Music that hits your Sour Spot

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:18 pm

I know everybody has pieces that they just love- but how about the alternative? Personally, I think Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite" could be forever stricken from the orchestral repitoire without the least injury to art. How about the rest of you?

quinterbourne · Post by **quinterbourne** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:38 pm

All those stupid Dvorak Slavonic Dances.

UDELBR · Post by **UDELBR** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:41 pm

Dvorak's 9th: "New World".

quinterbourne · Post by **quinterbourne** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:43 pm

Also all of those Johann Strauss Waltzes.

quinterbourne · Post by **quinterbourne** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:44 pm

UncleBeer wrote:Dvorak's 9th: "New World".

Amen... great piece to listen to but why did he even bother writing that sad excuse for a tuba part?

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:51 pm

I've always wondered if the tuba could simply double the bass trombone part, if not take the bull by the horns and just write a new tuba part. Dvorak's dead. I don't think he'd mind.[/quote]

ZNC Dandy · Post by **ZNC Dandy** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:00 pm

Mozart and Haydn, save The Creation, make me want to die. Quickly. In the face preferably.

greatk82 · Post by **greatk82** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:03 pm

MARCH GRANDIOSO

Chadtuba · Post by **Chadtuba** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:07 pm

As a tubist and as a HS band teacher it has to be Pomp and Circumstance

GC · Post by GC » Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:12 pm

Stars and Stripes Forever.

For that matter, obscure Sousa marches in general (no, I'm not saying that SASF is obscure). Sousa wrote some of the greatest marches ever, but the obscure ones are obscure for a reason. They really, really suck. Like almost all Karl King marches.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:23 pm

Short People, Newman

finnbogi · Post by **finnbogi** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:00 pm

quinterbourne wrote:Also all of those Johann Strauss Waltzes.

Amen.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:06 pm

"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:19 pm

Paul Anka: Having My Baby

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:28 pm

bloke wrote:Any [thing] that makes a repainted early/mid 1990's GM mid-size EQUIPPED WITH NEON LICENSE PLATE sedans' dashboard uncontrollably,subsonically, and monotonously vibrate when filling up at a gas station all the way across an eight-lane highway.

The author of this post specifically used the word "music". That doesn't count.

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:34 pm

American Soldier-Army guys will get this one

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:53 pm

bloke wrote: To be fair, here's mine:
Any "piece of music" that makes a repainted early/mid 1990's GM mid-size EQUIPPED WITH NEON LICENSE PLATE sedans' dashboard uncontrollably,subsonically, and monotonously vibrate when filling up at a gas station all the way across an eight-lane highway.

OK... How many of you have Stars and Stripes, many of the Strauss Waltzes, and Pomp and Circumstance memorized? They may not be my favorite charts, but they have put a lot of gas in the tanks of my non-vibrating...[etc.] cars over the years.
bloke "raising his hand"

I was about to say how my list would include Stars & Stripes. How I liked it a lot about the first 5,000 times I played it. And how I had grown tired of playing it as an encore for every concert with one group I have played with for 20 years. Then Bloke hit the total sweet spot. I could go on and on and on how much I completely and totally detest the music described in the quote above.

KevinMadden · Post by **KevinMadden** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:38 am

well, having taken my third semester of music history....

TOTAL SERIALIST BULLPOOP!!!

skinnytuba · Post by **skinnytuba** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:24 pm

Pretty much all newer pop music hits my sour spot. Especially rap. It's all disposable crap.

pulseczar · Post by **pulseczar** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:31 pm

Any "piece of music" that makes a repainted early/mid 1990's GM mid-size EQUIPPED WITH NEON LICENSE PLATE sedans' dashboard uncontrollably,subsonically, and monotonously vibrate when filling up at a gas station all the way across an eight-lane highway.

It's even better inside because you have to yell over the bass, hi-hat and occasional S syllable.