VikingBoyBilly wrote:You mean mozart and Ludwig von Bethoven were unpopular?
Not quite, but they had many many peers who today are unknown. And there was also 'non classical' music at the time that too has been forgotten. Queen was not unpopular in their heyday, but they were surrounded by and overshadowed by many other acts most of which have fallen by the wayside.
VikingBoyBilly wrote:tulip wrote:I walked away from it going 'I have seen something that will change my life!'
And for mozart it's pretty much the same as mainstream pop: he was popular at his time and I don't like it.
That's exactly how I feel about William Shakespeare! Why is it okay for him to make up words, but it gets bad grades for the rest of us?
This in fact demonstrates what hackwork Shakespeare's writing was. We look at it now and go all 'Oh, so classic1 So fancy! So old!' but it's not! It was rude jokes and stories for people who wanted a night out boozing and snacking. The sex jokes never end, the innuendo is so thick you can cut it with a knife. Here's a quote or two for for you:
"Villain, thou hast undone our mother!"
"Villain, I have done thy mother."
--Titus Andronicus
"Away you three inch fool."
--The Taming of the Shrew (Guess who said THAT one.)
And there's much, much worse. Like for example when a fat chick is compared to a globe; when the location of Holland (whom the English did not like very much at that time.) was asked about the answer was pretty much 'between he legs' except stated rather more crudely (and with indications of whoredom.)
What you really need, not what you think you ought to want.