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Best String Arrangement
Posted by MrRadio on 21 August 2009 - 10:45am.
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I'd vote for
Nick Drake: Hazey Jane 1
John Cale: Paris 1919
Stones: She's A Rainbow
Sandy Denny: Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
Paul Buckmaster's
effort on Moonlight Mile was pretty special.
Unbleedin'canny...
Not only was I thinking of posting on this very subject but was going to make special of Mr Buckmaster and Moonlight Mile - a magical Stones moment
PB's fantastic arrangement on Reggie's - Madman across the Water - is memorable too
Yes
his arrangements on the first three EJ albums are sublime - albums which I believe are highly underrated these days, lost in the pantomine spectacle that he is now.
My vote
goes to 60 Years On from the self-titled album. Beautiful string arrangement. Interesting fact: the first time I heard this song was on Radio 1 in about 1984 or so, when Steve Wright played it, saying it was one of his favourite songs ever. Good call.
The end
of Van's Cypress Avenue is hard to beat.
Depeche Mode - One Caress
As usual David Bowie is the answer
Life on Mars
http://open.spotify.com/track/1EdKQ7nYYmMEsrcehcHf4Q
Across The Border ELO
Love the pizzacato and the storming swirling ending
also Living Thing
especially the strings towards the end with the rising and falling arpeggio (is that the right term? - no probably not, too many notes) - wonderful stuff.
Arpeggio?
sweet left foot.
Inter-Palermo's great midfield of '60s - Arpeggio, Fortissimo, Carbonara and Antipasti
Love the string arrangements
on XTCs Apple Venus Vol1 especially River Of Orchids, Greenman and I Can't Own Her
Seconded
and also Wrapped In Grey.
Now that the XTC word has come up,
I suggest Dave Gregory's marvellous treatment of "1000 Umbrellas".
All good choices
I also like The Verve's History:
and Kate's Cloudbusting:
Also one of my all-time favourite videos.
Ahh Kate, you are so very special.
My favourite
Scott Walker (only a matter of time before he showed up here) - It's Raining Today
Eleanor Rigby
Surely? Double string quartet! What a brilliant musical call from George Martin.
Also agree with Paul Buckmaster comments above.
I think I read that Jane Asher was
palying Paul a lot of string quartets, would be curious if that had any truth to it
Strings Strings Strings
My favourite is the UNKLE/Richard Ashcroft track 'Lonely Souls', which has a belting string arrangement that comes in at around the 6 minute mark i think... feckin' amazing Will Malone arrangement (who is brilliant with string arrangements) which has a very Barber's Adagio theme to it.
Was on the 'The Beach' soundtrack if i remember rightly.
Marvin Gaye - If I Should Die Tonight
Richard Hawley - The Ocean
How about Elvis and the Brodsky Quartet ?
Goodnight
It's so wonderful in it's timeless English fireside peter pan victorian snowy winter astral dog flying rooftop comfortness, that I think that John, wisely, let Ringo sing because he was the best voice for the job by far.
Bernie Taupin
Montana Song
Ballad of The Ship of State
Midnight Carousel
on David Ackles' 'American Gothic' - all beautifully 'Coplandesque'
Also,
Chris Gunning on Colin Blunstone's 'One Year'
for : -
Misty Roses
Say You Don't Mind etc.
The Ivor Raymonde arrangementson many of Dusty Springfield and Scott Walker tracks for Phillips.
Smithers-Jones The Jam
A Stones Throw Away- The Style Council
Brilliantly effective use of strings on this
and (imo) this
(which I did indeed come across first in Jackie Brown, Tarantino has his uses)
Nick Drake
has already been mentioned - but surely we can't forget the shimmering magnificence of River Man?
Yes indeed…
… All credit to Harry Robinson - wonderful arrangement
My vote goes to this...
Sandy Denny's Next Time Around. It helps that it is one of my favourite ever songs...
One of mine
too, by an all time favourite artist.
Harry Robinson..
.. as well - isn't it? Cracking choice!
Nearly 30 posts and nobody's mentioned this
Tom Waits - San Diego Serenade; string arrangement by Bob Alcivar, I think. Gorgeous.
OK, one more
Perhaps a less obvious one. I have a very soft spot for Lush's penultimate album, Split. There are a number of lovely string arrangements too, including this one, for Light From A Dead Star.
John Cale Paris1919 live
Baby the Stars Shine Bright
From the unfashionable end of Everything But The Girl's career, this album is a lush, string-driven thing.
Chic
At Last I am Free
Colin Blunstone
Best String Arrangement Ever
ABC Anyone
Sublime arrangements originally by Anne Dudley (Art of Noise), I believe.
Ever since
hearing this:
http://www.stageandscreenonline.com/downloads/anne_dudley.html
I have felt she deserved a Word feature or a backstage podcast
This contains magnificent
This contains magnificent strings too. "Catherine By The Sea" by Paris Motel.
http://open.spotify.com/track/6mpiqIHNiqB90ifZJ9Z3N7