Poll of the Day > Spock hears Beastie Boys Sabotage asks McCoy if it's 'classical music'

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What the hell kinda music do they have in their timeline huh

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the regular kind? why would Spock be familiar with earth music?

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To be fair, assuming the series takes place at least 200 years in the future, "Classical" is currently used as a blanket term for basically all music of that age, regardless of conventions, instrumentation, or anything else that subdivides it. It's not entirely unreasonable to suggest that it will continue to encompass all "old" music moving forward.

Of course, the extent to which we are now able to archive music does throw a wrench into that idea. It's still an argument that can be made, though, and the whole point of sci-fi is to consider hypothetical futures like that.

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What do they call our classical music, classical classical?

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TBF, Sabotage was a classic the moment it released.

thekingoftown posted...

What do they call our classical music, classical classical?

Probably gets retconned to 'traditional' or 'orchestral' (orchestral meaning orchestrated, not an orchestra playing the music)

adjl posted...

It's not entirely unreasonable to suggest that it will continue to encompass all "old" music moving forward.

It kinda is unreasonable because there are pretty specific musical time periods. Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, etc.

Laymen just call everything old classical, but for a super genius and extremely pedantic person like Spock, it doesn't really make sense.

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It is actually McCoy that asks if it is Classical music and Spock responds "Yes doctor, it would seem to be."

thekingoftown posted...

What do they call our classical music, classical classical?

cause it is old

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rjsilverthorn posted...

It is actually McCoy that asks if it is Classical music and Spock responds "Yes doctor, it would seem to be."

my bad im stoned

but yeah that makes even less sense then. Hes from earth ffs

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Smarkil posted...

It kinda is unreasonable because there are pretty specific musical time periods. Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, etc.

Laymen just call everything old classical, but for a super genius and extremely pedantic person like Spock, it doesn't really make sense.

Fair. I was thinking more in terms of laypeople, but that wouldn't necessarily apply to Spock.

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adjl posted...

Fair. I was thinking more in terms of laypeople, but that wouldn't necessarily apply to Spock.

Except the audience that is actually watching the joke are laypeople and even non-laypeople wouldn't get the joke if they used some made up term for it.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Except the audience that is actually watching the joke are laypeople and even non-laypeople wouldn't get the joke if they used some made up term for it.

The surface value of the joke ("lol he called a song from the 90's 'classical' that's so silly") is going to be apparent enough to laypeople, even if the subtler nuances of it (poking fun at the modern tendency to lump everything more than a century old into a single genre label regardless of actual period/genre definitions and obvious differences between pieces) are lost on people that don't know enough about music history to recognize that we do that.

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