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In Praise Of Gospel

the last bit of choral music i heard was one of saam's things on the radio - and it was absolute quailty. really made the hairs on my arms stand up.

i also saw a childrens chior from a mine town in africa sing a few years ago and they were something else, the power they conveyed. they made everyone walking past stop and listen.
 
Donna Ferentes said:
Ignorance is no defence.
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i wasn't aware that I needed a defence? what's the charge.

I've heard a LOT of opera, i've got family who are very into it. and i'm also getting on a bit. I suspect I like about 5% of what i've heard.
Now unless i've been REALLY unlikely, and the opera i've heard is all poor, i think it's a safe conclusion to reach that i don't much care for opera.

Bearing in mind the short time we all have on this planet, do you think I'd be foolish not to keep on listening to opera - despite all the evidence so far - on the offchance that i just haven't been exposed to the right stuff?
 
Donna Ferentes said:
Philistinism?
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ah, well if it's philistinism as defined by your version of what constitutes non-philistinism, "you've got me bang to rights guvnor, school chess club is to blame."
 
Saturday and Sunday mornings on Vibes FM, after the big shouty service and preaching, they move to gospel music, onto the funk, and then the reggae

I never notice the transition from the preaching to the gospel singing

It's great

:)
 
Dubversion said:
ah, well if it's philistinism as defined by your version of what constitutes non-philistinism, "you've got me bang to rights guvnor, school chess club is to blame."
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I tend to think it's philistinism as defined by the normal standards of pop music, to wit "what we do not understand we will dismiss".
 
A very low one. To be able to find nothing, or very little, in a form which has inspired people for centuries: that would be so difficult that one would have to forget almost everything in order so to do.
 
Donna Ferentes said:
A very low one. To be able to find nothing, or very little, in a form which has inspired people for centuries: that would be so difficult that one would have to forget almost everything in order so to do.
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religion, i have a degree of understanding yet I am happy to dismiss it, whatever its inspiration

<puts religion and opera into room 101>






<and 'castling'>
 
Luciano Pavarotti could sing randomly selected names out of the phone book and it would make me feel all shivery :)
 
Donna Ferentes said:
I tend to think it's philistinism as defined by the normal standards of pop music, to wit "what we do not understand we will dismiss".
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so to distinguish yourself from this morass of clueless humanity, i assume that all the cultural forms you dismiss, you do so from a position of complete understanding.

You wouldn't concede for a second that, y'know, some things just 'aren't your cup of tea'?

how rare :)
 
Would love to get into it more, just need to find the time to go through so many peoples recommendations.

Would make some fucking heavy samples...

GospelCore WILL happen one day :D
 
Moggy said:
You know it'll be the bomb... :D
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make it so
 
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