Strings

While watching the finale to this season's So You Think You Can Dance, the last group piece, choreographed by Mia Michaels (the most talented contemporary choreographer alongside Wade Robson) was performed to a Vitamin String Quartet cover of Hallelujah to great effect.

You would not have recognized it as a Paramore tune, unless you're a fan of punk pop, in which case I would implore you to listen to something else. I didn't recognize it as a cover until I googled around a bit. It was certainly a beautiful piece of music (the cover, that is, not the original which I had the misfortune of finding on YouTube).

Well I must have been living under a rock because this "Quartet", actually a protean group of string artists under the Vitamin label, have been creating cover albums for quite awhile now and their library is amazingly extensive, spanning all genres from David Bowie to Radiohead to ... Disturbed. It literally runs the gamut, and I'm still digging through their collection.

One of my readers will be interested to know that they've made no less then four Foo Fighters tribute albums.

At the moment I'm pondering whether to buy the Bowie or the Massive Attack tribute. That's right, Massive Attack. And yes, it owns.

Most if not all of their albums are fully streamable on Lastfm. Yes, this includes one of the Foo Fighters tributes (/eyeroll).

What eyeroll?