More attempts to defend a degenerate, collapsing culture.
“What’s the most annoying sound in the world?”
Classic rock and pop country. Easy listening variants are much healthier.
Can I have the word salad to go with dressing on the side?
(Yes, that was a value judgment. Learn to live with it.)
Folks, calm yourselves!
I don't think that this article is advocating that one try to appreciate music containing, e.g., violence-glorifying, anticapitalistic, misogynistic, or racist lyrics.
It's about sounds which might reveal certain fundamental properties of the Universe and/or the human mind - not "rap music."
Regards,
Folks, calm yourselves!
I don't think that this article is advocating that one try to appreciate music containing, e.g., violence-glorifying, anticapitalistic, misogynistic, or racist lyrics.
It's about sounds which might reveal certain fundamental properties of the Universe and/or the human mind - not "rap music."
Regards,
I nominate Mel Torme.
Is he willing to listen to Christian worship music?
That said, I see no reason to inflict on myself something I don’t like and do not see ho, in the least, it would help me to *understand life better*.
He can take his opinion and stuff it.
Life is too short to listen to music you don’t like.
What’s with dumping on Nickelback all the time. Nickelback is OK.
To me it’s like peer pressure to dislike Nickelback; you know, the cool opinion that cool people have, the in-group, and if you don’ have it you’re a mouth breathing dumb caveman.
Kind of what liberals do to everyone they don’t like.
I would say it's the Beatles.
Most annoying band evah! Worse than the Eagles.
I dunno. I don’t think that listening to the horror of The Shaggs’ performing “My Pal Foot Foot” is going to teach me anything about the underlying beauty of the universe. If I want to delve into universal beauty, I can dive into the elegance of mathematics and the pure numerical descriptions of the physical universe.
Nickle Creek a more enjoyable band
One of my favs .. Pretty funny lyrics
“somebody More Like You”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIopXFuhQg8
Puking or a baby crying are very annoying...and then there is RAP. To me RAP is the sound Civilization dying.
What’s the most annoying sound in the world? …The rusty wheels trying to turn in the heads of self-important music critics.
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HilGthRhwP8
“... perhaps we should make a point of listening to music we don’t like if we want to understand life better.”
Is this some academician’s ploy to get me to listen to SloJo, Camela, and the rest of the Dims?
The lonely hearts club band told me that years ago
I jumped around a bit on the linked “ear test.” It’s just a collection of sounds of the sort that one might encounter on a movie soundtrack, not music but rather background ambient noises to create or reinforce a mood. This is useful enough in movies, but I’d be a hard sell on the idea that we should call any of this “music.” Such an assertion, I suppose, is consistent with the modernist tendency to want to be so “inclusive” that one refuses to draw any lines at all, which leads to the view that anything we hear is “music.” That’s a familiar enough metaphor, usually used with ironic intent; the phrase “music to my ears” can be applied to just about anything, from car crashes and explosions to babies crying to the whistling of the wind. But what’s the point of playing this kind of game other than as ironic metaphor?