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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-04-15 15:39
Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries or the Dies Irae from the Verdi Requiem are too loud and distracting to listen to while you drive.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-tunes15.html
It's interesting that two classical selections are ahead of the pop selections.
Wouldn't Ravel's Pavane une Infante Defunte or the Barber Adagio be equally dangerous by putting you to sleep?
And listening Schoenberg would tie your mind in knots and make you go around in circles.
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Ken Shaw
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2004-04-15 16:03
I tried listening to Philip Glass while driving, and ended up driving up and down the same street hundreds of times.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-04-15 16:25
Not a problem here in Washington, DC --- the only full-time classical station plays nothing but Mozart, Haydn, and Vivaldi nowadays, and besides, people here aren't listening to the radio while driving, they're too busy yakking on their cellphones (which have been rated as comparable to drunk driving as a cause of accidents).
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2004-04-15 16:35
Better than NJ where people will do the most basic, stupid things that really REALLY should have been done at home. From applying makeup to eating a four course meal. I can't remember too well, but I THINK I remember someone brushing their teeth on the highway.
And interestingly enough, there have been articles about some sort of "cellphone effect" where they said that you are not back to your normal driving abilities until about TWO MINUTES after hanging up the cellphone. I wonder if that's the same with the music . . . if your brain needs time to 'recuperate'. If you listened to the top five back to back, would that then mean that the effect is set by a power of five requiring THIRTY TWO minutes to get back into the 'defensive driving' mode? Hmmmmm. .. . .![[huh]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie11.gif)
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: marcia
Date: 2004-04-15 16:53
"I can't remember too well, but I THINK I remember someone brushing their teeth on the highway."
I have seen that also--but it was Mr. Bean doing it on TV!! Have not seen anything quite so foolish in the real world.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-04-15 17:00
When I was younger and even stupider, I tied a necktie (full Windsor knot) while driving 70 mph on the way to a gig (I was running late).
Senior year in college, I and three friends drove from Maryland to Key West, Florida over spring break, in my buddy's 1970-vintage Chevy Monte Carlo (with cruise control). At one point going down I-95 at 70+ mph, I realized that my buddy (the driver at the time) was simultaneously:
Smoking a cigarette,
Playing cards,
Drinking a soda,
Driving with his feet hanging out the window (cruise control 'on', of course).
Was I scared? Not enough......
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Author: susieray
Date: 2004-04-15 17:01
"I can't remember too well, but I THINK I remember someone brushing their teeth on the highway."
Oh, my husband does that all the time...it's fairly embarrassing to be seen in the car with him sometimes ![[frown]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie2.gif)
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Author: Phat Cat
Date: 2004-04-15 18:17
My favorite driver was the guy I saw speeding down I 684 at over 80 m.p.h. while shaving (electric razor) and talking on a (hands-free) phone.
Personally I find that complex music--e.g., a Bach fugue or a Beethoven symphony--is distracting and I must change it when in heavy traffic. On the other hand, I find the Glass Music in Twelve Parts perfect for very long stretches on the Interstate.
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Author: Michael McC.
Date: 2004-04-15 18:26
Wasn't the Ride of the Valkyries background music in the Blues Brothers? Imagine the pile-up at the end of that one!
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-04-15 19:02
Actually it was used to great effect in "Apocalypse Now" when the helicopters were attacking..........
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Author: Kevin
Date: 2004-04-15 21:26
To Marcia:
Yes, I have also seen that episode of Mr. Bean brushing his teeth on the highway. He was running late to that dentist appointment (where Strauss' Blue Danube was being played at a low volume in the dentist's room).
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-04-15 22:12
I remember a stunning performance of Die Walkure given by Opera Australia in the 1990s ... during act 3's opening on the the warrior maidens tripped on a rock and said (quite loudly considering the noise the orchestra was making at the time) "sh*t" ... I heard it from four rows back, caused a lot of the audience (who heard it) to chuckle merrily. At least we know we had only 70 minutes more music to endure ...
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Author: cowboyjonus
Date: 2004-04-15 22:44
thats bs you can turn up any music as loud as you want and it will be considered "too" loud
it is funny though
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Author: donald
Date: 2004-04-15 23:58
i nearly crashed my car while listening to "Erics Trip" by Sonic Youth. Oddly enough, a few years later a friend of mine (and theirs) DID have a car crash, on the way to a Sonic Youth concert- and they started their set with that same song, after dedicating it to "John Mooeyham, who had a car crash on the way here..."
now, i've got to say that the Weber Bassoon concerto has never had the same effect on me.
donald
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-04-16 00:19
Weber's Bassoon concerti are apt to put me to sleep, donald ... how goes it in NZ, by the way? Are you all "ringed" out? (god, that's misconstruable)
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