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heres the situation: you make mankinds first contact with aliens.... and you have a chance to let them hear some music (we're assuming they're capable of hearing and making sense of music) you have to choose a FEW (im not putting a # limit on it, so please keep it at JUST a few!!!;) pieces of music... .......[individual songs, albums, movements, symphonies, whatever]..... ..that will: REPRESENT HUMANITY!! (..and should prob. try to make it a GOOD impression ;) heres my list: Mozart (something from him.. im not gonna pretend to know a lot about 'classical' music) Beethoven (again..) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue The Beatles - One (the greatest hits thing) The Roots - (something from them..) Autechre - Chiastic Slide Squarepusher - Go Plastic AND Big Loada Aphex Twin - ICBYD, Drukqs, SAW 1 some traditional african drumming Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? (yes, i realize my choices are very Western-biased..... oh well, thats what i know) |
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oh..... AND: what do think they'd be MOST IMPRESSED with? |
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doh, haven't u seen close encounters....they're just gonna play a 5 note harmony and be done with them...they'd listen to the stuff mentioned and would probably freeeeq and leave |
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if ailent landed they will be more concerned with if they can brethe in our atmosphere, how advances we are, who the leader of earth is etc...music will just bore them |
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something mille plateaux like for a friendly touch gospel- to represent humanity |
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if aliens landed they're going to do one of 2 things...be friendly or kill us all 2. if they're friendly, they would probably (depending on intelligence and whatnot) learn everything about us 3. then produce a book called serving man! 4. then...we die, we die and goto hell |
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I'd play them Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of The Worlds! Scare the shit out of them, as well as us! |
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no, just play Celine Dion or Mariah Carrey...or anything top 40 today, they'll think we're stupid and then they'll move on. |
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"IF aliens ever land on earth, and want to see our civilization, just tell them that this isn't really our civilization, but a gag we'd hoped they'd like. Then, tell them to come back in 10 years to see our real civilization. While they're gone, we start a crack program to come up with an advanced civilization. Either that, or just shoot their spaceships down as they're waving goodbye" -jack handey |
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No no no, NOT the Beatles ''One''... it's not their best stuff, just their most popular stuff. Just give those damn aliens the whole fucking Beatles collection, there's no other way! Other stuff... Aphex Twin, SAW2 Autechre- Confield, EP7 Boards of Canada- Music Has the Right to Children Radiohead- OK Computer Mozart or something old Hockey Night in Canada Theme!!! |
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Arican drumming lol. nice touch!! "IT BEGAN IN AFRICA CA CA CA CA...." |
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You people are missing "We Are the World!" The only obvious choice is this song, folks! :) ahhahaha ;D |
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oh, c'mon people... i thought this was a pretty good topic! btw: i'd add ravi shankar to my list |
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"world music"... from all continents... then maybe mozart, nirvana, tool and squarepusher :) |
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*ROTFLMAO* that jack handey boy i'll tell you what |
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it is a good topic imo AMinal! :) |
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how bout kraftwerk ? i think it represents a bit our world today |
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maybe something from our "old daddys" like mick jagger. his new album is pretty good |
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aHEM! i was seriously expecting a lot more attention than THIS pitiful showing! well, let me tell you: if I were an alien, testing you by asking u this question, i would NOT be impressed! ...and i would probably destroy this obviously MUSIC HATING (judging from ur lack of responses) PLANET!!!! ..... btw: thanks to those who responded! YOU fine specimens will have the honour of being brought back to our planet and kept as pets/servants! (after the obligatory anal probe, of course) |
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i cant wait for that anal probe! if aliens landed i'd demand to hear their music first. |
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You know how each material has a frequency at which it resonantes (and eventually breaks if it's loud enough), like the picture frame on my girlfriend's piano resonates on middle F? What if our music covers frequencies at which the aliens resonate (presumming they're not made of the same material as us) and they thought it was some kind of terrible sonic weapon. Have you considered that? :) |
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what if they dont have ears? |
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We can try to connect them to the cd-player. We'll put the plug in their arse! |
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