Some Music (Old Music CH will ignore!)

Hi,
 
So lately  I have been reading and listening to a few completely different things. For all you musico's out there, here are some of the insane/amazing, and completely off its rocker stuff that you want to listen to now and then, as a way to get some perspective on how good a musician you are. There is nothing more difficult than creating music for something funny!
 
As you know, movies, and cartoons, defined the music for the 20th century, going way back to 1900's and 1910's when an organist used to accompany the film. It took some 20 to 30 years before the celluloid and "sound" and therefore "music" were married in a beautiful ceremony presided by Bapu!
 
So, when you just about think that Stravinsky needed an insane pill, you can listen to some of these things ... and cry ... let's just say that Stravinsky was a soundtrack for a cartoon, and how fitting that one of his best known pieces ended up a cartoon, in one of the best films of last century, FANTASIA.
 
So, with all that in mind ... here goes ... a small list primer of awesome music worth getting and listening to:
 
Carl Stalling Project -- 2 CD's. When he retired, the Warner Bros cartoons pretty much died.
 
PDQ Bach -- Various CD's. The Wurst is very good. The Hysterical Return is even better, and the live DVD in Houston is even more fun. But not sure the Coffee House likes Kazoos or Trombones!
 
Spike Jones -- Insane. Nothing else matters.
 
Tom Lehrer -- Various CD's. Satirical songs.
 
The book on CARTOON MUSIC is a very valuable history of music in film from its inception, since music for the celluloid was important, and the music of the cartoon helped define a lot of "standard" moments, that we still think as "important" today in film.
 
Some other things ... that we never really "heard". The jazzy-music under the Charlie Brown cartoons. The music under the Rugrats cartoons. The music under Ren and Stimpy shows.
 
Highly creative stuff, though by the 1980's and 1990's the whole thing started using "libraries" that you could rent bits and pieces from and there are two or three of these out there, that have music for "every moment". A bit on the sordid and sick side for me, but the generic definitions of it all is one of the things that takes out your ability and mine to think for ourselves and above all FEEL THINGS for ourselves.
 
Enjoy ... this is really strong and powerful stuff. It uses everything you can think of, and I highly recommend a little fun in your music so you can realize that you have to be a super good musician to even try a PDQ Bach piece. It's not exactly the easiest thing to do, since "timing" is of the essence ... and guess what/where "timing" came from? FILM and its frames! And this was one of the things that helped the timing in Warner Brothers cartoons more than anything else ... Carl Stalling is often said to have invented the "click track", that helped time the visual to the music and words.