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Aug 3 19:39 UTC 2000

For that matter, Metallica recently released an album of hits with classical
backing (the closest heavy metal might ever come to "muzak metal").

And ELP did Pictures at an Exhibition, or somesuch...

Putting classical instruments in pop music seemed popular in early 80s "New
Wave." The obvious example is ABC's Lexicon of Love, but others include
Communards, Art of Noise, and Eurythmics, plus (later) Sundays and the genre
that followed from that.

Musak meets pop meets classical meets moog has St. Etienne as one of its finer
examples... the music is hopelessly vapid and confusingly complex at once,
one of my quirkier favorites.