i need pop music tunes featuring Opera singers ....

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they're usually most horrible.
and apart from that i can't think of any
[except for U2's Miss Sarajewo]

is there any listenable stuff ??
i've heard there's a Janet Jackson song - no idea which one
i am really in need of som help please.

oh and i'm not looking for the really obvious and nasty stuff like
the three tenors' christmas record etc.. or any Opera singer's
"pop" record.

i want genuine pop productions if possible , not cover versions
- unless they're really great of course.

thanks in advance

― sehhhl, Friday, 16 December 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

If your definition of "pop" includes Rammstein and your definition of "opera singers" includes opera samples, then I suggest "Sonne."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

'is there a time for East 17' from 'Miss Sarajevo' is either Bono's best or worst lyric i can't decide.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Rockaria - ELO

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Surely you can count Barcelona by Freddie Mercury and Monster Rat Cabernet?

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday I saw Elton John on German telly doing a performance with an opera singer.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

y'mean like Madame Butterfly or anything else of Malcom McLaren's Fans?

― H (Heruy), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

There's a real opera singer in the background at the end of Wilco's "Shot In The Arm" (I think it's that one) from Summerteeth. Subtle but increasingly noticeable, until it's the main sound in the song's extended final chord. But you have to wait through a lot of (pretty good) Wilco to get to it.

There's operatic-type singing (humorously) in the track "Pavaroty" on the Favela Booty Beats comp. If you are trying to assemble party music for opera types, I wouldn't miss that one.

Then there's Elvis Costello and Anne-Sophie von Otter.

And in the mid-late 80s every opera singer with any kind of following was recording albums of standards or musical comedy.

― Vornado, Friday, 16 December 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

The Jan track is "This Time" from the janet. album. Kathleen Battle is the featured performer. It kinda blows, though.

― Richj (Rich), Friday, 16 December 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I just listened to Malcolm McLaren's "Fans" recently, for the first time since the early 90's. This has NOT held up at all well IMHO.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Anti-Pop Consortium, "Mega"

― sibsi (sibsi), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

What about Klaus Nomi? New wave and opera all in one!

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

if you can find a recording of The Dive in The Fifth Element, I reckon that'd fit.

what about goldfrapp? iron maiden?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Frank Zappa - Teenage Prostitute

Very listenable, though I don't know if it's "pop". More like Spike Jones meets mad rock'n'roll.

― everything, Friday, 16 December 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I was just going to say "Teenage Prostitute." Lisa Popeil, the soprano who sings on that track, is the daughter of Ron "Showtime Rotisserie" Popeil.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I've no idea who that is, but he's got an amazing name.

― everything, Friday, 16 December 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Ron Popeil was king of the late-night infomercials for a very long time. Rotisseries were among his many sale items.

But yeah, "Showtime Rotisserie" should be the title of the next Ludacris album.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Anti-Pop Consortium, "Mega"

I saw APC in Brooklyn after the release of the album that was on, and the woman who sang on Mega was there for the live performance of said track. It was impressive, especially since most people would skip performing that live, or just have that part sampled for the live show.

― Josh Witkowski (braineater), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

"He Lays in the Reigns" - track one from the Calexico and Iron and Wine e.p.

― Mugged Outside the Jabberjaw, 1993 (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

i have a live recording of the spice girls' 'viva forever' featuring luciano pavarotti. it is truly mind-boggling, he does nothing except some backing vox in the chorus which manage to drown out all five spice girls - one wonders what he did on stage during the verses - and at the song's climax poor deluded mel c decides it'd be a good idea to try and outsing him (she fails miserably). it all ends with mel b singing the last line REALLY REALLY LOW. i think it was for charity.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

IL DIVO

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Both sampled:

Kurt's Rejoinder (ENO) isn't quite opera but it's art song anyway

Does Everyone Stare has radio opera towards the end

― theo, Friday, 16 December 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

no sufjan, no credibility.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Thomas Dolby, "Budapest By Blimp"

Laurie Anderson, "Example #22"

Pet Shop Boys, "Left To My Own Devices" (Introspective version)

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

THE DURUTTI COLUMN - Believe in me

― antonio, Friday, 16 December 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

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