Music to slip into a playlist to see if anybody is listening

Date:December 19, 2005 / year-entry #391
Tags:non-computer
Orig Link:https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051219-15/?p=32913
Comments:    10
Summary:When I was visiting my brother earlier this year, I found this CD in my sister-in-law's collection. Oy vey's mir! There's just something fundamentally wacked out about the whole idea. (Maybe that's why I liked it. Here's what other people think.)

When I was visiting my brother earlier this year, I found this CD in my sister-in-law's collection. Oy vey's mir! There's just something fundamentally wacked out about the whole idea. (Maybe that's why I liked it. Here's what other people think.)

Comments (10)
  1. Julie Lerman says:
    December 19, 2005 at 10:12 am

    Raymond: "oy vey’s mir"? (asks this nice Jewish girl) Where’d you pick up such yiddish? :-)

  2. anon says:
    December 19, 2005 at 10:49 am

    I think Raymond’s an NPR fan, and Terry Gross just last week had this guy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312307411/qid=1135007206/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5595772-7052009?n=507846&s=books&v=glance

    on talking about oy vey mir…

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5048943

    :)

    Very good interview BTW.

  3. Jon Galloway says:
    December 19, 2005 at 11:08 am

    And if you get away with that, you have to go for The Most Unwanted Song (http://www.diacenter.org/km/musiccd.html).

  4. Mark Wan says:
    December 19, 2005 at 1:13 pm

    You might also be interested in a Duke Ellington version as well:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000027ED/104-7841477-5671139?v=glance

  5. Michael Cecil says:
    December 19, 2005 at 5:28 pm

    *Throws leg up on table*

    I’ve got that beat.

    /best Richard Dreyfuss voice.

    http://www.cthulhulives.org/Solstice/

    Put THAT into your playlist this holiday!

  6. Hapool says:
    December 20, 2005 at 12:01 pm

    Julie, Raymond HAS mentioned that he is fascinated with Germanic languages.

    See http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/01/170857.aspx

  7. Jonathan says:
    December 20, 2005 at 4:19 pm

    "Oy vey’s mir"

    Should be "Oy Vey Zmir" – Hebrew is אוי ויי זמיר, not sure about exact latin translitarion.

  8. x says:
    December 21, 2005 at 5:57 am

    Myself, I found I can go a long way with the musical diversity till I get to put the Outthere Brothers’ "I Want to Fuck You in the Ass"… and even then, some people wouldn’t notice the lyrics.

  9. Michael Cohen says:
    December 27, 2005 at 7:39 am

    How about <a href="http://www.oytotheworld.com">Oy To The World</a>? It’s an awesome album. :)

  10. Michael Cohen says:
    December 27, 2005 at 7:42 am

    Aww, not even simple HTML?? :p

    For the HTML illiterate among you, that link should be http://www.oytotheworld.com

    Merry Christmukkah! ;)

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