Bach or Beethoven

[altariel]

Lots of interesting discussions going on around the friends' list about taste in music and what this says about your personality. Let's make things easy. (Certainly easier than, say, "Jane Austen? Or Virginia Woolf?")

[Poll #946040]

Comments

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Well, that was easy. I must get round to posting a "King Crimson or Nickleback" poll...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Well, that was easy.

You still picked the wrong answer though.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

They're both fantastic, but in the end I went for Bach because I'm a Baroque whore.

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

That is the sort of question that makes me tear my hair out. Bach *and* Beethoven! And Handel, who was a sensible fellow, and Mozart, who was not, and Dvorak, and Granger, and Liszt, the big ham, and Brahms, who is definitely the woobie of the classical music world, if also a bit of a drama queen, and Tchaikovsky, who almost threw himself into a river, but wisely wrote the 4th Symphony instead.

I can't do favourites. The only "either/or" question of this sort that I've ever been able to answer decidedly is, "Charlotte or Emily?" (Charlotte.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

"Charlotte or Emily?"

Anne! ;-)

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Metallica.

Does that make me a freak?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Beethoven with feedback.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I love listening to Bach, but Beethoven blows my mind.

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

Oh great, now you've started an IRC conversation about Bach/Beethoven time-travel RPS! ;D

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh cool! (I feel as if, in a small way, I have made the world a better place!)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Bach has his moments, but I like Beethoven better than just about anyone

Yes - Bach by no means displeases the senses, but Beethoven turns my head inside out.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

wait...there was a right answer (i didn't know it was that kind of test :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Only if I play the "dammit! my journal!" card! ;-D

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Especially as all the late stuff is so exquisitely beautiful.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I thought there might be correlation with MBTI.

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

You have indeed. :)

[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

Well, that was easy! Of course I love Beethoven but he doesn't regularly make my hair stand on end as does Bach.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

I was going to say this even before I read the comments -

but - but - how can Bach possibly be winning? Beethoven is the best composer of all time, and Bach is just boring! How can anyone possibly listen to the Brandenburg Concertos and then Beethoven's 9th or 6th and pick Bach? If I were you, I'd have rigged the poll just to see justice done.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

but you would never do that, now, would you??? :)

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

That be fighting talk! *hoists the ... oh, I dunno, a cantata on a stick or something*

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Bach with feedback would be a bit closer to the mark. Metallica's first bassist, Cliff Burton, was quite the Bach fanboy, and incorporated all sorts of baroqueish touches to their tunes. Then he went through a bus windscreen and the rest of the boys devolved into right-wing cock-rock.

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

I imagine there is. Certainly, looking at the answers so far, I haven't seen any surprises.

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

How can anyone possibly listen to the Brandenburg Concertos and then Beethoven's 9th or 6th and pick Bach?

I might make the opposite point with reference to the aria of the Goldberg Variations. Which has the additional advantage of being short.

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

You still picked the wrong answer though.

Naah. Beethoven = all human life. Bach = the Universe. It's all a matter of perspective.

[spinal tap]Too much bloody perspective...[/spinal tap]

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Easy? Matthew Passion versus Fidelio? I'm going to have to sleep on it.