Your Opinion about Music

gunnels · 06-04-2009, 03:42 PM

And they think that there is this huge difference between B and b.

mr dave · 06-04-2009, 04:52 PM

for me it's everything i've known and learned in my lifetime reflected through sound.

where virtually no one shares the same definition of 'life' it stands to reason to me that virtually no one would share the exact same definition of 'music'.

the220frequency · 06-04-2009, 06:11 PM

Some say music was an evolutionary mistake, others say it's encoded in our genetics and is a very natural thing that has been a part of all living things in one way or another since the beginning (mating dances, birds singing, Bach, U2)

I personally find music to be stimulating, knowing all kinds of music from different cultures/time periods makes me see them in a different light. Civilizations encode a little bit of who and what they are into the music they play, you can learn a lot just from that.

Post No Bills · 06-04-2009, 06:17 PM

A beautiful part of the world's artistic movement. One of the only things humanity has to be proud of.

Shoe · 06-04-2009, 07:28 PM

Music is art. Art is what makes us able to express our thoughts. Words, pictures, sounds, visuals, movements, its all art. We can express feelings and emotions through it and therefore art is what makes this world bearable. Its an outlet and a world with absolutely no boundaries, no rules.

Comus · 06-04-2009, 07:40 PM

My opinion about music is accurate.

Bane of your existence · 06-04-2009, 08:28 PM

Eh, I don't really like it. Especially after reading this Pitchfork review, it pretty much put in to words what I already thought.

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Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8

September 10, 2007 | Issue 43•37

CHICAGO—Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review published Monday on Pitchfork Media, a well-known music-criticism website.

According to the review, authored by Pitchfork editor in chief Ryan Schreiber, the popular medium that predates the written word shows promise but nonetheless "leaves the listener wanting more."

"Music's first offering, an eclectic, disparate, but mostly functional compendium of influences from 5000 B.C. to present day, hints that this trend's time may not only have fully arrived, but is already on the wane," Schreiber wrote. "If music has any chance of keeping our interest, it's going to have to move beyond the same palatable but predictable notes, meters, melodies, tonalities, atonalities, timbres, and harmonies."

Schreiber's semi-favorable review, which begins in earnest after a six-paragraph preamble comprising a long list of baroquely rendered, seemingly unrelated anecdotes peppered with obscure references, summarizes music as a "solid but uninspired effort."

"Coming in at an exhausting 7,000 years long, music is weighed down by a few too many mid- tempo tunes, most notably 'Liebesträume No. 3 in A flat' by Franz Liszt and 'Closing Time' by '90s alt-rock group Semisonic," Schreiber wrote. "In the end, though music can be brilliant at times, the whole medium comes off as derivative of Pavement."

While Schreiber concedes that music is still "trying to find its aesthetic," he also claims the form has not yet lived up to the lavish praise heaped on it by pop culture journalist Chuck Klosterman and 19th-century French romantic composer and critic Hector Berlioz, among others.

Schreiber concludes his critique by calling on music to develop a more cohesive sound in its future releases.

"We can only hope that [music] will begin to grow with its fans over the next few millennia," Schreiber said. "If it can stick to what it does well, namely the song 'Peg' by Steely Dan, and Tuvan throat singing, then a sophomore effort will indeed be something to get excited about."

The review has split the music community, with many decrying Pitchfork's lukewarm reception of music as a contrarian move designed to propel the publication's tastemaker status.

"It's elitism for the sake of elitism," said Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke, who refuted Pitchfork's middling rating, describing the entire art form as "transcendent." "I've been listening to music for over 30 years, and it's consistently some of the best stuff out there."

Despite music's defenders, the Pitchfork review has made a deep impression on the thousands of music fans who slavishly follow the website's advice when it comes to enjoying things.

"Music used to be great, but let's be honest, it's a 6.8 now at best," said Los Angeles resident Lowell Radler, 23, who admitted that he just looked at the rating rather than reading the whole review. "I seriously might never listen to music again."

Still, most analysts agreed that the impact of Pitchfork's scathing review of music will be dampened by the 2.4 rating it received from Pitchfork staff writer Dave Maher just moments after the initial critique was published online. Maher termed Schreiber's assessment of music "overwrought, masturbatory posturing intended to make insecure hipsters feel as if they're part of some imagined elite beau monde."

lucifer_sam · 06-04-2009, 08:57 PM

god i love the Onion.

boo boo · 06-04-2009, 11:09 PM

Quote:

"Coming in at an exhausting 7,000 years long, music is weighed down by a few too many mid- tempo tunes, most notably 'Liebesträume No. 3 in A flat' by Franz Liszt and 'Closing Time' by '90s alt-rock group Semisonic," Schreiber wrote. "In the end, though music can be brilliant at times, the whole medium comes off as derivative of Pavement."

This made me LOL.

Neapolitan · 06-05-2009, 12:09 AM

Music is like Literature were it provides another world were you can escape to, some may think Literature is superior to Music or any other art by the fact it can convey thoughts, and ideas, but on the otherhand Music can convey emotions that no words can describe.

Keith Richards said that there is really only one Cosmic Song and each song you hear is just a fragment of that one song.

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the220frequency Groupie Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 7	Some say music was an evolutionary mistake, others say it's encoded in our genetics and is a very natural thing that has been a part of all living things in one way or another since the beginning (mating dances, birds singing, Bach, U2) I personally find music to be stimulating, knowing all kinds of music from different cultures/time periods makes me see them in a different light. Civilizations encode a little bit of who and what they are into the music they play, you can learn a lot just from that.

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Post No Bills Groupie Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Edmonton, Canada Posts: 1	A beautiful part of the world's artistic movement. One of the only things humanity has to be proud of.

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Neapolitan carpe musicam Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Les Barricades Mystérieuses Posts: 7,710	Music is like Literature were it provides another world were you can escape to, some may think Literature is superior to Music or any other art by the fact it can convey thoughts, and ideas, but on the otherhand Music can convey emotions that no words can describe. Keith Richards said that there is really only one Cosmic Song and each song you hear is just a fragment of that one song.