I agree, the orchestra was crap. I was looking for a vid on youtube, since I own that perticular piece on LP.

I liked the vid (on a sidenote), I liked how it goes up and down - fast and slow -loud and silent. 8 out of 10.


Here is one of the most magnificant pieces of art I know, which i have defenatly posted before in some other thread about music. It`s the fourth movement out of Shostakovich`s 7th Symphony.
It is also called "The Leningrad" Symphony. Shostakovich, wrote it while he was in the city of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) while it was besiged and brutaly and slowly starved to death.
The music tells a story.
The brutal rule of the Czars - the great Revolution - wonderfull sovjet sociaty - invasion by the germans - brutality of war - march on Berlin - Fall of Berlin - Victory.

But since Shostakovich wasn`t always in Stalins favor, and almoust got murdered by Stalin, aswell as he had lost many friends through Stalin`s clensings, this masterpiece is some think to be correctly interpretated as:

Brutal Czars - Revolution - Hope - Lenin and Stalin - Regime of Terror - War - End of War - Death of Stalin.

anyway it`s a work of genius. The forth movement describes the turning point of the war and the march on berlin - and the victory in the end.
I hope the orchestra is of better quality this time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPb8n-s4i7w

Not enough volume on that recording, the quiet parts were almost . imperceptible. Which made it agonising trying to listen to it.
So rather than use that recording, from memory everything you say is true, but and isn't there always a but, foreknowledge of what the music is about adds so much to the experience of listening to it. It is a quandary I have with art in general, should we make work that entirely stands on its own, or can I assume some knowledge from the arts recipient, I haven't yet found a satisfying answer.

So from the heavy side of music how about some simple pure joy-

I <3 African music! 8/10
For your consideration: Emmanuel Jal, Warchild. He's a Sudanese rapper and former child soldier. This song is about his experience. Best rap ever? Nah, but moving none the less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT-0NG5_fhw

5/10 - and that's generous for jig-jams. Sorry, I really don't like rap =/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivxfHbWzv...plpp_video

I found the music average, pleasant enough, but then again that is what this music is supposed to be a mild amusing distraction. Much like the video, which is so passé at best using every traditional Japanese cliche, in a succession of boring an predictable motifs cherry blossoms birth death, winter spring, arrival, departure disconnection. In truth I cannot see why anyone would find this even mildly interesting, unless they knew nothing about the culture that spawned it and were encountering these things for the very first time.

Now I feel it could be time for some thing traditional and British-

Ah, a Swann and Flanders parody. 6/10

Now for some more modern underappreciated Brish music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMqSKJYMZww

(October 24, 2012 at 7:54 pm)jonb Wrote: Much like the video, which is so passé at best using every traditional Japanese cliche, in a succession of boring an predictable motifs cherry blossoms birth death, winter spring, arrival, departure disconnection. In truth I cannot see why anyone would find this even mildly interesting, unless they knew nothing about the culture that spawned it and were encountering these things for the very first time.

I feel like I've just been dealt a critical hit-

By a double strike.

Shit hurts, son.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj-_addP19M

9/10. I liked it even though it's the kind of music I listen to only once in a blue moon.

Of Monsters And Men, anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I

Diamond: I liked the song, but the video, that I truly loved and I have watched it a few times now because I liked it so much.

Rev Rey: Nobody reviewed your music, so I will, I could not watch the original so looked at the live performance in Iceland, and enjoyed it.

(October 24, 2012 at 8:22 pm)Gilgamesh Wrote:

Quote: Much like the video, which is so passé at best using every traditional Japanese cliche, in a succession of boring an predictable motifs cherry blossoms birth death, winter spring, arrival, departure disconnection. In truth I cannot see why anyone would find this even mildly interesting, unless they knew nothing about the culture that spawned it and were encountering these things for the very first time.

I feel like I've just been dealt a critical hit-

By a double strike.

Shit hurts, son.

Too right you should complain about this unwarranted attack on your taste. One can see that who ever made those remarks has no soul. The clue is in the words- 'In truth I cannot see why'. This is the typical wording used by a critic. By definition a critic is someone who is not an artist because they lack the vision to imagine, and there you have it in the critics own words 'I cannot see'. It is obvious why in this disrupted world someone would seek art which is both predictable, and yet at the same time exotic. Are we not all vulnerable and wish to have something solid on which to rely that does not change, but that is also different from us so that we can expand our vision. Nobody should be criticised for this, because it is the very essence of what being human is all about! Critics are bitter people, who can make a good argument, but lack that extra something that we of the rest of humanity hold dear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PLE3IjTRb8