Unusual music choices

[Mathman]

Welcome, weathergal. Thanks for the post. Hope you like it here! :yes:

 

[Weathergal]

Thanks Mathman! Really enjoying reading the different posts!

 

[WeakAnkles]

Ahh, I'm not sure that this qualifies....but I feel like using the soundtrack from "Ghost" is an odd choice...sooo - who could forget linykh & Katsalapov "The Ghost" FD a couple of years back?

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

- Honestly, I know a lot of people really hate this program....but I don't. It's definitely not a favorite and is certainly an odd choice but I guess I feel like I've seen worse...

That program is A Camp Masterpiece. In the infamous words of Leonard Pinth Garnell, "Monumentally ill-advised!" and I love every tacky godawful moment of it!

LOVE this thread. Thank you all for posting the links.

 

[silverfoxes]

Brian Joubert - "Selections by Blue Man Group" SP from 2004-05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKg3O1xVzl4

Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari - "The Fall" by Nightwish 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STPgnpeHb5A

 

[gkelly]

Olga Markova, Cosmic Opera

 

[dorispulaski]

Punsalan & Swallow. The Race by Yellow.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GmQJ4hl7GlM

Ilia Klimkin Dr. Diesel by Hugues le Bars
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9imgmNJB24

Zhiganshina & Gaszi, Tore My Heart performed by Oona, Et Maintenant by Jean-Marc Zelwer, Rama Lama by Roisin Murphy
http://m.youtube.com/index?tab=w1&desktop_uri=/?tab=w1

Almost anything by Adrien Schultheiss, especially
Teardrop by Massive Attack; Insane in the Brain by Cypress Hill; Smack my ***** up by Prodigy
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=133MhhbZ4K4

Blanc & Bouquet, but especially Cherchet l'Or by Grand Corps Malade
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqx0zvJ88k

 

[machin]

Blanc & Bouquet, but especially Cherchet l'Or by Grand Corps Malade
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqx0zvJ88k

It's Grand Corps Malade. Sadly nobody understood it besides... Igor Spillband ! Here is what Karine Arribert says about it :

http://alpesinfosports.free.fr/?p=695

Do you know what I have been told ? That Zoé and Pierre-Loup were getting deductions because there was no change of rhythm in their programs. We had a competition here and I brought an international judge in the dressing room. I played their music, along with a metronome : “I’m going to show you your own incompetence”. Judges in ice dance are amazingly incompetent. And I can’t stand it. When I created Zoé and Pierre-Loup’s FD to Grand Corps Malade’ slam, I was sent for a meeting where I was told : impossible, you’re crazy, there is no rhythm, and so on… We were in touch with Grand Corps Malade on the Internet and we asked him to send a mail, explaining that his song indeed did had rhythm, otherwise singing would have been simply… impossible. Grand Corps Malade’s phrasing is systematically one beat behind his music. The music starts at 1, the phrasing starts at 2. I can tell you that with Zoé and Pierre-Loup, we have worked on that for months. Our intention was precisely to make the most of this musical lapse [she sings to demonstrate]. And at the first competition of the season, I’m told there is no rhythm ? When it comes to this point, I’m done, it doesn’t interest me anymore.

As it is copyrighted, I don't post more (and tried not to be too long here), but she talks a bit more on how she created the program & their COR outting a few questions later. Thanks to the interviewer !

 

[dorispulaski]

Yes, I really liked the respect Shpilband gave Arribert!

 

[Ophelia]

Yuna Kim's James Bond.

 

[sisy]

In competition:
- Shen/Zhao 2009-2010 SP violin instrumental of Queen's "Who Wants To Live Forever": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dySygNGsrRY The music itself doesn't sound weird, but it's still an unexpected choice

Five 5 years later - Peter Liebers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9uBhOFLHcI

 

[dorispulaski]

Tim Goebel used Who Wants to Live Forever too.

 

[snowflakebeautiful]

That program is A Camp Masterpiece. In the infamous words of Leonard Pinth Garnell, "Monumentally ill-advised!" and I love every tacky godawful moment of it!

:yay: Ahaha, I'm glad I'm not the only one who enjoyed this program!!! It was tacky and dramatic and terrible in all the right ways. Ice dance has to have a few left field dances every season for it to really be ice dance; and this one did it proud! hahaha

 

[bunnychan]

>.> I didn't say any of the ones I listed were necessarily the only time anyone has ever used that music, just that it's unusual, which is what OP requested.

 

[WeakAnkles]

Yuna Kim's James Bond.

Really? The "James Bond/Bond Girl" program has practically become a cliche at this point.

Here's one that hasn't been mentioned: Papadakis and Cizeron's FD to the music of Woodkid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aojLgy0own8

Woodkid has several of their own videos up on youtube. Arty to the nth degree, but I'm all for the arty!

 

[Frenchie]

Here's one that hasn't been mentioned: Papadakis and Cizeron's FD to the music of Woodkid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aojLgy0own8
Woodkid has several of their own videos up on youtube. Arty to the nth degree, but I'm all for the arty!

Totally agree - but you linked their SD - here's their great FD you mentioned

... ooh... Just thought about Nelli Zhiganshina and Alexander Gazsi's "Zombie - Two From The Grave" 2013 FD: this season's programmes didn't have the same impact, but last year's FD was truly "special"

 

[karne]

Yuna Kim's James Bond.

That's not unusual, just about every top lady's been a Bond Girl at some point. (Oddly the music is not as popular with men?)


Max Aaron's "Tron: Legacy" program by Daft Punk was pretty unusual (especially since it was immediately followed at that Nationals by Bach Cello Suite...)

(Having stumbled across the movie the other night, I love the costume even more - exact replica of the main character's. So much so that when I heard the music and saw the suit I was immediately disappointed that the lead character was not, in fact, Max.)

(Brain deviation: TRON: FIGURE SKATING. Make it happen, Hollywood.)

 

[Ophelia]

That's not unusual, just about every top lady's been a Bond Girl at some point. (Oddly the music is not as popular with men?)

 

[gkelly]

That's not unusual, just about every top lady's been a Bond Girl at some point. (Oddly the music is not as popular with men?)

Most of them get it out of their system at lower levels, not as seniors.

Although we did get this hysterical costume

 

[karne]

Don't understand what's so confusing about my comment. Yuna is far from the only Bond Girl on the ice.

Most of them get it out of their system at lower levels, not as seniors.

Although we did get this hysterical costume

Love to know what his costumer was smoking when he came up with that idea....

 

[Ophelia]

I can't remember any other Bond girls in recent memory at senior level. I thought the Bond selection was a very refreshing change from all the classical music programs one usually sees, esp. at the Olympics.