'Rate the above person's music'

[naimless]

750/1000. Wurzels is good shit boyo. I enjoy the Combine Harvester lil diddy as well.

This one is a bit of a ski crash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O7Zi-Tp85I

[Gilgamesh]

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=1O7Zi-Tp85I

6/10 - Real calm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q1nM3ymr...plpp_video

[Tino]

3/10. I believe the best response to anime soundtracks is disco.

[JohnDG]

Ok you guys are getting a little nuts with the music, how about something you can just kick back and jam to? at least a 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYXWQy7a...re=related

[jonb]

Yes driving urgency, I like it, the rhythms of the poetry creating the music to a simple accompaniment, is that not the basics of all music, isn't in one sense everything hip hop?

[Something completely different]

aäähhhm 6 out of 10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV0wPBYDQ6Y

[Rev. Rye]

9/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wigqKfLWjvM

[JohnDG]

[quote='jonb' pid='354018' dateline='1351249847']
yes driving urgency, I like it, the rhythms of the poetry creating the music to a simple accompaniment, is that not the basics of all music, isn't in one sense everything hip hop?[quote]

Hmm yes all music at its basics are the same but the way music sounds can make it very different.

[Angrboda]

An awesome video adds +1, making it 11/10. I love her phrasing. Understated power, wit, and the nuance of a Billie Holiday or George Jones.

Otomemoriaru Puffy Amiyumi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6n4IPvmADk

[Tino]

7.5/10. Apo, I'd like to see what music you're into outside the japanese girl band genre.





The story behind it:

Copland, in his autobiography, wrote "Eugene Goossens, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, had written to me at the end of August about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season. During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert. It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers". A total of 18 fanfares[1] were written at Goossens' behest, but Copland's is the only one which remains in the standard repertoire.

It was written in response to the US entry into the Second World War and was inspired in part by a famous 1942 speech[2] where vice president Henry A. Wallace proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man".[3]

Goossens had suggested titles such as Fanfare for Soldiers, or sailors or airmen, and he wrote that "[i]t is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort...." Copland considered several titles including Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony and Fanfare for Four Freedoms; to Goossens' surprise, however, Copland titled the piece Fanfare for the Common Man. Goossen wrote "Its title is as original as its music, and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance. If it is agreeable to you, we will premiere it 12 March 1943 at income tax time". Copland's reply was "I [am] all for honoring the common man at income tax time".[4]

Copland later used the fanfare as the main theme of the fourth movement of his Third Symphony (composed between 1944 - 1946.)

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All, how about we up the game a little bit and require a connection between the last song and the song next posted. It could any kind of connection - band, title, theme, anything that stirs you. Anyone else like this idea? If so, connect to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, and please explain the connection.