Andrew Lloyd Weber and Van Dyke Parks

[Bicyclerider]

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?

[Theydon Bois]

Never before have I clicked on a thread title with such a lurching sense of trepidation about the horrors that might be unveiled.

[ontor pertawst]

That's what I was fearing too. "Please God, no... not that... don't be that..." (CLICK) PHEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Emily]

Terrifying!

[nakostopoulos]

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.

[Emily]

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.

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.