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Stolen from redaxe who got it from fleetfootmike ...

"Assuming your neighbors are out of town and you wanna crank it up to 11 and dance around the house in your underwear, whats the top 5 tunes you'd rattle the siding off of the house with?"

"Hocus Pocus", Focus
"March on Cambreath", Heather Alexander
"When the Levee Breaks", Led Zeppelin (okay, probably the whole fourth album)
the ubiquitous salterello as recorded by The Dufay Collective
"Paranoia", Klaatu (or maybe "Howl at the Moon")

Waitaminute, five isn't enough. I didn't get to the Clash yet.

Of course my list may come out completely different if you ask again next week

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1) "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi", Karl Orff. Did that once (modulo dancing in underwear). We'd asked the neighbors three times to turn down the party. It was 3am on a Monday night. The (absent) roommate was an audiophile with a sound system which "went to 11". We decided to return fire, and this is what we used.

2) "Personent Hodie", The York Waits. Shawms at their unbridled best.

3) "This Corrosion", Sisters of Mercy.

4) The ubiquitious salterello on Istampitta! by The New York Renaissance Ensemble.

5) "Bittersweet Symphony", The Verve.

I like seasonal stuff. On May morning, Loreena McKennit's "The Mummers' Dance", Broadside Electric's "Hallantow", the Maggio from the Rough Guide to Italy (Ricardo Testi), etc. Halloween, Dan Fogelberg's "Ghosts", Loreena McKennit's "All Souls Night", etc.

Hey! It's the Days of the Blackbird! Time to crank up "Merla" by Baraban, on the Rough Guide to Italy.

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shawms at their unbridled best

I swoon!

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Ahhh, shawms ... mmmmmmmmm

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I took my tape recorder to Pennsic one year and blasted out Carmina Burana in the afternoon during the first week. Whoot!

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Shawms at their unbridled best.

Ooh. *swoon* :-)

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Krumhorns and bombards and shawms--oh my! And a little cornemuse, too. Maybe some pipes of some sort...*twitch*

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And, um, I think 2 sackbutts and a drum. :)

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And a herd of racketts, please!

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*sigh* Oh for a consort of buzzies to hand around to various members of Thrir Venstri Foetr (http://www.radix.net/~dglenn/bands/tvf.html)

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Ah, someone else who knows Focus. You remind me so much of my old friend Mark Goldstein nee Osdoba; he loved Focus and Klaatu, as well.

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Admittedly, I've only got that one Focus LP, and "Hocus Pocus" was the only piece of theirs that I'd heard before I bought it, but boy did that tune haunt me from the first time I heard it on the radio until I tracked down a copy of my own.

Some heavy metal musician did a good cover of it sometime in the 80s or 90s. I still prefer the original, but the cover sucketh not.

(Hmm. A disc jockey I didn't know was hiding in my brain just suggested putting "Hocus Pocus" back to back with "Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter, then pairing the rest of Moving Waves with ... uh, which Deep Purple album has "April" on it?)

Friends turned me on to Klaatu a while ago, but well after their last album was out. Those same friends are disappointed that my favourite Klaatu album is the one they consider too conventional or something (hey, it does have the song "Sell Out" on it, so I figure the band was aware of what they'd done) but I find it all good.

So, did Mark play soccer in high school and enjoy? (Just wondering whether we're going to go from nostalgic-reminder to spooky.)

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"Doreen", Frank Zappa
"Love Is Like Oxygen", Sweet
"And Your Bird Can Sing", Beatles
"More Than a Feeling", Boston
"Yours Truly, 2095", ELO (but really, i'd want the whole album.)

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If I were to pick a Zappa tune to play "at eleven", I'd probably pick "Dirty Love". Though it's always fun to sing along to the "yippee yi yum tai yaay" bits in "Movin' To Montana" a bit too loudly too.

I'm with you on the Beatles and Boston, but Sweet? (Wow, memories of top-40 AM radio on the school bus.)

If I had all of my music collection as MP3 files, in a database that had columns for "mood", "topic", "genre", and "sonic texture", I'd probably deal with the stated scenario by doing a search on "LOUD" and clicking the shuffle button in the results window.

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I don't normally listen to my music loud, so it's hard to figure. Are we talking clogging, or gliding and shimmying, or tripping lightly and with a spring in one's step?

I'll dance to damn near anything in my underwear.

I'll second D'Glenn on "March at Cambreadth" by Heather Alexander

"3 polkas" on Kevin Burke's "Up Close"

"La Partida" on the same's "Open House"

An old tape of a friend doing "the Graemsay Jig" and "The full-Rigged Ship" or anyone's "Kesh Jig"

"White Collar Holler" by Nigel Russell, as done by Stan Rogers

And I haven't even started on Steeleye Span.

Yeah. Ask me next week, too. After all these damn chanteys go away.

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"I don't normally listen to my music loud"

Neither do I most of the time, but there are certain tunes and certain moods ...

(If you hear me cranking up the Liquid Sky soundtrack louder than I usually play my music, it means my head is in a particular uncomfortable place -- one that album seems to help get me out of (or at least deal with), for some reason.)

"I'll dance to damn near anything in my underwear."

Mmmmmmmm ......

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