Finnissy has done more damage to ears than Mike Tyson.
In your apparent opinion; were this actually no mere opinion but an actual truth, might it not of necessity presume that approximately as many people have listened to his music as have entered the ring (not Wagner's, of course) and gone several rounds with Mike Tyson? - in other words, does this comparison tell us anything useful about either Finnissy or Tyson or those who have directly encountered either? and, if so, what?
It appears that, in what you are seeking to express here, you are missing some vital points. One is that to I have arguably done at least as much "damage" with my work to those who would respond to it as you do to Finnissy's (and you could, for that matter, substitute any other composer's name for mine to demonstrate the same point); another is that there are such things as on-off switches and the use of one's legs to walk out of a public performance when what is on offer affects listeners as Finnissy's music appears to affect you.
No rational person would expect Finnissy's music necessarily to appeal to you or that it should appeal to you, nor indeed would any such person necessarily even be surprised to discover that it is anathema to you. Whatever your personal feelings on the subject my be, however, I think it fair to say that you might garner more respect and credibility were you to provide some details of exactly what features of Finnissy's music you dislike so intensely and why, rather than merely making the kinds of offhand and substanceless barbs about him and his work that you have done so far; an essential part of such an exercise would, of course, be the helpful inclusion of some information as to what Finnissy works you have heard and how often you have heard some of them.
You do not, of course, have to respond to this challenge but, if you choose not to do so but continue your profoundly unsubtle Finnissy-bashing campaign, the sheer emptiness, tastelessness and pleonastic absurdity of your observations on him and his work will become all the more apparent to those who continue to read them.
In so saying, I should make it clear that I am not here to defend Michael Finnissy's music but to defend him from attack by those whose modus operandi involve the use of verbal weapons of mass irrationality for which they have not even paid.
One could, of course, substitute many other names for Finnissy's here to more or less the same effect. The facts remain, however, that some music will never appeal to some people and that the appeal of other music might wax and wane from time to time because all listeners are humans with human responses which, by their very nature, change, metamorphose and develop with time rather than being
idées fixes such as your apparent intransigent, intolerant and inflexible view of Finnissy.
But then perhaps, in so saying, I am appearing to take your remarks too seriously and that it is I rather than you who miss the point; maybe there is a certain subtle commonality between Mr. Tyson, Mr. Finnissy and your good self that I have until now overlooked and that, whatever that may be, you have been taking it all along...(!)...
Best,
Alistair
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