Do You Hate Raymond Deane?

mikeglee · 02-02-2009 8:07pm #1

Do You Hate Raymond Deane and his eF'in Seachanges? Why the hell could we not study something with a bit of bloody melody?! Whats the point? Its just 12 minutes of noise which sounds like its being played by a group of junior infants who have just found a pile of instruments in the corner of a room.

marshmallow · 02-02-2009 8:17pm

YES

lilmissprincess · 02-02-2009 10:16pm

With every bone in my body.

sillymoo · 02-02-2009 10:24pm

Does anyone have a link for it or anything? I want to hear this

PurpleFistMixer · 02-02-2009 11:18pm

On the upside, it IS very easy to talk about...

Guitarist-JEM · 02-02-2009 11:28pm

I don't like it at all...in a way it's not even that original since he got practically every idea from other pieces!..
sergeant peppers lonely hearts club band is good though!:)

Futurism · 03-02-2009 12:30pm

Yes,I absolutely hate him. Seachanges was made to make every music student cringe.

Twinkle-star15 · 03-02-2009 9:41pm

God, don't even get me started! I'm terrible at the listening anyway, and at least the sections and themes in the other works are easy enough to pick out. How is playing the violin like a deaf three-year old 'music'???

HUNK · 03-02-2009 10:48pm

With a passion :pac:

mikeglee · 03-02-2009 10:52pm

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

On the upside, it IS very easy to talk about...

That is true

Dante · 03-02-2009 11:32pm

I can't see what the big fuss about Seachanges is....
....Its regarded as one of the best musical rape scenes in modern music!

xOxSinéadxOx · 03-02-2009 11:33pm

It doesn't really bother me, I dislike the mozart one more

PurpleFistMixer · 04-02-2009 12:06am

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

It doesn't really bother me, I dislike the mozart one more

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The second movement of the mozart is just exquisite!

Fuascailt · 04-02-2009 12:08am

Wait till it comes on in the actual exam and the supervisor is like "wtf?". We met him, what a ledge. He kept going "There isnt really much to say about this section" and talking for 15 minutes

xOxSinéadxOx · 04-02-2009 12:17am

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

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The second movement of the mozart is just exquisite!

I can't really remeber what mozart sounds like except that I don't like it :P

Twilightning · 04-02-2009 12:22am

...is it a good thing I haven't heard it yet? I heard our teacher discussing it and even she said she hated it.

PurpleFistMixer · 04-02-2009 1:43am

Fuascailt wrote: »

Wait till it comes on in the actual exam and the supervisor is like "wtf?".

Yeah... I think the Totentanz section came up for me, the superviser got some surprise.

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

I can't really remeber what mozart sounds like except that I don't like it :P

It's great! The third movement is a bit of a pain to learn, form-wise etc., but the second movement, while very melancholy, is quite beautiful. Particlarly the 1st and 3rd themes.

sock puppet · 04-02-2009 2:37pm

Twilightning wrote: »

...is it a good thing I haven't heard it yet? I heard our teacher discussing it and even she said she hated it.

I don't mind it. I dislike Berlioz and the Beatles more (except for Sergeant Pepper's lonely hearts club band. I love that song). One thing I've noticed is that people hear about it and seem to decide that they hate it before even listening to it.

You probably won't like it though:pac:

Twilightning · 04-02-2009 2:38pm

sock puppet wrote: »

I don't mind it. I dislike Berlioz and the Beatles more (except for Sergeant Pepper's lonely hearts club band. I love that song). One thing I've noticed is that people hear about it and seem to decide that they hate it before even listening to it.

You probably won't like it though:pac:

If the replies to this topic are anything to go by, I most likely won't!

welcomeinjam · 04-02-2009 3:20pm

Ok I'm gonna step in and defend it. I actually really liked it I think the intro is great it really does bring across the feeling of a scorching sun which was the point. Of course the intro doesn't take a lot of talent to make but it wasn't about sounding good its about painting a picture through music and musical ideas.

Twilightning · 04-02-2009 3:51pm

welcomeinjam wrote: »

Ok I'm gonna step in and defend it. I actually really liked it I think the intro is great it really does bring across the feeling of a scorching sun which was the point. Of course the intro doesn't take a lot of talent to make but it wasn't about sounding good its about painting a picture through music and musical ideas.

Why else would anybody listen to music in the first place?

I don't think the majority of people listen to music purely for the sake of having a lovely picture being painted in their head through the music. I know I don't anyway. If I wanna see a painted picture I'll head to an art gallery in town. :pac:

HUNK · 04-02-2009 10:47pm

Well, my Music teacher told me that he, the man himself, said that not even he would sit down and listen to it. :eek: Of course this could be Bull****

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cautioner · 05-02-2009 12:16am

It's growing on me. I find everything after the intro quite enjoyable tolerable.

mikeglee · 06-06-2009 11:12pm

I just wanna re-surface this old thread again just to see what people are thinking at this stage of the year

aine-maire · 06-06-2009 11:16pm

Cannot WAIT to delete it from my ipod!

Berlioz, Beatles and Mozart will,however,be staying

Only good thing I have to say about it is that unlike Mozart's 3rd movement it just has 3 different themes really...

-ME- · 07-06-2009 12:11am

I quite like it actually... It's certainly unlike anything I've ever heard before. Very easy to study in comparison Berlioz or Mozart.

Pet · 07-06-2009 2:26am

Ahhh, memories.

I actually grew to like the Deane piece by the time the exam rolled around. I had a really good teacher in Walton's who explained it quite well.

The Mozart piece is nice, but a bit bland, aside from the second movement which I love. The Marche au Supplice from the Berlioz is fantastic.

Twilightning · 07-06-2009 3:10am

-ME- wrote: »

I quite like it actually... It's certainly unlike anything I've ever heard before. Very easy to study in comparison Berlioz or Mozart.

Consider visiting a psychiatrist. :pac:

OxfordComma · 07-06-2009 8:36am

I did at first, but after two years he's starting to grow on me. It's certainly the easiest set work.

I'm going to get lynched for saying that, amn't I?!

In any case, be grateful you're not doing the other set works (group a). Ever heard the modern piece they have to study?? o______0

Du · 07-06-2009 9:51am

mikeglee wrote: »

I just wanna re-surface this old thread again just to see what people are thinking at this stage of the year

yeah it grows on you, actually does have melody in the 3 note cell

Dumbledore · 07-06-2009 11:13am

Do I hate Raymond Dean? No He does some good political work.
Do I hate Seachanges? Absolutely it wrecks my head and is sounds like a donkey being hacked to death by two machete-wielding scumbags.

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