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Subject: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: GUEST,SonOfShlomo Date: 10 May 07 - 10:47 AM What's the WEIRDEST thing you listen to? The totally-incongruous-with-your-personality/lifestyle/image music that you like? The kind of thing NO ONE would guess that you're into? Like the musical equivalent of Rosie Greer's** needlepoint and macrame hobbies? (** FYI, Roosevelt "Rosie" Greer was one of the toughest and most feared American-football players in history. He played for the Green Bay Packers of Wisconsin, USA most famously. His love for and great talent with needlepoint crafts earned him a weird but widespread reputation outside his playing career. He authored and/or was the subject of many books on the crafts he did.) MY personal musical quirk is the "Piamenta Band", a group of Orthodox Jews who play a mix of traditional Hebrew and Yiddish folk melodies with a guitar/bass/dums/keys/vocals/flute lineup. In concert, they go from "Hiney Mah Tov" to "Red House" in a flash. Imagine Santana playing a Bar Mitzvah and you get the picture. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: MMario Date: 10 May 07 - 10:49 AM The wierd thing is that you consider Rosie doing needlepoint and macrame wierd. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: GUEST,Scoville at scanner Date: 10 May 07 - 10:56 AM Not a lot of variety here. I still flip out once in awhile and get out the Everly Brothers or Ricky Nelson stuff. I've also got a soft spot for Scott Biram, who falls somewhere in a triangle among blues, country, and punk. None of that falls very far from the old-time/country/rockabilly/Cajun tree that is my usual material, though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: SonOfShlomo Date: 10 May 07 - 11:01 AM Sorry for the misunderstanding... I love Rosie's craft work. I just meant that IN GENERAL people thought it was strange. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: Midchuck Date: 10 May 07 - 11:04 AM Back when we had cable, I used to watch the eyetallian opera - the real thing - from time to time. I don't know any eyetallian, and the music seemed funny to me - too ornate. But the sheer technical skill of the singers, the things they could do with their voices, fascinated me and still does when I hear it. Peter |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: Stu Date: 10 May 07 - 11:07 AM Todd Dockstader Steven Vitiello The Conet Project (seriously - do a web search for this and have a listen) Ulrich Schnauss |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: Wesley S Date: 10 May 07 - 11:12 AM Brave Combo from Denton Texas does things with a polka that you can't really imagine. They have to be heard to be believed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: mack/misophist Date: 10 May 07 - 11:29 AM English change ringing - call it mathematics on church bells. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: fat B****rd Date: 10 May 07 - 03:39 PM "Ma Bella Marguerite" by Georges Guteray. If I could understand the words I'd sing along. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 10 May 07 - 05:53 PM I like watching the Trooping of the Colour. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: sian, west wales Date: 10 May 07 - 06:12 PM I think a lot of my friends think my archive recording stuff is weird, others can't believe I like (some) C&W, but maybe the weirdest is the stuff on vinyl from my high school days (and I don't own a deck any more so don't listen to them now): so it'll be a toss up between 'Lil Abner' and 'Music from Kabuki and Noh Theatre'. Come to think of it, maybe I'll get a turntable; I miss the old odd bit of Noh ... sian |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: RangerSteve Date: 10 May 07 - 06:54 PM Most of my CD collection is Country - C&W, Bluegrass and Old-Time, mostly the latter, and some ethnic traditional music. I think the CD's that people would find unusual are Coppelia (a ballet) and some Enrico Caruso recordings. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: Jim Dixon Date: 10 May 07 - 07:25 PM Take your pick: Indian ragas, Tuvan throat singing, Tibetan chanting, Pakistani quwwali music, Balinese monkey chants, Indonesian gamelan music, and the music of Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, ZZ Top, and The Grateful Dead. Now, I can't say I've heard a lot of those kinds of music, but I have enjoyed them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: Jack Campin Date: 10 May 07 - 08:59 PM As my tastes range from Brian Ferneyhough to Will Starr to bamboo flute music from the Solomon Islands it would be hard to surprise anyone. Perhaps the least guessable might be the cassette with a cover of "Rock Around the Clock" in Cantonese. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 May 07 - 02:13 AM We have so many wierd things in our house that the difficulty would be finding anything normal! I do have a Wombles LP if that's weird enough? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's the WEIRDEST THING... From: GUEST,PMB Date: 11 May 07 - 04:26 AM Reading Sir Arthur Quiller Couch's English civil war blood-and-thunder novels. Model trains built to 1:152.4 fine scale standards. |
