good music with violins.
 

I'm looking for some good songs that have violins in them. I'm up for anything. I would prefer music with vocals, but other than that, I'm up for any genre... in fact, I'd probably like to have a wide variety.

thanks in advance

-Lane Mcbride

Re: good music with violins.
 

yellowcard plays watered down pop punk with a violin which plays many melody, as well as lead/solo lines.

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Mahavishnu Orchestra ... Jazz Fusion

Inner Mounting Flame... is their classic album

Apocalypse... is a mix of jazz fusion and with an orchestra... more classical... but still different

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Bob Dylan - Hurricane (and the rest of the album Desire)

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nigel kennedy does lots of good stuff with violins. Standard classical stuff. And his jazz project is good too.

The string arrangement to Frozen by Madonna is good too. But that might not be violins.

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Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in e is GREAT.

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search vanessa mae.

she's a violinist who does a wide range of stuff, from fairly traditional performances to more pop oriented stuff to flat out techno with violins. the techno is mostly very dire, but her traditional stuff and her more pop oriented stuff is very good.

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I really like Diplo's Big Lost, it's a sort of instrumental hip hop with a lot of violin.

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I have the album you're looking for -- R.E.M.'s "Automatic For the People." It's a pop/rock vocal album by an amazingly talented group where virtually every song has violins/cellos in it. The string arrangements were done by John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin. The entire album has a beautifully slow, evocative feel -- for particular tracks, go for "Drive," "Nightswimming," and "Sweetness Follows" for the best violin sounds. All have great vocals as well.

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Jean-Luc Ponty . No vocals, though.

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ants marching

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Anything by Miri Ben-Ari if you're into Hip-Hop, I really enjoy 'Live It Up' with John Legend or 'Fly Away.'

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Clann Zu - Rua

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Anything by Dirty Three. They are a 3 piece from Melbourne: violin, drums, guitar, no vocals. Haunting melodies, frenetic parts, very improvisational sounding, but not jazzy. I love it.

I would rate their albums best to worst:

Horse Stories
Ocean Songs
She Has No Strings Apollo
Dirty Three
Whatever You Love, You Are

KJS

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Yeah, Yellowcard is awesome.

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Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: Western Swing

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Try to find The Section Quartet. Saw them at Coachella this year and they were really cool. String Quartet who plays covers of well known rock songs. Their cover of a radiohead song (can't remember which right now) was amazing.

No vocals.

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Classical Music- imo best violin song EVER is the Beethoven Violin Concerto. I f'in LOOVE that song.

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vivaldi - 4 seasons

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From the Friday Night Lights soundtrack, Your Hand in Mine by The Explosions in the Sky is a good song. The original version doesn't have strings, though.

Re: good music with violins.
 

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Classical Music- imo best violin song EVER is the Beethoven Violin Concerto. I f'in LOOVE that song.

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Agreed-best version imo

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1...ethoven8dt.jpg

Re: good music with violins.
 

so far so good. i really like some of the suggestions you guys have given.

anything else? a couple others I liked...
bright eyes, lover I don't have to love
fort minor, remember the name
aerosmith, amazing
bon jovi, always
prince, purple rain
bush, glycerine
bubba sparxx, deliverance
the used, lunacy fringe (though I don't know what to call that type of string)

thanks again. I really appreciate it. It's tough to find a music when you are looking for an instrument not a type or an artist.

and come to think of it... anything close to a violin would be great too... cello, viola, maybe even any orchestra type

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from memory...(a couple might just have weird synthesizer crap though [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img])

goo goo dolls - iris
smashing pumpkins - tonight, tonight
smashing pumpkins - disarm
metallica - nothing else matters

probably not what you're looking for..but all good [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

EDIT: oh and blink182 - i miss you

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Hybrid-Unfinished Symphony
Samuel Barber-Adagio for Strings

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ants marching

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Are the opening notes made by a fiddle/harmonica combo? I couldn't place the instrument(s), although the above is the opinion which was offered by my former mother-in-law, who is a semi-professional musician.

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Hybrid - Finished Symphony
(my all-time favourite violin/electronica piece of music)

They Might be Giants - Istanbul
Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

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Andrew Bird. Seriously.

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Paganini - all

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I have the album you're looking for -- R.E.M.'s "Automatic For the People." It's a pop/rock vocal album by an amazingly talented group where virtually every song has violins/cellos in it. The string arrangements were done by John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin. The entire album has a beautifully slow, evocative feel -- for particular tracks, go for "Drive," "Nightswimming," and "Sweetness Follows" for the best violin sounds. All have great vocals as well.

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No [censored], I don't think I knew that. Or perhaps I did and forgot. Anyways, the man is talented.

Check out his song "Snake Eyes" off his album Zooma. EDIT: I was referring to John Paul Jones, not REM.

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Did you say fiddle?

David Bromberg - New Lee Highway Blues

and almost forgot

Hot Tuna - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning

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Did you say fiddle?

David Bromberg - New Lee Highway Blues

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If fiddlin' is kosher, check out Dutch band Serras:
Serras - K2 (Hosted by band, audio only)

and The Dixie Dregs

Dixie Dregs - Patchwork (Youtube, audio & video)