What you like and dislike about GMG

[Mirror Image]

rofl. Man are you so desperate? Join the team (Greg, you and me).

Ha! No, I always kiss dogs. I kiss mine all the time.

[DavidW]

And more cowbell. 

I gotta have more cowbell!

[Philoctetes]

I perused all of your postings since you joined up; seems to me that you get at least as much response as I receive.  So I end up feeling that you are complaining about nothing of merit.

This in spades. In regards to Don, himself, I read nearly all of his posts, but my responses to his musical inquires wouldn't add to the topic, so I demure. If you look at my two main topics, which are only about the contemporary, it's essentially me posting, but I know that people listen and look, and that's all that really matters, I think.

[Brian]

Also, for me the listening balance is a bit skewed towards obscure symphonic music, whereas my thing is more virtuosic instrumental music. It's not too big a problem though, as there are plenty of individual threads for that... but I definitely got the feeling that people weren't interested when I posted these kinds of CDs on the 'currently listening' thread.

Actually, I JUST NOW opened a new parcel of CDs I ordered last week, and one of them is Maxim Rysanov's Bach cello suites arranged for viola - which you recommended in the 'currently listening' thread.

[Szykneij]

Actually, I JUST NOW opened a new parcel of CDs I ordered last week, and one of them is Maxim Rysanov's Bach cello suites arranged for viola - which you recommended in the 'currently listening' thread.

That's where the value of that thread is. It's not a thread that lends itself to much discussion. I usually don't go there because, like yesterday, it generally consists of 8-10 consecutive pages of CD images. Sometimes, someone will see something that piques their interest and they make a new discovery. If that discovery generates some discussion, it usually appears in a new or different thread.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Like: The more international view on classical music. Also: The german classical music forum world seems to circulate around Bruckner, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Wagner, Karajan, Fischer-Dieskau... you name it. No room for Pettersson, RVW, Elgar, Braga Santos...

[mc ukrneal]

Yikes, it's getting a bit out of hand... I didn't mean to make so much fuss, just some general observations.
Thanks for all the advice, I have definitely adjusted the way I interact here since I joined.
Like with most discussions in life, the truth is probably in the middle somewhere.
Thanks for the encouragement, perhaps I'll make a bit more of an effort when I've finished my Master's thesis I'm in the middle of and should be doing right now instead of procrastinating here!

I love, love, love solo piano music. Just bought Kjerulf's complete piano set on Simax. And, on a rec from Leo, 2 solo piano Galuppi CDs.

[Mirror Image]

No room for Pettersson, RVW, Elgar, Braga Santos...

Sounds like a forum I wouldn't want to be apart of. There is more to classical music than the Germans. In fact, I seldom listen to German composers. There's just too much to explore.

[Philoctetes]

I like how unfriendly this site can get.

[Scion7]

yes - man's inhumanity to man runs rampant here!

   

[TheGSMoeller]

Like
The GMG housemates, all of them. Such an eclectic group.
Many great known/unknown recordings that now fill my collection based on friendly recommendations.

Dislike
How some threads get hijacked into focusing on a topic that wasn't the intent, and then never returning to it's origin.
Many great known/unknown recordings that now fill my collection based on friendly recommendations. (<---my wallet wrote this one)

[eyeresist]

We don't need the likes of you here; get your dinner somewhere else! 

They all come here and eat the big dinner.

For instance I don't spend that much time in the classical corner, and it does feel very cliqueish.

Does the classical music forum have a classical corner? 

[drogulus]

     I'm the last person to give advice....no really, after me it stops for good.

     If you want to have interchanges with people find out what they like and tell them how horrible they are to like it. And another thing......

[DavidW]

Does the classical music forum have a classical corner? 

Yeah Gurn's classical corner.  It's so esoteric your eyes roll right off the thread, it's been hiding in plain sight for years.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Like: The more international view on classical music. Also: The german classical music forum world seems to circulate around Bruckner, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Wagner, Karajan, Fischer-Dieskau... you name it. No room for Pettersson, RVW, Elgar, Braga Santos...

I don't completely agree. I sometimes read Tamino Klassikforum (very busy German-language forum), and I find plenty of interest in non-German composers there.

[Que]

Like: the large crowd of GMG'ers that form this wonderful community. And there is always someone to share a particular interest with, musical or otherwise, no matter how rare!
I'd wish we had even more members - GMG still doesn't do will at Google... Anway - spread the word!

Dislike: those few posters who use this forum to relieve themselves of negative emotions. Too bad, but fortunately with the general positive mood here, we can handle that.

Q

[Lisztianwagner]

Like:

1. The huge musical knowledge and love for classical music showned on this forum;
2. Members here are very kind and they are always helpful to suggest you new composers and new recordings.

Dislike:

1. Johann Strauss is not as appreciated as he would deserve.....

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Dislike:

1. Johann Strauss is not as appreciated as he would deserve.....

All is well, I am among a few others a huge admirer of the Strauss Family as composers. Prove of the pudding is the 52 CD box released by Naxos I have in my possession, although I do not think anybody else bought this on GMG, at least not that I am aware of!

[Henk]

Like
1. Communication, new insights. Other ways to look at things which I find fruitful or not.
2. Fun
3. Contacts. A way of getting into touch with people. Possibly also in the real world. For me this is always a motivation. Without that possibility it would be less interesting to me.
4. Original thougths about things, about music
5. The search for better performances, unknown music
6. Members who are really touched by their listening to particular music and show this.
7. The Diner.

Dislike:
1. To show how well developed you are. People really don't value yourself high because you listen to classical music and read books. It's not always a sign of civilisation. It takes much more to become a "man of civilisation". For me this is something I strive for, but I have a long way to go. I rate my own civilisation low.
2. I have difficulties with a taste for late-romantic music. It's not my taste at all. For me it's nationalistic, it's a way of keeping old times alive, for me it's dreadful music. People who listen to it, are idle. There's not much postive to say about late-romantic music. It's unnatural in rest as well unrest. Some of this music really present false things, this leads to feelings, people find nice, but have nothing to do with reality.

[Karl Henning]

2. I have difficulties with a taste for late-romantic music. It's not my taste at all. For me it's nationalistic, it's a way of keeping old times alive, for me it's dreadful music. People who listen to it, are idle. There's not much postive to say about late-romantic music.

Well, I am sorry for you that this is something you Dislike about GMG; but your screed here is not any great argument for your own refinement or acumen.  Just yesterday I listened to Dvořák's Eighth & Ninth Symphonies, but it had nothing to do with "keeping old times alive." For you to call people who listen to late Romantic music "idle" is ridiculous, and probably too ridiculous to be insulting.  I listen to it all the time, and if you're calling me "idle," it only goes to show how little you know — and again, if your absurdly broad comments fall this short of sensible evaluation, it makes all your commentary here seem clownish.  "There's not much positive to say about late-romantic music": how can you spout such rubbish?  No, really: I am curious how it is possible.  Is it just that you form ideas, and refuse to test them with actual experience?  I can say positive things about that part of the literature daily for a year, and not repeat myself.  Yet you pontificate here that "there's not much."  Just how deep a hole in the sand have you jammed your head into, fella?

"It's unnatural in rest as well unrest." If anyone on the planet knows what this is supposed to mean, I should like it in lucid English. Not that I hold any great hope that there is any reasonable insight contained therein.