It is widely known that dogs have good ears. Using a very scientific method(I watch her), I have found that my dog likes some CDs and not others, she rolls over on the floor and writhes around kicking her feet in the air ala Snoopy to the following recordings:

The first half of OK Computer
Manu Chao's Esperanza
Beastie Boys Check your Head
Emiliana Torrini's Love in The Time Of Science (this needs to be confirmed as I was making sausages and eggs at the time)
The second half of Poi Dog Pondering's Pomagranate


more on this as it develops

Yeah, my dog seems to gets a kick out of Poi Dog Pondering, too. Also, Uncle Tupelo, Housemartins and The Specials. Not sure why.

I miss the Specials, all of mine was on vinyl and Old Man Sea took 'em

(Salt and heat are not kind to records)

and to think I had my SMiLE counter-argument all geared up

I had a Hound Dog that howled when I played country music. My current mongrel, Oscar, just sits near me when I play my guitar.

The dogs instantly crash when I sit on the porch with my ukelele. Maybe this is bad.

hey we never talked about how the hell I missed you in Belize

Have you tried the Zappa kids' "Music For Pets"?

Oh, geez, forgot about that one, will try this later, right now I am rocking some Aquavelvets~ Surfmania, but I think she is too sleepy still to participate in the experiment.

Well, you said you were up the shore at Capt. Morgan's, so I bet you didn't get into town much.

Anyone here capable of PMing me some Specials, since the other day, I am now officially jonesing.

Most misleading thread title ever.

Hey, I was in town three nights that week!

edit: and actually for a couple of the days too...

When I was little, and I put on any kind of animal show on TV, my two cats would just stop sit there and watch non stop....All day long...It was surreal....

change the channel, and they were gone..... it didnt matter what animals were on either.

this is a much better thread than if it were about the Beach Boys

This whole theory works with kids, too.
They like what they like and will tell you so.

If I played a HoP song that they don't like, they'll say, "Daddy, this is bad."
I am very proud that they like most of the songs on that disc.


But they see nothing paradoxical about loving both The Ramones and Rush; or Smashmouth and Operation Ivy. They just like the songs they like and they will tell you so.

Pets and kids: Excellent sources of both unconditional love and completely candid commentary on the arts.

Good stuff.

Ha, my lab does this too, except she has dry skin on her butt, and that's how she "scratches" her backside when Mr. dnorwood and I aren't willing to do it for her.

On another note, the lab also reacts very strongly to: dogs barking on tv, sirens of all kinds and the ice cream truck. My other dog, strangely enough, can see dogs and other animals on tv, and gets very excited when he sees them. He'll actually hop up and down, and in the beginning when we first started noticing this behavior, actually put his nose on the tv trying to sniff the other animal.

Never in a thread about the Beach Boys would you get
"She has dry skin on her butt"


well, maybe in a discussion of Brian's fatter times.