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At 4/23/09 01:57 PM, Gooch wrote: I'd take Beethoven over Mozart, but they both have some great pieces.

Also, you can't go wrong with Scott Joplin.

a ragtime fan? the entertainer is my favorite ice cream truck song. for word.

I like Metallica and Mozart. I have on my ipod Beethoven's Pastoral symphony and Gorillaz "Feel Good Inc" following right after. It's all right to like a variety of music. It means you actually think about what you are listening to.

Why do people keep bringing up Metallica in this thread? Is it because it's also ancient and obsolete?

If its your kind of music, then just listen to it.

At 4/23/09 01:32 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: Although these are really just theories. In reality, I'm not really sure why it is, but just a lot of people who are not part of the upper class culture just view it badly.

I suppose, although I'm a bit poor and from a lower-middle class family who has had to get food stamps, welfare, and bankruptcies in the past, and I still enjoy classical.

At 4/23/09 01:57 PM, Gooch wrote: I'd take Beethoven over Mozart, but they both have some great pieces.

Also, you can't go wrong with Scott Joplin.

George Gershwin rocks too.

No, it's completely wrong to have your own taste in music. As wrong as homosexuality, and women's rights.

Depends, Do you like, like him,...or just like him?

No. Mozart is the god of music. Seriously. Whoever hates him deserves to be smitten.

At 4/23/09 02:17 PM, Kalibur wrote: No, it's completely wrong to have your own taste in music. As wrong as homosexuality, and women's rights.

Way to go, Kaufman.

No, it's ok to like Mozart because the man was making symphonies as a child and I admire him for that.

Mozart was fine, I liked his works when I was younger and when I knew less about the classical world What I highly suggest is to broaden your horizon and find other composers because there are hundreds out there (who in my opinion are so much more worth listening to).
Some I suggest are

Frederic Chopin (obviously, he's my god)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (ranges from chopinesque romance to modern complex pieces)
Sergei Prokofiev (if you're interested in sarcasm in music)
Felix Mendelssohn or Johannes Brahms (if you like Beethoven)
Dmitri Shostakovich (powerful large-scale revolutionary stuff)
Claude Debussy/Maurice Ravel (if you enjoy romantic impressionism)

You know what, if you wish, feel free to IM me and I can provide you with plenty of songs. I have a ridiculously large library of music I can share with you.
Screen name is in my profile

Mozart was a rock god for his time

Then again so were the beatles but they DIED

Well people used to like him, young hooligans think it's nerdy because it doesn't involve some guy talking about his big ass bitch.

Dude, that's like asking if it's wrong to like cake.

Why would it be wrong to like certain types of music?

I was listening to Mozart while coming across this thread... irony at its best.

So, no, Mozart is perfectly fine although I do take a lot of ridicule for it especially because I'm 18.

At 4/23/09 02:02 PM, Tancrisism wrote: I suppose, although I'm a bit poor and from a lower-middle class family who has had to get food stamps, welfare, and bankruptcies in the past, and I still enjoy classical.

Yeah, I didn't say that people who are from a poorer background can't enjoy it. They do. I was just thinking about how the whole thing may of kicked off as a common "social norm/rule".

Of course not! Without classical music, today's music would be much suckier. The classical composers like Bach, Brahm, Beethoven, and Motzart have timeless sonatas, concertos, and orchestral arrangements that are timeless, influential, and pure genius. Classical music is the ultimate form of music. Plus, if you listen to classical, it will make you smarter. Fact.

Yes. You should be listening to Chopin instead.
The man is a music genius.

out of all classical music, i find it sounds more light, and more like something snobby aristocrats would listen to. not all classical music is light and breezy and cheerful. listen to tchaikovsky or wagner.

At 4/23/09 12:00 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote:
A lot of young people look down on classical because their brains can't comprehend anything that isn't pop music and pop culture.

A lot of people look down on pop music for the same reason.

At 4/23/09 12:01 PM, TheLameSauce wrote: people probably give those who like classical music a hard time because they don't think you actually like the music; but rather, you're trying to appear sophisticated and cultured. and no one likes a phony. no one.

Actually, nobody gives me a hard time because no-one really knows. Mozart made some of the greatest artistic pieces in the world and what pop culture is doing to the world, changing humanity's moods might instill fear into the likes of younger people who enjoy sohpisticated works from a genious like mozart sometimes.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with liking Mozart. Requiem ftw.

I don't like rap, they make up something gibberish,you hardly understand it,it's like a big fuck you.

There was also a movie made about mozart, and another componist of his time being quite a tad older than him and completely jealous because the much younger child Mozart was composing music far beyond the sight of the older componist. I've seen this movie a long time ago, several years, and I forgot the title.

I'd love to see it again, it was inspiring, some of Mozart's greater works came in there, and most facts about his life story (including his death). If anyone has a clue for me on this movie's name or other details whatsoever, I'm always here on this topic and my inbox is waiting for your firy-fingered replies.

As long as no one else likes it you're OK.

No, there's nothing wrong with it. The great thing about classical music is that it can relax and soothe, because (short of Jack Johnson), there's not many artists that made soft, easy listening music.

It's ironic how Beethoven was deaf when he wrote "Ode to Joy", he never had the chance to listen to it but he know how it goes.

No? I can't say I could sit there all day listening only to classical music. I do like composers like Philip Glass etc... but some classical music starts to get annoying.

The way I see it, it's not wrong to like Mozart, nor Classical.
I used to think that only old people listened to classical music, but since I came on NG, I have seen that that's not the case.
Mozart had a wonderful mind filled with music. Many people today have a similar mind, but it's usually shunned, or it's not used to its full potential. That saddens me.
But go on liking Mozart, he's brilliant.