🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[lingus60]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

ELO: Living thing

 

[TXRafe]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

Their third album, Forever Changes, is considered by many to be one of the best albums ever made. But Love didn’t have any great hits, they only had great songs. When I first heard this album, I actually didn’t like it much. But it grew on me a lot over the years…

This whole album has orchestral arrangements and string arrangements. When I was 14 or 15 my sister’s boyfriend turned me onto a lot of good music, including Love.

I actually liked their earlier stuff, which was a little bit more garage and more rock like.

Anyway, I think this is the best song on one of the best records ever made. A guy who likes move-forward 4/4 rock and punk, the arrangements starting at 2:00 and continuing thru the song are unbefuckinglievable.

There are people wearing frowns who'll screw you up
But they would rather screw you down
At my request I ask for nothing
You get nothing in return
If you're nice she'll bring me water
If you're not then I will burn

Live version here. Just as amazing. Forever Changes

 

[lavendersilk]

No Cacophony of Sound Here ...Just Pure Sax .......Wait for It

Probably my favorite song of their's.

 

[baise]

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments

An old Édith Piaf song that Céline Dion sang at the Paris Olympics. I couldn’t find a video from the Olympics with the lyrics (only had time for a quick search), so this is her singing the same song in 2016 in support of France after the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. This has the English lyrics superimposed, for those who need them.

 

[orangecurious]

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments

Nightswimming - r.e.m.
I usually go with the first thing that pops in my head, then i went around in loops before returning to this... strings arranged by the wonderful John Paul Jones. This is my "end of summer" head filler, "September's coming soon". Saw them play this on a lovely summer evening in the open air in Rome, ending with Stipe sitting on the piano as Mills finished the song.

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments

Mandolin, guitar, fiddle and bass.

Scotch & Chocolate - Nickel Creek

 

[Grant55]

Day 7: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5

 

[vagrantx]

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments

Wintergatan. The Winter Street, Swedish for Milky Way.

First time I saw this video I was dumbstruck. I can't even fathom the amount of engineering, fine tuning, trial-and-error that goes into creating a completely new instrument, an automaton, from scratch.

I guess it's technically a string instrument?
The machine has cannibalized a bass guitar.

Wintergatan - Marble Machine

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments
I mean... most bands feature a guitar or something like that somewhere.
This band brings a cello.
"Dirty Imbecile" - The Happy Fits

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments

Wintergatan. The Winter Street, Swedish for Milky Way.

First time I saw this video I was dumbstruck. I can't even fathom the amount of engineering, fine tuning, trial-and-error that goes into creating a completely new instrument, an automaton, from scratch.

I guess it's technically a string instrument?
The machine has cannibalized a bass guitar.

Wintergatan - Marble Machine

Good lord. That is fucking amazing. Thank you for sharing that.

I love machines.

 

[morelikeasong]

I mean... most bands feature a guitar or something like that somewhere.

I think last time I added the caveat that a guitar didn’t count I figured this time I’d let people be boring if they want, but I think most people are working with the spirit of the prompt

 

[vagrantx]

Good lord. That is fucking amazing. Thank you for sharing that.

I love machines.

If you're curious about the machine itself, he does have two how-it-works videos! I think the most shocking thing to me is that the snare-drum gets its sound from a tub of uncooked basmati rice! Getting some serious mad-scientist vibes from him.

 

[Bry1313]

Day 7 - Song featuring strings
You want strings, I’ll give you strings

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments

Wintergatan. The Winter Street, Swedish for Milky Way.

First time I saw this video I was dumbstruck. I can't even fathom the amount of engineering, fine tuning, trial-and-error that goes into creating a completely new instrument, an automaton, from scratch.

I guess it's technically a string instrument?
The machine has cannibalized a bass guitar.

Wintergatan - Marble Machine

What is remarkable to me isn't The Machine -- lots of people make clockwork novelty instruments and make videos. What's remarkable to me is that the song is absolutely lovely.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

What is remarkable to me isn't The Machine -- lots of people make clockwork novelty instruments and make videos. What's remarkable to me is that the song is absolutely lovely.

If you check the how-it-works video, you can hear the difference between the room-mics and the line-audio from the instruments and how completely different they are, BUT that he managed to consciously incorporate some of the room-sounds into the song and made them feel like perfect pieces of the puzzle. Like the grinding gears, the spinning fly-wheel, the ratcheting of the conveyor belts...

Musically it's so damn pleasing

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

Guitar, drums, cello. And they rock it.

"Mary," The Happy Fits

 

[Apisto42]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

 

[curious_slut]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

I'll say it, the violin family is the sexiest. Such a tough choice. The strings at about 5 minutes in send me, they're simply gorgeous.

Andrew Bird - Bloodless

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments
I mean... most bands feature a guitar or something like that somewhere.
This band brings a cello.
"Dirty Imbecile" - The Happy Fits

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

Guitar, drums, cello. And they rock it.

"Mary," The Happy Fits

I have not heard this band before. Thank you for making the introduction.

I like!

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

Thunderstruck by Steve'n'Seagulls​

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

A heart breaker song, and Lady's choice
I Was Such a Fool, by the Flamingos

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments

Mandolin, guitar, fiddle and bass.

Scotch & Chocolate - Nickel Creek

I love Nickle Creek and you beat me to them. Bad Purple!

 

[SluttyShannon]

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments