RE: Why do you listen to the music you listen to?
March 16, 2015 at 11:57 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2015 at 12:51 pm by JesusHChrist.)
I'm a long-time amateur musician (piano, guitar, bass, synths) with a deep interest in music. Ran a small recording studio for a while.
My tastes are broad and tend to go in cycles. Everything from Beethoven to Bartok, Beatles to Soundgarden, Radiohead, and a heavy heavy helping of 70s-tinged stoner/doom/metally stuff. Playing a lot of 70s style guitar myself, I just love those Black Sabbath-influenced guitars. I like a lot of retro bands doing 60's influenced music, but with a modern sound. Brianjonestown Massacre for example. In some ways, better than an authentic 60s sound.
For rock/pop, I suppose it is the power of the sound, the driving nature of that sort of music when it all comes together in synchronicity.
For classical (or more precise, Western art music), it's the incredible skill used to create great works of art. Some are transcendent. I still remember hearing Carlo Maria Guilini conducting the LA Philharmonic in Brahms 4th Symphony. It was so intense and passionate, like a religious experience I suppose. Live, large orchestra, playing something like Stravinsky's Firebird or Rite of Spring, up there in intensity with a metal band in some ways.
That's the beauty of art forms. Something for everyone. I do like angry music. Seems to put me in a good mood. Like the blues can cheer you up.
My tastes are broad and tend to go in cycles. Everything from Beethoven to Bartok, Beatles to Soundgarden, Radiohead, and a heavy heavy helping of 70s-tinged stoner/doom/metally stuff. Playing a lot of 70s style guitar myself, I just love those Black Sabbath-influenced guitars. I like a lot of retro bands doing 60's influenced music, but with a modern sound. Brianjonestown Massacre for example. In some ways, better than an authentic 60s sound.
For rock/pop, I suppose it is the power of the sound, the driving nature of that sort of music when it all comes together in synchronicity.
For classical (or more precise, Western art music), it's the incredible skill used to create great works of art. Some are transcendent. I still remember hearing Carlo Maria Guilini conducting the LA Philharmonic in Brahms 4th Symphony. It was so intense and passionate, like a religious experience I suppose. Live, large orchestra, playing something like Stravinsky's Firebird or Rite of Spring, up there in intensity with a metal band in some ways.
That's the beauty of art forms. Something for everyone. I do like angry music. Seems to put me in a good mood. Like the blues can cheer you up.
