“2001: A Space Odyssey” Music Massacre
by Chris Hardwick on September 24, 2009
Film by Kubrick. Music by Strauss. Performance by FAIL.
Though, we can’t be too hard on the orchestra: The Portsmouth Sinfonia was founded in the 70s with the requirement that all of its members had to be either non-musicians or new to the instrument they picked up.
Mission accomplished!
Fail. just Fail
OMG. Will somebody please check and see if my ears are bleeding? I would but I think the horns temporarily halted the function of my limbs…..
sounds like the tortoise sex line played backwards.
“Wow, that was something else!”
“You mean it was good?”
“No, it was something else.”
Wow, it’s the musical equivalent of having your mom catch you masturbating…in her bedroom
Hy nerdist ..? wow .. i like A SPACE ODDISEY ??
Stupendous, I love it. So this is what raw enthusiasm sounds like…
I cant breathe I’m laughing so hard. This is now going to be my wake up music.
this is amazing
the horror…
Sweet baby Jesus, that made my SOUL hurt. I stopped it at 12 seconds, I couldn’t take any more.
Oh, that’s made of win! The only way to improve on this would be to see the faces of the “musicians” as they played.
no, Lisa G, it’s the conductor’s face you want to see.
thanks, nerdist, for showing us this. it is a spectacular treat. “spectacle” being the root word, there.
Wow, so that’s what an elephant massacre sounds like!
They were chewing bubble gum, and the gum became lodged in the mouth piece of their horns. That’s the only possible explanation.
That was the worst ever interpretation of that usually wondrous piece I have ever heard. My ears started bleeding. Something I thought before only my mother’s nagging could do.
You should put that on WebSoup dude. “Things You Can’t Un-hear!”
This is actually from a CD from 1993 called “Dead Parrot Society: The Best of British Comedy”. There are multiple tracks of the same orchestra playing well known music badly and other stuff from the likes of Monty Python.
Still hilarious though.
I think that if this was the actual soundtrack the movie would be a lot more fun to watch.
so many ears have been raiped…