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"Ooh, ooh, 'An Evening with Philip Glass.' Just an evening!?"

I sang a few Glass pieces in college. My preparation was to repeatedly beat my head with a hammer.

Don't care what you say, I find it enjoyable.

Sonic wallpaper.

amazing album (sorry for the b/w pic)

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My personal favorite is his scoring for Dracula, which sounds nothing like anything else he's written, but I generally enjoy Glass's music.

His score for "The Hours" and the compositions that are on "Solo Piano" are also substantially different from the "Music in 12 Parts" serialist work that he did.

For those who complain that Glass is the same thing over and over again: it's not. There are subtle variations, and for me finding those changes is relaxing and enjoyable.

Phillip Glass blows

/somebody had to say it outright

My favorites.

He puts on a hell of a happy, non-offensive, non-denominational Christmas play though.

Can't be worse than the soundtrack to "Eyes Wide Shut"

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I've always enjoyed his score for Candyman, though as far as minimalist composers go, I'm more of a Steve Reich fan.

Kodiak Attack: I've always enjoyed his score for Candyman, though as far as minimalist composers go, I'm more of a Steve Reich fan.

This
/for 40 days and 40 nights
//It's gonna rain

He does a wonderful rendition of Aphex Twin's Icct Hedral.

Tenebreux: Can't be worse than the soundtrack to "Eyes Wide Shut"

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What's wrong with Ligeti?

Knock Knock.
Who's there?
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Philip Glass.

/old joke
//most of my friends, sadly, do not get it
///+1

Happy, happy, happy.
Everybody's happy.

I just want to pompously declare that I am incredibly sophisticated and I really dig the Qatsi trilogy.

So there.

Subsonicmonkey: I just want to pompously declare that I am incredibly sophisticated and I really dig the Qatsi trilogy.

So there.

You're lying. If you were really pompous, you'd know that the third movie was B-minus junior college material.

Einstein and his beach house.

/What?

I once offended Philip Glass at a reception, so I enjoy these comments.

The second-smartest person I know likes Phillip Glass. I do not care for his crap. I like Tangerine Dream, but I still think their "Electronic Meditation" album was unvarnished horsecrap from which they've evolved. Philip Glass has stuck with that theme.

If you had no name, if you had no history,
if you had no books, if you had no family,

if it were only you naked on the grass,
who would you be then? This is what he asked.
And I said I wasn't really sure, but I would probably be

cold.

And now I'm freezing,

freezing.

Torc: Subsonicmonkey: I just want to pompously declare that I am incredibly sophisticated and I really dig the Qatsi trilogy.

So there.

You're lying. If you were really pompous, you'd know that the third movie was B-minus junior college material.

Whenever people talk about series decay and mention Star Wars, or Superman, I say, "No. You have no right to talk about series decay until you've seen... Naqoyqatsi."

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Most commonly heard word at a Glass concert: "SHT!!!" as the musicians lose their place.

In college, late 70s, I put the entire Einstein recording on a reel to reel, and sat an listened to it while I studied. Around the time of Spaceship, it was like I'd run a marathon and got my second wind. It became clear, I had an epiphany, and I thought I understood what was happening - not in narrative terms, but in experiential ones. It was worth it, having sat there. Like reading a good long novel to get to an emotional payoff at the end.

Saw him a few years ago play the soundtrack to Koyaanisqatsi live with his ensemble as the film played. Pretty cool.

LonMead: I once offended Philip Glass at a reception, so I enjoy these comments.

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syrynxx
I like Tangerine Dream, but I still think their "Electronic Meditation" album was unvarnished horsecrap from which they've evolved.

I like Tangerine Dream as well.
i've never heard the "Electronic Meditation" album, but I've heard it be slightly compared to "Saucerful" era Pink Floyd.
I like "Phaedra" and "Rubycon" ["Zeit" is alright... rather boring and long but maybe that was the point... some interesting bits tho...[an early Ambient album?]

"stratosphere" is ok... as is their live 70's one...

WrongTrousers: LonMead: I once offended Philip Glass at a reception, so I enjoy these comments.

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I was talking to a woman at a reception for the Atlanta Symphony, and she asked me if I had heard any of the new Philip Glass album. I said,"No. Why would I want to?". Turns out Mr. Glass was standing directly behind me.

Didn't care. Went home with the girl anyway.

There's a really funny short play by Charles Ives called "Phillip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread".

Third_Uncle_Eno: I like Tangerine Dream as well.
i've never heard the "Electronic Meditation" album, but I've heard it be slightly compared to "Saucerful" era Pink Floyd.
I like "Phaedra" and "Rubycon" ["Zeit" is alright... rather boring and long but maybe that was the point... some interesting bits tho...[an early Ambient album?]

"stratosphere" is ok... as is their live 70's one...

Ricochet or Logos? Both are pretty good, but I prefer Ricochet. Pergamon and Poland are pretty great live albums too. If you know Phaedra and Rubycon, you can kind of extrapolate backwards through Zeit to figure out the meandering psychedelic trainwreck that is Electronic Meditation. Green Desert is (IIRC) a lost album that came between EM and Phaedra that eventually got released in the 80s. It's not bad, especially the title track.

Dwight_Yeast: There's a really funny short play by Charles Ives called "Phillip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread".

I think you've got the wrong Ives.

Torc: I think you've got the wrong Ives.

Burl?

Torc
I have "Ricochet" [rarely listen to it.... i don't think it's that good].... no i meant the *other* live 70's album [searches wiki... --- what i shoulda done in the first place lol --- ] "Encore" 1977.... ah ha THAT'S the one! lol

I listened to a double album of "Alpha Centauri" and "Atem" [kind of like a "A Nice Pair" by PF kind of deal... two backcatalogue records in one package] they were pretty ok, i didn't buy it tho...

i shall look for that green desert one...

/ i still think that "Rubicon" is the best album i've ever heard from them so far...

Third_Uncle_Eno: I have "Ricochet" [rarely listen to it.... i don't think it's that good].... no i meant the *other* live 70's album [searches wiki... --- what i shoulda done in the first place lol --- ] "Encore" 1977.... ah ha THAT'S the one! lol

Gah, I spaced on that one (no pun intended). I should have checked rateyourmusic before posting. (Are you on that site? It's really pretty cool.) Yeah, Rubycon was the first album I got that pointed me towards electronic music. I remember my friends in high school not understanding how I could listen to one song for 22 minutes. To bring this back to Philip Glass, I wonder how they would have handled the full 4-hour performance of Music in 12 Parts I'm going to see in February.

There are so many Glass knockoffs in film scoring and TV commercials. I don't blame him for it, just like I don't blame Fabian for every crappy teen idol since.

/Boulez with a lobotomy

dmax:
In college, late 70s, I put the entire Einstein recording on a reel to reel

shadowself: dmax:
In college, late 70s, I put the entire Einstein recording on a reel to reel

Actually, that thing with the tape loops came later that same year, when it dawned on me how Fripp/Eno recorded Heavenly Music Corporation. Of course, I was supposed to be studying for finals, but I realized that I had the two reel-to-reel recorders and my synth and the cables and....so I spent the next few hours not only working out the bugs and recording "Bilroth's Chord" (for which I got runner up in the New Orleans New Music festival that year) but somehow still managed to pass the freaking test the next day.

/misses those days
//thirty years ago
///damn

Torc
Gah, I spaced on that one (no pun intended). I should have checked rateyourmusic before posting. (Are you on that site? It's really pretty cool.) Yeah, Rubycon was the first album I got that pointed me towards electronic music. I remember my friends in high school not understanding how I could listen to one song for 22 minutes. To bring this back to Philip Glass, I wonder how they would have handled the full 4-hour performance of Music in 12 Parts I'm going to see in February.

thanks for the reply, good sir.
sorry if this reply has come a little late.

"Phaedra" was the album that got me into electronic music. that and Kraftwerk's "Trans Europe Express" and "Radioactivity".

I remember my friends in high school not understanding how I could listen to one song for 22 minutes.

LOL... that's too funny --- that's what my friends were/are like with the prog. rock epics i listen to [ie. Supper's Ready by Genesis, Close to the Edge by Yes, Lizard by KC, etc. etc.]

I don't think i've listened to Philip Glass per se... but i HAVE listened to a Stockhausen [spelling?] 'best of' record... it wasn't the greatest... just a bunch of random noises and samples, walls of noise, etc. I'd rather listen to "Metal Machine Music" by Lou Reed or "Cyborg" by Klaus Schulze.

it's funny that you mentioned Rateyourmusic, because i used to go to that site for album ratings/reviews a few years back. I haven't been to it for years. Now i generally go to metacritic: music for my music review needs [although it is a compilation of professional music reviews...hmmm...]

I also went to: Adrian's album reviews, Don Ignacio's music reviews, Prindle's album reviews [twisted funny stuff], etc.

one of my favorite stories, read it in the newspaper in last year or so:

some band, (i forgot who) added a track of one minute of silence as a tribute to Philip Glass' piece 4'33. (which is 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.) Glass' record company (or somebody) sued the band for copyright infringement.

the band's lawyer pointed out that, in trial, it would have to be clearly demonstrated which minute of silence was copied. case ended up being settled somehow. that is some fine lawyerin', Lou.

what an asinine lawsuit though, when it is clearly as a tribute, or an homage.

LegalizeThoughtCrime: some band, (i forgot who) added a track of one minute of silence as a tribute to Philip Glass' piece 4'33. (which is 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.) Glass' record company (or somebody) sued the band for copyright infringement.

I thought 4'33" was a John Cage piece?

LegalizeThoughtCrime: one of my favorite stories, read it in the newspaper in last year or so:

some band, (i forgot who) added a track of one minute of silence as a tribute to Philip Glass' piece 4'33. (which is 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.) Glass' record company (or somebody) sued the band for copyright infringement.

the band's lawyer pointed out that, in trial, it would have to be clearly demonstrated which minute of silence was copied. case ended up being settled somehow. that is some fine lawyerin', Lou.

what an asinine lawsuit though, when it is clearly as a tribute, or an homage.

Uhhh...yeah.

LegalizeThoughtCrime:
(Oops...forgot a close tag...)
Here's an article on what really occurred. Aside from the glaring mistake, it was pretty clearly a case of Batt just exploiting the name, especially given the songwriting credit.

LucklessWonder: I thought 4'33" was a John Cage piece?

And you'd be correct.