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[BillyxRansom]

Which brings me to an important point, actually.  Anybody who is going to college/ever plans to go to college in the future, take a music appreciation class!  Seriously, even if you know music reasonably well, music appreciation allows you to talk about stuff more intelligently (i.e. so people can actually know what you're talking about!), plus it's a good excuse to listen to a bunch of music.  Of course, this advice may be really horrible, because I've never taken music appri personally.  It may teach one nothing of value.

i did this. it was okay. just not worth the 3 hours more or less per day that i took out of my SATURDAY AFTERNOON. we listened to a lot of classical and baroque period. some romantic period. and like a day on the more "modern" stuff (like when pianos were used to make really fucked up sounds, like that one guy who "wrote" like a 45 minute piece by just activating one thing, setting off an entire chain of weirdo sounds and shit).

[BillyxRansom]

Which brings me to an important point, actually.  Anybody who is going to college/ever plans to go to college in the future, take a music appreciation class!  Seriously, even if you know music reasonably well, music appreciation allows you to talk about stuff more intelligently (i.e. so people can actually know what you're talking about!), plus it's a good excuse to listen to a bunch of music.  Of course, this advice may be really horrible, because I've never taken music appri personally.  It may teach one nothing of value.

i did this. it was okay. just not worth the 3 hours more or less per day that i took out of my SATURDAY AFTERNOON. we listened to a lot of classical and baroque period. some romantic period. and like a day on the more "modern" stuff (like when pianos were used to make really fucked up sounds, like that one guy who "wrote" like a 45 minute piece by just activating one thing, setting off an entire chain of weirdo sounds and shit).

[E. Spaceman]

Weather Report can be a bitch to play.

And yes, the 80's had some awsome artists. But I think he was reffering to the guys who like the pop 80's.

The same can be said of any decade. That is my posture, no decade has been better for music than others, with the possible exception of the WW2 years.

[nescience]

Whatever dude, the fucking 1380s ROCKED.  Best age for BLACK DEATH METAL!

[E. Spaceman]

Back then Nordic Metal was truly fucking scary, not like today's. Besides the Inquisition burnt all emo and goths.

[Bastardous Bassist]

i did this. it was okay. just not worth the 3 hours more or less per day that i took out of my SATURDAY AFTERNOON. we listened to a lot of classical and baroque period. some romantic period. and like a day on the more "modern" stuff (like when pianos were used to make really fucked up sounds, like that one guy who "wrote" like a 45 minute piece by just activating one thing, setting off an entire chain of weirdo sounds and shit).

The modern stuff is an acquired taste, and some people will just always hate it.  I personally think it's really cool how people are pushing the boundaries of what music is.  To me, their the biggest rebels out there.  I'm not talking about the "modern" composers like Adams and such who don't write a single thing that wasn't being done over 100 years ago.

Also, do you listen to any of the stuff that you looked at during the class?  I mean, did you hear anything new that you found that you liked?  Because that's the point of the class.

The saturday afternoon thing, though, is kind of your fault...

[Misereatur]

Back then Nordic Metal was truly fucking scary, not like today's. Besides the Inquisition burnt all emo and goths.

Yep, nothing like burning a church in the 14'th century.
I miss those days..

[Kai]

I'm still giggling at the "Inquisition burnt all emo and goths". hee.