Shostakovich symphonies 5 > 10 > 4 is the consensus but I think but 4 > 10 > 5 is correct
It's 14 > 10 > 15 > 13 > 4 > 1 > 8 > 9 > 5 > the rest, as far as I'm concerned.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
Oooooh, no 11? No Leningrad? Wow
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
For The Roses - Joni Mitchell
Also yeah, Shos 11 bangs wtf
― MaresNest, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
10 is really amazing, the first mvt. is perfect in every way, along with 1st mvt. Bartok Music For Strings+ it's my favourite 'unspooling' in the canon. 2nd mvt. is fun when Dudamel does it; 3rd mvt. is good jokes I guess, the DSCH thing is cheesy; 4th mvt. well idk I read that at the premiere all the starving Leningradians ran out into the street crying with joy at its conclusion but to me it just sounds like a snooze alarm that won't quit
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
"For The Roses" isn't "light years" ahead of "Blue" but I do think it deserves much more love than the three more-celebrated albums that followed it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
Listen I like For the Roses a lot but that is a wild opinion
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
FTR seems entirely in Blue's shadow and appears to be a bit of a blank spot, some songs are every bit as beautiful, fraught and confessional as Blue.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 1 December 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
The 11th Symphony is decent film music disguised as Soviet agitprop. Not a bad work by any means, but it lacks the tragic heft of his less populist pieces. I like my Shosty either morbidly despairing or caustically mocking the powers-that-be, head-on, so I tend to gravitate towards his later material. Anyway, in keeping with the thread's premise, I do agree that the 4th is a better work than the 5th (I may even prefer the 1st, overall) but it doesn't top the 10th.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 1 December 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman >>>>> Sweetener
― ufo, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
The new Idles seems like a pretty good example of this phenomenon.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
― ufo, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 8:17 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
severely otm
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
extREMELY otm ^
― austinb, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
Ariana Grande, My Everything >>> dangerous woman > Sweetener
― maffew12, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
christ, of all her records, my everything?
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
hell yeah. now don't have me take this all the way to the "inclining" thread!
― maffew12, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
er, declining. so many threads.
jesus this thread is embarrassing plz stop
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link