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Chris Trottier on Nostr: People don't realize that "beautiful music" is an actual genre. As in, that's the ...

People don't realize that "beautiful music" is an actual genre.

As in, that's the name of the genre.

Here's the Wikipedia entry for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_music

Here's examples of artists who made "beautiful music":

- Mantovani
- 101 Strings Orchestra
- Percy Faith
- Paul Mauriat
- Ray Conniff
- Bert Kaempfert

And if you want to hear what this music sounds like, here's an example on YouTube from a radio broadcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJot32Ydf-Q

If you're older than 60, you might be aware of this genre. But thankfully, it's died out.
You know how much music is on a 1,800 ft reel-to-reel tape running at 1⅞ IPS?

6 hours and 24 minutes.

I am listening to 6 hours and 24 minutes of "beautiful music" recorded from a radio---made all the way back in the 1960s.

For the first hour, I was like, "This has historical value!"

I'm now in the third hour---almost finished the first side---and I have profound feelings of violence. There is nothing beautiful about this music. It is rage inducing.

I now understand why Satanic Panic was a thing.