If you had to have one piece of music stuck in your head for the rest of your life...

[doctorjazz]

... what would it be and why?

I'd take Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, in its entirety.

Reason one, that piece is just musical perfection. It covers a ton of emotional ground, and is absolutely spectacular all around. Of course, I'd always have a slightly dazed look whenever the recurring loop in my head came around to the big, grand choral statement of "Freude, schoner Gotterfunken" in the fourth movement, but that's a price I'd gladly pay.

Reason two, it's over an hour long. I think most performances average around 70 minutes. Yeah, I'm sure it would get monotonous after a while, but I'd still last roughly 13 times as long as somebody who picked a 3 minute song.


By the way, my #2 pick would be A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. I think the only reason it's not #1 is that even though it's technically a suite, it does get broken up a lot into its component pieces, so I'm not sure if it fits the qualifications of being a single piece of music. For example, I hear a lot of people playing Resolution by itself. Then again, lots of people also just play the Ode to Joy from the Ninth. Oh well, it's a very close second anyway.

[MakiSupaStar]

Easy Skanking - Bob Marley and the Wailers

[seanm]

John Cage's 4' 33"

[bongomania]

Good choice sean.

If I couldn't pick that, I guess Glass's "Einstein On the Beach", since I've already had sections of that stuck in my head for hours on end on many occasions anyway, so I know I could survive it.

[doctorjazz]

Nice call on the Cage. Then again, wouldn't that technically mean you have the sound of a pissed-off audience in your head at all times?

[Deluge Of Sound]

Good Moanin' by Dead Meadow

[seanm]

Originally Posted by doctorjazz

Nice call on the Cage. Then again, wouldn't that technically mean you have the sound of a pissed-off audience in your head at all times?

NOOOOOoooooooo.........

Wait, I will just use the *studio* version

[Robert B]

Originally Posted by doctorjazz

... what would it be and why?

I'd take Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, in its entirety.

Reason one, that piece is just musical perfection. It covers a ton of emotional ground, and is absolutely spectacular all around. Of course, I'd always have a slightly dazed look whenever the recurring loop in my head came around to the big, grand choral statement of "Freude, schoner Gotterfunken" in the fourth movement, but that's a price I'd gladly pay.

Reason two, it's over an hour long. I think most performances average around 70 minutes. Yeah, I'm sure it would get monotonous after a while, but I'd still last roughly 13 times as long as somebody who picked a 3 minute song.


By the way, my #2 pick would be A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. I think the only reason it's not #1 is that even though it's technically a suite, it does get broken up a lot into its component pieces, so I'm not sure if it fits the qualifications of being a single piece of music. For example, I hear a lot of people playing Resolution by itself. Then again, lots of people also just play the Ode to Joy from the Ninth. Oh well, it's a very close second anyway.

Believe it or not, when I saw the title of your thread and before I opened it I too thought of Beethoven's 9th. Like all Beethoven's works, everytime I listen to it I hear something new that I've never noticed before.

[Deacon_Blues]

I can't decide between "Minuano" and "As It Is" with Pat Metheny Group.

By the way this thread belongs in Misc...

[doctorjazz]

Originally Posted by Deacon_Blues

By the way this thread belongs in Misc...

Yeah, I wasn't sure. I just put it here because I figured it would get more responses, and because even though it's music related it poses the kind of question that constitutes a lot of the discussions that happen in this section, sort of like my own less-abstract nod to MM's threads.

[Otso]

Prokofiev's 5th symphony for me.

[JimB52]

"The Monster Mash" or the dogs barking "Jingle Bells".

[Mark Latimour]

I'd take that Crazy Frog version of Axel F.

[Baryonyx]

"Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" by Paul Simon. I can dig that cool African groove.

[Nino Valenti]

....I'd kill myself because I would slowly go insane.

[Georynn]

Originally Posted by bongomania

Good choice sean.

If I couldn't pick that, I guess Glass's "Einstein On the Beach", since I've already had sections of that stuck in my head for hours on end on many occasions anyway, so I know I could survive it.

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Naaah I'd rather have Ken Nordine's Colors album stuck in my head like it is right now...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USL2k...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2FlT...eature=related

[flipper_gv]

Death - The Sound of Perseverance

My favourite album of all time

[standupright]

Originally Posted by Robert B

Believe it or not, when I saw the title of your thread and before I opened it I too thought of Beethoven's 9th. Like all Beethoven's works, everytime I listen to it I hear something new that I've never noticed before.

weird....me as well.

[Dr Stankface]

Cissy Strut - The Funky Meters

That tune just grooves.

[Unrepresented]

Yellow - Oh Yeah, better known as the "doo BOW BOW! chicka chickaaaaa" song from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.