11-08-2013, 05:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-08-2013, 06:43 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Just gave Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten a listen - powerful indeed. I can't say it moved me quite as much as "An Ending" does, but it's up there. 3:25 to about 4:45 in the song is @_@ Both songs can pretty much take our egos, shred them to pieces, and leave us curled up in a fetal position trying to fathom what we just experienced.
Eno did U2's Joshua Tree? I had no idea. Did he actually do production on that album, or he made a remake of it?
My favorite kind of music overall is hip-hop - it's what I grew up on, but my views of it have changed a bit over the years. While its probably still my fav genre, I am a lot more critical of it now than I was years ago. Not only because the quality of the music has gone down, and is essentially trash now, but there are certain aspects of it that I do not like even when it was in its golden age - such as the sexism and homophobia, it being corporatized, and the glorification of material wealth and money that sometimes is so emphasized. What I do like about it is that it touches upon a lot of key social issues, and that it can provide a vivid (sometimes too vivid for some people perhaps) narrative of street life, crime and poverty. Sometimes it can have hints of class struggle within it but I would like to see it emphasize this much more than it does. I like the lyrical and musical creativity that it can have as well - most of the stuff I listen to is from late 80's to mid 90's...with 1991-1996 probably being the best 5 years ever for the genre, so many of the best albums it has to offer were made during this time frame.
I listen to almost everything though, from hip-hop, to classic rock and some metal, all the way to Enya (yea, I know) and stuff like the topic of this thread. I can't really get much into country or bluegrass - it's just not my thing, and teenie bopper stuff isn't even music in my opinion. I find myself on youtube all the time just listening to music, usually whatever randomly comes into my head that I feel like hearing.
Eno did U2's Joshua Tree? I had no idea. Did he actually do production on that album, or he made a remake of it?
My favorite kind of music overall is hip-hop - it's what I grew up on, but my views of it have changed a bit over the years. While its probably still my fav genre, I am a lot more critical of it now than I was years ago. Not only because the quality of the music has gone down, and is essentially trash now, but there are certain aspects of it that I do not like even when it was in its golden age - such as the sexism and homophobia, it being corporatized, and the glorification of material wealth and money that sometimes is so emphasized. What I do like about it is that it touches upon a lot of key social issues, and that it can provide a vivid (sometimes too vivid for some people perhaps) narrative of street life, crime and poverty. Sometimes it can have hints of class struggle within it but I would like to see it emphasize this much more than it does. I like the lyrical and musical creativity that it can have as well - most of the stuff I listen to is from late 80's to mid 90's...with 1991-1996 probably being the best 5 years ever for the genre, so many of the best albums it has to offer were made during this time frame.
I listen to almost everything though, from hip-hop, to classic rock and some metal, all the way to Enya (yea, I know) and stuff like the topic of this thread. I can't really get much into country or bluegrass - it's just not my thing, and teenie bopper stuff isn't even music in my opinion. I find myself on youtube all the time just listening to music, usually whatever randomly comes into my head that I feel like hearing.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)