• Musical Coder (unregistered)

    Ok, a fairly definitive answer to the whole F# thing: Bach uses modal mixture a lot (D major chords and scales in D minor pieces for instance), so an F# wouldn't be that surprising. Ligiti being a modern composer would use them all over the place.

  • (cs) in reply to bpk
    bpk:
    Russ:
    A program mislabled a CD with explicit lyrics?

    Come on that is weak. I would rather have a day without a WTF post then silly stuff like this. Everyone makes mistakes, I come for the failure

    But if there were no WTF post, then what would you have to complain about?

    The lack of a WTF post. Duh.

  • Frank (unregistered) in reply to Nekrotzar

    Not to mention one of the Characters is named "Clitoria" or something like that.

  • Frank (unregistered) in reply to Frank
    Frank:
    Not to mention one of the Characters is named "Clitoria" or something like that.

    was in response to

    Nekrotzar:
    Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" could very legitimately be given a parental advisory sticker.

    In one scene, two ministers insult each other alphabetically, starting with "Asslicker, asskisser" and then working their way crudely through the alphabet.

    In another scene, after a woman engages in some S&M with her husband, she asks God to give her one wish, a well-hung man. Death arrives and declares that her wish has been granted.

    "Please, not the whip!" "Well, then, kiss me!" "I'd rather the whip."

  • Wallace (unregistered)

    Nigga, you bes learn to respeck ma main man JS Bach or I'm gonna go all baroque on yo ass!

  • AdT (unregistered)

    What I always wonder is why the curved openings on violins are called f-holes when they're shaped like an S.

  • Lurk Machine (unregistered)

    Am I the only one that noticed the performer is Michael Rappaport? He probably cusses like he's got Tourettes the whole time.

  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    What I always wonder is why the curved openings on violins are called f-holes when they're shaped like an S.
    I hope this isn't just a fish. The holes are shaped like an old-style cursive "f". The f's cross-bar is often quite small.
  • RH (unregistered)

    I never knew Emily Litella was on the advisory board.

  • rain (unregistered) in reply to Freddy Bob

    Frank Zappa's "Jazz from Hell" was hit with a parental advisory lyric wowser warning even though the album is completely instrumental.

    Frank did that himself, on purpose, as a form of protest against what he saw as institutionalized censorship.

  • (cs) in reply to Freddy Bob
    Freddy Bob:
    Frank Zappa's "Jazz from Hell" was hit with a parental advisory lyric wowser warning even though the album is completely instrumental. Just goes to show that the people who hand out the labels (and, by extension, the people who think they are a good idea and demand them in the first place) don't know their arses from their elbows.
    Ah, but if you ask them to distinguish between their a*** and their ***** they do just fine.
  • (cs) in reply to BigPimpin'
    BigPimpin':
    (pianist sounds like penis)

    You don't say... if I'd noticed this before I saw the genie I wouldn't be stuck with a 12-inch pianist.

  • (cs)

    Aren't we being just a bit NAIVE?

  • kallahan (unregistered) in reply to Ted

    It's classical, you assume harmonic minor unless melodic minor is stated, natural minor is rarly used.

  • theJediJesusDick (unregistered) in reply to s0be
    s0be:
    Mark B:
    I agree there have been a few weak posts recently. does that mean that there is less failures in the world ?

    Maybe agile does work after all.... nah its more likley luck.

    I suspect this site has desensitized us to what a failure is.

    I'll refresh everyone, you, you big douche bag.

  • None (unregistered) in reply to Nekrotzar
    Nekrotzar:
    In one scene, two ministers insult each other alphabetically, starting with "Asslicker, asskisser" and then working their way crudely through the alphabet.

    It sounds like Australian Parliament. Mark Latham once referred to Prime Minister John Howard as an "arselicker", and to the Liberal Party front bench as a "conga line of suckholes"

  • Rod (unregistered)

    SINCE WHEN DID "GIFT" BECOME A VERB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    For God's sake, doesn't anyone speak English good any more??????????? Warts harpening tu are languishing????

  • Sharkie (unregistered)

    I always felt the Classical section of the music shelves had way, way, way too much Sax and Violins.

  • csrster (unregistered)

    What's the betting that every listing in the database has its track total listed as the number of "songs"? That would be a real wtf - an ill-thought-out data model - and not just a metadata-QC error.

  • Thijs (unregistered) in reply to kallahan
    kallahan:
    It's classical, you assume harmonic minor unless melodic minor is stated, natural minor is rarly used.

    Keep minors out of this, you perverts!

  • (cs) in reply to Okidokie!

    Dontcha folks know that everything mentioning tit(s) gets rated automatically? As in Antoine Tamestit :)

  • Da' Man (unregistered)

    You would actually wonder how many of the classical masterpieces have lyrics, er, pardon, librettos, which are quite explicit by today's American standards.

  • Yehudi (unregistered) in reply to ebs2002
    ebs2002:
    The real WTF is that morgano doesn't know his music

    But Morgano does know his music -

    The d minor Chaconne in question has a large D major middle section with a metric shedload of F sharps.

    Regarding the Parental Advisory, I wonder whether whatever bot dishes these things out may have a rule somewhere in there that knows that Ligeti also wrote an opera called 'Le Grand Macabre' in which two of the principal characters (in the original version at any rate) are called Clitoria and Spermando.

    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grand_Macabre)

    And no, the handle notwithstanding, I am not a violinist. I am a cellist, an altogether superior breed.

  • General Dogsbody (unregistered)

    Some people think you need magical powers To play all this classical music for hours But I think composers are illiterate posers Who couldn't as words to their tunes.

  • General Dogsbody (unregistered) in reply to General Dogsbody
    General Dogsbody:
    Some people think you need magical powers To play all this classical music for hours But I think composers are illiterate posers Who couldn't as words to their tunes.

    Meant to type "Who couldn't add words to their tunes"

    Sorry, my fingers were all of a quaver

  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to Rod
    Rod:
    SINCE WHEN DID "GIFT" BECOME A VERB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    For God's sake, doesn't anyone speak English good any more??????????? Warts harpening tu are languishing????

    Some nouns just know deep inside that they're really verbs trapped in noun words. If they occasionally act out by pretending to be verbs, we should try to be tolerant and nonjudgmental.

  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to Yehudi
    Yehudi:
    The d minor Chaconne in question has a large D major middle section with a metric shedload of F sharps.
    "shedload" *giggle* That's just too f***ing cute!
  • Henry (unregistered) in reply to SuperousOxide
    SuperousOxide:
    BigPimpin':
    I could see getting flagged if he was a master pianist. (Animaniacs reference) (pianist sounds like penis)

    Goodnight everybody!

    Guy walks into a bar carrying a wood box about 12" on each side. He puts the box on the bar and opens it. Inside the box is a small piano and a 12" tall man who begins to play. The pianist's skill is flawless and his repetoire is vast. He fills the bar with great music for the whole evening, and the owner is rewarded with free drinks as a result.

    At closing time the bartender says "that was amazing - where did you find this piano player?" The guy says I was travelling through the desert one day, and came across an old worn lamp. In trying to clean the lamp I rubbed it, and a Genie appeared. The Genie said "for rubbing the magic lamp I shall grant you a wish". My wish was for a 12" penis.

    Captcha: ewww

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to Sgt. Preston
    Sgt. Preston:
    I hope this isn't just a fish. The holes are shaped like an old-style cursive "f". The f's cross-bar is often quite small.

    Rest assured that my posting is not a cold-blooded water-dwelling vertebrate.

  • (cs) in reply to morgano

    Not if it only uses the ascending melodic minor scale. Biaattchhh!!!

  • (cs) in reply to General Dogsbody
    General Dogsbody:
    General Dogsbody:
    Some people think you need magical powers To play all this classical music for hours But I think composers are illiterate posers Who couldn't as words to their tunes.

    Meant to type "Who couldn't add words to their tunes"

    Sorry, my fingers were all of a quaver

    All of a quaver, or just a hemidemisemiquaver?

  • Kkroon (unregistered) in reply to keezer
    keezer:
    Wow. We can't seem to go a day without a pretentious "real WTF" comment. Way to kill a joke by pointing out the "technical inaccuracies."

    While "Partita for Violin solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1004" doesn't resolve to a D major chord, most of Bach's "minor" works that I've studied end with a resolution to major... i.e., F# would be in the final cadence.

    Ending a minor mode piece with a major triad is called a "tierce de Picardie" -- the Picardy third.

    Or if you're feeling Star Trek-y, (Jean-Luc) Picard's third.

    There, I'm done.

    PS: mmm ... tacos ... too bad they give me heartburn.

  • Kkroon (unregistered) in reply to kallahan
    kallahan:
    It's classical, you assume harmonic minor unless melodic minor is stated, natural minor is rarly used.

    No, it's Baroque, and melody played a much more important role.

    As I singer with rather more experience with Baroque (and older) music than I should acknowledge, I assure you that Herr Kapellmeister Bach's voice leading practically demands a melodic minor -- it's much easier to sing, and it just "makes more sense" for music from that period -- till 1750 (not coincidentally the year that Old Bach died).

  • SumGuy (unregistered) in reply to Jimmy
    Jimmy:
    I would rather have something weak than nothing at all. Pretty much anything can spark a good discussion in this forum.

    And regrettably, everything seems to spark a dull 'Real WTF' or 'No U Suck At Grammar KTHXBYE' discussion.

    Captcha: [image]

  • SumOtherGuy (unregistered) in reply to SumGuy

    Can anonymous not post images?

    Captcha: http://captcha.istheshit.net/

  • Harsh (unregistered) in reply to Lurk Machine
    Lurk Machine:
    Am I the only one that noticed the performer is Michael Rappaport? He probably cusses like he's got Tourettes the whole time.

    Beautiful. That without question is Michael Rappaport. I also hope Michael Rappaport dies in some kind of fire/explosion soon.

  • Lee Phillips (unregistered)

    I like this better.

  • Darwin (unregistered) in reply to chrxs

    I wonder if maybe they have a column in the database for the advisory, if any, to show, with a value that indicates "none" (not NULL, though), and they only have it populated for the more mainstream items, like pop, rock, and rap. And then, someone asked, "What if we don't have a value telling us what advisory warning to show?" and management said, "Well, we should err on the safe side...."

  • Darwin (unregistered) in reply to Musical Coder
    Musical Coder:
    Ok, a fairly definitive answer to the whole F# thing: Bach uses modal mixture a lot (D major chords and scales in D minor pieces for instance), so an F# wouldn't be that surprising. Ligiti being a modern composer would use them all over the place.

    This is a popular misconception. While it's true that Ligeti did use F# a great deal, Bach mostly used IronPython.

    CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

  • Max (unregistered)

    The music must have contained a lot of tritones, aka the Devil's interval.

  • (cs) in reply to clevershark
    clevershark:
    BigPimpin':
    (pianist sounds like penis)

    You don't say... if I'd noticed this before I saw the genie I wouldn't be stuck with a 12-inch pianist.

    I'd say you're better off if you want to get lucky... 12" penis? YOUCH!

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