Speak to me like i'm 4 again and I will rip out your beating heart and eat it while you are slowly dying. Hows that for cute. :P

Is that a lyric from one of you Manson songs? Cute.

I found an old LP of mine that is full of recordings of Scott Joplin playing his own pieces. It's brilliant stuff. I almost forgot how excellent ragtime is.

Nope, i'm just a very warped person.

I looked on YouTube, Scott Joplin is awesome.

Calling yourself warped is pretty 13 year old too man.. Trying waaaay to hard

I swear I had better taste when I was 13. No offense to you Josh, I could care less about what you listen to, especially at your age. Just give it a year then you can start listening to other stuff and you'll hate everything you used to like.


I think I first saw The Wall around that age. Yeah, I did.

I spent my days as 13-14 year old being a loser and listening to classical music, including a shit load of ragtime.

I've been getting into Blur slowly as of late.

Do you like Philip Glass? People say he's like great the contemporary classical dude.

Yeah, I like his stuff to an extent. I certainly wouldn't say he's the only contemporary rock star. He's probably gained that reputation for stretching out into other, more popular musical spectra such as film score and collaboration with modern musical artists. If you like his stuff or minimalism in general, you should definitely take a look at John Adams who I've been told is the most frequently performed modern composer right now. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra actually devoted the greater part of their season to his music last year, and I missed it because of PMEA festivals. ><

I'd like Phillip glass better is he didn't draw his songs out so fucking much.

There can't be a piece of music that's both written by him and isn't long and repetitive. It's his shtick and no force in the universe can change that. :p

Kind of like how Andrew Lloyd Webber's shtick is to write things that are terrible.

At least he isn't Hans ZimBWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAWWM\


BWAAAAAAAAAAAAU
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG
And etc...

Interestingly enough, it takes the very least to be Hans Zimmer.

Also, who else loves the score to BG&E? :D

Hans Zimmer sucks. Truth. He is such a hack.

The Dark Knight score - wtf was that? The album is like five hours of clicky percussion loops supplemented with a grand total of ten seconds of any actual orchestra.

He also had the grapes to call Elfman's Batman score "jolly". Jolly!?

Ironically enough, the only decent scores Zimmer has ever done has been for children's fare. Muppet Treasure Island and Lion King. Of course he didn't actually write any of the songs, he just dealt with the instrumentation - which was 50% blast synths anyway.

I like POTO :(.

See my post. I listened to every song on it on my MP3 player, realized that I could get the same effect with a synth and a foghorn, and threw it away or something.

Who here likes They Might Be Giants?

*raises hand*
Selectively.

Chht. You would.

I don't. But I love me some Naked City. That John Zorn. What a visionary.

Well I don't.:lol: No, I like them selectively too. That's why I bought Dial-a-Song.

I owe you great compliments. I almost completely forgot about Zorn. Chuffing fantastic stuff.

I tried to plus rep you, but I need to spread some around before I can, and I don't spread plus rep around lightly. Anyway, kudos back at you, my man.

WTF @ the Phillip Glass talk. You guys really mustn't appreciate minimalism/drone/ambient or anything of the sort.

I shed a tear for you all.

Come on, you know you like it.

I certainly do like minimalism/drone/ambient.

:(

Same.

Wow. Don't be such a tool, Gabe. You call yourself a loser for liking classical? I love classical and I'm proud of it and nothing makes me feel more superior than when I tell this to some stupid wigger and he immediately shafts me for it.

Music in all it's forms promotes free expression, that's why I find it wholly ironic when someone who likes The Beatles shuns someone who likes Beethoven or Chopin.

Sarcasm is sarcasm. Don't worry, I was just kidding. I proudly proclaim my taste of music, though sometimes met with a little anxiety as I could see their faces turn to sour shade of "wtf."

Take it as a compliment. You understand music better than they do.

I like Spacemen 3... mostly when I'm on drugs.

you have the best taste in the thread ziggy.

Lightning Bolt are coming here soon, mos def seeing them. Then Mono then Isis (who are soso/kinda shit, but hey, no one usually comes here)

FUCK YOUR MOUTH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpLXQorSQe8

Florence + The Machine. They are a good band, they were up for the Mercury Prize.

I listened to a lot of Spacemen 3, and Spiritualized in high school. I sort of lost interest after their last couple of albums, though.


I still throw in Lazer Guided Melodies, and Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space from time to time.

into Supertramp at the moment. School, Bloody Well Right and Take The Long Way Home are my favourites.

also just found Boards Of Canada.

see, you're learning now, BoC are absolutely wonderful. except if you only listen to Beware The Friendly Stranger, then I don't like you

Just got Dethalbum II. It's pretty good.

i'm actually not keen on Beware The Friendly Stranger, my favourite's probably Slow This Bird Down.

I just got a Ragtime Scott Joplin collection. Most of the pieces are fairly decent renditions, but they butchered "The Entertainer" with a horribly tinny synthesized honky-tonk.
Another set is on the way. It's a complete collection played by John Arpin. I didn't like the Joshua Rifkin renditions. All the spirit was lost in those. My favorite remains the CD on which there are twelve recordings of Joplin himself.

What's your favorite rag besides Maple Leaf and the Entertainer? And have you ever heard Golliwogg's Cakewalk by Debussy? What a title.

Yes, and I like it quite a lot. It isn't one that I frequently listen to, however. I think that my favorite rag besides those two Joplin rags is Efficiency Rag by James Scott.