Artist	Song
Camper Van Beethoven	Pictures of Matchstick Men (violin)
Peter Murphy	Cuts You Up (viola)
Siouxsie & the Banshees	Fireworks (strings)
Echo & the Bunnymen	Nocturnal Me (strings)
Mission UK	Garden of Delight {Hereafter} (strings)
Depeche Mode	One Caress (strings)
Smashing Pumpkins	Disarm (strings)
Bush	Glycerine (strings)
Unkle & Richard Ashcroft	Lonely Souls (strings)
Love & Rockets	No New Tale to Tell (flute)
REM	Nightswimming (oboe)
Seal	Kiss from a Rose (oboe)
Primal Scream	Get Duffy (bass clarinet, sax, & trumpet)
Psychedelic Furs	It Goes On (saxophone)
English Beat	I Confess (saxophone & trumpet)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones	The Impression That I Get (saxes & brass)
Sublime	Wrong Way (trombone)
Buck-O-Nine	My Town (brass & trombone solo)

Comment:

I'm a classical musician, so I always like to hear orchestral instruments mixed with rock. I don't listen to classical music as much as I do rock because I'd rather be playing it. But hearing these instruments makes songs sound very interesting because the instruments are heard in an unconventional setting. Yah, the saxophone isn't a
"conventional" orchestra member, but it sounds very cool in symphonic pieces like Ravel/Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition & Gershwin - Porgy & Bess, for example. And now some personal notes: Songs with strings in them I knew off the top of my head. The woodwinds were very tricky...I had to think harder about those. I played oboe in high school also (& still do occassionally), & would play along to that oboe part in the REM song :-) Then later my brother asked me to play the oboe part to the Seal song. It was pretty easy to think of songs with brass in them, I just went back to the ska invasion of '97. I'd still love to hear some others...new
& old, so gimme more suggestions! Esp. ones with flute... which is what I play :-)

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