Classical hissy fit
Feb. 4th, 2006 03:17 amWhen I was still in my teens one of the primary things that got me yelled at by Dad was cranking up my music to a volume I can only quantify as "capable of shaking a 40 pound window sash." (Yes, they actually were about that heavy. Old house, large-ass windows.) He'd usually stand at the bottom of the stairs leading up to my room and bellow something to the effect of "ANDEE! TURN THAT NOISE DOWN!"
One day I was having some sort of emo fit and was probably playing something like Pearl Jam or some shit and the expected bellow sounded up the stairs after two or three songs, but by that time I was just being pissy and required the entire borough of brooklyn to know about it. On the other hand, I didn't want Dad to keep yelling at me either. So in a fit of outraged pique I stuck in Beethoven's 5th, cranked the stereo, and was quite amused by the fact that Dad didn't say a thing for the entire symphony. (Classical is all Dad listens to anyway.)
Anyway, I'm having a similar bout of hissy fit-worthy goodness, and in my pique began amassing a list of orchestral music worthy of putting on that selfsame stereo and shattering my windows. So far I've got:
Masquers - Prokofiev
Night on Bald Mountain - Mussorsky
Symphony #25 allegro - Mozart
Summer Mvt 3 - Vivaldi
Beetlejuice - Elfman
Imperial Death March - Williams
In the Hall of the Mountain King - Grieg
Symphony 5 Mvt 1 - Beethoven
Dance of the Young Girls - Stravinsky
Batman/Spiderman - Elfman
Danse Macabre - Saint-Saens
Baba Yaga - Lyadov
you can sort of see where I'm going with this... lots of low brass and/or aggressively played string, nicely dark and angsty, at least one prolonged section probably marked fff, you know, as close to industrial as you can get while still being composed by some dead white guy in Europe somewhere. The question is, what did I miss?
edit: thought of two more: Moonlight Serenade - Klaus Badelt, and The Caverns of Isengard - Howard Shore
One day I was having some sort of emo fit and was probably playing something like Pearl Jam or some shit and the expected bellow sounded up the stairs after two or three songs, but by that time I was just being pissy and required the entire borough of brooklyn to know about it. On the other hand, I didn't want Dad to keep yelling at me either. So in a fit of outraged pique I stuck in Beethoven's 5th, cranked the stereo, and was quite amused by the fact that Dad didn't say a thing for the entire symphony. (Classical is all Dad listens to anyway.)
Anyway, I'm having a similar bout of hissy fit-worthy goodness, and in my pique began amassing a list of orchestral music worthy of putting on that selfsame stereo and shattering my windows. So far I've got:
Masquers - Prokofiev
Night on Bald Mountain - Mussorsky
Symphony #25 allegro - Mozart
Summer Mvt 3 - Vivaldi
Beetlejuice - Elfman
Imperial Death March - Williams
In the Hall of the Mountain King - Grieg
Symphony 5 Mvt 1 - Beethoven
Dance of the Young Girls - Stravinsky
Batman/Spiderman - Elfman
Danse Macabre - Saint-Saens
Baba Yaga - Lyadov
you can sort of see where I'm going with this... lots of low brass and/or aggressively played string, nicely dark and angsty, at least one prolonged section probably marked fff, you know, as close to industrial as you can get while still being composed by some dead white guy in Europe somewhere. The question is, what did I miss?
edit: thought of two more: Moonlight Serenade - Klaus Badelt, and The Caverns of Isengard - Howard Shore