Scientific? Hardly. Amusing? Maybe only to me...

[pennfana]

"Nulla è più necessario del superfluo." ("Nothing is more necessary than the unnecessary.")
—Uncle Eliseo from "Life is Beautiful"

After the last couple of posts, I feel the need to write about something a little lighter, so I started going through my music collection to see what prompted chatter from the budgies when they were being quiet. This is what happens when I've got too much time on my hands and no weird fanfic ideas, apparently.

Music the budgies seem to like:
Livin' on a Prayer (Bon Jovi)
The One (The Backstreet Boys)
Bamboleo (The Gipsy Kings)
Songs of Love (The Divine Comedy)
Symphonies (Dan Black)
Don't Bring Me Down (Electric Light Orchestra)
I Like That You Can't Take That Away From Me (from "Take the Lead")
Star of the County Down (MacKeel)
Happy Boys and Girls (Aqua)
Beer Goggles (MacKeel)
Surrender (Madeleine Martin, from the soundtrack to the first season of "Californication")
Chanson d'Amour (Manhattan Transfer)
Ça plane pour moi (Plastic Bertrand)
The Bells of Dunblane (The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards)
Top Deck In Perth (different recordings by The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Victoria Police Pipe Band, though they were noisier when I played the original recording by the Vic Police)
Squirrels In My Pants (2 Guys in the Parque, from "Phineas and Ferb")
O Siem (Susan Aglukark)
Everybody to the Limit ("Strong Bad," from homestarrunner.com)
Desert Rose (Sting)
What I Got (Sublime)
She Caught the Katy (Taj Mahal)
Airlie's Big Day/Madam Bonaparte/Pump the Thump (The Victoria Police Pipe Band)
Rain (Vinnie Moore)
Black Suits Comin' (Will Smith)
Snow on the Hills/Xesus and Felisa (The Battlefield Band)
Harsh Realm Main Title (Mark Snow)
Stay (Shakespears Sister)
Pleasure of the Sky (Bone Poets Orchestra) (Hardly surprising, I suppose, since it prominently features a recording of geese honking)

So it seems like they prefer loud music, especially stuff with high-pitched noises or strong percussion. And, looking at this list of songs and tunes, maybe that's every bit as true of me. ;)

Comments

[bdouville.livejournal.com]

I heartily approve of eclectic musical tastes. :)

[pennfana.livejournal.com]

Eclectic? I guess that's the word for it; I'll listen to almost anything. :)

[bdouville.livejournal.com]

Me too. I would describe my musical tastes as "promiscuous." I'm sure that some of my musical friends would be puzzled -- and others horrified -- by looking at my CD collection. Everything from 17th century German Baroque choral music to 19th century orchestral to be-bop jazz to sixties rock to 1980s Top Forty to 21st-century bubble gum pop (the latter more suited for a female audience about 20-30 years younger than me).

[pennfana.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. There's some music that I tend to avoid (generally I'm not keen on country & western—though there are some songs even within that genre that I think aren't that bad—or anything that sounds like the instruments are being torn/smashed to bits), but for the most part there's very little that I won't listen to. If it's something I can sing along with in the car, then that's an added bonus, of course. :)