What other Forums/Websites do you frequent?

[Solitary Wanderer]

I thought this could be an interesting exercise.

We have Classical Music in common so maybe we have other interests/hobbies we may share.

Post your fave sites with links.

Forums:

I'm more a Reader than a Poster  but...

My fave site is GMG

I also do daily reads of a professional wedding photography site DWF

& a Frank Sinatra forum Sinatra Family Forum

Websites:

Well theres many I check every day so heres a few...

Amazon I love Amazon!

BBC

TradeMe NZ's version of Ebay

Well, theres many others but thats a start.

What about you?

[greg]

GMG.

no other forums.......

just myspace and facebook every now and then (just because everyone at church uses it)

[Lethevich]

I used to visit Metal-Archives forums but got bored once I realised how excessively pretentious hardcore fans of all types of music are - at least classical listeners generally have the intellect to back that up - with other genres it's like watching cripples fight. I do a brief scan of new threads once every month or so.

Now I pretty much only visit GMG and 4chan.

[George]

I'd rather not say. 

[Solitary Wanderer]

I used to visit Metal-Archives forums but got bored once I realised how excessively pretentious hardcore fans of all types of music are - at least classical listeners generally have the intellect to back that up - with other genres it's like watching cripples fight. I do a brief scan of new threads once every month or so.

Well put. I had exactly the same experience with Prog Ears and I too only now vist occasionally and briefly.

I'd rather not say. 

Ahh, c'mon George, you've piqued our interest now! 

[George]

Ahh, c'mon George, you've piqued our interest now! 

Let's just say I'd rather not say for a myriad of reasons.

Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your name. 

[BachQ]

Favorite sites:

1. ELGAR.ORG -- http://www.elgar.org

2. Saul Dzorelashvili OFFICIAL WEBSITE -- http://www.saulcomposer.com/

3. Corky's OFFICIAL WEBSITE -- http://www.musicalmayhem.com

4. TANGERINE DREAMS OFFICIAL WEBSITE -- http://www.tangerinedream-music.com/

5. http://www.poju.com

6. http://www.71db.com

[Sergeant Rock]

I used to be active at the Gramophone forum but the lumbering, out-of-date website software, along with the fact every message is moderated and approved before its released (which sometimes means a post might not show up for three days if a weekend and holiday are involved) finally just drove me crazy and I left. I still lurk occasionally but seldom post...after finding this forum (thanks paulb) I never felt a need to again.

I'm active in an alternative and alternative country group primarily dedicated to Emmylou Harris, my favorite non-classical singer. Unlike the comments here about metal and prog groups, the alternative scene is full of very intelligent people who know music. They can explicate a performance or song as skillfully as anyone I've seen on a classical forum.

I used to belong to dpreview.com, an outstanding British based website dedicated to digital photography. Great forums but...I was banned along with every other German member who uses Tiscali/Freenet, a major German ISP. The website owners never gave an explanation and will not reply to messages. I still lurk.

Sarge

[lisa needs braces]

For a while I was a member of one of the biggest forums on the internet:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/

A friend bought an account for me (ten bucks) and, to be courteous, I started using it--soon I was visiting the place frequently. But after a while it got a bit overwhelming/crazy so I stopped frequenting the site.  I think it's free to read the threads though...but be careful. You may not come back out the same...

[DavidRoss]

Favorite sites:

1. ELGAR.ORG -- http://www.elgar.org

2. Saul Dzorelashvili OFFICIAL WEBSITE -- http://www.saulcomposer.com/

3. Corky's OFFICIAL WEBSITE -- http://www.musicalmayhem.com

4. TANGERINE DREAMS OFFICIAL WEBSITE -- http://www.tangerinedream-music.com/

5. http://www.poju.com

6. http://www.71db.com

Hey, D--I think I've found the perfect new avatar for you:

[Kullervo]

I sometimes desultorily read the Classical music forums on Amazon, but I am generally repelled by the overall cluelessness and ridiculous pronouncements of the posters, as well as the almost complete lack of basic tools that any forum should have (like a reply tracker). I suppose it's natural that the more public the place, the more morons you find.

I also have a profile at Last.Fm, but the forums for the Classical music groups are inactive 98% of the time. The only regular activity pertaining to Classical music is bored 16-year-olds who talk about how much they like "Mozart's Fur Elise" and how Claire [sic] de Lune is their favorite "song" by Debussy. The place is basically a Kindergarten, and I often wonder why I stay there, but I am obsessed with figures and like to keep track of what I listen to.

I used to visit Metal-Archives forums but got bored once I realised how excessively pretentious hardcore fans of all types of music are - at least classical listeners generally have the intellect to back that up - with other genres it's like watching cripples fight. I do a brief scan of new threads once every month or so.

Don't go near the I Love Music forums. The horror... the horror...

[The new erato]

I regularly frequent:

• A norwegian HiFi and music forum
• I read several classical music blogs
• Quite av few wine related blogs and forums
• A norwegian soccer forum

but am only a member of one classical music forum, this!

[PSmith08]

I used to be pretty active at HeadFi, which, back in the day, had some pretty good discussion on Mahler, Beethoven, i.a., but things seem to have cooled down there on the classical front - having devolved into a diffused mass of "Recommend me [X,Y,Z rel. to classical music]." It's a gear-centered site, so it didn't break my heart to see the music forum to gradually shift away  from really very active classical threads, though that Mahler thread was quite the scene, so to speak, for a while. There are a couple other ex-pats from that board here, IIRC.

My engagement these days is lurking over there and hitting up some websites I like.

[Brian]

Now I pretty much only visit GMG and 4chan.

4chan?! *is stunned*

For a while I was a member of one of the biggest forums on the internet:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/

A friend bought an account for me (ten bucks) and, to be courteous, I started using it--soon I was visiting the place frequently. But after a while it got a bit overwhelming/crazy so I stopped frequenting the site.  I think it's free to read the threads though...but be careful. You may not come back out the same...

I love how at the very top it says "2 users banned today. 8,643 total users banned."

I also love how, in the Pictures of Girls Thread, the very first reply to the very first picture is "goddamn thats an old tv [in the background]" 

[Brian]

This is the only music forum I visit. Other forums: I am writing a novella (!!) on Paradox Interactive, which was begun a year and a half ago; there are only a few chapters left, but I've been too slow/lazy to actually just write them, unfortunately. It's a murder mystery slash thriller, so my readers are really pissed.  I also visit a couple semi-private forums, the Internet Infidels (infidels.org), where my article for the 'Secular Web Kiosk' is currently on the front page, and a fan forum for a major league baseball team, where I am a bastion of good sense (hopefully....) against a sea of people with usernames like 'sportsfan'.

Websites: two email accounts, BBC for news, Sports Illustrated, [music: Naxos, Naxos Music Library, OperaShare, ClassicsToday, MusicWeb, eMusic, ArkivMusic, Amazon], Garfield Minus Garfield, The Economist, and a fantasy baseball league. Others I'm probably forgetting, too.

A Garfield Minus Garfield for your viewing pleasure:

[Renfield]

So we've a couple of 4chan people (no, I won't use the official term ), and at least one Goon. And here I thought we were posh.


More seriously, this is the only classical music forum I visit, but I'm a general "forumphile": I follow quite a few different forums at a given moment, often changing depending on my mood and current occupation.

Currently, I'm also regular poster at my role-playing guild's forum (in World of Warcraft) and my server forum (ditto), while I'm contemplating on coming back to being an active poster in a couple of D&D-related forums pending my soon-to-be-realised return to DMing.

(In general, this is a low-activity time for me, compared to a period when I was an active poster in five to six different places in tandem.)


I also keep up with my Facebook profile (for the sake of some of my friends), a few interesting blogs (from Kotaku to The Rest Is Noise), an array of sites really too wide to list, and most certainly neither 4chan, nor SomethingAwful, or even StileProject! I stay clear.

The worst I go is Encyclopedia Dramatica, and that only on a good day - read: a very boring one on which I somehow find myself without the strength to actually go and do something more productive than sit and grin at things.

[johnQpublic]

Favorite sites:

1. ELGAR.ORG -- http://www.elgar.org

2. Saul Dzorelashvili OFFICIAL WEBSITE -- http://www.saulcomposer.com/

3. Corky's OFFICIAL WEBSITE -- http://www.musicalmayhem.com

4. TANGERINE DREAMS OFFICIAL WEBSITE -- http://www.tangerinedream-music.com/

5. http://www.poju.com

6. http://www.71db.com

Amazing!!! Those are the ones I frequent too!! 

[Opus106]

There are three other forums in my browser's toolbar apart from GMG: Talk Classical (am I allowed to say that? 0:) ), Physics Forums (my frequency has decreased in the past few months, though ) Ubuntu Forums (and that's only when I have a problem with the OS ) I used to visit two or three amateur astronomy message boards in the past, but in the last few years, it has taken a back seat. But I'll be back!

Websites in general: amazon.com (duh!), wikipedia (double duh!), Flickr.com(photography is a like a "semi-hobby"), xkcd.com on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (that's one helluva comic!)

And I subscribe to a handful of blogs and news sites (that includes slashdot) mostly related to the sciences, especially astronomy and physics.

Yes. I am a geek. 

[Lilas Pastia]

GMG is the only music forum I frequent. I have no time for cyber dalliance, and I think GMG presents as good a cross-section of musical minds as any. Informed or not, that is not the question. I like and value diversity. All other sites I've checked have the same virtues and more problems. Ataraxia rules  .

Other web sites I regularly visit (for information purposes) are Berkshire Record Outlet (aka BRO), Eclassical and Otterhouse. That's it and that's all.

[drogulus]

    Forums: AVS Forum, Hydrogenaudio Forums I don't often post but I go every day.

    Websites: Butterflies and Wheels, Tom's Hardware, The Long War Journal, X-Bit Labs I have many sites bookmarked but these are frequently visited.