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gelinas
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"Strange" stuff
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Oct 28 05:12 UTC 2000 |
I've heard some stuff that just struck me as . . . strange. What have
you come across lately?
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gelinas
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response 1 of 28:
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Oct 28 05:19 UTC 2000 |
The cover of "Flowers on the Wall" isn't really "strange", even though it
caught me by surprise a few weeks back when I heard it on W4 Country.
However, a Wolfman Jack imitator introducing "Whiskey in the Jar" on a
classic rock station in Nashville, TN, as _a request_ was really off. And
then when it turned it out to be the real thing, done by Metallica, uh, wow.
And then last night, I heard a cut apparently from a CD entitled "28 Teeth",
but I missed the band's name. The DJ, who sounded barely old enough to be
in college (but it was apparently a school-based station in Cincinnati",
claimed it was her favorite: "I Think I Love You." Yeah, that one. Done as
hard rock: too loud electric guitar, screamed vocals, the whole bit. Stop
the world. I want to get off.
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tpryan
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response 2 of 28:
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Oct 28 15:23 UTC 2000 |
I love it.
I've heard a 'punked' up version of the Celine Dion song
from Titantic.
I have Lead Zeplin music done up by a jugband, for symphony,
and by some good bluegrass pickers.
Those bluegrass pickers have also 'picked' on John Melencamp,
Bonnie Rait, the Rolling Stones and others.
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raven
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response 3 of 28:
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Oct 29 06:00 UTC 2000 |
jug bnad led zep who's that I want to hear
it...
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orinoco
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response 4 of 28:
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Oct 29 17:19 UTC 2000 |
Some of Led Zeppelin's stuff gets pretty close to jug band already. "Black
Country Woman" and "Boogie With Stu," from _Physical Graffiti,_ sound like
misguided attempts at country blues. (Of course, I'd put those two in the
strange stuff category also.)
"Come on, feel the noise" done as a mellow ballad by Bran Van 3000. This was
actually the first version of the song that I heard, and the original keeps
striking me as some sort of strange heavy cover.
_Punk Side Story,_ a complete performance of West Side Story by various punk
bands I'd never heard of. "Gee Officer Krupke" actually improves in the
process, but the rest of the musical goes downhill.
Cornershop's first album included a cover of "Norwegian Wood" done totally
straight, except for the fact that all the lyrics were translated into (I
think) Hindi. They end up with too many syllables, and the rhythm is all over
the place.
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tpryan
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response 5 of 28:
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Oct 29 18:03 UTC 2000 |
re 3: Then see the Juggernaught Jug Band at Greenwood Coffee house
on January 12th, right here in Ann Arbor.
sample length em-pee-three might be on:
http://www.juggernaughtjugband.com.
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raven
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response 6 of 28:
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Oct 30 21:05 UTC 2000 |
Too bad I'm not in Ann Arbor anymore, eh? I've heard punk side story it's
a hoot.
I've been listening to a new Devo live CD called greatest hits that does
jocko homo a sort of lab steel country thang, it's great.
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dbratman
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response 7 of 28:
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Oct 31 23:20 UTC 2000 |
I finally got a chance to hear some Macumba. Whenever I hear steel
drums and other Caribbean percussion, usually in the subway, I like the
rhythm but feel like I'm waiting for the melody to come in. Now I know
what I was waiting for: highland bagpipes!
It's odd, but pretty good.
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sspan
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response 8 of 28:
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Nov 4 23:21 UTC 2000 |
One of the funniest things I've ever heard was the lyrics to the Gilligan's
Island theme done to the tune of Zep's Stairway to Heaven. They played it on
the radio in Philly a couple of times before it was pulled due to some
copyright infringement thing.. pity. Then there's always Faith No More doing
the Nestle's song..
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gelinas
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response 9 of 28:
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Nov 5 01:01 UTC 2000 |
Ah. I've done Gilligan's Island to "Amazing Grace". And vice versa. I think
I tried Gilligan's to "House of the Rising Sun," too.
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bruin
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response 10 of 28:
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Nov 5 01:07 UTC 2000 |
I also remember hearing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of the "Mickey
Mouse Club" theme, as well as the Methodist "Doxology" to the tunes
of "Hernando's Hideaway" and the Gillette "Look Sharp, Feel Sharp, Be
Sharp" jingle.
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tpryan
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response 11 of 28:
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Nov 5 14:23 UTC 2000 |
One can do Canadian Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund
Fitzgerald" to Canadian Stan Roger's "Safe in the Harbor". One might
want to add a chorus as Steve MacDonald and Dan Glassier did to produce
the version I heard.
re 8: You need more funny music in your life. You'll laugh more
often.
re 9: And all can be done to Alice's Restaurant.
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orinoco
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response 12 of 28:
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Nov 5 18:30 UTC 2000 |
I've heard Stairway to Heaven done by Frank Zappa as a pseudo-reggae song,
and by some Beatles tribute group in the style of the early Beatles, complete
with new early-60s chord changes.
Another good shipwreck song, "The Mary Ellen Carter," can be exchanged with
"The Itsy Bitsy Spider" with a little tweaking.
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dbratman
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response 13 of 28:
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Nov 9 06:03 UTC 2000 |
With Christmas coming up soon (again), there's nothing like startling
people at carolling sessions by suddenly bursting out with the
following, in a cheerful voice to the tune of "Deck the Halls":
Once upon a midnight dreary, fa la la la la, la la la la
As I pondered weak and weary, fa la la la la, la la la la
It doesn't really scan very well after that, but it sure makes a
striking beginning.
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mcnally
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response 14 of 28:
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Nov 9 21:23 UTC 2000 |
re #13: What was the movie where some character complained that another
character had ruined all of Emily Dickinson's poetry for her by pointing
out that it could all be sung to "The Yellow Rose of Texas"?
"Because I could not stop for death
he kindly stopped for meeeee..."
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happyboy
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response 15 of 28:
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Nov 10 12:14 UTC 2000 |
i like singing poe's
"Annabelle Lee"
to the tune of
"Big John" by Jimmy Dean
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other
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response 16 of 28:
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Nov 11 17:39 UTC 2000 |
Dorothy Parker's 'Resumé' to 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'...
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orinoco
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response 17 of 28:
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Nov 13 17:40 UTC 2000 |
(Ouch)
Spider pointed out that the chemical name paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde can
serve as lyrics to pretty well any Irish jig you care to mention.
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gelinas
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response 18 of 28:
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Nov 15 19:00 UTC 2000 |
And today I heard "Play that country music, Cowboy." Had to listen to the
lyrics to figure out why it was on W4 Country; otherwise, it sounded just like
it did back in '77.
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gelinas
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response 19 of 28:
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Nov 20 20:38 UTC 2000 |
I guess I'm on a roll:
move your mouse around until you land on me,
at double-u double-u double-u dot family
On W4 country.
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bruin
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response 20 of 28:
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Nov 21 01:01 UTC 2000 |
RE #19 I believe the song you quoted was Alan Jackson's latest release
entitled "www.memory".
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mcnally
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response 21 of 28:
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Nov 21 01:26 UTC 2000 |
That sounds dreadful..
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gelinas
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response 22 of 28:
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Nov 21 04:51 UTC 2000 |
OK, it sounds like "family" to me, but I'll take your word. :)
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dbratman
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response 23 of 28:
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Nov 21 17:33 UTC 2000 |
Oh, that's great - misheard URLs are already a bane of life, now we get
them in song lyrics.
It was Isaac Asimov who first sang "paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde" to a
jig (The Irish Washerwoman), which prompted some sf fan to write an
entire "Chemist's Drinking Song" to that tune.
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orinoco
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response 24 of 28:
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Nov 21 17:48 UTC 2000 |
gulliver.weblogs.com/2000/06/20 says....
Heh. Some of you may remember the old story about Isaac Asimov -
apparently he was at a chemistry conference in Ireland (he was a chemistry
professor, IIRC) and had to remember the name of a particular stuff -
paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde - for his presentation the next day. He
realised (probably in the pub) that the word
"paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde" fits the tune "The Irish Washerwoman"
perfectly (in case you don't know the name, this is the Irish jig. The one
everyone knows). And he found he had a bad case of earworm - he couldn't
get the tune out of it head and kept singing along. He went home that
night, still singing "paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde,
paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde..." , and the landlady of his guest house
interrupted him, saying, "Oh, and you know the Irish words, too!"
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