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Awhile ago a couple of friends posted a link to Rob Paravonian's Pachelbel Rant which I think is pretty clever and well constructed. And I say that as someone who really likes Canon in D.

Eventually I followed related links to another of his routines which is a dissection of the Friends theme and a Sugar Ray song that I like almost as much as the Pachelbel bit.

Comments

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that Sugar Ray song is highly catchy, but just wrong. hehehe At least the song doesn't suck like the song "Lips of an Angel" that's this big hit for some bad hard rock band called Hinder that all these kids love. They all think it's a great love song, but it's clearly about him cheating and the video follows the lyrics. he;s on the phone with the girl he wants to cheat on with the girlfriend in the next room. Great love song, yeah.

OK, yeah, I get ranty on the cheating. Sorry. ;)

The friends bit is great as I never listen to the long version and forgot about those lyrics. hehehe

[divalicious.livejournal.com]

Amusing rant!

I hated Pachelbel's Canon. I often played quartets for weddings and people always freakin' asked for it... one lady asked for Pachelbel's Canon in D, and "That song from Ordinary People." Yep, she had asked for the Canon twice.

Most classical musicians worth their salt also hate the Canon. I was playing in this opera pit orchestra program once, with professional players interspersed among us, and it was a brutally hot summer, so before the show we stood out front in our black clothes to try to cool off, and someone as a joke started playing the Canon. Everyone started in and people coming into the show starting throwing money into our cases, thinking we were performing, and none of them had no idea we were having a lark.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

As a former french horn player, I pretty much hate every march--John Philip Sousa being the lead culprit. Every horn part in a march consists of about four notes, all played on the offbeat. -- dah, -- dah, -- dah. Sometimes they vary it up and you get to play eigth notes: -- dahdah, -- dahdah, --dahdah. (the tubas get to play the on beats)

So I completely understand where the cellists are coming from regarding the Canon.