Song of the Day, Part II, 3/10/04
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Song of the Day, Part II, 3/10/04
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Song of the Day, Part II, 3/10/04
03-10-2004, 04:51 PM (This post was last modified: 11-02-2017, 02:05 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
Mason Williams, Classical Gas
-- Bob --------- There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.
Uhm, Bob?
Where'd the song go? -- John F Kerry -- For people who think Saddam Hussein would've made a great president. 
Classical Gas is an instrumental, thus, no lyrics...
Odd choice for a song of the day... ''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.'' -- James Nicoll
It's an instrumental, and a cool one at that.
So, yeah, "Song of the day" is a bit of a misnomer. But "Instrumental of the day" would surely have confused someone... -- Bob --------- There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus. Quote:It's a pivotal part of a little scene from DW6 -- the Children, for reasons I won't go into right now, witness Doug doing a full-out, no-holds-barred (but no powers in use) hand-to-hand practice session -- with "Classical Gas" playing on his helmet in the corner, giving him a rhythm to work to. It starts with him almost doing a kata to the slower intro, and then exploding into full "combat ping-pong ball" mode when the music opens up. I'm hoping the scene survives the completion of the story; there's no guarantee that when I reach the point where I envision it, that it will actually work. As I noted over in the DW2 forum, I recently had to nuke a part of the ending that I'd had waiting for literally six years, because after all the development in the mean time, it no longer fit. I don't see that happening here, but it might. -- Bob --------- There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.
[JERRY COLONNA]Ah, yes! Fascinating, isn't it?[/JERRY COLONNA]
Somehow, I could see him then segueing into "Saber Dance" from Gayeneh. I can just see Asuka's face at that scene. Envy out the tuchus! ''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.'' -- James Nicoll
We might as well add Kabalevsky's "Gallop" to the list then.
I don't know either of them; got to go looking for them tonight, I guess...
-- Bob --------- There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.
You know them, but you don't know you know them.
"Saber Dance" is a very peppy, circusy piece of classical music that was used in an episode of The Simpsons when Bart was playing with Grampa's false teeth. I know I've heard "Gallop," but I can't think of where right off the top of my head... Another source of great, wacky instrumentals is the works of Raymond Scott, a "jazzish" composer from the late 20's and 30's. His best known work is "Powerhouse," which was used extensively by Carl Stalling for scoring big machinery scenes in the Looney Tunes cartoons. ''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.'' -- James Nicoll
I know of a "Saber Dance", but I think the one I'm familiar with is by Rimsky-Korsakov...
And, oh, am I familiar with Raymond Scott. I have a really, really great CD of his (not to mention the first two Carl Stalling Project CDs). -- Bob --------- There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus. |
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