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1001 albums to listen to before you die
Spluff:
I think the key to your problem with the list lays in the term you just used. 'Concert music'. Music designed to be listened to a concert. The 'pop' music that makes up the majority of the list is designed to be listened to as an album, which is why it is so dominant on a list of albums to listen to. The other aspect is that the target audience of the list is obviously going to be 'pop' oriented, not concert oriented - it's a website called "rocklistmusic"; you could probably guess how rock album-centric the list would be before you even opened it.
--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 02 Nov 2009, 19:43 ---Because I hate listening to art music.
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For what it's worth, I don't think there is any genre of music that is inherently pretentious and without merit - I was just being facetious. I listen to Sun O))), I'm hardly in a position to judge people.
Joseph:
--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 02 Nov 2009, 18:59 ---"Pop" as opposed to "art" music. Sorry if my terminology is not quite common on this board.
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There's a whole other book by the same folks of the 1001 recordings you need to hear before you die, covering the sort of thing you are talking about.
They also do 1001 books, among other things.
Inlander:
I believe the first one was about movies. That was surprisingly succesful so, publishing being like any other business in many respect, we've had a flood of "1001 [nouns] to [verb] before you die" books ever since, on increasingly esoteric topics. It's just the latest publishing phenomenon.
JD:
I have no interest in these sorts of lists.
Bastardous Bassist:
I think I always take these lists a bit too seriously and a bit too much at their word, but usually I just let it slide. This time I just can't.
--- Quote from: Spluff on 02 Nov 2009, 21:14 ---I think the key to your problem with the list lays in the term you just used. 'Concert music'. Music designed to be listened to a concert. The 'pop' music that makes up the majority of the list is designed to be listened to as an album, which is why it is so dominant on a list of albums to listen to. The other aspect is that the target audience of the list is obviously going to be 'pop' oriented, not concert oriented - it's a website called "rocklistmusic"; you could probably guess how rock album-centric the list would be before you even opened it.
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I disagree strongly. A lot of "concert music" exist only because of recording technology, and as such is not intended for concert as much as for a recording. Steve Reich's "Electronic Counterpoint," for example, would not work in concert, because it is just a bunch of chopped and edited bits of guitar playing. Also, should I really have to look at the domain name to determine the intent of the web page? Maybe instead people should just not try to pass lists off as things they're not, which brings me to:
--- Quote from: Joseph on 02 Nov 2009, 21:57 ---There's a whole other book by the same folks of the 1001 recordings you need to hear before you die, covering the sort of thing you are talking about.
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As mentioned earlier, it brings up the definition of album. Is there a definition of album that excludes concert music that I've missed somewhere? (not being sarcastic, just curious because of the previous discussion that we had about what an album means)
Also, I don't feel that the two should be separated (as much as I've used terminology to separate the two). They both inspire each other, and as such I feel there should maybe be a good list of 1001 recordings of things that might be considered an album or a "classical recording" one should listen to, regardless of genre because sometimes all music is valid. Sure, people who listen to the stuff listed in the first group would probably not listen to the stuff listed in the "classical recordings" (hate "classical" being used to describe things that aren't classical), and I guess the people are trying to sell books and maybe I shouldn't take this as seriously as I am, but it seems that maybe the two groups should actually listen to the albums/recordings enjoyed by the other group. After all, exposure to music foreign to one's aesthetic is rarely a bad thing.
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