Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
Blade had vampires in sunlight too. Sunscreen with a high spf, makes sense.



What you get out of the 5th symphony is something I would vaguely call "listening pleasure". Hard to pin down exactly. You get the same from "let's get retarded" (or maybe not, and maybe you don't like either of them). Could you express the message of the 5th symphony? I don't believe there is one. How about the message of this:



Of course, you might subscribe to the school of thought that describes a modern art "black square" painting as symbolizing the triumph of the old over the new, of eastern thinking over western thinking blah blah, but I think we can agree that that's baloney. The painting here is simply nice to look at. I don't care for messages in my music personally, just pointed that out to knock people off their intellectual high horse.

Many people just don't like popular music or movies--but the effort to divide all art into "high art" and "low art" is as silly as being elitist about what soda you drink. And of course, people are snobby about the beer they drink which isn't far off...

Of course the irony is that the people who are the biggest intellectual snobs are the ones who would benefit the most from "disconnecting from all intellect and letting the rhythm affect" them.
The point is that art does not need a concrete message. Personally I think of good artful music as an expression of some part of the human spirit. The message of music is much harder to describe then other forms of art because of this. It is impossible to boil down emotion to simple words. Isn't that why we turn to music to the first place. Now I agree, you can enjoy music without it being a profound work of art but music which does reach this ideal is incomparable to music which doesn't even attempt it.

I don't think you can discount classical music as the result of generations of pretentious snobs. Sure they're are many purist who will tell you how it is the only valid form of music. I think we can agree that they're narrow minded snobs. But, you have to at least respect something which has lasted 100's of years. It doesn't mean you have to like it or that it's better then modern music, but give classical it's due.


I agree with you on Folk Reverend Joe. Great genre of music.