What do you think about Classical music?

[Meryuma]

That isn't a very fair assessment of the genre.

Don't take me wrong, I would not mind giving heavy metal another chance... but I don't believe it will catch on in my head. I've never been a big fan of gothic music, or music which takes the form as dark, mysterious, or generally distasteful. The music doesn't uplift me like it might some others. I dislike the darker spectrum of emotions. I may just be stereotypical, but I have yet to find a heavy metal song that is uplifting as the other genres.. However, I must admit that I did enjoy one song made by AC/DC.... Highway to Hell.

Meh, like I said... I wouldn't mind giving heavy metal another chance.

Metal is goth? Mysterious things are distasteful? AC/DC are metal? What is this?

[Napkiraly]

Don't take me wrong, I would not mind giving heavy metal another chance... but I don't believe it will catch on in my head. I've never been a big fan of gothic music, or music which takes the form as dark, mysterious, or generally distasteful. The music doesn't uplift me like it might some others. I dislike the darker spectrum of emotions. I may just be stereotypical, but I have yet to find a heavy metal song that is uplifting as the other genres.. However, I must admit that I did enjoy one song made by AC/DC.... Highway to Hell.

Meh, like I said... I wouldn't mind giving heavy metal another chance.

Metal is goth? Mysterious things are distasteful? AC/DC are metal? What is this?

The kids born in 1996.

[Meryuma]

Metal is goth? Mysterious things are distasteful? AC/DC are metal? What is this?

The kids born in 1996.

So am I. What's your point?

[New Nassrau]

It is a masterpiece of music, thought and Western culture!

[Bleckonia]

I enjoy a lot of it.

My favorite eras are the Baroque Era (Bach, Handel) and the Romantic Era (Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Grieg, Rachmaninoff). I do, however, prefer the Romantic Era because it seems that there is more variety while Baroque music seems to be too analogous.

I'm not a huge fan of the Classical Era, though (Beethoven, Stamitz, Mozart). But a lot of Mozart's stuff is pretty good, so there's some Classical Era music that I like.

[Napkiraly]

The kids born in 1996.

So am I. What's your point?

Sorry, it's just my experience with kids born 1996 and on wards has been most face palm inducing. You must be a rarity, how lucky you are.

[Azrael]

So am I. What's your point?

Sorry, it's just my experience with kids born 1996 and on wards has been most face palm inducing. You must be a rarity, how lucky you are.

Hey, I'm a 96er, too.

It is a masterpiece of music, thought and Western culture!

I wish we were able to preserve some more of the pieces written by non-Western cultures in the same time. Sure we know what they likely sounded like, but I wanna know what other cultures' equivalents to the Western Classical period's greatest works were.

[North Wiedna]

I like a few composers I guess.

orff bartok the list goes on

[Meryuma]

It is a masterpiece of music, thought and Western culture!

How can a genre be a masterpiece?

[Anarchist Isolationists]

It is a masterpiece of music, thought and Western culture!

How can a genre be a masterpiece?

Through the magic of the fans?

[The Romulan Republic]

I like it, for the most part.

[Not That Lot Again]

As I've gotten older I've come to find that everything but classical and jazz is kind of thin and uninteresting. Not that I don't like other stuff. I'm going to see The Coup at the end of the month, and I listen to other genres at least as often as I listen to these two. But after listening to these other genres almost exclusively for the first forty years of my life, I have to say that they're getting dull and repetitive. But not these.

Shit, I popped a Saint-Saens CD (the Organ Symphony) in the car today and my nine-year-old said "turn it up." So there's that.

[Oterro]

Don't take me wrong, I would not mind giving heavy metal another chance... but I don't believe it will catch on in my head. I've never been a big fan of gothic music, or music which takes the form as dark, mysterious, or generally distasteful. The music doesn't uplift me like it might some others. I dislike the darker spectrum of emotions. I may just be stereotypical, but I have yet to find a heavy metal song that is uplifting as the other genres.. However, I must admit that I did enjoy one song made by AC/DC.... Highway to Hell.

Meh, like I said... I wouldn't mind giving heavy metal another chance.

The majority of metal is not gothic, there's a lot of tasteful metal, sometimes you just wanna lie down and angst out, that's not a healthy mentality, it's an incredibly varied genre. I also think that's one of the worst AC/DC songs but they're not metal.

[Madda]

Love it.

[Napkiraly]

Sorry, it's just my experience with kids born 1996 and on wards has been most face palm inducing. You must be a rarity, how lucky you are.

Hey, I'm a 96er, too.

Oh god damn it. Forget what I said.

[Olwe]

Classical music is awesome, I'd say it's one of my favorite genres.

AC/DC is indeed metal, it's just the old style of metal before they switched to rap-style vocals and did away with lead guitar. Metal purists actually wouldn't consider most of the current stuff metal... no solos, weird vocal tendencies (like I said, way too much rap in the modern stuff), none of that is associated with true metal like Sabbath, Zeppelin and, yes, AC/DC.

[Oterro]

Classical music is awesome, I'd say it's one of my favorite genres.

AC/DC is indeed metal, it's just the old style of metal before they switched to rap-style vocals and did away with lead guitar. Metal purists actually wouldn't consider most of the current stuff metal... no solos, weird vocal tendencies (like I said, way too much rap in the modern stuff), none of that is associated with true metal like Sabbath, Zeppelin and, yes, AC/DC.

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

[Anollasia]

Classical music is awesome, I'd say it's one of my favorite genres.

AC/DC is indeed metal, it's just the old style of metal before they switched to rap-style vocals and did away with lead guitar. Metal purists actually wouldn't consider most of the current stuff metal... no solos, weird vocal tendencies (like I said, way too much rap in the modern stuff), none of that is associated with true metal like Sabbath, Zeppelin and, yes, AC/DC.

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

I think he thought it was classic rock.

[Azrael]

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

I think he thought it was classic rock.

There was a conversation somewhere above where people were discussing AC/DC or something. A bit off track, huh? XP

Also, AC/DC are hard rock and not much more. <- my input

[Meryuma]

AC/DC is indeed metal, it's just the old style of metal before they switched to rap-style vocals and did away with lead guitar.

whaaaaat

[Vestr-Norig]

Apart from Grieg, it has never really appealed much to me. There are some great classical works out there, though.

[United Koryo]

It boosts brain performance.

[North Wiedna]

It boosts brain performance.

all music does that

classical music tends to also ruin films though

(stay mad)

[Mayane]

I enjoy Classical music, I mostly listen to Händel, Beethoven and Brahms.
I enjoy Tchaikovsky, Debussy and others too.


EDIT: AC/DC is not metal, it is mostly Hard Rock.

[Thama]

Love it. Especially Mozart, Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky. Kind of like Chopin.

My favourite classical symphony is Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart. I also love the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky. Not because of V for Vendetta.