I like my music with Soule...

So here's one of the Kickstarter's I've supported recently:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499808045/from-the-composer-of-skyrim-soule-symphony-no-1

It's finished now (I suppose I should have posted about it earlier?), but it's interesting - a modern classical composer. I mean, I'm a fan of Skyrim, and honestly, I'd never heard of this guy. I have a nasty habit of just turning music off in games and only noticing it when it's on because it's annoying me (while I'm trying to hear something else, especially), and Skyrim was no different - I'd just muted the music and been done with it. Going back and turning it on, and then listening to the soundtrack, though, prompted by this... It really is pretty good. Well within my range of taste, at least.

Anyway, the composer in question is Jeremy Soule (http://www.facebook.com/mrsoule), and if you like Classical music, I strongly recommend checking him out. I find his work excellent. I mean, obviously, I like some of it more than other; but that's true of any composer I know of, so I'm perfectly willing to accept that.

Interestingly, a little bit of research came up with this:

http://halloffame.classicfm.com/2013/chart/position/5/

which is a British Classic FM station. Apparently he hit #5 on the top 300 "hall of fame" for 2013 with his Skyrim soundtrack, and it was a huge controversy. There appear to be three major groups in that discussion: the first group, who say it's not classical music (either because it's from a video game or because he's still alive); the second group, who say it's classical music but didn't deserve its position on the charts (mostly because they say it got that high purely through a successful social media campaign and not on merit); and the third group who points out that both Harry Potter's and The Pirates of the Carribean's soundtracks made it into the hall of fame and yet aren't the subject of controversy, and social media is part of the equation, so suck it up and accept that it's classical music and people like it. Without the occasional bits of vitriol, I admit I'm part of the third group. Social Media is - for better or for worse - the way the world works, and part of the equation with any kind of public poll-based rating like this... And at least to me, classical music is a style, not a date-based defition available only to the long dead.

Ahh, well. Check his stuff out - I hope you like it as much as I do.