dubious taste
Nov. 1st, 2012 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brushwolfSo I'm at Peets drawing during my lunch break. Unlike Starbucks Peets plays classical - or classical styled - music over their PA.
The Deutschlandlied turns out to be by Franz Haydn, and dates from 1797, and apparently someone decided that it'd be soothing to have performed by a string quartet and on the PA. You know. Germany's national anthem (since 1922). The official title has never actually been Deutschland Über Alles.
Obviously my associations are not soothing string quartet. However, thanks mostly to Monty Python, I can't hear the darn thing without my mind filling in John Cleese ranting in pseudo-German (only slightly more coherent and less funny than what little I've seen of Triumph of the Will, possibly the only movie to feature horrifying historical implications while simultaneously being incredibly boring). So I'm listening to this and cracking up.
The Deutschlandlied turns out to be by Franz Haydn, and dates from 1797, and apparently someone decided that it'd be soothing to have performed by a string quartet and on the PA. You know. Germany's national anthem (since 1922). The official title has never actually been Deutschland Über Alles.
Obviously my associations are not soothing string quartet. However, thanks mostly to Monty Python, I can't hear the darn thing without my mind filling in John Cleese ranting in pseudo-German (only slightly more coherent and less funny than what little I've seen of Triumph of the Will, possibly the only movie to feature horrifying historical implications while simultaneously being incredibly boring). So I'm listening to this and cracking up.
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Date: 2012-11-02 02:58 pm (UTC)If I ever hear the handbell version I will try very hard not to imagine John Cleese.