The Syndicate

thellama73 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:So while I was active at ProgArchives almost 10 years ago I did some music reviews/ratings, but wasn't that prolific. Since then I've largely discovered music without reviewing or giving any ratings; even though I've used RYM ratings and reviews as a primary source of discovering new music for the last 5+ years, for example, I've never rated a single piece of music myself.

Starting tomorrow morning I think I'm going to try giving a quick rating on RYM to everything I'm listening to by the time each album is complete -- just a gut-based evaluation. It's daunting, but exciting, and as necessary for my current schedule will demand very little time commitment (since I won't be writing reviews). We'll see how long I can keep this up.

I look forward to disagreeing with your ratings.

I already disagree with his future ratings.

Heiots

Ricochet wrote:

Golden wrote:@Rico - well over 50% of my music collection is classical. I attended the New Zealand School of Music alongside doing my law degree. It's an area of passion to me, that it would easily be an entirely different thread.

Ooh.

Most of my faculty colleagues tried a law degree besides attending the School of Music. Y'know, putting life into perspective.

It's surprising how frequently the two do go together.

I periodically play in an orchestra of lawyers that performs with a choir of lawyers.

@Rico - well over 50% of my music collection is classical. I attended the New Zealand School of Music alongside doing my law degree. It's an area of passion to me, that it would easily be an entirely different thread.

S~V~S wrote:Literally, it means to turn into bone. Figuratively it means to stop growing, to throw a coat of lacquer on your opinion/tastes, never update them and call it good.

How many people do you know whose musical taste coincides with their high school years? Quite a few, I would think. I don't think most of us here are like that, but out in the rl, yeah, they're legion

You're probably right. And probably not only musical taste, you know?

But yeah, my musical taste definitely changes. I mean, if I really love something chances are I will never stop liking it. But, I'm always finding new things I like that I didn't expect.

What does ossify mean?

JJ's posts are art, but objectively bad art.

I think it is probably something about chord progression, melody and harmonics, instrumentation, rhythm, and possibly how unique a choice feels. When vocals are included, timbre can make a difference.

Sometimes where other people here pretentiousness I hear something really beautiful. I don't think there is any objective standard there. But for me to enjoy something experimental it needs to still conform to some kind of basic shape that I recognise as having a melodic structure of some kind, probably. I guess how you might try and make an objective definition of how pretentious feels as a listener is 'choices are made for the sake of showing you can make those choices'. I'm going to enjoy music more if I feel the decisions made were organic and heartfelt. Sometimes things that others find 'over-produced' I feel like have been given such thoughtful care.

I find my taste is very eclectic, because I think there is great and average in every genre. Even the most vapid and meaningless of pop music includes some great works.

Interesting that you made no real mention of classical music given your ownership of the Star Wars soundtracks...