Unpopular Opinions

[(poco) Sforzando]

I think it mainly depends on how well it's sung.

That depends on whether we're dealing with an unsung composer or not.

[Brahmsian]

J. S. Bach's music is always perfectly crafted, and very near to always it is also perfectly boring.

Posted in the right thread! 

[Karl Henning]

Well, an opinion that Bach's music is boring is certainly true to the thread 

Posted in the right thread! 

Oh! And Ray got there first!

[Mirror Image]

Baroque and Classical Era music is for wimps! Is this unpopular enough?

P.S. I really don't think this to be the case of course but I remember running across someone saying this on another forum years ago. This said, I love me some Haydn, Vivaldi, Corelli, Rebel, and Rameau.

[Monsieur Croche]

'J. S. Bach's music is always perfectly crafted, and very near to always it is also perfectly boring."

Posted in the right thread! 

Best here, and always better than posting the above in Ukase - like tone, as if a universally true statement, as the heading of a new thread.

I must point out that many an unpopular opinion may not necessarily be untrue, anymore than popular opinion is what selects the greatest composers or their greatest works.

[jochanaan]

J. S. Bach's music is always perfectly crafted, and very near to always it is also perfectly boring.

Definitely a half-unpopular opinion!

[The Six]

The "durr that opinion sure is unpopular! hyuk hyuk"  line is unfunny and tired. Get it outta here.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

The "durr that opinion sure is unpopular! hyuk hyuk"  line is unfunny and tired. Get it outta here.

There's gotta be SOME substance in this thread!

[The Six]

You can start contributing anytime!

[Dancing Divertimentian]

You can start contributing anytime!

There's more than one way to contribute to a non-thread!

[Karl Henning]

There's more than one way to contribute to a non-thread!

YES!

[The Six]

There's more than one way to contribute to a non-thread!

And you can start anytime!

[some guy]

Do you have to read through all sixty-one pages before you can play?

I hope not.

I'll post anyway, just in case the answer is "no."

Here's a genuinely unpopular opinion: music is sufficient, complete in itself, needing nothing else for it to be totally satisfying.

Truly. Try that out sometime in a roomful of music lovers. You'll get your ass handed to you. I hope on a platter, of course. Your antagonists have some class, I hope.

[mc ukrneal]

Here's a genuinely unpopular opinion: music is sufficient, complete in itself, needing nothing else for it to be totally satisfying.

I haven't a clue what that is even supposed to mean. Or is that too popular an opinion?!?!?

[Madiel]

Do you have to read through all sixty-one pages before you can play?

I hope not.

I'll post anyway, just in case the answer is "no."

Here's a genuinely unpopular opinion: music is sufficient, complete in itself, needing nothing else for it to be totally satisfying.

Truly. Try that out sometime in a roomful of music lovers. You'll get your ass handed to you. I hope on a platter, of course. Your antagonists have some class, I hope.

No, the unpopular opinion is: it is wrong to add anything to music, especially a sense of meaning.

At least, that is the opinion that is unpopular with me. Maybe others have argued that something must be added. I have been arguing against the proposition that nothing must be added.

Whereas the opinion you're expressing right now is one I would happily live with.

[Monsieur Croche]

Do you have to read through all sixty-one pages before you can play?

I hope not.

I'll post anyway, just in case the answer is "no."

Here's a genuinely unpopular opinion: music is sufficient, complete in itself, needing nothing else for it to be totally satisfying.

Truly. Try that out sometime in a roomful of music lovers. You'll get your ass handed to you. I hope on a platter, of course. Your antagonists have some class, I hope.

That is a repoussé platter with some chased detail, if they have any 'class' at all, if you please.

How you dress that ass handed to you on that platter so the entire presentation has some class, I dunno. Ask a cosmetician, or chef [or both], I guess.

[jochanaan]

...Here's a genuinely unpopular opinion: music is sufficient, complete in itself, needing nothing else for it to be totally satisfying....

Oh, that's not an unpopular opinion, at least with me.  I would only add: "SOME music is..."

[Dancing Divertimentian]

YES!

Things are looking up!

[Dancing Divertimentian]

And you can start anytime!

Percolating..................

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Do you have to read through all sixty-one pages before you can play?

It's a laugh a minute...don't miss out...