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Life_goes_on Gold Member Offline Posts: 4772 400kms south of Yobsville, Qld Gender:	Re: Top 10 Fav Songs of all time. Reply #30 - Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 11:02pm I can only assume that classical gigs are listed next to the Obituary section of the newspaper.
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Reply #31 - Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 11:34pm

Soren wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 10:21pm:

Opera is dripping with sex and life in a way inane pop ditties can never be, they are just too pimply and adolescent by comparison. Pop music is retarded and is for retards.

Probably showing my ignorance here but I do love the first CD of "Life is beautiful" ABC series
I find some of the tracks provoke emotions in me from intense sadness(Vespers Virgin motherof god) to joy(Dawn Mantra's,Ode to Joy).
Tried the 2nd and third of the set but just couldn't get into them.

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Reply #32 - Apr 4^th, 2011 at 9:17am

"Opera is dripping with sex and life in a way inane pop ditties can never be, they are just too pimply and adolescent by comparison. Pop music is retarded and is for retards."

I haven't fully refined my ambivalence towards opera - I can't fully enunciate my lack of appreciation, since I have found something in nearly every other form of music.

That said, I wouldn't denigrate opera fans. That would be impolite.

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Reply #33 - Apr 4^th, 2011 at 9:53am

I'm sort of like you Soren, but I prefer the 'modern' version of Instrumental in regards to Ambient-Trance.
I didn't mind New Age, but some of the stuff sounded like something you would play to a bubby over the cot to help it to sleep.
I was a big fan of the ABC Dreamtime program and the Melton FM program years ago.
I have been told that such Music as New Age and Ambient really did strike a $$$Bonanza for the Australian Music Industry during the 90's - even outselling anything done by Australian Rock and Pop efforts. Apparently such a music genre (if thats the right word) exploded across the world for an entire decade and now its having another resurgance.

I don't mind some 'old' Classics and Miserere Mei Deus is my absolute favourite peice as it just goes to show that you don't always need 'instrumentation' to make a beautiful sound. A rare peice indeed.

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Please delete Gold Member Offline Please delete this smacking PROFILE Posts: 2936	Re: Top 10 Fav Songs of all time. Reply #34 - Apr 4^th, 2011 at 10:07am Just to be a pedant, do excerpts from operas and classical "works" rate as "songs"? In my mind songs are small independent creations, usually for a "normal" singer. More pedestrian, more user friendly. Something anyone can have a go at.
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Reply #35 - Apr 4^th, 2011 at 10:07am

Impolite?
Perish the thought. Wink

Even though some people would be so crass as to label all "popular" music as,
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inane pop ditties ............., they are just too pimply and adolescent by comparison. (to Opera) Pop music is retarded and is for retards.

To make such a statement , it seems he is working from the position of belief that all Opera, and Classical music, is always superior to any genre of popular music, or any examples from within those genres.

The opera clip he supplied was laughable for me, because it epitomised everything I dislike about most opera I have heard, as it was both pretentious yet vocally uninspiring, and would have been exactly the type of clip I would have chosen to support my belief that a lot of Opera is utter rubbish.
To me it was the Celine Dion of Opera, or probably more accurately, the Bob Downe of Opera, with the difference with Bob Browne being he knows he is taking the proverbial.

Classical and Opera are NO DIFFERENT to popular music, you sort through a sea of dross, to find little pearls that you love, and anyone who makes statements like Soren did, are no different to the guys who declare that Heavy Metal is the only decent music, and if any view could be considered retarded, it would be one as myopic as that.

If you had wanted to post an Opera clip that most people can relate to, then you should have chosen the following one.
Also, while I love many songs where the singer is not a particularly gifted singer, they manage to create an atmosphere that can still enthrall you, while other people who can sing technically well, leave you cold, and uninspired.

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It_is_the_Darkness Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4000 in a ReTardis Gender:	Re: Top 10 Fav Songs of all time. Reply #36 - Apr 4^th, 2011 at 10:17am Here's a little something from a Frog that I latched onto after watching Peter Weir's Gallipoli. You could say, he and a few others were the original 'Mix-Masters' before American Rappers came into their own. And then I watched the doco The Silk Road on SBS and came to enjoy Kitaro.
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It_is_the_Darkness Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4000 in a ReTardis Gender:	Re: Top 10 Fav Songs of all time. Reply #37 - Apr 4^th, 2011 at 10:33am I'm currently exploring the band Sunn ((O)) Sin Nanna
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Top 10 Fav Songs of all time. Reply #38 - Apr 6^th, 2011 at 3:00pm Rule Britannia, the Queen Victoria version. An Edison tube is available but only to selected people.
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