String Quartet Covers Animal Collective, No Age, In Rainbows - MP3

June 5, 2009

String Quartet Covers Animal Collective, No Age, In Rainbows • Listen to bits of the Vitamin String Quartet's takes on "Eraser" and "Banshee Beat" (among other indie favorites) here and In Rainbows there. Nervous, Apocalyptica?

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Tags: Animal Collective | No Age | Radiohead | Vitamin String Quartet

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5 Comments

The no age song is actually pretty cool. No Age by a string quartet - think about it!

Posted by: jim at 06/05/09 2:57 PM | Reply
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the decemberists track is nice. their music translates really well into orchestral style.

Posted by: taylor at 06/05/09 3:08 PM | Reply
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am i alone in thinking these sound really cheesy?

Posted by: john b at 06/06/09 12:53 PM | Reply
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The Radiohead's covers sound very bad and aren't indispensable !! Yorke and Greenwood have done very very goog string versions of their music themselves !

Posted by: flo at 06/07/09 5:05 PM | Reply
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I'm a violinist, and i've got to say...string quartet arrangements of pop music NEVER sound good. They can make the music itself sound pretty cool, but the first violin always ends up playing the vocal melodies and it sucks that way. I don't think vocal melodies have ever sounded good on violin--yes the violin is able to emulate the human voice very well, but that's more of an opera style singing voice--singers in bands don't use very much vibrato and violinists do. And let's be honest, violins don't really sound that great without vibrato. So the whole "first violin gets the vocal part" never really ends up sounding like anything but straight up cheese.

Posted by: Clayton Tillotson at 06/07/09 7:35 PM | Reply
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