Just off to watch Leon on Tv-excellent film-but have been listening to Bruce Springsteen: 'The Ghost of Tom Joad'.
I love this album, but it is completely different from his usual offerings. It got me thinking: which other bands/ musicians have produced material that was completely different from their usual stuff but , if anything, maybe better??
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Changes in musical direction (another music thread-sorry!)
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Just off to watch Leon on Tv-excellent film-but have been listening to Bruce Springsteen: 'The Ghost of Tom Joad'.
I love this album, but it is completely different from his usual offerings. It got me thinking: which other bands/ musicians have produced material that was completely different from their usual stuff but , if anything, maybe better??
metallica's black album immediately springs to mind ..
Heavy metal band who reworked their own tracks to a classical orchestral background ... and it is awesome .. completely changed my mind about them.
Sex God
Hi Agricola, I also love Springsteen's "Tom Joad" album, especially that track "Across The Border". To answer your question, The Byrds' abrupt departure from their sixties style into country rock witth "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo" is something that surprised people at the time, but I love that album and the others in similar style that came after it, "Farther Along" being another particular favourite.
By the way, I would have thought that you would be singing "Jailhouse Rock" right now, you're supposed to be in prison - or is there a late newsflash I don't know about?
Mike.
By the way, I would have thought that you would be singing "Jailhouse Rock" right now, you're supposed to be in prison - or is there a late newsflash I don't know about?
Mike.
Dylan never really brought out two albums the same,but most students of The Hibbing Bard would say that Nashville Skyline was the most radical was recorded after his motorcycle accident and subsequent long convalescence during which he stopped smoking,the effect of which totally changed his voice,so much so that rumours started that he had died in the accident and that the record label had dubbed someone elses' voice.
Sorry 'bout that Bit of a
Sorry 'bout that Bit of a
Sex God
has any 1 had the pleasure of listening to steve earle now there is a man who album upon album has covered so many genes of music
also u2 from there early day through stadium rock and on further
also u2 from there early day through stadium rock and on further
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Radiohead Kid A,which most people say isnt anything as good as OK Computer but i think its an amazing ahead of its time and filled with really interesting bits of music and sounds,probably in the same line as when the Beatles did Sgt Pepper.
Steve beat me to A was a complete change of direction for first time i listerned to it i thought wtf!!But after a few times its an amazing album ,definately their best to date.
Sex God
Quote by agricola
which other bands/ musicians have produced material that was completely different from their usual stuff but , if anything, maybe better??
Pop stars doing classics:
The Doors did a recording of Albinoni's Adagio In Gm. It was crap.
OMD did a better one.
Depeche Mode did a nice version of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
Procul Harum's Whiter Shade Of Pale is based on JS Bach's "Air on the G string"
Lady Linda by The Beach Boys is based on Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Quiz: The following songs are all directly based on a 17th Century "One hit wonder".
Can you name the composer and the tune?
Altogether Now by The Farm
Earth Angel by The Penguins
Graduation (Friends Forever) by Vitamin C
C U When You Get there by Coolio
Hook by Blues Traveller
Sex God
Oo-oo--ooh!!! 
Good one Ice Pie!!
Quite a few pop and rock tunes are based on classics. The melody for Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" was actuallly lifted from the second movement of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto (see the 'piano solo' thread).
Barry Manilow's "Could it Be Magic" (later covered by a boy band - Take That, I think
) was a Chopin Prelude. There are plenty of others.
In asnwer to your quiz, Ice Pie - I think the answer is Pachelbel's Canon in D (which reminds me, my copy of the sheet music has gone missing, grrrrrrrrrrrrrr :x :x :x).
To get back on topic, someone else has already mentioned that one of the most adept people at changing their style and still coming up with quality is David Bowie.
Will
Good one Ice Pie!!Quite a few pop and rock tunes are based on classics. The melody for Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" was actuallly lifted from the second movement of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto (see the 'piano solo' thread).
Barry Manilow's "Could it Be Magic" (later covered by a boy band - Take That, I think
) was a Chopin Prelude. There are plenty of others.In asnwer to your quiz, Ice Pie - I think the answer is Pachelbel's Canon in D (which reminds me, my copy of the sheet music has gone missing, grrrrrrrrrrrrrr :x :x :x).
To get back on topic, someone else has already mentioned that one of the most adept people at changing their style and still coming up with quality is David Bowie.
Will
Sex God
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In asnwer to your quiz, Ice Pie - I think the answer is Pachelbel's Canon in D
Spot on.
