Love the Cure, joy division, the Smiths, Depeche mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees, New order. More recently Smashing Pumpkins!!!!!, Foo fighters, Weezer, Linkin park, the naked and famous, joy formidable EOTS and MGMT!.
OT: The Semi-irregular Music Thread
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Ogrezilla
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I'm sure you don't.
out of all the bands I listen to, Weezer has to be one of the most generally accepted good ones. If I re-made my original list, Pinkerton would probably be on my top albums list.
Here's my favorite albums (not that you care, but I'll share anyhow since I'm so self absorbed)
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Def Leppard-Pyromania
Abba-Gold
The Cure-Disintegration
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Smashing pumpkins-Siamese dream (like Machina there 2000 album a lot also)
Foo Fighters-Colour and the shape
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Here's my favorite albums (not that you care, but I'll share anyhow since I'm so self absorbed)
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Def Leppard-Pyromania
Abba-Gold
The Cure-Disintegration
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Smashing pumpkins-Siamese dream (like Machina there 2000 album a lot also)
Foo Fighters-Colour and the shape
In general, I like that music. Not the top of my list, but solid jams. I haven't even heard of the majority of the music in this thread.
Well, when you go from Abba to Metallica it's pretty diverse. I like Journey, foreigner and Styx a lot as well. I lean more towards alternative/New wave but I like me some soft rock, classic rock and on occasion metal. I'm amazing that way. Not a fan of polka, reggae or country (well ecept a couple songs).
Ogrezilla
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Those are the three best bands you listed so far. I can't say I know any Abba other than Dancing Queen. There are a handful of Metallica songs I like, but in general they are just ok imo. I wouldn't turn them off if they came on the radio, but you won't find them on my typical playlists either. Journey, Styx and Foreigner will show up with some regularity. So will Fleetwood Mac, The Cure and Foo Fighters.
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For a note-perfect interpretation it's hard to beat the Emerson Quartet. They're pretty sterile...not my cup of tea, but they put some bite into the jagged rhythms of his faster movements, which is nice.
I love the Vegh Quartet cycle from the '70s. Old man Vegh doesn't always have perfect pitch but he knows how to let the music breathe and he has a very judicious vibrato. I heard their earlier cycle was great but put off buying it for too long, and now it's like...$600 new, haha.
The group understands the music better than any other quartet IMHO, and I've heard quite a few sets. Have you dipped into much else in the string quartet repertoire?
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not really and my approach has been ass-backward from a chronological perspective. my first string quartet was Elliott Carter's 2nd.
right now i have Carter's quartets (Arditti Quartet) and Shostakovich's quartets (Borodin Quartet). both sets are brilliant and thrilling so i'm kind of surprised that i haven't really followed up (actually, i know why i didn't follow up - i listened to the Shostakovich over a few day period a-while back. great, great music but it was a bit much to take in over such a short interval, resulting in an exhausting (albeit rewarding) experience).
i think Bartók is who i'm supposed to target next if i insist on working my way through the repertoire in reverse chronological fashion, but i'd probably behoove me to start in the other direction now that i have the slightest of grasps on the genre. so i guess i should be on the lookout for a set of Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven quartets? any guidance/recommendation would of course be appreciated.
i'll keep my eye out for the Végh cycle. it'd be sweet if the public library has a few discs.
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not really and my approach has been ass-backward from a chronological perspective. my first string quartet was Elliott Carter's 2nd.
right now i have Carter's quartets (Arditti Quartet) and Shostakovich's quartets (Borodin Quartet). both sets are brilliant and thrilling so i'm kind of surprised that i haven't really followed up (actually, i know why i didn't follow up - i listened to the Shostakovich over a few day period a-while back. great, great music but it was a bit much to take in over such a short interval, resulting in an exhausting (albeit rewarding) experience).
i think Bartók is who i'm supposed to target next if i insist on working my way through the repertoire in reverse chronological fashion, but i'd probably behoove me to start in the other direction now that i have the slightest of grasps on the genre. so i guess i should be on the lookout for a set of Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven quartets? any guidance/recommendation would of course be appreciated.
i'll keep my eye out for the Végh cycle. it'd be sweet if the public library has a few discs.
That's cool. I love hearing about people's gateway into this stuff, haha. Haven't heard any of Carter's quartets myself...would you recommend them? I really like what I've heard of Shostakovich.
For classical/romantic era repertoire the best places to start after Beethoven would be Haydn's Opus 76 set (mature mastery of the form from the father of the genre), Mozart's "Haydn Quartets" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydn_Quartets_(Mozart)), and Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartet.
I like the Tatrai Quartet performing Haydn, the Talich performing Mozart, and the Italian performing Schubert, but listening to any interpretation of this stuff is better than holding out for the perfect one. The Naxos label has cheap and serviceable classical recordings, so you can always get a decent version for 7 or 8 bucks. Or you know, just dl 'em for free.
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RPP - what convention have you settled with regards to labeling performer/conductor/composer on your digital music player of choice? it took a bit of experimentation for me, but i finally settled on putting the principle performer (conductor in the case of orchestral/choral works, soloist in the case of solo/chamber works) in the artist field and the composer in the album title. i'm not willing to admit how much time i spent thinking about this, because that would prove quite embarrassing (but it's a real problem, i think when classical music makes up some critical mass of >10% but <50% of your collection/listening!)
and as you can see, i went with the Hagen Quartet for the Mozart sonatas. the public library had a box set, so i just ripped the CDs. make it through the first few discs - so far, it's light and airy.
and as you can see, i went with the Hagen Quartet for the Mozart sonatas. the public library had a box set, so i just ripped the CDs. make it through the first few discs - so far, it's light and airy.
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I feel like I would really love classical music if I actually sat down and actively listened to it, but where on earth do you start with such a gigantic "genre" of music?
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RPP - what convention have you settled with regards to labeling performer/conductor/composer on your digital music player of choice? it took a bit of experimentation for me, but i finally settled on putting the principle performer (conductor in the case of orchestral/choral works, soloist in the case of solo/chamber works) in the artist field and the composer in the album title. i'm not willing to admit how much time i spent thinking about this, because that would prove quite embarrassing (but it's a real problem, i think when classical music makes up some critical mass of >10% but <50% of your collection/listening!)
and as you can see, i went with the Hagen Quartet for the Mozart sonatas. the public library had a box set, so i just ripped the CDs. make it through the first few discs - so far, it's light and airy.
To be honest, I load up just a few classical albums at a time and wing the search. The Nano only has so much room.
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