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Wagner tops list of music not to play while driving(Ride of the Valkyries)
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| 04/14/04
Posted on 04/14/2004 11:15:07 PM PDT by socal_parrot
London-AP -- Head-banging heavy metal music may be o-k to listen to while driving -- but stay away from some of the older classical stuff.
Britain's R-A-C Foundation has named Richard Wagner's (VAHG'-nurz) fast-paced "Ride of the Valkyries" (VAL'-keer-eez) as the top tune not to listen to while behind the wheel -- because it says research shows loud music can cause accidents.
Three modern songs also made the top five, including "Firestarter" by the Prodigy.
The foundation also provided a top-five list of songs that can be played safely while driving -- though it cautions the volume should be kept down.
That list includes the Norah Jones hit "Come Away with Me."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: napalm; valkyries; wabbit; wagner
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To: socal_parrot
Our teenage son learned everything that he now knows about opera from Bugs Bunny cartoons. Barber of Seville being his all-time favorite.
To: socal_parrot
No one's mentioned the opening guitar rift from "Crazy Train" ...
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posted on
04/15/2004 6:15:37 AM PDT
by
Junior
(Remember, you are unique, just like everyone else.)
To: socal_parrot
How about "William Tell Overture"?
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posted on
04/15/2004 6:20:03 AM PDT
by
Dante3
To: socal_parrot
Oh, Bwunhilda you're so wovewy!
Yes, I know it, I can't help it!
To: indubitably
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posted on
04/15/2004 6:24:48 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: yawningotter
I'll have to try Carmina Burana on some of the twisties, although it is really battle music for me. Have you looked at the english translation of this? Don't think it is battle music. More like orgy music. :)
To: martin_fierro
"Just Gottdammerung."
I had to go look it up, the complete translation would be:
einfach Gottdammerung
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posted on
04/15/2004 7:56:00 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: socal_parrot
I have a friend who shares a mutual affection for Enya. But he says he dare not listen while driving because it would cause him to fall asleep at the wheel!
"If there were elevator music in Heaven...it would be playing Enya..."
--Boris
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:14:46 AM PDT
by
boris
(The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
To: Bacon Man
Leadfoot ping!
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:15:59 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: FreedomPoster
"A rock and roll driving songs CD song list my son and I came up with..." Vat? No Autobahn?!?
Kraftwerk.
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:16:41 AM PDT
by
boris
(The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
To: VermiciousKnid
For me it's "Paint it Black."
10 mph easy.
Lee Harvey, you are a madman. When you stole that cow? And your friend tried to make it with the cow? I wanna party with you, cowboy. The two of us together - forget it. :)
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:22:24 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: socal_parrot
Well, there are others. I saw Carmina Burana on this thread (other than O Fortuna, there is another movement that's dangerous) and the William Tell Overture, but there are few others like The Battle on the Ice from Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky and the overture to the Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) that could be just as dangerous. Even the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth when it gets rolling, can be pretty fast. Oh, and a good chunck of Carmen, specifically the scene in the bar from the second act.
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:22:55 AM PDT
by
Desdemona
(Proverbs 18:2 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.)
To: Xenalyte
I love that song! I keep that CD in the truck just for high speed driving, although now that I drive a pickup I rarely break 95. :)
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:24:31 AM PDT
by
Bacon Man
(Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick once and you suck forever.)
To: socal_parrot
For me, its Van Halen's "Panama"....usually find myself going 15 - 20 mph faster than I should when that's on...
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:25:14 AM PDT
by
RayBob
To: Bacon Man
Didn't that Kenny Loggins song from "Top Gun" get you into trouble?
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:28:53 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: KC Burke
If I want to tool thru the mountains on a trip, there is little to beat the Celtic Music of Silly Wizard, turned way up.Woo-hoo! I LOVE Silly Wizard. I cried when Johnny Cunningham passed away a little while back.
Also good for cranking way up: Wolfstone (they ROCK), Old Blind Dogs, and Lunasa. Also Slainte Mhath, but they're kind of an acquired taste.
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:30:22 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: socal_parrot
That's about the ONLY Wagner piece that'd cause problems, I must say. I've seen Gotterdamurung (sp?) on video several times, and though the story is pretty cool, there is an awful lot of lonnnngggg slllowwwwwwww dialog. Hence the need for peppy themes!
Bluegrass and fast Celtic music is what gets me in trouble. Easy to speed up to the tempo of the songs...which isn't always good.
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:34:22 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: boris
The long version of that is pretty much a CD by itself. Hmmmm. < *rustle rustle, shuffle shuffle*>
Yep - It's 22:42 all by it's lonesome.
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:35:16 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
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To: RosieCotton
I have actually met Andy M. Stewart twice. He is getting a little long in the tooth, but what a character.
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:39:45 AM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
To: socal_parrot
I highly recommend not listening to the Overture to Tristan and Isolde while driving depressed.
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posted on
04/15/2004 9:41:48 AM PDT
by
Chunga
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