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]

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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