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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k5oR8V3o7s

Best introduction to Stravinsky you can get. This recording is considered by myself and many others the finest recording of The Rite of Spring, which is Stravinsky's most popular work. Disney's Fantasia introduced me to the piece, but Leonard Bernstein took it to another level. Igor Stravinsky said "Wow!" when he heard this recording!

The Rite of Spring ends at about 34:41. The rest of the video is a second, lesser known piece, The Petrouchka.

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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Freshman year in college I was obsessed with Them by King Diamond.  It is still one of the few heavy metal albums I can stomach.

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I've always liked "Für Elise". Most of Beethoven's work sounds too similar throughout for me to really pick out the differences. I'm sure it's mostly because I haven't listened to enough of his music to really pick out the differences. There was some clarinet trio, or something of the sort, by him that I really liked when I listened to it.

I like a lot of Mozart as well, and Stravinsky, Bach, Chopin, etc. are all very good. My favourite classical composer, however, is Tchaikovsky. I can't name any favourites from among his compositions, but at least I can tell the difference between them. :P

Another of my all-time favourites in the classical category (but not genre) is Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana".

I can't really say much for more modern music, as I like a wide variety, but haven't really listened to a terribly large selection of songs. For instance, I don't think I've ever listened to anything by Pink Floyd besides "Another Brick in the Wall," and I'm only just now introducing myself to Led Zeppelin, which seems to have been popular based on this thread....

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TV's Frink said:

 I was obsessed with New Order in high school.

 I didn't realize New Order was that old. ;)

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EyeShotFirst said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k5oR8V3o7s

Best introduction to Stravinsky you can get. This recording is considered by myself and many others the finest recording of The Rite of Spring, which is Stravinsky's most popular work. Disney's Fantasia introduced me to the piece, but Leonard Bernstein took it to another level. Igor Stravinsky said "Wow!" when he heard this recording!

The Rite of Spring ends at about 34:41. The rest of the video is a second, lesser known piece, The Petrouchka.

 Wow! Thanks so much. Reminds me of something you might hear in an Alfred Hitchcock film.

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Because my music tastes are so broad, I have developed an odd style that doesn't belong to a single genre, and I think it would be a crime to waste that in a cover band.

 The same could be said about me.  I primarily play metal, but with the attitude and fury of Stevie Ray Vaughan (he may have been blues, but he plays with more fury than metal.  Metal's fury comes from primarily the thick instrumentation and the momentum of the songwriting, but I would say alot of metal bands actually play their instruments pretty tamely.  Fast, but soft.  I play metal riffs like SRV played blues riffs... played hard and floored. )  Also I solo quite alot like Stevie Ray Vaughan mixed with some more melodic classical shredding and occasionally the random-ish outbursts of furious notes of Slayer's Kerry King, all infused in to one.  Suffice it to say I'm all over the place.  I can actually carry a song too, which is a trait most local guitarists here seem to lack.  Most of them only learn "tricks" or gimmicks, but when they play riffs or songs they just sound horrible.

Uuuh high and mighty, are we? And I was led to believe I was being the only one around here.

 You're damn right I'm high and mighty about my guitar playing, I've worked hard on it and I'm good at it. 

 Having listened to you play, I must agree: you are extremely talented...! 

 Thank you!  Although truthfully I did kind of go overboard on that post... I wasn't really trying to come off that way but I was a little sauced and I kind of lost track of how much I'd said already and before long a few sentences became a long run-on paragraph without my full consent.  :P

 You are more than welcome...you have made a fan out of one who might not ordinarily enjoy non-lyrical guitar and drum mixes...I am looking forward to playing your covers when I return home to my 11.1 surround system in August. I am anticipating feeling the full impact of the music at full throttle...currently as good as the headphone version is I suspect it is not doing it justice...

I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton

“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”

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@Handman

No problem. I think music should be shared. I literally have no space on my computer, or on my shelves thanks to all the music I have. I've gotten to the point where I have several recordings of one piece, because each has something going for it, that the other doesn't have.

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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Post Praetorian said:

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Because my music tastes are so broad, I have developed an odd style that doesn't belong to a single genre, and I think it would be a crime to waste that in a cover band.

 The same could be said about me.  I primarily play metal, but with the attitude and fury of Stevie Ray Vaughan (he may have been blues, but he plays with more fury than metal.  Metal's fury comes from primarily the thick instrumentation and the momentum of the songwriting, but I would say alot of metal bands actually play their instruments pretty tamely.  Fast, but soft.  I play metal riffs like SRV played blues riffs... played hard and floored. )  Also I solo quite alot like Stevie Ray Vaughan mixed with some more melodic classical shredding and occasionally the random-ish outbursts of furious notes of Slayer's Kerry King, all infused in to one.  Suffice it to say I'm all over the place.  I can actually carry a song too, which is a trait most local guitarists here seem to lack.  Most of them only learn "tricks" or gimmicks, but when they play riffs or songs they just sound horrible.

Uuuh high and mighty, are we? And I was led to believe I was being the only one around here.

 You're damn right I'm high and mighty about my guitar playing, I've worked hard on it and I'm good at it. 

 Having listened to you play, I must agree: you are extremely talented...! 

 Thank you!  Although truthfully I did kind of go overboard on that post... I wasn't really trying to come off that way but I was a little sauced and I kind of lost track of how much I'd said already and before long a few sentences became a long run-on paragraph without my full consent.  :P

 You are more than welcome...you have made a fan out of one who might not ordinarily enjoy non-lyrical guitar and drum mixes...I am looking forward to playing your covers when I return home to my 11.1 surround system in August. I am anticipating feeling the full impact of the music at full throttle...currently as good as the headphone version is I suspect it is not doing it justice...

 Oh well check with me first because literally *everything* that's on my soundcloud page has been re-recorded because I got a new digital guitar amp that is much more suited to recording on the computer the way I do, plus I was more meticulous with the mixing and it's still intense but not quite so grating and trebly!  I just have to upgrade my soundcloud account so that I can update my tracks without losing all the plays I have for them.

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I've been checking out some of the artists/songs mentioned in this thread. I'm still only on the ones mentioned in Possessed first post in this thread, but here are my thoughts:

Kalmah and Insomnium have a lot of great music, but I just can't get used to the death growls of death metal. Insomnium is simply fantastic when they actually sing. Their melodies call for something other than animalistic growling (I can't even imagine what that does to their throats). Kalmah's melodies fit slightly better with their vocals, but I still don't like the latter, which is why I prefer listening to Possessed's covers of their work.

Coldworld was sometimes OK, but I wouldn't want to listen to them again. Again, it was the vocals I disliked hated. In general, that sort of thing just isn't for me, as much as I like the guitar work.

I'm listening to Collective Soul's 1995 album of the same name and really enjoying it. I'll have to download some of their music eventually.

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I share your sentiments about Insomnium, if they would just drop the growling and use clean singing all the time (like they have proven they are capable of with in a few songs which are sung by I believe the same vocalist who does the growling so that means they wouldn't even need a line up change) I think they could really make the big time.

I actually don't like growling in the music, I just love the instrumental sections of the music so much I deal with it.  I'm considering learning to sing and dubbing over my instrumental covers of theirs (I've got some Insomnium ones recorded too btw Ric, I just have to upload them) with normal singing, maybe showing what "could have been".

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The singing is usually the only thing that will put me off of a metal band. I can take some of the screaming, but if it's an album of continuous screaming, it becomes a bit much. I also don't like the opposite, which is the new fad of whining that is in some of the hipster metal.

The guitarist is the second thing to put me off. If there are no changes to speed and attack, and it's just 100 mph for every song, that's a bit much. I like speed and aggression, but I also like dynamics. You feel the power of the storm if you have that calm before and after.

People in the metal community hate Korn, but I always thought they did an amazing job of heating up and cooling down throughout a song. They'll have a 4 minute song that has more changes and movement than a lot of hour long albums.

Perfect example of buildups, breakdowns, and cooldowns. Might not be metal, but it's dynamic. It moves, changes, and does what music should, it grabs the listener:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igX0ZEJKXsQ

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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Listening to this piece of crap has brought to mind the bands/singers I used to like but don't care for anymore. Since the OP says I can bitch about stuff like that, I feel I may as well do so.

AC/DC

I really loved "Thunderstruck" when I was a kid, so the idea that I liked AC/DC seeped into my brain and settled there for a long, only dislodging late in my teenage years when I came to the conclusion that their lyrics are almost never about anything other than partying and women and other pointless shit and that Brian Johnson sounds like a hoarse cat coughing up a hairball.

Van Halen

I don't care for Van Halen for one of the same reasons I don't care for AC/DC anymore -- shitty subject matter. I do still think David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar are pretty good singers, though.

Bryan Adams

I love his stuff from the '80s and most probably always will, but I can't stand most of his '90s+ material anymore. '80s Bryan was obviously fueled by youthful energy in his early years and couldn't continue going that route forever, but instead of evolving when he got older -- becoming more introspective and exploratory -- he stagnanted, choosing to settle into a rut and churn out nothing but insipid, uninspired re-writes of "Kids Wanna Rock" and "Heaven" for the rest of his days.

Lenny Kravitz

Kravitz is the black Bryan Adams; awesome in the beginning, he proved to be a one trick pony incapable of any real progression. That he chooses to collaborate with talentless fucks like Dreck ... opps, I meant Drake ... certainly doesn't help any.

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Having spent the last week and a half going through Kim Wilde's first eight albums, all I have to say is this: everything after her fourth album becauses progressively generic and bland.

Once I reached the ninth album, I gave up; I tried getting through it, but I just couldn't make it past the second track -- that's how insipid her sound had become at that point. Seriously, she went from this to thisBleech.

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Perhaps Ms. Wilde got tamed...?

I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton

“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”

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So lame it's going to need a special ramp to get into buildings.

On a scale of 1 to 10, in how bad of taste would you say this post is?

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Possessed said:

So lame it's going to need a special ramp to get into buildings.

On a scale of 1 to 10, in how bad of taste would you say this post is?

5.5 (give or take a decimal or two). 

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Lenny Kravitz

Kravitz is the black Bryan Adams; awesome in the beginning, he proved to be a one trick pony incapable of any real progression. That he chooses to collaborate with talentless fucks like Dreck ... opps, I meant Drake ... certainly doesn't help any.

I agree up to the point last year where he released...

The Chamber

...it's so catchy! I'd much rather he was doing that than acting.

VIZ TOP TIPS! - PARENTS. Impress your children by showing them a floppy disk and telling them it’s a 3D model of a save icon.

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Possessed said:

So lame it's going to need a special ramp to get into buildings.

On a scale of 1 to 10, in how bad of taste would you say this post is?

 Haha...

I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton

“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”

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I love that song and video so goddamn much. THAT BOY NEEDS THERAPY!

Don’t do drugs, unless you’re with me.

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While I’ve heard a few of their songs over the years, I’ve never sat down and listened to an entire album by I Mother Earth.

Well, I listened to their debut album last night, and I can say only this: They’re awesome and quite possibly a new favourite.

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i’m not going to mention any specifics but i will say this, if i can’t punch-dance to it then i don’t want to hear it

http://i.imgur.com/7N84TM8.jpg

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Over the last two nights, I’ve listened to the first four albums by Genesis. While From Genesis to Revelation and Trepass were both quite meh (especially the former), Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot were both pretty damn cromulent; I haven’t listened to as much prog rock as I’d have liked to, but both albums capture just what it is about the subgenre that really catches my interest.

Should I ever get around to buying a turntable one day, I’ll definitely add both Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot to my vinyl collection.