What single work of creation would you remove from the world?

[rich p]

And Peter Maxwell Davis banging pencil cases together

 

[rich p]

And and and and and....
I'll be back in a mo....

 

[nickyboy]

Way too obvs. 2/10

Stockhausen

Death Metal

 

[Tin Pot]

Stockhausen

Death Metal

To be fair death metal isn’t cultural and isn’t and artefact. Otherwise, fair play.

The Big Brother pilot or whatever it was that sold C4 on investing. By destroying that single artefact the nation would be saved decades of shoot and shitty spinoffs, TOWIE, Celebrity This Or That, et al would never have existed.

 

[John the Monkey]

That's better & more accurate

Well yes, those opera stars we're always reading about in Hello, with their lamborghini cars and glamour model partners.

 

[John the Monkey]

Speed cameras

Policing should be done by real bodies not autominous cameras

Speed cameras are works of art?

 

[Dirk]

I'd put John Rutter up against the wall. Can't stand any of his stuff. Insipid nobber. This has got to be the worst.

View: https://youtu.be/gfQISWFyyz8

 

[John the Monkey]

You've just destroyed a huge chunk of black american cultural identity, political engagement, education and communication.

Care to expand on your reasoning?

Also, rap music's not a single thing so it doesn't count anyway so ner.

...and like Country and Western, or other maligned forms, it's a vast genre encompassing lots of different styles and moods.

The more interesting question might be in the spirit of the op, as to which influential rap work would be erased - the earliest flowering of the genre? The shift (back) into politically active, angry protest? The empty seeming substyle of gangsta that boasts Plutographically about money and lifestyle?

 

[slowmotion]

All films by Ingmar Bergman. Why make suicide seem really rather attractive?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Well yes, those opera stars we're always reading about in Hello, with their lamborghini cars and glamour model partners.

Wouldn't know can't say that I've ever read or looked at one

 

[Ian H]

Stockhausen

The man himself directed the orchestras (3 of them) at the first concert of his work that I saw. About 1969 I think. The Proms featured him a few years ago, which was good.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Pink, what a bloody snooze fest, Floyd.

A full stop instead of that second comma and we have a deal

 

[winjim]

...and like Country and Western, or other maligned forms, it's a vast genre encompassing lots of different styles and moods.

The more interesting question might be in the spirit of the op, as to which influential rap work would be erased - the earliest flowering of the genre? The shift (back) into politically active, angry protest? The empty seeming substyle of gangsta that boasts Plutographically about money and lifestyle?

I'd be perfectly happy for Rapper's Delight to be erased from the history books. People bang on about it and it was the first big hit, but it's a bloody awful tune with plagiarised lyrics and hip-hop would have got on perfectly well without it.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Tynecastle

 

[flake99please]

I would choose to eliminate the creation of nuclear fission/fusion weapons. Not an art in itself, but something (I think) the world would be better off without.