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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
The person is an elderly man, Mrd00d, who likes classical music...and *only* classical music. He has never been to a disco. He didn't know what one was, when I asked. (I considered taking him out dancing, but I couldn't think of a good place.)
I will take your suggestion about not sharing "Should I Stay or Should I Go," because I know he hates any low, farting-like sounds in rock music, and that song has this brumbly, distorted bass sound that he'd despise. Sigh.
Well, your walking away from that song isn't quite dancing...but it's close!  So you don't even kind of bop along to the music as you walk?  I guess when you hear that song, your answer is "I should go!"  |
Perhaps you could play him some rock music that shows rock is capable of combining some of that high art of his beloved classical with a rawness of emotion. The problem with rock aping classical is that the more composed and complex it gets, the more difficult it is getting into (Emerson, Lake & Palmer and National Health are good examples). Ideally, you could play him some progressive rock classics, but it could be a little hard on him.
But, as he's probably not familiar with rock classics from the 70s, you could try a song like Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. Yes, I know, we're all tired of it, but wasn't it awesome back then when it was fresh? It starts off slowly, quite beautiful, and builds in intensity until it really becomes a proper rocking song.
I think the above suggestion is pretty good, but some other possibilities could be these songs. I think they'd be harder to get into, but I am stil trying to keep it accessible and so you never know!
Yes' classic "And You And I" must be one of the most beautiful pieces of rock music ever recorded.
A Gentle Giant song with some of the same qualities of Stairway to Heaven (some believe LZ got inspiration from this one as well as Spirit's Taurus for Stairway), being beautiful and melancholic at first and then getting into some rock sounds later. Unfortunately (perhaps), it does contain some noodlings.
I'll wait before making any more suggestions, because I figure this might not be the kind of music you wanted to introduce him to! If you want to take him dancing, it's a bit hard to do along to And You And I.