Difference between revisions of "Talk:C Is For Conifers"
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I have a suspicion that, throughout ''Here Come The ABCs'', TMBG deliberately avoided doing anything that might suggest a pun on the musical alphabet (the letters used to name notes from A to G). | I have a suspicion that, throughout ''Here Come The ABCs'', TMBG deliberately avoided doing anything that might suggest a pun on the musical alphabet (the letters used to name notes from A to G). | ||
| − | This song provides the strongest evidence that the avoidance could be intentional. C major, which you get by playing the white keys of a piano, is such a common and popular key that nobody would have found the use of it here a cutesy device. But the song is actually in F sharp major, an unusual key for a rock song that is also the ''furthest possible key'' from C going both by pitch and by the circle of fifths. | + | This song provides the strongest evidence that the avoidance could be intentional. C major, which you get by playing the white keys of a piano, is such a common and popular key that nobody would have found the use of it here a cutesy device. But the song is actually in F sharp major, an unusual key for a rock song that is also the ''furthest possible key'' from C going both by pitch and by the circle of fifths. {{unsignedIP|76.127.223.29|22:41, April 9, 2009}} |
== The Larch == | == The Larch == | ||
Latest revision as of 17:27, 10 February 2022
I have a suspicion that, throughout Here Come The ABCs, TMBG deliberately avoided doing anything that might suggest a pun on the musical alphabet (the letters used to name notes from A to G).
This song provides the strongest evidence that the avoidance could be intentional. C major, which you get by playing the white keys of a piano, is such a common and popular key that nobody would have found the use of it here a cutesy device. But the song is actually in F sharp major, an unusual key for a rock song that is also the furthest possible key from C going both by pitch and by the circle of fifths. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.127.223.29 (talk) 22:41, April 9, 2009
The Larch[edit]
Is it just me, or does Flans say "Larch" just like the sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus? --MisterMe 16:46, 21 February 2012 (EST)
- Maybe it is just me. Here is a link that might bolster my case. --MisterMe 08:12, 20 February 2013 (EST)
- Sorry, man, but there are only so many ways to say "larch" and I don't think Flansy sounds that much like the sketch (or no more so than anyone else saying the same word). -- CJSF 14:12, 20 February 2013 (EST)
