On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:07:40 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:

>On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:04:33 +0100, Eric Jarvis wrote:
>
>> There's some I like too, but it's the only type of music I know that I 
>> can still dislike intensely when it's done really well.
>
>I have that with classical opera. I just can't take the stylized singing.

Singing?  Bellowing, more like.

-- 

Peter

I'm an alien
email: groups at asylum dot nildram dot co dot uk
You know you're getting old when the barber says "Trim your eyebrows, sir?"
- Ben Newsam

In uk.misc,  (Hot Badger Deluxe) wrote in
::

>On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:04:33 +0100, Eric Jarvis wrote:
>
>> There's some I like too, but it's the only type of music I know that I 
>> can still dislike intensely when it's done really well.
>
>I have that with classical opera. I just can't take the stylized singing.

I like *some* opera.  But really, it doesn't work just being listened
to; you need the full visual experience as well.  Some of the individual
songs are fine- I have a sort of "Opera greatest hits" CD-set that has a
bunch of arias and overtures etc, and that's nice enough, but a lot of
opera is quite dull just as music.  It's like one of those LPs with a
few good tunes and a lot of filler.
-- 
Marc

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes.
 That way when you criticize them, you'll be a mile away.
 Also, you'll have their shoes." (Lyre)