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Can Anything Be Worse Than Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album?
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The soundtrack to Limbaugh's book is George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" with a skip on the chorus.
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Is anyone else sick to death of this book? I really want to start burning all the copies of it....and the people who read it and enjoy it.
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Not much near the point, but I found it impossible to read Anna Karenina while funk music played in the background.
>>Wouldn't that be great, if all your favorite books came with the option to buy an accompanying soundtrack, carefully chosen by the author?<<
The closest I came to this was tastekid.com, a website that suggests movies, TV, books, games from the established tastes the user inputs. Or several Haruki Murakami novels in which characters listen to music (1Q84, Janacek's Sinfonietta; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, "The Thieving Magpie" overture).
>>Wouldn't that be great, if all your favorite books came with the option to buy an accompanying soundtrack, carefully chosen by the author?<<
The closest I came to this was tastekid.com, a website that suggests movies, TV, books, games from the established tastes the user inputs. Or several Haruki Murakami novels in which characters listen to music (1Q84, Janacek's Sinfonietta; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, "The Thieving Magpie" overture).
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I heard that if you read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz really fast and listen to Dark Side of the Moon at half speed, it syncs up perfectly.
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this is no worse than pixar toys at mcdonalds.
if it gets some lumpen hausfrau to the symphony once or twice, it's a net plus for the planet.
if it gets some lumpen hausfrau to the symphony once or twice, it's a net plus for the planet.
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Would it be safe to assume this "soundtrack" is simply a rendition of Ravel's "Bolero" played on endless loop?
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After reading the delightfully strange little "Light Boxes" by Shane Johnson, I found an author Q & A in which he mentioned that a musician had written some music inspired by his novel. http://johnmadera.com/music/
Some of these worked very well, I thought. Pleasant discovery.
Some of these worked very well, I thought. Pleasant discovery.
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Actually I think the one good thing about Fifty Shades is that the music she refers to in the book is pretty good. I'd consider buying the album but not the book.
The others: Rush Limbaugh's producer uses strangely good music on his show, so I'm ok there. Eat, Pray, Love-- I think a few Italian opera excerpts and some gamelan music sounds like a reasonable album, a little dull but not painful. Scientology could be anything-- if it's Tom Cruise singing, yuck, but if it's the soundtrack to Grease or Saturday Night Fever or Pulp Fiction, I can deal with that. The Bible soundtrack would presumably be the same chants one hears in synagogues, again a little dull but not painful. I know nothing about Cook to Bang.
The others: Rush Limbaugh's producer uses strangely good music on his show, so I'm ok there. Eat, Pray, Love-- I think a few Italian opera excerpts and some gamelan music sounds like a reasonable album, a little dull but not painful. Scientology could be anything-- if it's Tom Cruise singing, yuck, but if it's the soundtrack to Grease or Saturday Night Fever or Pulp Fiction, I can deal with that. The Bible soundtrack would presumably be the same chants one hears in synagogues, again a little dull but not painful. I know nothing about Cook to Bang.
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Actually the soundtrack to the Bible was recorded in 1986, and it's one of the best things ever. http://www.phespirit.info/momus/198601.h…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkSruKt6m…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEsbfRyeW…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcSuMCbQD…
etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkSruKt6m…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEsbfRyeW…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcSuMCbQD…
etc
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Debussy and Bach have survived car commercials and elevators. This eye roll-inducing tie-in won't harm the music, though fans are better off buying them individually so the super-embarrassing cover doesn't show up in their living rooms or iPods.
In general, soundtracks to books are a cool idea. I love coming up with songs that go with certain books. Hell, I just made a playlist for The Hunger Games. Go ahead, laugh. I'll wait.
In general, soundtracks to books are a cool idea. I love coming up with songs that go with certain books. Hell, I just made a playlist for The Hunger Games. Go ahead, laugh. I'll wait.
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Not worst (in my opinion) but best is Robert Rankin's "Sprout Mask Replica" while listening to Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica.
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My job is cataloguing the fiction at the library, and , actually, it seems like every third book of "urban fantasy" has a soundtrack listing in the back, and I see soundtracks pop up in dozens of "cozy mysteries", "paranormal romances"...even quilting novels. This wouldn't seem like such a new idea to you, Megan, if you read enough really shitty fiction.
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It's actually taken me about 30 books before I found a novel with a playlist today, but I finally found one, and, yes, it's paranormal romance. The soundtrack to Taste Me by Tamara Hogan includes Gene Loves Jezebel, Nelly Furtado, Elastica, Berlin, Queens of the Stone Age, Depeche Mode, INXS, Michelle Branch and Bonnie Raitt.
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