I Am From Alpha Centauri. Please Advise Concerning Earth Music.

[Anderton]

Hello people of Musicplayer.com,

 

My name is Ztondsut and I am from Alpha Centauri. I am very interested in earth music but have space for only 5 compact discs in my saucer. What would you recommend as the 5 CDs that best represent earth music?

 

I am not asking what music you would take to a desert island, but what music you think best expresses earth culture. When I return to Alpha Centauri I plan to drink much zumlop with my friends while we discuss what we hear, it should be fun. Thank you!!

[AudioMaverick]

1) Greek/Roman era (recreations of course)

2) Early Reniesance & Boruque

3) Classical & Symphany of the 1600's and 1700's

4) Big Band / Swing

5) Blues/Rock of the late 1950's

[-]

Originally posted by Anderton:

My name is Ztondsut and I am from Alpha Centauri. I am very interested in earth music but have space for only 5 compact discs in my saucer

 

CDs? Ztondsut, I thought you only listened to cassettes ! http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

 

 

 

This message has been edited by popmusic on 06-25-2001 at 01:22 PM

[MusicWorkz]

Originally posted by Anderton:

Hello people of Musicplayer.com,

 

My name is Ztondsut and I am from Alpha Centauri. I am very interested in earth music but have space for only 5 compact discs in my saucer. What would you recommend as the 5 CDs that best represent earth music?

 

I am not asking what music you would take to a desert island, but what music you think best expresses earth culture. When I return to Alpha Centauri I plan to drink much zumlop with my friends while we discuss what we hear, it should be fun. Thank you!!

 

Ztondsut, welcome to earth. I hope your stay is pleasant. Just make sure when you park your saucer, lock it up and use The Club-there are many rides like yours around here.

 

As far as music, might I suggest;

1. Stevie Wonder-Songs in the Key of Life

2. Miles Davis-Kind of Blue

3. Edwin Hawkins-Oh Happy Day

4. Micheal Jackson-Thriller

5. Soundtrack-Saturday Night Fever

 

Enough music with variety and complexity to provide good listening on your 100 light year journey home.

 

 

 

This message has been edited by MusicWorkz on 06-25-2001 at 01:45 PM

[-]

Well Ztondsut, I don't think anyone can cover all of humanity's music with only 5 CDs, but...

 

1) Beatles - Abbey Road (a little bit of every kind of pop/rock music in there)

 

2) Bossa Cuca Nova - Revisited (covers Brazillian music -- which combines Latin and African culture, jazz, big band, disco, techno, DJs, and great songs.)

 

3) Les Paul - The Legend and the Legacy (pop, country, jazz, blues, and out-of-this-world-sounding guitar)

 

4) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (if you like the sound of your spaceship, you will definitely enjoy this one... Noise as music.)

 

5) Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (for warming up those sub zero temperature nights with your alien woman on Alpha Centauri)

 

 

Arrgh! That only barely scratches the surface of Western music -- you need to buy a bigger CD changer!!! http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

 

 

 

 

This message has been edited by popmusic on 06-25-2001 at 02:33 PM

[Botch.]

1. Beethoven's 9th Symphony

2. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon & Garfunkel

3. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis

4. Fear of a Black Planet, Public Enemy

5. Greatest Hits, The Ramones

[lovesinger]

Originally posted by Anderton:

... what music you think best expresses earth culture.

 

Ztond, (we english-speaking earthdudes take liberties to abbreviate most everything, friend) Since you said "earth culture" I'm forced to leave out some favorites in "American culture".. so-o-o .. the categories are:

 

(1) Classical/Symphony-orchestral (includes opera)

(2) 20th Century American pop through 1959 (Big labels like Capitol, Big Bands singers like Doris Day/Frank Sinatra/Lena Horne/Mills Brothers/Nat King Cole, also called Middle-of-the-road(MOR).

(3) Christian church music (also called Gospel), All styles.

(4) Jazz

(5) Rock and Roll (includes rhythm and Blues [also called soul,blues,bebop], disco, rockabilly, Beach Boys/Beatles era [most current 'rock' came from that] )

 

Hate you Can't take more than five _ these top 5 IMHO leave out the great areas COUNTRY AND WESTERN , "FOLK MUSIC", and ELECTRONIC MUSIC. All the above beat gettin soused on zumlop any day. Next trip, bring a van, dude... we'll load you up!!

 

P.S. I got a feel that you may want titles, not just categories. Give me a few more earth-days and maybe I can find worthy compilations or examples.

[fantasticsound]

Originally posted by Anderton:

Hello people of Musicplayer.com,

 

My name is Ztondsut and I am from Alpha Centauri. I am very interested in earth music but have space for only 5 compact discs in my saucer.

 

O.. K...

 

You have the ability to travel light years from home, but you can't make room for more than 5 cd's?!? What backward planet are you from???

 

Sounds like it's run by cousins of our american "leaders" (Yes, that belongs in quotes. Definately!) or corporate executives.

 

I'll bet your ship doesn't have a tumfmblt to hold your zumlop! It doesn't matter. The dang containers never fit, anyways!

 

Earth Citizen Bergman

 

No suggestions.

 

I don't have the arrogance to believe I can scratch the surface Earth's musical culture on 400 min. of music. Even if I burned 'em myself! (I gave you the benefit of the doubt that the CD's are the 80 min. variety!)

 

Those who have previously posted here have sent you in the right directions, but there is far too much to edit down. Sorry!

 

 

 

------------------

Neil

 

Reality: A few moments of lucidity surrounded by insanity.

[Kris]

Just pick any 5 Little Feat albums... you'll get a taste of everything, but in a rock n roll format.

[Gus Lozada]

Originally posted by Anderton:

My name is Ztondsut and I am from Alpha Centauri. I am very interested in earth music but have space for only 5 compact discs in my saucer.

 

I am XarTsuG. I do live in the moon and we have MP3 CD players. Sounds like crap, but we can take in a single CD the content of about 10 normal audio CD's... http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

 

Get the Cd's, then come to visit me. We'd drink Tequila till we die...

[dansouth]

Ztondsut,

 

Are boxed sets or greatest hits compilations acceptable? I'll guess yes to the latter, at least.

 

(1) The Beatles - 1 (includes a taste of pop, rock, R&B, rock 'n' roll)

(2) Garth Brooks - The Hits (country, western, pop, bluegrass)

(3) An anthology of Duke Ellington recordings (jazz, swing, big band)

(4) The Gypsy Kings - any album (Latin, world music)

(5) Any Beethoven symphony (classical, orchestral)

 

This collection is a little short on dance styles, but you can pick those up on your next trip.

[B3Nut]

1) the CD of Bach organ music on Sony Classical, the name escapes me but it's one of their Essentials series of classical samplers. It features E. Power Biggs on organ, older recordings but the sound is excellent. His reading of the legendary Tocatta and Fugue in D minor is a bit reserved, so:

 

2) Bach The Organs at First Congregational Church, Michael Murray, Organ - The T&F in Dm gets treated well here.

 

Yes, that's 2 CD's of Bach but let's just say Bach is humanity's best musical foot put forward.

 

3) Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack - great compilation of roots/folk.

 

4) The Best of Jimmy Smith (Blue Note) - you'll be returning to Earth for more B-3 jazz after you hear this.

 

5) Dave Brubeck - Time Out - nuff said. http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/cool.gif

 

Hmm....I'd sure dig a spin in da saucer... http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

 

Todd Phipps -

[Botch.]

Live performers take up just a little more space than CDs, and you can get scads of music out of them. Take Britney Spears with you...

[Tedster]

(Caps indicating robotic monotone)

 

GREETINGS ZTONDSUT...HAS BEEN MANY TIME UNITS SINCE LAST CORRESPONDENCE.

 

ZOLTRAN OF XATOX RESPONDING TO YOUR QUERY.

 

IN RECENT STUDIES OF EARTH "ROCK" MUSIC WOULD SUGGEST:

 

(I HAVE NO IDEA WHY THEY REFER TO IT AS "ROCK" MUSIC AS IT IS USUALLY RECORDED ON PLASTIC)

 

1) BEATLES...ABBEY ROAD

 

2) TODD RUNDGREN...ANYTHING BEFORE OR INCLUDING "INITIATION"

 

3) AC/DC...BACK IN BLACK (MAY INCREASE LIFE AND SPEED OF WARP DRIVE)

 

4) JIMI HENDRIX...AXIS BOLD AS LOVE OR ARE YOU EXPERIENCED.

 

5) PINK FLOYD...ANYTHING.

 

LET US KNOW IF YOU CONTINUE TO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE COLONISTS IN THE ALLURIAN SECTOR.

[KenElevenShadows]

My space comrade Ztondsut is a bit of an kidder. Someone took away his Aural Holographic Listening Cube, so he now only has this odd Earth Relic.

 

If Ztondsut is to properly hear Earth Music, he undoubtedly needs to hear more than Western music.

 

I'd say one of flutes (shakuhachi, pipa, whatever), one of drums (perhaps some West African drumming), zither (perhaps Persian or Chinese), guitar (Spanish or rock maybe?), and marimbas or metallophones (perhaps Indonesian gamelan or African or South Asian or ?). I'd love to make more specific recommendations, but Ztondsut is being mischievious and hiding it with his portable transporter beam.

 

------------------

Ken/Eleven Shadows/d i t h er/Nectar

http://www.elevenshadows.com 4 music, travel, more!

http://www.cdbaby.com/elevenshadows

[Hippie]

1. Bach

2. Mozart

3. Stravinsky

4. Charlie (the bird) Parker

5. The Beatles

 

(Greatest Hits)

 

-Hippie

[fantasticsound]

Originally posted by Hippie:

1. Bach

2. Mozart

3. Stravinsky

4. Charlie (the bird) Parker

5. The Beatles

 

(Greatest Hits)

 

-Hippie

 

As opposed to Charlie "Big Mouth" Tuna of Starkist fame, or Charlie "I've-always-been-played-by-white-guys-even-though-I'm-supposed-to-be-Chinese" Chan? http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

 

 

 

------------------

Neil

 

Reality: A few moments of lucidity surrounded by insanity.

[D. Gauss]

-midnight at the oasis by maria muldauer

-britany spears cover of "satisfaction"

-william shatner's version of "lucy in the sky with diamonds"

-any david hasselhoff song

-rosaeanne barr singing the "national anthem"

 

this will clue you into why we are an egocentric culture doomed to self destruction!

 

-d. gauss

[gtrmac]

I would suggest a Jimi Hendrix CD but I think he was one of your people. If you see him when you get home tell him he's welcome here anytime and ask him why he left is such a hurry. As far as Earth people's music anything by the following artists will give you an idea of what we are capable of. Regarding the stuff you've heard while recently monitoring our radio and television broadcasts, well what can I say except that we seem to be in an artistic recession lately.

Django Reinhart

Louis Armstrong

Thelonious Monk

Bob Marley

Stevie Wonder

 

 

 

------------------

Mac Bowne

G-Clef Acoustics Ltd.

Osaka, Japan

My Music: www.javamusic.com/freedomland

[Curve Dominant]

Ztondsut,

 

Greetings from the South Saturn Delta, where I am currently vacationing. The atmospheric acoustics in this locale are positively smashing. Wish you were here - your Line 6 Pod would feel right at home with the local pods.

 

I have many fond memories of my stays on the Earth planet, which have been many and lengthy. I find the tooshies of Earth females to be quite delicious, and their company equally delightful.

 

Not to be disagreeable with the rest of your friends here at the Earth planet internet commune, but I have found the best Earth music not from so-called carbon-based humanoid "musicians," but rather from the natural ambient environmental sounds of the Earth surface.

 

Here is a brief list of samples:

1. H2O mass waves oscillating against hard-Earth terrain edges

2. the melodic ensembles produced by clusters of airborn creatures that nest in folage, and the residual reverberation of those ensembles throughout the canyons of hard Earthling habitation structures

3. "Thunder" as it is known by in the local lingo, which is a sonic boom created by the collapse of atmospheric matter into the wake of an atmospheric electrical discharge

4. Random static of Earthling radio, television and telephonic transmissions.

5. The rhythmic matrix produced by Earth-industrial machines, such as subway trains, automobile theft-deterrent security systems, mass surface transit vehicles, hard material construction robotics, and so forth.

 

I have found that a proper sampling and mixing of these basic elements of Earth noise creates an accurate, yet palatable Earth aural experience.

 

This, as opposed to the literal, subjective, ego-biased and humorless quality inherent in the interpretation of sound-art produced by 99% of humanoid carbon-based "musicians." There are exceptions, of course, and those exceptions should be noticed and appreciated. But there is a fine line between "art" and "garbage" in Earth-based music, and Earthlings as a whole seem to lack the perceptional resolution to discern that distinction.

 

Your light-yearage may vary...

curvedominant

[Philip OKeefe]

Ztondsut said:

 

My name is Ztondsut and I am from Alpha Centauri. I am very interested in earth music but have space for only 5 compact discs in my saucer. What would you recommend as the 5 CDs that best represent earth music?

 

Welcome distant traveler! (William Shattner stutter phrasing voice...) you don't... understand our... technology...

 

I'm sure that your Aural Holographic Listening Cube can withstand the intense pressure and temperatures on the STAR you live on (BTW, since it's a tetriary system, which of the three stars do you live on?), but our CD's are not nearly so robust and would quickly melt.

 

I am not asking what music you would take to a desert island, but what music you think best expresses earth culture. When I return to Alpha Centauri I plan to drink much zumlop with my friends while we discuss what we hear, it should be fun. Thank you!!

 

I hear that your zumlop can sneak up on you really fast if you don't watch it!

 

You are placing a extremely difficult set of restrictions on us here, but since it's your vehicle, I guess you get to choose the tunes... And I'd suggest you do that if you have enough time while you're here visiting.

 

Even if I burn the CD's for you, and use the space as well as I can, it's going to be impossible to convey all of the cultural variations currently in existance on Earth, yet alone all the ones that have been around throughout the years.

 

Since I know little about many of those styles, I can not give you a perfectly representative list. I know little of African, Asian, eastern European and many historical musical styles and as a Westerner, my opinions are going to be based upon the cultural norms I grew up with. Please check in with others throughout all areas of the Earth of as many opinions as you can get...

 

But here's some of mine:

 

1. Bach - Brandenburg Concertos

2. Miles Davis - Almost Blue

3. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper (While I prefer Abbey Road and Revolver, I'd have to say that this album had more of a effect on earth CULTURE...)

4. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book

5. Allman Brothers Band - Live at the Fillmore

 

I've left so many off that would represent us... can you come back and get more on another trip? You can crash at our house. I don't have any zumlop, but I'm sure we could get some good Irish whiskey and let you hear a wider range of things, and maybe you can decide for yuorself what best represents our culture... an outside view might be more accurate in some ways...

 

Drive safe on the way back to Rigil Kent... we've unfortunately tossed a lot of garbage into orbit around our humble planet, and collisions are a real hazard and hassle when you're traveling at escape velocity.

 

Come back soon for another visit! With our current ecconomy, we need the tourism.

 

 

 

Phil O'Keefe

Sound Sanctuary Recording

Riverside CA

http://members.aol.com/ssanctuary/index.html

email: pokeefe777@msn.com

[Chip McDonald]

Albinoni's Adagio in Gm

 

Pachelbel's Canon

 

A Robert Johnson song

 

Bach - Cantata and Fugure in Em

 

Hendrix - "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)"; "Are You Experienced?"; "Bold as Love"; "Machine Gun"; let your cultural anthropologists figure that out...

 

k.d. lang - "Constant Craving"

 

Jeff Buckley - "Mojo Pin"; "Last Goodbye"

 

Seal - "Kiss from a Rose"; "If I Could"

 

Allan Holdsworth - "Home"; "City Nights"

 

John Coltrane - "Naima", "Giant Steps"

 

Thelonius Monk - "Well You Needn't"

 

Louis Armstrong - "St. James Infirmary"

 

Enya - "Sheapard Moon"

 

Cocteau Twins - " oh, wait, never mind, you probably already have this...

 

Beatles - "She Loves You"; "A Day in the Life"; "Eleanor Rigby"; "While My

Guitar Gently Weeps"; and just for added value for the race from a confusion standpoint, "Strawberry Fields" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

 

Pink Floyd - "Shine on You Crazy Diamond"; "Marooned"; "Time"

 

Soundgarden - "Under the Wheel"; "Hands All Over"

 

Carpenters - "Superstar"

 

Buddy Holly - "Peggy Sue"

 

James Brown - "Cold Sweat"; "Popcorn"; "Hot Pants"; "Good Foot" (this should also give your language anthropologists a pretty good head/flagellating proboscis ache: "But what DOES the human mean by "Getting-on-the-good-foot"? This sweating condition he speaks of - why would he be cold, he comes from a very hot part of his "United States"? Yet he also says he likes "hot" pants? Was this human ill, or perhaps possibly suffering from spontaneous mutation?))

 

You'll have to consult specialists on the other continents/major land masses as well....

 

------------------

New and Improved Music Soon: http://www.mp3.com/chipmcdonald

[Tedster]

Apologies Ztondsut, my Alien Frequency Translator was being difficult and I misread your earlier post.

 

Earth culture? I would go with Compilation works with samples of:

 

The Baroque and Classical Period (Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Chopin etc.)

 

History of Jazz (Armstrong, Parker, Kenton, Davis, etc)

 

History of Blues (Waters, King(s), Hooker, etc.)

 

History of Country (Watson, Tubb, Williams, Haggard, Cline etc.)

 

History of Rock and Roll (Little Richard, Berry, Elvis, Beatles, Stones)

 

Rather than specific artists. Top artists from their respective genres should be featured on said CDs. This leaves out many genres of Latin, World, etc. Perhaps you could pick them up on your next trip, they are a must to have (as Terrans say).

 

Zoltran of Xatox

[coxnvox]

Originally posted by fantasticsound:

O.. K...

You have the ability to travel light years from home, but you can't make room for more than 5 cd's?!? What backward planet are you from???

 

I would say the same one as the aliens from Independence Day, who were milleniums ahead of us in technology, but whose entire armada could be taken down by a virus uploaded from Jeff Goldblum's Mac...I wonder if he just used the AirPort connection...

 

Later,

kc

[Tedster]

Funny how they rework movies and sell them as new. Independence Day was just a revisited "War of the Worlds".

 

And the new movie with the "I see dead people" kid...?

 

Just the ol' classic "Pinocchio"...reworked a bit.

[Hippie]

Originally posted by Tedster:

Funny how they rework movies and sell them as new. Independence Day was just a revisited "War of the Worlds".

 

And the new movie with the "I see dead people" kid...?

 

Just the ol' classic "Pinocchio"...reworked a bit.

 

Very observant, Tedster.

[Duhduh]

1) Mozart

 

2) Aerosmith

 

3) Funkadelic

 

4) Ravi Shankar

 

5) Myles Davis

[BP3]

Ztondsut, I think you left Funkadelic behind on your last visit. BTW, how's Sun Ra these days?

 

1. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

2. Eno - Another Green World

3. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond

4. David Bowie - Low

5. Steve Hillage - Green

 

Wait a minute....

These are the albums I'd take from your world. You left a lot of guys here in the seventies. I'll get back to you about Earth music.

[dansouth]

Originally posted by coxnvox@aol.com:

I would say the same one as the aliens from Independence Day, who were milleniums ahead of us in technology, but whose entire armada could be taken down by a virus uploaded from Jeff Goldblum's Mac...I wonder if he just used the AirPort connection...

 

Oh, MAN, was that a dumb assed movie! Don't get me started! Alcoholic, has-been crop dusters flying F-111's, saving the world. And, of course, the Commander-in-Chief has to fly a sortie, himself. And he was quite lucid, given that he'd just lost his wife about five minutes earlier.

 

Move over, Plan 9 - you've got company. :-P

[dansouth]

Originally posted by pokeefe777@msn.com:

I'm sure that your Aural Holographic Listening Cube can withstand the intense pressure and temperatures on the STAR you live on (BTW, since it's a tetriary system, which of the three stars do you live on?), but our CD's are not nearly so robust and would quickly melt.

 

That's why he can only take five CD's. He has to load them into star-proof plasma memory, and that stuff gets expensive.