Last night we ate at a Chinese place not far from Katherine’s school (corner of Arapahoe and Broadway — don’t recall the name). Yummy dinner. But … odd music.
First off, it was Muzak-style easy listening background stuff, but with some odd instrumentation and playing that made me think it was … well, Chinese.
Which made the play list even more surreal than it would have been otherwise:
“Edelweiss”
“I Don’t Know How to Love Him”
“Auld Lang Syne”
Those are the three I wrote down. There were many others.
Good food, though.
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I’ve noticed that to at a place up here that I go to lunch at sometimes (good noodle bowl;->). I kind of have M*A*S*H* flash back (both the movie and the TV show) when they would go some place and the music would be Korean versions of american music.
All in all, if you start to pay attention to it it is a very odd experience.
The odd coincidence here is that the post title is actually taken from a favorite line of mine from the M*A*S*H TV series.
What was the scene of the line?
I can’t place it.
Mine tends to be the one where Hawkeye and Trapper trade Col. Blake’s desk for medical supplies:
Haweye: Henry, isn’t that your desk?
Blake: Yeah…
Trapper: What’s it doing up there?
Blake: I don’t know, but keeps getting furter and further away…
I knew this was going to happen!
Frank: You disgust me!
Hawkeye: That’s right, Frank. We all discussed you and we decided you were disgusting.
It was actually the first appearance in the series of Henry Morgan — though not as Harry Potter, but as General Bartford Hamilton Steele, a “deranged martinet” who was bringing up Hawkeye on court-martial charges (episode “The General Flipped at Dawn”). He brings as his final, crushing witness a black MP who witnessed Hawkeye’s insubordination (as I recall it). The MP is brought to the stand, and Steele is about to begin the questioning, when he pauses and says, “But first — a musical number!” It turns out he’s expecting the black guard to put on a minstrel show before the testimony, and when embarrassed confusion ensues, Steele begins to buck-and-wing and demonstrate what he was expecting. The court martial is disbanded, the charges dropped, and Steele is never seen again. Morgan’s performance impressed the M*A*S*H producers enough to hire him to replace Maclean Stevenson a season or two later.
None of the songs you listed look like they’re on the “Miracle” CD, but what you said sounds a lot like what 12 Girls Band does. They take classical Chinese music and some modern music and have it rearranged with traditional Chinese instruments… perhaps modded up to be electric. It’s very much an analogue of Bond, which has been doing the same with classical Western music.
Formula: Get a bunch of cute women together, put them in tight clothing, and put them on stage with non-acoustic instruments.