Poster Lennon brought up something interesting in the "Best Bands" thread & I thought it was worth making a seperate thread. Here's what Lennon had to say:
Please correct me if I'm wrong, Violin_Frenzy, but I believe the "it will blow the classical music out of your butt!" was a direct quote from the film School of Rock, right?
I certainly know very little about classical music, though I'm not so deaf to the absolute excellence of it as some of my peers may be. Of course, most of my peers are even deaf to the kinds of music I enjoy so we can't depend on their opinions. I love the Beatles and the Who. There are many others, of course, but those are the two I don't think I could live without.
For those who can appreciate the work of orchestras and whatnot, how do you feel about songs like Eleanor Rigby, A Day In the Life, the french horn solo in For No One, etc? Talking to other Beatles fans, we don't really get into the classical music elements of some of these songs and I would be interested in what the people here think or just about classical music in popular music in general.
Hey, someone was dissing Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Yeah, it's cheesy, but they lace their music with classical snippets and make it accessible to the masses. I went to a concert around Xmas time...the first half was their Xmas music, but their second half was literally taking classic rock songs and lacing them with music. There was one point where I heard the exposition to the first movement of the Pathetique Sonata and I was about to scream and turned around and started telling people...sadly then realizing no one knew what I was talking about.
The turned the Queen of the Night Aria into heavy metal.
I'm sure there were more snippets I missed or don't remember, but it was really cool...cheesy or not.
Hey, someone was dissing Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Yeah, it's cheesy, but they lace their music with classical snippets and make it accessible to the masses. I went to a concert around Xmas time...the first half was their Xmas music, but their second half was literally taking classic rock songs and lacing them with music. There was one point where I heard the exposition to the first movement of the Pathetique Sonata and I was about to scream and turned around and started telling people...sadly then realizing no one knew what I was talking about.
The turned the Queen of the Night Aria into heavy metal.
I'm sure there were more snippets I missed or don't remember, but it was really cool...cheesy or not.
There seems to be a lot of opinions on this thread and it's subject. I will offer this: It seems to me that when hollywood wants to make a band sound good and trully musical, they always through an orchastra behind them!
I started a thread about pop songs with great orchestral arrangements, but got no takers. I can recommend The Days Of Pearly Spencer, by Marc Almond, and If You Could Read My Mind, by Gordon Lightfoot.
If the definition of "pop music" simply is "non-classical music", then I'd say Krallice. Their newer material (since Ygg Huur) has moved towards a kinda late-romantic/early avantgarde string quartet idiom (don't quote me on that, I'm not a musicologist)...
The other projects of the two guitarists(Mick Barr and Colin Marston) do have a heavy classical influence as well.
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