(western) classical music discussion

[bennyboy]

I'd rather slam my dick in a car door.  It would be less painful than listening to anything else by that bozo.

You're not the first person to have that reaction to modern art music.  Sometimes even in music school, the bullshit sensors start ringing but you have to listen to some guy lecture.  Sometimes, you wonder if anything you hear is like what you see when you watch an untuned black-and-white TV: there's nothing there, but your brain makes something. And in some cases, even the artists themselves are struggling to respond to new sounds and textures: even THEY don't know what's going on.

If you think Shoenberg is bad, though, you really haven't heard much modern music.