get some class, fuckers
 

classical class.

little fugue in g minor

mozart's requiem mass

download these and become better people who I will probably still hate anyway.

i started to type out a reply asking why you would assume that there's anyone in the world who doesn't already have those recordings in a hundred different incarnations, but then i remembered that just below this thread there's an argument going on about the aquabats.
so i commend your effort, but i'm afraid it's too late. these people are hopeless.

classical music? what the fuck is that?

proto-ska.

wah wah wah nobody has as good musical taste as me wah wah wah

obviously you don't, willie, and you will not be spared.

I wasn't sure whether to make this thread about classical music or standards at first, but I was listening to Rachmaninoff as I was typing and decided that Sinatra can wait :<

guys if you really want to improve peoples musical tastes you might want to try not being dicks about it

You gotta use silly human banana lime iPod
nanny lute messages.

Snobs don't know what they like, just what they're supposed to like.

For a while I used to buy and download masses and masses of music because I thought I enjoyed listening to all of it, but pretty soon I realised that I just loved collecting and talking about it. [Good] music needs to be listened to over and over again to be fully absorbed and enjoyed, and listening to a thousand and one bands spreads listening time too thin. So I slowed down a little and I'm starting to realise again what I loved so much about music in the first place.

So now I lay off the band name-dropping a little more.

I think you know what I mean.

oh man, willie, you're everything that's good about these message boards

Toccato and Fugue in D Minor kicks so much ass.

make a thread about standards.
then watch as i attempt to recollect second hand knowledge from my girlfriend, who basically introduced me to it and it's the only music she listens to with regularity.

glowbelly of course will take over.

Scriabin!

The only piece of classical music I have found and actually really liked is "Shubert - No. 2 in A flat Allegretto" on a CD called "4 Impromptus Op.142 D.945".

It's not classical, but I enjoy Kronos Quartet. They did a beautiful soundtrack for Requiem

I hate hate HATE that self-perceived counter-cultural prententicons worship it for its place in A Clockwork Orange, but a good performance of Beethoven's choral rendition of "An Die Freud" (the final movement of what I think is his Ninth Symphony) is a life-affirming experience in audio form. Hence, it's also just about the most popular melody in existence (although Beethoven's Fifth was purported to be the most easily-recognized) and is the anthem of the EU.

Other classics on my playlist are Mozart's Requiem (you really can't over-state its necessity), The Great Gate of Kiev, Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin (not really classical, but it belongs here), and playing LOOM all those years in my youth made me really love Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

Pshh fuck that

You are now my best friend on this forum.

Oh man, I heard The Little Fugue (G Minor) performed by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra a few weeks ago and I was in luuuuuurv. Bach will fuck your shit up and you'll beg for more.

Nah man, Rachmaninov would wipe the floor with Bach.

so guess what, I downloaded some Boccherini today and he made me cream a little!

Send me some! <3

Boccherini is boring.

By the way, I love how this thread starts off now that Italian has a new avatar and sig ;<

Mainly the avatar ;<