Showing posts with label Rocking Children's Choruses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rocking Children's Choruses. Show all posts

03 January 2007

We've Covered the Flute, What About the Children's Chorus?

The other very rock n roll trope that shouldn't be rock n roll at all (besides violins) is the Children's Chorus.

The use of said device reached its apogee in the late 80s/early 90s, it's a gimmick not deployed as often anymore. Just three examples here, let's not go crazy with these YouTube posts here.



Come on, you know you wanted Martika back in the day. Cheesy? Yes. Pretty sweet anyway? Hell yes. Probably the main song I was thinking of when thinking of this gimmick.



I've never bought a Smiths album. I never had to, usually had a girlfriend who owned one or two at least (never liked full on 'goth chicks' but always had a thing for 'goth-lite chicks'). The Marr/Morrisey collaboration produced some amazing songs. Love hearing the kids singing 'hang the DJ'.



I'm leaving out plenty of good choices, but you get the idea already, and any list tackling this subject would be inadequate if it didn't have a little Pink Floyd.

Now go eat your pudding, you've earned it (even if you skipped eating your meat, I guess that makes me a sensualist).