Topic: The Music They Made.

[Rik]

What opera have you heard, it's a huge field. I don't like Wagner, but Verdi, Puccini, Mozart etc are very different.

[Simon]

Just snippets mostly, Rik.  Madame Butterfly I was forced to endure all the way through as a child, but it's all much of a muchness to me, as I'm sure, heavy metal is to you. 

[Rik]

Butterfly is not a good opera, imo, especially for a child. I'd start people with either the Magic Flute, lots of good tunes and lots of fun, or Boheme, again lots of good tunes, but a tragedy.

About the only type, rather than example, of music I dislike is punk, which, imo, wasn't music at all.

[Lona]

Butterfly is not a good opera, imo, especially for a child. I'd start people with either the Magic Flute, lots of good tunes and lots of fun, or Boheme, again lots of good tunes, but a tragedy.

About the only type, rather than example, of music I dislike is punk, which, imo, wasn't music at all.

You can add Rap to that, Rik. 

[Rik]

Good thinking, Lona. About the only types... are punk and RAP, neither of which I consider to be music at all.

[Simon]

I never liked Punk either, but I thought the Sex Pistols were great! 

[Sandra]

Tommy is a good one to listen to Simon, the original Who version though not the film 

Some of the Gilbert and Sullivan ones werent bad either.

You probably preferred Gilbert O'Sullivans "Alone Again Naturally" though 

[GillE]

I was (and remain) a fan of punk.  I don't know why - perhaps it was something to do with the time I was growing up and the spirit of the age.  I still love listening to the Undertones, the Stranglers, the Clash et al.  I'd like to think it didn't straitjacket me into one particular type of music, though.  I grew to love folk-rockers such as Richard Thompson, Ukrainian balalaikas, Mongol throat singers, Yemeni music, Johnny Cash and (whisper it) the odd bit of Motown.  I've even strayed into classical music and often find myself humming a bit of Prokofiev or Saint-Saens.

Nevertheless, opera leaves me cold, be it Mozart, Gilbert & Sullivan, Wagner or Verdi.  I've tried them and...  .

[David]

You could save me from listening Simon