Is Classical Music considered to be inherently superior to all else?

SuperFob · 11-18-2009, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by mr dave

why place an arbitrary limit on the original instrument?

Because I don't want to place a limit on the message delivered by the song.

jackhammer · 11-18-2009, 05:07 PM

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I have a name for threads like this.

right-track · 11-18-2009, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

No contributions elsewhere from the OP

I have a name for threads like this.

Shut the fuck up and pm me asap please.

jackhammer · 11-18-2009, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by right-track

Shut the fuck up and pm me asap please.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 11-18-2009, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

And Urban, on a side note here -- people who look down on progressive rock, jazz, etc. and write it off as overwrought weirdness are just as "snobby" as the people whom they consider snobs. Folks tend to forget the fact that when albums within those genres are done right, the results may often be quite convoluted, but are nevertheless beautiful and possess just as much meaning from a lyrical perspective as anything The Fall or whatnot have recorded.

I'm not saying they're not.

I only mentioned Prog & Jazz because everybody else seemed to keep mentioning them as something that can compare to classical because of it's complexity or whatever.
I personally don't think you need to go to something as complex or technical as that to prove modern music is just as good as classical. The simplest of pop songs will do just as well.

~~CAPTAIN CAVEMAN~~ · 11-18-2009, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

of course, you ignore the truth of what i was saying and resort to personal and baseless attacks... which just make you look like an even bigger idiot than before. nothing in this post really has any basis - nowhere did i say anything that suggests i don't understand other people. you're just defensive because i pointed out that your stupid, self-righteous post is just that. i'm just as qualified as any other person to make any judgement i want to.

**Janszoon** · 11-18-2009, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by SuperFob

If I were to use words, I would care more about the meaning of the words than I would their melodic qualities.

So then why not write a poem instead of a song?

SuperFob · 11-18-2009, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

So then why not write a poem instead of a song?

Because the words with music behind them impact me emotionally in ways that they would without music behind them.

Terrible Lizard · 11-18-2009, 08:03 PM

Classical was the last genre I explored, and of all other styles of music it is the only one I'm really picky about.

The classical "fans" I've talked to are the predictable types of course, uptight, sniffling, cobbsnockers who'd **** themselves into orbit the minute a Disturbed track purrs from the stereo.

PartisanRanger · 11-19-2009, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Terrible Lizard

Classical was the last genre I explored, and of all other styles of music it is the only one I'm really picky about.

The classical "fans" I've talked to are the predictable types of course, uptight, sniffling, cobbsnockers who'd **** themselves into orbit the minute a Disturbed track purrs from the stereo.

Pretentious douchebags can be found clinging to any genre of music. I'd doubt you'd find a disproportionate number associated with classical.

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