JamesWhitehead
Piffle Prospector
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I suspect that a lot of people do not really enjoy music. They are the people who are merely habituated to it, like caffeine. Given a certain number of beats-per-minute, they will tolerate whatever is popular at the time. Later, they may get a maudlin hankering for the sort of thing which excited them when they were sprouting hair they could sit on. Yet it was never more than a soundtrack anyway . . .
I am probably noise-phobic, as referenced on another thread today. Background music grates on me. I can tolerate amplified pop-music only in the context of a film, where it is properly confined to creating a sleazy ambiance. It, otherwise, gets turned off pdq when it erupts on the airwaves.
This is not just . I looked for subtlety, ambiguity and structural interest in music, since I discovered Brahms, around the age of 11. I fear that many young people just stand no chance of being bitten by a Brahms or any other life-enhancing addiction; they are shut in the loud-room of childhood for ever. :thrash:
I am probably noise-phobic, as referenced on another thread today. Background music grates on me. I can tolerate amplified pop-music only in the context of a film, where it is properly confined to creating a sleazy ambiance. It, otherwise, gets turned off pdq when it erupts on the airwaves.
This is not just . I looked for subtlety, ambiguity and structural interest in music, since I discovered Brahms, around the age of 11. I fear that many young people just stand no chance of being bitten by a Brahms or any other life-enhancing addiction; they are shut in the loud-room of childhood for ever. :thrash:
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