• foggy@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Everyone recognizes Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie no 1.

    I feel like it was just used all over the place, subtly, all our lives. People can rarely name it. Everyone knows it.

    Here’s a piano version as well

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      11 months ago

      I was looking for someone to mention this. It’s used so often in movies and television. I’m not surprised that people are saying they’ve never heard it. It’s always just some background music played in a scene, it’s never the focal point.

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      11 months ago

      Funny I was just thinking about that song. Satie’s work is kind of wild, although I was just reading about him and when he wrote it, he was a nobody and generally, even after fame, I don’t think he even played it himself so much as other people did because he already moved on. Dude even worked with Picasso once, who everyone seems to know.

      Guy was a nut, though, highly recommend reading up on him.