What music expresses the sublime?

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10 Feb 2009, 1:54 pm

I'm looking for music with some connotations of the title. Not good music...sublime music. Post relevant pieces.

I would start by nominating Lateralus by Tool, and Altered Course by Isis.

Continuing on the post metal, I'm also going to say that Lift by Rosetta does (although as a 3 part song I can't post that one...)

I'm not going to bother defining the term in the subject heading because I'd rather see what y'all come up with. Happy hunting.

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10 Feb 2009, 4:18 pm

My first choice is The Scarlet Ibis by The Green Kingdom.

My second choice is Fireworks by My Fun.

The beauty of this is that is SO subjective.

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10 Feb 2009, 5:00 pm

some Mahler, most Richard Strauss.

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10 Feb 2009, 5:22 pm

Hm... could you be more specific?

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10 Feb 2009, 5:27 pm

Try Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss.

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11 Feb 2009, 6:01 am

John Coltrane. You probably won't like it though.

I feel that only good musicians can truly appreciate him.

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11 Feb 2009, 9:02 am

I agree with Coltrane, but do you seriously think all Coltrane fans are musicians?

But he is brilliant.

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11 Feb 2009, 6:20 pm

I'll start with a few d&b, may post rock or other things in a bit:

breakage - the shroud (turin)
survival - the beginning
krust - true stories
bkey - dimenxion x
eye d - unicorn mf (black sun empire remix)
skc & matt u - primevil
grooverider - starbase 23

I don't know that these are my 'be all end all of sublime' but I think they're a good start at least, if I think of any that would top this list I'll add later.

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11 Feb 2009, 8:10 pm

andyfalls wrote:

My first choice is The Scarlet Ibis by The Green Kingdom.

Listening to this right now - really good. Couple other things that brings to mind (I'll add the youtube links this time):

Breakage - Spiritualism
Macc - If

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12 Feb 2009, 12:51 am

Thanks guys. Keep 'em coming (:

I find the concept of the sublime I think of is like that described by Wikipedia as being characeristic of Schopenhaur:

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For him, the feeling of the beautiful is pleasure in simply seeing a benign object. The feeling of the sublime, however, is pleasure in seeing an overpowering or vast malignant object of great magnitude, one that could destroy the observer.

* Feeling of Beauty - Light is reflected off a flower. (Pleasure from a mere perception of an object that cannot hurt observer).
* Weakest Feeling of Sublime - Light reflected off stones. (Pleasure from beholding objects that pose no threat, yet themselves are devoid of life).
* Weaker Feeling of Sublime - Endless desert with no movement. (Pleasure from seeing objects that could not sustain the life of the observer).
* Sublime - Turbulent Nature. (Pleasure from perceiving objects that threaten to hurt or destroy observer).
* Full Feeling of Sublime - Overpowering turbulent Nature. (Pleasure from beholding very violent, destructive objects).
* Fullest Feeling of Sublime - Immensity of Universe's extent or duration. (Pleasure from knowledge of observer's nothingness and oneness with Nature).

The "overpowering or vast malignace" reminds me of the sound of good post metal...

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15 Feb 2009, 8:03 pm

Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries

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