Roll over Beethoven.

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>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^harpom:
>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^harpom:
>> ^conan:
This is not a piano. It's an electronic keyboard. If it has a plug it is NOT a piano.>> ^harpom:
Excellent, amazing and brilliant. I love how the song translates to the piano so well.
Chop Suey is a hard kick ass song, yet it plays so well on the piano. Sounds like a cross between Mozart and Beethoven.


LOL. Whatever. The instrument is made to sound like a piano. Sad that you have to go through life taking everything so seriously.

Everyone has their pet peeves, mine is calling pieces of music songs (which she actually does). When people are raised with a musical background minor things like that are just little quirks that make us who we are.

See response to conan. Also last time i looked Chop Suey was a song by SOTD.

And when it's played on piano without anyone singing, it has no words. When it has no words, it's not a song.

Again lol. Don't try and tell me when you listened to the song you were not hearing the lyrics in your head.

>> ^harpom:

>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^harpom:
>> ^conan:
This is not a piano. It's an electronic keyboard. If it has a plug it is NOT a piano.>> ^harpom:
Excellent, amazing and brilliant. I love how the song translates to the piano so well.
Chop Suey is a hard kick ass song, yet it plays so well on the piano. Sounds like a cross between Mozart and Beethoven.


LOL. Whatever. The instrument is made to sound like a piano. Sad that you have to go through life taking everything so seriously.

Everyone has their pet peeves, mine is calling pieces of music songs (which she actually does). When people are raised with a musical background minor things like that are just little quirks that make us who we are.

See response to conan. Also last time i looked Chop Suey was a song by SOTD.


And when it's played on piano without anyone singing, it has no words. When it has no words, it's not a song.

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^harpom:
>> ^conan:
This is not a piano. It's an electronic keyboard. If it has a plug it is NOT a piano.>> ^harpom:
Excellent, amazing and brilliant. I love how the song translates to the piano so well.
Chop Suey is a hard kick ass song, yet it plays so well on the piano. Sounds like a cross between Mozart and Beethoven.


LOL. Whatever. The instrument is made to sound like a piano. Sad that you have to go through life taking everything so seriously.

Everyone has their pet peeves, mine is calling pieces of music songs (which she actually does). When people are raised with a musical background minor things like that are just little quirks that make us who we are.

See response to conan. Also last time i looked Chop Suey was a song by SOTD.

>> ^harpom:

>> ^conan:
This is not a piano. It's an electronic keyboard. If it has a plug it is NOT a piano.>> ^harpom:
Excellent, amazing and brilliant. I love how the song translates to the piano so well.
Chop Suey is a hard kick ass song, yet it plays so well on the piano. Sounds like a cross between Mozart and Beethoven.


LOL. Whatever. The instrument is made to sound like a piano. Sad that you have to go through life taking everything so seriously.


Everyone has their pet peeves, mine is calling pieces of music songs (which she actually does). When people are raised with a musical background minor things like that are just little quirks that make us who we are.

>> ^conan:

This is not a piano. It's an electronic keyboard. If it has a plug it is NOT a piano.>> ^harpom:
Excellent, amazing and brilliant. I love how the song translates to the piano so well.
Chop Suey is a hard kick ass song, yet it plays so well on the piano. Sounds like a cross between Mozart and Beethoven.



LOL. Whatever. The instrument is made to sound like a piano. Sad that you have to go through life taking everything so seriously.

This is not a piano. It's an electronic keyboard. If it has a plug it is NOT a piano.>> ^harpom:

Excellent, amazing and brilliant. I love how the song translates to the piano so well.
Chop Suey is a hard kick ass song, yet it plays so well on the piano. Sounds like a cross between Mozart and Beethoven.

Excellent, amazing and brilliant. I love how the song translates to the piano so well.
Chop Suey is a hard kick ass song, yet it plays so well on the piano. Sounds like a cross between Mozart and Beethoven.

I'd say that's more an indictment of the schooling he's received than a statement of his abilities as a composer. (Symphony No. 5, to me at least, is more or less indistinguishable from some of the symphonies written by the "great" composers of the last century or so.)

Sadly, the classically harmonious qualities (including the "progression," the "building of emotion," the storytelling) that many of us appreciate in, say, Mozart or Beethoven or Chopin are no longer in vogue (and haven't been for quite some time). Contemporary composition—and the same could be said of most contemporary painting, sculpture, writing, et cetera—aims more for fragmentation, disruption, and discord. The audience isn't meant to feel harmony; we're meant to be dislodged.

This could become a pretty serious rant, I guess, but I'll hold back. I will say, though, that the brief clips of his early compositions (5:52–6:12) sounded quite pleasing to me, if a little imitative. And the part where he inverted the Beethoven sonata was pretty darn cool. (It reminded me, in a roundabout way, of the scene in Amadeus where Mozart plays the piano while lying upside down.)
>> ^TheFreak:
Try listening to Jay Greenbergs Symphony no 5. It's horrible.
It's an unorganized cacophany. One moment it sounds every bit like an action movie score then immediately it swings the other way and you'd think you were listening to the music from a 30's cartoon. There's no rhyme or reason behind any of the sounds you hear, no progression, no building of emotion, no story being told, no subtlety or purpose...just great big sloppy swipes of an oversized lyrical paintbrush.

it's a particular style of music, and it's not too popular today. there are insane composers out there, but composing for an orchestra is a difficult thing.... for starters, most composers don't have an orchestra. secondly, there is very little funk in an orchestra, and that rules out a great many talents.

but really, it's kind of like saying "there haven't been any shakespeare's lately." which is a sorta-truth. there are incredible writers everywhere, but very few are writing sonnets in old english.

>> ^RadHazG:

I've always wondered why Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and all the rest came around so long ago and are still considered some of the greatest, but for some reason since then nobody has come along to challenge them. Suppose we have a contender.

>> ^RadHazG:

I've always wondered why Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and all the rest came around so long ago and are still considered some of the greatest, but for some reason since then nobody has come along to challenge them. Suppose we have a contender.


A bit unfair since Hall and Oates played a different genre of music.

>> ^RadHazG:

I've always wondered why Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and all the rest came around so long ago and are still considered some of the greatest, but for some reason since then nobody has come along to challenge them. Suppose we have a contender.


Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and all the rest have been fucked into the ground by greater talents again and again and again. They're still considered some of the greatest thanks to sentimentality and received wisdom.

I've always wondered why Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and all the rest came around so long ago and are still considered some of the greatest, but for some reason since then nobody has come along to challenge them. Suppose we have a contender.