Symphonic Rock | 
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Label: Angel Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 73012
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 66478
UPC: 724386647825
EAN: 0724386647825
ASIN: B0002T7ZM0
Release Date: September 7, 2004
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Come Away With Me (originally by Norah Jones) | | • | Yellow (originally by Coldplay) | | • | Here With Me (originally by Dido) | | • | Millennium (originally by Robbie Williams) | | • | Hero (originally by Enrique Iglesius) | | • | What Can I Do (originally by The Corrs) | | • | Flying Without Wings (originally by Westlife) | | • | Everybody Hurts (originally by REM) | | • | Every Breath You Take (originally by The Police) | | • | Let It Be (originally by The Beatles) | | • | A Whiter Shade Of Pale (originally by Procol Harum) | | • | Nights In White Satin (originally by The Moody Blues) | | • | Candle In The Wind (originally by Elton John) | | • | Imagine (originally by John Lennon) |
Disc 2
| • | Beautiful Day (originally by U2) | | • | Champagne Supernova (originally by Oasis) | | • | Handbags & Gladrags (originally by Stereophonics) | | • | Why Does It Always Rain On Me (originally by Travis) | | • | Livin' On A Prayer (originally by Bon Jovi) | | • | Layla (originally by Derek & The Dominos) | | • | Stairway To Heaven (originally by Led Zeppelin) | | • | Bat Out Of Hell (originally by Meat Loaf) | | • | Run To You (originally by Bryan Adams) | | • | China In Your Hand (originally by T'Pau) | | • | Torn (originally by Natalie Imbruglia) | | • | Bittersweet Symphony (originally by The Verve) | | • | Good Vibrations (originally by The Beach Boys) | | • | Bohemian Rhapsody (originally by Queen) |
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| Customer Reviews:
 symphonic rock December 27, 2008
W. Bulmer (high river alberta canada)
amazing versions of [ stairway to heaven ] and [ bat out of hell ] and [ nights in white satin ] overall i am very pleased with this purchase.
 Great Sound May 19, 2008
A. Morris (Augusta, GA USA)
Ok, this album is not for everyone, it is only for those who truly appreciate music and know how to reconize truly good sounding music. It isn't exactly what I would cruise down the road with the windows down and turned up loud - but it is superb for relaxing at home, chilling, working and not wanting some loud screaming of lyrics or talking in general to interrupt your workflow (if you are like me and don't like dead silence when working, this is PERFECT!) As a matter-in-fact I have it playing right now as I type this.....give it a shot, but only if you are a true music lover!
Good background music February 8, 2008
C. Jagen (Woodridge, IL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good CD for background music for just hanging around or having a party of any sort.
 Non-classic September 11, 2007
Thomas Ley (Zuerich Switzerland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Once upon a time (at the end of the 70s) the London Symphony Orchestra had the idea of producing "classic" or rather orchestral versions of classic rock and pop songs. They made five essential albums from 1977 to 1984. A huge success.
Alas, the label "classic rock" or "rock classics" or "symphonic rock" is all over the place these days. It had started after the LSO's initial success: Everybody suddenly recorded similar albums which quickly deteriorated into easy listening. While the first five albums interpreted true classic songs from the Beatles or the Who or Pink Floyd or even Rock'n'Roll or some traditional songs ("House of the Rising Sun", for instance) the "new" symphonic rockers just took songs from the top of the pops of the day.
But worst of all was the dumbing down of the arrangements. It shows with this recording here. These are just instrumentals, faithful replays of the original songs, same rythm, same sound (complete with synthesizers), even same length. It's just plainly boring and most of the time much worse than the original pop songs.
And it's not what the original idea was all about: to discover the symphonic quality of modern pieces - how would the classical composers have dealt with the same musical material? In the first LSO arrangements were hints of Ravel and Gershwin and Elgar and Holst, even some avantgarde techniques. Ever compared the Boomtown Rats' "I don't like mondays" with the wonderful and disturbing 10-minute-monster the LSO made of it? Or heard the all-strings-version of "Whole lotta love"? Or the Bolero-version of "You really got me"?
And then everybody, including the LSO, started to make some sort of James Last meets Lloyd Webber. The temptation to make a quick buck was just to much, I guess. So skip this one, look for the true classic Classic Rock. They are not hard to find.
 Nothing extraordinary August 18, 2007
M. Embry
I was a bit disappointed with this CD. There are some songs on this playlist that should have blown away the listener but that was not the case. The music, at best, is background music, certainly nothing to savor and play and play again. If anything, this CD makes one listen to the true classics of Beethoven, Dvorak, Vivaldi, Mozart and others.
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