,"

Look for a song called "Watashi no tamagoyaki" (which means "My Omelette"). Best classical cover ever.

And try to watch the video if you get a chance (it's the closing credits for Dragon Half).

Wraith
"I, Damaramu, will regret this."
-- Damaramu ("Dragon Half")

[Buck Birdseed]

(btw, I'm keeping a "got the joke/didn't get the joke" tally of the people in this thread. Keep the responses coming.)

Albert: There's certainly some interesting popular music of the 18th century, but certainly the 20th century has produced a considerably bigger share. I think it has to do with mass urbanisation and the intermingling of cultures especially in the US-jolly peasants don't make good, low-down dirty decadent music.

In Sweden we have a musical form originally from the 17th century called the visa. It displays many of the key characteristics of modern pop music- extreme adaptability while maintaining distinct identity, urban, personally introspective and played by just one man with his guitar. There are practicioners from the 18th century whose songs are still very much alive today. For example, there's C. M. Bellman, Sweden's immensely popular national poet, who borrowed tunes from the classical music of the time and wrote brilliant angsty, decadent songs about drinking and death. The style has since constantly adapted and still forms the backbone for most interesting swedish rock and pop of recent years.

[Asher]

(btw, I'm keeping a "got the joke/didn't get the joke" tally of the people in this thread. Keep the responses coming.)

Does this include the people who classify any music threads with you in them as a joke?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Boris arriving in 3,2,1...

No, I got the joke.

[Buck Birdseed]

Lemme put it this way: There's one person on the "got the joke" list so far, and it ain't you.

[Buck Birdseed]

****, sorry Boris, x-post.