Universally acclaimed art/artists...that just don't do it for you
For me: Bob Dylan.
I just don't get it, no matter how hard I've tried. Sure, the lyrics are interesting, but except for a handful of songs, they mostly bore me musically.
And although I will listen to a few of his songs if they happen to come on the radio, I have never willingly put on a Bob Dylan song or album.
****
David Hockney
Seriously, what is this crap?
I've seen better art on the walls of a middle school hallway.
****
What are yours?
Don't know if it's universally acclaimed, but the song Werewolves of London is an immediate turn the channel on the radio for me. Really dislike it.
pretty sure the first time i heard that song was while watching the color of money
man i knew right then not to act fast or heady and confuse the forest whitaker ability with tom cruise
From the fwiw department: the Dead began covering Zevon's Werewolves while it was on the singles chart back in '78.
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe it to be the only song they covered while it was still charting.
& word has it that Bob Weir's hair was perfect.
Rush's Limelight
Pink Floyd's Time
Twain
Shakespeare
Off the top of my head
Wittgenstein was Jewish.
Masters theses are jokes.
Only partially, I was able to demand more money and influence after I acquired mine.
I didn't get a Distinction for mine. Not that it mattered.
may i request an important distinction
did you never like it or have you become numb over time
asking cause i agree song fatigue is a thing
but watching artists making music live is one of the most interesting things to me
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Shakespeare is such a better playwright than the rest of humanity combined. His story constructions are often weak and padded, but his characters and..... those words.... are beautiful and breathtaking.
I watch every single play on a loose rotation, and am lucky enough to live close enough to the RSC at Stratford to go see them at that lovely, cosy theatre, and have done so many times.
may i request an important distinction
did you never like it or have you become numb over time
asking cause i agree song fatigue is a thing
but watching artists making music live is one of the most interesting things to me
Spoiler
I kind of get the feeling I'm missing something. I've never been much of a music person. I enjoy going to concerts or whatever, but don't make a point of it.
It's taxing to endure... that is until you begin to realize how many really great modern Artists pay homage by ripping him off at a high level.
Hence, Limelight
Rush and Tom Petty, yuck. Each have maybe one good song. At most.
The Eagles. Blah. Yes, the guitar solo on Hotel California is amazing.
Perry Farrell plain sucks.
I hope this sets everybody straight.
Broken YouTube LinkShakespeare is such a better playwright than the rest of humanity combined. His story constructions are often weak and padded, but his characters and..... those words.... are beautiful and breathtaking.
I watch every single play on a loose rotation, and am lucky enough to live close enough to the RSC at Stratford to go see them at that lovely, cosy theatre, and have done so many times.
I try to read King Lear every summer. Even Hamlet takes second place to Lear.
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He transcends any culture... just ask Akira Kurosawa.
For those who don't know, Throne of Blood was called by Harold Bloom the best film version of Macbeth. Ran is also a good version of King Lear.
This is one of my favorite film adaptations of Lear. It captures that pre-Christian feel extraordinarily well.
Sometimes I think I've seen too many movies.
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Ran and Throne of Blood are among the most excellent of Shakespeare adaptations. I think Polanski's Macbeth is also among the best too.
My favourite is Macbeth, always will be but there's many I really really enjoy greatly.
Timon of Athens is incredibly underrated, it kind of plays like 'What would Falling Down be like if it was adapted by Shakespeare'
Limelight is so much more than quoting lines from a few sonnets
teen themes intertwined between the high school romeo trodding hallways as his stage
Limelight is so much more than quoting lines from a few sonnets
teen themes intertwined between the high school romeo trodding hallways as his stage
The all's the world a stage speech is said by Jaques in As You Like It. Jakes, the Elizabethan word for toilet, was also called a jacques. As my old Shakespeare teacher said, everything out of his mouth was pure ****.
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bet you a tenner quicker than two shakes of a lambs tail your willie teacher couldn't hear siht
