Speaking of Banes

[jhetley]

The ice-cream truck has emerged from hibernation, cruising our quaint narrow streets with canned renditions of Joplin's "The Entertainer" on an electronic sound system that you can hear for a measured mile. We'll get _them_ with the Skunk Launcher (TM) some day, and their little dog, too.

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[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Mine plays the tune my first toy played me to send me to sleep.
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Which is irritating at seven in the evening.

Very much so.

[anisoptera.livejournal.com]

I once lived in a neighborhood that was visited by "The Ice Cream Truck of the Damned". It would play classical pieces as if through a muffled off key kazoo.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Earlier today, it was proposed, on one of the mailing lists I receive, that it would be most interesting if the ice cream trucks would play "O Fortuna" (the opening of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, which is the opening for Ozzy Osbourne and a number of other metal acts, which is the music in dozens of commercials and movies, for those who aren't sure.)

I think that would work much betterer than the happy go-lucky fare they usually play. Of course, "Ride of the Valkyrie" would also work well, if played quite loudly on a hi-fidelity system. Canned, I'm sure either one or the other would still sound like "The Entertainer" in the end.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

"The Ride of the Valkyries", to those of us who have watched _Apocalypse Now_, would have a certain . . . resonance.

But really, the root problem with _anything_ on those damned trucks is their signature of playing just a few bars endlessly repeated. If law required them to play, for example, the Verdi _Requiem_ all the way through, or the whole _Ring des Niblungen_ cycle . . .