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tia_tarina

Tara's Weird Ass Music Meme

Jun 07, 2006 12:14

mincot got a great music meme on her Livejournal:

From scieppanStep 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random ( Read more... )

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mincot June 7 2006, 19:57:29 UTC

Nope, not cheating. You know me--have I *ever* really listened to popmusic??? I did have to check the spelling of the German stuff and the Czech stuff, but I can count on two hands the things on my CreativeZenTouch that are in English (I have 4 sound tracks--The Fantasticks, Man of La Mancha, Fiddler, and Showboat; there's two English-language operas, two Lizards albums, and a LoreenaMcKennitt mix). Everything else is operatic, medieval, Baroque, Celtic, or occasionally modern classic.

mincot June 7 2006, 19:58:15 UTC

As for the Latin, kindly remember what I do for a living and what my historical specialty is :P :P :P

tia_tarina June 7 2006, 20:14:58 UTC

*I* didn't expect y'all to get the Icelandic. . . (and if I had included them, two Icelandic 'tunes' came up in the ten song rotation and even using Google, you would have been hard pressed to find them to name them)

I only know one person who reads Livejournal who reads Latin. I'm surprised he hasn't weighed in on the topic and named half your list.

*Most* people have modern *songs* on their MP3 players. Sure, David and I have books on tape (that would be books on MP3 now I guess) on our iPods too, but we also have tunes for enjoyment.

That's kinda the point of this exercise. Twiting your friends with 'Name That Tune'.

But I also guess that Gregorian plainchant really rocks out in traffic. . . :)

(what's the words to 'Carmina Burada'? I'm too busy air conducting to sing along. . .)

khereva June 7 2006, 21:38:13 UTC

Well, to be fair, naming "veni, creator spiritus" as the title of the hymn that begins "veni, creator spiritus" seemed like shooting fish in a barrel.

The Burana is great fun. Enough of them are the medieval equivalent of "Let's all get drunk and go naked" to make them worth a listen. Here's a lyric link.

And let's be fair-- it's Medieval Latin, so it almost doesn't even count as Latin at all (poke, poke).

mincot June 9 2006, 05:50:00 UTC

LOO, well, Baby Doe was composed in the '50's; that's modern; Kurt Weill is 20th century, how much mroe modern do you want me to get? you know I do not like Rock and roll, and never have. :)

Carmina Burana is Orff, and the setting is modern, though the text is 13c.

And I know at least five folks on my LJ list who are far better Latinists than I. And that isn't counting the medieval list :) :)

rkimedes June 8 2006, 05:06:46 UTC

Um... I'll hazard a guess that #8 is Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel. But it's a Scientific Wild Ass Guess...

One down, nine to go tia_tarina June 8 2006, 05:13:57 UTC

Congrats! You got the second easiest song on the list!

Re: One down, nine to go rkimedes June 8 2006, 05:19:59 UTC

So I decided this meme was interesting, so I fired up the media PC and let 'er rip, as it were. The first thing that came up? Orion (Instrumental). Seems wrong, somehow.

Re: One down, nine to go tia_tarina June 8 2006, 05:25:51 UTC

Nope. I had to skip a bunch of instrumentals to get to ten songs.

Keep at it. It's pretty fun.

Isn't #5 Elton John? khereva June 8 2006, 06:19:07 UTC

Damn.

Re: Isn't #5 Elton John? khereva June 8 2006, 06:31:52 UTC

Nope it's not "Honky Cat"-- but it should be.

Re: Isn't #5 Elton John? tia_tarina June 8 2006, 16:37:30 UTC

I'll make it a little easier; there are no Elton John songs on this sampling.

Although one of the songs *is* by another British Flaming Queen (BFQ) and another *is* a song about transvestites.