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Caspian:
I really dislike the Beatles, and with the exception of some Hendrix and possibly some of the cage/la monte young/terry riley pieces I can honestly say that all the music made from, say, 1910-1980 annoys me intensely. (there's some rather excellent romantic era music out there)
I have never heard any Mozart (or at least not deliberately) and can safely say that I find Bach really boring. I don't mind some baroque but I really don't like any music from the classical era. Does that make me a bad person?
KvP:
I have not heard Miles Davis. I am also ignorant of hardcore, by and large.
Also, haven't heard anything from Radiohead pre-Kid A. I hear it's more rock oriented, and I happen to like the electronic bent of the later stuff, so I don't know if I'll like it.
E. Spaceman:
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But my major music shame is that I have heard music from ABBA.
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WHAT
Tom:
--- Quote from: Caspian on 01 Nov 2007, 23:54 ---I really dislike the Beatles,
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My mum's side of my family and I would probably kill you for such blasphemy.
John Curtin:
--- Quote from: Caspian on 01 Nov 2007, 23:54 ---I have never heard any Mozart (or at least not deliberately) and can safely say that I find Bach really boring. I don't mind some baroque but I really don't like any music from the classical era. Does that make me a bad person?
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Not really. It just means you are unbalanced. Although I'm not sure that you should dismiss all classical music, having never heard Mozart. Also, how can you like late Romantic music until Mahler (essentially) but think Shostakovich (for example) is intensely annoying? Then again, I am of the opinion that Terry Riley and La Monte Young are terribly annoying and dull so there you are. Still, their kind of "minimalism" suffers from a lot of the faults of classical music, and is kind of 10 times less interesting.
Recommendations to begin maybe?:
Bach:
* Violin Concerto in a minor;
* Violin and Oboe concerto;
* All the Brandenburg concertos in case you don't know them (no 3 esp)
* The Well-Tempered clavier was probably the greatest achievement in western music until Beethoven's 9th. Still I suspect you won't like it all that much. Doesn't mean you are a bad person, just a Bad-Tempered one.I sometimes think that the quality of Bach is inversely proportional to the number of woodwind instruments involved. Orchestral-style blending wasn't really something anyone worried about back then (there was no such thing as an orchestra as we know it) so he wasn't very good at it.
Mozart:
* Requiem (especially the Lacrimosa; it's hackneyed but for a reason)
* Ave verum corpus
* Piano Concerto No 24
* Violin Concerto in G
* Sinfonia Concertante in E flat
* Flute and Harp concerto[/i]Also check out some of the operas; they are a bit more dramatic as you'd expect and he's really the only Germanic composer who's nailed opera in my opinion (say no to Wagner). The Italians invented it, they knew how to do it, and Mozart just pretty much did what they did, just a lot better. Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte are the best.
Sorry if this seems a bit forward or you're just uninterested but hey it's more fun for me than studying.
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