BristolUK

Stinkypup

Have you hit the gin?

BristolUK

That stick of cucumber put me off.

Remember, though, this is 'like you never heard before' not a "good music" thread.

BristolUK

Elton's masterpiece Madman across the Water - title track - has an original version.

I never knew until 20 minutes ago. Stunning.

Stinkypup

Really interesting version- in the days when he could sing, the instrument mixing really raw- just an odd reverb which spoilt it a bit. Nowadays he just tries singing with a similar reverb which just sounds dreadful


Nice post Bristol

BristolUK

That LP was one of my 'memories' of my trip to Canada in 75 with my mate. His dad - who lived near Saint John - had it in his collection and we used to play it looking at the great view of the river.

Too Low for Zero was the last of his I got. 1983...didn't realise it was that far back.

BristolUK

BristolUK

To remind you what this is like

and now the rock version

DandNHill

Thought this was going to be things people say to you..."like you've never heard it before"...

Got lots of those!

BristolUK

Sounds like a thread starter

Oakvillian

Ah. _Pachelbel's Canon (or "Taco Bell Cannon" as one organist I know was asked to play for somebody's wedding...). It pops up everywhere. And apparently Cello players hate it almost as much as organists... here's why:

BristolUK

The excellent Aussie tv series Vietnam was where it popped up for me.

Paul_Shepherd

Excellent!! - Very talented muscians
Perfect examples of how the originally produced song is not always the best, but are actually half decent songs....just need different production...

I actually think Sheryl Crow's laid back "wind in your hair" type version of Sweet child o mine is way better than Axl's angry nasaly whine!

Paul_Shepherd

Talking of covers. or alternative productions of a well known piece of music, I think the best ever example of this is an album called Variations produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

He took a piece of violin music composed by Paganini (Caprice No24) which to most is better known as the theme used for the ITV art show, the South Bank show (which in it self is one of the variations on the Lloyd Webber album)

What Lloyd Webber did with this one piece of music was absolutely stunning.... Lloyd Webber produced over 20 variations of this one piece of music each one giving a feel of a different genre, musical arrangement, tempo and different instruments. So much so, that each version was almost unrecognisable as the same piece of music. It utilized every single method of changing the perception of the piece from electronic synthesiers to rock guitars to heavy bass to a mix of cello and sad but beautiful violin solos.

For me personally it has to be one of my most favourite instrumental albums of all time. I was introduced to it at young age by my mom, who was a huge music lover, and I grew up with it, it holds some very treasured memories.

Oakvillian

The Lloyd Webbers' collaboration is something of a guilty pleasure of mine, too. But Andrew L-W is by no means the only composer to have played with the same piece - Paganini's theme has been used by a great many composers as the basis for a set of variations, some of them justifiably much better known than the Lloyd Webber version. The two most famous are probably the piano variations by Brahms

and the Rhapsody for piano and orchestra by Rachmaninoff... there's a quite interesting piece on that from the 2013 BBC Proms series here