Favorite Rock Song with Orchestra Accompaniment:

[CW]

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

[2dueces]

"Tuesday's Gone" Skynard

[Michael B]

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

[tlhss]

Styx’s Tommy Shaw with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra.

https://youtu.be/ASYITWvBV-4

[goldenage]

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.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by CW

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

Wow. That was great. Thank you.

[Seven]

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

[Shoeless Moe]

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.

[BengoughingForAwhile]

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.

[DHogan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xriCZzyaC7Q

[Jason Carota]

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

[carlsonjok]

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

[carlsonjok]

Originally Posted by Jason Carota

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

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.