Who are the most polar opposite musicians/bands in your CD collection?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

I'm sure DUers have varied musical collections, but I was curious as to what two artists in your collection are the biggest polar opposites?

Personally, I listen to everything, but I think the fact that I have both Hank Williams and the Wu-Tang Clan in my collection is a great example.

There are more examples of vastly different artists in my collection, but that's probably the best I can think of.

What about you guys?

[MiniMandaRuth]

1. Ummm... Johnny Cash, and then some japanese music...

:shrug:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Which Japanese band?

[MiniMandaRuth]

4. Oh, just a bunch of anime music...

From a bunch of series I enjoy...

I've been meaning to get around and find who performs the songs... Ehehehehe...

[ghostsofgiants]

64. You want good Japanese music, check out Eastern Youth.

I fucking love their song "Muyohnosuke".

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. ABBA/Foo Fighters

nt

[laheina]

5. Peter, Paul, and Mary vs. Disturbed

:rofl:

At least there's no Yanni!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. LOL, no kidding!

That's a lot of musical diversity you have there.

[Nikia]

127. Enya and Disturbed

WE have all kinds of stuff.

[libnnc]

7. Doris Day and Chryssie Hynde

Although they're both animal rights peeps...:shrug:

[Jade Fox]

53. Doris Day!!

She was a great singer in her day. I just wish she had sung better songs. However, "My Secret Love" is a fave of mine, and she sings the HECK out of that song. Listen to the way she hits the word 'now' after the break. It gives me chills.

[flygal]

103. another Doris fan here

I so agree about that part of "secret love" :loveya: and so true about her songs. I bought some mp3s of hers and only like two songs but I still love her movies and old tv show!!

[ZombieNixon]

8. Lúnasa (traditional Irish music) vs. Dimmu Borgir (symphonic black metal)

:shrug:

A lot of people see these two as polar opposites, but I'm not so sure.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. Leadbelly and Shonen Knife, maybe

but my music collection covers a lot of ground...so there are probably at least a dozen of these polar opposites. (Muddy Waters and Björk...Duke Ellington and Ministry...Willie Nelson and the Future Sound of London...etc)

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. Edith Piaf and Public Enemy.

I am nothing if not eclectic. :D

[libnnc]

11. I'd say you totally win with those

:toast:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. I think I love you.

:D

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. Sadly, no David Cassidy in the mix, dear.

;-)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

15. But he is on my iPod.

;)

[laheina]

19. I love me some Edith Piaf.

:D

[diamondsndust]

13. Allman Brothers Greatest Hits / ICP Halls of Illusion or...

Stevie Ray Vaugn vs Black Sabbath ?? <~~~ I wonder how Ozzie & the band like the fact that the song "War Pigs" speaks as much volume today as it did when it was written??

[nytemare]

16. Debussy and Limp Bizkit.

Yeah. Because people have moods.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

17. I'll say!

:rofl:

[Jean Louise Finch]

18. Gillian Welch and Rage Against the Machine

and because in my world, there are three polar opposites, I also get to add X.

[6000eliot]

20. The Clash and The Carpenters

[Starbucks Anarchist]

21. Nice!

[begin_within]

22. Oscar Levant and the disco version of "Whole Lotta Love"

[begin_within]

23. Liberace in concert and Ozzfest

[begin_within]

24. Rusty Warren and Eminem

[Starbucks Anarchist]

25. Didn't Rusty Warren do the Randi Rhodes theme song?

[begin_within]

42. Not sure... what's the name of it?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

74. "Bounce Your Boobies."

:D

[begin_within]

82. Yes, that is Rusty's biggest hit of all (thanks mainly to Dr. Demento).

[TallahasseeGrannie]

26. King's College and Red Hot Chili Peppers

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. What does King's College sound like?

[tjwmason]

28. It's one of the Colleges of Cambridge University.

They have a traditional choir of men and boys to sing in the chapel.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

29. I see.

Thanks.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

35. It's a boys and men choir

and they sing sacred music, mostly. With absolute total perfection in an acoustically wonderful room. (King's College Chapel)

[bmbmd]

30. How about Black Sabbath

and Amy Grant....

[Starbucks Anarchist]

31. My head just exploded.

:P

BTW, you're in Denison? I went to college in Sherman.

[bmbmd]

54. My daughter will graduate from Austin College

next Sunday with a degree in psychology. Don't ask me what she will do with that.

By the way, Carl Rove and his eighteen year old son were on the AC campus last week for the tour.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

73. Congratulations to your daughter.

I graduated a few years ago with a degree in film -- I haven't gone far with that. :rofl:

Sucks about Karl Rove, though.

[anarch]

32. The Bee Gees and NWA

:shrug:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

33. Well, they both did talk about "staying alive."

:D

[TroubleMan]

39. LOL.....that's true

nt

[Guava Jelly]

34. Frank Sinatra and System of a Down

i have just everything in my collection

[charlie and algernon]

36. YoYo Ma and Foo Fighters

[peekaloo]

37. Billie Holliday/Throbbing Gristle

okay the TG was a promo thingie but it's there.

[TroubleMan]

38. Oh man.....where do I start....

I listen to many different genres. I guess the most opposite would be like NWA and James Taylor, or maybe Ella Fitzgerald and Namie Amuro, or how about Roger Miller and Devanand Gatoo....or M.I.A and The Platters.

I have a little over 10,000 songs of many different genres.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

40. I recognize half those names.

I'm sure the rest are good, too. :D

[TroubleMan]

41. Depends on what you're into

I'm guessing the ones that you don't recognize are Devand Gatoo, Namie Amuro, and maybe M.I.A.

Devand Gatoo is chutney music, which is a mix of reggae, soca, and indian music...very popular in Trinidad and East India. It's definitely not for everybody.

Namie Amuro is just a Japanese pop star. However, when her album came out I was in Okinawa that year (1996), and she was all the rage, because she was from Oki, too. There are some good catchy J-Pop tunes on there, but again not for everybody. It's one of things like where you had to be there, in Okinawa at the time, to appreciate it. Plus she was super-hot, and I had an adulthood crush on her.

You might have heard of M.I.A....and if you haven't you should check her out. Progmom here on DU hipped me to her. I can't really categorize M.I.A. You just have to hear her....you'll either immediately like her or you'll hate her....there's no middle ground really. If you're interested go here:
http://www.mp3.com/m.i.a./artists/628272/songs.html
and listen to the samples of Galang and Bucky Done Gun. If you like those samples, you'll like the hole album. If not, you probably won't like it.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

72. I've heard of M.I.A.

Ironically, I haven't heard of Devand Gatoo, even though I'm of Indian descent. :D

[TroubleMan]

76. I misspelled it in the second post, it's Devanand Gatoo

In the first post I spelled it right.

[begin_within]

43. Frank Sinatra and Phranc

[AccessGranted]

44. The Benedictine Monks to Marilyn Manson

My music collection is crazy - from one extreme to the other!

[CatholicEdHead]

45. Pat Boone and Metallica

I have Boone's Metal album.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

75. You listen to that Pat Boone album ironically, right?

:P

[CatholicEdHead]

77. Sometimes I do listen to them back to back

Listening to Boone makes me appreciate the real stuff even more. Boone put that album out around the time S&M came out.

[HuskerDU]

46. Mentors and the Statler

Brothers. Or Minor Threat and Iris Dement.

[no name no slogan]

47. Throbbing Gristle & Lou Rawls

or The Butthole Surfers and Franky Valli and the Four Seasons

[SmileyBoy]

48. I have songs from Johnny Cash and Dr. Dre.

Best I can do. :D

[Ava]

49. justin timberlake and system of a down

:hide:

[Dude_CalmDown]

50. My 3 favorite groups: Sublime, Alkaline Trio & OutKast

I listen to the 3 of them all the time and I never seem to get sick of them.

[Initech]

51. I'm going to have to say Al Green and Frank Zappa

[yellowdogintexas]

52. Segovia.......and Led Zepplin........

or
Boston Pops and Earl Scruggs

[RedG1]

55. Red Hot Chili Peppers / Yanni...

/

Marilyn Manson / Gregorian Chant

/

[rocktivity]

56. Bon Jovi and Slayer

:headbang:
rocknation

[Metta]

57. Yanni and Sun Ra or Olivier Messaien.

One String Sam and Igor Stravinsky.

[RandomKoolzip]

58. Glen Campbell and Jandek

ALthough neither really takes a good picture, I suppose...

[acmavm]

59. Judy Collins singing old standards and Zappa and/or Outkast

Take your pick

[Tikki]

60. Germs~Bronco.....

Tikki

[smitty]

61. Phillip Glass and The Blind Boys of Alabama.

[Burma Jones]

62. Anonymous 4 and The Sex Pistols

Or, the Bulgarian Womens Choir and Minor Threat

[ghostsofgiants]

63. Mine's actually pretty close to your answer...

Except mine is Johnny Cash, instead of Hank Williams.

[momophile]

65. Dead Kennedys and Yo Yo Ma

[AtomicKitten]

66. Beethoven and Green Day

[ScreamingMeemie]

67. Hee Haw Gospel Quartet....Alice Cooper...

I could go on. We own just about everything.

[ScreamingMeemie]

68. Ooops. delete.

I could go on. We own just about everything.

[Nicole]

69. Alanis Morrisette & Patsy Cline

[Initech]

70. Johnny Cash and Opeth

One's a death metal band and the other is well, Johnny Cash.

[liberalpragmatist]

71. Blur AND Oasis

Actually, they're nowhere near as different as the two you mentioned. Both do 60s/70s-inspired British rock, but there was the whole rivalry thing, they hated each other, and they don't sound anything alike.

[bridgit]

78. Samuel Barber ~ Johnny Winter...

http://www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&ComposerId_2872=72

http://johnnywinter.net/welcome

[realisticphish]

79. Gregorian Chant and Slayer

[Derailer]

124. I think you win haha

[av8rdave]

80. Wow, that's a tough one....

I would guess maybe Paul Simon vs Alice in Chains?

[jonnyblitz]

81. grateful dead and skinny puppy. nt

[kwassa]

83. Bach and the Rolling Stones

[Rabrrrrrr]

93. Much more similar than you might think.

[ornotna]

84. Nana Mouskouri and Melt Banana

Duke Ellington to Patti Smith. I like a wide variety of styles.

[Robbie Michaels]

85. Slayer and Stryper

Either that or Megadeth and either Johan Pachabel or Antonio Vivaldi.

[kedrys]

86. Marilyn Manson and Julie Andrews

I have some other examples, but that one comes to mind first.

Other: Dave Brubeck and Rammstein? :D

[beyurslf]

87. Marilyn Manson and Pavarotti

[ContraBass Black]

88. Ludacris and Handel.

:D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

102. LOL, nice!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

89. Machaut and Smashing Pumpkins.

[Autonomy]

90. Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship

I am so eclectic. Don't try to figure me out.

[kwassa]

115. LOL!

and entirely too true.

I saw them perform twice when they were a good band .... loud as hell, too.

[SnohoDem]

91. Mozart and Dead Kennedys

:shrug:

Or maybe Nick Drake and Public Enemy?

[Rabrrrrrr]

92. Stockhausen and Dolly Parton

Though maybe George Crumb and Dolly Parton are more opposite.

[leftofthedial]

94. the Beatles and the Rolling Stones

some feuds never die

there's two kinds of people in this world

[Starbucks Anarchist]

100. I like them both, too.

[Catchawave]

95. Manilow-Eminem n/t

[Arkham House]

96. Miles Davis--and Robert Mitchum, singing calypso music...

...believe it or not...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

101. I've been trying to get the Mitchum album.

But I can only find it on eBay.

[njdemocrat106]

97. Frank Sinatra and Black Sabbath (nt)

[dback]

98. Julie Andrews and Nirvana

Smells Like A Spoonful of Sugar. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

106. A 55-gallon drum of heroin and suicide helps the medicine go down

especially if the drum is wielded by an ignorant, disease laden whore.

[Derailer]

125. Hey I know!

Fuck you :D

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

99. Amy Grant and Marilyn Manson. nt

[Orsino]

104. Dave Brubeck and the Hoodoo Gurus, maybe. n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

105. Did you know Brubeck's still performing?

He's 85 years old, too.

[progmom]

108. i'm seeing him play on saturday

:hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

112. Always gotta rub it in, progmom.

:P

I hope to catch him soon, too. :hi:

[SKKY]

107. Nine Inch Nails and Jarabe de Palo...

[MissMillie]

109. Billie Holiday and Big Audio Dynamite

:shrug:

[noonwitch]

110. Andrea Bocelli and GNR or Kirk Franklin and Ozzy Osborne

One is more a religious opposites.

[Bridget Burke]

111. Hildegard von Bingen & The Cramps....

Actually, Hildegard isn't the "artist"--she was a 10th century German abbess & mystic who wrote exquisite music that makes Gregorian chant seem a bit crude. Surely everybody knows The Cramps?



Fit these in...

"Satan is Real" by the Louvin Brothers

"Tango: Zero Hour" by Astor Piazzola

"The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders"

"Lachrimae" by John Dowland

"Whistler, Chaucer, Detroit & Greenhill"

"The Parable of Arable Land" by the Red Krayola

"The Messiah" performed by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields

[HughBeaumont]

113. Spanky and Our Gang & Sunn o)))))

"Sunday will Never be the Same" vs "Curse of the Winterdemons"

2. Enya & Dillinger Escape Plan
3. The Calm (collection of eerie classical pieces) and Cephalic Carnage
4. Dead Can Dance and Sleep
5. Super Hits of the 70s (all 25 volumes, + the Have a Nice Decade box) and Naked City

[seemunkee]

114. Perry Como and The Residents

VS

[Va Lefty]

116. Lil' Kim and Frank Sinatra

[Hell Hath No Fury]

117. I think I have you ALL beat!

The Sex Pistols and Puccini. :D

I love me my punk and I love me my opera.

[grannylib]

118. Leaving aside the classical, probably CSNY and NIN

Or maybe Andreas Vollenwieder and Incubus.
Or something.

[bleedingheart]

119. Polka music and Nine Inch Nails..

I got a little bit of everything...

Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash...

Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald...

Edith Piaf ..

Ottmar liebert

Tons of Classical music...

and then ethnic music..Croatian, Lithuanian, Russian, even Mexican...

[DBoon]

120. Esquival and the Sex Pistols

nt

[Beaverhausen]

121. nevermind - I didn't read the title closely enough

[mvd]

122. Enya (relaxing) and System Of A Down (hard rock)

or..

Brie Larson (teen pop artist I enjoy a lot - can appeal to a wide auduence) and Frank Sinatra (swing era music)

or..

Alan Jackson (country) and Radiohead (sophisticated alternative)

[Derailer]

123. I don't know but

I was played both Crucial Unit and the Pixies yesterday lol

[ikojo]

126. Monkees and the Grateful Dead nt

[Dangerously Amused]

128. I'll have to go with...

AC/DC vs. the Baka Forest People.


The Baka are a tribe of pygmie nomads who live in the rainforest (Cameroon) area of Africa. They are highly skilled musicians though their main instruments are primitive, such as their voices and water "drums."

music clips here:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/rainforest/rainforest_music_lo.html

and here:

http://www.emusic.com/album/10862/10862002.html

[Starbucks Anarchist]

133. Hey, there!

Nice choices. :hi:

[Dangerously Amused]

134. Thanks!

How's that move shaping up?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

135. Still trying to get motivated to pack.

I still have until the end of June, though. :hi:

[Dangerously Amused]

136. Dude, you're moving to NYC!

(And away from that annoying coworker)


What more motivation do you need? :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

137. Oh, you know...

:evilgrin:

[Dangerously Amused]

138. Not to worry, they have nekkid women in NYC, too.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

139. Yeah, but I have to pay them to get naked.

Unlike SOME people... ;)

[Dangerously Amused]

140. Hey, I gotta pay people to LET me get nekkid.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

141. I'll watch for free.

;)

[idgiehkt]

129. Lil Kim and Ani di Franco

betwixt those lies the entire universe.

[fishwax]

130. Gershwin and Rage Against the Machine

perhaps :shrug:

Good Question :)

[BulletproofLandshark]

131. Dimmu Borgir & Outkast

Norwegian black metal


and southern hip-hop


of course when you have about 600 cd's and 13,000 MP3's, you HAVE to have a little bit of variety.

[Blue_In_AK]

132. Nine Inch Nails and Stephen Curtis Chapman.

:evilgrin: O8)

[Droopy]

142. Megadeth and 3 Doors Down

[elaineb]

143. Rage Against the Machine and The Fleetwoods

If anybody here knows what the Fleetwoods sound like... (No, not Fleetwood Mac!)

C'mon, give me da prize!