An alien intelligence has descended and demands that you produce the single piece of music that you most love, to save the human race. What do you choose?
An alien intelligence has descended and demands that you produce the single piece of music that you most love, to save the human race. What do you choose?
Just ask what my favourite song is
19I've never heard of it, who is it by?
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The ultimate Rick Roll.
13I too watched Rick and Morty some years ago.
11Final countdown.
Dodo do do
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6If it's to persuade the alien of the value of humanity, I'd probably go with The Lark Ascending by Vaughn Williams. It's beautiful, and also 15 minutes long, giving us some time to think of a plan in case they don't like it.
If it's just, what's your favourite song, it'd be So. Central Rain by R.E.M.
5Nightwish: The Greatest Show on Earth (Tampere version) https://youtu.be/qrMwxe2ya5E?si=-_I4U-JnA0oTaCNV
5Maybe it's better to pick progressive rock from the 60s or 70s, the times we thought about space with intrigue and imagined the whole other world would be built by now. Maybe Interstellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd would be a fit.
Yet, I'd go with Assembly of Light - Transition. Besides my preferences, the eclectic nature of this song (thing as ancient as chorus vs pretty modern drone of morbidly overtuned guitar) may demonstrate, how we are too a complex of seemingly incompatible things. Emotionally, it feels like a relief after overcoming a struggle, a thing that I find is pretty universal to all beings. And it also doesn't have lyrics, so there won't be any misunderstanding.
4Achy Breaky Heart.
I'm not playing to win.4There's a high chance I get executed as a traitor to humanity, but I couldn't live with myself if I skipped the chance to send this to aliens as part of first contact: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
4Onward and Upward
Onward & Upward (22:48) • Umphrey's McGee • 2017-07-23 • CEFCU Center Stage at The Landing, Peoria, Illinois https://relisten.net/umphreys/2017/07/23/onward-upward?source=67144
3"Don't you put it in your mouth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuLkMBAFZg&t=9
3I'm a sucker for israel kamakawiwo'ole so either his cover of somewhere over the rainbow or mona lisa
3The Harlem Shake
3Ram Ranch #1. It's a classic.
3C-bat.
3I would choose this video
https://youtu.be/WDn0sIsSQmc?si=O1i3rP2hIlXJOJTq2That alien's gonna die listening to "Blood Red Skies" by Judas Priest.
1Going off the top of my head, Avril 14th by Aphex Twin. Beauty in simplicity. https://youtu.be/-LgYzva-xq8?si=6jOewR0MWhthFZVT
1Empire of the Clouds
1Get Schwifty.
1Either full album from Little Mazarn. Io and Texas River Song have a sincerity that could spare us. They would show the gentleness, nuance, and sophistication of our species. And Marfa Lights might be about them! If I had to pick a single song, it's definitely Peace Like a River, the first track on Io, about living with peace and understanding in the face of struggle and loss. I'm going hard on the wager that we don't want to come off as erratic or dangerous. We want to be portrayed as a safe potential new member of interplanetary society.
1Wouldn’t this be the most logical choice?
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