Playlist meme

[kengr]

Ever been listening to music and had a WTF? moment at one song following another?

Either "Yeah, that's cool!" or "That is *so* wrong!".

If you have, list the pair of songs. Or pick a couple song you *have* that would produce that result.

Mine are both deliberate. Sort of.

Years ago I was stacking records on the changer (yes, we had a record player with a changer) and had some WWII German military music followed by Rick Wakeman's "The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table".

So we go from this German martial music, and then suddenly this voice intones "Whosoever pulls this sword from this sword and anvil is the true born King of all Britain" and jumps into this rock music.

The other was just today when rearranged my playlist to follow there Star Wars Imperial March with Heather Alexander's March of Cambreadth

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[kengr]

Oh god, I hope that isn't the version of "Green Hills" that I heard in the early 70s. <shudder>

Closest I've come to that is the tape I made to play at the start of my D&D sessions. Since it seemed that folks where always having to pick gear, choose spells and a zillion and one other things for the first 30-40 minutes, I figured a bit of "mood music" would be in order:

"Suicide is Painless" (recorded off the start of a video of the movie M*A*S*H, since that was the only source available to me that had the *words*)
"Lykewake Dirge" by Pentangle
Originally I had "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks as the third item, but it didn't feel right. So I taped over it with the "March of the Winkies" from "The Wizard of Oz" (that's the Wicked Witch's guards going "Yo-dee-oh, Yo-Oh!" etc).
The some stuff from the old Rankin-Bass antimed "Return of the King":
"Win the battle, lose the war...."
"Where there's a whip, there's a way"
"The bearer of the Ring..."
To make it not a complete downer, I finished off with the entire soundtrack of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Opera, Doc?"

It was fun watching as the "theme" started to sink in. :-)

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[kengr]

Back in the late 70s or early 80s Rankine Bass did an animated version of Tolkiens Return of the King. Complete with snatches of song in various places (love to find it on video, but...). Turns out that when you strung the sdnippets together they worked as songs.

"Where there's a whip" is being sung by the orcs The Frodo and Sam wound up having to march with in Mordor. I can try to dig up the lyrics.

"Win the battle, lose the war" was Aragforn & company at the gates to Mordor. "Win the battle, lose the war.
Choice of evils lies before
your feet. Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!"

(there's probably more but I don't recall).

And the one about the "Bearer of the ring" was used in several places where Frodo was having to struggle with the Ring.

"What's Opera, Doc" is the classic Bugs Bunny cartoon that does Wagner's Ring cycle. Elmer Fudd as Seigfreid and Bugs as Brunnhilda. :-)

I've still got the tape, but don't have anything that can play it except cheap portable cassettes (and a boom box with no outputs other than speakers)

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What is WTF???

[mistresscayenne.livejournal.com]

DUH!!!!