KVR Audio

Compyfox · Post by **Compyfox** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:03 pm

Always fun shit:

1) Play Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen while beeing in a car with like 4 people and bang the shit outta your head at the traffic lights - with windows down. Doesn't matter if you have short hair or long. Add more effect if you know the full lyrics.

2) Drive through Berlin and listen to Carmina Burana or Nobuo Uematsu's "One Winged Angel" (Final Fantasy 7) at full volume, window down, and sing along.

3) Have friends near you who listen to their iPod music who then start to sing along or dance like mad in the subway station (much like the one in the "Slam" musicvideo from The Pendulum)

4) sit around with a couple of friends, one starts to hum a popular tune (in our case it was "Stand by Me" and "the Lion sleeps tonight") and your friends tag along - with a full blown show.

5) Ah yeah... also fun, maybe not for the listeners but still, be on stage and start to perform "Biene Maya" from Karell Gott with like 10 hardcore rock fans (half of them growling) - acapella.

Trust me, if you do either of that, the people will start to either look at you as if you're the devils reincarnation, or try to ignore you but terribly fail at it.

Trust me - I went through all of this, and it sticks to the back of your head - forever!

Polite Company · Post by **Polite Company** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:08 pm

I'd say almost any time anyone ever asks me to DJ anything. I have one friend who has roughly the same tastes as me but other than him I have a tendency to piss people of. My parents tend to be pretty accepting of my tastes but I have gotten the 'turn that crap down' treatment with two different records/tracks, New Geocentric World by Acid Mother Temple and Section 10 (A Long Day) by the Polyphonic Spree. I guess you can only get so noisy/drone-y.

Polite Company · Post by **Polite Company** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:10 pm

@Compyfox: Done #1 and #4 and almost #2 though not in Berlin.

Compyfox · Post by **Compyfox** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:31 pm

Yeah the "Bohemian Rhapsody" one sure is a classic since "Whayne's World".

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:39 pm

diggin through the cd's at work(a giftshop, i found patriotic speeches set to music. the chick i was workin with retaliated with xian rock

there's also a strange dj mix cd i sneak in. i do the robot when the backstreet boys comes on. i then laugh at the name of the band

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:26 pm

When Im in the car with friends I ask them what they want to listen to and then I'll put in something completely opposite. Like if they want something exciting I'll put in some nice ambient and if they want something chilled out I put on gabber ot deathcore DnB.

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:37 pm

Before I had a traveling job and a wife and kid and all that I used to go to the symphony orchestra here in town every thursday. I also used to ride a motorcycle and smoke a lot of pot, so I guess my regular inappropriate display would be to show up in leather and red eyes amid crusties in suits and dresses to hear whatever Daniel Harding made the band do.

Gargoyle · Post by **Gargoyle** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:38 pm

Does driving around in a black Cadillac in a rather sleepy Lincolnshire small town on a Sunday afternoon with Therapy? blaring out of the windows count... ?

lavoll · Post by **lavoll** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:54 pm

this is my favourite playing it too loud in the car CD:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/kosmolith2

listen to the sample mp3s and you'll understand.

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:03 pm

No matter where you go, no matter who is there, Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron is sure to raise eyebrows, if not actually frighten people.

I used to think it was Bartok's 3rd string quartet that best exemplified this quality of universal alienation, but how can a mere string quartet hope to compete with an immense Wagnerian orchestra and choir? Besides, one can sort of dance to Bartok in a way that is just impossible with Schoenberg.

Played at matching volumes, it will beat out any competitor in the Olympics of musical alienation. The Residents, the Butthole Surfers, Fantomas, Tragic Mullato, Merzbow, you name it.

And it is really long, like 100 minutes long.

I dare you to listen to in its (unfinished!) entirety at maximum volume.

I DARE you.

mistertoast · Post by **mistertoast** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:44 pm

My best friend and his wife had Elvis sing "Suspicious Minds" at the wedding. Yes, they got married in Vegas at the http://www.gracelandchapel.com/

Josmoker · Post by **Josmoker** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:51 pm

compyfox wrote:5) Ah yeah... also fun, maybe not for the listeners but still, be on stage and start to perform "Biene Maya" from Karell Gott with like 10 hardcore rock fans (half of them growling) - acapella.

Cool! How about "Fang das Licht" by him together with his daughter?

Ja.x · Post by **Ja.x** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:16 pm

Once I heard a story of a guy finishing with his girlfriend in a bar. The place was so noisy that the girl did not got it right the first time, so he had to repeat the "it's not you, it's me!" line; in the meantime the singer was singing "No Woman No Cry"

. That's what I call bad timing.

krank · Post by **krank** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:21 pm

herodotus wrote:No matter where you go, no matter who is there, Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron is sure to raise eyebrows, if not actually frighten people.

I used to think it was Bartok's 3rd string quartet that best exemplified this quality of universal alienation, but how can a mere string quartet hope to compete with an immense Wagnerian orchestra and choir? Besides, one can sort of dance to Bartok in a way that is just impossible with Schoenberg.

Played at matching volumes, it will beat out any competitor in the Olympics of musical alienation. The Residents, the Butthole Surfers, Fantomas, Tragic Mullato, Merzbow, you name it.

And it is really long, like 100 minutes long.

I dare you to listen to in its (unfinished!) entirety at maximum volume.

I DARE you.

Ha!

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:25 pm

Best for blasting at high power from a car: Violin Phase by Steve Reich. For extra points, have two live violinists perform it in your back seat. For even more extra points, have them ride on the luggage rack.

Shocking displays of inappropriate musical tastes