#also pachelbels canon in d major is genuinely a rly beautiful piece and im glad i wasnt born in the 80s so its not incredibly oversaturated

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here's a fun fact for today's lucky 1000

you ever hear this song?

which i could not insert as audio, despite having downloaded the file

you might not have! despite its apparent popularity at weddings, and in the 80's (to the point where its inescapability was parodied in a new yorker cartoon) today was the first time i had ever knowingly listened to it. im a fan, for the record.

johann pachelbel was not one of the great composers we studied in school, and history was not kind to his work. thus, his Canon was lost to time until being written down sometime in the 1920s, but for some reason i am unable to discern from wikipedia, it was not recorded until the 40s.

a 1968 performance of the piece brought it to the public eye, and it was an immediate success. that same year, a greek band called aphrodite's child released a baroque rock cover of it (its kind of incomprehensible lyrically but it's fun) and not long after a spanish band called pop tops also did a cover of the piece, called oh lord why lord. i like this one better personally

it only grew more popular after this. carl sagan used it in his series cosmos: a personal voyage, it was covered by countless bands and topped the charts in various renditions year after year. it's no wonder that a pop music producer pete waterman described canon as "almost the godfather of pop music because we've all used that in our own ways for the past 30 years". he claimed kylie minogues i should be so lucky was based on pachelbel's canon.

probably the most famous example, at least the one i knew of, is green day's basket case. in this song, the chord progression pretty much follows that of pachelbel's canon.

other songs that are apparently based on this piece are: - all together now by the farm - go west by the pet shop boys - C U when U get there by coolio - dont look back in anger by oasis - memories by maroon 5

its really entertaining to listen to pachelbel's canon in full, and then listen to all these songs. its very similar to the emotion you feel when you are able to recognize the wilhelm scream in a film.

a look behind the curtain of the author: i already took my sleep meds but shot out of bed to google the lyrics to basket case by green day bc it was stuck in my head and i couldnt remember them. this lead me down a rabbit hole and now i have wasted a precious melatonin gummy

i compiled a youtube playlist of every song wikipedia lists that was based on pachelbel's canon, for your listening pleasure

sources used for this post: - Wikipedia pages on: basket case by green day, pachelbel's canon, pete waterman, kylie minogue, australia, organ (instrument) - youtube videos: linked in post - discord: opened to see that my friend miro has anime girl hair vents