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Grex > Music2 > #161: Non-classical music for people who like classical music - suggestions please |  |
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brighn
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response 118 of 122:
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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.
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tpryan
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response 119 of 122:
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Aug 4 03:25 UTC 2000 |
Deep Purple did something akin to "Music for two unfriendly groups
of instruments" with a classical orchestra.
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lumen
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response 120 of 122:
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Aug 4 06:14 UTC 2000 |
resp:118 classical meets Moog.. reminds me of Wendy Carlos. Definitely
a different instrumentation scheme.
In that vein, I would think even Kraftwerk would be worthy of
consideration, although I have only _The Mix_ for observation. Some
music critics consider their form to be a bit more classical in
structure than pop (i.e., folk), so I would make it a recommendation.
My father-in-law is a classical enthusiast and loves "Switched on
Bach," so I am going to see what he thinks of this German programming
band.
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brighn
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response 121 of 122:
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Aug 4 14:39 UTC 2000 |
St Etienne is more on the pop end, with those other influences in there.
A friend of mine loaned me a very rare Weird Al/Wendy Carlos rendition of
Peter and the Wolf, but it was fairly inaccessible to me... too weird.
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orinoco
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response 122 of 122:
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Sep 8 16:16 UTC 2000 |
ELP's version of "pictures at an exhibition, or somesuch" is definitely more
on the side of "somesuch." They delete most of my favorite movements, add
new (fairly dreadful) sections, etc. Given how faithful some of their
classical arrangements are, I was amazed at how much they butchered this one.
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