{"id":84,"date":"2011-06-07T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T00:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foreignersview.wordpress.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2021-08-20T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T21:56:54","slug":"the-most-difficult-question-of-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaluff.com\/es\/2011\/06\/07\/the-most-difficult-question-of-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The most difficult question of all"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every once in a while, when I meet someone new, they will ask me a question to which I don’t think I’ve ever given a satisfactory answer. The dreaded question is: What kind of music do you like? I usually mumble something along the lines of “The Beatles… Bossa Nova… and… I don’t know, mostly dead people”. I mean, it’s a difficult question to answer, isn’t it? Most people like a lot of different music. The set of music I like happens to contain a lot of disconnected subsets, so it’s particularly difficult to describe the whole set with a finite number of terms. So I’ve decided to dedicate some time to giving a somewhat better answer than I usually give in this post, with the hope that from today on I can just refer people here when they ask. So here’s a youtube playlist and a table. The songs are in no particular order. I did not include songs that I enjoy for something besides the music or the lyrics, e.g. comedic value, they were in a movie that I like, etc.<\/p>\n

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Song Title<\/strong><\/td>\nComposer<\/strong><\/td>\nPerformer<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Libiamo Ne’ Lieti Calici<\/td>\nVerdi<\/td>\nThe Three Tenors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Der H\u00f6lle Rache kocht
\nin meinem Herzen<\/td>\n		Mozart<\/td>\nDiana Damrau<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pr\u00e8s des remparts de S\u00e9ville<\/td>\nBizet<\/td>\nMaria Ewing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1812 ???<\/td>\nTchaikovsky<\/td>\nGothenburg Symphony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Slavonic Dance No. 8<\/td>\nDvo?\u00e1k<\/td>\nIsraeli Philharmonic Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I Dovregubbens hall<\/td>\nGrieg<\/td>\nHall\u00e9 Orchestra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Invierno porte\u00f1o<\/td>\nPiazzola<\/td>\nFilarm\u00f3nica de Montevideo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Por una cabeza<\/td>\nGardel<\/td>\nCarlos Gardel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00c1guas de Mar\u00e7o<\/td>\nJobim<\/td>\nTom Jobim & Elis Regina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Agua de Beber<\/td>\nJobim<\/td>\nQuarteto em Cy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Izaura<\/td>\nRoberti\/Martins<\/td>\nJo\u00e3o Gilberto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roda Viva<\/td>\nBuarque<\/td>\nChico Buarque & MPB-4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sozinho<\/td>\nVeloso<\/td>\nCaetano Veloso<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Che Trompo Arasa<\/td>\nGim\u00e9nez<\/td>\nB. Rojas & J. C. Barreto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
India<\/td>\nFlores<\/td>\nLuis Alberto del Paran\u00e1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alma Guaran\u00ed<\/td>\ndel Paran\u00e1<\/td>\nLuis Alberto del Paran\u00e1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dos gardenias<\/td>\nCarrillo<\/td>\nBuena Vista Social Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
La vida es un carnaval<\/td>\nCruz<\/td>\nCelia Cruz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guantanamera<\/td>\nD\u00edaz<\/td>\nCelia Cruz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Libre<\/td>\nBravo<\/td>\nNino Bravo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Te extra\u00f1o<\/td>\nManzanero<\/td>\nAndrea Bocelli<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Les feuilles mortes<\/td>\nKosma\/Pr\u00e9vert<\/td>\nYves Montand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Milord<\/td>\nMoustaki\/Monnot<\/td>\nEdith Piaf<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rosa<\/td>\nBrel<\/td>\nJacques Brel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
As Time Goes By<\/td>\nHupfeld<\/td>\nDooley Wilson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dream a Little Dream of Me<\/td>\nAndre\/Schwandt\/Kahn<\/td>\nLouis Armstrong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Come Fly With Me<\/td>\nVan Heusen\/Cahn<\/td>\nFrank Sinatra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Sheik of Araby<\/td>\nSmith\/Wheeler\/Snyder<\/td>\nDjango Reinhardt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
My Favorite Things<\/td>\nRodgers<\/td>\nJohn Coltrane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I Got A Woman<\/td>\nCharles<\/td>\nRay Charles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Can’t Buy Me Love<\/td>\nLennon\/McCartney<\/td>\nThe Beatles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eleanor Rigby<\/td>\nLennon\/McCartney<\/td>\nThe Beatles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Come Together<\/td>\nLennon\/McCartney<\/td>\nThe Beatles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Satisfaction<\/td>\nJagger\/Richards<\/td>\nRolling Stones<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I Wish<\/td>\nWonder<\/td>\nStevie Wonder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Money<\/td>\nWaters<\/td>\nPink Floyd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wish You Were Here<\/td>\nGilmour\/Waters<\/td>\nPink Floyd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tears in Heaven<\/td>\nClapton\/Jennings<\/td>\nEric Clapton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wonderful Tonight<\/td>\nClapton<\/td>\nEric Clapton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road<\/td>\nJohn\/Taupin<\/td>\nElton John<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bennie and the Jets<\/td>\nJohn\/Taupin<\/td>\nElton John<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Don’t Stop Me Now<\/td>\nMercury<\/td>\nQueen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crazy Little Thing Called Love<\/td>\nMercury<\/td>\nQueen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
California Dreamin’<\/td>\nPhillips\/Phillips<\/td>\nThe Mamas & the Papas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fortunate Son<\/td>\nFogerty<\/td>\nCreedence Clearwater Revival<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sweet Child o’ Mine<\/td>\nRose\/Slash\/Stradlin<\/td>\nGuns N’ Roses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
De m\u00fasica Ligera<\/td>\nCerati<\/td>\nDe m\u00fasica ligera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
For What It’s Worth<\/td>\nStills<\/td>\nBuffalo Springfield<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
People Are Strange<\/td>\nThe Doors<\/td>\nThe Doors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
My Generation<\/td>\nTownshend<\/td>\nThe Who<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pata Pata<\/td>\nMakeba<\/td>\nMiriam Makeba<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Internationale<\/td>\nBragg<\/td>\nBilly Bragg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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