Irreverent Associations

[Guest]

I'm currently listening to the 'The Blue Danube' on Private Passions, a tune with which I always associate the words 'Anti-Gravity Toilet' owing to its use in a particular sequence in Stanley Kubrick's '2001 A Space Odyssey'. It would be a comfort to know that I'm not the only person who reacts to certain pieces in this way....

[MrGongGong]

You mean like Prokofiev's "Were's the piggy, there's the piggy" ?

[Norfolk Born]

Not sure what you're referring to, MrGongGong.
In the Kubrick film, as the shuttle 'waltzes' around the space station, Keir Dullea is seen carefully reading the instructions relating to the use of the anti-gravity toilet.
It's sobering to realize that it's some 43 years since I first saw '2001' at the old ABC cinema in Southampton.

[cloughie]

Not sure what you're referring to, MrGongGong.
In the Kubrick film, as the shuttle 'waltzes' around the space station, Keir Dullea is seen carefully reading the instructions relating to the use of the anti-gravity toilet.
It's sobering to realize that it's some 43 years since I first saw '2001' at the old ABC cinema in Southampton.

...and I bet there are millions out there that don't know there are 30 minutes more great music after the intro to Also Sprach.

[Nick Armstrong]

Mahler 7 "Nachtmusik I" and Castrol GTX

(Of course there are endless such associations thanks to the bloody advertising industry... Handel's "Lascia ch'io panga" and the Harrods Sale... &c &c)

[Chris Newman]

Bizet's Toreador Song and "Ze Esso Sign means 'appy motoring/ Esso Sign/ 'appy motoring. Ca-a-al at ze-e Esso Sign......"

Sadly the only ones I can find on YouTube are the older ones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyZ62oFDwcs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VhONf1xfeM

[Serial_Apologist]

There's of course the (in)famous theme from Orff's Carmina Burana, used countless times to sell equivalences in rubbish of all kinds.

[amateur51]

Not sure what you're referring to, MrGongGong.
In the Kubrick film, as the shuttle 'waltzes' around the space station, Keir Dullea is seen carefully reading the instructions relating to the use of the anti-gravity toilet.

Keir Dullea. of whom Noel Coward was heard to remark "Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow"

[cloughie]

Charlie Drake conducting and playing most of the instruments in 1812 Ov. And while telling Tchaikovsy the news Roy Wood using the same Ov for 'Night of Fear' and nicking the intro to Beethoven 5 for Roll Over Beethoven!

[Norfolk Born]

I regret to say that the opening of Elgar's 'Introduction and Allegro' reminds me of a certain brand of whisky that one was allegedly able to take anywhere. Ken Russell may have been at least partially responsible for this.

[Serial_Apologist]

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody (No 2?) in the version played here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbxArVlS5tU

[Roehre]

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody (No 2?) in the version played here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbxArVlS5tU

It really is a brilliant 2nd rhapsody

[Norfolk Born]

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody (No 2?) in the version played here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbxArVlS5tU

I haven't seen that for years - thank you so much for the link!

[MrGongGong]

Not sure what you're referring to, MrGongGong.
In the Kubrick film, as the shuttle 'waltzes' around the space station, Keir Dullea is seen carefully reading the instructions relating to the use of the anti-gravity toilet.
It's sobering to realize that it's some 43 years since I first saw '2001' at the old ABC cinema in Southampton.

I don't want to spoil it for those that love it
I don't see a black slab when I hear Ligeti's requiem though

There is , of course, the opening of Schoenbergs chamber symphony and Star Trek but I think that's intentional ? or even logical ?

[Roehre]

There is , of course, the opening of Schoenbergs chamber symphony and Star Trek but I think that's intentional ? or even logical ?

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