[kj] OT: Billy Bragg: Proud to meet the Queen, have symphonic works performed w/ his lyrics

[Christof hamille]

I certainly can enjoy classical or symphonic music.  But I have zero interest in "interpretations" of rock music (or anything else for that matter).  I heard part of the led Zeppelin one and never bothered to listen to it again.  I rarely listen to classical music.  Not for any particular reason.  I can't think of one genre that I'll flat out refuse to listen to. There may be certain sects that I detest.

Chris



From: gregslawson at msn.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:14:09 -0400
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Billy Bragg: Proud to meet the Queen, have symphonic works performed w/ his lyrics








Why not just go straight to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. I always thought of them as punk (or at least New Wave) classical (although their sound is more classical-ish). I know nothing else about them 


> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:48:02 +1300

> From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Billy Bragg: Proud to meet the Queen, have symphonic works performed w/ his lyrics

> 

> I'll give the Led Zep and SFTFVC albums a chance as soon as I get around

> to getting around to it, the guy is just so brilliant in KJ, and I love

> the orchestral parts in a lot of their stuff from Pandemonium on that I

> have to give it a try. Also a huge Zep fan so it's a no brainer. I like

> epic sounding stuff too (Kashmir, No Quarter).

> 

> Olly do you venture out of punk / post-punk much? I'm trying to draw a

> mental line from Punk to Classical. It's a bit convoluted, and I'm sure

> there's many ways you could do it...I'll give it a stab:

> 

> Punk. Post Punk. Industrial / Metal. Rock. Classic rock. Operatic rock

> (Queen / ELO). Operatic pop (Nigel Kennedy, Vanessa Mae). Classical.

> 

> You could of course go straight from punk to rock...hard to say whether

> metal or punk is closer to straight rock I suppose...

> 

> >

> > There was a point when I was interested in chasing down every little

> > piece of symphonic music Jaz was involved in. While I do like some of

> > it (notably the SONGS FROM THE VICTORIOUS CITY project with Anne

> > Dudley), most of it fails to sustain my interest. I admire Jaz for

> > his myriad musical accomplishments, but I'll stick with his work with

> > Killing Joke.

> >

> > Alex in NYC

> >

> >

> > On Oct 16, 2007, at 4:35 PM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

> >

> >> Honestly, I haven't heard the symphonic Led Zeppelin stuff and am

> >> not eager to. That sounds like one of the worst ideas in history to

> >> me.

> >>

> >> Seriously, though, since being EU Composer-in-Residence, what has

> >> Jaz done other than make cameos on other bands' stuff? Is that what

> >> the job entails? I'd actually like to know. But I don't wanna sit

> >> through symphonies of classic rock. Ugh.

> >>

> >> -Oliver

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >> Brendan wrote:

> >>> what's goin' on with Jaz and that high falutn '

> >>> "EU-Composer-in-Residence" stuff? Hmm? -Oliver]

> >>>

> >>> Expanding his musical interests wider and deeper, I think it's

> >>> brilliant

> >>> myself. Haven't got any of that stuff, but am keen to get the

> >>> Symphonic

> >>> Led Zep, Oceania etc...I've heard some of the symphonic version of

> >>> Kashmir

> >>> on Youtube and it sounds great to me...I tend to agree with him

> >>> that all

> >>> the previous symphonic rock albums are trash (although I do think

> >>> that

> >>> those symphonic / operatic elements in Queen, ELO, Beatles etc

> >>> aren't too

> >>> bad).

> >>>

> >>> I sat through a few songs of Metallica with an orchestra on telly

> >>> a while

> >>> back and it was god awful (to me)...didn't enhance the music at

> >>> all, quite

> >>> the opposite.

> >>

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