Making Fun of Yanni

[BAMSS04]

I, like everyone, use too. UP until about three hours ago. I won't anymore. I heard one of his songs a long, long time ago. It was really crappy and I made fun of him ever since. About three hours ago I am sitting in my office finishing up on a few things. In busts one of my co-workers, he tells me that he was converted to a Yanni fan in like 10 mins. I began to laugh and make fun of him. He bet me 50 bucks that he could make me respect Yanni in less than 10 mins. I was like HELL YEAH 50 BUCKS, you are so on. So I am already thinking of how I am going to spend my fifty bucks, I'm in my Brain and thinking about whats new a Best Buy when this sound comes from my computer only it was not crappy and well rather crap-like in substance. It was pretty, and really good. It sounded wonderful. I had to check and make sure it was Yanni. It was. No, no no no no no I said this may be a fluke, it may be his one "Good" song. He said ok here is another. Then another. I handed over my fifty bucks and have been listening to this CD for like three hours over and over again.

Ok so I should tell you that I am a Classical Music fan. I like Yo yo ma, and stuff like that. I love the piano, drums , guitar, and violin. I am weird like that. So I will but you guys to the test there is no money involved but I need to know that I am not crazy. Listen to these three songs, (these are the exact three songs I listened too) and tell me they are not really good.
Play:
"One Mans Dream"
"Within Attraction"
"Nostalgia"
Here is the link. (http://radio.terra.com.br/includes/internas_albuns/0/764.html)
Then once you see that you like it play the whole cd ... I'm buying it. Wow it was really good. Let me know what you think.

[marksiwel]

I had to stop listening to the Clash to hear Yonni? You are dead mister.

[BAMSS04]

Did I tell you to stop listening to the Clash? No, You could have finished that and listened to Yanni Later. Now kill yourself. Did you like it though? No? Mark put the fish down. I'm not worth it. Put it down Mark... Ahhhhhhhhh!!

[jjcourtright]

Shouldn't the title of this thread be, "Making fun of Bamss?"

[BAMSS04]

That thread is called Song of the Year...! And unless you listen to the songs then, I'm just telling you its differant.

[Matthew]

Sorry to burst your bubble on this one, but there is nothing unique about those songs. The ONLY reason I respect him, is because he does not read a lick of music, it is all in his head / heart, and he taught himself everything. I really really really loathe everything he puts out though.

[Jason_Brown]

"Seu navegador não é compatível com a aplicação."

Sorry, dude. My conversion will have to wait. Another victim of crappy web design. /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

[Jason_Brown]

Alright. I got it working with a different browser. Listened to most of the first track. Wouldn't mind it as background music for the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics, or something. Otherwise, sorry, not converted. You are officially a dork. With a shotgun. I'll shut up now. Do I get fifty bucks? /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

[BAMSS04]

Tu' Nosabes ni' Epanol ny Ingles! Ablarlo, tueres americano

[BAMSS04]

Wow, I guess I really am pretty pathetic. Trying to get people hooked on Yanni, what was I thinking? Ah well! My brother is really to blame. He got me hooked on all classical music. Motzart, Bach, you know all those folks. Ever since I get hooked on this stuff. So sorry to take you away from your other music. /forums/images/icons/smirk.gif I thought it was pretty good though.

[FanGirl]

"Danny told me not to trust you. He said you killed Mozart."
"Mo- who?"
"-zart."
"You know, I kill a lot of people, I can't remember half of them."

courtesy of "Last Action Hero."

[Jason_Brown]

Nah. You didn't waste my time, nor pull me away from anything I was listening to, at the moment.

People love what they love. One of my favorite sections of "Downbeat" magazine is the "Hot Box". It features four different reviewers rating a single album. Invariably, the ratings run the full-spectrum of one to four stars. If you like Yanni, go for it. I certainly don't hold it against you. Besides, I am also a huge dork. /forums/images/icons/smirk.gif

[ILovePapaSmurf]

<font color="purple">I used to have dreams of Yanni playing the piano as I slept watching me sleep. Since then, I've avoided his cds and he is gone. Now it is Manilow.</font color>

[_pinkerton_]

<font color="brown"> </font color> I used to have dreams of being lifted in a chair above the Ewok villager's on Endor like C3PO in Return of the Jedi only to be tossed into a fiery pit, cooked and passed around like a bucket of colonel's rotisserie marinade.

[Matthew]

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Motzart, Bach, you know all those folks.

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Well, they were geniuses and pioneers. Yanni is nothing but a pimp. He plays things that do not compare to either one of those.

IF you knew and actually studied a little of Mozart, Stravinski, Prokofiev, Bach et al, you would see all the thought and emotion that went into their music. All yanni does and ever did is smoke up a little, say "Man this sounds kewl" and plays on it. He copies the Minimilistic movement. (google for minimilism, you will understand what I mean.)

Yanni can not, is not, and will not ever be a musician.

[BAMSS04]

Oh, Mathew my friend..... Ok, where do I begin.

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Well, they were geniuses and pioneers. Yanni is nothing but a pimp. He plays things that do not compare to either one of those.



[/ QUOTE ]

They are called classics for a reason Mathew, most people can't write music like them. Anyway, I was not saying Yanni was any where near those guys as far a talent just that, that is where my classical interest comes from. Sorry if I offended you. That was not what I was trying for.

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IF you knew and actually studied a little of Mozart, Stravinski, Prokofiev, Bach et al, you would see all the thought and emotion that went into their music.

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Ok, I must have hit a nerve because I am going to pretend you did not just insult my intelegence.......No, no I am not. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, January, 27 1756; and died in Vienna, December 5th 1791. He started composing at the age of 5. He started Performing at the age of 6. Oddly enough he started playing to please his father, Leopold Mozart, he came to enjoy it because his father did it for a living. Some of his best work is La finta semplice, which was the first opera he ever wrote. Most people today have never even heard it. Abduction from Seraglio is a little better known. Of course one of his most famous pieces was The Marriage of Figaro, which is little known that he actually collaborated with Lorenza da Ponte on that one. Igor Stravinsky was born in Russia June of 1882; he died in New York, April of 1971. He studied with Rim sky-Korsakov, who was an influence on his early music, though so were Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Godunov's and Debussy and Dukas. If you ever wanted to know where The Fire bird came from look into those names and listen you will hear some things that sound a lot a like. Petrushka, The Rite of Spring , The Nightingale, Agon, Les noces or The Wedding, and Apollon musagete are a few of the many he is known for. If you look at a list of ballets in the 20th century, Stravinsky's name is all over the place. Serge Prokofiev was born in Sontsovka Russia, April 1891;he died in Moscow, March 1953(same day as Stalin). Lyadov and Tcherepnin were among his better known teachers. Chout, The Fiery Angel, and Le pas d'acier are a few of his works. Cinderella was one of the last works he did before he became a recluse in the country. A lot of his music was up-lifting for the Russians with the war and all. It was used by Stalin many many a time to spread propaganda. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, March 1685; died in Leipzig, July 1750. He is one of my favorite composers. Bach's output embraces practically every musical genre of his time except for the dramatic ones of opera and oratorio. Art of Fugue(Though it was unfinished), Musical Offering, b Minor Mass, and the six Brandenburg Concertos, as well as numerous sonalas, suites and keyboard works are some of my personal favorites.

(thank god for spell check or that would have looked really bad /forums/images/icons/smile.gif )

I may not have finished college Mathew but I still took Music History my freshman year and I loved it. I may have really bad taste in music but I am not stupid( although I see that I spelled Mozart with a t in the middle so I guess I don't blame you for thinking so). Now, I have ruined my buzz. Time to start it back up , I am so off tomorrow!!!

[EternalStrife]

All this talk of classical composer is making me hungry. I've never listened to Yanni and don't intend to start. Now someone go make me a sandwhich.

[karmattack]

Yanni....



Salami....


I can see that.

[DangerSeeker]

He was the first punk ever
To set foot on this earth
He was a genius from the day of his birth
He could play the piano like a ring and a bell
And ev'rybody screamed
Come on, rock me Amadeus

He was a superstar
He was dynamite and whatever he did (it)
Seemed to be alright
And he drank (and)
He cursed and he fooled around
But when the women would shout
Rock me Amadeus

With a bottle of wine in one hand
And a woman in the other
'Cause he was a ladies man
He never stopped to worry
What the next day would bring
Because the girls would sing
Rock me Amadeus

His mind was on rock and roll and having fun
Because he lived so fast he had to die so young
But he made his mark in history
Still ev'rybody says
Rock me Amadeus

[RobinHoodDaffy]

Poor, dead Falco.

[Matthew]

Wow, hit a nerve did I? Ya, I googled for Mozart and Bach and found those exact same "lessons". They are also on the summary pages of "Music in the Western World" under each specific composer. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

Anyway, I in no means meant to insult your intelligence, just your choice in music. In a way you tried to compare Yanni to real composers, which is not kewl at all. I think you need to go find a fish and slap something, you know, kewl down a little.

You have your choice to like what you want, hell, there is a reason he is famous, a lot of people like him. Just don't compare a worm to a cloud.

[BAMSS04]

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Anyway, I in no means meant to insult your intelligence, just your choice in music. In a way you tried to compare Yanni to real composers, which is not kewl at all. I think you need to go find a fish and slap something, you know, kewl down a little.


[/ QUOTE ]

LOL, yeah I get a little worked up. The massive amounts of drinking I have done in the past two days doesn't help either. Sorry.

Anyway, I wanted to say that Yanni may not be anywhere near the quality of Mozart, Back, and your Russians, he is still a composer. I think a lot of Yanni's stuff is Crap. The more and more I look into him, that cd maybe the only good thing he has put out. I thought it was really good , though. I mean There is a song on there called Until the Last Moment that is amazing. Yanni may be a "Pimp" or a "worm" but he is writing the classical music that will define our time. Like it or not he will go down as our Mozart.

[Matthew]

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...but he is writing the classical music that will define our time. Like it or not he will go down as our Mozart.


[/ QUOTE ]

No, those people will be Copeland, Current, John Adams, John Williams, Elizabeth Alexander, etc. Yanni already is in the books and will remain in history as a writer of minimilistic movement, along with Enya et al.

[BAMSS04]

John Adams?
Thats funny because the most prominent minimalist composers are John Adams, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley, and of course La Monte Young. Minimalism at least refers to a certain moment of music and for Yanni works tend also to be much more approachable for the classical ear; there is a minimalist core to his work, but there is also much very classical composing behind his compositions. Which is why he is a "New Age" composer, not a minimalist. In all fairness I really don't consider John Adams a Minimalist, either. Adams' works have most often been written for more traditional classical forces: orchestra, string quartet, even solo piano.

[Mighty_Wingman]

Yanni?!? More like Yawny. For fook sakes ! What's next ? Are you going to be extolling the under rated virtues of Meatloaf? Babara Streisand ? REO effing Speedwagon ?

Do us all a favor, get a hearing aid!

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[RobinHoodDaffy]

http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/images/getfuzzy20122062050301.gif

[Dave]

Hee hee, Get Fuzzy is awesome. I loves it with Splenda on top.

[BAMSS04]

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Yanni?!? More like Yawny. For fook sakes ! What's next ? Are you going to be extolling the under rated virtues of Meatloaf? Babara Streisand ? REO effing Speedwagon ?

Do us all a favor, get a hearing aid!



[/ QUOTE ]

That was low. Even for you.

What gives you the right to make fun of Meatloaf?

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[TLS]

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What gives you the right to make fun of Meatloaf?


[/ QUOTE ]
Don't quote me on this, but I think you can buy those rights on Ebay.

[BAMSS04]

That reminds me Mathew!!! I saw something that I think you would enjoy and I am gonna put it out there for the rest of you as a way to make friends after El Yanni....o'.


The Hawaii one is great as well as the Tour bus one. I took a chance that there are a very you have not seen. Enjoy!!

Click here. (http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Late_Night_with_Conan_O'Brien/video/triumph.shtml)

[jjcourtright]

"You guys watchin Pee Wee's Playhouse in here?" had me cracking up for a good minute the other day.

[BAMSS04]

YEs I do... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE0pyqk6JrU&mode=related&search=)Two years later and I listen to this CD, and I am loving that track.

And the ones I mentioned....Very Pretty.

Also, This!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTveCihjoQ&mode=related&search=) is still one of my favorite things to play on the piano...out of anything classical/minimal/whatever.