How about big band music?

/no wait, we want to shoo away 18-25s, not 18-65s

That should stop the flow of the red, red kroovy.

Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!

Could work.

What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.

One of these days I'm gonna have to see that movie.

/finally read the book last year

Can I record police shenanigans here?

I was in a Red Line train a few weeks ago, and there was classical music playing. I was confused. Usually I have to hear bums talking to themselves, someone asking me to sign a petition, or someone dry heaving.

Subby - Portland already does it. Minneapolis is looking to copy that. Hence, the Minneapolis paper.

/My office overlooks a light-rail stop, so I'll soon be getting a Ludwig out of these replies, I suspect.

Angel trumpets and devil trombones - but only the '63 Berlin recordings, please.

/all else is homogenized pablum

They should try something less violence inspiring, Kisshoven perhaps

They should have just put a bird on it, and called it art.

Beethoven does tend to cause riots in California shopping malls.

Its crazy in Maine. All that snow and lobster.

SmackLT: A right shame, my droogs and I love a bit of the old Ludwig Van after a nochy of the old ultraviolence

I love how he intersperses random Russian words into his parlance. I don't know why it fits so well, but it does.

The article's about Minneapolis

Here in Denver there's a Taco Bell downtown that has been doing this for years.

People who aren't familiar with it are confused as to why the chalupa-peddler is so fancy, but it's there to annoy the riff-raff.

So far I've only found one max stop that actually plays anything and it's always the same 3 songs, the theme to the Marriage of Figaro and two songs from Carmen. I enjoy it but dammit, there's more music out there than just Habanera and Toreador!

"If it encourages some people to wander away because it's not their favorite type of music, I guess that's OK,"


I wonder why they didn't consider 'Achy Breaky Heart"

/over and over and over

hp6sa: Subby - Portland already does it. Minneapolis is looking to copy that. Hence, the Minneapolis paper.

/My office overlooks a light-rail stop, so I'll soon be getting a Ludwig out of these replies, I suspect.

The lake street station already does. Nice for when I'm coming home drunk

As someone who uses the Lake St station regularly I'm getting a kick out of this story.

The stop certainly has gotten calmer than it was over the summer, but I wonder how much of that is just down to shifts in behavior due to the sub-freezing temps.

pi8you: As someone who uses the Lake St station regularly I'm getting a kick out of this story.

The stop certainly has gotten calmer than it was over the summer, but I wonder how much of that is just down to shifts in behavior due to the sub-freezing temps.

Calmer indeed. Though there was a fat bum in pink sweats sleeping on the stairs last night.

What is it about young pups that they can't stand to hear music from composers that have withstood the test of time (centuries even), but later in life, they like it?

They can pickle that.

milk bars?

chaosweaver:
The lake street station already does. Nice for when I'm coming home drunk

Huh, maybe they're not going to at my stop, then. Which may be good, since my brain has filtered out the "bell" noise as long as I'm not paying attention, but Beethoven might push it.

"You go up that escalator and you feel like you're on your way to invade Poland," said Eric Gustafson

Um.....

MMMMmmmmbop, non-stop.

Bagelox-99: How about big band music?

/no wait, we want to shoo away 18-25s, not 18-65s

Remember, these guys were cool within my lifetime:



If you don't recognize them, well, clearly you aren't old enough to remember the 1990s.

Naughty, naughty, naughty! You filthy old soomka!

The theory being that Blah youth don't like Classical, I guess?

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van

Beethoven may work. I personally like his Concerto No. 5. If you really want to deter them though play some of Stravinsky's string quartets, or some other 'atonal' pieces that will drive them batty.

/I appreciate the music, but no one ever said I had to like it.

As a bit of a Beethoven scholar, I have a feeling that our dear Ludwig would be doing backflips in his grave if he knew that we were using his music to pacify the masses. I'm pretty sure that's the opposite of his intention, and if there was anything that Beethoven feared, it was to be misunderstood by mankind and misjudged by history. Unfortunately, due to his "mythic" status, that's precisely what has happened.

And as a lover of A Clockwork Orange, the irony is just too much.

Vlad_the_Inaner: "If it encourages some people to wander away because it's not their favorite type of music, I guess that's OK,"


I wonder why they didn't consider 'Achy Breaky Heart"

/over and over and over

Because the general populace really would lose it then and collapse into Anarchy and random killings.

ZAZ: Pants full of macaroni!!

The movie is a generally faithful rendition of the edition of the book Kubrick worked from. Both book and movie are very good.

A Clockwork Orange to me is actually one of the few where the movie is better than the book. Same goes for The Warriors in my opinion.


"Bed-ways is right-ways now so what say we go home-ways and get a bit of spatchka? Right-right?"