Posted on 04/04/2009 10:34:38 AM PDT by kimmie7
Okay guys, while I applaud the entrepreneurial (sp?) spirit of the young men down the street, while they wash cars for folks they keep their stereos going.
Surprise of all surprises, they never play a lovely concerto or opera. They play ghetto "music". All you can hear is bass and the occasional obscenity.
Because I am an old, um, severely un-tanned woman, I plan to play music as I wash the minivan, weed the flowerbed, walk to the mailbox, whatever...whenever they are playing their music. That's right folks - a regular Battle of the Bands!
Keeping in mind they would love much of the very "music" we hate...I'd like your suggestions to add to my boom box sitting on the front porch. Opera, Polka, what do you suggest? And to keep them interested I'll need a good variety.
Because these concerts will end when they realize they need to turn theirs down (and they will, I think. They don't seem to be bad kids...just kids) the selections will need to be cheap and easily obtained.
There is a local story of a radio DJ who, on his last day on the job, put the last section of I’m Your Captain by Grand Funk on a continuos loop and left the station. 2 hours later he went to a liquor store with the radio on and the song was still playing. The clerk said “man, thats a long song!”
Check out Wicked Tinkers. Digeridoo, bagpipes, and drums. All used to create traditional Irish folk-style interpretations of modern rock. These guys are always a big hit at the Winter NAMM show, and if they come near your place you have to go see them - at least once in your lifetime!
Doris Day “Que Sera”.... again and again and again.
Go to http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/pop_records/results.html for the 100 worst pop records EVER. I promise you that your target audience will hate them all. But so will you. You gotta suffer if you want to sing the blues.
Message me and I’ll send you the almost-complete collection.
Coo cookadookadoo!
Ray Sharpe - Linda Lu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4SPbRmWROs
Joe Cocker & Adriano Celentano - HIGH TIME WE WENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcAZL-UrGfM
I’d suggest finding something that matches their bass, on the off-chance that they decide to fight by turning theirs louder, if they have the same rhythm it won’t drive you crazy as much.
Partridge Family
Barry Manilow
“Sound of Music” sound track
Bach’s Tocata and Fugue in D minor. The best thing he ever wrote.
Billie Holiday/Sarah Vaughn
Big Bands.
Real Jazz.
Motown.
Blues from the 40s.
Maybe they need an education in black music history.
Anything sung by David Hasselhoff. (Be sure and check out his remarkably dreadful videos on You Tube)
You should go patriotic....lots of nice loud JP Souza marches. How about the theme from the movie Patton....or the 1812 Overture.
Alvin and the Chipmonks version of “Eye of the Tiger”
Rush and Yes are equally ear-bleedingly bad.
LOL Ya made me choke on my spit!
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