"Mark R Penn" wrote in message
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Trouble is Arfa, many people judge jazz by Cullom. People will say rock is
**** - it's not when done well. Or that classical is too; same applies. Or
any other form of music.

That's why I respond so adversely to the use of "****" to describe any
music - none of us have a right to describe someone else's likes, possibly
even passions, as "****".

My daughters listen to music that in the past I might have called ****,
but seeing how happy it makes them and how it connects with them (and for
them it IS the music, not a fashion thing), it's impossible for me to
think that now.

Agree with you about Cullom and Astley though

Mark

Quite so, Mark, quite so.

I see that someone has finally come up with the answer to the OP's question.
Interesting that its by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I wonder if that means
that it's actually by a Russian composer ? If you start factoring in
nationality to music, I suppose that it's going to have some effect on who
likes it. Some national things are ingrained from birth, I think.

Music is a strange thing though. Someone on this thread dismissed
contemporary performers as lightweight compared to the ' classic '
performers / composers, in terms of how long they would be around. I'm not
sure that this is true. There are probably what, I don't know, 30 perhaps '
classic ' composers, of which maybe half's work is reasonably well known ?
Over the couple of centuries that these people lived, how many more '
unknowns ' were there, that produced the crap of their day ?

Lightweight or not, do we think that the likes of The Rolling Stones or the
Beatles or The Beach Boys or Hendrix or Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin or many
others, are going to be totally forgotton in short order ? I really don't
think so, and when their music is taken in its contemporary light, it is
every bit as valid and ' classic ' as that of the old master composers.

It's strange when posters say about music touching people. It probably does,
but rarely, it actually ' connects ' with you. I don't know about others on
here, but I sometimes hear a piece of music for the first time, and I just
know that it's going to become a monster success, and will become a classic.
Many tunes which are now modern classics, have seemed that they are going to
be to me, right from the off. Look at the original Norman Greenbaum " Spirit
in the Sky ". They're still playing that one 40 years on, and will still be
playing it in another 40 years.

And much as I hate Rick Astley's music, once you hear one of his tunes on
the radio, which they do actually still play fairly regularly, you can't get
it out of your head. Now the whole original concept of BBC2's " The Old
Grey Whistle Test " was just this, so does this qualify Astley's music as '
classic ' or even good ?

Arfa