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Sorry, but as someone who can embrace cheesiness with the best of them, this never did anything for me. Louis Clark who did it was better off helping Jeff Lynne put the orchestral parts together for the classic ELO sound. And he performed live with the band. I believe I may have seen him perform with the ELO Part II derivative 'The Orchestra' at Sheffield City Hall in the 90s or around the early 2000s.
I did enjoy for a time electronic interpretations of classic music from the likes of Tomita and Walter/Wendy Carlos. But I was never hooked on Hooked On Classics..
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Sorry, but as someone who can embrace cheesiness with the best of them, this never did anything for me. ...
I fully endorse this opinion - the mall-playing Recordman mentioned drove Me NUTS! Ok, probably because I was quite the musical snob at age 20 about Classical music, and because I loathed disco.
These days I actually listen on Spotify to the Hooked on Swing albums with Larry Elgart, enjoy those a lot. But though I've mellowed a lot (which means I listen to a lot of disposable crap, god bless it all!), I still can't get into the Classics albums. Also because I know where the music goes, so I don't want snippets, I want it to continue....!
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Yes- all three albums. Bought the set on CD a few years ago.
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Sorry, but as someone who can embrace cheesiness with the best of them, this never did anything for me. ...
I fully endorse this opinion - the mall-playing Recordman mentioned drove Me NUTS! Ok, probably because I was quite the musical snob at age 20 about Classical music, and because I loathed disco.
These days I actually listen on Spotify to the Hooked on Swing albums with Larry Elgart, enjoy those a lot. But though I've mellowed a lot (which means I listen to a lot of disposable crap, god bless it all!), I still can't get into the Classics albums. Also because I know where the music goes, so I don't want snippets, I want it to continue....!
And it's the cheesiest way ever of recording classical music. Easy listening pushed to the max. No real creativity like the work of say, Tomita who was really trying to adapt it all into something a little different. Mall playing is exactly how I felt it should be treated, because it's really more muzak than music. I can imagine I actually bought my groceries whilst this stuff was playing over the supermarket speakers. Lift/elevator music indeed.
Of course I do understand it's effectiveness on some. Nostalgia may be one reason. And to think Louis Clark gave ELO some inspired orchestral sounds! In fact, I'm a little surprised that Jeff Lynne together with Clark didn't venture into some film music work. And no I don't mean Xanadu! Now there's a cheesy film that I like at least half the music for..
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