# Pachelbel's Canon in D Major \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434 "2011-01-13T08:18:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/21 "2011-01-13T21:18:43Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > Most versions are played, I feel, far too slowly. I agree. When I was in college, I did a couple of fill-in shifts of the campus radio station. This was in the days of vinyl records. I once played the Canon at 45 rpm from a regular 33 rpm LP. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/22 "2011-01-13T22:00:22Z")
Nah, I like the slow versions. I guess to each his own. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/23 "2011-01-13T22:14:52Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I agree. When I was in college, I did a couple of fill-in shifts of the campus radio station. This was in the days of vinyl records. I once played the Canon at 45 rpm from a regular 33 rpm LP. I believe that would be Canon in G (more or less). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/24 "2011-01-13T23:24:48Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > I believe that would be Canon in G (more or less). It was almost scary how normal it sounded. I mean, with most music, if you speed up the playback you can tell. Not so much with the Canon. In honor of that, a friend made me a mix tape with it played at 78. That’s what I should have gone for in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/25 "2011-01-13T23:59:13Z")
I was 12 years old when the Pachelbel “thing” broke. I remember ridiculous ads in magazines telling how “hypnotic” the Canon was, and how it would instill a feeling of bliss, even ecstacy, upon one’s mind (similar to what **Yojimbo** remembered upthread). This was not long after the Jonestown mass suicides, and talk of mind control and brainwashing was everywhere. I became convinced that if I heard Pachelbel’s Canon I might be robbed of my own free will and easy prey for religious crazies. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/26 "2011-01-14T00:18:14Z")
PDQ Bach did a lovely little recording…a classical radio station, with the motto All Pachelbel, All the Time. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/27 "2011-01-14T00:28:13Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > PDQ Bach did a lovely little recording…a classical radio station, with the motto All Pachelbel, All the Time. I think it was WTWP[sup]\*[/sup], Classical Talkity-Talk Radio. - Wall-To-Wall Pachelbel. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/28 "2011-01-14T00:45:40Z")
[One more version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXsCMGhzC1o) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/29 "2011-01-14T01:18:05Z")
I like the chorale version at the beginning of the movie “Ordinary People”. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/30 "2011-01-14T03:24:30Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I think it was WTWP[sup]\*[/sup], Classical Talkity-Talk Radio. > > - Wall-To-Wall Pachelbel. Yes, that’s exactly what it was! I remembered the station call letters, but forgot what they stood for–thanks. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/31 "2011-01-14T04:11:34Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Nitpick: It’s in D **Major**. That’s more than a nitpick, it’s a correction that should probably be made in the thread title. And yeah… it’s overplayed and the cello part sucks, but damn it’s pretty. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/32 "2011-01-14T04:19:47Z")
It’s one of the few overplayed classical works I don’t mind listening to, over and over again. The question in the OP was “do you have other classicals that are way over played?”… oh yeah: - Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Vivaldi: Spring Concerto from The Four Seasons ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/33 "2011-01-14T04:44:31Z")
I wonder if Pachelbel would be upset at people overplaying this one piece of his and never playing anything else he composed. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/34 "2011-01-14T04:45:35Z")
Tran-Siberian Orchestra’s version, with words, is pretty damn awesome. I love listening to it in the car, because I saw them live a couple of times, and saw the lady and her comapnions that do the singing; every time I hear it, I see it, and also try to sing along. I fail, not just in comparison to that angel’s beautiful, perfect voice, but because I invariably start bawling in the middle. I can’t even TALK when I’m crying, much the less belt out this beautiful number: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45wmyMgyZuY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45wmyMgyZuY) I too, am sorry for the fairy thread-poop \>.\< ---
**Author:** ![Apollo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@Apollo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/35 "2011-01-14T04:53:10Z")
[A different take on Canon in D](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6f8IySDb28&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/36 "2011-01-14T06:14:16Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I wonder if Pachelbel would be upset at people overplaying this one piece of his and never playing anything else he composed. He would probably just be glad that people finally wanted to hear the thing, 300 years later. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/37 "2011-01-14T08:53:42Z")
I have a CD of various arrangements of the Canon, called “Pachelbel’s Greatest Hit [singlular].” And one of my cousins thought it was called “The Taco Bell Canon.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/38 "2011-01-14T13:21:29Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I wonder if Pachelbel would be upset at people overplaying this one piece of his and never playing anything else he composed. It could be worse. He could be Albinoni. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/39 "2011-01-14T13:43:28Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I have a CD of various arrangements of the Canon, called “Pachelbel’s Greatest Hit [singlular].” And one of my cousins thought it was called “The Taco Bell Canon.” [Christine Lavin’s “Taco Bell Canon”.](http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DAHb01sNZegM&sa=U&ei=2FIwTYWUAsKblge9zrmWCg&ved=0CBQQtwIwAQ&usg=AFQjCNFcIRSfPhiKX_IiCDGQgiqPqEpdfQ) ---
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Another former cellist checking in, who wonders what evil bastard of a cellist murdered Pachelbel’s mother, to prompt him to write this horrid revenge. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434.md?page=3)