Havergal Brian is Overrated!

Started by Ataraxia, January 19, 2012, 12:12:14 PM

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Havergal Brian is Overrated!

Yes
3 (9.4%)
No
10 (31.3%)
Only on GMG
14 (43.8%)
Banana
3 (9.4%)
Kumquat
2 (6.3%)

Total Members Voted: 31

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Lethevich

#1
January 19, 2012, 12:14:18 PM Last Edit: January 19, 2012, 12:23:28 PM by Lethevich Dmitriyevna Pettersonova
Can't overrate what nobody listens to :(

Oh wait, or perhaps it is because nobody listens to him that makes any amount of favourable impressions is overrating because the sample size is too small to draw an average from.

This is a deep, philisophical point going down here.
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

Ataraxia

#2
January 19, 2012, 12:29:21 PM
Quote from: Lethevich Dmitriyevna Pettersonova on January 19, 2012, 12:14:18 PM
...nobody listens to him...

Does his popularity grow outside the confines of GMG?

J.Z. Herrenberg

#3
January 19, 2012, 12:39:47 PM
Quote from: Ataraxia on January 19, 2012, 12:29:21 PM
Does his popularity grow outside the confines of GMG?


On Twitter I encounter Brian lovers I never knew existed. Only a few days ago - a violin teacher at the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway. A few weeks ago - a director in Australia. I also have become friends with someone in Texas, an accompanist, who also loves the tv series McCloud and even looks like Dennis Weaver...
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Willoughby earl of Itacarius

#4
January 19, 2012, 01:00:48 PM
Quote from: ~ Que ~ on January 19, 2012, 12:23:49 PM
A fox may change its hair, not its tricks. ::)

Q 8)

Its rather lose its hair?

Ataraxia

#5
January 19, 2012, 01:19:06 PM
Quote from: J. Z. Herrenberg on January 19, 2012, 12:39:47 PM
On Twitter I encounter Brian lovers I never knew existed. Only a few days ago - a violin teacher at the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway. A few weeks ago - a director in Australia. I also have become friends with someone in Texas, an accompanist, who also loves the tv series McCloud and even looks like Dennis Weaver...

Now you just need a Peter Falk lookalike and you're set.

J.Z. Herrenberg

#6
January 19, 2012, 01:23:31 PM
Quote from: Ataraxia on January 19, 2012, 01:19:06 PM
Now you just need a Peter Falk lookalike and you're set.


I'll buy a raincoat.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

DavidW

#7
January 19, 2012, 04:31:56 PM
Not even on gmg there are like three posters on that thread! :D

The new erato

#8
January 19, 2012, 09:57:39 PM
He's overrated in some quarters (you know who you are), but definitely not in general (he's not rated at all by the general public). I cannot seem to get my head around his music.

J.Z. Herrenberg

#9
January 20, 2012, 12:48:33 AM
Quote from: The new erato on January 19, 2012, 09:57:39 PM
He's overrated in some quarters (you know who you are), but definitely not in general (he's not rated at all by the general public). I cannot seem to get my head around his music.


Moi?!


That makes him X-rated for you.



Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

eyeresist

#10
January 20, 2012, 02:33:10 AM
I assume this poll is based on some in-joke from the Brian thread. Man, that thread is overrated  :P

J.Z. Herrenberg

#11
January 20, 2012, 08:15:32 AM
Quote from: eyeresist on January 20, 2012, 02:33:10 AM
I assume this poll is based on some in-joke from the Brian thread. Man, that thread is overrated  :P


Cheeky!
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Ataraxia

#12
January 20, 2012, 08:17:27 AM
I just wanted to give Que something to complain about.  :P

Karl Henning

#13
January 20, 2012, 09:03:17 AM
Quote from: ~ Que ~ on January 19, 2012, 12:23:49 PM
A fox may change its hair, not its tricks. ::)

Q 8)

Hey! You're not likening the Brianites to . . . a hen-house, are you? : )
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

chasmaniac

#14
January 20, 2012, 09:24:19 AM
Who is Brian Havergal?
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."  --Wittgenstein, PI §217

Wanderer

#15
January 21, 2012, 12:10:23 AM
At this point, he's hardly even rated. A nice, juicy kumquat from me.

springrite

#16
January 21, 2012, 02:12:52 AM
Anyone who has movie made of his life can't be underrated, can he?
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Mirror Image

#17
January 21, 2012, 07:55:03 PM
I like a little bit of Brian's music, but I say he's overrated only on GMG. :D I don't think many are aware his music even exists. Anyway, I seriously was impressed with Brabbins's recent account of the Gothic that it has made me reconsider my normal indifference to his music.

cilgwyn

#18
January 29, 2012, 09:18:52 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 21, 2012, 07:55:03 PM
I like a little bit of Brian's music, but I say he's overrated only on GMG. :D I don't think many are aware his music even exists. Anyway, I seriously was impressed with Brabbins's recent account of the Gothic that it has made me reconsider my normal indifference to his music.
A future regular at the 'Havergal Brian' thread?!!! ;D
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