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Whenever I hear a harpsichord the next thing I expect to hear is an ojou-sama's "ohohohohoho!"

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[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I just think of "Golden Brown" by The Stranglers when I hear it now.

[-] decaptcha@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Thanks for sharing, this was new to me

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

No problem, it's one of those songs i like to listen to on hot summer nights outside.

[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Beat me to it. Also the music video rules, because the guy playing the harpsichord looks exactly like a early Soviet political cartoon of porky-happy if he was hooked on heroin and sweatily playing harpsichord

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

You ever listen to the mariachi one Hugh Cornwell did a few years back? It's my go-to song to play when i'm given a nylon string guitar.

And yeah, Dave Greenfield just looked like that lmao.

[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

No, but thanks for the suggestion!

Lol yeah he's got the slightly upturned nose like the Whos from the Grinch that just oozes snootiness at first look

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Lmao, he does look like a British failson strung out while "exploring the orient".

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

It makes me think of pompous dinner parties hosted by nobility

[-] sawne128@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

I like the harpsichord, but don't really care much for most harpsichord music. I need more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZGxnN8O4RE

[-] decaptcha@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

This rules, thanks

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[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago
[-] PPBelisarius@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There’s a punk band that used one. Can’t remember the song off the top of my head, but it has the line “in every single town every officer is down”.

[-] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

It makes me think of that I Spy CD-ROM game

[-] decaptcha@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Half A World Away by REM has a superb harpsichord part that comes in about the one minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiBIrPMEWk

The arrangement in this song is so good... harpsichord, organ, violin, and the vocals... beautifully melancholy

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[-] someone@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Whenever I hear a harpsichord all I want to do is snap my fingers.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Makes me think of the Warcraft 2 soundtrack

[-] Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Music itself can’t be pompous or snobby, it’s just music

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