AFODO said:
There are or was some really great metal or rock band that could be considered to be more on our side of view. It is very rare though. There are also lyrics that can mean different things depending on who listening to it.
You mean subjective lyrics, right? Yes, I do agree that there are songs with subjective lyrics that are pretty good, Hotel California is a song I go to sometimes because of their subtle references to the struggles against addiction. BONES also made a lot of good cloud rap. But I don't know about other extreme genres like Thrash metal and Black metal, even their drama was really concerning, like that guy Dead from Mayhem who shot himself, he clearly was a very disturbed person who needed mental help, he shouldn't had been let into that band, Euronymous was a pretty disgusting person and I'm glad Varg defended himself against that loony. I've seen lots of metalheads who look really tired and stressed too.
But well, I try to say that most of the spirit of these sorts of music is mocking and defiling everything and making everything ugly and dark. I listened to Grindcore, Brutal Death Metal and Goregrind when I was 11 (I got very scared by that at first due to the sounds and the covers with gore but then I got used to it because I thought it sounded very powerful and chaotic, a very foolish behavior from my part) and most of these genres are pretty disgusting, pessimistic and nihilistic, and they paint the world as a way that I noticed is no way near how things really are. I discarded those genres after getting more into Black metal, Folk and Doom metal.
In the other side, things like Shoegaze or Indie rock (D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L by Panchiko is a good album with an interesting story) can be pretty good and comforting, maybe I'm attacking stuff for being new or using just a few bad apples, but one can never trust anything in these times I guess.
I used to had pretty bad music habits so I'm pretty biased, but now I think maybe it's not the music, but the people listening to it too much as a coping mechanism like I used to do, I don't know, what do you think?
AFODO said:
Baroque essentially was "very xian" as they wanted to hold back the mass from "leaving" the xian mentality, "culture", so they made very expensive "fancy temples". They showed off how rich they were and that somehow worked. Although they might have been musics that were created in this era, and is still very good. I did not meant the degeneracy in the musical industry.
Especially that other directions were also popular, and these are pretty good, like enlightenment.
If you like the Enlightenment I would recommend you Classicism in the musical period and Neoclassicism. It was one of my favorite styles, considering they also saw the Roman society as an ideal as well, so a lot of art works and architecture are related to the Roman Empire.
AFODO said:
I like Beethoven, Vivaldi, Smetana, and basically I only listen to them right now. I'm a newbie with musical music so I couldn't even pick who is my favorite. First I must get to know them. Romanticism pretty much came with nationalism and it is sort of the art of nationalism. It is definitely the most based classical era. Who is your favorite composer? if you have recommendations than let me know.
From the Baroque period I would recommend Bach and Scarlatti. For the Renaissance period I would recommend Thomas Tallis and William Byrd (I would recommend checking out the Follies from that period too), in the Classicist period I only know Mozart (The Jupiter Symphony is good), Beethoven and Antonio Salieri. The Romantic period has a lot of good composers, like Richard Wagner (a must know, Tristan und Isolde is very good), Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Camille Saint-Saens, Franz Liszt and Tchaikovsky (His work called The Nutcracker is a well known work).
The contemporary I don't really like it, because some composers used Atonal music or were inspired by Jazz, but Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber (specially Op. 11) is a beautiful work, and I like Alexander Nevsky (the Battle on Ice segment is the best) by Sergei Prokofiev.