What are you listening to right now?

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing Mahler, "Ging heut Morgen übers Feld"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing Mahler, "Kindertotenlieder"

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I was at the store the other day, and I watched a little girl, about seven years old, happily singing away at this song as she walked by me with her mother:

Violet Beauregarde

And I thought, fuck yeah, kid, I love Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory too! The score by Danny Elfman surpasses his usual high quality (though I always thought of Oingo Boingo as sort of a rich man's Devo.)

But the Veruca Salt theme has become a favorite humming tune for me. Fortunately it is available on YouTube in Czech and Russian versions too! I love all the character's songs in the film; Elfman was very true to the Oompa Loompa lyrics as written by Roald Dahl. And the choreography featuring Deep Roy just does it for me. The whole thing is like a fifties-style Hollywood extravaganza.

Canción de bienbenida de Willy Wonka

Augustus Gloop

And yet, in the whole film, perhaps nothing comes close to the wonder of this song from the 1971 version:

Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination

Sorry if it seems sometimes that I'm turning this thread into my personal playground. But if you didn't check out that Delta Rhythm Boys video of "So High, So Wide, So Low", you're missing out! And I wouldn't want you to miss out, no, no, no. Oh well, happy Thursday.

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And yet, in the whole film, perhaps nothing comes close to the wonder of this song from the 1971 version:

Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination

Have you heard Crazy Penis's There's a Better Place? It's a great song using a sample from Pure Imagination. I can't find it on utube, and can only find the intro to it here, but it cuts out just as it's about to take off . Great band, great song. Fine house music on the 2 cds of theirs that I have - Wicked is the Music and A Night on Earth.

[jc denton]

Now one thing's for certain
And two thing's for sure
Being poor's a disease
Gotta hustle up a cure
Start with your head, homey
Then use your hands
If you try it in reverse
You don't even have a chance
We world-wide worried
With the hunger and the thirst
From the third world countries
To the second and the first
It sounds like a verse
But it's more like a plan
Get your Robin Hood on
Put some pressure on the man!

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Cherchez La Femme -- Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band

Endicott -- Kid Creole and the Coconuts

Pull Up to the Bumper -- Grace Jones

Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy -- Kid Creole and the Coconuts

I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby -- Kid Creole and the Coconuts

He's the Greatest Dancer -- Sister Sledge

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And now I'm just back where I was thirty-something pages ago.

[Cosmic Cowbell]

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Carmen Miranda - I Like to be Loved by You

Benny Goodman featuring Carmen Miranda - Paducah

Carmen Miranda - O Que É Que A Baiana Tem?

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Joe Satriani with Stu Hamm- Summer Song

Steve Vai - Whispering A Prayer

Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien

Stu Hamm - Moonlight Sonata

Stu Hamm - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

[IanEye]

this is literally the first CD i ever bought!! it was 1988 and i still own it

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Some annoying retard who has no feelings and writes songs about nothing, to whom children in pain are attracted only for lack of a better option.

Also, Mariah Carey, blowing the sum total of whatever individual rights she had accrued at an early stage of her career by expressing herself via Old Dirty Bastard on a remix, in a way Columbia and her then-husband feared, detested and didn't allow on officially sanctioned tracks, for reasons of both race and commerce.

She gets a very unfair rap. As it were.

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I Need To Know -- Marc Anthony

What of it? A good three-minute pop song is a good three-minute pop song.

Also, the lingerie is high art by itself, and has no equal in the Best Lingerie in a Pop Video Lifetime Achievement category other than the La Perla worn by Madonna during the part of Take a Bow during which the profound philosophical nuances of the song can only be adequately represented visually by a few seconds of her rolling around in bed in her underwear. Starting around 2:49. Though it's not nearly as good of a song, the judges have to note without caring very much.

[Truth4Youth]

Marc Almond covers Johnny Cash!

[FourthBase]

LCD Soundsystem, over and over again.

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The Gumm Sisters - The Land of Let's Pretend

Judy Garland - I Don't Care

Britney Spears - I Don't Care

Judy Garland - Get Happy

Brenda Lee - Dynamite