Poker Soundtrack
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23 May 2008 /
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OVER on the Betfair forums jamesbeckton wonders: "WHAT is the best music to play poker to?"
Allez likes Sebastian Tellier and Sigur Ros. That is the same M. Tellier who is singing France's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.
You can hear it here. And then, most likely, never hear it again, unless you are particularly unlucky and cannot get it out of your head.
Incidentally, the song the Poker Anorak would least like to find twirling around his brain at 2:46 on a Monday morning is Carrie Doesn't Live Here Anymore, by Sir Cliff Richard.
Sigur Ross are from Iceland and have given gull throat to the lyrics:
brosandi
hendumst í hringi
höldumst í hendur
allur heimurinn óskýr
nema þú stendur
That's outrageous stuff, as all you Icelandic speakers will agree. Address all complaints to the usual address.
Jamesbeckton tries to trump Allez with a mention of something called Belle and Sebastian, which sounds like a couple of camp French circus performers but turns out to be a seven-piece band from Glasgow.
Macomb de Towelhead suggests: The Doors without a shadow of a doubt. Jim Morrison is your twelth man!"
Malcolm may be confusing poker with cricket, and who, indeed, would not enjoy seeing Morrison arriving on the field of play carrying a tray of orangey drinks and an astray for the more chilled members of the First XI.
Wingdings goes for King Crimson, boobooboo for Radio2, ("shockingly i am under 40!!!!!! ) - so is Russell Brand, boobooboo.
And Rum Tiddle wants Dancing Queen, and help.
What do you listen to when playing poker? And at what volume..?
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