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The boring beeping is fine for getting people's attention,
but
what about designing fire alarms that blare Jimi Hendrix's
"Fire"
through the home or office when it catches fire? This would
also make fire drills and testing the fire alarm much
more amusing. Maybe other songs could be used
as well,
depending on the taste of the individual homeowner.
Roof on fire claims lives of 43 party people
http://www.usd.edu/...e/roof_on_fire.html
The dangers of this idea. [bookworm, Jul 05 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Songs NOT by Weird Al
http://www.com-www....eirdal/notbyal.html
List of songs mistakenly attributed to him [krelnik, Oct 20 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
For [thumbwax], fifteen years later
https://www.youtube...watch?v=3iw34CD3lZo
[normzone, Mar 14 2016]
I think this is probably a more appropriate Hendrix song
https://www.youtube...watch?v=FnYWfVPT5aI
[normzone, Mar 14 2016]
https://www.youtube...watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
FIRE!!!! [xenzag, Mar 15 2016]
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Burning Down the House.
Waking Up With The House On Fire (Culture Club) |
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Arthur Brown's Fire
Bob Dylan's Wheel's on Fire
Jefferson Starship's Carry the Fire
Renaissance's Ashes are Burning (my personal favourite). |
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(What's the name of that Midnight Oil song about burning beds? One of our antipodean halfbakers should know...) |
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[hippo]: Beds Are Burning |
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"Who started this?"
"We Didn't Start The Fire!"
Ba-dum-ching! |
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I'm On Fire - Van Halen - from "Van Halen"
Baby's on Fire - Robert Fripp - from "Here Come The Warm Jets" One Of The Greatest Guitar Solos BTW |
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Barneys on fire & Burning down the church - wierd al yankovic... |
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All very well, but what about fires at night-clubs ? In England at least, clubbers have been known to carry on dancing to the fire alarms. We oughtn't to encourage it. |
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If the clubbers are that stupid, maybe we should encourage it. |
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"Ring of Fire" --Johnny Cash?, (covered by everyone) |
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[ACK Before and After Science. "King's Lead Hat" must have been the first Eno track I ever heard, on John Peel's Music way back when.] |
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REM, "This one", start with the chorus. |
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And when the intelligent fire alarm system gets bored it could play the Doors "Come on baby light my fire" quietly to subliminally influence any wandering pyromaniacs to liven up its day |
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'Towering Inferno' has an album called "Kaddish" from 1993 - Brian Eno defined it as the most frightening music he ever heard in his life.
Excerpt From Toll II:
Egy test vagy egy test.
A body, you're a body.
re: Fripp - who operates as a Small Mobile Intelligence Unit, if I remember his self-definition correctly, is quite the musician. He tunes his guitars C-G-D-A-E-G from low to high strings, which is far from ordinary, and in tandem with his superior knowledge of scales, modes and the like - creates his own sound. |
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"The roof! The roof! The roof is on fire!
We don't need no water, let the muddy funster burn!" |
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My vote goes to Culture Club - purely on safety grounds.
A short burst of Boy George's vocals is known to clear any building/British nightclub dancefloor in seconds (as do his laughable attempts at DJing on a regular basis).
Fire deaths would be a thing of the past. |
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Ed Ruscha told me a story upon his return to US after an exhibition of his art in UK a few years ago. He has been friends with Mick Jagger for many years and they had gone out with their wives to a club, dining upstairs in a private area, unseen to those below. Mick got up from table and looked over balcony to see what was moving the bodies on the dance floor. Within seconds, something extraordinary happened: One by one the dancers stopped dancing and began applauding, and the music stopped. The applause rose to a crescendo, Mick turned around and sat back down after acknowledging the reception. Ed told me "It was fuckin' incredible man".
I asked him if a fire had started, would it have stopped the applause? He said "no". He's proably right. |
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Metallica--"Fight Fire With Fire" & "Jump In The Fire" |
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The Ink Spots--"I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" |
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Bob Seger--"Fire Down Below" |
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Brownsville Station & Motley Crue--"Smokin' In The Boys Room" |
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Clash--"London's Burning" |
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James Taylor--"Fire and Rain" |
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jutta: Sorry to be pedantic, but the REM track you were thinking of is "The One I Love". |
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"Burn, Baby, Burn" - Ash
"Warning" - Green Day |
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"A Warm Place" - Nine Inch Nails ("Burn" would have been too obvious.)
"Burn For You" - INXS |
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Handel - "Music for the Royal Fireworks" |
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(Repost of previously deleted annotation) |
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I thought this would be an alarm that went off to let you know your guitar was on fire. |
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(Burn for You, INXS... great tune. That whole album is great.) |
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Obviously, it would have to incorporate a... Purple Smoke detector... [covers head] |
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"Disco Inferno" for clubs. |
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Groove Armada, at the River - "Proceed to the meeting point in a calm and orderly manner" |
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The Animals - "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" |
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The Prodigy - "Firestarter" (actually, perhaps not) |
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//Barneys on fire & Burning down the church - wierd al yankovic... --RobertKidney// |
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FYI: Those are NOT Weird Al Yankovic songs. See link. |
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The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire" (wonders how it was forgotten) see link. |
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