“Everything Under The Sun”, the climatic three-part song on the Extreme album III Sides to Every Story, one of the most underrated rock albums of the '90s.
I love good prog rock.
Therion - Ginnungagap is a kick-ass choire-metal song
In general, I love choires in rock songs, and think they are used too seldom. These songs have excellent sections with choires:
William Shatner - Common People
Happy Mondays - Step On
Queen - Somebody to Love
With string section from the philharmonic orchestra:
Oasis - Whatever
Guns N Roses - November Rain
Aerosmith - Dream on
Plant & Page’s No Quarter . Especially Kashmir and Since I’ve Been Loving You , if you want European style “symphony” backing, but the whole album is great - especially the bits where the Egyptian orchestra gets going.
Dimmu not a rock band? Is Death Metal not a sub genre of Rock > Metal music?
To the original post, Nightwish’s Once album had a full orchestra playing with it.
Dimmu, Nightwish, Within Tempatation, Epica, those are just a few good ones I can think of off the top of my head. I’ve also recently been sampling Graveworm, Agathodaimon, and The Sins of Thy Beloved, all good symph metal, but not as good as the afore mentioned stuff.
Not all metal is rock. Some is, and some is similar, but there’s too much that’s too different from rock to be considered as part of it. For the record, Dimmu Borgir plays symphonic black metal, not death metal.
Rick Wakeman’s Journey to the Center of the Earth and Return to the Center of the Earth were done with orchestras, the first one live.
There is an Orchestral Tubular Bells and an Orchestral Hergest Ridge, The second never got released, but I have it on a bootleg.
Working with orchestras was quite popular after Days of Future Past came out.
Ah, one of my favorite ELP songs.
Emerson is a genius. And so is Wakeman.
You’ll also want to get A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. It was one of the biggest live events of 1992. It was also released on DVD.
Most of the bands/albums I was thinking of have already been mentioned, but not the self-titled album by McDonald and Giles (with both Ian McDonald and Michael Giles fresh from the then recent disintegration of King Crimson, and the best ever Crimson lineup at that.) While not overflowing with symphonic fare, there’s enough of it on the album that even a die-hard ‘symphonist’ will be more than satisfied.
Wow! I haven’t thought of Salisbury in years. What a great album. A true classic.
And, Atom Heart Mother, another “wow”! 'Giants in the studio . . . ’
Great picks, ** Carson**!
I know that it was pretty much Phil Spector’s doing, but does the Beatles’ Long and Winding Road count?
Gonna Raise Hell by Cheap Trick.