Favorite Rock Song with Orchestra Accompaniment:
 

Billy Joel- The Ballad of Billy the Kid



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If I had to pick one it would be:

Collective Soul - 'She Said'

You cannot have this conversation without mentioning:

Mason Williams - 'Classical Gas'

I would also consider

ELO - 'Fire on High', 'Turn to Stone', 'Mr. Blue Sky'
Collective Soul - 'Run'

The words to 'Run' are very apropos to our current chaos:

Are these times contagious
I've never been this bored before
Is this the prize I've waited for
Now as the hours passing
There's nothing left here to insure
I long to find the messenger.

Is there a cure among us?
From this processed sanity?
I weaken with each voice that sings
In this world of purchase
I'm gonna buy back memories
To awaken some old qualities

November Rain - Guns n Roses

Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Touch me - The Doors

We'll endorse Michael's nomination of ELO.
Also, Moody Blues, "Nights in White Satin" and the entire Days of Future Passed album.
But especially Elton John's early material with those fantastic Paul Buckmaster string arrangements --
"Your Song," "Madman Across the Water," "Levon," "Burn Down the Mission," many more...

I have to add another one that popped into my head as I was out on a 4½ mile walk at 5 am in 30º weather - Great to be alive.

Procol Harum w/ the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra - Conquistador

Everything that ELO ever did.

this

Kashmir. Led Zeppelin
A Day in the Life. Beatles
A Man Needs a Maid. Neil Young
Expecting to Fly. Buffalo Springfield
Burn Down the Mission. Elton John

"The Rain Song" by Zeppelin, although in reality the 'orchestra' was simulated by Page, et al.

From wikipedia: "With a working title of "Slush", a reference to its easy listening simulated orchestral arrangement..."

Gimme more...giving alexa a workout!


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S&M (concert) METALLICA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GEwdzDnNps

Great for driving at night...........and if you need to bury a body.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra is best known for their Christmas albums. All filled with classical music, 'The Christmas Attic' is my favorite. I have a rule that they can only be listened to from the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas.

However, their rock opera 'Beethoven's Last Night' is a fictitious story of Mephistopheles coming to collect his soul the night before he died. He was working on his 10th symphony which went unfinished. As with all of their albums it is filled with classical music. Not just Beethoven, but also Mozart, Chopin and Rimsky-Korsakov.

I don't think mentioned yet:

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve

Yesterday - Beatles (only a string quartet, but...)

This is a video, but Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) doing "Whiter Shade of Pale" with a full orchestra. It's freakin' good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6jyEFe5WM

Gutter Ballet by Savatage

THIS! Not only an accompaniment, but a LIVE accompaniment. The entire album is great.

I don't think Renaissance has gotten any love yet, but their orchestral music is worth a listen. Plus Annie Haslam's voice is a thing of beauty

Here's a good one....

NOFX playing their 18 minute epic "The Decline" with an orchestra at Red Rocks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWhy8PCuGsk

"Tuesday's Gone" Skynard

Justin Hayward - "Forever Autumn" from the 1977 'War of the Worlds' soundtrack.

Blue Collar Man
 

Styx’s Tommy Shaw with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra.

https://youtu.be/ASYITWvBV-4

Knights in White Satin and November Rain are fantastic songs mentioned above. So are the mentions of EL as in ELO and ELton John.

Was just thinking that even though Ian Anderson is well know for playing the flute, Jethro Tull may not have a famous song that could qualify for this topic.

Procol
 

WOW, this version was so good, as you previewed!!
This could have been a big hit even in 2006 ,I was astounded on how good a voice he still has, and the musical accompaniment hit on all cylinders!

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Theme

By the Danish National Symphony (or Orchestra?)

Seeing it on YouTube is worth a few minutes.;)

Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, with the USC Trojan Marching Band.

Steve

Great picks everyone! The Cranberries "Linger" is one of my favorite orchestral soft rock tunes.

Not a full on orchestra but a good song nonetheless.

"Under Your Scars" - Godsmack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng7QrYgdItQ

Always been a sucker for Tuesday Afternoon by the Moody Blues.

Madman is awesome. Also love Funeral for a Friend

Kansas
 

Dust In The Wind

Eleanor Rigby, with the strings playing Bach.

No Leaf Clover by Metallica

They did an entire album with the San Francisco Symphony called S&M.

"November Rain" by Guns and Roses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE

:cool:

Disturbed. The sound of Silence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk7RVw3I8eg

:cool:

Songs with Orchestra
 

You Know My Name- Chris Cornell

I saw a video of Tommy Shaw of Styx playing "Fooling Yourself" with an orchestra. It was awesome!!!

This one, Bobby?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpYHgbjOIq0

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That Tommy Shaw version with the kids orchestra is great.
I come here to find new, interesting things to listen to (this thread and the other that is titled “perfect”.

You guys don’t disappoint!

The Terrapin Station Suite by the Good ol' Grateful Dead.

Wow. That was great. Thank you.

I loved Heart's Cover of Stairway to Heaven, at the Kennedy Center.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxOaDeJmXk

Anything that Jeff Lynne has touched with ELO. If I had to give specifics, turn to stone, and telephone line are wonderful.

For something a little less traditional, Tommy Shaw of Styx performed Renegade, accompanied by an Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BoGWTO7BVA

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rEV...&start_radio=1


Neeley goes toe-to-toe with Tom Araya for greatest scream ever at the 3:04 mark.

XTC- Green Man. Great song by a greatly underappreciated band. This song will be stuck in my brain for the rest of my life lol.

Nightwish - "Shudder Before the Beautiful," from the album Endless Forms Most Beautiful.

I came here to mention the S&M album by Metallica, but some someone else already mentioned it, I'll go with "Hallelujah" by k.d. lang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE

I had to comment on this because 1) Nightwish is symphonic metal and 2) Endless Forms Most Beautiful is a reference to Charles Darwin.

I used to participate on the Panda's Thumb forum, a discussion board not unlike net54,but dedicated to the science of evolution and the associated culture wars. One of the people I encountered there, and remains an internet friend to this day, is the founder/main composer/keyboardist of the French symphonic metal band, Fairyland. I've heard that they are very similar to Nightwish.