No way it ' s a coincidence by now . Messi , Neymar , Mascherano , Eto ' o . I wonder what they have in common ? <| sep |> More of this . <| sep |> And I see your preference is to take everything I say out of context and attack me with it . I said my preference is to play with a slight deviation in stats from a theoretical optimal point which , unless Dervy has gotten enough data to make MCH stat weights since I last checked , isn ' t even well tested , not to ignore the basic mechanics of the job . Edit spamming nothing but ice feels terrible , and Enochian isn ' t hard once you ' re used to it . <| sep |> I think Bach actually would have liked Beethoven . Beethoven ' s music is a world apart from Bach , but although Bach was more interested in cerebral music in his later days , he still had the flair for musical showmanship just look at his famously uncharacteristic Toccata and Fugue in Dm . Bach was also very harmonically adventurous just check out his chorales but was kind of stuck in the harmonic language of his time , when chromaticism hadn ' t yet evolved to what it became under Beethoven . I think Bach would go crazy over the new melodies and harmonies he ' d hear in Beethoven ' s music , even though perhaps he might think it a bit too crass . Shostakovich , I ' m not sure . I think Bach might not like it so much , but he ' d appreciate the musicianship . Some of the music would be pretty easy to understand and he ' d probably appreciate it as normal music done in a wondrous alien way with wondrous alien instruments saxophones , tubas , etc . for other music he might wonder at how someone can even listen to so much despair , much less write it . Bartok . noise mostly . Shoenberg , what the fuck is this shit and why are they using musical instruments to do it ? Stockhausen , I give up , take me back to the 18 th century !