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Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

RoundTheBend — Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:40:56 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 10/10/2017 01:40

Muse has a couple - I don't have the time to look 'em up.

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

RockyRaccoon — Mon, 9 Oct 2017 20:36:07 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 10/10/2017 00:36

Also, Barry Manilow's "Could It Be Magic" is based on Chopin's "Prelude in C Minor, Op. 28 No. 20"

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

RockyRaccoon — Mon, 9 Oct 2017 20:30:05 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 10/10/2017 00:30

Ah, and the intro guitar riff from Extreme's "Play With Me" borrows from Mozart's "Piano Sonata No. 11"

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

RockyRaccoon — Mon, 9 Oct 2017 20:29:24 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 10/10/2017 00:29

Two I can think of off the top of my head:

The guitar that kicks of "Because" by The Beatles is sort of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" backwards. John heard Yoko playing Moonlight on the piano, asked her to play it backwards, and wrote "Because" around it.

The chorus of Billy Joel's "This Night" is based off of the second movement of Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

dihansse — Mon, 9 Oct 2017 15:15:59 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 10/09/2017 19:15

10 of the best: metal meets classical from The English newspaper the guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomse...-classical

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

bobbyb5 — Fri, 6 Oct 2017 14:57:12 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 10/06/2017 18:57

I don't know how I forgot this album until now. I'm not positive but I think every song is based on a piece of classical music or Opera. The ones I really like are Madame Butterfly and Carmen. This isn't Malcolm McLaren best album though, duck rock is better. Unless you count Sex Pistols.

Fans by Malcolm McLaren

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

Fischman — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 22:26:23 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 10/01/2017 02:26

"Cans and Brahms" - Yes/Fragile
Based on the third movement of Brahms 4th Symphony

Eric Carmen's megahit "All By Myself" --the vocal melody is based on the main theme from the second (slos) movement of Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto. I always hated that song--so when I started getting into Classical and took a liking to Rachmaninoff's piano music, I still couldn't gag down that movement. Carmen ruined it for me forever.

Walter Murphy's disco hit "A Fifth of Beethoven" was of course, directly derivative of Ludwig's 5th symphony.

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

bobbyb5 — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 18:17:03 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 09/30/2017 22:17

Graeme2 wrote:

bobbyb5 wrote:

Graeme2 wrote:

Clubbed to death I loved when it came out on mo wax, been overdone a bit since but still good. Has bits of Elgar's Enigma Variations.
You can't beat a bit of The Farm can you? Well you can but I still have a soft spot for All Together Now, based on a piece by johann pachelbel, apparently.

Rob Dougan is awesome. I love that album Furious angels.

I should check that out, only know that one track.

Even better is "22nd Sunday in Ordinary Tme Sessions". After Furious Angels he didn't do anything for like 14 years until this. It's like an improved clubbed to death with a huge Orchestra and better beats. Or maybe its just better technology. but it sounds fantastic.

This is it.
https://youtu.be/jG0kCHhriNU

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

Graeme2 — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 17:01:47 GMT

Author: Graeme2

Posted: 09/30/2017 21:01

bobbyb5 wrote:

Graeme2 wrote:

Rob Dougan is awesome. I love that album Furious angels.

I should check that out, only know that one track.

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:57:12 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2017 20:57

-Jethro Tull's Bouree from the album Stand Up -terryfic album by the way- is an adaptation of famous JSBach's e minor bouree from the lute suite Nr 1 (bwv 996)
-Kiss's intro to the song Great Expectations from the album Destroyer takes its melody from the second movement of Beethoven's "pathetic" c minor piano sonata (op 13).

just the first two to come from top of my head

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

bobbyb5 — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:49:49 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 09/30/2017 20:49

Graeme2 wrote:

Rob Dougan is awesome. I love that album Furious angels.

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

Graeme2 — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:40:29 GMT

Author: Graeme2

Posted: 09/30/2017 20:40

Clubbed to death I loved when it came out on mo wax, been overdone a bit since but still good. Has bits of Elgar's Enigma Variations.
You can't beat a bit of The Farm can you? Well you can but I still have a soft spot for All Together Now, based on a piece by johann pachelbel, apparently.

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

bobbyb5 — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 15:29:38 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 09/30/2017 19:29

Man, you guys are awesome. I can't believe you came up with all these ones. That is so cool.
The only ones I knew were A Fifth of Beethoven and ELO,, both of which somehow slipped my mind

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

nitomano — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 15:26:45 GMT

Author: nitomano

Posted: 09/30/2017 19:26

- The Barbarian by Emerson, Lake & Palmer is in an arrangement of Béla Bartók's 1911 piano piece Allegro Barbaro
- Knife-Edge by Emerson, Lake & Palmers is based on the first movement of Leoš Janáček's Sinfonietta
- For the Damaged Coda by Blonde Redhead is based on Nocturne Op. 55 No.1 by Frédéric Chopin
- Road to Joy by Bright Eyes has an interpolation of the melody of Beethoven's Ode to Joy
- Nutrocker by Emerson, Lake & Palmer based on the nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
- The opening lyric and melody of "It's a Hard Life" by Queen is based on the line "Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!" from "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.
- And of course A Fifth of Beethoven by Walter Murphy and Roll Over Beethoven by Electric Light Orchestra

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 05:45:22 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2017 09:45

Mika used Rossini's Baber of Seville melody for "Gene Kelly"

Re: Rock songs based on classical compositions

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 05:40:03 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/30/2017 09:40

Peter Waterman said I Should Be So Lucky was inspired by Pachelbel's Canon: "Anyone who thinks I Should Be So Lucky is easy should try to play it. It's in four keys, all of them really awkward, and you can't even strum it unless you're a really good musician"

Rock songs based on classical compositions

bobbyb5 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:39:32 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 09/30/2017 00:39

What songs are there that are based on classical music compositions?
I knew that these two are, but I had to go Google which exact pieces that they're based on. I couldn't remember which ones they were.

A Lover's Concerto. by the Toys (1965).....based on "Minuet in G Major" by Johann Sebastian Bach

Pictures At An Exhibition. by Emerson Lake and Palmer (1971).... based on "Pictures From an Exhibition- A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann" by Modest Mussorgsky.

What other ones are there that you know of?