with regards to the vile sound thing. maybe its just me then. But to me the violin sounds horrid when played badly, and pretty nasty when played well. Right up there with bagpipes. Why you'd want to change to pitch on pulling fingernails down a chalkboard baffels me.

will say that irish music (fiddle etc) is a fair bit better, the shorter notes in the jigs dont jar my ears as much.

but meh, all personal opinion i guess.

yeah no shit, and the bagpipes guy next door, with the Zither family across the street.....What a band....

call it...Aural Annihilation

I saw a bagpipe version of this song once. It was awesome. Gotta love the Waits.

Oh god, I hate Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall so much...I'll need to bleach my eyes, brain, hands and computer after watching and upvoting!

Random Related Fact: Haggis isn't actually Scottish! And neither is Kilts, Bagpipes, Porridge, Whisky and Tartan! (This book explains who, what & when!)

If you look real close you can see the dude from the "Hitman" games cuting a jig at the very end near bagpipe solo.

Clip from the 1995 colorized version of the 1962 war film epic The Longest Day produced by Daryl F Zanuck, featuring an early appearance from a young Sean Connery, right before the success of Dr. No, also features Kenneth More.

* During the filming of the landings at Omaha Beach, the American soldiers appearing as extras didn't want to jump off the landing craft into the water because they thought it would be too cold. Robert Mitchum, who played General Norm Cota, finally got disgusted with them and jumped in first, at which point the soldiers had no choice but to follow his example.

* The Rupert paradummies used in the film were far more elaborate and lifelike than those actually used for the decoy parachute drop (Operation Titanic) which were actually just canvas or burlap sacks filled with sand. In the real operation six Special Air Service soldiers jumped with the dummies and played recordings of loud battle noises to distract the Germans.

* At $10,000,000, this film was the most expensive black-and-white film made until 1993, when Schindler's List was released. (Source: Turner Classic Movies).

* The bagpiper is the same person who participated in the real assault on D-Day.