*shudders*

[pixel39]

This. Is. So. Wrong.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009A1BXG/qid=1122643618/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-2990488-7198310

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[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

Oh, right--I heard an interview and some excerpts on Morning Edition, this weekend I think. It's, um...interesting.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

That was what the guys on the jazz station I listen to said. Apparently it's #1 on the jazz charts right now.

I'll have to sample it when I get home, because this machine doesn't have a sound card and thus no speakers.

Paganini on the banjo is cool. I'm not sure about swing Nirvana.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Wow... I'm almost tempted to buy it just cause....

[caoilfhionn.livejournal.com]

Ah.

You'll be happy to know that I purchased a copy expressly for Saraidh's reception, then!

[saraidh.livejournal.com]

Heh. Music in the style of Richard Cheese. On a similar-yet-different note, I'm considering getting more Hampton String Quartet. My fiance likes classic rock, and I enjoy seeing people's faces when they figure out what they're listening to.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Except (now having heard his versions of Survivor's Eye of the Tiger and Van Halen's Jump, and now listening to the REM Everybody Hurts), Anka has the pull to get a big band behind him and he seems to be completely, innocently, deadly serious. Cheese plays for laughs and jokes about "immortal music"; Anka is not so self-effacing.

And, sadly, I'm enjoying it.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Everybody's got to have at least one guilty pleasure.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I've got several! Having listened to it, I'm giving it back to the gal who loaned it to me. I'm just not impressed with it. It's an interesting trick, but not something I want to listen to again.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

I listened to a few of the samples, and it's not something I have any interest in either. Eh.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Classic rock via string quartet is only as odd as the blues on medieval/renn instruments. And I've done *that*.

[saraidh.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but this is classic rock arranged in the style of Mozart via string quartet, so there is an extra level of weirdness. The effect is subtle until the tune turns out to be a little too familiar, and then it usually makes people's heads hurt.

[katerinfg.livejournal.com]

I heard the piece on "Morning Edition", too. I thought the bits they played sounded kind of neat.

[ladydairine.livejournal.com]

It comes under the same heading as Pat Boone doing heavy metal. Ouch!

[malefica-v.livejournal.com]

Still not half as cool as Pink Floyd's "The Wall" in dead serious bluegrass! It SO works.