Boycott EMI.

[Brian]

http://www.greatestclassical.com/fiftyshades/

[mc ukrneal]

http://www.greatestclassical.com/fiftyshades/

I see an x and the link doesn't work for me....

[The new erato]

http://www.greatestclassical.com/fiftyshades/

That the owners of EMI are desperate have been obvious for quite some time.....

[Brian]

I see an x and the link doesn't work for me....

You're a lucky man. It's the cover art and dedicated website for "Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album," with music selected by the author of the novels for optimal reader...uh...stimulation.

[Todd]

I, for one, eagerly await the CD.  Fifty Shades of Grey is literature for the ages.  The music selected will be of the same standard.

For those who want just a taste before biting, hear a master read from the source.

[jwinter]

Dear God, it even has Pachelbel's Canon on it.....

[Scarpia]

If it makes them enough money to record more HJ Lim, I'm for it. 

[Gurn Blanston]

Hard to tell if that's tongue-in-cheek or not...

As for me, I don't really need to boycott them especially, since AFAIK I don't buy more than 1 or 2 disks a year on that label.   0:)

[North Star]

Oh my. I certainly don't want to encourage this, but if we stop buying the good stuff from EMI, they have to go more in this direction in order to make money.

[snyprrr]

I clicked on this Thread thinking it was going to be some kind of ridiculous political thing, or some embarrassing rant by one of our gentle contributors,... but,...

THIS IS SERIOUS!!

I AM LITERALLY shaking with APOPLEXY!! I feel like a mind control slave just having seen my 'trigger' (think the quenn-of-diamonds from Manchurian Candidate),... aye, I thought the early '90s were over ('Baby Needs Mozart'), but, but, but,...

Oh,.. aaand it has Pachelbel too, yea, oh,...ah,...aye,...mm,...


How many of us are now staring off into space, traumatized?



Ah, it's been sooo long since I had to actually handle those shitty cds at Tower,... endless 'Baby' this and that,... basically telling ME that classical was for idiots,... oh, I need a massage, I can feel the throbbing in the temples,...

50 Shades of Classical my foot.

Porno Classics!! (Bolero,...)

I mean, IS Bolero on it???

[Superhorn]

   This is absolutely no reason to boycott   EMI, one of the greatest of classical labels, with  its catalogue of so many
magnificent recordings of such a wide repertoire with so many  great musicians,past and present .
This CD is nothing but an attempt to  increase sales using popular appeal, something which could  potentially
raise much-needed funds for  worthwhile recording projects  of interesting off-beat repertoire .
Remember Decca's Three Tenors  CD ?  This brought in the funds  to  pay for the  justly  acclaimed Degenerate music series  .
Without this,  we may never have had  those   invaluable recordings of composers such as  Pavel Haas,
Erwin Schulhoff,  Walter Braunfels, Victor Ullmann  and Hans Krasa etc .

[ibanezmonster]

They've just disgraced my Rachmaninoff. 

[stingo]

I dunno - if it gets a wider audience, what's the harm? If the composers were living I think they'd be glad for the royalties?

[Scarpia]

I haven't read the book, but I don't think it is necessarily a good sign that this sort thing has become the most popular thing in book publishing.  (You could argue that it is not as bad as Harry Potter, I guess.)  But taking that for granted, the CD release seems to be quite reasonable.   It contains classical music which is described or referred to in the book. 

[DavidRoss]

Who's E.L. James? And what's Fifty Shades of Grey? (Judging from the foregoing I'm probably better off blissfully ignorant.)

[Scarpia]

Who's E.L. James? And what's Fifty Shades of Grey? (Judging from the foregoing I'm probably better off blissfully ignorant.)

It's an S&M themed semi-porno novel that has apparently become wildly popular among middle-aged women.  Clink the link somewhere above of Gilbert Gottfied reading excerpts to get the full effect.

[North Star]

You could argue that it is not as bad as Harry Potter, I guess.

[DavidRoss]

Gilbert Gottfied reading excerpts

[Scarpia]

Not sure if that is more disturbing than sitting next to an old lady who is reading the book on the subway. 

[North Star]

Not sure if that is more disturbing than sitting next to an old lady who is reading the book on the subway.

Aloud?