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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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 Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: mix CD for english learners |
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I made a mix CD for a couple of my Korean friends. I scoured my online music library for songs with "easy" lyrics. I rarely download music -- I prefer buying boxes of unwanted CDs from yard sales and digitizing them in spare time - so i have a pretty weird selection of genres. Here is the listing of songs I put on the CD, with something that should appeal to all musical tastes. What would you put on your mix CD for English learners?
Hello, Goodbye (THE BEATLES)
Volcano (JIMMY BUFFETT)
Beautiful (CHRISTINA AGUILERA)
Manic Monday (THE BANGLES)
I'm a Believer (THE MONKEES)
Don't Tell Me (MADONNA)
Cruisin' (Huey Lewis / Gwyneth Paltrow version) (because i like it)
Are You Lonesome (ELVIS PRESLEY)
Only Time (music inspired by LOTR... Enya maybe?) |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd particularly appreciate suggestions in genres I didn't cover, such as Country/Western. Hip-hop doesn't count as a music genre. I might consider something from the Beasty Boys. |
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Freezer Burn
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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The Reason Hoobastank
its really slow, and lovey dovey so they should like it.
man that you fear marilyn manson
stairway to heaven Led Zep  |
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blunder1983
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:42 am Post subject: |
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THey aint slow but I think they go down well with kids
Reach - S Club 7 (hard verse but chorus is very popular with my lot)
Anything from Steps, you can even teach them the dances if u want to fit into the dancing monkey catagory.
Yesterday- Beatles
Musical music? I thought about lion king or something, going through the entire film, and then watching it as a reward? |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| I'd particularly appreciate suggestions in genres I didn't cover, such as Country/Western. Hip-hop doesn't count as a music genre. I might consider something from the Beasty Boys. |
I quite agree- also Rock'n'Roll is a tool of Satan, and the Charleston will lead to a breakdown in polite society.
More tea vicar? |
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Freezer Burn
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon
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Where in the hell are you coming from that hip-hop isn;t a genre and if you deigned to represent it you;d choose the beasty boys. WTF? Hip hop is the number 1 selling genre out there right now.When I was in Africa, NO ONE knew who the beatles were, but everybody knew Ja rule. Are you seriously going to teach Huey Louis but not Hip hop??? Get some Ludicris or 50 cent or even Snoop Dogg. Please don;t leave out a major genre of music because YOU don;t appreciate it.
EDIT: Easy lyric songs- In Da club- 50 cent, Yeah-Usher, hot in herre-Nelly
C&W- Friends in low places- Garth brooks, rusty cage- Johnny cash |
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panthermodern
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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The Passenger - Iggy Pop
This would be a great addition to this mixed CD project. |
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Flossie
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Location: Up to my nose in the sweet summer smells of sewerage in Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| how old are your students? why don't they just download the songs they all sing at the noraebang? most of my korean friends sing tons of western songs (much better than my foreign mates too, I might add). |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Black Sabbath - Crazy Train. All of my students find the word "michin" hilarious. Michin Gicha just has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| Black Sabbath - Crazy Train. All of my students find the word "michin" hilarious. Michin Gicha just has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? |
My daughter absolutely loves 'Iron Man'. Seriously.
As for you, Mr. Doufu, I take sever umbridge at your assertion that hip-hop isn't a valid music genre.
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| ELP? Since when did Emerson Lake & Palmer start making hip hop? |
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Freezer Burn
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:23 am Post subject: |
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Hip Hop is no good for teaching english, half the rappers out there have to go to an english lesson themselves.
Give them some death metal and be done with it |
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FUBAR
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: The Y.C.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:10 am Post subject: |
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Pink - Get this party started.
The students really liked the beat to the song and really got into it. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:32 am Post subject: |
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Well, if I were to make a CD reflecting my musical tastes when I was young beatnik type it would include some Frank Zappa Mothers of Invention classics (including subliminal messages about "Suzy Creamcheese" audible when played at slow speed) some Country Joe and the Fish (including "Fixin' to Die rag") Some VELVET UNDERGROUND (and Nico)(...but maybe not their classic version of "Heroin") Captain Beefheart's "Weasels Rip My Flesh" (dance music? ... I think not!) "OM" by John Coltrane, an evening raga by Ravi Shankar, and a few cuts off the FUGS album featuring a weird, naive rendition of the Hare Krishna mantra by Allen Ginzberg; ... for some rockin blues I'd add "I'm Comin' Home" by Alvin Lee and "Ten Years After," some early Paul Butterfield (like "Shake Your Money Maker" and "Born In Chicago") and great psychedelic stuff by Dr. John - when he was the "Night Tripper" ("Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya") - and for a touch of folksy Americana: Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band (featuring Maria Muldaur)
...I guess it's a miracle that I've been completely drug and alcohol free for over 30 years... |
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