If you made first contact, and the aliens wanted you to demonstrate what music is, what would you sing for them?

I’d just tell them to Let Me Ride.

Sing? I thought I was supposed to introduce them to music, not what screaming monkeys sound like…

The robots – Kraftwerk

Amazing Grace

Je Veux Vivre because it’s gorgeous.

This…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dpGmAc3kMk

*Believe it or not.

Iz’s version of Over the Rainbow.

What A Wonderful World

I can’t sing, but I would take them to our lieder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Mic5FQP3c&feature=fvst
No, not really. That would be my example of the worst music man has created.

My real pick would be… I can’t think of a perfect song… there’s too many.

x 2 vote for @marinelife ‘s choice.

@flutherother Brilliant!

@flutherother : Thank you. That made my day.

I’d sing “Mary had a little lamb” only because I can’t sing “Over the Rainbow” like Braddah Iz, which has already been mentioned.

I don’t think I’d be able to stop myself…

I’d choose Bone of Song. Couldn’t find a good vid on YouTube, so audio will have to do. :)

Probably Jonathan Coulton’s awe-inspiring rendition of this classic American standard.

AC/DC Thunderstruck. Scare the crap out of them.

I’d be happy to let them use my iPod so various professionals could do it for me. Even Vogons wouldn’t like my singing.

Is this alien sexy? If so, I might sing this…I might need to adjust the lyrics…depending…we are talking alien, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CosBmLPtHhw&ob=av3n

My first thought is the OH LA YAY HA HEE song from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLJHTaVDcMY

Definitely My Sharona!

Blue Moon

Oh, I’d tell them to wait for my partner ‘cause I’m awful at singing and it’d suck for the aliens. I’d ask him to sing ‘Hallelujah’.

@flutherother Ha.
Song of Silence, lest they interpret my attempt at singing as some kind of threat. Wouldn’t want to start some kind of War of the Worlds.

If aliens wanted to understand what music is, I would most definitely not sing for them. I’d play a good recording of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony for its mathematical precision and if they grokked that, I’d introduce them to Bedřich Smetana’s Má Vlast Moldau for an understanding of the grandeur music can express. I’d go on to Tchaikovsky’s Melodie to let them know that it doesn’t take a 100 people to make beautiful music. And though I hate his politics, I’d let them hear the power and soaring spirit of Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. Then to bring them more up to today;s music I’d play Pink Floyd’s Shine on You Crazy Diamond being sure to explain the story of the fall of Sid Barrett behind it. Finally, I’d let them hear a pop piece like Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance.

They’d at least know that I have rather eclectic tastes. :-)

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And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space, cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.

Either ground control to major Tom by Bowie or space cowboy by steve miller