Music DVDs Collections.

[Delta38]

They definitely are getting harder to get. Fortunately for me, I got the vast majority of mine when they were released or shortly after in Sales. I've probably got rid of half of the total I did have as I replaced some with Blu Ray versions, where available, and traded some unwanted ones in to Music Magpie. I do like my music, especially live concerts.

I just Love Live Concerts , Just Bought Cold Play live 2012 and Jimmy Hendricks DVDs
More to indulge in for New Year Party.

 

[The Dreamer]

I just can't Stomach Opera , kind of like a Dinosaur stuck in a Tar Pit.
As for musicals mostly NOT eg The Greatest Show man , Rocket Man , Sound of Music , These only
get on my Nerves kinda like scratching your nails over a Black Board.
If I was to see these at a Garage sale , I would walk on.
But we live in a World where everyone has different Tastes , But they can Keep them.

Yep. Some Opera is certainly as you describe, and I too would pass on it - particularly the heavy German stuff!.

The lighter stuff, like Verdi, I find pretty relaxing and quite beautiful. Mozart too - you'll have heard/seen the scene in The Shawshank Redemption where Andy plays a song from The Marriage Of Figaro! Don't know that anyone would describe that as a 'Dinosaur stuck in a Tar Pit'!

And of course, without Opera (or classical music in general) modern music would have nothing to 'borrow' from for their own inspiration!

But yes, we are all different - I can't stand Garage, Drill, or pretty much anything that comes from some riced up Fiesta sitting at traffic lights, thumping away with their 12" mini subs destroying their hearing!

Give me an eighties rock/metal band any day over that! We were spoilt for choice back then!

 

[paulguk]

Phil Collins Live in Berlin for me. Why, because I was there and it is the complete concert and every time I watch it all my fond memories of when I lived in Berlin and the barmy summer evening concerts at the Waldebuhne come flooding back which to this day is the most magical outdoor music venue I have ever been to.

 

[Delta38]

Yep. Some Opera is certainly as you describe, and I too would pass on it - particularly the heavy German stuff!.

The lighter stuff, like Verdi, I find pretty relaxing and quite beautiful. Mozart too - you'll have heard/seen the scene in The Shawshank Redemption where Andy plays a song from The Marriage Of Figaro! Don't know that anyone would describe that as a 'Dinosaur stuck in a Tar Pit'!

And of course, without Opera (or classical music in general) modern music would have nothing to 'borrow' from for their own inspiration!

But yes, we are all different - I can't stand Garage, Drill, or pretty much anything that comes from some riced up Fiesta sitting at traffic lights, thumping away with their 12" mini subs destroying their hearing!

Give me an eighties rock/metal band any day over that! We were spoilt for choice back then!

I said Opera not Classical , I love a Lot of Classical about one Third of my CDs are.
Just remember most movies have some sort of Music in them.
My Music Spans a lot around the Sixty's but starts way before that 30s right through until now.
I do not like Head Banging Rubbish some idiot screaming incoherent Trash.
What ever happened to Rhythm and good old Lyrics from a happy time we all remember.
I have the Classics Beethoven , Brahms , Tchaikovsky, Holst , Mozart ect.
Then I have Mantovani , this sort of Music you can read to as it is Relaxing .
As well I have Clubbing Dance Music , Led Zeppelin , Pink Floyd all sorts to list here.

 

[The Dreamer]

I said Opera not Classical , I love a Lot of Classical about one Third of my CDs are.
Just remember most movies have some sort of Music in them.
My Music Spans a lot around the Sixty's but starts way before that 30s right through until now.
I do not like Head Banging Rubbish some idiot screaming incoherent Trash.
What ever happened to Rhythm and good old Lyrics from a happy time we all remember.
I have the Classics Beethoven , Brahms , Tchaikovsky, Holst , Mozart ect.
Then I have Mantovani , this sort of Music you can read to as it is Relaxing .
As well I have Clubbing Dance Music , Led Zeppelin , Pink Floyd all sorts to list here.

I think then, our musical tastes aren’t that dissimilar (opera excepted! ) - I can‘t claim to know much about 30’s music, but I enjoy 60’s onwards with most of the well known names somewhere in my collection, and a handful of lesser known too. Club Dance not so much, but Chillout certainly.

As you said earlier it’s good to have different tastes; certainly, I’ve heard stuff that others have been into that I wouldn’t have discovered by myself, and added albums to my collection that way. The car I bought last year has a music system in it that allows you to rip CD’s to its own hard drive - so I’ve inherited the previous owners‘ complete CD collection! There’s stuff in there that I skip every time, but there also plenty there that I’m really enjoying despite not originally being a fan!

 

[The other ian]

I do like my Elvis "Thats the way it is "even went to see it at the cinema just after the cinema's opened this year ,then there's "Aloha from Hawaii" a bit of Garry Moore ,Fleetwood Mac ,then "The Commitments"