Great Crush Collision March (SCOTT JOPLIN, 1896) Ragtime Piano Roll Legend

[crorivpro]

You can just see the two locomotives backing up from one another and getting ready for the big head on collision.

[verdew8181]

I wonder if this might have been danced by people in 2 lines imitating trains colliding? That would have been a lot of fun!

[SidV1977]

I can't stop listening to this. I absolutely love Scott Joplin!

[mavrick45]

do do do do do, BOM!

awesome

[verdew8181]

these tunes always have such an amazing, magical uplifting effect on my mood and energy level. Also I want to go buy a piano and relearn how to play.

[tanginumin00]

ha. one dislike

[Firvas]

Quick! The robber is getting away and the dansel in distress is about to get hit by that train!

[coulsons3]

@Firvas Who cares, when there is music this great! just watch the movie :>

[sgtredbluered]

A P.R. stunt that went awry!

[TheMaxi418]

Beautiful piece, especially the introduction

[122294leelem]

my fav piece soo far this guy makes the best music

[2horsefanatic]

it's so relaxing to me, and no one can beat him!!! B-) <3

[2horsefanatic]

It's so relaxing to me, and no one can beat him!!! B-) <3 In a million years people are going to listen to his music and start ragtime again. Then he'll go down in music history!!!! I am sure that a lot of people miss him and his music.

[w0103411]

See the English Wikipedia article on "Crush, Texas."

[kozmon0t]

This is one of those rags that everyone plays slow because you're "supposed" to.. and it ends up sounding like anything but two trains speeding toward each other and crashing.

It's supposed to be exciting, like the event it commemorates. If you speed it up, it takes on the rhythm of a racing locomotive, but here it has the rhythm of a train languidly pulling into the station at the end of its run. I don't think anyone would have paid to see trains collide THAT slow.

[22013]

This is the shit. This piece really made my day.

[Superarne245]

Verry beautiful peice.

[ctgng]

Guido Nielsen's complete works - beautiful boxed set - available on Amazon

[Filmwolf1]

I'd never heard this before, I wonder if anyone's ever attempted doing a "complete works of Scott Joplin" CD set?

[chaveznieves]

tetris theme D unlocked

[bushwacker2008]

the Crush Collision was a staged train wreck that was flimed at a state fair.

they took these 2 old worn out locomotives and got them up to speed and let them hit head on. this piece was written by Joplin, played in the silent movie houses.

I saw this on dads old blackhawk 8 mm movies, this soundtrack came with the movie, play it on a turntable when the cue start the projector, this was entertainment back in 1973 at our house.

[BoidsiesRoblox]

@bushwacker2008 Would you mind uploading that to Youtube? I'd love to see that...

[harwetopa]

@bushwacker2008 It was a very poorly thought out event meant for entertainment in 1896...the boilers were reinforced, causing them to explode with greater force than anticipated; the crowd of thousands were permitted to gather much, much too close...it's a miracle more people didn't lose their lives! I was staggered to learn this piece was written...I'm not sure if it was commissioned FOR the event, or written after.

[Doug19752533]

@harwetopa Joplin wrote the march after the event (he was in attendance), from what i understand, there were people hurt, infact there IS a photograph of the trains colliding right at the very moment of impact, and the photographer lost an eye a few seconds later when a rivet struck him

[koraxsan]

@harwetopa Ragtime is the bomb, so i think that exploded the boilers :P... must have been quite a sight to see those trains collide, sucks that people got hurt/killed though.

[Keeper1st]

@koraxsan Cute joke... it would be cuter if this tune were ragtime... This is a straight march. Just because a famous ragtime composer wrote it doesn't make it ragtime.

[koraxsan]

@Keeper1st Correct me if i am wrong but the way you use the word cute in your reply gives me the feeling like you feel better or bigger than me just because i was not a 100% accurate with my joke (because thats all it was.. just a joke). But aside from that i do have to say that i really love your Mad scientist rag.. a true masterpiece!.

[Keeper1st]

@koraxsan Not sure how using the word "cute" makes it look condescending. It's not meant to be. I often describe amusing things as "cute".

I'm really surprised at how so many people like Mad Scientist Rag. I thought it was all right, but it certainly gets far more attention than any of my other rags (it was even played at a classical music festival in Italy). I have a playlist called "My Compositions" on my channel where some of my other tunes can be heard.

[koraxsan]

@Keeper1st Ok my mistake then :). I did hear the other rags you wrote to, i like most of them, but yes.. the mad scientist rag seems to pop out more than the rest. It great to see people like yourself keeping ragtime alive.

[megaladon73]

First thing I thought of was the heroine tied to the railroad tracks and Charlie Chaplin trying to figure out how to undo the knots...

[BardCoennius]

This is one of the very few I believe that was written in a minor key - in commemoration of a staged collision between two locomotives that was set up for spectators.

Sort of like a Monster Truck Rally for the late Victorian Age, I suppose...

[voodootabby]

waaaaaaahhhhhhooooo! i just finished learning this song



[meximetal96]

oh yes, a complete century before i was born. Thank you Scott Joplin for the wonderful music, and RagtimeDorianHenry for uploading. cheers.

[zeusjeke]

I heard most of Joplin's ragtime and enjoy to play them. This one I did not hear until yesterday and keep listening over and over. Great!

[voodootabby]

joplin kicks trash!!!!

[w0103411]

For the background read the English Wikipedia article on Crush, Texas#Aftermath. The movements of Scott Joplin's march mimic what happened with the trains.

[blacksultan85]

1896 MAN classic right here that's when my great-grandparents were young and kickin'it with each other in Haiti.WOW great music in your ears.and YES he was a black composer the first they won't be no other!!!!!!!!!!

[stefanixb]

Che bei tempi..mi ricordo quando comprai questo cd a mio nipote..eh si..bei tempi..:(

[RedTango]

Tetris? :)

[jaymorpheus01]

Ragtime was as controversial as Rap when it started, I heard on this one show about ragtime.

[ragtimest]

i play this song, pretty neat recording

[Methodologyofmadness]

Scott Joplin's music is so badass. It made me love to play the piano.

[Methodologyofmadness]

Indeed!

[peace4raissa]

This is still one of my all time favorite songs of Scott Joplin. I can't quite explain why, there's just something about this song that just takes you to a different world you can't comprehend. Its just so beautiful, yet still it somehow manages to put me the most cheerful mood

[bostonteabagger71739]

simply amazing. joplin is the best. this is like epic vide game music from a hundred years ago.

[MrBenlus]

@bostonteabagger71739 this is because the super mario 2 theme played on a piano sounds like good old western film music :D