[Pharmboy]

It is hard to argue with many of your choices; personally, I just think that some of the greatest pieces ever written (Ludwig's Number 9, for instance) are played soo much that they've taken themselves out of this realm. Pachabel's Canon is in the same category, IMO. I remember the first time I heard that...it was like "Where have you been all my life?"

[BlueLancer]

"Pachabel's Canon is in the same category, IMO. I remember the first time I heard that...it was like "Where have you been all my life?""

You are so right ... I remember the first time I heard it was as background music on the Carl Sagan "COSMOS" specials. I had spent all of my high school and college playing in bands and orchestras and I had NEVER heard it before.

I've taken 24 variations of "Canon" from different CD's .. different arrangements, different groups playing it, different interpretations .. and placed them all on one CD. When I really want to relax and "chill", that's the CD I use ... one of the variations has ocean sounds (waves and birds) as faint background to it.

FANTASTIC!

[Calvin Locke]

I heard a guy ripping on Pachabel. Probably on a Dr. Demento show. Playing Canon on a guitar, he said he was a cello player growing up, and when playing Canon in D Major, the 1st violins got melodies, the 2nd violins got melodies, and even the violas got melodies, and that should never happen.

And the cello section? They got to play the same 8 notes, 50-some times.

So he said Pachabel was haunting him, and he goes on to play some recent and recognizable songs that one can hear Canon's influence. Aerosmith, The Beatles, a Taco Bell jingle...