Random Musical Connections

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So this morning, I'm listening to John Fahey's "The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death," and outside on 37st and 8ave, there is this incessant jackhammer pounding away. But what is funny, is that the two sounds seem to compliment each other in a very auspicious manner. So the question is: HAVE YOU EVER HAD AN EXPERIENCE LIKE THIS? PLEASE DESCRIBE.

― Gage-o, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And no answers like "oh, one time I was fucking to Judas Priest..." wait, on the other hand, those are okay, also.

― Gage-o, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember we did something similar, about music fitting the circumstances. But yeah, this happens all the time, but just try to pull a specific example out of my memory, willya? Geeze. Life is a symphony sometimes, and things always seem to come together in great new ways if you're open to it.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

once i was listenin to loveless and someone was vacuuming outside my room and it was nice.

― squeal, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was listening to 'I Against I' the other day and my cousin was ringing the door. Then he started screaming through the mailbox. It sounded great. I let him scream a bit more till the song was finished. hah!

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of Loveless, I was once playing it with my niece practising some random song or another on her flute in the background, and it completemented it perfectly.

― electric sound of jim, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Windows 98 crashing at the bell sound that clears away the slightly noisy section of St Etienne's "Like a Swallow".

― OleM, Tuesday, 25 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

A year or so ago one of my housmates was playing something, I think Aphex Twin in his bedroom upstairs, and another one was listening to some other random electronic stuff in his room downstairs. As I walked from my room to go downstairs to the toilet, half way down the stairs I noticed that the music was in synch, but with one twice the BPM of the other.

Who'd have thunk it?

― mei (mei), Sunday, 5 January 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

there were several occasions of my son putting on some rap cassette he wanted me to hear too -- in the kitchen, where the tape recorder was -- and me at some point shoutin from another room, "those sirens, y'know, reeelly great!", and the sirens quite often being not on tape but on the street of course

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 5 January 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

On the bus, still in high school, Mr. Bungle's first album blaring through my walkman headphones. We drive by a group of girls jogging in tight jogging clothes, and their feet fall with every single beat. As we're sitting at a stop-light when this occurs, it goes on for a good verse-and-a-chorus. The song at the time was "Girls of Porn".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 January 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Not a connection w/ outside world, but last night, the random-play option on a big bunch of singles from the past coupla years resulted in "Lose My Breath" being followed by "Who Could Win a Rabbit". Very different of course, but both, you will remember, with heavy-breath noises at end of each line of the chorus.

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

Riding past a Hitchin St Mary's church listening to Wilco's Heavy Metal Drummer and the church bells going perfectly with the sampled groove.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

horn line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkSsNRydtLU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke6NVMfIhcI

not sure who's quoting who here tbh

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:18 (ten years ago)

2:10 vs. 1:42 in the Lee Perry track

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:19 (ten years ago)

2:10 in the Ohio Players track that is

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:19 (ten years ago)

aren't they both quoting the horn parts from 'Love & Happiness' (which came out earlier)?

― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:35 (ten years ago)

ah makes sense! didn't recognize it

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:43 (ten years ago)

four years pass...

These two popped up back-to-back on shuffle this morning:

Funkadelic - 'A Joyful Process'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUljOQbeGA0

and

The J.B.'s - 'Gimme Some More'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ7O2lZnZ20

I was half awake on the train as one track transitioned into the other and thought briefly that my iPod was on repeat.

― Lake Meat (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 13:56 (five years ago)

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