Comments on: Looking for music to juggle to.

Question: Looking for music to juggle to.

katrielalex — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:35:52 -0800

My brother is performing a juggling routine at a convention in a couple of months. What music should he use?

He's already done one 'formal' show (BYJOTY - won the Crawley award if you want to know). The music he used for that was Limehouse Blues -- by Django Reinhardt -- which was perfect. He's slightly retro and the music fitted his act exactly without being the same rock/pop that everyone else played. You can see a music video he filmed at JugglingTV (please ignore the first minute, it's something of an in-joke apparently).

The next show is slightly longer and he's looking for some new music. It should:

- not have vocals.
- not be rock, pop or metal. Distorted guitars = no.
- be fast and have a relatively consistent rhythm, although some sharp changes are also good.
- be 'different'.

Retro is good too. He's looked into some old swing jazz but can't really find anything that suits. Recommendations, please =). Thanks all.

By: pwally

pwally — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:12:13 -0800

Spanish Flea

By: zoinks

zoinks — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:18:46 -0800

Powerhouse.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:29:14 -0800

Maple Leaf Rag

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:42:14 -0800

Misirlou. (Theme from Pulp Fiction).

By: K.P.

K.P. — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:43:53 -0800

Yakety Sax

Naked City's Batman or other covers from the same album

Long intro, but Duelling banjos?

By: Ignatius J. Reilly

Ignatius J. Reilly — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:55:24 -0800

A traditional (or not-so-traditonal) bluegrass breakdown might be cool. It has a consistent rythm with wild changes and often a general feeling of wackiness. Check out some of these.

By: Ignatius J. Reilly

Ignatius J. Reilly — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:59:15 -0800

...and here is another slightly less traditional one. I don't know why, but I can see somebody juggling to this.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:29:04 -0800

Vertigogo by Combustible Edison.

By: stenseng

stenseng — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:40:17 -0800

Popcorn

By: meeshell

meeshell — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:29:00 -0800

elephant walk?

By: MegoSteve

MegoSteve — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:26:33 -0800

Al Hirt's Green Hornet Theme.

By: sprocket87

sprocket87 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:17:38 -0800

Boban Markovic Orkestar - Baltic Feast

Definitely different, but in the best way possible. Even if you don't think it will work, you need to hear this song.

By: staggernation

staggernation — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:15:49 -0800

Someone already suggested Powerhouse, but anything by Raymond Scott from this, this, or this would probably work.

By: neuron

neuron — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:25:49 -0800

How long should it be? If he has a specific length in mind, mefi-mail it to me.

The presto from Beethoven's opus 130 string quartet would be fabulous; it's about 2 minutes long. The Emerson Quartet's recording has great impact.

From the same Emerson album, Haydn's "Fifths" quartet finale.

5 minutes: the scherzo from Schubert's Octet in F.

The Tocaccta and Fugue in D minor for organ by J.S. bach is a classic, varying lenghts depending on which repeats are played.

5 minutes: finale from Haydn's trumpet concerto.

By: notyou

notyou — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:03:39 -0800

Seconding Powerhouse!

By: azpenguin

azpenguin — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:32:39 -0800

There are a lot of tracks from Blue Man Group that would be awesome for this. Heck, if he could work around "Time To Start," complete with head bob, fist pump, and jumping, he could do some pretty wild stuff.

/damn, I miss having people to juggle with...

By: muscat

muscat — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:10:28 -0800

Danny Elfman's Pee Wee's Big Adventure Main Theme!

/way too obvious

By: msumbiz

msumbiz — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:50:10 -0800

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Sinister Minister or any number of tunes. The music has some of the same interesting qualities as Django (intricate jazz), but is playfull, energetic and very unique.