Comments for "The Pachelbel Rant - Never look at the Canon in D the same" Video at VideoSift.com

By calvados

calvados (http://www.videosift.com/member/calvados) — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:27:36 -0800

Taco Bell = I LOL'd.

By Raytrace

Raytrace (http://www.videosift.com/member/Raytrace) — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:44:48 -0800

there is an intense amount of awesome in this sift.

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:47:46 -0800

IMO, this man is taking a slightly different spin on this sift, but in a much funnier and more interesting way.

Judge for yourself.

By CrushBug

CrushBug (http://www.videosift.com/member/CrushBug) — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:56:31 -0800

Fan-foogoo-tastic. I am sending that to a number of my classical music friends.

By swampgirl

swampgirl (http://swampgirl.videosift.com) — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:49:37 -0800

this sift is going places.....namely the top 15?

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:38:15 -0800

I have high hopes for this sift, swampgirl.

By sbchapm

sbchapm (http://www.videosift.com/member/sbchapm) — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:07:28 -0800

As I cellist, I can back him up. I think the score gives us two measures of the notes, and then has a repeat sign for, like, the rest of the thing. I'd get so bored that I'd make up my own harmonies which, come to think of it, was my first experience in playing by ear. So thanks Pachelbel for boring me.

By scottishmartialarts

scottishmartialarts (http://www.videosift.com/member/scottishmartialarts) — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:41:52 -0800

I played cello in 4th and 5th grades (got to middle school and the horrible teacher turned me off of playing music for the rest of my life) and I remember always liking Pachelbell's Canon quite a bit. That it was repetitive didn't really bother me because pretty much all beginning cello parts are obscenely repetitive.

By Krupo

Krupo (http://krupo.videosift.com) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:11:06 -0800

Good call swampgirl. Ooh, nice.

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:28:32 -0800

Best Sift I've seen all week. The top 15 is right - as usual!

By gaffa

gaffa (http://www.videosift.com/member/gaffa) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:33:51 -0800

Great video find - never hoped to find it on vide.

By theoneinsider

theoneinsider (http://www.videosift.com/member/theoneinsider) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:40:58 -0800

Made my night, which is all I ever look for in a sift.

By swampgirl

swampgirl (http://swampgirl.videosift.com) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:19:50 -0800

#1, congrats rembar

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:20:40 -0800

Hooray, thanks Swampgirl! I really love this sift, I'm glad to see it make it to the top.

By LadyBug

LadyBug (http://ladybug.videosift.com) — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:12:08 -0800

ah ... my wedding music!

By swampgirl

swampgirl (http://swampgirl.videosift.com) — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:08:12 -0800

mine too, Ladybug

By pallen

pallen (http://www.videosift.com/member/pallen) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:29:45 -0800

Not to rain on the parade, but can someone explain to me why this video is so popular? I found it somewhat entertaining, but not that particularly entertaining to be #1...

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:51:14 -0800

Pallen, I would say something about the universality of appeal of this video, something about the Canon in D holding a special place in our society despite its age and classical nature, something about the relevance of such a classic, traditional piece in our modern day and age filled with formulaic, factory-line-assembled pop bands, something about laughter and music being universal languages and their ability to reach out to many people from many cultures and backgrounds...

but then I decided the video and votes could speak for themselves.

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:35:51 -0800

130 votes in less than 5 days. That has to be some kind of Sift record.

By michie

michie (http://michie.videosift.com) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:53:09 -0800

quality.

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:56:15 -0800

Hooray!!

By James Roe

James Roe (http://jamesroe.videosift.com) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:00:26 -0800

This is youtubes featured video of the day today. I can't help but think it's because they are checking out the sift for the quality stuff that may or may not be in their databases.

:-)

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:10:05 -0800

And it's already in the all-time top 10. Could this be a contender to unseat you-know-who?

By deputydog

deputydog (http://www.videosift.com/member/deputydog) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:33:25 -0800

Not if Jake's fanclub get wind of this new young contender.

By phelixian

phelixian (http://www.videosift.com/member/phelixian) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:51:32 -0800

f**k jake. the new heir must ascend!

plus this is cooler in my book. i lost it when he went into green day....

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:37:26 -0800

^----- My sentiments, exactly. F**k your ukelele, Pachelbel for the PEOPLE!!! Onwards, comrades, onwards and upvotes!

By Farhad2000

Farhad2000 (http://farhad.videosift.com) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:56:37 -0800

There is no way Jake is going down. He's like the Dark Sith of the Sift. This just has only 1/4 the votes he possess, he pisses down on Pachelbel (and my Segovia sift) from astronomical heights currently...

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:27:54 -0800

I honestly feel like that sift reveals what I would say is a flaw in the VS voting process. I mean honestly, it's good, but that many votes? ...

By swampgirl

swampgirl (http://swampgirl.videosift.com) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:39:55 -0800

you posted this! shutup and enjoy the fame, lol ;-)

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:50:09 -0800

Haha, I was referring to Jake in my above post, not Pachelbel. Thus the "that", as opposed to "this".

For those of you who were confused, UPVOTE THIS SIFT!!! PACHELBEL APPROVES THIS MESSAGE!!!*

*Pachelbel (as well as his immediate family and estate) in no way approves or in any way endorses this message.

By swampgirl

swampgirl (http://swampgirl.videosift.com) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:57:39 -0800

ah, I'll retrieve my glasses now :::rubs eyes::::

By pallen

pallen (http://www.videosift.com/member/pallen) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:44:55 -0800

rembar, I wasn't saying that this was a -bad- video. In fact, I'll even say it's a good video. But it's not hands-down the best video I've ever seen on Videosift ever, which is what that overwhelming number of votes suggest it should be.

I guess I missed the novelty of all the points on which other people were impressed. Namely, that Canon in D is a recognizable song, that band geeks have all their own inside jokes that no one else finds funny, and that pop music is incredibly unoriginal and repetitive and thus an especially easy target of criticism.

That said, I guess I'll go ahead and join the bandwagon and upvote this. As I said, it's a decent video.

By Farhad2000

Farhad2000 (http://farhad.videosift.com) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:17:10 -0800

This is a fake. I saw the program about it on Discovery Channel. Mythbusters no less...

By deputydog

deputydog (http://www.videosift.com/member/deputydog) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:19:21 -0800

Yeah, me too.
*recount
*protectJake

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:24:51 -0800

Hey Pallen, no biggee. I was just joshing ya about the votes, VS suffers somewhat from the same effect pop music does - the more popular a particular sift is, the more popular it will become.

In any case, don't worry about what I think. Your vote is your own to cast or not.

By WolfDemon

WolfDemon (http://www.videosift.com/member/WolfDemon) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:46:56 -0800

erm...what's fake?

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:28:26 -0800

It was a joke, WolfDemon. There's a habit among Youtubers to yell "fake!" whenever they see a video that shows something they don't believe could happen. It's terribly annoying. (Well, lots of things Youtubers say are annoying, but this is an obvious one.)

By WolfDemon

WolfDemon (http://www.videosift.com/member/WolfDemon) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:15:28 -0800

Ahh...That one went right over my head

By phelixian

phelixian (http://www.videosift.com/member/phelixian) — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:55:01 -0800

He's obviously a Cylon.

By karaidl

karaidl (http://www.videosift.com/member/karaidl) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:21:50 -0700

Don't understand how this got so many votes, but *promote anyway.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:21:53 -0700

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Friday 15th December 2006 (promotion called by gold star member karaidl)

By Nebosuke

Nebosuke (http://www.videosift.com/member/Nebosuke) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:30:43 -0700

Unfortunate that I never put this one the sift... you get so used to seeing things here first that you don't realize when something hasn't been posted to the sift that you've seen quite a while ago and is actually quite awesome.

Good for you, rembar.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:55:21 -0700

Tags for this video have been changed from 'pachelbel, canon, cello, guitar' to 'pachelbel, canon, cello, guitar, Rob Pavaronian' - edited by MarineGunrock

By calvados

calvados (http://www.videosift.com/member/calvados) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:47:57 -0700

*bravo *livemusic *standup

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:47:59 -0700

Adding video to channels (Bravo, Livemusic, Standup) - requested by calvados.

By gorillaman

gorillaman (http://www.videosift.com/member/gorillaman) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:20:54 -0700

I seriously have no idea wtf he's talking about.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:56:37 -0700

Tags for this video have been changed from 'pachelbel, canon, cello, guitar, Rob Pavaronian' to 'pachelbel, canon, cello, guitar, Rob Paravonian' - edited by maatc

By rasch187

rasch187 (http://rasch187.videosift.com) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:54:30 -0800

*promote

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:54:31 -0800

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 10:21pm PDT - promote requested by rasch187.

By Asmordean

Asmordean (http://www.videosift.com/member/Asmordean) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:24:40 -0800

Nightmares of playing the baritone in high school. Second worst song ever for bass players. The first being http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia%27s_Theme