Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31763506-20180715221736/@comment-31763506-20180716144819

Fluid-decanter wrote: If you were trying to call me out and start a flame war in the spirit Leto seems to have intended this thread for, my opinion of the game's music tends to range from "doesn't overstay its welcome" to "good enough for listening on its own", nothing in the vicinity of "could be worse." I made a thread about this once, actually.

I actually was being totally facetious about the flame war aspect. Musical taste is about the most subjective thing in existence, and there are no "correct" opinions in judging the aesthetics of a piece. (It's pretty easy to make a technical critique of the amount of skill needed to make a composition or perform a particular piece though, so John Cage's 4'33" is only impressive to certain types of music students.) So you can have a semi-artistic snob like me who has multiple versions of several Wagner operas and can compare the conducting styles of the late Pierre Boulez versus the recently disgraced James Levine, or my kid nephew, who likes some godawful crap video that my sister-in-law plays on her phone to get him to sit still for a few minutes, and neither of us is "wrong" that we enjoy it.

I was actually curious as to what other people do (and maybe wanted to gush a bit about Glass and Jarre), but was aware that the subject could get contentious so I threw in the overt flame-baiting as sarcasm to get everyone else to take the subject less seriously.

Might have been being to subtle.

I'm usually in favor of music with lyrics instead of instrumentals for some reason, but I live in a constant state of lack of focus, so... SQUIRREL!