I Get Around
Jan. 31st, 2010 03:40 pmSome... curious choices of songs. They did all the stuff you expect - California Girls, Good Vibrations, Wouldn't It Be Nice, Fun Fun Fun - but also a buch of pretty obscure stuff, including Be True to Your School - which was actually kind of funny, since that song's been something of a private joke for me and my friends, mainly because it's so not very good...
The weird thing is just how much they sound like themselves. I mean, sure, who else would they sound like - but they sound *exactly* like themselves from forty, fifty years ago. It's incredible.
Space Classics at the MSO
Jun. 22nd, 2008 03:56 pm
Still, the music was very good, though there were some questionable choices of music – the Thunderbirds theme? Personally, I don’t see why they didn’t just make it a John Williams night – half the music they played was from Star Wars, plus they did ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the Superman theme – they could easily have dropped the token Star Trek theme and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and replaced them with, say, Jaws or the Indiana Jones theme…
I also think it was rather a mistake to include a performance of Duel of the Fates – I mean, it was very good, but it is missing something without the choir… And some of the other Star Wars choices were odd – Jabba the Hutt’s theme? Still, they did the opening and closing credits, Vader’s theme, and Yoda’s theme, as well as a few pieces from Attack of the Clones which I didn’t recognise, but which sounded good…