Well, I just thought of this one and figured it deserved a thread where people can share theirs. Something I really, really wish I could hear would be a Smashing Pumpkins take on “Jesus Christ Superstar”.
It sounds absurd at first, but remember that the first (and still the best) version of JCSS was just a concept album that stood alone without a stage show. The Pumpkins always had a semi-vicious spiritual edge to them and if they used the variety of styles they went through during their time together to work the music of this piece they could make something that ROCKED SO HARD! Using the shoe-staring psychadelia of “Gish”, the tortured wails and orchestral meanderings of “Siamese Dream”, the all-out enormity of “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” to create a hard-hitting version of this really concept album/rock opera, they could make about the coolest thing I can think of. Sadly, the Pumpkins are no more, and they never would have done this in the first place, but what if… OH MAN!
I am amazed at how many people are Andrew Lloyd Webber/Stephen King/Matt Groening “The Simpsons” fans. If those three ever get together on something, a lot of people will be having orgasms.
In the realm of things that could happen, I’d like to see:
massive attack with radiohead - at least a track with thom york on vocals
edward norton and m. night shayamalanashanana
robert anton wilson and terry gilliam or tim burton - could anyone else pull off the illuminatus! trilogy?
richard ashcroft and the rolling stones - just for irony’s sake
“Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” (1980), dir. by John Waters and starring Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor. A few brief scenes:
Blanche (Eva) in wheelchair watching old “Green Acres” reruns on TV: “I knew zey should have held zat close-up on Arnold!”
Jane (Zsa Zsa): “I had a career, too! Remember Qvinn of Outer Schpace?”
Jane on phone to liquor store: “Hello, dahling, I vant some champagne. Vhat? You need to talk to my seester? Vait a minute, dahling. . . . Hello, dahling, zis iss my seester!”
A friend told me this weekend that there’s a very unsubstantiated rumor that David Fincher is considering an offer to direct Star Wars Episode III.
There’s just too much potential here for me to believe it though. The imagination and playfulness of Lucas combined with directorial style, smarts and visual flair of Fincher, I don’t even want to think about it for too long before I am inevitably disappointed.
Well, I like Stephen King and Matt Groening, but in general I am not an Andrew Lloyd Webber fan. I love the original concept album that would become Jesus Christ Superstar because it lacks the silly over-orchestrated sound of the later stage production.
The songs are stripped down a bit and some of them ROCK. To hear a Smashing Pumpkins take on the Last Supper scene, from acoustic hippie-rock to heavy basslines with shouting and shrieking back and forth would end with me, as you put it, having orgasms.
Another vote for JCSS and Smashing Pumpkins. That opening track “heaven on their minds” is fantastic. However, with the funk vibe that’s on the guitar part, how about Red Hot Chilli Peppers?
Since this is in the realm of fantasy, I’d also like to see Michelangelo and Sir Christopher Wren collaborate with Norman Foster and Kublai Khan on the world’s biggest pleasure dome.
No, the verve rehashed the main riff of Bittersweet Symphony from an orchestral version of an old Stones song, The Last Time. The Stones were given writing credits, rights and collected all royalties for the song in a court decision. Richard Ashcroft was given credit for the lyrics, but the verve lost out on what was their biggest commercial success, and one of the best songs of the late 90’s.
I recall reading somewhere that Jimi Hendrix was very likely going to be joining Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, and Carl Palmer (ELP) but died before the band really got together. That would have been something.