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Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby Quaco » 30 Nov 2018, 20:24

20th-century style.


A ballet in the middle of a musical ...




What "right" did George Gershwin, a popular music composer, have to create this? ...

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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby Quaco » 08 Dec 2018, 02:07

Any others? Or is the question too boring/inane/unclear to respond to? :x
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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby Phenomenal Cat » 08 Dec 2018, 04:54

Quaco wrote:Any others? Or is the question too boring/inane/unclear to respond to? :x


Maybe just clarify. I keep thinking of Sparks or "Bohemian Rhapsody", but that's more of a crass juxtaposition than actually sneaking highbrow into pop. I would think Pet Sounds was sneaking in some sophistication. No?
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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby never/ever » 08 Dec 2018, 10:53

This is the only one that jumped in my mind... bit of symphonic vaudevillian escapades in the middle.

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Postby naughty boy » 08 Dec 2018, 15:07

Quaco wrote:Any others? Or is the question too boring/inane/unclear to respond to? :x


115 views!

my guess is that they're quietly composing their replies. Exciting time to be a BCBer!
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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby Tactful Cactus » 08 Dec 2018, 16:28

My one is probably more "pilfer" than sneak, but still, Eric Cartman tricks people into buying Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 2


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Postby Quaco » 08 Dec 2018, 16:51

Thanks guys!

The Carmen is a good shout.

never/ever, your link didn't work for me. What was it?
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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby Quaco » 08 Dec 2018, 16:51

SWIMMING POOL HARRINGTON wrote:
Quaco wrote:Any others? Or is the question too boring/inane/unclear to respond to? :x


115 views!

my guess is that they're quietly composing their replies. Exciting time to be a BCBer!

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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby hippopotamus » 08 Dec 2018, 17:02

Like Nina Simone sneaking a Bach fugue into Love me or Leave me?
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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby George P. Smackers » 08 Dec 2018, 17:09

I guess I always felt that way about mid-1960s Bob Dylan with the literary firehose turned on.

Really any hyper-"poetic" lyricist. Jim Morrison too ("highbrow" can include "terrible").

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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby Quaco » 08 Dec 2018, 18:06

George P. Smackers wrote:Really any hyper-"poetic" lyricist. Jim Morrison too ("highbrow" can include "terrible").

He was an interesting case because he was also a performance artist. Shock tactics, improvising poetry in front of 20,000 people -- takes a hell of a lot of guts.
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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby GoogaMooga » 08 Dec 2018, 18:11

some rap act - Prince Igor by Borodin
Beach Boys - Lady Lynda (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring)
The Toys - A Lover's Concerto (Minuet in G Major)
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Things that a fella can't forget...

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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby BARON CORNY DOG » 08 Dec 2018, 19:20

Only Joe Walsh is allowed to do this kind of stupid shit.

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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby Purgatory Brite » 08 Dec 2018, 19:38



Landfill indie meets ballet. One for the pseuds I reckon.

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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby never/ever » 08 Dec 2018, 19:57

Quaco wrote:Thanks guys!



The Carmen is a good shout.

never/ever, your link didn't work for me. What was it?


Mark & Clark Band- Worn Down Piano. Maybe this one works...



This one is a blast too.

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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby Matt Wilson » 08 Dec 2018, 20:01

Too many songs by ELP to list.

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Postby Darkness_Fish » 08 Dec 2018, 20:03

Revolution no 9.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.

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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby Quaco » 08 Dec 2018, 20:10

never/ever wrote:
Quaco wrote:Thanks guys!



The Carmen is a good shout.

never/ever, your link didn't work for me. What was it?


Mark & Clark Band- Worn Down Piano. Maybe this one works...


That's pretty wild stuff. Do you know, is all that original, or are they interpolating classical pieces into the song?
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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment

Postby never/ever » 08 Dec 2018, 20:18

It is original, written by twin brother Mark and Clark Seymour. It was a big hit in the Netherlands too.

All I further know is that Paul Shaffer played in the band.
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