Good songs with strings/orchestral arrangements

BigshotSpike · Post by **BigshotSpike** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 3:02 pm

I have an obession with song with sweeping strings arrangement.
My favorites of the moment:

X-Japan-Tears
X-Japan-Art of Life (best string arrangement ever!)
X-Japan-Kurenai
X-Japan-Dahlia (okay, most X-Japan songs have string arrangements)
Peter Gabriel-Signal The Noise
hide-Hurry Go Round
Beck-Lonesome Tears
E.S. Posthumus-Harrapa (actaully, ever E.S. Posthumus song has an awesome orchestral arrangement)
Radiohead-Fake Plastic Trees
Smashing Pumpkins-Tonight, Tonight
Ben Folds Five-Mess
Bjork-Isobel
Bjork-Bachelorette

I know there are tons more I love, but these are all I can think of right now.

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 3:44 pm

Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence
Just about anything by Nightwish
Elvenking - Seasonspeech

Cardinal.jpg · Post by **Cardinal.jpg** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 4:31 pm

Anything from Third Eye Open the string tribute to Tool

Tom the Fish · Post by **Tom the Fish** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 5:00 pm

Low - Over
Smog - Hit the Ground Running
Versus - Deep Red
Anything by the Rachels
The Legendary Pink Dots between 85-89

All that comes to mind right now...

Tom

Zerophite · Post by **Zerophite** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 11:18 am

Anything by VAST
Anything by Hybrid
Growing Up by Peter Gabriel
We Are Oceans by Venetian Snares
(what? VSnares? orchestration? string? YES! It's his ambient track

with of course, spastic unphrased noise)

Superior · Post by **Superior** » Sun Dec 08, 2002 9:27 pm

Blind Guardian - The Eldar
Blind Guardian - Nightfall (it only has strings in some parts)

Therion - Black Sun
Therion - Via Nocturna (part 1 & 2)
Therion - the King
Therion - O Fortuna (ok this doesn't have orchestral instruments, but come on it's an O Fortuna cover)

I'm suprised no one has said A Perfect Circle yet. but for some reason I can only think of Rose or Thomas for string instruments

thistledown · Post by **thistledown** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 12:12 pm

War of the last Wolves in the Kenshin OVA has some great string parts. As does Little Wing, from the last episode of kenshin. Far and Away, by John Williams is good too. (In fact, quite a few things by John Williams).

Some midi's I've found have really good string parts too. Yes, they're midi's, so the sound quality isn't great, but try the songs Maelstrom, Overture, and Night Of the Dragons, from the Dragonlance.com website. Most of the other songs by that artist are good too, but don't have as many strings.

IratusAngelus · Post by **IratusAngelus** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 9:41 pm

I have to plug Metallica here. I've always been a fan of classical music. I own several Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Holst suites, as well as some mixes I made of some single pieces. I have also always been a fan of Metallica. I've seen them live, and it was the greatest concert ever (the floor tickets won from the radio station didn't hurt, either). Metallica's S&M is a very good mix of Metallica classics infused with symphonic goodness. I still listen to it pretty regularily today, and I bought it shortly after it came out, which must have been '99 or '00 (unless I'm incredibly stupid, and it came out later. Feel free to correct me). Pretty much everyone hear knows Apocalyptica by now, and they're good as well, though not very "sweeping." I think it's kinda hard for four people to make anything sound sweeping, no matter how good they are.

Beefmaster10000 · Post by **Beefmaster10000** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 10:19 pm

IratusAngelus wrote:I have to plug Metallica here. I've always been a fan of classical music. I own several Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Holst suites, as well as some mixes I made of some single pieces. I have also always been a fan of Metallica. I've seen them live, and it was the greatest concert ever (the floor tickets won from the radio station didn't hurt, either). Metallica's S&M is a very good mix of Metallica classics infused with symphonic goodness. I still listen to it pretty regularily today, and I bought it shortly after it came out, which must have been '99 or '00 (unless I'm incredibly stupid, and it came out later. Feel free to correct me). Pretty much everyone hear knows Apocalyptica by now, and they're good as well, though not very "sweeping." I think it's kinda hard for four people to make anything sound sweeping, no matter how good they are.

No Leaf Clover, in my opinion, is one of the greatest songs by Metallica, and it is one of my personal favourite songs.

Timelessblurr · Post by **Timelessblurr** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 12:18 am

Ohfor tuna is a really good peice