Jesus Christ Superstar - classic or dud?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

What's the buzz, tell me what's a-happenin'...

― Lady Grinning Soul, Thursday, 18 September 2003 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Why should you want to know?

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 18 September 2003 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't you care about the future?

Classic, but it's like one of those Buddhist koans: how can something be classic when it's written by Andrew Lloyd Webber?

― Lady Grinning Soul, Thursday, 18 September 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Class
Pure Class, is still one of my top 50 albums ever

Especially the recording with Ian Gillan

― actionjackson, Thursday, 18 September 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

yep the film version is in my top 20 too. amazing still.
there's a thread about this somewhere.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 18 September 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I propose alternate casting for a new 'fantasy' recording of the soundtrack:

David Yow--Jesus, or Judas
William Bennet--Pontius Pilate
Cat Chan--Mary Magdalin
No Neck Blues Band or Acid Mothers Temple--Disciples
Onieda--temple elders

crucifixion and overture reworked by Steven Stapleton

others?

― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Thursday, 18 September 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Scratch Acid did "Damned for all time" & the Cows did my favorite JCS cover - "39 lashes", with heaps of ungodly screaming.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 18 September 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Laibach to thread, goddammit!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 18 September 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

(er, that's not a good thing)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 18 September 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jeepers Creepers Semi Star": CLASSIC. Search, search, search.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 18 September 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hey Jeepers, check this shit ou-w-t!"

― J (Jay), Thursday, 18 September 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic, just cause the long hair and flowing robes say so.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Friday, 19 September 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes unbearably histrionic, sometimes sublimely histrionic, but classic because all the kids I knew who raised Baptist cite the movie/album/play as a major step towards finding their own decent compromise between the secular and the sacred.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 19 September 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

fourteen years pass...

well this seems... inevitable

http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles-theater/news/alice-cooper-to-play-king-herod_83424.html/

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 December 2017 03:06 (eight years ago)

six years pass...

by accident i ended up watching this on bbc2 a few weeks ago and realised just how insanely brilliant the film soundtrack is.

― mark e, Thursday, 14 March 2024 21:24 (two years ago)

is that the 70s film adaptation? it was on over Christmas and I was surprised at how extemely vivid/lurid it is. also the guy who played Judas was just incredible in terms of performance / voice.

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 14 March 2024 21:39 (two years ago)

I don’t really like ALW that much, which I confirmed this weekend when I went down a Patti Lupone rabbit hole, and I hated this at the time but since then I have been slowing warming up to what the buzz was about.

― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 21:42 (two years ago)

Why does the OMPS say Overture, André Previn?

― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 21:44 (two years ago)

is that the 70s film adaptation?

yup.
tis off the scale.
archive.org has the film soundtrack in very listenable form to download.

https://archive.org/details/jcs-1973-soundtrack

― mark e, Thursday, 14 March 2024 21:55 (two years ago)

Found some info here:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/oct/01/classicalmusicandopera.usa

It is sometimes claimed that the best classical composers are working in the film industry: Morricone, John Williams, even Andrew Lloyd Webber. Previn worked on the scoring for the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar, as a favour to his friend Norman Jewison, who directed. "I'm not a great fan of Lloyd Webber's. He doesn't need me to be a fan. Believe me." And the others? He winces. "John Williams is without question talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that. But, no, of the others ... You know, when I hear Titanic - James Horner - which was a huge hit, it's the same 16 bars played 185 times. It's not interesting." His favourite composer of theatre music is Harold Arlen; his favourite lyricist is Sondheim; beyond that, there isn't much to excite him in musical theatre these days. "Those awful Disney musicals - mermaids with long eyelashes, that's not interesting."

― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 21:59 (two years ago)

This film soundtrack is pretty good, not sure how much credit to give André Previn. May have to listen to the concept album to compare.

― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:14 (two years ago)

Shostakovich saw it on stage in London, apparently loved it and went back the next night. He said he wished he could right something for rock band...

― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:55 (two years ago)

Concept album sounding pretty good as well

― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 March 2024 00:06 (two years ago)

*write lol

― glumdalclitch, Friday, 15 March 2024 00:26 (two years ago)

Welcome to the club

― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 March 2024 01:52 (two years ago)

Let he who is without typos cast the first flag post

― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 March 2024 01:53 (two years ago)

one year passes...

a good riff is a good riff no matter the context

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5ZzVQBNZ0

― mark e, Wednesday, 11 March 2026 22:02 (two months ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.