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What are your favourite songs featuring strings?

― bert (bert), Sunday, 10 August 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"Thong Song" doesn't count.

― bert (bert), Sunday, 10 August 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Canibus, "Patriots"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 10 August 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Prince - Raspberry Beret
Nico - I'll Keep It With Mine
Sigur Ros - Staraflur
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Bellbottoms
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Al Green - Call Me
Love - Old Man
The Left Banke - Pretty Ballerina
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

― bert (bert), Sunday, 10 August 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick Drake - "Cello Song," "Fly," "River Man"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 10 August 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

oh oh oh and "The Thoughts of Mary Jane"

if synthesized strings count, Aphex Twin - "Girl/Boy Song" and "Goon Goompas"
The Smashing Pumpkins - "Tonight Tonight"
Radiohead - "Pyramid Song"

also, 90% of cheesy RPG music to thread

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 10 August 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm really going to have to come back to this, as my head can't handle it at the mo'.

I'll say "Walk On By" as rendered by Isaac Hayes, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 10 August 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

the lonely surfer-jack nitzsche

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Sunday, 10 August 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Ramones - Baby I Love You
Cradle of Filth - Presents for the Poison Hearted
Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
Guns N Roses - November Rain

er, nothing else springs to mind right now.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 10 August 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

My list would probably consist entirely of ABBA songs.

― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Sunday, 10 August 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Garbage - Milk (Massive Attack Remix)
The Bee Gees - Night Fever
Sting - Big Lie Small World ( a bossa nova in 9/8 with orchestration...the majority of you people knock him as nothing more than a pop star, but he is a genius at making odd time signatures feel so smooth)
Maxinne Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From
David Bowie - Loving the Alien
Massive Attack - Wire
Craig Armstrong - Weather Storm
Massive Attack - Sly
David Sylvian - The Boy with the Gun
Frank Zappa - Strictly Genteel

― bahtology, Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Vanessa Mae "White Bird"
Roxy Music "Out of the Blue"
Morcheeba "Part of the Process"
ELO "Can't Get It Out of My Head"
Alice Cooper "Unfinished Sweet"
Jane's Addiction "Then She Did"
Black Sabbath "Spiral Architect"
INXS "Never Tear Us Apart"
David Bowie "DJ"
Grand Funk Railroad "I'm Your Captain"

― dave q, Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Björk - Jóga
Moloko - The Time Is Now
Tori Amos - Yes Anastasia
Leonard Cohen - Avalanche
Portishead - Roads
Stina Nordenstam - Dynamite
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Madonna - Frozen
Katy Carr - Moscow Child
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds & Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

beach boys - let's go away for awhile
scott walker - montague terrae (in blue)
dusty springfield - just one smile
stevie wonder - village ghetto land

― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 10 August 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Jamie Myerson - Music for the Lonely
Pet Shop Boys - You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
Einsturzende Neubauen - Stella Maris (arr. Bertrand Burgalat)
The Streets - Turn The Page
Cinnamon - Vertigo (entire album, again thanks to Bertrand Burgalat)
Divine Comedy - Your Daddy's Car
Chic - Dance, Dance, Dance
This Mortal Coil - Mr. Somewhere
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (strings sell 2 million+ copies)
Busta Rhymes - Gimme Some More

― Brian Miller, Monday, 11 August 2003 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

lee & nancy - some velvet morning
chic - good times
colin blunstone - say you don't mind
andrew loog oldham orchestra - the last time
kenickie - and that's why
elton john - your song
scott walker - it's raining today
propaganda - dr. mabuse (12")
massive attack - unfinished sympathy
beatles - eleanor rigby

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 11 August 2003 08:23 (twenty-three years ago)

the thong song

― minna (minna), Monday, 11 August 2003 08:35 (twenty-three years ago)

x10

― minna (minna), Monday, 11 August 2003 08:35 (twenty-three years ago)

'Baby' - Gal Costa
'Yes' - McAlmont & Butler
'Wichita Lineman' - Glenn Campbell
'Duchess' - Scott Walker
'Every day is like Sunday' - Morrissey
'Where are you?' - Frank Sinatra
'My October Symphony' - Pet Shop Boys
'Don't leave the light on baby' - Belle and Sebastian
'River deep, mountain high' - Ike and Tina Turner
'Cloudbusting' - Kate Bush

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 11 August 2003 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

How could I forget 'Silver' by Echo and the Bunnymen? :(

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 11 August 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Delfonics - "Ready or not"
First Choice - "Double cross""
Foundations - "New direction"
SUAD - "The green man"
Ten City - "Devotion" (if synthesised strings count)
Second the Isaac Hayes pick

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 11 August 2003 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Bjork "Hyperballad" (Brodsky Quartet version)
Blackalicious "Sky is Falling"
Wyclef Jean "Gone 'Til November"
Led Zeppelin "Kashmir"
Radiohead "How to Disappear Completely"
The Beatles "A Day in the Life" (yeah ok horns too whatevah)
Deltron 3030 "3030" (might be sampled/synth'd)
JSBX "Bellbottoms"
Phish/Allison Krauss "God Never Listens"
Sigur Ros "Flipty Flopty Bloingda Floingda" (ie whatever track #8 on Agaetis Byrjun is called)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Sigur Ros "Flipty Flopty Bloingda Floingda"

Beautiful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The Shadows: Wonderful Land

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Bjork and Rasputina are underrepresented on this thread.

If synth strings are okay then I'll go for Faith No More's "Woodpecker From Mars", though there's no singing so maybe it's not a song.

Also that really famous one, you know the one by Derrick May? Well not that one but one of the other ones he did, one of them he did with system 7.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Strange you should mention Rasputina. It reminded me of "Rasputin" by Boney M, which has amazing strings.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

Birds of Fire by Mahavishnu Orchestra

― James Blood Ulver (I eat cannibals), Friday, 21 August 2009 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

the CURE - Six Different Ways
PJ Harvey - Plants and Rags

― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 21 August 2009 21:40 (seventeen years ago)

the CURE - A Few Hours After This

― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 21 August 2009 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

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