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  • folie a dru.

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    This isn't necessarily a guilty pleasure thread. Some people listen to music that is a little less common and it may not even be considered a favorite.

    I happen to love olden time religious "Christmas" carols like "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" or "The Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's 'Messiah'.

    I also really like Peggy Lee and other style of music from that time period.
    February 22nd, 2013 at 05:02pm
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    dru in flight.:
    I happen to love olden time religious "Christmas" carols like "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" or "The Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's 'Messiah'.
    I thought I was the only person that liked these. There's a ridiculous amount of musicianship put into constructing and playing those pieces that a lot of people don't appreciate. Personally, I think they are absolutely beautiful.

    I'm actually a big fan of music from the Romantic period, particularly Wagner and his ring cycles. I adore Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major as well. I think it may well be my favourite composition of the entire Classical era.

    This really will be an uncommon like (no one I know has even heard of it) but I'm a massive fan of Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima by Krysztof Penderecki (I've probably spelt that wrong). As a rule of thumb I hate anything with atonality (aka the entire 20th Century period) involved, but this piece is just so haunting and terrifying that I can't help but love it. It's jarring, it's dischordant and it captures the essence of what happened perfectly.
    March 15th, 2013 at 06:16pm
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    @ everybody dies;
    I think it's because I love everything we sang in high school choir and my teacher was really big on classics in Latin. We sang the Hallelujah chorus every year at the winter concert.
    March 15th, 2013 at 06:18pm
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    @ dru in flight.
    That's amazing. Our school choir was more like a Glee club, we did all of the modern stuff (without singing the accompaniment, obviously). I would have loved to have been able to sing the classics at choir.
    March 15th, 2013 at 06:26pm
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    everybody dies;:
    This really will be an uncommon like (no one I know has even heard of it) but I'm a massive fan of Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima by Krysztof Penderecki (I've probably spelt that wrong). As a rule of thumb I hate anything with atonality (aka the entire 20th Century period) involved, but this piece is just so haunting and terrifying that I can't help but love it. It's jarring, it's dischordant and it captures the essence of what happened perfectly.
    I'm personally not a fan of that piece, but the 20th century is probably my favourite era of art music. Mr. Green And I certainly wouldn't say that the entire era is all about atonality. It definitely gave birth to it, so to speak, but it plays host not only to the last of the great romantics who epitomised the previous era (Rachmaninoff, Bortkiewicz, etc.), but also the neo-classicists and even modernists who retained a subtle sense of diatonicism in their music despite the fact they may have employed a lot of extended and/or dissonant tonalities (Vaughan-Williams, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Bloch, Britten, Bernstein etc.). Then there's Scriabin, who was not so much a late romantic, but was around long before the birth of modernism and composed some of the most beautiful dissonant/'atonal' music ever written. Cute
    March 15th, 2013 at 06:54pm
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    @ Alex; periphery.
    I'm actually a massive fan of Stravinsky as well tehe. I always hated that period when I was studying music at school though. I just think that a lot of it sounds...messy. Obviously, there were a lot of other concepts and ideas used (music concréte, for example), but I think that one of the major factors in it was the atonality of a lot of the pieces. I don't mind neo-claccisism and the late romantics (we were always taught them as separate periods, so to speak), but I just can't get into anything else from that era. Atonal/dissonant music makes my ears confused. I freak out when things vibrate at different pitches, never mind music. tehe
    March 15th, 2013 at 08:01pm
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    I like country from the 90s and 80s, but really nothing else.
    March 15th, 2013 at 09:11pm
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    I love this girl called Lorde. She has a really unique voice.
    August 9th, 2013 at 02:33pm
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    @ becalmandcarryon
    Me and my boyfriend love her song 'Royals'.
    August 9th, 2013 at 04:25pm
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    @ dru vs. slut shaming
    Me too! I also really love Tennis Courts by her. Check it out.
    August 10th, 2013 at 06:41am
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    I like listening to Chinese traditional music Unsure It's so soothing and relaxing. It just makes me calm and sleepy. It also helps me when I'm meditating.
    August 10th, 2013 at 06:04pm
  • hazuki.

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    Nobody believes me when I say I go to Berghain because of the music, but I do. It's the only sort of electronic music I really enjoy, except for a few songs by Skrillex.

    Their label, Ostgut Ton, can do no wrong. My favorites DJs are Marcel Fengler and Ben Klock. When they play at Berghain is almost an spiritual experience. No, scratch that. If those aren't spiritual experiences I don't know what is.

    And I love Xhin too, he isn't part of Ostgut Ton but he's just amazing too.
    August 12th, 2013 at 03:38am
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    I love Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap but no one else I know seems to have heard of her, which is quite sad. She's got such a crazy unique voice, I just love listening to all of her stuff, actually.
    September 5th, 2013 at 12:06pm
  • kitsch

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    @ dougie poynter;
    I love that song. I cringe so much when people associate the song with Jason Derulo and his spin on it. Sad
    September 5th, 2013 at 12:23pm
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    @ dougie poynter;
    I love her. Besides that song, I adore "The Moment I Said It", "Speeding Cars", and "Can't Take It In" (The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe soundtrack). She has such an amazing voice, but beyond that her sound is very different.
    September 5th, 2013 at 05:07pm
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    @ kitsch
    I'm the same. It's the only reason a lot of people that I know actually have even the vaguest inkling of who she is, which makes me sad because she's so talented.

    @ dru vs. slut shaming
    I think Goodnight and Go has to be my absolute all-time favourite song of hers but Speeding Cars probably comes a close second for definite. Yeah, she's so different to everything else that I listen to (or she used to - not so much as of late) and she really is ridiculously talented. I adore her voice.
    September 6th, 2013 at 12:12pm
  • zemusez

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    I feel like I'm always intruding on this; seeing as it such a scarcely updated thread. But uncommon, diverse music is somewhat my niche.
    I scour Youtube, Soundcloud and Triple J Unearthed to find obscure artists and bands that no one has heard of - it's fun. Really, truly.
    There's a kid on Youtube, called Alkali Fly. His music is amazing really. I saw him live, he played acoustically so it was slightly different from the recordings but still amazing nevertheless.

    Other than that though, I love old piano music and classical compositions. I also have a love for a band, Opeth. They're somewhat a death metal band, though I would describe their sound as progressive - in a way. They play a lot of soft stuff as well. Their sound is really amazing. Not everyone's cup of tea, but it's lovely.
    October 2nd, 2013 at 02:21pm
  • lonely girl.

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    I have a love for ska music. It's refreshing and upbeat. I also listen to Triple J, where I hear softer, classified as 'Indie' bands and two nights a week I listen to local rock/metal bands.
    October 2nd, 2013 at 03:55pm
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    @ Mels.
    I agree with you whole-heartedly on ska music, it's great to listen to.
    Have you ever listened to short.fast.loud? It's a radio show on Triple J
    October 2nd, 2013 at 04:30pm
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    @ earthtoamy
    Yes. That and the other one. I can't remember what it's called though. It's on now, but I'm not listening to it.
    Have you heard of Jobstopper? They'd be my favourite ska band, and I saw them live with The Resignators in someone's backyard when they came down to Melbourne.
    October 2nd, 2013 at 04:35pm