At least Joplin knew he was going to make a future impact in this world when he stated "When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to recognize me"...
@robertslistening I agree. But I think it's more baroque than classical. I've been laughed at when I drew a direct line from Pachelbel/Bach to Joplin. Might be wrong but that's how I feel about it. It somehow reminds me of Brandenburg.
Either way it's brilliant, entertaining, uplifting.
@bfandreasyt You're absolutely on the button with the Bach reference.... it has the repetetive motif running through it, yet strays and returns regularly to remind the listener of the main theme.... If things don't change, they will stay the same!
Listening to this makes me imagine I'm watching a silent movie of a team of firefighters trying to get a cat out of a tree, and setting everything on fire in the process. Or something of that nature!
but then coon music as you say was how it really did all begin way back with Stephen Foster it is all a real part of american history which is so very sadly being delleted today in place of rap and hip hop crap which is not even music at all! it is god awful just white noise!
@eleventhdr People thought rag time was god awful in it's day too. Every generation just repeats what the last said: The new shit is trash, pay attention to the classics. Much easier to look back on the past than to find the authenticity in the present, don't you think?
@eirodgers I think the more time passes, the more it will be difficult to find authenticity in music. Even if I agree with this concept of rejecting contemporanean music automatically, there's not much left to it nowadays and I don't believe it will be prayed in the future.
@FreeTheJambon Well, most music will be lost to time, I agree, but the best stuff always remains. The stuff that truly gets to people in the best ways is the stuff that stands the test of time. So yea, nothing really stands the test of time if it's already be slated before it's even gotten through one generation lol. I believe there's great stuff out there for anyone, it just requires digging a little deeper I guess.
@eirodgers they don't play much good stuff on the radio, ie good variety of good stuff,thank heavens for you tube,its helped musicians like myself who play by ear,i use this as my modern record player,smashing.
@eirodgers You hit the nail on the head. No genre of music is inherently bad and there is good stuff in everything (yes that INCLUDES hip-hop) as well as nonsense in everything. But human beings tend to be quick to paint things with broad brushes. There is a ton of good and meaningful rap out there that people just assume is bad just because it's rap. The funny part is, the main critics haven't studied or listened to nearly enough rap or the history of rap to make their broad assumptions.
My dad would play the Joshua Rifkin records in the 70's when I was a kid and that's how I know about this music. Hearing it again after so many years, I have my own memories from being a kid and now I can truly appreciate what a musical gift Scott Joplin was to us and how this music will always be special and classic.
@hitman10171 thats because the entertainer by scott joplin is played on icecream trucks, this is because at the st. louis worlds fair, where scott joplin lived, icecream cones were invented
I can play some of the most difficult classical pieces but for some reason I cannot play rags. My mother was excellent at it though, and hearing them always reminds me of her.
I always think of the Titanic when I hear this amazing song.. and this wasn't even in the Titanic movie. Neither was any of Joplins rags. I don't even know if there was any rags in that movie. Hmm..this disappoints me. :[
@TheMcbro. There was one ragtime piece played in Titanic but it was in orchestral form. It was Alexander's Ragtime Band. It's in the 2nd soundtrack Return To Titanic. You can hear it in the movie in the scene when the first-class passengers are wearing lifejackets and told to go on deck. A waiter asks Thomas Andrews " Care for a drink sir ?".
Listening to Scott Joplin play is truly like going back in time for a few brief minutes. And ya, scibb, I smell the old rolls and see the penny arcade and strollers in the park on Sunday afternoon! :)
I have this piano roll too and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Recently the vacuum part of the player piano went south, so it's good to hear this again in such a form. I love the way the old rolls smell; so nostalgic.
Gosh . . . it's a continuum. Ragtime led to stride led to early jazz led to swing led to boogie woogie led to jump music led to early rock and roll. Throw in blues, gospel, country, R&B, and you've got rock. There's no primacy, just an embarrassment of riches.
Ragtime should get credit when it comes to ragtime today! Everyone always is like ohh Jazz inspired modern music, when really it was Ragtime that inspired Jazz!
well jazz did inspire modern music. There shouldnt be a question about it. if ur gonna say ragtime inspired modern music, then we might as well jut say Bach inspired evryone. which he did.
what was his reward? He knew he was the best....
MrRatherino 1 week ago
At least Joplin knew he was going to make a future impact in this world when he stated "When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to recognize me"...
andmaketherain 2 months ago
I think ragtime sounds closer to classical than blues. There's something healthy about it. It actually perks up the step and makes you feel good.
robertslistening 4 months ago
@robertslistening I agree. But I think it's more baroque than classical. I've been laughed at when I drew a direct line from Pachelbel/Bach to Joplin. Might be wrong but that's how I feel about it. It somehow reminds me of Brandenburg.
Either way it's brilliant, entertaining, uplifting.
bfandreasyt 3 months ago
@bfandreasyt You're absolutely on the button with the Bach reference.... it has the repetetive motif running through it, yet strays and returns regularly to remind the listener of the main theme.... If things don't change, they will stay the same!
MAPFWH 2 months ago
@FreeTheJambon any idea how old is the piano roll?
tinsh0es 6 months ago
@tinsh0es 1,000,000,000,000,000,000Years OLLDLDD
MrValovinorovich 4 months ago
@MrValovinorovich thats older than the universe...
Superarne245 1 month ago
@Superarne245 Lololololololol.
MrValovinorovich 1 month ago
Listening to this makes me imagine I'm watching a silent movie of a team of firefighters trying to get a cat out of a tree, and setting everything on fire in the process. Or something of that nature!
nickersonpower 6 months ago 3
@nickersonpower I know! I can so see a silent movie like that!
MrValovinorovich 6 months ago
1 person is dumber than a fencepost.
MrValovinorovich 6 months ago 6
So very, very nice. I'm going to go listen to Swipsey Piano Roll now and I can "close up shop" a happy woman. Thank you for your wonderful music.
MyMoppet52 6 months ago
Joplin was a jazz genius, can you imagine if he was alive today!
Ferrum2004 6 months ago
@Ferrum2004
yes seeling out in endorsements like the modern celebrity
flyingelephants2k9 6 months ago
i love getting Cleveland steamers while listening to this.
erichitz79 7 months ago
I'd rename this "Pineapple Upside Down Cake Rag"
verdew8181 7 months ago
scott joplin never entended it to be fast at all. But ice cream sounds goooood! TO FARRELS
DragonHugger 9 months ago
wtf! this is realy good!!!! do it faster and you get a medal! XDall existing high thumbs!
dannyder5te 11 months ago
I love Jpolin for the way he works modulations, nothing too outlandish. Lots of 7ths , mods to 4ths etc., logical, structured and yet coherent.
ntiffin1 11 months ago
it reminds me of fun although I didn't know this song a few seconds ago.
MsYellowbucket 1 year ago
but then coon music as you say was how it really did all begin way back with Stephen Foster it is all a real part of american history which is so very sadly being delleted today in place of rap and hip hop crap which is not even music at all! it is god awful just white noise!
eleventhdr 1 year ago
@eleventhdr People thought rag time was god awful in it's day too. Every generation just repeats what the last said: The new shit is trash, pay attention to the classics. Much easier to look back on the past than to find the authenticity in the present, don't you think?
eirodgers 1 year ago
@eirodgers I think the more time passes, the more it will be difficult to find authenticity in music. Even if I agree with this concept of rejecting contemporanean music automatically, there's not much left to it nowadays and I don't believe it will be prayed in the future.
FreeTheJambon 1 year ago
@FreeTheJambon Well, most music will be lost to time, I agree, but the best stuff always remains. The stuff that truly gets to people in the best ways is the stuff that stands the test of time. So yea, nothing really stands the test of time if it's already be slated before it's even gotten through one generation lol. I believe there's great stuff out there for anyone, it just requires digging a little deeper I guess.
eirodgers 1 year ago
@eirodgers they don't play much good stuff on the radio, ie good variety of good stuff,thank heavens for you tube,its helped musicians like myself who play by ear,i use this as my modern record player,smashing.
jakethefiddle 9 months ago
@eirodgers You hit the nail on the head. No genre of music is inherently bad and there is good stuff in everything (yes that INCLUDES hip-hop) as well as nonsense in everything. But human beings tend to be quick to paint things with broad brushes. There is a ton of good and meaningful rap out there that people just assume is bad just because it's rap. The funny part is, the main critics haven't studied or listened to nearly enough rap or the history of rap to make their broad assumptions.
texasmade17 1 year ago
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eirodgers 1 year ago
Stranger in the 1920's: "Anyone know where i can get a hot bath and decent shave 'round here?"
jazze2778 1 year ago
LONG LIVE SCOTT JOPLIN, THE LEGEND AND KING OF RAGTIME!
cool45010 1 year ago 3
ben, this is the original with no piece missing, and if anything it's to fast.
SyvertezHenrique 1 year ago
Haha I checked out the "REAL" version of this song on his channel. Turns out it's just this song with part of "Euphonic Sounds" after...
TheMcbro 1 year ago 2
This is not the original Pineapple Rag. There is an entire section missing and it's far too slow. I will upload the real version shortly.
BenNCM 1 year ago
My dad would play the Joshua Rifkin records in the 70's when I was a kid and that's how I know about this music. Hearing it again after so many years, I have my own memories from being a kid and now I can truly appreciate what a musical gift Scott Joplin was to us and how this music will always be special and classic.
WeaselHalfbreed 1 year ago 2
The old Pine-Apple Rag!
BobShuthead 1 year ago
Spongebob!
NeilKensington 1 year ago
reminds me of an ice cream truck
hitman10171 1 year ago 34
LOL
Fopelitty 1 year ago
@hitman10171 Ice cream trucks tipically play "The Entertainer" which is another ragtime piece composed by Scott Joplin.
historygenius 1 year ago 4
@hitman10171 thats because the entertainer by scott joplin is played on icecream trucks, this is because at the st. louis worlds fair, where scott joplin lived, icecream cones were invented
hillbillya1 1 year ago
@hitman10171 or if you're lucky, a really great carousel. (Usually from another country with great sound!)
MyMoppet52 6 months ago
I can play some of the most difficult classical pieces but for some reason I cannot play rags. My mother was excellent at it though, and hearing them always reminds me of her.
carolinelandry75 2 years ago 6
I always think of the Titanic when I hear this amazing song.. and this wasn't even in the Titanic movie. Neither was any of Joplins rags. I don't even know if there was any rags in that movie. Hmm..this disappoints me. :[
TheMcbro 2 years ago 2
@TheMcbro. There was one ragtime piece played in Titanic but it was in orchestral form. It was Alexander's Ragtime Band. It's in the 2nd soundtrack Return To Titanic. You can hear it in the movie in the scene when the first-class passengers are wearing lifejackets and told to go on deck. A waiter asks Thomas Andrews " Care for a drink sir ?".
AmericanEvita 1 year ago
Studying ragtime now...pretty cool tunes, I actually didn't know, I already knew!!
pernicious65 2 years ago
Listening to Scott Joplin play is truly like going back in time for a few brief minutes. And ya, scibb, I smell the old rolls and see the penny arcade and strollers in the park on Sunday afternoon! :)
LanaHensley 2 years ago 2
I have this piano roll too and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Recently the vacuum part of the player piano went south, so it's good to hear this again in such a form. I love the way the old rolls smell; so nostalgic.
scibberscabber 2 years ago
Amazing just listening this again and again. Just Fantastic
XxXxXxKOFOLAxXxXxX 2 years ago 2
Gosh . . . it's a continuum. Ragtime led to stride led to early jazz led to swing led to boogie woogie led to jump music led to early rock and roll. Throw in blues, gospel, country, R&B, and you've got rock. There's no primacy, just an embarrassment of riches.
greasepuddle 2 years ago
Ragtime should get credit when it comes to ragtime today! Everyone always is like ohh Jazz inspired modern music, when really it was Ragtime that inspired Jazz!
Goshthatsfetch9612 2 years ago 62
well jazz did inspire modern music. There shouldnt be a question about it. if ur gonna say ragtime inspired modern music, then we might as well jut say Bach inspired evryone. which he did.
bkgangstapianist 2 years ago
@Goshthatsfetch9612 yeah true but it was 'coon song' that inspired ragtime tho and thats nothing to be proud of (try it on wikipedia)!
Rag time is awesome tho especially Pineapple, Peacherine and Magnetic :)
888murali 1 year ago
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888murali 1 year ago
@Goshthatsfetch9612 and classical that inspired rag...
demoreal 3 months ago
Joplin was a genius, no question about it. There will never be another like him.
qazwerty97 2 years ago 2
Amen
MrHBailey 2 years ago
yo scott
Stephane987654 2 years ago
I love this rag!
Theparadoxmazes 2 years ago