What is happening to me??? Classical music vs. Rock

download some classical music torrents.

Very nice!

Classical composers are the true masters of music. But all things in the proper moment. Sometimes rock is great. Sometimes classical. Sometimes Earthly and heavenly spiritual.

My taste are extremely eclectic. : )




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I LOVE CLASSICAL MUSIC !!

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Or it could be that you needed a break from the blathering DJs and the diamond, zit-cream commercials, contests, and hearing the same track by the same band for the 9000th time

My listening tastes have changed many times. I have listened exclusively to rock, bluegrass, classical, new music, or Grateful Dead music for months or even years at a time. I'm pretty diverse these days but mostly classic and punk rock with Bossa Nova and Samba thrown in. I would be a bigger TSO fan if it wasn't so religious which is why I'm looking forward to checking out all the "Post Rock" bands mentioned.

God, what is wrong with most of you guys that listen to classical music? Angus Young the lead guitarist for AC/DC can kick Mozart or Beethoven's ass when there playing there piano's!!!!! God, even my one armed cousin can kick all the classical music guy's asses!!!!!

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Opera and metal.

Too awesome!

I grew up listening to classical music...by age 11 I could tell each of Beethoven's 9 symphonies from each other. Also loved Dvorak (New World Symphony) and Brahms, except for Bach the baroque seemed too mannered and major key. Later discovering Stravinsky and Carl Orff led me directly to jazz, then rock, then blues (all of which I play).

So growing up with the stuff, it was a big relief to find jazz and a living tradition of improvisation that was as freeing as the American experiment in social liberty and expression. Beethoven was first known as the hot-shot improviser of his day (the VanHalen or Coltrane of his day) Today the classical musicians have all lost the will and the skill to improvise. They are scared. They won't rock the boat. To me, they have forgotten where the music comes from. It has become a religion with formulas to follow, and woe be to anybody that isn't on board with the idea that there are composers who don't perform (best if they are dead, actually) and performers who never write new music.