Andrew Bird - Ravel - Live at Bonnaroo

[epeterc]

youtu (dot) be (slash) ZhN0RRlLhDg The original, written in 1903.

[apocrisia]

Could someone post the lyrics for this?

[BoxedxxFreak]

@apocrisia Ravel is a classical artist. I know this is late, but its a string quartet, not a song with lyrics.

[apocrisia]

@BoxedxxFreak Aware of that, trying to be funny... apparently I failed ;)

[BoxedxxFreak]

@apocrisia Yikes, it's only been three months since i posted that and I'm still embarrassed.......maybe I was just having a dumb day....beecause your joke was pretty obvious........more like I failed.

[apocrisia]

@BoxedxxFreak Well, unlike Andrew Bird, we're both only human.... :D

[Ishookbabyjesus]

my eyes are watering...beautiful.

[TrippyZanbato]

This sounds like The Supine on steroids.

I love this man.

[rosesredvioletsblue]

amazing!

excellent video.

[edusto]

(that was a reply to rollercoastermike's comment)

[shuckslbj]

Would everybody who claps rhythmically during songs at shows please shut the hell up? Thank you.

[ualrstudent]

haha I was thinking the exact same thing.

[bakingwithplath]

RIGHT??

[duckstreet]

maybe you should stay home and listen to MP3s. not everyone is a miserable fuck like you.

[sinnergonetohell]

Why?

Jealous you weren't there to participate?



[dvzqz87]

@shuckslbj why they like it, they were in time and it sounded good?

[trufiend138]

@shuckslbj i dont mind the claps as long as there on beat and just in beginning of song...

[fashionandmusic921]

OMG!

I just discovered this guy in Anthropologie w/ the song Tables and Chairs...

never would I have imagined that he'd weave one of my fave classical pieces into his songs.

this is quite cool!!! :D I love him already.

[heyjas0n]

he's a genius...

[mostlyharmless11]

ah, sorry - i meant "the supine" by andrew bird, not cataracts.

[mostlyharmless11]

i see what he's doing. it's sort of like a homage i think. the beginning pizzicatos are from the second movement of ravel's string quartet, but it leads itself into "cataracts" from his album armchair apocrypha. maybe it's like a showing of influence or maybe this is where cataracts first came from, but he liked the part he made to it enough to make it his own song. go listen to cataracts and you'll see what i mean. they're in the same key.

[sunlightremixed]

Thank you, i was wondering how it related to ravel. And yeah it's the supine :)

[KarenBerninger]

XDDDDD

[pallrokkfilm]

it is ravel. string quartet in f major. performed by ysaye quartet on the tenenbaums soundtrack.

[jewishconsortium]

I don't think this is Ravel, I think its part of the Mark Mothersborough soundtrack from The Royal Tennenbaums.

[bellsforceles]

it's the only quartet Ravel ever wrote, and it's very famous. It gets compared a lot to Debussy's string quartet, which is coincidentally the only string quartet that Debussy ever wrote. Personally I think Ravel's is better.

[narrowarrows]

Ravels string quartet is great, but it doesn't even compare to Debussy's quartet (which it certainly borrowed from). That being said, Andrew Bird is a god for even playing this. He is a gift to the world.

[dancetoska]

*facepalm*

[tippytootagon]

Brilliant!

[edusto]

this is so excellent.

andrew bird is a genius.

[rollercoastermike]

you mean maurice ravel is a genuis?

[edusto]

no.

[edusto]

andrew bird only loops the first two bars of the second section of ravel's string quartet and then improvises over it, with much less resources than ravel had, not being limited to looping parts.

of course ravel is the immortal genius, but my comment meant the geniality of mr. bird with his beautifully constructed loops and improvisations