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Kev You came down to dinner dressed as michael myers? Did you slash the bloke to death and leave his body dripping into the hotel pool?
Sorry mr si que what, i thought wot i writ was pretty funny!
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No, not about myers, about the front door.
You were moaning we didnt take your subject seriously.
But sounds like you live in picadilly circus!!
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Oh in that case tee hee I guess.
No, not tee hee level, it wasnt that funny.
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When I was in primary school, I had a music teacher who managed to spark interest in us kids in the music of Smetana and Bartok! (I will be forever grateful.) We had a piano at home, my father was a huge classical music buff, particularly when it came to the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, and Tiomkin. My mother loved Chopin. My uncle Italian opera. They took me to classical music concerts early on, even to a (for children) performance of the Magic Flute. I loved it.
In high school, friends and I discussed the music of Van Halen, Michael Jackson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Beethoven and Jerry Goldsmith. I introduced friends of mine to Philip Glass (whose music I had just discovered) and we were driving miles together just to see (and hear) him in a concert. We went to Huey Lewis concerts, and to Neville Marriner (and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields) concerts, and never thought that was a contradiction. Weird now, I realize. But I grew up like that, and it was perfectly normal. :-) We drove plenty of miles to see concerts by Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic or Falco.
That's really how I grew up... we shared a lot of the music we liked and listened to what others liked and started to like it too. I said, here, check out this Jerry Goldsmith guy, who writes film music, and they were open and responded with: whoa, that's really an awesome cue! And they said: here, listen to Herbie Hancock, or Pat Metheney, and I said: whoa, great. And meant it. Heck, I met people in school who were into John Williams and his music before I even knew his name (though at that time I knew at least some themes he composed, I just did not have a name for the composer, or even knew it was the same one who composed these themes.)
I probably grew up completely weird.
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Pretty much the only film music I'd be embarrassed to be caught playing is the James Bond Theme, especially in its traditional arrangement from DR NO, with the rockin' 60s guitar that's so cool but also dated. The cue is too cool to be cool now, if that makes sense.
I wouldn't want people thinking I have immature fantasies about being James Bond. I'd be very self-conscious about that possibility.
Also, the Theme is too iconic and over-exposed, meaning I'd appear to have a total lack of depth, thought, originality, and knowledge in my selections. Similarly, if you'd prefer to be thought of as a serious classical man, you wouldn't want to be "walked in on" when you're playing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. And in fact, you'd almost never play it. It's too "on the head."
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Sep 15, 2018 - 5:47 AM
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Graham Watt
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Good stories all - thanks to everyone, even the silly people (of whom I am one). Plenty of "what I thought" views too, the things I highlighted in my first post (the "why should you feel embarrassed?"- type thingy).
Zap's mention of the James Bond theme reminds me that I was going to lump that in with STAR WARS, SUPERMAN etc as "too iconic", or simply well known. I admire all of you who are thick-skinned enough to shrug off "what people might think of you", but I'm kind of shy and wimpy and a bit of a poser, and I DO care about the image I give. I try not to, and I have suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous raised eyebrows when "caught" listening to MR BASEBALL - "Eh, actually, some of his other stuff is really good." And because I rarely, if ever, programme out tracks on a CD, some stranger will always walk into the house from Piccadilly Circus and catch me right at the Celine Dion song at the end of TITANIC or a wacky hillbilly track from an otherwise great Henry Mancini score.
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Posted: |
Sep 15, 2018 - 8:58 AM
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Solium
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I've never turned off a soundtrack when family visits, I've played soundtracks on my portable CD player at numerous jobs, then on the computer at work. When someone asks me what I listen to, I never hedge and tell them "soundtracks".
Of course they think you mean pop song compilations. (Flash Dance, Dirty Dancing, etc.) Sometimes I say, "yeah like that", other times I try to explain I listen to orchestral music, but it usually confuses them.
Can't say I've ever had a positive response when I say I listen to "that background music". It's usually, "I've never met anyone that listens to soundtracks, much less buy them", to my wonderful sister-in-law who once said, "What is that shit?!"
The only thing that makes me feel uncomfortable is the volume I play my music out on the road. Especially when pulling into a parking lots. I usually turn the music down. But that's more out of respect for others, because I hate it when other people blast their rap crap on the streets and in parking lots.
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