Taco Bell = I LOL'd.

there is an intense amount of awesome in this sift.

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

Judge for yourself.

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

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

I have high hopes for this sift, swampgirl.

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.

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.

Good call swampgirl. Ooh, nice.

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

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

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

#1, congrats rembar

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

ah ... my wedding music!

mine too, Ladybug

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...

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.

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

quality.

Hooray!!

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.

:-)

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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? ...

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

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.

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

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.

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

Yeah, me too.
*recount
*protectJake

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.

erm...what's fake?

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.)

Ahh...That one went right over my head

He's obviously a Cylon.

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

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)

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.

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*bravo *livemusic *standup

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

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

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*promote

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

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

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*doublepromote

Double-Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 11:54pm PST - doublepromote requested by NicoleBee.

*nsfw *talks

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Adding video to channels (Talks) - requested by ant.

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