Some respite…this just made my afternoon, though Tikka did get up from his perch in front of the screen when I cranked it to 11:
Toccata from Optical Arts on Vimeo.
I needed something to blast away the every mounting heap of guano that is the daily impact of Trump/Republicans on all that is worth maintaining. This did a pretty good job.
How about a comment thread theme: what’s the music you play loud enough to piss off the neighbors when you need to get your head right, or empty?
Talk about that, or anything else. This thread, open it is.
Mary G
I’m fond of the Stones. Exile on Main St.
Cat videos:
SiubhanDuinne
I love that! There’s something immensely satisfying about all that smashage and breakage and spillage.
raven
My respite was to watch “The Basketball Tournament ” game between the Illini and Ohio State alums (mostly). It was the first real live sporting event I have watched since March that I really cared about and it was great to see my guys win over the number one seed and defending champ OSU team. It’s and interesting format, one million dollars winner take all tournament with an “Elam Ending” where, at 4 minutes, a formula is used to establish a target score and the first team to it wins. It prevents the horrible fouling at the end of games and seems to work. Anyway the Illini won and, even though I know NO ONE here gives a shit, I haven’t been this happy in four months!
WaterGirl
Tom, BG’s Medium Cool thread is now on Wednesday evenings at 6pm instead of Sunday evenings, so it just posted. But I think it’s fine for both to be up at the same time, especially since BG just texted and told me he is running a little late.
Orange is the New Red
Haven’t found anything better for loud outrage music than Jefferson Airplane. Still love Volunteers.
craig
This came out during lockdown.
Chealsea Wolfe, and parts of Dillinger Escape Plan cover Ozzy’s CRAZYTRAIN.
LOUD.
https://youtu.be/Jnvkhh4PRUM
SiubhanDuinne
Le Sacre du Printemps has been known to do it for me.
Mary G
@raven: Congratulations. You must be in withdrawal.
Benw
@raven: haha I hadn’t heard about this, sounds awesome!
m.glafmer
The Briggs, control alt-right delete. Warning, harsh language.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
🎶 We’re loyal to you, Illinois,
We’re orange and blue, Illinois…. 🎶
raven
@Mary G: I’ve done my best to roll with the whole thing. I don’t think there is going to be football this year and I feel like I have to take the long view and try to keep me and mine healthy so this was a really nice thing. It’s a tournament so there will be at least one more Illini game so I’m ahead of the game, so to speak!
craig
I’m also partial to Holst’s Mars, Bringer of War.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne:
Fling out that dear old flag of Orange and Blue
Lead on your sons and daughters, fighting for you,
Like men of old, on giants placing reliance, shouting defiance-
Oskee wow−wow!
Amid the broad green fields that nourish our land,
For honest Labor and for Learning we stand,
And unto thee we pledge our heart and hand,
Dear Alma Mater, Illinois.
Benw
@raven: college players are already on campus for training camp planning on a fall season. You think they’re gonna have to call it off?
ETA: whelp, just saw the Ivys have shut the whole season down!
raven
@Benw: I hadn’t either and a fellow refugee told me last week. It’s on ESPN so that is good too.
raven
@Benw: The Ivy League just cancelled all fall sports.
”
The Ivy League has ruled out playing all sports this fall, executive director Robin Harris told ESPN on Wednesday, marking the first Division I conference to say it will not hold sports this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic.
No decision has been made about winter or spring sports or whether fall sports could be played in the spring of 2021.”
Wyatt Salamanca
Toccata – One of the all-time great badass musical compositions.
“What’s the music you play loud enough to piss off the neighbors when you need to get your head right, or empty?”
For me, there’s nothing quite like the dulcet vocals of Johnny Rotten!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzFFtBsl5ps
WaterGirl
@raven: All I have ever heard is the one:
Hail to the Orange, Hail to the Blue.
Hail Alma Mater, Ever so true!
We love no other, So let our motto be,
Victory! Illinois Varsity!
Brachiator
Never play music loud enough to piss off the neighbors.
And fortunately, I guess, when I’m tired I can sleep through anything.
Before the pandemic lockdown, some neighbors got too rowdy. Not exactly sure which. But the music was so loud, the house behind me called the cops, who mistakenly came to my door.
Worked out okay, but still a pain to have to deal with.
Long, long ago, in college, I fired up the 1812 Overture because of an obnoxious fellow student.
raven
@WaterGirl: ”
First performed March 3, 1906, “Illinois Loyalty” is the oldest songs of its kind in the United States: the first official school song.[1] The song was written to be played by the University Military Band, the only band at the university at that time, by Thacher Howland Guild (1879–1914), instructor in rhetoric and a member of the band’s solo cornet section. It was originally published in 1907 by the U. of I. Supply Store with the name “The Illinois Loyalty Song.”[2]
Due to the song’s length (over a minute long), it is normally played only at the beginning, halftime, and end of a football game. However, it is not considered rousing enough for a large crowd at a game. For that reason, Oskee Wow-Wow, written in 1910, is used as the school’s fight song.”
raven
Old Princeton yells her tiger
Wisconsin her varsity
And they give the same old Rah! Rah! Rah!
At each University
But the yell that always thrills me
And fills my heart with joy
Is the good old Oskee wow-wow
That they yell at Illinois
Chorus
Oskee wow-wow Illinois
Our eyes are all on you
Oskee wow-wow Illinois
Wave your Orange and your blue Rah! Rah!
When the team trots out before you
Ev’ry man stand up and yell
Back the team and give [opponent’s name]
Oskee wow-wow Illinois
Verse 2
Teddy Roosevelt may be famous
and his name you often hear
But it’s heroes on the football field
Each college man holds dear
We think with pride of Roberts
Artie Hall and Heavy too
Oskee wow-wow for the wearers
Of the Orange and the Blue
David Evans
The first time I heard the Toccata and Fugue was as part of Walt Disney’s Fantasia, in the cinema. I had no idea what to expect and was blown away by the music and the graphics. Now no other graphics will do it for me.
Benw
@raven: I turned on ESPN for kicks the other day and it was so depressing I had to turn it back off.
raven
@WaterGirl: And this is what they played with the Chief
The musical portion of the Three-In-One consists of three distinct Illinois pieces: “Pride of the Illini,” “March of the Illini,” and “Hail to the Orange.” “Pride of the Illini,” written by Karl King with words by Ray Dvorak expressly for the Illinois Bands, was published in 1928. Harry Alford’s “March of the Illini” was also published in 1928, but was used during Chief Illinwek’s performance from the beginning in 1926. ″Hail to the Orange″ was written by Harold V. Hill with words by Howard R. Green in 1910. The three pieces were eventually combined into a medley and given the title, “Three-In-One.” The “Three-In-One” drill and music are an important part of the University’s heritage.
raven
@Benw: Here’s the schedule.
WaterGirl
@raven: Don’t hate me, but I have never been to a UI football game.
Roger Moore
Anyone who says “Ride of the Valkyries” is dead to me.
Maj TJ Kong
King Crimson’s 21st Century Schizoid Man is a favorite. Also Led Boots by Jeff Beck.
MattF
Bach double violin concerto. Just sends me.
raven
@WaterGirl: Here’s a funny story. When my wife and I were starting up she talked a lot about Virginia Tech. Her grandfather, father, sister, brother and she all went there. Her sister is on the faculty there as well. The first time I went up to meet her family I walked into her dad’s office and there is a University of Illinois diploma on his wall! I was truly stunned, what the hell is this?? Well, he was in the Architectural Engineering program at Tech when the war started and he joined the Navy V-12 (officer training program) and the AE was at Illinois! The other oddity is that he loved to sing and he knew every word to every Illinois song!
grammypat
Little Feat: Waiting for Columbus – the entire CD cranked up to 11.
Ricky Lee Jones – her cover version of Under the Boardwalk is sublime.
Both are earworm inducing. YMMV
raven
@WaterGirl: Most of the people I know here have never been to a Georgia game either.
the utter dregs
Loud? Stick with the classics, I say. The Who: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
Miss Bianca
@Orange is the New Red: I’ll go with that choice.
@the utter dregs: Yeah, that one’s awesome, but…Quadrophenia, baby. The whole album.
Mary G
@raven: The way NBA and MLB teams are finding positives, I think you’re right.
dopey-o
Gravity! How does it fvkkin work?
As for music to disturb the neighbors? Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar by Frank Zappa.
raven
@dopey-o: you got nuthin but groupies and promoters to love you, and a pile of laundry but the motel door.
Benw
@raven: cool thanks!
The Pale Scot
Depends on which neighbor.
Janelle Monáe’s Dance Apocalyptic sounds really good now and days, fits the current zeitgeist
Her 48min emotion picture of her entire Dirty Computer album is fergin’ awesome.
The stages, the costumes, the music, So WOW. Like a modern day Bowie, but cooler
Kenfair
Sabotage by the Beastie Boys.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Tainted Love. I once played it so loud that I shorted the electrical system in my crappy old truck.
On the SF Bay Bridge.
Ihop
Slayer. Lots and lots of Slayer.
And the Smiths. ‘Louder than bombs’, indeed.
Jager
I’ve trained my neighbors to love Stevie Ray Vaughn.
narya
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Stop Making Sense
Wrecking Ball
Parfigliano
Neil Young
frosty
@Parfigliano: Yes. Cinnamon Girl in particular.
WaterGirl
@raven: Wow! Talk about a surprise!
LongHairedWeirdo
Without entropy, life would never have evolved on earth.
Entropy isn’t a bad thing in itself; it’s a quantity of possible states. For example, if you have a gas in a container, the instant you open the valve, the number of places each gas molecule could be in constantly increasing, and, by the pure near-randomness of the world, it will soon be roughly evenly dispersed into the air system. At that point, it’s essentially unchanging.
But in a bigger, more complex system, one including the sun, those ever-increasing possibilities are what make the steps toward life possible.
The reason entropy is seen as bad is, it means nothing good will ever stay the same, without work to prevent its decay; and I’m not sure that’s an entire negative message.
sxjames
I go with the classics – “I’m So Glad”, Cream, 1968 farewell performance at Royal Albert Hall. Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker (RIP you two) at the absolute height of their power.
I dearly hope to be able to stick the speakers out the window, crank up the volume, and play this for the neighbors on Nov 6th. :)
Steve the Old
To wake the neighbours and clear my head? That’s easy: the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir.
misterpuff
Needle drop at the beginning of “Time” for the clock cacophony intro and great bass line from Dark Side of the Moon, although I’m now partial to the bass note at the end of the helicopter sound effect that leads into Another Brick in the Wall Part 2. It can blow speakers!
piratedan
George Thoroughgood’s version of One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer
trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
Heh, what about delivered by helicopters, is it okay then? Charlie don’t surf!
Speaking of, “London Calling” is sure to rouse the pulse.
Peter
This should really be titled “A Conceptual Rendering of My Big Fat Greek Wedding Shot by Philippe Halsman on iPhone.”
George Crumb’s Makrokosmos III is a guaranteed winner for making anyone within earshot think they’re in a horror movie.
mrmoshpotato
Rathergood – Spine Song
Thank you YouTube for not having what I was looking for at the time.
ETA – also, The Boss, pretty much any song.
Mathguy
Anton Bruckner, Symphony #8, Joachim and Staatskapelle Dresden. The finale is glorious.
John Revolta
If you’re looking to piss off some wingnut neighbors, it’s hard to beat Jimi’s Star Spangled Banner from the Woodstock album. Louder than Fuck.
gkoutnik
@piratedan: Yes. That’s the one.
barbequebob
My favorites in this category are:
No Fun – The Stooges
I wanna be sedated – The Ramones
Louie Louie – Flamin Groovies
Fair Economist
Fiery, cheerful classical music. The scherzos from Tchaikovsky’s 6th or Brahms’ 4th; opening movements of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto or 3rd Symphony; Scherzo or Finale from Mahler’s 5th; Scherzo from Beethoven’s 2nd; many more.
BruceFromOhio
Halestorm.
The Pretty Reckless.
In This Moment.
In a pinch, ‘Eruption’ by Van Halen.
All popo magnets.
sempronia
@Roger Moore: We had the DJ at our friend’s wedding (at the Ath) play the first ten seconds of the Ride before starting the music for the couple’s first dance. Just enough for him to register it and have his PTSD flare, but not enough for any unsuspecting wedding guests to notice. Done with his new wife’s connivance, of course. Very satisfying!
Gravie
Anything by Inti-Illimani. I can’t get enough of that Andean music.
Origuy
Anything from the Wicked Tinker’s album Loud. It’s hard to drown out bagpipes and base drum. The original release of the CD included a set of earplugs.
Comrade Scrutinizer
Fuck tha Police. N.W.A.
Greg Ferguson
Neighbors are great (they like all of this), but
Motown Gold
Pointer Sisters – Greatest
Aretha – Spirit in the Dark/Young, Gifted & Black
have attracted the attention of Park Management when I crank it up.
Hmm. A Theme?
I play Berlioz loud, too, but it’s less of a booty call to some people….
God only knows what might happen if I had a hip-hop collection….
Albatrossity
Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks
trollhattan
@barbequebob:
Flamin Groovies reference requires “Shake Some Action” action.
Perfect Pop Song nominee.
frosty
@Albatrossity: The best song that Zep ever did.
Miss Bianca
@frosty: Yeah, I’d agree. And it is a bone-rattler when you crank it.
ETA: But my new favorite bone-rattler is Ghost’s Square Hammer.
dopey-o
@LongHairedWeirdo: entropy rulz
And yet we know of only one place where entropy doesn’t rule unchallenged. And we’re going to mess that up.
Whatever ‘life’ is on this planet or any other, it is anti-entropic by definition. For a brief shining moment. We could choose to extend that – we have the resources necessary – but we choose not to.
Amir Khalid
What would I play to piss off the neighours? Hmm. Pretty much anything would work, actually, but I might try a louder-than-live rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone by Liverpool FC fans at Anfield.
And speaking of Liverpool, they’ve just broken the English record for the fastest side to 30 wins in a top-flight league season. And they’re still on track to beat Manchester City’s record 100-point season total, set only last season. YNWA!
dnfree
I’m so old it’s still Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone. DIDN’T YOU????
Honus
Humble Pie. Rockin’ the Fillmore
S. Cerevisiae
Black Sabbath- Symptom Of The Universe through my Carver, another good one to rock your neighborhood is Iron Maiden- Number Of The Beast.
chopper
music i need to play loud to piss off the neighbors and get my head straight? dillinger escape plan.
zeecube
Lots of good recommendations for loud music. Last tune I turned volume up to 11 was Zoolookologie by Jean-Michel Jarre.
DropKicker1
Way back then, I lived in a basement suite. The lady upstairs would come home drunk, put on Meatloaf Paradise By the Dashboard Light on replay and immediately fall asleep. Her living room was right over my bedroom. I’d take it as long as I could (Please, turn this crap off!!!) then get up, put on Roadrunner by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers,crank it, and hit the bathroom. By the time I’d flushed I would be back to peace and (hopefully) sleep.
If you feel like something weird and actually quite fun, search YouTube for the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. They’re really, really good; you certainly don’t have to be a ukulele afficionado to enjoy them.
Mike
Lymie
@David Evans:
a young lady from North Carolina
stretched strings across her vagina
with the proper sized cocks
what was sex became Bach’s
toccata and fugue in D minor
opiejeanne
@SiubhanDuinne:
“Nessun Dorma” (None Shall Sleep) from Turandot.
“Libiamo, etc.” from La Traviata.
The Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor
Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
“Fortunate Son” by CCR. In fact, almost anything by CCR.
“More Than A Feeling,” Boston
I should add that I find it difficult to focus on reading. I can’t concentrate on much of anything so I dig in the garden.
Jay Noble
Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons – Either “Sherry” or “Walk Like a Man”.
opiejeanne
@misterpuff: My darling daughters blew out our stereo speakers with one of my PDQ Bach CDs. It says right on the cover that it might do that, but they thought it was a joke. I think it was the popping balloons that did it.
opiejeanne
@John Revolta: OH yeah!
At one of my daughters’ graduation, don’t remember which, one of the boys played the Jimi Hendrix version and it was glorious. Of course, there was a whole lot of outrage and clucking about how disrespectful it was. I was surprised that the school let him do it, and I was thrilled by his performance.
Original Lee
I’ve been listening to Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony, especially the Scherzo movement, a lot since lockdown started. Also Holst’s The Planets, especially Mars. And of course, the classics: Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Every Day is Exactly the Same.
rjnerd
To clear the head I go early, but at sane volume. In the past a go-to was Hildegarde Von Bingen, but it will be a while before it gets respite status back. (It was Susan’s choice for what to play during her last few days).
To piss off neighbors, its hard to beat bagpipes. When I just need LOUD, taiko drumming.
delosgatos
Not loud: Albinoni’s Adagio, any version is good but baroque guitar duo is sublime. Grief, anguish and loss in every note. An emotional catharsis every time.