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Title: Andrew Lloyd Weber and Van Dyke Parks Post by: Bicyclerider on December 13, 2015, 06:52:35 AM On the CBS Sunday Morning show today ALW was interviewed about his new show School of Rock. In the background behind him - the cover of Song Cycle on the wall, quite prominent. Who knew he was a fan of what is a fairly obscure album?
Title: Re: Andrew Lloyd Weber and Van Dyke Parks Post by: Theydon Bois on December 13, 2015, 07:16:18 AM Never before have I clicked on a thread title with such a lurching sense of trepidation about the horrors that might be unveiled.
Title: Re: Andrew Lloyd Weber and Van Dyke Parks Post by: ontor pertawst on December 13, 2015, 07:17:14 AM That's what I was fearing too. "Please God, no... not that... don't be that..." (CLICK) PHEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Title: Re: Andrew Lloyd Weber and Van Dyke Parks Post by: Emily on December 13, 2015, 08:37:11 AM Terrifying!
Title: Re: Andrew Lloyd Weber and Van Dyke Parks Post by: nakostopoulos on December 13, 2015, 12:16:21 PM Alright then...guess somebody's gotta do it:
Webber's first decade is full of magnificent pop treasures; Jesus Christ Superstar has some tasty, dirty riffs--sung by Ian Gillian of Deep Purple, no less. It's only when he began writing rather watered down pseudo-Romantic Euro-pop, in a desperate attempt to gain critical credibility (and even MORE money) that he shows his limits as a composer. But, jeez, through and until "Evita"... Colm friggin' Wilkinson--the original Jean Valjean, brings in the funk at 2:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFYgRIGHg6Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFYgRIGHg6Q). Title: Re: Andrew Lloyd Weber and Van Dyke Parks Post by: Emily on December 13, 2015, 12:49:39 PM Alright then...guess somebody's gotta do it: I like a lot of Andrew Lloyd Webber's work, and a lot of Van Dyke Park's. But they are both over-the-top and together would just be awful, I think. Webber's first decade is full of magnificent pop treasures; Jesus Christ Superstar has some tasty, dirty riffs--sung by Ian Gillian of Deep Purple, no less. It's only when he began writing rather watered down pseudo-Romantic Euro-pop, in a desperate attempt to gain critical credibility (and even MORE money) that he shows his limits as a composer. But, jeez, through and until "Evita"... Colm friggin' Wilkinson--the original Jean Valjean, brings in the funk at 2:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFYgRIGHg6Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFYgRIGHg6Q). |