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Agathon
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Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
Dec 2002
time: 00:34
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Yeah, I'm sure you'll provide an example of such. Go ahead. And of course, there's just another baseless insult from you. |
Crying are we? I'm not going to waste my time trolling through the archives looking for your old posts.
I'll just wait until next time you do it. Shouldn't be long...
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I've never "slagged" your tastes in music. What would I slag? |
 See... already.
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On the contrary, you constantly (and to a tiresome level) see fit to insult my musical tastes at every opportunity, unbidden. If it's not a Brahms quip, it's an oh-so-witty Bruckner put-down (I especially loved your wonderfully amusing anecdote of the witty "Mahler Good, Bruckner Bad" motto. However did anyone think of that saying?). |
Perhaps it's because you start squealing like a scalded cat, and start posting purple prose in defence of your heroes, which you regard as proving your point -- even though it doesn't since language is not really adequate to describe music properly. But that's another thread.
Frankly, I find Brahms to be a pedestrian soul, and I've honestly tried to appreciate his music. But there's just nothing there.
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You then even had the nerve to falsely accuse me of hating Wagner once, and I have no idea where that came from. |
Your own comments about him I should think.
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Coming from you, this is rich. Why don't we put up an "arrogant snob" poll and see whom folks think of is the most smug on Apolyton. I'm willing to bet you win over anyone else on this board by a landslide. |
Smug about what? Sure, I'm a misanthrope.. but you can't honestly tell me you've missed the heavy irony in most of my "elitist" rants (including in this thread).
Jesus... you're like the guy who jumps up on stage to save Desdemona. 
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The band who I really cannot abide on Asher's ' list' is Maroon 5...and I've heard them enough on the radio. I feel like clawing my cochleas out whenever they come on. So inoffensive they are offensive, and dull...oh my f**king god... |
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Zopperoni
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Originally posted by Az
I'll reserve judgement... till I hear it. Someone said you could hear snippets online... Where? |
Click on the Amazon link in Asher's first post.
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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
time: 00:34
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Originally posted by Agathon
Crying are we? I'm not going to waste my time trolling through the archives looking for your old posts. |
Nope, just pointing out you're full of ****. I'd think, were I such an obvious snob, you could find one such example without having to "troll" the archives.
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I'll just wait until next time you do it. Shouldn't be long...
See... already. |
You totally misunderstood what I was saying. I meant "what would I slag" in the sense that there's nothing I see wrong with your musical tastes, as when it comes to classical music, we tend to like a lot of the same things, if for different reasons. I've never, ever said your taste in music sucks. You, however, can't help yourself but to attack the tastes of others. I can't imagine being as insecure as you are about music--it's so sad. 
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Perhaps it's because you start squealing like a scalded cat, and start posting purple prose in defence of your heroes, which you regard as proving your point -- even though it doesn't since language is not really adequate to describe music properly. But that's another thread. |
Another gross exaggeration on your part. You're so disingenuous. I will endeavor to defend what I like against attacks, sure. And then you just characterize it as "squealing" because you can't handle people disagreeing with your lofty opinion. That's because you're a total snob.
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Frankly, I find Brahms to be a pedestrian soul, and I've honestly tried to appreciate his music. But there's just nothing there. |
That's fine if you feel that way. But that's not where you stop. You go about saying people who like Brahms, or Bruckner, or Bernstein, have bad taste and are inferior to your musical greatness. That's the line that's being crossed into snobbery. Look what you said in this thread about my liking Bernstein as a Mahler conductor--you attacked me and my view of music instead of leaving it at criticizing the particular interpretation. I've never done that to you or anyone else.
I'll criticize specific music and composers or conductors based on my own taste, but I don't go around saying people who like those things are somehow inferior. You do that all the time.
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Your own comments about him I should think. |
Such as? I suspect you'll cop out again with this.
I like Wagner, I just don't worship him. I know that's an affront to your musical highness, but that's how it is. I have a complete Ring Cycle as well as recordings of Dutchman, Meistersinger and Tristan. How could I hate him if I listen to him? I had the pleasure of seeing James Morris and Paul Plishka in Dutchman in Baltimore, one of the highlights of the opera performances I've attended.
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Smug about what? Sure, I'm a misanthrope.. but you can't honestly tell me you've missed the heavy irony in most of my "elitist" rants (including in this thread).
Jesus... you're like the guy who jumps up on stage to save Desdemona. |
I don't think it's so ironic. I think it's truth, you're just trying to mask it as irony because you know everyone thinks you're an elitist boor.
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