It's that time again!

[Baby Eater]

i know. it's sad when good people make a legitimate thread but will only get 5 replies because another person made a thread saying "i leik poop"

Unfortunately that sort of thing is always going to happen, you just have to sort of learn to accept it.

no! i say we march on washington!

i have a dream where good people make legitimate threads all the time!

i have a dream where trolls sink back in their caves never to be seen!

i have a dream where 4chan can use proper English!

i have a dream!

 

[THEMILKMAN]

i love peanuts and classical! especially motzart and wolfgang amadeus

I really hope you're joking, seeing as Mozart's first two names were Wolfgang Amadeus...

i actually did not know that. i heard they were to different people from my music teacher in 5th grade *sparkle* the more you know

And knowing is half the battle!

 

[Pegghead]

I enjoy most mainstream things, but I tend to bite the apple of obscurity from time to time. I consider these things obscure, mainly because whenever I try to strike up a conversation concerning these subjects I'm treated to blank stares.

My favourite band is flogging molly.

I love the hungry cities chronicles.

One of my favourite films is Duel.

I just looooove Red Dwarf.

I've been a major fan of Homestarrunner.com for many a time.

I listen to fairly old music (I'm talking like the 40s and 50s here)

Though I suppose some of my favourite obscure quotes range from:

"This is not war, this is pest control!" (Doomsday episode of Doctor Who).

"I am the leaf on the wind!" (I tend to use this one alot, it's from Serenity)

"Zaloom!" (Beakmans world)

And that's about all I can think of right now.

 

[Inverse Skies]

no! i say we march on washington!

i have a dream where good people make legitimate threads all the time!

i have a dream where trolls sink back in their caves never to be seen!

i have a dream where 4chan can use proper English!

i have a dream!

It is a very nice dream... but it's not going to happen. The best we can do is uphold ourselves in the best possible manner and hope that we also inspire others to do the right thing.

 

[Berethond]

Pictures started off as a piano suite but was orchestrated by Ravel. You should definitely give it a listen. I'm more of a fan of small groups like trios and quartets, and I definitely like more modern music like Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Bartok, and other Romantic / contemporary composers.

I didn't actually know that... it would sound very nice as a piano suite too... thankyou for that, I'll have to go track it down at some stage. Yeah, I'm more of the classical era myself, Beethoven and Mozart composed so many amazing pieces that I've heard nothing else like, although the romantic era is also fantastic, I think they moved too far away from what made the classical period amazing and some of the experimental ideas went a bit wrong. Like Tchaikovksys symphonies how they often end on periods of little music or silence rather than with a bang, it seems odd to finish something like that, or Mahler's symphonies how they're very without the distinctive flashes of brilliance that persuades some of the classical era stuff. It's still fantastic, just not as good as what they wrote beforehand.

Gotta love experimentation, though.
I always thought the Romantic era stuff was a bit freer, and more down-to-earth, even though that's a really bad way to put it.

 

[Anarchemitis]

"One of the first tasks of the intelligent is to state the obvious."
said who?

 

[Azraellod]

-"10 miles he swam. The last 3 were agony."
"They were overland."

-"And so saying, he wrote the word dinner on a slip of paper... and swallowed it."

-"I got a pencil"
"That's a steamroller."
"Is it? ...I'll kill that blasted shopkeeper!"
"And he did."

I'm fairly certain that this will not be found by the escapist community without the use of search engines. Still, feel free to prove me wrong.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Gotta love experimentation, though.
I always thought the Romantic era stuff was a bit freer, and more down-to-earth, even though that's a really bad way to put it.

The romantic era didn't have the formulaic response to pieces that the classical era had. Like if you listen to any of Mozart's piano concertos, it's always long opening, piano solo, then intermingled piano and orchestra, there's always a similar sequence of notes leading into trills (and usually a similar bass line during them) and there's always a repeat of the main theme before the cadenza. The romantic era didn't suffer from this so much, but it's another case of I haven't listened to enough yet as I found what I liked and listened to that first. I'll get there eventually!

 

[Berethond]

Gotta love experimentation, though.
I always thought the Romantic era stuff was a bit freer, and more down-to-earth, even though that's a really bad way to put it.

The romantic era didn't have the formulaic response to pieces that the classical era had. Like if you listen to any of Mozart's piano concertos, it's always long opening, piano solo, then intermingled piano and orchestra, there's always a similar sequence of notes leading into trills (and usually a similar bass line during them) and there's always a repeat of the main theme before the cadenza. The romantic era didn't suffer from this so much, but it's another case of I haven't listened to enough yet as I found what I liked and listened to that first. I'll get there eventually!

Truly.
I'm not such a fan of the formulaic approach myself.
Which is ironic, because 90% of my jazz goes [simple melody][eight minutes of solos][simple melody][end]

 

[Inverse Skies]

Truly.
I'm not such a fan of the formulaic approach myself.
Which is ironic, because 90% of my jazz goes [simple melody][eight minutes of solos][simple melody][end]

Yet they still somehow manage to sound completely different from each other. There's nothing wrong with following the forumla, it just makes the way the music is flowing slightly predictable.

 

[Berethond]

Truly.
I'm not such a fan of the formulaic approach myself.
Which is ironic, because 90% of my jazz goes [simple melody][eight minutes of solos][simple melody][end]

Yet they still somehow manage to sound completely different from each other. There's nothing wrong with following the forumla, it just makes the way the music is flowing slightly predictable.

For jazz, that's mostly due to the solos.

The formula's great for quickie gigs, though. Gotta swear by that. Of course, by formula, I mean just play random solos for ten minutes. Each person.

 

[Inverse Skies]

For jazz, that's mostly due to the solos.

The formula's great for quickie gigs, though. Gotta swear by that. Of course, by formula, I mean just play random solos for ten minutes. Each person.

Hey it works, and my mind just went straight to Teen Girl Squad;

"16 hour drum solo!"

 

[Berethond]

For jazz, that's mostly due to the solos.

The formula's great for quickie gigs, though. Gotta swear by that. Of course, by formula, I mean just play random solos for ten minutes. Each person.

Hey it works, and my mind just went straight to Teen Girl Squad;

"16 hour drum solo!"

In my band's case, it's "Half hour piano solo!"
But those would work too...

 

[Trivun]

you made more people post. are you a thread god?

No, I just think that for someone who is really nice like Trivun it was a little sad to see so few people commenting on his well thought out thread, that is all.

Wooo, thanks for that compliment there Although by now you should surely know better than to inflate my overwhelming ego any more...

Anyway, now the thread seems to be going a bit more I think I'll post a few more obscurities that I happened to come across. I was auditioning for a play the other day (didn't get a callback, sadly) and when researching the play I noticed that a few lines in it are referenced quite a lot by two major bands. Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco seem to enjoy this play, and film, very much, as they reference it a lot in their music. The most obvious examples are as follows:

- Panic at the Disco named two songs from a single line in this play - 'Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off', and 'It's Better If You Do'.

- Fall Out Boy use a line from this play as part of the chorus in 'Thnx Fr Th Mmrs': He tastes like you, only sweeter.

Can anyone guess the name of the play and film that these bands apparently enjoy so much?

 

[Inverse Skies]

In my band's case, it's "Half hour piano solo!"
But those would work too...

Half an hour of jazzy piano? That's quite a long time... Improv?

 

[Berethond]

In my band's case, it's "Half hour piano solo!"
But those would work too...

Half an hour of jazzy piano? That's quite a long time... Improv?

Of course.
I improvised for 45 minutes straight two weeks ago...
(Solo, no band...)

 

[Rusty Bucket]

Pictures started off as a piano suite but was orchestrated by Ravel. You should definitely give it a listen. I'm more of a fan of small groups like trios and quartets, and I definitely like more modern music like Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Bartok, and other Romantic / contemporary composers.

I didn't actually know that... it would sound very nice as a piano suite too... thankyou for that, I'll have to go track it down at some stage. Yeah, I'm more of the classical era myself, Beethoven and Mozart composed so many amazing pieces that I've heard nothing else like, although the romantic era is also fantastic, I think they moved too far away from what made the classical period amazing and some of the experimental ideas went a bit wrong. Like Tchaikovksys symphonies how they often end on periods of little music or silence rather than with a bang, it seems odd to finish something like that, or Mahler's symphonies how they're very without the distinctive flashes of brilliance that persuades some of the classical era stuff. It's still fantastic, just not as good as what they wrote beforehand.

Gotta love experimentation, though.
I always thought the Romantic era stuff was a bit freer, and more down-to-earth, even though that's a really bad way to put it.

You know, i'm not particularly interested in classical music, and i don't really have a clue what you two have been saying through the entire thread, but i have to admit it's making me want to listen to classical, and i have no idea why. It's like this special club that has a secret language, and i'm not involved. This was a slightly convoluted way of asking for reccomendations for starting to listen to classical, if you didn't get that.

Anyway, on topic. You know, i don't think i'm actually into anything particularly obscure. Oooh, wait, does Blake's 7 count as obscure? For anyone that doesn't know, it's an old Sci-fi TV show, and watching it has made me realise that most other sci-fi shows and films (especially Firefly and Serenity) get so many of their themes and ideas from it.

 

[Wadders]

*puts on creepy voice*

"BOY?! I know you're not asleep, boy!"

Cookie and possibly sex for the reference. I know it's not particularly obscure, but I think it's obscure enough to qualify, and put in context, it's one of my fave movie quotes

I also have an unhealthy lust for gnocchi, which is a fairly obscure food, at least in the social circles I frequent

 

[Inverse Skies]

Of course.
I improvised for 45 minutes straight two weeks ago...
(Solo, no band...)

I'm not quite good enough at piano to start writing my own music or improvising yet... I've only been playing for six months. Give me some time though and I might be able to jam along with you! On opposite sides of the world.

 

[Inverse Skies]

You know, i'm not particularly interested in classical music, and i don't really have a clue what you two have been saying through the entire thread, but i have to admit it's making me want to listen to classical, and i have no idea why. It's like this special club that has a secret language, and i'm not involved. This was a slightly convoluted way of asking for reccomendations for starting to listen to classical, if you didn't get that.

Of course, I'll PM you a list of some stuff which should get you at least started. Just youtube the songs or something and you'll be right.