What's /a/'s opinion of this woman?

Stupid

>>148472073
Too old
Too many dimensions

>>148472073
Silly hat, good composer, but kind of a one trick pony when it comes to variation.

"Who is Yoko Kanno?" -Crispin Freeman, Anime Expo 2004

>>148472266
>cowboy bebop
>anything other then a variety of songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKnVaDwUg5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MduJjbcLSqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbip5oZVL94

>>148472073
top tier anime music

>>148472266
>one trick pony when it comes to variation.

So you know jack shit about music and all the variety of genres she's worked in.

Yuki Kajiura does it better.

>>148472266
>kind of a one trick pony
Is this a joke? She has an insane amount of variety in the genres she works with.

>>148473180

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiUjOFYDiBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS1xFYQhPNk&list=PLDBDDCCCF6984FF9D

>>148472929
Crispin freeman is a stupid and sexy faggot with an amazing voice

>>148474229

Oh hi Freeman. Glad you're still shilling on 4chan.

>>148473839
>>148473785
It's something that some people started to believe after some fucker here repeated it a 1000 times.

>>148474262
I called him stupid and a faggot

>>148474117
Well thats just directly stealing a song
But that doesn't mean shes a one trick pony, if theres something to say about her is that she has crazy variety in the genres she makes, with a lot of hits and quite a few misses or nothings

She's a genius.
I frankly don't get the hate she gets here.
>escaflowne and macross+ ost are miracles of the universe

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Her works don't appeal to me but she's a solid composer.

VoN is still one of the most beautiful tracks ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnqSTzq6-w

>>148474496
Its cool to hate popular things

She used to be my favorite composer. Until I listened to everything she did and realized she has the same problem as a lot of composers. Half her songs are godly and the other half are rather forgettable filler music. Its understandable since composers are forced to write 50-100 songs in a short amount of time. But some other composers have a higher amount of good to bad songs, while under the same time constraints.

I still like her a lot. Just moved on from thinking she's the absolute best. I also feel her best work is Turn A Gundam, even though I couldn't sit through the show itself.

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It's okay to think of her work as passable or dull, but to actively shit on it is something I see only on /a/. The contrarianism boogeyman is real.

>>148472073
She's ok. Macross Plus and Turn A Gundam are amongst her best works, everything else is passable. There are dozens of Jap composers who do it a lot better

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>>148472073
fantastic music, jesus I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows about her.
I love here pandora station.

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>>148472266
>kind of a one trick pony when it comes to variation

>>148474924
>>148474738
Which composers are better in your opinion?

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Gravity from Wolf's Rain is one of the most sublime things I've ever heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF5QcDRVKTA

>>148475220

Joe Hisaishi, Koichi Sugiyama, Hoshi Katsu, Takanori Arisawa, Taku Iwasaki

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She sure loves Jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXlv720fApc

>>148475220
Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, Vivaldi, Mahler, Wagner, Stravinsky, Satie, Dvorak, Copland, Tallis

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>>148475754
best album ever made in japan

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>>148475943
She toured the U.S. from west coast to east before writing Bebop's OST to listen to all of the different variations of jazz music in America.

If you've ever listened to interviews or read about her, you know she is insanely dedicated to her craft. She spends a long time on research before attempting to recreate a style she is unfamiliar with. Most OSTs she has composed have a particular theme and genre that she has meticulously recreated. With jazz she often will take various sub-genres of jazz and create a pastiche for each as different tracks in the OST.

In a way, Kanno is representative of Japanese music culture as a whole. They find music that other cultures have created and perfect it or recreate it with exacting detail. In some cases it is blended with more traditional Japanese music as a hybrid.

>>148476582

>Mozart
Opinion discarded.

>>148477417
Mozart made a mean requiem though senpai.

>>148478285

He wrote a few good songs. Then about 400 repetitive songs with the same A, B, A, B, C, A formula. He was the Beatles of Classical music.

Also like the Beatles, his better songs were early in his career.

>>148478409
Are you saying you've listened to 400 Mozard compositions?

>>148478724

No. More like 200 of them. But if you're going to claim the other 200 are all his good songs, then I'll just throw the law of averages at you. Plus the fact that I heard what were suppose to be his 'best' songs as chosen by classical music stations and Mozart enthusiasts.

>>148477417
Mozart's contribution to western music is immense.

>>148478409
>>148478724
>>148478776
Most composers don't even write 1 work that stands the test of time. And prolific composers will always write works that are bad, it's impossible for everything you do to be amazing. Mozart has contributed more to the modern classic repertoire than composers who wrote 10 times his number of compositions.

Additionally, remember that in Mozart's time composers were commissioned to write works with little notice for the aristocracy's parties and events. Many of his works were probably written in a week or month at most and are simply hasty compositions to provide ballroom music for one evening. Stupid musicologists conflate these dime novel equivalent compositions to masterworks, but it should be obvious that this isn't the case and they aren't analogous.

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>>148478285
don't say his name

>>148479121
I've seen this pic like five times but I have no idea where it is from. S-sauce?

>>148479057

>Mozart contributed tons of music
>but he wrote things hastily; the equivalent of dime novel music

And once again, the Beatles did the same thing. But being prolific and remembered doesn't mean his music was good to all ears. To my ears, almost all of his work is formulaic. He wrote 2 minute themes, threw a variation on it in the middle, then repeated the theme at the end.

Justin Bieber is also repetitive and remembered. Doesn't mean he is good.

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>>148477417
Mozart is full of shit.

>>148478776
Ah no need. I've already disregarded your opinion on the matter.

>>148479263
Don't know which doujin but the character is probably Rui from Gatchaman Crowds.

i love her for making all the macross music

>>148479303
>Justin Bieber is also repetitive and remembered.
No he isn't. No one of any consequence cares about Bieber. He will be forgotten completely in 10 years.

The rest missed the point. If even 0.1% of thousands of works are good then Mozart still made more masterpieces than 99.999% of all composers.

>>148472073
Plagiarist shit overrated by normalfags.

>>148482815

>If even 0.1% of thousands of works are good then Mozart still made more masterpieces than 99.999% of all composers.
Someone won't be remembered as a composer unless they write something that gets remembered. You just got done claiming Bieber doesn't count since he won't be remembered.

You're an idiot.

>>148483586
Are you that low IQ or are you just being pedantic? Obviously good = remembered in the context of this conversation. Do I have to spell it out for you like I'm talking to a child?

>>148484027

>well I obviously meant this
>if you couldn't get that, you're an idiot
Classic deflection.

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>>148484139
Alright son, eat your Cheerios and then it's time to get in bed. It's already past your bed time.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

She did Escaflowne. I don't care about anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_49H_N43jQ

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>>148484213

>>148484447

And half the songs in Escaflowne were written or co written with her husband, who she has since divorced. Including the one you posted. She wrote some good songs for that show. But I'd say her husband was the one who wrote the best songs. Like Gloria or Romance.

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>A cute, plagiarizing Obasan will never lead you in a singalong
;_;