i just asked this on facebook, i'll ask it here too:
every once in a while - VERY rarely though - customers who buy rock or jazz or r&b at my store will buy a classical record and its almost always a record by the same composer. can you guess who it is?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
mahler? or nono, probably mahler
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
stravinsky
― þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsla (clouds), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
i'll let you know if you hit it. definitely the number one *what do people who don't buy classical buy when they buy classical* in my store over the last 4 years. and to make it easier its not glass or riley cuz like i said on facebook i almost consider them pop cuz they are as easy to sell as kate bush and tom waits records.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
Wagner?
― skip, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Vivaldi's Four Seasons
― skip, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
górecki
― þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsla (clouds), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
last guess - Debussy
― skip, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
stockhausen
― cb, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
i should also say that number two on the list of classical that people who don't buy classical buy would be anything by glenn gould.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
Rhapsody in Blue
― skip, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
Carmina Burana?
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
John Adams?
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
Gilbert and Sullivan?
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
Bach
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
haha! oh man if i could unload some gilbert & sullivan box-sets i would be a happy guy.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
i wish it were bach too. i got so much great bach.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
i assumed Sideshow Bob was representative
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
it's andré boucourechliev isn't it?
― þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsla (clouds), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
What's Lang Lang's latest? Are the Three Tenors still selling well?
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
scott said composer tho
Cage
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Sousa
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Got confused when he said second place was Glenn Gould.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
John Williams
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, someone has to guess Beethoven or Mozart, right?
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
i can't work out if the answer is gonna be surprisingly kitsch or surprisingly modernist
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
it's satie
― þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsla (clouds), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
That would've been one of my guesses after flipping through my book of wedding piano music.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Rachmaninoff or Chopin
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
"it's satie"
bingo! winner by a mile.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
Hah, and I'm sure they all only listen to that one thing, too.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
there's a couple that people recognise i think
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
Bizarre.
― skip, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:45 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bet they probably don't listen to it at all
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
satie and glenn gould, shit i'm that customer
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
"Well, it's not meat but I suppose I better buy some for appearances."
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
i think as a precursor of ambient music and huge film/TV earworm people might be able to handle listening to the rugged stylings of "Trois Gymnopedes"
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
OH GOD WHAT IS THIS SHIT TURN IT OFF I THOUGHT IT WOULD ROCK MORE
guys
IF IT FLOATES, WE KNOAWE IT'S A HIPSTERE
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
*wonders if xenakis is #3*
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
annnd i'm sorry for running in on that note, i love this thread but i never have anything to contribute. *sidesteps off*
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, I always thought of Satie as 'classical music for people who don't listen to classical music'.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
satiesque is one of the worst reviewer-speak for "tinkly major key piano music" but none of the assholes writing "satiesque" music would've written something as weird as the "3 sonneries de la rose-croix"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOGPcD2A9g
― þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsla (clouds), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
one of the worst reviewer-speak buzzwords* rather
hating on people for wanting to hear some classical music they enjoyed in a movie is kinda the worst caricature of the classical music listener - I don't listen to lots of Satie but c'mon y'all drop the snob act, it's a bad look
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
i like when someone buys ANY classical. i ain't no snob. still think i should give out a free classical album with every purchase. but i don't even know if people would take them for free! i mean i sell classical but 99.9% goes to classical people. i'm always amazed by the lack of crossover. despite being a rockhead i ALWAYS bought classical records at thrift stores and elsewhere. for decades. and apparently this is really not that common. it really is a rarefied audience. in this case meaning the audience is rare to find. which isn't the meaning of rarefied at all.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
Who was being snobby about Satie?? I like Satie fine. My comment wasn't a putdown.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i don't think anybody here said otherwise?
― tochter tochter, please (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
I admit I intended my wedding piano music book to be a little bit snobbish.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
i sell classical but 99.9% goes to classical people. i'm always amazed by the lack of crossover. despite being a rockhead i ALWAYS bought classical records at thrift stores and elsewhere. for decades. and apparently this is really not that common.
To generalize: much classical music, especially common practice repertoire, would seem to work pretty differently from pop/rock and emphasizes a different mode of listening from that used for music with relatively flat dynamics, a steady rhythm section, repeated cyclic chord progressions, and riff/motive-based melody. (Sure, CPP music works with motives but often does so in a different way, emphasizing e.g. transformation and development.) Many pop/rock listeners might not be in the habit of listening for the large-scale formal issues and developmental processes we find in CPP music? Satie's big 'hits', on the other hand, do work pretty similarly to how pop works!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link