Chris Monk wrote:err....is now a good time to say I love the Dante series?
....no thought not.
why not ? ...one mans rubbish is another mans treasure
Don't hesitate, man! The Dante series absolutely is a masterpiece!!Chris Monk wrote:err....is now a good time to say I love the Dante series?
....no thought not.
What an interesting point of view ! Here was me thinking the reason I didnt like it was because I found the music to be boring, badly written and produced/mixed with awful singers and pretentious lyrics etc when in reality it was because I didnt understand it ........Nero wrote:Don't hesitate, man! The Dante series absolutely is a masterpiece!!Chris Monk wrote:err....is now a good time to say I love the Dante series?
....no thought not.
Hats off for Edgar's courage to compose it despite the high probability of
being misunderstood and damned by fans who couldn't understand it at all - which proves that his pioneering spirit is still in flames....
The Dante series is the most controversial opus and the most fascinating at the same time! I think it was an inner spiritual need which forced him to express this magic philosophic work into music - and he did it! Nothing more...
JD wrote:What an interesting point of view ! Here was me thinking the reason I didnt like it was because I found the music to be boring, badly written and produced/mixed with awful singers and pretentious lyrics etc when in reality it was because I didnt understand it ........Nero wrote:Don't hesitate, man! The Dante series absolutely is a masterpiece!!Chris Monk wrote:err....is now a good time to say I love the Dante series?
....no thought not.
Hats off for Edgar's courage to compose it despite the high probability of
being misunderstood and damned by fans who couldn't understand it at all - which proves that his pioneering spirit is still in flames....
The Dante series is the most controversial opus and the most fascinating at the same time! I think it was an inner spiritual need which forced him to express this magic philosophic work into music - and he did it! Nothing more...
I wish I was as clever as the fans wot like it .
Michael66 wrote:The biggest hurdle for me getting interested in the Dante trilogy is that there is no printed lyrics in either English or German. I don't know French, I have no understanding of the Italian language, and I still sometimes have a hard trime figuring out spoken or sung English lyrics. For a trilogy so much relying on the lyrics being sung I think it is an affront to the lovers of TD not providing the listener with a lyrics sheet. Edgar spent thousands of hours composing it, why can't at least someone at team TD take 3 days for collecting the lyrics! It is ridiculous and I don't understand this. I love esoteric stuff, I suppose Dante would be just my thing, but as long as this situation continues I'm on my personal Dante strike. (Rant over)
Hi Nero, yes I could get the book and maybe I'll do that in the future because of being interested in the book itself (not for understanding TD's lyrics).Nero wrote:Just try and read the book - all the lyrics are there. The lyrics Edgar uses are only fragments of a very opulent work and cannot reflect the whole story. Maybe this was the reason why he didn't publish them.
You can also find summaries from the Dante story in the net as well as all the lyrics - I would prefer a summery as the lyrics are very hard to decrypt.
I'm the case that proves your point. I'm not particularly clever, I would be must better off if I was and I just turned down a job that pays £15k per year more than I currently get, that's not clever.Nero wrote:JD wrote:What an interesting point of view ! Here was me thinking the reason I didnt like it was because I found the music to be boring, badly written and produced/mixed with awful singers and pretentious lyrics etc when in reality it was because I didnt understand it ........Nero wrote: Don't hesitate, man! The Dante series absolutely is a masterpiece!!
Hats off for Edgar's courage to compose it despite the high probability of
being misunderstood and damned by fans who couldn't understand it at all - which proves that his pioneering spirit is still in flames....
The Dante series is the most controversial opus and the most fascinating at the same time! I think it was an inner spiritual need which forced him to express this magic philosophic work into music - and he did it! Nothing more...
I wish I was as clever as the fans wot like it .
You don't need to be clever, just try to be open-minded and open-hearted and more tolerant, that's all. This is what I mean with "understand"...
The fact that the Dante story touches you is obvious - although in a negative way. But it touches you, it's not a kind of music leaving you lukewarm behind the oven, no, Dante INFURIATES you! Great! Love and hate are sisters, man!