Hooked On The Classics

Hooked On The Classics

Sorry for missing out last week--I've been kind of busy. I'm making it up to you with this one.

Hey Jim--Remember the other day, when you were all, "Wouldn't it be awesome to take the best of disco, and combine it with the melodic hooks from the best of classical music?" No worries--I've got you covered. "Hooked on the Classics" were a series of albums conceived and produced by Louis Clark, who also conducted the British Philharmonic Orchestra in their execution. Prior to this little brainchild of his, Clark arranged songs for ELO and conducted their strings backing. The results are pretty shocking.

He made a preposterous amount of tracks based around this one idea--Hooked on Mozart, Hooked on Beethoven, Hooked on Baroque--these are all real titles. But this, the original Hooked on The Classics, remains his magnum opus.

God knows why, but I absolutely loved this shit when I was like ten. Took me hours of searching a couple years back before I was able to figure out the name of whatever the hell I remembered listening to as a kid...but when the 1812 Overture kicks in straight out of the March of the Toreadors, and that beat just keeps on grooving--it was all worth it.