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I have a lot of Philip Glass. When I am in the right mood, his music casts a spell. It is amazing what repetition with small variations can do. Like Gorecki's Third Symphony, I find his music "romantic", in a strange way.
Orion, if you haven't heard the Gorecki, try it. Take a deep breath, get comfortable and listen to it all at once at a good volume.

Post 1

Saturday, August 21, 2004 - 12:54pm

I, too, am a fan of Philip Glass. I recommend his "Songs from Liquid Days" cd which features lyrics by Paul Simon and others, and vocals by the Roches, Linda Ronstadt and others.
(Edited by Bob Palin on 8/22, 4:37am)

Post 2

Saturday, August 21, 2004 - 2:35pm

you like phillip glass? how dare you listen to avante garde nihilistic noise! how dare you listen to anything other than mario lanza! I will shower you with one million non sanctions for the sin of your aesthetic irrationality of thinking that art should be anything other than telling you how wonderful everything is!! Evil!!! EEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVIIIIIIIIILLLLLLL!!!!!

Post 3

Saturday, August 21, 2004 - 6:48pm

James,

I'll have to check it out... I happen to love a good bit of the so-called "new age" music... to me, it is very courageous, tranquil, and optimistic. Even though Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, calls Glass a "tonal ass" who needs to "write a song with a f#@%!ng tune", I still like his stuff.

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Bob,

You know, that sounds very good... I'll have to also check that out. Even though a lot of Paul Simon's lyrics are stream of non-literally coherent subconsciousness, somehow a lot of his solo music does it for me. I particularly enjoyed his lyrics to "I Am a Rock", from his days with Garfunkel, although I do not like their glorification of drugs and hopelessness in so many other songs...

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Robert,

Point taken. The needle on my sarcasm detector just went past 10, to eleven. *L*

(Edited by Orion Reasoner on 8/21, 6:52pm)

Post 4

Saturday, August 21, 2004 - 6:57pm

1: I actually tried to put in "sarcasm" HTML tags in the text, but it SOLO got rid of them.

2: do I detect a spinal tap reference coming on?

Post 5

Saturday, August 21, 2004 - 7:50pm

"Do I detect a Spinal Tap reference coming on?"

I would certainly hope not. We don't want any SOLOists dying in bizarre gardening accidents! :-)

Anyway, what day did the Lord create Spinal Tap? Couldn't he have rested on that day too?

It is, after all, such a fine line between stupid, and clever. A line too often crossed.

Post 6

Saturday, August 21, 2004 - 11:28pm

Love " Liquid Days", but I lost it. Thanks for reminding me about it. I'll go get it again.

Robert-
Never heard the album of nothing but Lanza high notes called "Lanza breaks Glass?"

Post 7

Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 2:22am

To plagiarise Beecham, I'm not sure if I've heard any Glass, but I think I may have trodden in some the other day.

From what I *think* I recall of him, I wouldn't cross the road to hear him. To piss on him, perhaps, but that would probably be a waste of good urine.

Linz

Post 8

Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 8:26am

This is funny stuff; funny, funny stuff.

"You know, people don't like to have fire poked... poked into their noses."

Where's that quote from?

Post 9

Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 9:45am

I liked the work Philip Glass did on The Truman Show soundtrack, so I ordered this album. It was so terrible I gave it to a friend of mine. I caution SOLOists, even those who have liked other work by Philip Glass, to at least listen to a few minutes of Koyaanisqatsi before they buy it.

Post 10

Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 10:02am

Greetings.

About a year ago, I wrote a miniplay, "The Inexperienced," in which the antagonist, Dr. Patrick Silk, is a parody of Philip Glass in the role of a college professor. You can read it at http://www.geocities.com/rationalargumentator/inexperienced.html.

I am
G. Stolyarov II
Editor-in-Chief, The Rational Argumentator
Proprietor, The Rational Argumentator Online Store
Author, Eden against the Colossus
Chief Administrator, Chicago Methuselah Foundation Fund

Post 11

Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 4:52pm

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog went on to say: �Pheeleep, I keed�you know I keed. � Eet�s fine, fine music �

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(Seriously, I haven�t heard any of Glass�s stuff myself. I�ll keep an ear out for it, though obviously it is alien to my own musical sensibility.)

Post 12

Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 7:31pm

Andrew,

The great thing about the score of "The Truman Show" is the use of the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1, 2nd mvt. The portions of underscoring contributed by Mr. Glass are, as you pointed out, terrible. His score for "The Hours" is slightly better. Even at his best, though, his work cannot compare to another film scorer, Elmer Bernstein, who passed away this week.

Post 13

Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 10:39pm