Pieces everyone else likes but you

Anything by Sibelius and Ralph Vaughan Williams (two completely uninteresting and incompetent composers).

BLASPHEMER!

Originally Posted by gianluca

New music that's associated with the so-called "New Spirituality" movement, i.e., the music by the likes of Pärt, Kancheli, Gorecki (especially his Third Symphony, what an overrated piece of crap), Penderecki (although I admire his radical early stuff; he's a bit of a fallen genius), Peteris Vasks, Gavin Bryars and John Tavener.

Many pieces by Tchaikovsky.

Most pieces by Shostakovich (to quote Boulez, he's just a second or even third pressing of Mahler), Rachmaninoff (so terribly bombastic, clichéd and sentimental it hurts), Barber and Britten.

Almost anything by those retrogressive American contemporary composers of neo-tonal schlock that are so popular nowadays, e.g., John Adams (especially his terribly kitschy 9/11 piece that won a Pulitzer Prize), Corigliano, Kernis, Joan Tower, etc.

Anything Philip Glass wrote after "Einstein on the Beach".

Anything by Sibelius and Ralph Vaughan Williams (two completely uninteresting and incompetent composers).

All pop music.

Basically you hate anything that sounds good.

Go enjoy your Boulez & Carter then. And continue to make friends with your ingratiating manner of belittling great composers; after all, that's why you're so popular on here.
Then again, popular = bad, right? So I guess it would be a good thing if no one liked you anyway.

Originally Posted by chodelkovzart

lol. somewhere deep inside i agree with you, but im not gonna show it because i know i would get stabbed by people.

Good call... Agreeing with Gianluca is basically an open invitation for stabbings 'round here. I have a special dagger exclusively for that purpose...it was given to me by an Afghan Emir who had used it to usurp his title from an evil old man who had used all his money to build a palace entirely out of coffee beans.

Needless to say, I'm pleased you chose not to express your agreement ... especially concerning the "all pop music" segment...although, there's no need to bring THAT up again...

Originally Posted by Daniel

Basically you hate anything that sounds good.

No, that's a wrong inference. Basically, I hate any music that seriously lacks substance, originality, invention and depth. (And by the way, I have outgrown the phase of being concerned about being popular.)

I hate any music that seriously lacks substance, originality, invention and depth.

I guess I have to start seeing Britten and co. in this light. I've been so foolish.

Originally Posted by gianluca

...by the way, I have outgrown the phase of being concerned about being popular.

Yes...because your perspective is so mature.

Pachelbel wrote some really nice music; too bad we just remember him for that cheesy canon.

"In the Mood" <stabs bandleader in the face>
"Sing Sing Sing" <stabs drummer in the face>
"Für Elise" <stabs self in the face>

Originally Posted by echurchill

Pachelbel wrote some really nice music; too bad we just remember him for that cheesy canon.

QFT.

Pachelbel wrote some amazing music, and I like the god-damned canon.

In fact a lot of the shit people say here they hate I actually like, yay! Save Mahler, I actively don't like Mahler's music regardless of it's academic importance. Or Bruckner, but there's a couple of things by Mahler and Bruckner which I find OK too, so, eh.

Also, Peteris Vasks mention FTW... Mentioned by Gianluca FTL. :<

Hopefuly he'll keep posting so this turns loltastic +1.

Eh, I agree with Gianluca for parts too... but "De gustibus non est disputandum..." or whatever. 7 years of latin down the drain, there.