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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just ask what my favourite song is

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I've never heard of it, who is it by?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The ultimate Rick Roll.

[–] GregorGizeh 12 points 1 year ago

I too watched Rick and Morty some years ago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Final countdown.

Dodo do do

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it's to persuade the alien of the value of humanity, I'd probably go with The Lark Ascending by Vaughn Williams. It's beautiful, and also 15 minutes long, giving us some time to think of a plan in case they don't like it.

If it's just, what's your favourite song, it'd be So. Central Rain by R.E.M.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Nightwish: The Greatest Show on Earth (Tampere version) https://youtu.be/qrMwxe2ya5E?si=-_I4U-JnA0oTaCNV

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Achy Breaky Heart.
I'm not playing to win.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe it's better to pick progressive rock from the 60s or 70s, the times we thought about space with intrigue and imagined the whole other world would be built by now. Maybe Interstellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd would be a fit.

Yet, I'd go with Assembly of Light - Transition. Besides my preferences, the eclectic nature of this song (thing as ancient as chorus vs pretty modern drone of morbidly overtuned guitar) may demonstrate, how we are too a complex of seemingly incompatible things. Emotionally, it feels like a relief after overcoming a struggle, a thing that I find is pretty universal to all beings. And it also doesn't have lyrics, so there won't be any misunderstanding.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There's a high chance I get executed as a traitor to humanity, but I couldn't live with myself if I skipped the chance to send this to aliens as part of first contact: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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Onward and Upward

Onward & Upward (22:48) • Umphrey's McGee • 2017-07-23 • CEFCU Center Stage at The Landing, Peoria, Illinois https://relisten.net/umphreys/2017/07/23/onward-upward?source=67144

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a sucker for israel kamakawiwo'ole so either his cover of somewhere over the rainbow or mona lisa

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The Harlem Shake

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ram Ranch #1. It's a classic.

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Either full album from Little Mazarn. Io and Texas River Song have a sincerity that could spare us. They would show the gentleness, nuance, and sophistication of our species. And Marfa Lights might be about them! If I had to pick a single song, it's definitely Peace Like a River, the first track on Io, about living with peace and understanding in the face of struggle and loss. I'm going hard on the wager that we don't want to come off as erratic or dangerous. We want to be portrayed as a safe potential new member of interplanetary society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That alien's gonna die listening to "Blood Red Skies" by Judas Priest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Going off the top of my head, Avril 14th by Aphex Twin. Beauty in simplicity. https://youtu.be/-LgYzva-xq8?si=6jOewR0MWhthFZVT

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Get Schwifty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn’t this be the most logical choice?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Empire of the Clouds