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fredriley May 20, 2013 - 03:30	Baby_M wrote: The scene in the play for which this was written is a lot more menacing than the music lets on. There are lyrics in Norwegian (duh!) in which the trolls sing a discussion of comparative methods for dismembering, cooking, and eating Peer Gynt. These are usually left out of modern orchestral performances for what should be obvious reasons. Spoilsports! :) [ Reply ]
RedGuitar Feb 22, 2013 - 09:23	Liked this one from grade school days - the "Music Appreciation" class where they exposed us to "serious" music. I still discovered Rock n Roll in 1964! [ Reply ]
mineralBOB Nov 20, 2012 - 08:24	rocks like hell, doesn't it? :-) [ Reply ]
Shesdifferent Oct 21, 2012 - 23:03	I'm envisioning Monty Python's crew doing calistenics to this! Ha! lololol [ Reply ]
Proclivities Sep 18, 2012 - 11:19	jim1964 wrote: I think Disney used it in Fantasia, in the Sorcerer's Apprentice. It is somewhat similar, but Disney used a piece of music called "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", composed by Paul Dukas, for that sequence. I remember playing this song on the cello, in my elementary school band. [ Reply ]
kingart Sep 18, 2012 - 11:18	If no one has mentioned it already, this is the music the serial child killing villain, played very memorably by Peter Lorre, whistles in the 1931 Fritz Lang German cinema classic, M. One of the greatest movies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(1931_film) [ Reply ]
HearsayDave Sep 18, 2012 - 11:17	2cats wrote: Go bassoons! But I do like bassoons. [ Reply ]
HearsayDave Sep 18, 2012 - 11:16	Repetitive. Please play more New Pornographers for something original. [ Reply ]
Misterfixit Sep 18, 2012 - 11:15	Ah yes .. the contrabass bassoon and in some large symphony orchestras the Countrabass Sarousphone. Hits those bowel-releasing ultra low notes below the 64 foot Great Organ Pipe too. [ Reply ]
gypsyman Sep 18, 2012 - 11:15	Love this! [ Reply ]
2cats Sep 18, 2012 - 11:15	Dave_Mack wrote: Bassoons rule this song! Go bassoons! [ Reply ]
CWKeeney Sep 18, 2012 - 11:14	Nothing gets the heart racing like this song. Panic!! [ Reply ]
Dave_Mack Sep 18, 2012 - 11:14	Bassoons rule this song! [ Reply ]
Baby_M Jul 17, 2012 - 13:19	The scene in the play for which this was written is a lot more menacing than the music lets on. There are lyrics in Norwegian (duh!) in which the trolls sing a discussion of comparative methods for dismembering, cooking, and eating Peer Gynt. These are usually left out of modern orchestral performances for what should be obvious reasons. [ Reply ]
jim1964 Jul 17, 2012 - 13:19	bachbeet wrote: Great song! Like others here, was first exposed to this in cartoons (Disney?). Discovered later that it was a classical piece. Learned today that they actually made records in 1876. Never knew that! I think Disney used it in Fantasia, in the Sorcerer's Apprentice. [ Reply ]
xtalman Jul 17, 2012 - 13:17	bachbeet wrote: Great song! Like others here, was first exposed to this in cartoons (Disney?). Discovered later that it was a classical piece. Learned today that they actually made records in 1876. Never knew that! Looney Tunes anyone? [ Reply ]
jagdriver Jul 17, 2012 - 13:16	SRC had a huge Detroit hit with this back in the late '60s: [ Reply ]
bachbeet Jun 15, 2012 - 23:02	Great song! Like others here, was first exposed to this in cartoons (Disney?). Discovered later that it was a classical piece. Learned today that they actually made records in 1876. Never knew that! [ Reply ]
sedentaryz Apr 13, 2012 - 14:03	ImaSilly wrote: in some year at some Panic show the warm-up band was Disco Biscuits and they did the MOST awesome rendition of Hall of the Mountain King that i have EVER heard. It must be on some taper's cd somewhere in a box on a shelf, when really it belongs on this station, just to do complete justice to the band and the song There's a track here - is this what you had in mind? http://archive.org/details/db2003-08-31ccm4v.shnf [ Reply ]
ImaSilly Apr 13, 2012 - 10:59	in some year at some Panic show the warm-up band was Disco Biscuits and they did the MOST awesome rendition of Hall of the Mountain King that i have EVER heard. It must be on some taper's cd somewhere in a box on a shelf, when really it belongs on this station, just to do complete justice to the band and the song [ Reply ]