Over the weekend I went back to my old house to move more things to my new place, and I stumbled upon an old CD collection. Most of these CD's sucked, and were just a bunch of lame disco compilation albums claiming to be "The best of the 70's" (Where's Zeppelin, or Neil Young?) .
One of the CD's in the pile was "The Elements of Music", a classical comp. album featuring some of the best knows pieces and composers of all time. Upon arriving home I popped the CD into my computer and grabbed my headphones. Instead of being presented with some of the best music of all time I instead was insulted with some of the most mundane songs I've ever heard. Not a single track in the 23 song album incurred even the slightest emotion.
Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against instrumentals or instruments typical of orchestras (My second favorite group is Tin Hat Trio), but it was just disappointing.
I've come to the conclusion that the only reason the general public doesn't show mutual contempt for the genre is fear that if they do, a bunch of pretentious assholes will call them stupid.
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