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Album: Forever Classics
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I think of this bit from Fawlty Towers when I hear Brahms: https://youtu.be/A513YjKmpMY?s...
I look at that album art and, forgive me but, I keep expecting Terry Gilliam to make his mouth move and his head to fly away.

Not that I don't also enjoy the musical genius...

 dogpound wrote:

Another piece I know because of Looney Tunes.




Same here!!  Thanx RP!      
 ziakut wrote:

I really think this Brahms dude is going somewhere. So promising.




LOL! Too funny!   
 ntoll wrote:

+99999999999999999999999999 for Brahms.

The bearded serious looking dead composer shown on the CD cover hides the fact that Brahms learned his trade as a young man by playing (improvising) on the piano in brothels.


In brahthels?
Ballerinas leaping through the air ...and then followed by We All Float by Hooverphonic.  I see what you did there!  Nice.
 antonm wrote:

Another one stolen by soviet's 'culture' and used as own music.  


Only if you're stuck in a historical rut...
 ziggytrix wrote:
He didn't ruin this song for me, but it's hard to listen to it without my brain calling up some of those dumb lyrics.
 dogpound wrote:

Another piece I know because of Looney Tunes.



Wow 2 days in a row!
Another piece I know because of Looney Tunes.
 antonm wrote:

Another one stolen by soviet's 'culture' and used as own music.  




You say stolen. I say wonderful.
Another one stolen by soviet's 'culture' and used as own music.  
 Elroweho wrote:

Hard to dance to!



Depends the dance! Them 19th century Hungarians were pretty wacky. 
Hard to dance to!
Bill follows 20th century dance club music by Brainbug with 19th century dance club music by Brahms. 
 1jerry wrote:

Although he looks pretty sketchy here.


Like he's on his way to a Terry Gilliam/Monty Python sketch?
This is different from Lou Bega's Mambo no. 5.
There is a lot of other Brahms that could be included on RP as well, just sayin'
 ziakut wrote:

I really think this Brahms dude is going somewhere. So promising.


Although he looks pretty sketchy here.
Imagine coming in here and rating this towering achievement 1. 
Kinda starting to feel a little bit like this is on too much... just a bit.
Bill you scamp. Nice classical segues today. We’ll done as always.
His Lullaby is a real sleeper...
 CCSandman wrote:

I hear The Munsters theme in here


Yeah, Brahms totally lifted it - mostly because of his infatuation with Yvonne DeCarlo/Lily.
99999999999/10 for Johannes!
Going from this into Hazy Shade of Winter works. I do like it when classical or other musical styles are introduced into mix.
Fairly decent. could use a bit more cowbell though, so I give it a 9
 TrevorWGoodchild wrote:

Yet again, we have a rough transition from Unshaken by D'Angelo (which is great) into a Hungarian Dance. What about a big band piece with strings then the Hungarian Dance? Abrupt genre switches without great transitions make for rough listening experiences. 




Whenever I think this, I assume Bill & Rebecca are trying to teach me something and I listen more closely for a connection... sometimes it's not obvious, but there's always one there!
I usually give the classical pieces a 10, but this one gets an 8. Still very enjoyable. Thank you for including some great classical pieces in the playlist. 
Yet again, we have a rough transition from Unshaken by D'Angelo (which is great) into a Hungarian Dance. What about a big band piece with strings then the Hungarian Dance? Abrupt genre switches without great transitions make for rough listening experiences. 
 jmsmy wrote:

How come everything good in classical is a No. 5


Apart from the four Rachmaninov piano concerti (he never wrote a fifth!), though I concede that Shostakovitch's 5th symphony is very great indeed.
As an amateur trumpet player I used to get very bored when playing Brahms "200 bars rest, one note", "300 bars rest 3 notes". This is oneof his more exciting pieces :D
I hear The Munsters theme in here
 LaurieinTucson wrote:

bugs and elmer chasing each other through the forest tip-toe-ing around a tree can’t you just see it?


i fear my knowledge of much of the old "classics" began with Bugs and Merry Meodies...and didn't progress far enough after...but understand "classical" has become a generic term that doesn't always apply...
Haha nice playlist! First 


and directly after

Johannes Brahms — Hungarian Dance No. 5
 

Crazy Shit!
da f#$*? The Fix by Elbow followed by a Hungarian Dance with heavy strings? Perhaps consider a soft piano piece as a transition between genres for one smooth listen rather than abrupt genre switches 
 LaurieinTucson wrote:

bugs and elmer chasing each other through the forest tip-toe-ing around a tree can’t you just see it?



a former co-worker's kids call Classical "Bugs Bunny Music"
This still kicks ass.
This is just one of the reasons to listen to the "main mix". I'm dancing in kitchen like a gypsy and I can't even foxtrot!
Proud Hungarian here! 
bugs and elmer chasing each other through the forest tip-toe-ing around a tree can’t you just see it?
 bullshipped wrote:
save it for NPR
 

quit your whining
This always reminds me of the epic barber shop scene in Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator". Surprised nobody made that connection in seven years' worth of comments.


Here's one some Londoners might know:
"Brahms & Liszt"
Anyone know the meaning?
Tip: It's Cockney rhyming slang!
save it for NPR
I'm hearing loony tunes cartoons playing on the TV when  I was young, a long time ago.
Well I didn't even know they had "Greatest Hits" records back in 1869. Always learning new stuff while enjoying the music at Radio Paradise.
Well how can anybody give it less than 100 is beyond me
Go Bill !
I’m doing my housecleaning faster and loving it !
Got these old toes a tappin.
If you have not heard Alan Sherman's version of this, please do yourself a solid and have a fun laugh.
 dwhartography wrote:
The first four were practice?
Practice makes perfect!  

Yes 10, yes godlike, but Brahms gets a whole orchestra behind him.  Hard to compare to a song by a band with 5 instruments.
found this on psd
I really think this Brahms dude is going somewhere. So promising.

So there you have one food from each land.
Each one delicious, each one simply grand.
Mix them all up, in one big mish mash.
And what have you got? Hungarian goulash!

 photolew wrote:
This is what makes Radio Paradise the amazing "station" it is.....Rolling Stones followed by Brahms.....LOVE IT

  Indeed!

 gresua wrote:
Прискорбно, но  с первых нот воспринял, как композицию русских танкистов. Я из Украины...пагубно влияет советское воспитание. ;(. РаSSией повеяло, а это был Brahms — Hungarian Dance.

 
Man, my thoughts exactly.
Прискорбно, но  с первых нот воспринял, как композицию русских танкистов. Я из Украины...пагубно влияет советское воспитание. ;(. РаSSией повеяло, а это был Brahms — Hungarian Dance.
 SquiddlyDiddly wrote:
I thought this was by Ripyourcorsetsoff.
 
You're probably thinking of Flight from the Cluster Bee. Totally different.
Alexander Borodin had 17 Polovetsian Dances! 17!

Fondly recalls that late 60's early 70's TV commercial where the grandfatherly pitchman mentions Polovetsian Dance Number 4 by Borodin. 5 musta been really good.
The first four were practice?
 jmsmy wrote:
How come everything good in classical is a No. 5

 
Not everything, but Perez Prado's "Mambo #5" is probably his best.
Love Philippe Entremont's piano version of this as well. 
not sure how it happened
the comment below was meant to agree with the Looney Tunes comment
I see Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd running around in the woods 
Mine, too. And I told Chuck Jones that very thing the one time I got to meet him. 

skooba wrote:
My introduction to classical music came from Bugs Bunny/Warner Bros. cartoons, way back in the early 70's.  Damn, I'm old!

kcar wrote:

Yes! Exactly! There's definitely a Loony Tunes feel to this piece. 

Still from
 

 


 LaurieinTucson wrote:
I so agree 

 
Years ago while dating a woman in Germany we visited one of her friends raising three young, young girls. They treated us to some wonderful "ballet" set to this music. A bit goofy but very sweet and lovely. 
I love:

1) "(no lyrics available)" {#Hand}  I think someone needs to get on that!

2) The "release date"....of 1869. {#Roflol} That literally made me LOL, 
I so agree 

skooba wrote:
My introduction to classical music came from Bugs Bunny/Warner Bros. cartoons, way back in the early 70's.  Damn, I'm old!

kcar wrote:

Yes! Exactly! There's definitely a Loony Tunes feel to this piece. 

Still from
 

 


 jmsmy wrote:
How come everything good in classical is a No. 5

 
Can you think of anything other than Beethoven's 5th?
Beside that, Beethoven's 9th symphony (choral), is voted greatest piece of music almost every year in a row on Classical Radio Boston WCRB
Classical Hungarian music in the afternoon in August?

I can take German, Russian, maybe. But never, never Hungarian in the afternoon.

This is an outrage! 
 photolew wrote:
This is what makes Radio Paradise the amazing "station" it is.....Rolling Stones followed by Brahms.....LOVE IT

 
Funny, today (june 28, 2016) we had the same sequence: Stones followed by Brahms. Same playlist?
I thought this was by Ripyourcorsetsoff. 
{#Boohoo}
 skooba wrote:
My introduction to classical music came from Bugs Bunny/Warner Bros. cartoons, way back in the early 70's.  Damn, I'm old! 
 
You're being too hard on yourself; if you were a kid in the 1970s, you're not that old.
Rock n' roll !!!! {#Boohoo}{#Drummer}
This is what makes Radio Paradise the amazing "station" it is.....Rolling Stones followed by Brahms.....LOVE IT
My introduction to classical music came from Bugs Bunny/Warner Bros. cartoons, way back in the early 70's.  Damn, I'm old!

kcar wrote:

Yes! Exactly! There's definitely a Loony Tunes feel to this piece. 

Still from
 


How come everything good in classical is a No. 5
Please pass the paprika. 
einfach wunderschön!
großartige Scheibe
 moodfood wrote:
from the Stones to Brahms - splendiferous.. {#Cheers}

 
YES!!!!!
from the Stones to Brahms - splendiferous.. {#Cheers}
 gregskrtic wrote:
anything less than a "10", slap yourself. {#Clap}

 
Slap!

I gave it an 8. It's not that good to give it a 10. 
 planet_lizard wrote:
Brahms does party music

 
   A lot of truth in this comment.
It really hurts.
I remember my music school.
Brahms does party music
 ziggytrix wrote: 
I heard this done by Allan Sherman years and years before I heard the original.  He "ruined" a number of classical pieces.  I don't resent him quite as much as I despise United Airlines for co-opting Rhapsody in Blue, though.
I don't get the reference to the looney tunes... to me, this piece is associated to the movie "Sissi" with Romy Schneider :)
anything less than a "10", slap yourself. {#Clap}
The wild card in the playlist!
 IPA wrote:
I am expecting Bugs Bunny to pop up out of the next cubicle any second now...

 
Yes! Exactly! There's definitely a Loony Tunes feel to this piece. 

Still from "What's Opera, Doc?" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd performing ballet...in Wagnerian costumes

More COWBELL!!!!!
Epic choice Bill. Another curveball ( if that's the right name for a non- US, non-baseball type citizen.
based on the comments, this is the second time this piece followed the Stones. This time, it was preceded by "Midnight Mile". Very cool! 
+99999999999999999999999999 for Brahms.

The bearded serious looking dead composer shown on the CD cover hides the fact that Brahms learned his trade as a young man by playing (improvising) on the piano in brothels.
FABULOUSLY REFRESHING!!!!
Thank you for playing some classical now and then =)
I am expecting Bugs Bunny to pop up out of the next cubicle any second now...
Damn it mom!  Stop changing the channel!  I was listening to Radio Paradise. This is RP? yikes! sucko-barfo.
Love Brahms! Of course, I got my first dose during those Looney Tune cartoons.  {#Angel}
See those Cossacks fly! Yeah, I know, this is Hungarian and not Russian, but I just can't get the vision of Cossacks out of my mind...

Brill stuff, though. Well done RP :)
Roll over Brahms? Directly after the Rolling Stones. What's not to like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfg-9_k-flo

When I hear Brahms, I think of this (and I like Brahms)
more!!
 master_betty wrote:
First!

Edit: Noo

 
sorry!
The lyrics are better than Cake's songs on a good day. Love this. Brahms deserves more of his works here on RP.
This seems to be the only Brahms piece on RP. One might say today marks a historical day.
I am sure my dad played this many times while I was growing up.  Finally appreciating it now.
First!

Edit: Noo
Oh goody... bags me go first!


Dig that facial hair Jo!