What Are the Two Most Dissimilar Songs in Your Music Library?

"Jcarr" (jcarr) 09/04/2015 at 09:33 • Filed to: Musiclopnik

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If you’re like me, you like a wide variety of music. That can make for a pretty diverse library. Show me two songs in your collection that are as far apart as two songs can be.

Here are two from mine:

On one end we have....

Meshuggah - New Millenium Cyanide Christ

...and on the other end we have.....

Celine Dion - The Power of Love

I grew up in the 90s and I love me some Celine Dion. Don’t care.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:35

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6Cylinder > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:37

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I love Meshuggah

not for canada - australian in disguise > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:37

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Here we see some ska punk from the late 90s.

And then some adult album alternative from the early 2000s.

Jcarr > 6Cylinder 09/04/2015 at 09:37

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But do you love Celine?

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > not for canada - australian in disguise 09/04/2015 at 09:39

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Train is love

pjhusa > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:41

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I have a lot of older Chinese pop songs and Darude - Sandstorm

crowmolly > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:42

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This is gonna be good. LOL.

John Denver- Annie’s Song

Operation Ivy- Knowledge

Nibby > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:44

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Jcarr > Nibby 09/04/2015 at 09:45

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Those are some lyrics!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:45

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AC/DC - you shook me all night long

Enya - Orinocco flow

jkm7680 > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:47

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Toto- Africa and Fetty Wap- 679

nermal > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:49

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From “Sweet Jane”

To “Fucking Hostile”

Jcarr > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/04/2015 at 09:49

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+1 for Enya

CalzoneGolem > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:49

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Skrillex - Make It Bun Dem

Nostalgia 77 - Sleepwalker

Jcarr > nermal 09/04/2015 at 09:50

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Pantera! \m/

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:56

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First there’s the Beach Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZBKFo…

And then there’s Ice Cube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvRc7p…

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 09:58

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I don’t know if this is answerable for me. I have hundreds of gigs of music (literally months worth) covering pretty much everything left of the dial. I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s probably something by La Monte Young or Karlheinz Stockhausen and some perfect pop song like something from Taylor Swift or something.

Jcarr > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 09/04/2015 at 09:59

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That’s a lot of music. Are you Spotify?

macanamera > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 10:01

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Partita for solo violin No.3 in E Major

Oxycotton- lil wyte

haveacarortwoorthree2 > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 10:04

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Convoy by CW McCall and almost every Metallica song!

Sn210 > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 10:05

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Boston - More than a Feeling

UGK - Int’l Players Anthem

Zombie Nation

Gang of Four - Ether

Ray Charles - I Got a Woman

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

pip bip - choose Corrour > pjhusa 09/04/2015 at 10:08

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+1 Darude.

ttyymmnn > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 10:11

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Too Drunk to Fuck by the Dead Kennedys and just about everything else. And I admit, I did go through a Celine Dion phase in the 90s.

Jcarr > ttyymmnn 09/04/2015 at 10:18

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The woman has a nice voice, what more can you say :)

FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 10:21

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808 State - Pacific 706

A$ap Ferg - Work

and 100 more > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 10:23

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Tool - Third Eye

Linda Scott - “Every Little Star”

BONUS HALFWAY POINT:

Frank Zappa - Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow and Nanook Rubs It

ttyymmnn > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 10:25

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She does, and she knows it.

Tohru > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 10:27

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Tohru > haveacarortwoorthree2 09/04/2015 at 10:29

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Ah, yeah, Breaker One-Nine, this is the Rubber Duck, anyone got a copy, come on?

1111111111111111111111 > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 10:36

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Grateful Dead, Row Jimmy

Deicide, Halls of Warship

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 10:38

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Lol, no. My collection is much better and includes things like Prince, The Kinks’ Arthur, and Taylor Swift in addition to who knows how many old local punk and noise records that I’m preserving and wouldn’t be surprised if I have the only copies of at this point. iTunes used to have a calculator at the bottom that showed the amount of time my library was, and when I stopped using iTunes in 2009 or so it was up to 72 days iirc. That was just MP3. My FLAC collection is much bigger size-wise, but probably only half the length of time and there’s some overlap. But have you seen my records?

This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra, Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc, Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force (“just hit me”!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.

Just kidding on that last bit. Felt like dropping some LCD Soundsystem. My record collection is not as cool as James Murphy’s, but it is pretty damn cool.

Jcarr > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 09/04/2015 at 10:40

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That is impressive!

Svart Smart, traded in his Smart > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 10:51

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Well, I’ve got a little bit of Vivaldi (The Four Seasons). And then I’ve got tons of catchy dance-pop, like Magnus Carlsson here:

Möt mig i Gamla Stan

haveacarortwoorthree2 > Tohru 09/04/2015 at 10:58

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I loved that song as a kid and it still gives me joy today. Also great from around then is Ray Stephens’s The Streak.

Tohru > haveacarortwoorthree2 09/04/2015 at 11:02

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my dad has that on 45

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Jcarr 09/04/2015 at 11:24

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Scandanavian edition, from lightest to significantly darker. I actually quite enjoy all of these, they aren’t just cruft in my music library.

ABBA - Honey Honey. (I have the whole ABBA Gold 1 & 2), 70’s Euro-pop with a distinctly japanese influence. ABBA is Swedish, although Anna-Frid (the brunette) is Norwegian. There are many better ABBA songs than this, and ones that I like even better, but this particularly shows the great difference between this, and the other end of the spectrum below.

a-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV (as well as the rest of their album “Hunting High and Low”) a shining example of 80’s New Wave Synth-Pop. a-ha is Norwegian. Not well known, but was a #1 hit in the UK, and a fantastic example of the genre, and something other than “Take On Me” which everyone knows, and has been recently sampled.

Jan Hammer - Crockett’s Theme (from his music written for Miami Vice, as well as the rest of the album Escape from TV, and also In the Mind’s Eye.) Melancholy instrumental jazz-pop fusion. For some reason, I used to think Jan Hammer was scandanavian, but he is actually from Prague, Czech Republic. I am nowhere near as cool as Don Johnson on TV, but if I could have a theme song, I would want this one.

Yngwie Malmsteen - Fugue Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar (also Amadeus Quattrovalvole, Anthology 1994-1999, which actually includes a metal-makeover version of ABBA’s ‘Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!’, which is as surreal as it would seem.) An incredible combination of classical overture and heavy metal guitar shredding. Born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck, Yngwie Johan Malmsteen is Swedish.

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