This one was easy.
Pachelbel’s Canon in D
Nickelback – How You Remind Me of Someday
Pachelbel and Nickelback
Tag: music
Dvorak and Cake
Once I started looking for clip comparisons I couldn’t really stop. I spent a long time with Madonna and Puccini, but couldn’t get it just right. I’m pretty happy with my Dvorak-Cake ones though, especially the first pair.
Dvorak “American” String Quartet
Cake – Short Skirt Long Jacket
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Cake – The Distance
Shostakovich, Radiohead, Vivaldi, and Britney Spears
Here are some clips to demonstrate why I think Radiohead sounds like Shostakovich and Britney Spears sounds like Vivaldi.
Shostakovich String Quartet #8
Radiohead – Paranoid Android
Shostakovich Cello Concerto 1 in E Flat
Radiohead – Creep
Vivaldi Concerto in G Minor for two cellos
Britney Spears – Baby One More Time
Vivaldi A Minor Violin Concerto
Britney Spears – Crazy
Classical composers and their modern day equivalents
It all started when I was playing some Basshunter on the radio in the car, and Shawn commented that it sounded like Sibelius. We decided to think of with as many pairs as possible, and these are what we came up with:
| Sibelius | Basshunter |
| Shostakovich | Radiohead |
| Mozart | Eminem |
| Puccini | Madonna |
| Johann Strauss | Backstreet Boys |
| Richard Strauss | Pink Floyd |
| Berlioz | Marilyn Manson |
| Schumann | Nirvana |
| Mendelssohn | Weezer |
| Debussy | Postal Service |
| Ravel | Death Cab for Cutie |
| Pachelbel | Nickelback |
| Dvorak | Cake |
| Lizst | Michael Jackson |
| Wagner | Kanye West |
| Beethoven | The Beatles |
| Brahms | U2 |
| Vivaldi | Britney Spears |
| Bach | Christina Aguilera |
| Paginini | Liberacci |
If you can think of any other ones, add them in the comments!
Update: I added a few clips to demonstrate why I think some of these pairs are similar.