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Beautiful Songs
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I don't know if I can think of BIBLE as beautiful as such, much as I love it. A mate once commented "imagine getting into an argument on the internet with that bloke".
Here's one I'm a bit borderline about, it's one of my favourite reggae songs, but does it tip over into beautiful? A bit too uptempo maybe? But listening to the vocal....
Here's one I'm a bit borderline about, it's one of my favourite reggae songs, but does it tip over into beautiful? A bit too uptempo maybe? But listening to the vocal....
bassbeyondreason
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Fuck it gonna start a deep soul thread.
Mr. Tea
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This one requires a short explanation.
I must be in the small minority of people born between, say, 1960 and 2000 who grew up in a white, Anglophone, lower-middle-class family that didn't own a single piece of Beatles music. Not so much as a home-copied Greatest Hits tape. Both my parents were much more into the Stones and other more hard-rock stuff and regarded the Beatles as a bit, I dunno, trivial or silly, maybe - "it's just pop", something like that. Anyway, my dad was driving when there was an announcement on the news of John Lennon's murder, and then they played 'Jealous Guy', and he found himself just streaming with tears because of this stupid, gratuitous tragedy. He was probably in a slightly unusual emotional state anyway, as he'd just become a dad for the first time (I was about seven weeks old).
But he had this song on 7", only it wasn't the Lennon version, it was the version recorded shortly after his death as a tribute by our favourite exponent of Cranerian yacht-fascism, Bryan Ferry:
Still love it.
I must be in the small minority of people born between, say, 1960 and 2000 who grew up in a white, Anglophone, lower-middle-class family that didn't own a single piece of Beatles music. Not so much as a home-copied Greatest Hits tape. Both my parents were much more into the Stones and other more hard-rock stuff and regarded the Beatles as a bit, I dunno, trivial or silly, maybe - "it's just pop", something like that. Anyway, my dad was driving when there was an announcement on the news of John Lennon's murder, and then they played 'Jealous Guy', and he found himself just streaming with tears because of this stupid, gratuitous tragedy. He was probably in a slightly unusual emotional state anyway, as he'd just become a dad for the first time (I was about seven weeks old).
But he had this song on 7", only it wasn't the Lennon version, it was the version recorded shortly after his death as a tribute by our favourite exponent of Cranerian yacht-fascism, Bryan Ferry:
Still love it.
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A tune that reminds me of early childhood. My sister used to tape the Capital Radio chart rundown and kept certain ones she liked, and that song was definitely one of the highlights...
...tho sadly tempered by Kid Jensen gabbing over the closing chords, "A good one to listen to in the bath!" (insert wanker emoji)
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
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bassbeyondreason
Chtonic Fatigue Syndrome
Beautiful rap (albeit with the help of sung choruses):
entertainment
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Is beauty ontologically objective?
The times I think I've experienced something truly beautiful, it has always felt like going outside of the of the human realm and touching upon some higher truth. I don't think that can be all in my head, an illusion contrived by culture, politics and history.
The times I think I've experienced something truly beautiful, it has always felt like going outside of the of the human realm and touching upon some higher truth. I don't think that can be all in my head, an illusion contrived by culture, politics and history.
entertainment
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I mean, obviously there's a pervasive cultural concept of beauty, which is a construct, but is there something else too? does it serve as shorthand for some higher light? A divine essence
luka
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My tendency has been to think in terms of a convergence. So instead of beauty inhering exclusively in the beautiful object or solely in the subjective experience it's a product of a meeting.
This allows me to deny that these experiences are wholly subjective thus letting me cling on to a notion of value or if not of value then at least of objective difference, while at the same time helps account for all those occasions on which encounter with the beautiful object fails to engender an experience of beauty.
Why this song here, which on one occasion moved me profoundly, today is dross. Why this landscape, which I know in my heart is beautiful, can't induce me to lift up my eyes from my phone.
The encounter becomes the point at which beauty is situated, and dependent on ourselves being equal to what if offered. Being able to switch into the I-Thou mode of Buber, not just towards people but towards place, towards the artwork etc
This allows me to deny that these experiences are wholly subjective thus letting me cling on to a notion of value or if not of value then at least of objective difference, while at the same time helps account for all those occasions on which encounter with the beautiful object fails to engender an experience of beauty.
Why this song here, which on one occasion moved me profoundly, today is dross. Why this landscape, which I know in my heart is beautiful, can't induce me to lift up my eyes from my phone.
The encounter becomes the point at which beauty is situated, and dependent on ourselves being equal to what if offered. Being able to switch into the I-Thou mode of Buber, not just towards people but towards place, towards the artwork etc
entertainment
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Don't let my humble musings disrupt the flow of beautiful tunes
entertainment
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But it's undervalued, beauty, right? Think in public spaces, what it does to you when you walk around among beautiful surroundings. There's an economic dimension of course, but some buildings, it seems, they build them purposefully ugly. Like they didn't have to make them that ugly.
I'm not saying we should celebrate the opulent, baroque tendencies but we shouldn't fall into the political temptation of fetishizing ugliness and brutalism either.
I'm not saying we should celebrate the opulent, baroque tendencies but we shouldn't fall into the political temptation of fetishizing ugliness and brutalism either.