OK here's a thread where hopefully we won't argue. I started doing a search on the web for bad ITM playing. To my horrow I discovered when I searched for bad piping the results included Planxty.
Anyway, I wonderd whether anyone here has their 'favourite' video of dreadful interpretations of ITM. This one is mine. I have no problem with the low whistle - but who let Woody Woodpecker in?
My opinion of The King Of The Fairies as a tune is quite low enough: it is a sort of musical equivalent - though "musical" isn't really the right word - to The Daily Express, deep-fried white pudding or Birmingham New Street Station.
But the accompaniment gave it a new dimension of loathsomeness. The battering put me in mind of that urban legend about the girl trapped in a car while a homicidal maniac pounded its roof with her boyfriend's severed head. More repellently yet, the tune seemed to me like a rotting bloated horse carcass being steadily mashed and broken into by a fusillade of heavy jagged rocks hurled by frenzied Neanderthals, to release ever more powerful and unendurable whiffs of nausea-inducing putrescence.
Whew, nicholas ! You're on form this morning...when's your dystopian apocalypse novel coming out, and can I have an option on the screen rights ? I'll never think of King of the Fairies in the same way again
The King of the Fairies accompanied by the sound of a sail flapping in a gale force wind. What more could a man ask? How about a good spew over the side........
Thank you Nicholas. I have just finished my breakfast and here you talking about beating a dead horse.
As for King Of The Fairies, I usually think of men who prefer their own gender for gender.
Well...we could ague about your spelling of horror for a start.
And anyway, what have you got against Neanderthals? Their cranial size indicates they had bigger brains than us. And maybe they liked the smell of rotting horseflesh (assuming there were horses around where Neanderthals lived.)
The Corrs....they are alright with me. I can watch those videos even with the sound turned down.
Why are there so many YouTubes with the heads cut off? Gosh. Don't people look at the videos before they post them? Do they do that on purpose to remain unknown?
I couldn't enjoy the lissom movements and body language of the participants because my video only plays staccato, in fact is stationary most of the time. So I could only judge the act on musical criteria.
I judge that if I'd heard it coming out of a speaker in our one remaining Irish theme pub, I'd have dashed out for a smoke even if I'd just had one.
Mind, I didn't think the bodhranistria was bad as they go.
One of them had a face that reminded me of "Death In Venice".
Ouchie what a horrible experience. If you want to see talent vs the rest then you have to admire Matt Molloy's patience in this version of the same tune with the Corr's
I'm sure there is someone out there whose one purpose in life is to go around all those utube sites writing 'AWESOME' in the comment section. That Corr version of Toss the Feathers was so ....Oh my God....what's the word I'm looking for....ah.... CRAP.. ... that's it
I'm going to petition Jeremy to not allow this sort of thing on a Sunday. Are you link contributors vieing for the same job as executioner? I could only bear a few seconds of each of those links and my ears are bleeding and I can't seem to open my eyes... Worse, I think I've been grinding my teeth...
Nicholas, I'll brush up on "The King of the Fairiers" before we meet in the real world. Sounds like it might have a similar effect as garlic to vampires...
Light relief
Light relief
OK here's a thread where hopefully we won't argue. I started doing a search on the web for bad ITM playing. To my horrow I discovered when I searched for bad piping the results included Planxty.
Anyway, I wonderd whether anyone here has their 'favourite' video of dreadful interpretations of ITM. This one is mine. I have no problem with the low whistle - but who let Woody Woodpecker in?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fupWhH0mKWs
D
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by Welshman
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My opinion of The King Of The Fairies as a tune is quite low enough: it is a sort of musical equivalent - though "musical" isn't really the right word - to The Daily Express, deep-fried white pudding or Birmingham New Street Station.
But the accompaniment gave it a new dimension of loathsomeness. The battering put me in mind of that urban legend about the girl trapped in a car while a homicidal maniac pounded its roof with her boyfriend's severed head. More repellently yet, the tune seemed to me like a rotting bloated horse carcass being steadily mashed and broken into by a fusillade of heavy jagged rocks hurled by frenzied Neanderthals, to release ever more powerful and unendurable whiffs of nausea-inducing putrescence.
Well, now! - must go for my lunch...
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by nicholas
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Whew, nicholas ! You're on form this morning...when's your dystopian apocalypse novel coming out, and can I have an option on the screen rights ? I'll never think of King of the Fairies in the same way again
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by wolfbird
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Thanks nicholas - I will now always think of rotting bloated horse carcasses whenever I encounter this tune!
D
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by Welshman
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The King of the Fairies accompanied by the sound of a sail flapping in a gale force wind. What more could a man ask? How about a good spew over the side........
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by Free Reed
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Thank you Nicholas. I have just finished my breakfast and here you talking about beating a dead horse.
As for King Of The Fairies, I usually think of men who prefer their own gender for gender.
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by fauxcelt
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Well...we could ague about your spelling of horror for a start.
And anyway, what have you got against Neanderthals? Their cranial size indicates they had bigger brains than us. And maybe they liked the smell of rotting horseflesh (assuming there were horses around where Neanderthals lived.)
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by Key Maniac Lad
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ermm...that was meant to spell "argue"...
(he whispers sheepishly)
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by Key Maniac Lad
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Yes, that was truly dreadful. Here's another:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEJa_VgpIAc
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by llig leahcim
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Bloody hell, Michael, that *was* truly dreadful. I always susepcted that the Corrs could secretly play ... But I see I was wrong.
Quite liked the way one of them was holding the bodhrán, though ...
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by benhall.1
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The Corrs are proof that being Irish doesn't guarantee that you can play traditional music well.
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by kennedy
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The Corrs....they are alright with me. I can watch those videos even with the sound turned down.
Why are there so many YouTubes with the heads cut off? Gosh. Don't people look at the videos before they post them? Do they do that on purpose to remain unknown?
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by feardearg
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I couldn't enjoy the lissom movements and body language of the participants because my video only plays staccato, in fact is stationary most of the time. So I could only judge the act on musical criteria.
I judge that if I'd heard it coming out of a speaker in our one remaining Irish theme pub, I'd have dashed out for a smoke even if I'd just had one.
Mind, I didn't think the bodhranistria was bad as they go.
One of them had a face that reminded me of "Death In Venice".
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by nicholas
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The white make-up, I mean...
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by nicholas
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Ouchie what a horrible experience. If you want to see talent vs the rest then you have to admire Matt Molloy's patience in this version of the same tune with the Corr's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73nlA_7uhlQ
D
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by Welshman
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"The white make-up"
If you meant the fiddler, nicholas, I think she was white with fear. And with some justification.
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by benhall.1
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Good grief, Welshman! Yet another truly horrible cacophony. Amazing.
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by benhall.1
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"white with fear"?? The terrible truth is that she is sure she sits at the other's shoulders. She genuinly does not know how bad she is.
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by llig leahcim
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I refuse to think *that* badly of her. It's bad enough as it is.
I thought this thread was supposed to cheer us up and bring peace? Or is it just here to depress us so much we can't be bothered to argue any more?
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by benhall.1
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Cheer you up? Of course it should cheer you up. No matter how you are playing, you have to be better than these examples.
Even llig on bodhran would be better!!!!!!!!
D
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by Welshman
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How could someone's inability cheer me up?
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by llig leahcim
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I'm sure there is someone out there whose one purpose in life is to go around all those utube sites writing 'AWESOME' in the comment section. That Corr version of Toss the Feathers was so ....Oh my God....what's the word I'm looking for....ah.... CRAP.. ... that's it
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by Free Reed
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feardearg: He's probably worried someone on here will track him down and smash his instruments and camera...
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by Whiddler
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I'm going to petition Jeremy to not allow this sort of thing on a Sunday. Are you link contributors vieing for the same job as executioner? I could only bear a few seconds of each of those links and my ears are bleeding and I can't seem to open my eyes... Worse, I think I've been grinding my teeth...
Nicholas, I'll brush up on "The King of the Fairiers" before we meet in the real world. Sounds like it might have a similar effect as garlic to vampires...
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by ceolachan
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I rather like "The King of the Fairies." But perhaps it's a tune better suited to slightly different instrumentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrnBxpPST8U
# Posted on April 27th 2008 by gw
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By contrast, here's a bit of quality traditional music with a nasal quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6iKx0dcWvQ
By the way, this SE London boy is also well capable of doing things the traditional way - should be better known than he is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltErDTkHK6Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuHPu6lpgH4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kslbm5HYiDw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdApXhU1SIo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sue5Ur52F7w
# Posted on April 28th 2008 by granama