14 Songs Based On Classical Music
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0:00 Introduction
0:39 GOLDWING by Billie Eilish
1:55 In My Life by The Beatles
4:01 2112 by Rush
4:38 Knife-Edge by Emerson Lake & Palmer
5:19 Horizons by Genesis
5:42 Sheet Music Scanner
6:34 Ms. Jackson by OutKast
7:46 Never Worn White by Katy Perry
8:23 Honeymoon With B Troop by 10cc
8:41 three ralph by DJ Shadow
9:21 Ward by C418
9:33 Black and Tan Fantasy by Duke Ellington
9:46 Oh What A World by Rufus Wainwright
10:24 A Fifth Of Beethoven by Walter Murphy
10:53 When I Get You Alone by Robin Thicke
11:16 Outro
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I've often wondered if the Moody Blues' "Blue Guitar" borrowed its descending phrase from Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad?
One of my favorite examples of this is "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen, based on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor
This was mentioned in one of davids previous videos on this topic! Great song
me too! "never gonna fall in love again" is another eric carmen song that draws from the third movement of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 Op. 27, and i adore both
Why did I see Eric Cartman?
Wow. I’ve recently been getting into classical music and I fell in love with this piece. It immediately became my favourite ever classical piece; I was struck by how quickly the melody connected with me, it almost sounded familiar...
Now I know why 😂
Wooww🎉
Billie eilish had said in “a love letter to Los Angeles”, that she was inspired to write goldwing from when she sang the song in a choir. She also had those girls that she was on the choir with sing the intro in the film. Not sure if they were on the original recording though.
ye she said that when she was in choir, she thought the song was really beautiful and she took the song and used it as a metaphor. the metaphor is goldwing being a young woman in the industry who hasnt been exploited and used yet, the epitome of innocence.
also its just billie in the original recording, she learnt every part
@@Gabriel_Domingues Idk sounds pretty high to me
These sampling videos are something else! I think it’s cool that musicians take from other artists because it can introduce the listeners to other works. I discovered the Samson and Delilah opera from Muse!
I agree! Everything is derivative. People are inspired by those who came before and inspire those who come after. As it should be.
"Softly awakes my heart" from "Samson and Delilah" has t be one of the most erotically charged pieces of music of all time -perhaps only second to the "Love Death"(Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde"I believe Saint Saens spent years in Algeria to get the flavor of Arab music which he thought ancient Philistine music sounded like.
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ngl these classical pieces are nothing if it weren't for these artists
Serge Gainsbourg used a lot of classical music in his songs :
- Initiales BB : Dvorak, symphony n°9
- Charlotte Forever : Khachaturian, andantino
- Baby alone in Babylon : Brahms, symphony n°3
I could add :
- Donna Summer, Could it be magic : Chopin, prelude in C minor
- Tino Rossi, Tristesse : Chopin, etude op.10 n°3
- Muse, Space Dementia : Rachmaninov, piano concerto n°2
- Maurane, Sur un prélude de Bach : Bach, prelude in C major from WTC1
Yes, to Serge Gainsbourg. Could It Be Magic was originally by Barry Manilow.
@@joemcginty7 You're right !
Serge also "borrowed" the main melody of My Lady Heroine from "In a Persian Market" by Albert Ketèlbey. And one of the melodies of "Lemon Incest" was from Frédéric Chopin piece Etude Op.10, No. 3 in E Major.
Pour Gainsbourg, I completely agree! Les autres je connais moins... mais pour J.s. Bach, sa musique a été complètement inspirante ! ❤
Pour Gainsbourg ,I completely agree! Après pour les autres je connais moins. Je sais que la musique de J S Bach a toujours été inspirante ❤
I like mutations in music. For example: “Apache”, written by Jerry Lordan in the mid 50s was recorded in 1960 by Bert Weedon. He showed it to The Shadows, that recorded their versions (there are other versions, there’s also a version by Hot Butter from 1972, for example). Then, in 1973, The Incredible Bongo Band made their version. The IBB version got sampled, and in 1981 The Sugarhill Gang released their version, made popular by the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Really interesting road, the one of this song.
I thought Apache was originally by The Shadows!!
Jorgen Ingemann, a Danish guitarist also did a version of this song.
@@joermnyc Yes! And it’s one of the popular versions of this song.
Shoutouts to The Shadows and Jørgen Ingemann for sure... but Tommy Seebach's (another Dane) 1979 disco recording of Apache has a special place in my heart. Probably because it was the first one I heard.
by the time you type fresh prince of Bel-Air, you sumonned this
will : "how come he dont want me man 🥺"
I made my little cello player (she started playing it in 4th grade) learn that Bach #1 cello piece "That Cello Song" because I liked it despite knowing how huge a cliche it is for cello players. It was wonderful having her learn it, and hearing her practice it and perfect it over time. She's now a cello performance and music education major at a small school, and hopes to teach more kids how to play strings.
Prelude to Cello Suite No. 1?
Who the hell cares?
The song by Procol Harum ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ is based on JS Bach’s ‘Air on G String.’ It has an awesome keyboard intro and bridge.
Wow so Outkast wanted to portray their visions of being together with someone but then that all changed. the music and words really do have the same theme and work so well together
That record is amazing
Probably heard Ms Jackson a couple of hundred times in my life and never noticed the interpolation of the Wagner, amazing
"American Tune" by Paul Simon - based on Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
"A Lover's Concerto" by The Toys - based on the minuet in G from Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.
"American Tune" was actually my first exposure to the Passion Chorale! (Which I love.)
I know that you mainly have a Love for The Beatles or Radiohead but Bands like Queen or Pink Floyd have some amazing songs in their Discography.
I'm a Beatle fan and I love Pink Floyd (I have all their discography) and Queen too
Thanks! I love Queen and Floyd too. I certainly need to do some more videos on Floyd! Here's a video I did recently on Queen in case you missed it: th-cam.com/video/Tq2z5hlXiCs/w-d-xo.html
@@marianacaffaro No one, apart from the Beatles, has had a growth of creativity similar to theirs. From "Love me do" to "Abbey road" and everything in between in 7/8 years made them not a band but a miracle.
Billy Joel actually credited Beethoven for his chorus in "This Night," but I've always wondered if the opening verse of "Through the Long Night" wasn't lifted from some classical piece. BTW, I think the fabulous bridge in that song is all Billy's.
I agree. The verse to Through the Long Night sounds like a piece by Handel to me.
@@jacobevanoski1221 I know Joel has a background in classical, so it wouldn't surprise me. And speaking of "This Night" (Pathetique Sonata 2nd m.) it was actually the theme song for Karl Hass's Adventures In Fine Music radio show.
Not to mention the fact that Uptown Girl is basically straight-up Bolero.
And Billy Joel has written some really good classical stuff in the last 25 years or so. “Elegy: The Great Peconic” is my favorite of the pieces I’ve heard.
@@Mare416 You've got me laughing, but when I listen to it in my head, well, you're pretty much right on for the first eight bars or so! I'd have to say Joel's improved on the arrangement with his up-tempo take.
@@TheRealDrJoey “Hello everyone!”
After including Minecraft, I think it would be awesome to see your style of musical analysis done with video game music, particularly the 8/16-bit era. There are a lot of really incredible compositions that were pulled off on pretty simple hardware. A few less well known examples I can think of include Rocket Knight Adventures (Genesis), Bucky O'Hare (NES), and Solstice/Pictionary (NES, both by Tim Follin).
Thanks! I assume you've seen my Minecraft analysis video: th-cam.com/video/ZiM3RUTrvn4/w-d-xo.html I would love to anaylse some of that earlier NES music (although 8-bit Music Theory has already done an amazing job!)
@@DavidBennettPiano I've seen the Minecraft video before, and I definitely think there are plenty more games out there that would scratch similar itches. 8BMT is terrific, but a lot of it tends to go over my head as someone without the training/vocabulary to follow the extremely thorough breakdown that they do. I really appreciate your approach to discussing music and composition, as it makes me feel juuuuust smart enough to get it. XD
@@DavidBennettPiano If you want a piece of game music that quotes both the Funeral March and the Bridal March hidden within a version of "Ten Green Bottles" look no further than "Lemmings" th-cam.com/video/-b8EzCd9w54/w-d-xo.html Given the nature of the game it's sort of appropriate.
The Amiga's musical capability seemed less crude when I was fourteen...
How about touhou? XD it has nice music, quite iconic in meme scene
My absolute favourite example from Lemmings is when they mix O Little Town of Bethlehem with the theme from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
"Somewhere" by Sondheim and Bernstein. Bernstein ,who wrote the music, used several measures of pieces from Beethoven, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky in the verses of the song. The bridge, however, is all Bernstein.
The motifs he pocketed are from Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5, Strauss's Burlesque for Piano and Orchestra, and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, "Song of the Swan."
Another excellent video, thank you.
Well done for including Genesis. We need more of that!
There was of course Roll Over Beethoven by Chuck Berry, also based on his fifth symphony, later successfully covered by ELO.
Good call!
check out on youtube the Dutch band Ekseption, they always use classical music in there recordings.
There's also "Golden Slumbers" by the Beatles!
@@Herby701Indeed, several covers of classical pieces can be found on this album: th-cam.com/play/OLAK5uy_kV7qRwlki_fBqO8epsup4vUSfrPnaa8Kw.html
And also covered by The Beatles
And don't forget "Lover's Concerto".
"A Lover's Concerto" is a pop song written by American songwriters Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, based on the 18th century composition by Christian Petzold, "Minuet in G major", and recorded in 1965 by the Toys.
This is mentioned in the Film "Mr. Holland's Opus" When Richard Dretfuss' character is teaching a high school music class.
Rina Sawayama’s “Snakeskin” samples Beethoven and it adds so much to the song, you should include it in your next video
Muse’s “Collateral Damage” is Nocturne Op 9 No 2 by Chopin 😄
I’d watch a 5-minute video of just David pronouncing the word “world.”
"Wuhld" is almost worse than a Bostonian. Honestly this sounds better to me than a Bostonian because my parents liked britcoms late at night on the local PBS station. I got adapted to this accent pretty fast when I got a pubescent liking to Penelope Keith's hipbones.
Y'all Brits probably think I say "world" as "wuhrrrl(d)".
I'm a Brit and I don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce world like David. Sounds like "werruhwd" to me. But in the UK you only need to travel a few miles and the accent can be very different. Up here in the North East we say "wuurld" with very little emphasis on the r.
Oh, what? A weld?…
These videos are always informative and a pleasure to watch!
There's a few videos on this already, and you may have mentioned it before, but it would be awesome to see your take on the use of the dies irae in popular/classical music. Great video as well
Very inspiring, as usual. Thanks for the great examples. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have been binge watching your videos over the past week (BOO COVID!) and I have found every single one of your videos informative, fun, and educational. I have a musical background but watching your stuff has helped me understand things I couldn't get back when I was playing Horn or Trumpet. This video didn't disappoint either, and I love seeing artists interpret others works. Also, I loved the 2112 reference (I'm a huge Rush fan) and I'm sure you could pull more into your videos. I also am a huge Pink Floyd and Beatles fan, so I always enjoy your stuff. Your Music Theory video was awesome. Please don't stop what you're doing! You're teaching old dogs new tricks. Also, last shout out to the 7/4 video. Freres Jacques was a winner! Thank you for what you do!
I don't think Rush ever did so clear a reference to an earlier riff as they did in 2112. The only time they ran into copyright trouble was with "La Villa Strangiato" which used a line borrowed from a 1930's jazz piece called Powerhouse. This song was licensed to Warner Bros in the 1940s and was heard in lots of cartoons Geddy and Alex saw on TV.
The Powerhouse riff also appears in Megalovania from Undertale.
@@Bacopa68 Right after Neil Peart died I read somewhere Geddy Lee saying they caught some grief when they did that. So copyright strikes were an issue in the 70s and 80s too.
I think Beethoven always envisioned a disco beat for his symphony:)
Beethoven anticipated jazz/boogie-woogie a century ahead of its time: th-cam.com/video/uQMCfqFr4XA/w-d-xo.html ;)
Fascinating and eye-opening, as usual. Many thanks.
I like how modern music takes from classical music as that’s what a lot of composers back then did. They tended to take someone else’s melody and make variations to it, and it was ok to do.
My understanding is that it was considered flattering if another composer borrowed from your work. But credit was always given, usually by saying it was based on a theme or a variation as you stated by so and so.
your pronouncation of Leoš Janáček's name is a way too cute haha. It should be more like Léosh. Greetings from Czechia
I love this! Another one to take into consideration is Evanescence's Lacrymosa, which uses the Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem.
I used to teach various music appreciation classes and one of the ones I taught I based the whole class around classical pieces that had made their way into popular music. It was a fun and challenging class to come up with all the examples.
And I have throughly enjoyed all six of them, thank you.
Love these videos! One of my favourites is Joybringer by Manfred Mann, based on Jupiter by Holst. (One I always think of when you do these videos, apologies if I've missed it!)
My takeaway is something I already knew: Bach is the GOAT!
He is the boss of music
He is the big music daddy that all musicians pray to before going to sleep
In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, when you enter Stan's Previously Used Coffins, you hear a tone played in the same rhythm as Chopin's Funeral March. This of course only lasts 4 bars before the Stan theme takes over.
Soundtracks for games/movies/cartoons/etc. usually lift popular themes from classical music or folk tunes, because of how strongly we associate them with very specific ideas or feelings. Watch a Tom and Jerry or a Looney Tunes episode and you'll see what I mean. Its not just in English speaking countries either. Japanese and Russian cartoons also lift from their folk tunes.
@Weeping Scorpion But then later in the track, it references Wagner's Bridal Chorus too! There's definitely another piece from that game that references The Funeral March but I can't remember which one, likely the graveyard or the swamp.
@@MisterM2402 You're probably right. I just remember those first notes, since it's been a while since I played the game/listened to the songs. I can't think of the other piece right here and now but I'll try to remember it.
@@weepingscorpion8739 I just looked it up and it's definitely The Cemetery theme, which obviously would make sense! Quite subtle but certainly there.
@@MisterM2402 I thought of that one the first but I couldn't remember where in the song that passage is. I'll go listen again, thanks.
Hi David, I'm not sure if you've already covered The Killers' 'Mr Brightside' in one of you previous videos, but the instrumental parts right after each chorus are too strikingly similar to Beethoven's 9th symphony to be accidental.
The same is true for 'Handwritten' by The Gaslight Anthem, which - whether consciously or not - borrows from Haydn's 'God Save Emperor Francis', now mostly known for its use as the German national hymn.
Thanks 😃 I actually covered Mr Brightside vs Beethoven in this video: th-cam.com/video/JE5Vb2xR06k/w-d-xo.html
My favorite example of this is Love of My Life by Santana from the supernatural album. The melody is from Brahms 3rd
The funeral march was used in early 1980s video games (8 bit stuff) to denote when you died. I guess it's been carried on ever since.
Apologies if you’ve covered this, but there’s the story of John Lennon hearing Yoko Ono playing “Moonlight Sonata” on piano and asking her to play it backwards, and thats the origins of “Because” (then again, I’m not sure it’s exactly “Moonlight Sonata” played backwards in the final recording.)
The Augurs of Spring from the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky directly inspired King Crimson's Lark's Tongues in Aspic pt 2
A man of culture
Simon and Garfunkel's 'Old Friends' is built on the two notes that end Ravel's opera, 'L'Enfant et les Sortileges' (when the child wakens from his dream and calls for his mother, "Ma-man!")
10:24 I actually remember "A Fifth of Beethoven" very well from LittleBigPlanet 2 of all things, haha xD
I think it was only used on one or two levels, but it's so well imprinted in my memory, lol
Awesome video as usual, David ;)
Human Sadness by The Voidz is a great example! It samples Mozart’s Requiem in D minor
One of the best songs of the 21st century!... also samples Rumi's poem 'The Great Wagon'. I think the 70 year patent could be up on that one too!
Billie also has I love you from WWAFAWDWG,and she added that part into gold wing because she was in the los Angeles choir and they'd perform/practice with that
Blackbird was also inspired by a Bach piece Paul used to play when the Beatles auditioned for gigs. Check out McCartney's interview where he talks about this.
AJR did this when they sampled Johann Sebastian Bach's "Air on the G String From Suite No. 3" on their song "The Good Part".
Major props for using the great DJ Shadow for an example. Also, I've listened to Outkast's *Stankonia* for over 20 years and never caught that bit of borrowing in "Ms. Jackson." Clearly your ears are much superior to mine. Cheers.
Loved this video and brought to my mind the important influence that prog bands (ELP, YES, Genesis, PFM, etc.) had on my love of classical music... a great example would be Pictures at an Exhibition by ELP... so great 😊
Love your videos!
Thanks!
I love this concept so much, it's like breathing new life into timeless pieces
No, it's taking gold and turning it into garbage.
@@tmpqtyutmpqty4733I wonder why people believe classical musicians are elitist snobs 🙄
Nice! More David!
Gymnopedie 1 by Erik Satie was sampled in Flowers by Sweet Attitude and then by Pink Pantheress in Pain
Another wonderful video, thanks. Using excerpts from well-known classical pieces works well in comedy. I use part of the wedding march and funeral march in my own songs. Those songs have also been used in countless cartoons and comedy bits. Maybe comedy could be a theme for a future video? Or how classical music is used in cartoons?
The Australian group The Seekers used Beethoven's Ode to Joy from his 9th symphony and just added different words to the original tune and called it Emerald City based on Frank L Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
another exemple for you:
Antonio Carlos Jobim's song Double Rainbow is based on a melody from Debussy's Rêverie. You can find Jobim's song in his album Terra Brasilis. Sarah Vaughan also recorded this song and the lyrics even mention the fact "this melody belongs to to you belongs to me..."
truly inspiring!
I love "A Fifth of Beethoven" ! and I love these videos: thank you David... all the best in 2022
Thank you! And happy new year to you too!
You can add Busted’s “Crashed The Wedding” to your Bridal March list. Could probably spin the wedding/funeral march samples into a stand alone video!
The solo in Rat bat blue by Deep Purple was inspired by Bach’s prelude in E minor from WTK 1. Great example.
The Wallace Collection's song Daydream uses the melody of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Ballet.
And that song was of course famously sampled by I Monster in their song Daydream In Blue.
Styx's breakout hit "Lady" borrows from Ravel's "Bolero" in the chorus. When Dennis DeYoung performed with an orchestra in the early 2000's shows called "The Symphonic Music of Styx" when Lady was played it included a segment of Bolero
It is interesting to see how pop songs using clasical music create a kind of bridge between two very diffent kinds of music🎶
Hey David, just wanted to say that the recording you used for Beethoven 5 plays it wrong (which is very very common). Most orchestra’s play the main motif like triplets despite being eighth notes. It would be interesting to see a video of similar occurrences of incorrectly played passages (like a musical Mandela effect)
I don't hear it played wrongly on this video: it sounds like three normal quavers to me and not a triplet. It would be quite difficult for a conductor/orchestra to perform the opening with triplets as the entire movement is based on this rhythm which could never be played as a triplet anywhere else. I know a lot of people not well acquainted with this piece *imagine* that it begins with triplets (mainly because they do not know how it continues).
Annie Haslam, vocalist with the classically inspired British band Renaissance, released a solo album in 1985 called Still Life. Each of the 12 songs is based on a classical melody (Tchaikovsky, Bach, Faure, Mozart, Chopin, Delius, etc.). She is backed by the Royal Philharmonic and it's very nice.
A very interesting video, thank you, David.
Glad you enjoyed it
Maybe this is why rock music is so sophisticated
That scanner works well in old classical piano music. Thanks for the reference
Another Billy, Billy Joel was very fond of incorporating Ludwig van into his songs e.g., This Night, Prelude/Angry Young Man
But the Classical Composers were all very open about the sampling and borrowing from previous greats. That was the way music progressed in those days and indicated a knowledgable and reverential composer.
I love an old ELP concert where Emerson plays a fragment of the cadenza for harpsichord from the Brademburg Concerto Num 5 from Bach
It's brilliant. I love the idea of musical piece living through the whole human history because people continue to repeat it over and over since the theme is so important for them it never dies😊
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Things like Outkast sampling the bridal chorus remind me why I love analyzing production, like I never would've thought twice about that normally
8:59 just a helpful tip, it’s a piano sonata, therefore the opus number would be “Chopin Piano Sonata op 35 No 1, Movement 3 - Funeral March”. it wouldn’t be op 35 no 2.
I love these classical music in pop song installments and hope you don't run out of examples. One place to look is in the 1940's and 50s when it was very popular, though by now not everyone would be familiar with the pop songs.
That’d be really cool, I like seeing how timeless everything is
A non-obvious one: the intro to the song "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd is closely similar to the first bars of "Jerusalem" by Sir Hubert Parry.
Great video; a little correction about Robin Thicke's When I Get You Alone which was released in 2002, not 2012.
Walter Murphy wrote the themes for "Family Guy" and "American Dad" and does all the orchestration and conducts the music for both those shows with a real orchestra (though probably not a full one). It's probably why, despite your opinion of the humour in those shows, the music is always fantastic and Seth MacFarlane's albums always sound amazingly arranged. He can definitely sing, and when Walter Murphy does the arranging/conducting, it makes it even better.
"over You" by Aaron Neville in 1960 uses the funeral march, too.
me, a classical musician, watching this video and smirking cause i know i’m going to use this video to my advantage when proving to ppl that classical music is underrated
Another example is Machine Messiah by Yes. It includes a few measures from Widor's Toccata, which get looped and turned into the backing track for a short bit
Interesting. I'm a Yes fan so I'll check that out. Thanks
Melissa Manchester: "Come in from the Rain" inspired by Samuel Barber, Piano Concerto, second movement.
I played a 5th of Beethoven when I was in the 8th grade for my middle school band concert. I was 1st chair trombone loved playing that track
Wait a sec, Gonna Fly Now (the Rocky song) samples The Wedding March too! At least that horn intro sounds a lot like it
Well done!
Thanks 😀
even when some of them don't directly borrow from the classical music it's fairly obvious that most artists are still heavily influenced by classical music whether they realize it or not. Queen's hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" has been described countless times as a rock-opera, and the album it debuted on was called "A Night at The Opera". modern piano-based sheet music can trace it's origins all the way back to the time when these classical composers actually wrote their famous pieces while behind a piano.
Correct, Freddie Elton may be modern day Bach's
Think about it, reaaaaaly good on the piano, very eccentric, signs of geniuses, if it hasn't been said before im saying it
Very interesting...thank you
Merci for this.
Hi David, one melody that seems to pop up occasionally is the Troika from Prokoviev's Lt Kijé Suite. For example (if I remember correctly) Greg Lake's "I believe in Father Christmas", from the 70s. Interestingly, Prokoviev died in 1953, so would his estate been entitled to royalties?
My apologies if you've already covered this as I haven't seen all your videos.
Sting did the song called Russians, and when Kije Suite came up in class I looked it up again. I ended up finding a gabber tune that uses prokofiev called "I will have that power" by Hard Creation, iirc. Bonkers
Funeral March has been used in video games ever since the arcade games of the 1970s as BGM to indicate the death of a character or game over. It has been first used in Gun Fight (1975). Funeral March was also used in a block-breaker game Circus (1977). This was sampled in "COMPUTER GAME (Theme From The Circus)," the first song on YMO's debut album "Yellow Magic Orchestra" (1978).
Great work dude
Thanks!
I think as soon as an artist gets inspired by classical music you can hear it because its just different hahaha.
Star Wars' Imperial March is also based on Chopin's Funeral March
Surprised to see 2112 and Ward
I know "Streets of Cairo" from Ke$ha also learning about "Hearts of Iron" by Sabaton from "Air on the G String" (It was used in an Anime that really messed me up before I got into the band) and "Christmas Truth" also by Sabaton using "Carol of the Bells"
It's so helpful
This made me think of a song. I've always heard parts of "Ode to Joy" in the intro to the Green Day song "Stay the night".
Symphony X is another good source of songs that quote from classical music, particularly their earlier music. The Divine Wings of Tragedy has a song that's based around part of Bach's Mass in Bm, and The New Mythology Suite quotes heavily from Mozart's and Verdi's Requiems.
8:13 the reprise of I Can Make You A Man from Rocky Horror Picture Show also quotes this same classical piece
If you want to listen to a melody which is suspiciously like "Over the Rainbow" from the "Wizard of Oz" but appeared decades before listen to Pietro Mascagni's Intermezzo from "Guglielmo Ratcliff" an opera with a Scottish setting based on a story from Heinrich Heine the renowned 19th century German poet.Mascagni is best known for the Sicily located opera "Rustic Chivalry" and its beautiful "Intermezzo" which depicts the calm before the storm in that tumultuous story.The film "Godfather 3" features a lot of music from the aforementioned opera.
An obvious example that I always noticed was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly, which uses "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" during the keyboard solo, which occurs just after the drum solo in the middle of the song.
Not sure if these showed up in another video, but one of my favorite examples of this is Lacrymsoa which takes from Mozart's Lacrimosa in his requieum Mass. Also, when I was in high school (back in 2000) there was a very popular graduation themed pop song (Graduation by Vitamin C) that sampled from Pachelbel's Canon in D (another wedding associated song, haha).
A fairly recent example is "Reverie on the Onyx" by Archspire, which has a whole interlude covering Lacrimosa.
For some reason, I can’t imagine David getting into technical death metal.
"All By Myself" by Eric Carmen was based off of the second movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto N. 2, "Adagio Sostenuto."