Everybody talk about Pope Music
Devin for Pope Dotcom's good friend Anonymous, which I'm pretty sure is a Greek name, asked a very important questions in the comments to our previous post about the Six Million Prayer Pope that really deserves to be answered in this space. For those of you too lazy to click the link, Anonymous wonders "what kind of music the Pontiff prefers?"
First off, lets not kid ourselves, the Pope may be humble and chaste, but JP gets down, or to put it in the parlance of today's youth: the Pope knows how to par-tay.
To explore the Pope's entire music-loving history would take to long, so lets just focus on his years as Pope. As for the years before he was Pope, let's just say that there were some embarrassing ABBA lip-synching in the Krakow Cathedral's bathroom mirror moments that the Pontiff would just as soon forget.
Like everybody else in the eighties, the Pope got into Heavy and Hair Metal. In fact, as the Pope is not only a huge music fan, but also tends to dabble in the aural arts a bit himself, he actually co-wrote "Winds of Change" and performed on six dates with the Scorpions on their "Crazy World" tour in 1991. He, however, to this day claims no responsibility for Gorky Park, even though I'm pretty sure he sang background vocals on their second album.
In recent years (or more specifically ever since the nightmarish Gary Cherone/Van Halen incident), the Pope has pretty much given up on metal and moved, with much of Europe, into the techno world. The Pope was really quite taken with the kind of Pop English-language techno stylings of Crystal Method and the Chemical Brothers, shunning the Industrial Techno world of Germany and Eastern Europe (that's not to say the Pope doesn't own his share of Kraftwerk and Rammstein albums like every other European, he just was never too into them - in fact, the Pope once told me that Kraftwerk were nothing but a glorified, German-speaking version of Devo on Speed). The Pope also always liked House music, but he can't really go to raves to often as he gets mobbed by fans (lets just say that a miter and a staff tend to stand out, even at a rave), so he doesn't get to enjoy it as much as he would like.
Just last year, the Pope finally discover Hip-Hop and has been immersing himself in it, from old School to Crunk, the Pontiff is diggin the beats. In fact, the constant motion of the Pope's right hand, that so many people attribute to his Parkinson disease, is actually the Pope practicing his scratching technique.
I also have it on good authority that the Pope loves reggae, but doesn't like to admit in public due to that whole Haili Salasi is the savior thing.
First off, lets not kid ourselves, the Pope may be humble and chaste, but JP gets down, or to put it in the parlance of today's youth: the Pope knows how to par-tay.
To explore the Pope's entire music-loving history would take to long, so lets just focus on his years as Pope. As for the years before he was Pope, let's just say that there were some embarrassing ABBA lip-synching in the Krakow Cathedral's bathroom mirror moments that the Pontiff would just as soon forget.
Like everybody else in the eighties, the Pope got into Heavy and Hair Metal. In fact, as the Pope is not only a huge music fan, but also tends to dabble in the aural arts a bit himself, he actually co-wrote "Winds of Change" and performed on six dates with the Scorpions on their "Crazy World" tour in 1991. He, however, to this day claims no responsibility for Gorky Park, even though I'm pretty sure he sang background vocals on their second album.
In recent years (or more specifically ever since the nightmarish Gary Cherone/Van Halen incident), the Pope has pretty much given up on metal and moved, with much of Europe, into the techno world. The Pope was really quite taken with the kind of Pop English-language techno stylings of Crystal Method and the Chemical Brothers, shunning the Industrial Techno world of Germany and Eastern Europe (that's not to say the Pope doesn't own his share of Kraftwerk and Rammstein albums like every other European, he just was never too into them - in fact, the Pope once told me that Kraftwerk were nothing but a glorified, German-speaking version of Devo on Speed). The Pope also always liked House music, but he can't really go to raves to often as he gets mobbed by fans (lets just say that a miter and a staff tend to stand out, even at a rave), so he doesn't get to enjoy it as much as he would like.
Just last year, the Pope finally discover Hip-Hop and has been immersing himself in it, from old School to Crunk, the Pontiff is diggin the beats. In fact, the constant motion of the Pope's right hand, that so many people attribute to his Parkinson disease, is actually the Pope practicing his scratching technique.
I also have it on good authority that the Pope loves reggae, but doesn't like to admit in public due to that whole Haili Salasi is the savior thing.
posted by BertramWooster at 4:49 PM
6 Comments:
I have two questions on the musical tastes of Il Papa:
1) On his iPod, what tunes are on the "Most Played List?"
2) Is he disappointed that ill health is forcing him to miss the Motley Crue concert at Madison Square Garden Thursday night?
And yes, my name is Greek, but I am not.
1) The Pope's Most played are:
Nelson "(Can't live without your) Love and Affection - 132 times
Venga Boys "We're going to Ibiza" - 67 times
Ray Stevens "The Streak" - 44 times
Motley Crue "Girls, Girls, Girls" 42 times
NWA "F$%$ the Police" - 36 times
Groove Armada "I See You Baby" - 33 times
Village People "In The Navy" - 22 times
2) The Pope is borderline distraught about missing the Crue... I mean the man still has a case of Motley Brue in his refrigerator....
1)Interesting. I thought his tastes would have been more oriented toward his career choice. Someone may want to send him the following:
"Vicar in a Tutu" by The Smiths
"Leaders of Men" by Joy Division
"Alleluia" by the Happy Mondays..or for those days when he wasn't feeling the Mancunian melancholies, some Jesus and Mary Chain.
2) It's too bad he's missing the concert. I heard Mick Mars is giving out free umlauts. Maybe His Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan could score a few on behalf of the Pope.
Well, his most played list is kind of scewed because he mainly uses his Ipod at the gym...
Also, I mean, its Pope all day, Pope all night, the man listens to music as an escape from his everyday life....
Oddly enough, I have it on a very reliable source (the Pope's personal trainer) that the Pope has a guilty pleasure in the fact he is a fan of Austrailian pop tart Kylie Minogue.
He loves to run to her greatest hits cd....really gets the blood pumping.
-C
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