What is your incidental music?

[MilesColtrane]

You're walking down the street. What is the music that's playing in the background. What is your character's sonic motif?

Mine

Should be: Miles Davis' "So What"...hip, collected, urbane.

But, it is more like: Warner Brothers cartoon version of "The Arkansas Traveller" that plays when they introduce the dim, slow moving, hick character. "AYyyyUp!"

[Forkboy]

1. Oddly enough, mine would be Ministry's song So What.

[MilesColtrane]

27. You're hardcore, man.

Scaring children and little old ladies as you stroll with purpose.

[Forkboy]

63. LOL

I think I scare them without the music. :)

[Tom_Foolery]

2. Alfred Hitchcock Presents theme song...

Funeral March for a Marionette.

[MilesColtrane]

9. Goood Eeeevening.

[Dr Morbius]

3. It's a smoky jazz cut.

Autumn in Ganymede, Seatbelts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEzyiWpjoXc

[MilesColtrane]

25. Pretty cool, thanks for sharing.

Kind of sounds like 'War' (all...my...friends...know the low rider) meets Horace Silver.

[kentauros]

4. The Coconut Monkeyrocket, definitely!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VBn2FC8Dts

:7

[MilesColtrane]

26. 120 beats per minute

You don't just walk down the street, you aerobicise.

[kentauros]

29. That doesn't mean my legs are going at that speed!

:P

I just like his sound and sampling. He's a pretty cool musician, one-man band. There isn't much of his stuff on YouTube, and what I posted is off of his next CD to come. There are a few downloads on his site if you want to give some of them a listen: http://www.coconutmonkeyrocket.com/mp3s.htm

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. Warum tut es weh... wenn ich pinkle?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL_DxT2UOyo&feature=related
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[MilesColtrane]

11. MFM!!

Don't worry they'll take that catheter out soon.


Oh, you mean they didn't put one in?

:yoiks:

Well, there's penicillin for that.

FZ is an excellent choice. Good to see you back posting again.

[BlueJazz]

6. So danco samba..Stan Getz

:)

[MilesColtrane]

28. I had a jewish tenor player friend who wanted to record a slightly different vocal version of that.

He was going with, "Hebraic samba, hebraic samba...oy, oy, Oy, oy ooooy."

[BlueJazz]

45. LOL!

[Richard Steele]

7. Sinatra's version of Zappa's "Once Upon A Time In Albuquerqe New Mexico"

Sinatra does it with a full 42-piece orchestra,
not just Steve Vai on a guitar.

[Kat45]

8. Sinatra did Zappa??!!

I was not aware of that.

[Richard Steele]

10. Unfortunately, no. That piece of music exists only in my head.

Which is a sad thing, because it's an AWESOME piece,
just mind-blowingly great from start to finish,
and I'm sure that there are lots of folks out there
who would enjoy hearing it just as much as I do.

[MilesColtrane]

12. The stuff in the bottom was like punching an eclair.

So I'm told.

[Richard Steele]

13. That is my understanding as well.

Not that I would know first hand, mind you.
I'm going to bed now.

Rock on, Miles.

[Brother Buzz]

14. Leroy Shield - The Moon and You

Empty pockets, lofty dreams, tenacious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsbm3N_BIEg

[MilesColtrane]

30. The Beau Hunks do an amazing job of recreating that stuff.

I have to get that CD.

Thanks

[Brother Buzz]

51. Considering there was no sheet music, they did a fantastic job of it

Really, they did some serious research and attention to detail to get it right.

I have a copy of some earlier Beau Hunks music (1992 Laurel & Hardy) a member of The Cheap Suit Seranaders bootlegged for me before it splashed it the states. The Cheap Suits and The Beau Hunks became friends thanks to their mutual appreciation of Leroy Shield and their shared knowledge of old eclectic instruments needed to recreate the genuine sound.

Note: The portrait of Shield on the cover was drawn by R. Crumb.

[valerief]

15. Love Walked In

And I'm Dakota Staton

[MilesColtrane]

31. I've never heard her version of that one, but...

I imagine it is fine and mellow.

[valerief]

62. You can hear a bit of it here.

http://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Most-Golden-Classics/dp/B0000008N1/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1282572113&sr=1-4

It's lively and grrrrreat!

[abq e streeter]

16. narrowed it down from about a dozen ... if it had to be just one;Tom Waits-Tom Traubert's Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkOMiA_uGso&feature=related

[MilesColtrane]

34. 'Small Change'

great record

[abq e streeter]

37. They played Pasties and a G-String over the PA

at the John Hiatt/Los Lobos show I saw on the 12th... can't remember if it was before, after, or between sets, but always fun to hear that one. I've always assumed that both that and Step Right Up were at least partially improvised right then and there while recording them.
And yeah, that's a great record...Can't remember now; may have been a couple of 'em, but there was at least one reference to Chuck E. Weiss in it (I Wish I Was in New Orleans); who I had the pleasure of seeing in L.A. with his great band, the Goddam Liars.

[abq e streeter]

17. Or maybe Jonathan Richman--That Summer Feeling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jRDVStzOY&feature=search

[MilesColtrane]

35. This guy's new to me, but I can tell he's into Lou Reed.

Nice...what I like to think of as "naive music", and I don't consider that a pejorative term.

[abq e streeter]

38. Perfect description, and yes, I think that was exactly the intention

while still having deeper emotions expressed in that sort of simple naive way.

[abq e streeter]

18. and The Band---Stage Fright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTbX_XYo6xI&feature=search

[MilesColtrane]

36. Rick Danko's bass playing was woefully under rated.

I can't imagine what The Band would have sounded like without him on the bottom.

[abq e streeter]

39. All of em were masterful, versatile musicians, most of whom were wonderful singers too

it was a great great privilege to have seen them (1974, with Bob Dylan; what an amazing, exhilarating night of music). And yes, Danko was absolutely perfect for them. And what a wild life they'd lived as the Hawks before that.

[abq e streeter]

19. But on a good day: The Velvet Underground....despite all the amputations, you could just dance

to the rock and roll station, and it was all right.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFDQLCQoMD4&feature=search

[MilesColtrane]

40. My first semester in college my roommate, a tenor player from Chicago, played "Transformer" for me.

Needless to say, I didn't get it at the time.

[abq e streeter]

46. Just found out literally just a couple of days ago,

that one of my best buddies from music camp when I was 15-16 years old, became one of the top studio guys on tenor (and flute, and I suppose alto) in Chicago. Steve Eisen...don't know if you're familiar with him (or a one in a thousand shot that he's who you're referring to). He's apparently recorded with people ranging from Aretha Franklin to Louis Bellson to Styx. Camp was in East Troy Wisconsin. If that rings a bell, it's where Alpine Valley is ...Almost positive they built it on the grounds of the old music camp---(and of course that's where Stevie Ray Vaughan played his final show) .

So the next question, getting back to the Velvet Underground; did you eventually 'get it"? Certainly not to everyone's taste.

[MilesColtrane]

54. No, it wasn't Steve Elsen.

This cat's name was Dan Hesler. AFAIK he's still in Chicago and occasionally putting out CDs.

I appreciate VUs vibe and energy and Lou's poetry for what it is. I just wish I'd heard them about 34 years ago.

Not that I consider myself "beyond" that music, just that it probably would have resonated more with me back then.

[mitchum]

20. The Stooges - Down On The Street...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qannFs974gg

I'm pretty satisfied with that, but I really wish it were the opening of "Miles Runs The Voodoo Down"

[MilesColtrane]

43. Iggy/Miles

I can see where they meet somewhere.

[carlyhippy]

21. Depends on the mood

on happy days its The Teaberry Shuffle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk11Acjofu8

[MilesColtrane]

44. Hey, I remember that one!

(I am old.)

The folks in that commercial look like they were from the Ministry of Silly Walks.

[cleanhippie]

22. Depends on my mood. I can go from big band/swing to hard rock/metal.

Also depends on what I have been listening to recently. I listen to nearly everything except country and most rap.

[MilesColtrane]

47. I hear ya.

Although I will occasionally listen to some of the older country stuff. At least Hank Williams, George Jones, Jim Reeves, etc.. had some genuine emotion in their music.

I certainly don't listen to any of the crap that comes out of Nashville now though.

[Iggo]

23. The theme song to the old Moon Patrol arcade game. (n/t)

[MilesColtrane]

48. Ah, good old 8 -bit, techno, 12 bar blues.

[Iggo]

61. And you can bust straight into Moby Dick on the turnaround.

Beautiful, man.

[BeyondGeography]

24. Right now, it's the 2nd movement of Beethoven's first sonata

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V97NrMQprv4&feature=related

Probably something he began to work out on the piano as a child, riffing off of scales to the disappointment of his father.

[MilesColtrane]

49. "LUUUDVIG!! Play your scalez korrecktly!"

"Ahhh, Pops! Do I gotta?!"

I've been listening to the late string quartets on and off for the last couple of years. Still finding new things in them.

[BeyondGeography]

60. Brave soul...The Tokyo String Quartet is tackling those at the 92nd St. Y this fall and winter

Already splurged for the tix...

[Kali]

32. not a walking down the street event, but a true story

theme from The Good, The Bad & The Ugly blaring out of the speakers, midnight, pulling up to the US border on the Mexican side, with me driving, my youngest son, three Germans and three Hungarians all in a van just STUFFED from traveling for three weeks, including white pink and purple streamers from a birthday earlier on the trip - everybody waving a little American flag and laughing hard enough to pee our pants.

Yeah we got pulled over for a papers check, but that was going to happen anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hYV-JSjpyU

[Call Me Wesley]

42. You've got a wrong youtube link there.

Here, I fixed it for ya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s

;)

[Kali]

57. oh! thanks

I don't usually load you tubes because of the dial up - just grabbed the link from google :blush:

[Dr Morbius]

58. There was nothing wrong with your link. His link was to a different version.

Your link: the classic film soundtrack.
His link: The London Ukulele Orchestra performing the same tune.

[Kali]

59. hahahahaha

I see that I will have to be VERY careful with the ukulele contingent around here...}(

[MilesColtrane]

50. That sounds like you had your own rolling Fellini movie happening there.

good times....

[ornotna]

33. Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

Pride Of Lions


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0zOb2CekfY





I don't just walk down the road, I skank.

[MilesColtrane]

52. I've still got my Trilby hat, in case someone calls for a ska gig.

[Call Me Wesley]

41. Mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEWgIzm7F2U&feature=related

But then, I might have asked for a taxi, so ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWgqkaSTrnA

But it's probably more like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtCittJyr0

[MilesColtrane]

53. I love Belew.

Don't know what to make of that proto-krautenrappen....just...wow!

Too bad Byrne couldn't be a little more civil to the rest of the band, or the Talking Heads might still be cranking out stuff now.

[kwassa]

55. Extra Ball

by Loketo, with the great Diblo Dbala on guitar.

great traveling music, like much soukous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7hkcm7sV9Y&feature=related

[Xipe Totec]

56. Bucephalus Bouncing Ball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez6xDGTFswQ

[Dr. Strange]

64. The theme from Dark Shadows.

Spooky, huh?

[Bennyboy]

65. Reggae....

I love it and love it in the background a lot. Sets my mood and gets my groove going..

[Initech]

66. Mine would be the scene-change music from Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I swear to god I'm a walking Larry David.