Posted on 11/29/2017 9:41:01 AM PST by Simon Green
Aliens send message to earth, ‘more Chuck Berry!’.
People under 30 wonder what is a record.
There is a story, maybe apocryphal but I hope it’s true, that while discussing the contents of this album, someone suggested to Carl Sagan that JS Bach’s music be included.
Sagan responded that he would rather Bach not be on the album. When asked why, he said “That would just be showing off.”
And already it presents as ancient technology.
I have a copy/facsimile from a prior release - it’s pretty cool.
This should be available to the public in digital form for free. The taxpayers paid for it.
Chuck Berry utterly kicks Bach’s ass. Everyone knows it in private, but won’t admit it in public... That’s where i come in.
Carl Sagan also was instrumental in the design of this plaque with the following symbol uses; at the top left you have a length definition coming from the Hydrogen atom which is a universal (presumed) and set at a value for the human forms and the Pioneer outline. The radiating lines to a point establishes an astronomical position of Sol identified by 14 pulsars with binary values of their pulsations . At the bottom was a graphic of our Solar System (before Pluto was demoted!)
No one.
No one.
Least of all, Chuck Berry, kicks Bach’s ass.
JS Bach is the Hulk of the music world. Undefeated, undefeatable.
Berry barely exists as a flea in Bach’s kingdom.
Don't know about digital but this is NASA' site where you can see and hear what is on this record. NASA is *generally* good about these things that are already bought by taxpayer dollars.
40 years.
I defy you to show me a Bach song that beats Chuck Berry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFo8-JqzSCM
You’re on.
I have no access to Youtube here, but check out these:
St. Matthew Passion
All six Brandenburg Concertos
His Orchestral Suites
Mass in B minor
I’d argue Mozart is better than Bach - but that’s just a personal preference.
Very interesting. Thanks.
Strange how we can’t see some of the images because they are copyrighted.
There is a story, maybe apocryphal but I hope it’s true, that while discussing the contents of this album, someone suggested to Carl Sagan that JS Bach’s music be included.
Sagan responded that he would rather Bach not be on the album. When asked why, he said “That would just be showing off.”
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I hope that was a joke. There are at least 3 pieces from Bach on the record.
List below, along with all other music titles:
Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F.
Java, court gamelan, “Kinds of Flowers.”
Senegal, percussion
Zaire, Pygmy girls’ initiation song
Australia, Aborigine songs, “Morning Star” and “Devil Bird,”
Mexico, “El Cascabel,”
“Johnny B. Goode,” written and performed by Chuck Berry.
New Guinea, men’s house song
Japan, shakuhachi, “Tsuru No Sugomori” (”Crane’s Nest,”)
Bach, “Gavotte en rondeaux” from the Partita No. 3 in E major for Violin
Mozart, The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night aria, no. 14.
Georgian S.S.R., chorus, “Tchakrulo,”
Peru, panpipes and drum, collected by Casa de la Cultura, Lima.
“Melancholy Blues,” performed by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven.
Azerbaijan S.S.R., bagpipes,
Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance
Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue in C, No.1.
Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, First Movement
Bulgaria, “Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin,”
Navajo Indians, Night Chant
Holborne, Paueans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs, “The Fairie Round,”
Solomon Islands, panpipes
Peru, wedding song
China, ch’in, “Flowing Streams”
India, raga, “Jaat Kahan Ho”
“Dark Was the Night,” written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson.
Beethoven, String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Opus 130, Cavatina
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