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  • epigraph

    if you had to show an alien culture examples of human music, and could only pick 10 songs, what would they be?

    Jul 20, 08, 5:35 a.m. – Permalink
  • rafalski

    "Debaser"
    "Tame"
    "Wave of Mutilation"
    "I Bleed"
    "Here Comes Your Man"
    "Dead"
    "Monkey Gone to Heaven"
    "Mr. Grieves"
    "Crackity Jones"
    "La La Love You"

    Bonus:

    "No. 13 Baby"
    "There Goes My Gun"
    "Hey"
    "Silver"
    "Gouge Away"

    • just the second I posted it they played a few secs of "Cecillia Ann" (from Bossanova) as background sound on tv– rafalski1/4
      thats a sign, that is...– six2/4
      FUCK YES rafalski. this rules!– madirish3/4
      nice– flyingnowhere4/4
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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 6:06 a.m. – Permalink
  • drgs

    u think aliens listen to music?

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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 6:12 a.m. – Permalink
  • Marcelom

    I dont like songs, i like albums
    I think The Wall

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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 6:20 a.m. – Permalink
  • elpaso

    what if aliens were alergic to music?
    are you declaring war on them by killing peaceful emissaries??

    shame on you

    • hahaha, only if you're in to cowboy yodelling music.. which you probably are, I guess?– detritus1/2
      aah the joys of cowboy yodelling music.– elpaso2/2
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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 6:28 a.m. – Permalink
  • Jnr_Madison

    The music from 'close encounters of the third kind'.

    • they probably grew out of it already..– Meeklo
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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 6:29 a.m. – Permalink
  • drgs

    http://www.drgs.no/dev/adam%20be…
    http://www.drgs.no/dev/05%20-%20…

    • alien seizure right there eheheh– 000000
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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 6:31 a.m. – Permalink
  • detritus

    Really good question, I think! Paranoid fruit that I am, I quite frequently ask myself "What would aliens think of.." a wide variety of subjects, especially when I walk around Central London.
    Aliens are like the ultimate 3rd person comparative, for holding a mirror against ourselves - it's a shame they don't make themselves known to us, and let us know what douches we all are.

    Pachelbel - Canon & Gigue
    Aphex Twin - Polynomial-C
    Bob Marley - Natural Mystic
    Gorecki - Symphony #3 (cheating, I know)
    Plaid - Rakimou
    Radiohead - Everything in its right place
    DJ Food - The Crow
    Johnny Cash - Hurt
    Dionne Warwick - Walk on by
    Cheeky Girls - The Cheeky song (touch my bum) / Sabrina - Boys, boys, boys

    • Actually, can I cheat and change the Radiohead song to all of the Kid A album?– detritus1/3
      I've thoughtfully only picked from the Western realm of music. How human of me.– detritus2/3
      cant fit in 10 songs anyway– drgs3/3
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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 6:39 a.m. – Permalink
  • max_prophet

    So given this great opportunity you choose to send them pop music from the last 3 decades. That's impressive.

    I'd probably include some classical, and traditional folk music representative of various cultures over sending them fucking DJ Food.

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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 7:04 a.m. – Permalink
  • detritus

    Please note 1st and 4th entries, rasko.

    I suppose it depends on what metric you think best describes our musical achievements - Aphex twin is modern day classical, if you ask some, so too Radiohead and the work of Bacharach. Modern music rests on the shoulders of giants, so is representative of what came before.

    I had wanted to put in some folk, but I don't know any song / artists, same too with foreign music (not having any African music in is terrifally remiss). So, I thought about it, then decided to choose what *I* would want to send. I had hoped that adding Cheeky girls at the end would indicate the inherent limitation of my choice, but you chose not to see that. Telling.

    But hey, you're obviously a lot smarter and better than I am, so I'll let you choose my ten songs, shall I?

    Note also that I qualified my limitations in my second note, but hey, this is just a wee question for a Sunday afternoon, I wasn't going to spend hours checking through my catalogue to find the ultimate answer.

    But answer I did, rather than just pour scorn and mock, which is what you chose to do. I wonder how the aliens would view your response, you sanctimonious dick?

    • I love the way you deride my choices as 'pop' what the fuck do you think folk was, anyway?– detritus1/13
      angry little man aren't you?– max_prophet2/13
      you also show what an egomaniac you are every time I post by assuming I'm referring to you, get over it you self righteous bore.– max_prophet3/13
      righteous bore.– max_prophet4/13
      Are you really that self-deluded? Your post followed mine and referred to explicitly to DJ Food?– detritus5/13
      Righteous bore.– detritus6/13
      i didn't even look who wrote it tbh, it was a general theme of the thread, the linear timeline thread. You seem to think I give much more of a shit than I actually do, as ever.– max_prophet7/13
      much more of a shit than I actually do, as ever.– max_prophet8/13
      you've really wound yourself up over this huh? You start off please and all of a sudden your all fuck this and dick that. LOL– max_prophet9/13
      Not really, I wanted to answer you decently, then get across the fact that I think you're an arsehole.– detritus10/13
      Can we go back to ignoring each other? I had thought you were becoming less of an arsehole. I was wrong, clearly.– detritus11/13
      you're both so eager to convince the other that you don't care, yet you keep responding...– eighteen12/13
      When designers attack.– Redmond13/13
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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 7:12 a.m. – Permalink
  • SoulFly

    I think there is a capsule buried somewhere with many artifacts, that is to survive millions of years and be found by "someone" aliens (I don't believe exist) or someone in the future or whichever.
    In any case, there was paintings like the Monalisa, things like that, but I remember the songs, and it was Bethoven, I think also albums from the Beatles.

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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 7:31 a.m. – Permalink
  • epigraph

    I think the common bond shared by all humans is our basic range of emotions. Showcasing them and creating an experience, or rather designing an experience, is the way to go imho.

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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 8:02 a.m. – Permalink
  • doctor

    I'm thinking Cannibal Corpse, just to demonstrate that we are a friendly and peaceful planet.

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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 8:06 a.m. – Permalink
  • Dr_Rand

    I would use it as an opportunity to promote my own taste in music

    • Quite.

      Shame you haven't, then.      – detritus1/4
      to my amazement, my taste in music is usually met with the yawns of others– Dr_Rand2/4
      do tell....– epigraph3/4
      haha this response wins– eighteen4/4
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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 8:25 a.m. – Permalink
  • max_prophet

    Nairn. its pretty obvious to anyone reading exactly who the arsehole is. You seem to follow me around waiting for something to nag at, that was one of the main reasons I left here in the first place if you must know. I don't owe you anything, I don't have standards to meet, I have no political standpoint that I must virtuously defend. I am not Bob Dylan. I am not your leader. I have nothing to prove to you or anyone else and I don't mean to bring out any inferiority complexes you may be harbouring.

    It's funny, you rant on about how I'm a 'sanctimonious dick' etc and yet you are the one here constantly broadcasting what a righteous chap you are while you hound me out for my various terrible crimes such as being.. what was it recently - 'painfully middleclass' - based entirely upon the fact that I had a certain brand of cereal in my cupboard, that incidentally, was on half price offer.

    Go away you fleece-wearing sap.

    • wearing fleece is uncool?– Dr_Rand
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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 8:32 a.m. – Permalink
  • drgs

    show them this thread instead

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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 8:33 a.m. – Permalink
  • doctor

    What kind of music should you play for them?
    Both kinds! Country AND western!

    I'm dead serious -- this is an important issue to get off the list.

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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 8:35 a.m. – Permalink
  • detritus

    The 'painfully-middle class' thing was a joke, followed by a 'heh' - I've been trying to cut back on smileys. It was coupled with my own admission of using the same brand of expensive muesli as you do, thereby bracketing me in exactly the same class, so it clearly wasn't aimed as a genuine insult. I said that because it (in an amusing sense) struck me how bourgeois you are, as opposed to the merrily asocial counter-culture misanthrope you set out to be (perhaps merely my own interpretation?). ( http://www.qbn.com/topics/556902… )

    It's a shame - I took that thread as a high point in my recent relations with - I answered you honestly, gave you three examples (one of which you admitted was relevant, perhaps not useful or brilliant, but noteworthy all the same). All was good.

    Fast forward to this thread, after a period where we've had no negative contact between each other, and you're the one who made a jibe at me - I certainly didn't follow you in, did I? Or is my interpretation of the linear timeline completely flawed?

    So, to here - I answer a third party's question, you ridicule it, but offer no answer of your own? I respond to you directly, justifying myself, you further attempt to mock and belittle me, I respond again, then suggest we ignore each other as I know nothing useful can come of furthering our interaction.

    Frankly, by even beginning to flatter yourself with comparisons to being my thought leader, you show yourself up as deeply narcissistic with your own deeply entrenched superiority complex. As evidenced, I guess, by the vast majority of the pithy put downs you choose to share with others here.

    As I've said beforehand, I once quite liked you and thought we might, in some small way, be quite similar people, which is why I guess I take it personally when you slate me.

    Perhaps we are quite similar. Maybe I'm just more of a self-deluded arsehole than I realise.

    • there is light at the end of the tunnel... http://family-marria…– epigraph1/4
      I'm just happy there is still a place for words like 'misanthrope' on QBN– ribit2/4
      nairn, if you think that I was 100% serious when I begin "this great opportunity " to a thread titled 'examples for aliens' then you may have been mistaken. Don't take me so seriously. I hate world music.– max_prophet3/4
      aliens' then you may have been mistaken. Don't take me so seriously. I hate world music.– max_prophet4/4
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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 8:56 a.m. – Permalink
  • neue75_bold

    Dr. Who theme song... and maybe Rumors by fleetwood mac...

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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 9:11 a.m. – Permalink
  • chossy

    Parliament, mc eight, david bowie, bootsy collins, shaka khan, earth wind and fire, aretha franklin, boxcar willy, sonny terry, Mat monroe.

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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 10:02 a.m. – Permalink
  • ukit

    Would be a damned shame not to play this:

    &feature=related

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    Dog-earJul 20, 08, 12:33 p.m. – Permalink

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