Hahahaha, Music for a Found Harmonium as a club dance track. That's hilarious. I enjoyed watching it more than listening to it. Pretty much nothing to it but a couple of loops and a drum track. As dance music goes, it's not very good.
Steve Mac is a pop producer. I guess this is his solo debut. Really silly stuff, but there's lots of lingerie involved so it's not all bad.
Same tune different video, with Mr Bean dancing to it. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q0V6cCw5iek&feature=related I think I prefer the one with the lingerie. looks like it might become a must-have ringtone in the same way as the crazy frog was.
never did like the tune, my son was driving me mad when he was learning to play it.
I don't mind people having fun with Irish music, as long as it doesn't sound bad. But this is just terrible. This is what happens when Irish music falls into the wrong hands!
Funny, I once belonged to a band we called "Paddy's Revenge"... We got told it would never fly, and it didn't.
As for the remix, I guess one could inflict this on just about any piece taken from ITM. It could perhaps be done with better taste though.
kjay-bc-box,
you must a sensitive little darling to be OFFENDED by some use of a tune that is not to your taste!
Isn't that just being a little bit too precious?
That eejit is a much better player than me - he can play PA left-handed and play anglo without putting his hands through the straps.
Must keep practising!
I was at a setdancing weekend in the Catskills this past weekend when this tune was repeatedly included in tuneset for the Clare Plain Set by one of the bands visiting from Ireland. The results were hardly as exciting as that Youtube video and while the visiting band played it with more gusto, it isn't really a great tune for set dancing. But then again, I never considered tradmusic potential for lap dancing. Kind of obsures the current debate about Sean Nos/ Nua Nos dancing observed on another discussion thread on this site (LOL).
Bertie 242 said "I don't mind people having fun with Irish music, as long as it doesn't sound bad. But this is just terrible. This is what happens when Irish music falls into the wrong hands!"
There is a story that when the Johnstons ( the two Johnston sisters, Paul Brady, and Mick Maloney ) changed their repertoire from pop songs to trad, there were priests all over Ireland phoning up their agents and demanding they go back to sing proper Irish songs like "Both Sides Now" ( Joni Mitchell) and to stop doing this modern rubbish or they wouldn't book them for their church halls again.......
In the same way.............MFAFH isn't, and has never been ITM. Just because Patrick Street recorded it doesn't change its being a modern quirky piece of composition, originally recorded by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra I believe.
PS The Scottish Tourist Board recently used "Wild Mountain Thyme" as the theme music for one of their tv ads, even though it was first collected from the McPeake family back in Belfast in about 1895 by Sir Hubert Parry, which to my mind makes it Irish. Some people have no idea at all as to where a lot of their material originated from. There is a lot to be said for a little bit of scholarship.
Pete, I think most people here know where MFAFH came from, no scholarship needed.
It doesn't matter whether you consider it to be ITM or not, it gets played as an Irish reel often enough, and it has made it into the tune database here.
Pretty much. I originally had a footnote to the effect of, "I know MFAFH isn't an Irish tune, but it's regularly played seriously by Irish trad players, and here it's played by an Irish band, so it's close enough to matter." But that just didn't flow well enough with the rest of it, so I cut it out.
It could well be that, on this forum, a lot of people DO know, not only where their music came from, but who played it like that, and so on.
It's the general level of ignorance in the public that occasionally irritates.
Krick, you misunderstood me entirely, I would have been offended had they tried to use Fred Finn's or George White's Favourite or the Morning Thrush or Ormonde Sound or Kilty Town or any of the thousands of other brilliant trad and trad-style tunes that are out there. MFAFH isn't sacrosanct for me at all.
A new use for music for a found harmonium
A new use for music for a found harmonium
Take a look at this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl6vZ0POzZY
Who is this guy? Never heard of him.
# Posted on November 4th 2008 by dafydd
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Hahahaha, Music for a Found Harmonium as a club dance track. That's hilarious. I enjoyed watching it more than listening to it. Pretty much nothing to it but a couple of loops and a drum track. As dance music goes, it's not very good.
Steve Mac is a pop producer. I guess this is his solo debut. Really silly stuff, but there's lots of lingerie involved so it's not all bad.
# Posted on November 4th 2008 by Marklar
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Same tune different video, with Mr Bean dancing to it. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q0V6cCw5iek&feature=related I think I prefer the one with the lingerie. looks like it might become a must-have ringtone in the same way as the crazy frog was.
never did like the tune, my son was driving me mad when he was learning to play it.
# Posted on November 4th 2008 by neilowen
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Ow. My ears.
I don't mind people having fun with Irish music, as long as it doesn't sound bad. But this is just terrible. This is what happens when Irish music falls into the wrong hands!
# Posted on November 4th 2008 by bertie242
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Seen it before. 'Cept for the lingerie, it hurts to listen OR watch.
# Posted on November 4th 2008 by Fishmonger
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Funny, I once belonged to a band we called "Paddy's Revenge"... We got told it would never fly, and it didn't.
As for the remix, I guess one could inflict this on just about any piece taken from ITM. It could perhaps be done with better taste though.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Fanning
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Lol, that is hilarious. I might have been offended if he'd used a real tune, but with Music for a Found Harmonium it's just funny.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by kjay_bc_box
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
kjay-bc-box,
you must a sensitive little darling to be OFFENDED by some use of a tune that is not to your taste!
Isn't that just being a little bit too precious?
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Krick Stahlschwanz
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Wow.
This is the future of progressive Irish trad?
I can hardly wait.
Needs a sax, though.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Piece
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
That eejit is a much better player than me - he can play PA left-handed and play anglo without putting his hands through the straps.
Must keep practising!
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by geoffwright
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
I was at a setdancing weekend in the Catskills this past weekend when this tune was repeatedly included in tuneset for the Clare Plain Set by one of the bands visiting from Ireland. The results were hardly as exciting as that Youtube video and while the visiting band played it with more gusto, it isn't really a great tune for set dancing. But then again, I never considered tradmusic potential for lap dancing. Kind of obsures the current debate about Sean Nos/ Nua Nos dancing observed on another discussion thread on this site (LOL).
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by clareman
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Irish lap dancing...hmmm...seems like having to keep your arms straight down at your sides would take all the fun out of it.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Marklar
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Bertie 242 said "I don't mind people having fun with Irish music, as long as it doesn't sound bad. But this is just terrible. This is what happens when Irish music falls into the wrong hands!"
Since when did MFAFH become Irish?
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by goldfrog
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
"Since when did MFAFH become Irish?"
When Patrick Street recorded it, I guess.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Marklar
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
It was used as the theme music for RTE's coverage of the Tour of Ireland cycling race earlier this year.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Penfold
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
There is a story that when the Johnstons ( the two Johnston sisters, Paul Brady, and Mick Maloney ) changed their repertoire from pop songs to trad, there were priests all over Ireland phoning up their agents and demanding they go back to sing proper Irish songs like "Both Sides Now" ( Joni Mitchell) and to stop doing this modern rubbish or they wouldn't book them for their church halls again.......
In the same way.............MFAFH isn't, and has never been ITM. Just because Patrick Street recorded it doesn't change its being a modern quirky piece of composition, originally recorded by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra I believe.
PS The Scottish Tourist Board recently used "Wild Mountain Thyme" as the theme music for one of their tv ads, even though it was first collected from the McPeake family back in Belfast in about 1895 by Sir Hubert Parry, which to my mind makes it Irish. Some people have no idea at all as to where a lot of their material originated from. There is a lot to be said for a little bit of scholarship.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Guernsey Pete
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Music for a Bound Whoremoanium. I liked the turn of the century Burley-Q gals...
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Pete, I think most people here know where MFAFH came from, no scholarship needed.
It doesn't matter whether you consider it to be ITM or not, it gets played as an Irish reel often enough, and it has made it into the tune database here.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Marklar
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
The gals should have been playing fiddles while they danced. That is the standard now.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Atahualpa Quigley
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
I'm trying to remember whether this is the way the conversation went last time this was posted here ... and the time before ... and ...
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by ethical blend
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
I retract. I apologise. That was mean. I'm bored.
Sorry.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by ethical blend
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
" When Patrick Street recorded it, I guess."
Pretty much. I originally had a footnote to the effect of, "I know MFAFH isn't an Irish tune, but it's regularly played seriously by Irish trad players, and here it's played by an Irish band, so it's close enough to matter." But that just didn't flow well enough with the rest of it, so I cut it out.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by bertie242
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
That wasn't very mean, benhall, by mustard board standards. You'll have to try harder.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Marklar
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
It could well be that, on this forum, a lot of people DO know, not only where their music came from, but who played it like that, and so on.
It's the general level of ignorance in the public that occasionally irritates.
# Posted on November 5th 2008 by Guernsey Pete
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
How's about,
Music for a Bored Ad Nauseam?
# Posted on November 6th 2008 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Apparently, this tune has been widely advertised as being a Jig, e.g. (random Google links):
http://www.internetdj.com/article.php?storyid=1030
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ApOB8EhvCgw
http://www.beatking.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=34622
No wonder I've been having difficulty figuring out the Major vs. Dominant 7ths in the 2nd & 7th parts...
# Posted on November 6th 2008 by Rick Payman
Re: A new use for music for a found harmonium
Krick, you misunderstood me entirely, I would have been offended had they tried to use Fred Finn's or George White's Favourite or the Morning Thrush or Ormonde Sound or Kilty Town or any of the thousands of other brilliant trad and trad-style tunes that are out there. MFAFH isn't sacrosanct for me at all.
# Posted on November 6th 2008 by kjay_bc_box
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That clip made me feel like a Democrat. I walked away with an election.
# Posted on November 6th 2008 by chuneboi slim
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*lol chuneboi!!
# Posted on November 6th 2008 by davydd
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I don't know about you lot but I'm prepared to play it if similar dancers come to MY session.......
# Posted on November 11th 2008 by UKCITTERN