{"id":322,"date":"2006-10-20T16:01:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/20\/music\/"},"modified":"2006-10-20T16:01:28","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:01:28","slug":"music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/20\/music\/","title":{"rendered":"Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s funny how music affects you;<\/p>\n

As I was flicking through the radio channels, I happened upon Desert Island Discs<\/a> this morning, no honest I did; anyway Robert Fisk<\/a> was talking to Kirsty Young which I actually did find interesting. Anyway, as I came upon the channel Samuel Barber<\/a>’s: Adagio for Strings was playing, which is a fantastic and emotional piece. Whenever I hear it, I get the picture from Platoon<\/a><\/a> of Willem Dafoe<\/a> on his knees, arms raised in the air, with hundreds of Vietnam soldiers running towards him… Fisk then followed this with Winston Churchill<\/a>’s speach “This was the Finest Hour”, which in itself is a powerful piece of audio. One of his next records was Pachelbel<\/a>\u2019s Canon in D Major. I never want to like this piece of music, it just seems too commercial and trite, however, I can never get away from the fact that it is indeed a powerful piece of music. So Pachelbel’s Cannon and Adagio for Strings within the same 10 minutes!<\/p>\n

Unfortunatley he then descended into “The Lord is My Shepherd” so I felt compelled to turn over, right into “The Who<\/a>’s” Pinball Wizard<\/a>. Bizzarely enough, I heard this on Wednesday on the radio. Then on Thursday, I made comment about a work colleague being “deaf, dumb, and blind” to which Mark automatically responded with “but he sure plays a mean pinball”… So within 2 days I heard the same record that I’ve not heard for a while, with also a reference to it in a unconnected event.<\/p>\n

However, unlike listening to Adagio and Cannon, hearing Pinball Wizard made me think… what a terrible song it is. I’ve never given thought to how bad a song it is before…<\/p>\n\"Technorati\"\/<\/a> Robert Fisk<\/a>, Samuel Barber<\/a>, Platoon<\/a>, Willem Dafoe<\/a>, Winston Churchill<\/a>, Pachelbel<\/a>, The Who<\/a>, Pinball Wizard<\/a>\"Wikipedia\"\/<\/a> Robert Fisk<\/a>, Samuel Barber<\/a>, Platoon<\/a>, Willem Dafoe<\/a>, Winston Churchill<\/a>, Pachelbel<\/a>, The Who<\/a>, Pinball Wizard<\/a>

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